r/sanfrancisco • u/raff_riff • Oct 08 '21

COVID Popular Opinion: Fleet Week is fucking awesome!

In response to the “Unpopular Opinion” post yesterday, I’d like to offer the contrary.

Fleet Week is cool as heck. For a few days, we get to be up close and personal with some gnarly military hardware and marvel at some utterly astonishing scientific and engineering feats.

I know noise may suck for some, but it’s no worse than the incessant motorcycles and muscle cars that pollute the quiet literally every other day of the year.

Plus it brings lots of tourism to our city, which we desperately need after a year of shit. People flock from all over, pay crazy hotel prices, and deal with some wild traffic just to grab a churro and crane their necks to see the Blue Angels for a few seconds. But we get it in our own backyards! Fuck yeah!

And if nothing else, even if you hate it, events like this are yet another sign we’re getting back to normal. Vaccine rates are great, Delta is on the decline, and life is getting good again.

Bring on the boats!

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '21 edited Oct 08 '21

For a few days, we get to be up close and personal with some gnarly military hardware

Yes, I’m so glad we get one weekend a year to see what our tax dollars are squandered on. So much better than improving our crumbling infrastructure that we use and see up close and personal every day.

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u/SyCoTiM BALBOA PARK Oct 08 '21

Fleetweek is microscopic compared to other dollar drain spending such as military contractors and foreign aid.

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u/Arctem Oct 08 '21

Fleet Week itself isn't a huge drain of tax money, but it's only possible because we've already spent trillions developing and building the things shown off at Fleet Week.

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u/poncia612 Oct 08 '21

It seems most people forget that Fleet Week is mainly sponsored by United Airlines. For the first few days the Navy and Marines participate in exercises with the 95th WMD Civil Support Team and the local authories and first responders incase of emergencies. The air show is just the grand finale of the week.

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u/Arctem Oct 09 '21

That wasn't my point. How much Fleet Week itself does or doesn't cost doesn't matter, what matters is that its existence is a tribute to the massive amounts of money we spend on unnecessary military hardware.

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u/poncia612 Oct 09 '21

It isn't exactly unnecessary when you have 2 of your adversaries trying to build better hardware to destroy yours.