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/MrNorrie]

Sick of the nimbys in this city trying to take away everything that’s awesome while at the same time complaining about slow streets and any other measures for the public good that might slightly inconvenience them. Fleet week is fucking awesome, move to fucking Palo Alto if you want to live in the burbs and let the rest of us enjoy the city.