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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year ago

US-built Gaza pier, valued at $320 million, swept away by sea waves

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US-built Gaza pier, valued at $320 million, swept away by sea waves

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year ago
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US-built Gaza pier, valued at $320 million, swept away by sea waves | Al Bawaba
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ALBAWABA - Recent events have resulted in the US floating pier drifting to the coasts of Ashdod after waves off the coast of Gaza washed away a portion
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  • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    75•1 year ago

    This is only a problem if you think the purpose of the pier was to provide aid to Gaza. If you understand that everything the US military does is simply to provide public money to private interests, then this is a completely unremarkable event.

  • @DoctorNope@lemmy.one
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    44•1 year ago

    So you’re saying the front fell off because a wave hit it?

    • @CaptKoala@lemmy.ml
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      11•1 year ago

      Very unusual.

      • krolden
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        Not very typical

    • @zero_gravitas@aussie.zone
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      6•1 year ago

      Is that unusual?

    • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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      3•1 year ago

      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      the front fell off

      Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

      I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

  • @frippa@lemmy.ml
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    43•1 year ago

    The Mediterranean has a right to defend itself! Are you anti-seamitic?

    • @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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      7•1 year ago

      Hah that’s a good one.

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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    42•1 year ago

    The US once again going through a dozen Suez Canal crises all at once, each one somehow more cartoonishly stupid than the last.

    At this point I feel like if you want to radicalize someone just point them to a picture of that barely-welded-together mess and tell them their tax money went towards that to the tune of $320 million.

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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      7•1 year ago

      yeah “valued at” my ass, but nice of them to announce how much the grift garnered some already rich assholes and their closest friends

  • @Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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    Valued at 320 million

    *Sold to US taxpayers for 320 million ftfy

    Actual value about tree fiddy

  • UltraGreen [comrade/them]
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    22•1 year ago

    It’s that typical low quality US manufacturing.

  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]
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    21•1 year ago

    Also this is the Med, it’s not the Pacific or the Atlantic or like the Drake Passage. It’s the Mediterranean. It’s not exactly the roughest sea.

    • @Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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      *citation needed

  • queermunist she/her
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    Who could have seen this coming?!

  • @cerement@slrpnk.net
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    17•1 year ago

    Boeing is a defense contractor …

  • The Bard in Green
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    16•1 year ago

    Damn it, idiots both in the US and Israel will see that as a sign from God.

  • @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    11•1 year ago

    Military grade

  • @BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    9•1 year ago

    That was the cheaper alternative to just not selling bombs to Israel!

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    8•1 year ago

    Yakkety Sax ass Navy

  • @deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    5•1 year ago

    Someone banked $320m.

    Mission accomplished.

  • @KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml
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    5•1 year ago

    I see the army is battling against the sea. They’ll have their entry in the history next to Caligula.

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