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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.

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

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10 points

Very unusual.

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5 points

Not very typical

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5 points

Is that unusual?

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

the front fell off

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46 points

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

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Hah that’s a good one.

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45 points

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.

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

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Valued at 320 million

*Sold to US taxpayers for 320 million ftfy

Actual value about tree fiddy

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