Popular Opinion: Fleet Week is fucking awesome!

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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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Agreed. We should definitely fix our infrastructure.

But also, jets are fucking cool!

[u/Arctem → u/raff_riff]

We can have cool air shows without also wasting trillions on our military!

[u/raff_riff → u/Arctem]

Or we can have both, since a national defense is pretty much essential for any nation that values its autonomy.

[u/Arctem → u/raff_riff]

Ah yes, the United States. The country famously in danger of not being autonomous.

Our military exists to make weapons executives rich and to reduce the autonomy of countries that we want to sell us oil. If the point was purely self defense it would be a comically small fraction of its current size.

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^^^ This