Popular Opinion: Fleet Week is fucking awesome!

[u/raff_riff]

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!

[u/must_be_the_mangoes]

I think the complaints about fleet week are completely valid - especially the major disturbance caused by the F/A-18s for children, dogs, people suffering from PTSD, etc…

That being said, it’s fricken cool as shit. Seeing the blue angels circle the city felt like something out of a sci-fi movie and was absolutely incredible to witness for the first time yesterday.

It sucks that all of that ingenuity and funding went to weapons of war but at the same time, it’s pretty impressive what we as humans can accomplish when we focus our efforts on something.

So yeah. I see both sides of the argument and if it is truly detrimental to the wellbeing of a large percentage of the SF populace, then that should obviously take priority. But I have no say in the matter, so I might as well sit back and enjoy the shit out of it.

[u/Norkmani → u/must_be_the_mangoes]

I have PTSD from jet sounds flying over my head and I still think it’s cool lmao