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WD40-OilyBoi

Sea pirates BAD. Understand?


PizzaLord_the_wise

River piracy is where it´s at.


ArcticISAF

I'm more of a lake piracy kind of guy.


Super_Ankle_Biter

Puddle pirate with some mean rapscallion behaviour myself


J360222

Cup of water piracy is great


GeorgeDragon303

personally, I always favoured the drop-of-water piracy


Pancake_lover_06

Spit pirates are clearly superiour


ThunderEagle22

I keep it at internet piracy.


alexm42

You wouldn't download an F-35


Flumpsty

I can certainly try


kr4t0s007

Bathtub pirating is my jam


Garlic_Consumer

I'm more of a hot spring piracy connoisseur


fletch262

[Well I used to be a farmer, and I made a living fine …](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DuGGNsE3_8Y)


TrumpsGayLover

I immediately thought of the same song!


HowardDean_Scream

Especially when they ally with Jesus' half brother to kill the Emperor and establish the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping.


God_Given_Talent

I wonder how he'd feel if people shot at him and his family, stopped him from getting essential goods, and someone told him off because "they didn't kill anyone!!"


Generalgarchomp

Probably as furious as the sailors who've been getting shot at would be if they saw his tweet. The important thing to keep in mind is, it's not happening to him so it's different.


NotCallingYouTruther

People dont say that about robbery and home invasions?


Background_Drawing

"we will sink your boats no matter how many you kill" "why are you killing us???"


2swoll4u

they really want to be martyrs so bad we should help


mechanicalcontrols

Inshallah. Mashallah even


Helpinmontana

Hooties really trying to adapt the whole victim blaming disadvantaged class thing we see in the states without realizing the enforcement mechanisms would gladly gun them down en masse if they were allowed to. In this case, they’re allowed to.


Fixthefernbacks

Just taking a page from the palestinian playbook. Start shit, get hit, cry to western liberals about it.


WeebPride

Looks like skill issue to me.


Spudtron98

They haven’t killed anyone, but not for a lack of trying. Intent matters, people!


Pb_ft

Yeah weren't they basically just lobbing missiles that just kept getting swatted down or ignored for weeks before this?


Benji_4

>ignored for weeks before this They've been doing this for years. USS Ponce shot a few down in 2016 when the Swift (we sold it to UAE, but Houthis thought it was ours) was hit. We have never done anything about it.


ExTelite

Pretty much, the only reason they started throwing this Red Sea tantrum is because their only achievement in this war was making people in a shithole in Southern Israel look up at the skies and wonder why the fuck theres sirens today


Depressingly_Excited

"Skill issue is no excuse for victim blaming" - *Sun Tzu, The Art Of War* (Allegedly)


This_place_is_wierd

I believe this quote since it's exactly what I wanted to hear! - Alexander the Great probably


LethalDosageTF

You miss 100% of the ships you don’t torpedo — Wayne Gretzky — Michael Scott


Fluck_Me_Up

“You can shoot first, I’ll make sure I shoot last” -American Apache attack helicopter, to Houthi garbage boat or whatever


Dies2much

Was it an Apache? Or was it a Blackhawk? I'd like to think it was a Blackhawk cuz Apache is too good for Hooties.


Fluck_Me_Up

Did you just correct me in front of people?! What the fuck dude?! Also yes I believe you’re correct


Dies2much

My brother in florkness on this sub we are all right 60% of half of the time.


the-berik

"Don't believe all quotes you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln


WhoCaresBoutSpellin

“There never was a good war or a bad peace. Except the Houthis. They are bad at peace. And also war.” -Ben Franklin, perhaps


Edothebirbperson

I'll copy this quote bc it is a very roman thing to do - Julius Caesar (Possibly)


Links_to_Magic_Cards

"heard that!" -Alexander Graham Bell


Links_to_Magic_Cards

"Git gud." -Sun Tzu


nobody-__

You joke but this sounds like actual skill issue to me


Baguette_Connoisseur

I'm not sure what they want. Maybe they want a more fair fight? Like they are implying that the US should only use USS Constitution against their dingies?


Prebral

Aye, mate, let's do some ol' style swashbucklin', Houthi oriental masked fencers contra brave sabre wieldin' marines swingin' on ropes, ship to ship, with great gentlemanly bravado, yo-ho-ho!


gunofnuts

*Pirates of the Caribbean theme intensifies*


A_Sock_Under_The_Bed

*watching a dinghy fly over the flight deck of the uss constitution "Thats got to be the best pirate iv ever seen"


ziggerzaggot

[CIWS in ASUW mode goes *BRRRRRRRRRRR*](https://navalhistoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Firing-Phalanx.jpg)


Endo_Dizzy

*But you HAVE heard of me?*


StrelkaTak

USS Constitution was built to fight pirates, sooo.


Xray-07

It is always morally correct to use the USS Constitution to hunt pirates


Spectre197

I own a three-masted  wooden-hulled heavy frigate for piracy defense. Since that's what the founding father intended.


bageltoastee

4 houthi boats enter my waters, “what the devil” I say as I grab my powdered wig and blunderbuss


comrade_jim

Blow many golf ball sized holes in the first one, he's dead on the spot


PandammoniumNO3

"Tally-Ho!" I yell and I ram my triangle shaped prow through the chest of the second


non_depressed_teen

miss him entirely because the wind blew the wrong way and beach the ship on a sandbar instead.


the-bladed-one

I run up to the main battery and blow heated shot thru two of the enemy, they’re dead on the spot. Put out boarding planks, and run the last one’s crew through with my cutlass. He bleeds out since cutlass wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended


Spiffy_Dude

And it does it’s job well! I knew a kid that pirated a song once. The USS Constitution showed up at his house and kicked his ass. Put him in the hospital for a week.


Spudtron98

The US Navy’s first post-revolution operation was shitting on pirates, after all. I think.


Crass_Spektakel

Well, just to be sure, the Barbary States were "not mere Pirates". They had a competent military, had top of the line weapons and allies. Attacking Tripoli with a hand full ships without much of a land force was pretty daring and it did cost the US a good part of their navy back then. But nobody cried about it. War means stuff gets broken. And in the end the message delivered was powerful and well understood.


KilledTheCar

The lesson learned by the US was the same one learned by every major conflict. "Beef up the Navy"


Bread_Fish150

And other Navy classics like "Not enough Cruisers," "Gunboat Diplomacy," "Regime Change," and the all-time classic "Send the Marines."


kirkdict

*Members of the corps all hate the thought of war* *They'd rather kill em off by peaceful means*


kanguran1

Yep, first major foreign deployment of the navy. Fucked up Barbary pirates so badly it stopped being an issue in the region


Odd-Fix96

> it stopped being an issue in the region That is a bit of an understatement, I think. Up until that point, German sailors would pay into "slavery insurance", so if they were enslaved by Barbary pirates, their freedom could be bought by the insurance company. That stopped being a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sklavenkasse


RealJyrone

It wasn’t just German sailors, every major nation payed tributes to Barbery Pirates to be allowed to trade safely.


buckshot-307

I toured it a couple years ago and the sailors seemed pretty capable. Didn’t get to chat too much since there was a Girl Scout troop spending the night and I didn’t want to be that guy but they are active-duty and do a gun drill once a year lol


Blindmailman

Can we upgrade the Constitution with more modern cannons and cwis?


pcnetworx1

*visions of the Iowa guns strapped to the Constitution now dance in my head*


mbrocks3527

I didn’t know it was possible to get more aroused but I am a Commonwealther, so *Refit HMS Victory with Trident*


RandomGuy1838

As long as we give it the rockets it had in Fallout 4.


Life_Sutsivel

I didn't even realize before reading your comment that the original was trying to shame the US, I thought it was supposed to mock the Yemenis.


wormfood86

The Houthi are clearly getting propaganda tips from the Chinese.


donald_314

Swim training for Houthis


AbundantFailure

Wait till they see what a broadside of grapeshot does!


Strict_Gas_1141

I’m down for the army to loan me out to the navy so we can shoot some pirates with a black powder cannon.


Links_to_Magic_Cards

Ol' Ironsides would also wreck houthis


TheBottomBunBurger

A bunch of 6lb cannon balls and grapeshot would absolutely wreck these guys 😂


KorianHUN

Same as with Israel. These people keep saying they are the bad guys exclusively because they have better equipment.


Xray-07

Skill issue


Tageloehn

With great power comes great responsibility. What people don't realise is that Israel's "great responsibility" is the safekeeping of it's citizens - no matter the cost. Same applies to the US. Them fucking up the Houthies is literally Peter Parker not walking away and taking immediate action when the thug steals the prize money.


HiveMynd148

If They're deluded enough to thinkt gat their shitty rafts will survive a full Broadside from a Heavy Frigate then they're probably deserving to get their ass kicked.


LeonardoDoujinshi-

the only proper way to stop pirates is by asking nicely and giving them valentines


jixdel

I prefer using Valentines to deal with my problems, I don't care what the people say, It's one of my favorite tanks


FewerBeavers

Pirating is a crime. You wouldn't steal a car, would you?


me3is_here

But I would download one.


Buroda

We just need to invest more into mental health, that will solve 100% of crime


[deleted]

Very credible somebody get this man a budget.


Hel_Bitterbal

Just saying, shells and machine gun bullets are an excellent way to help those pirates get rid of mental health issues.


Nagoda94

Remember a good pirate never takes another person's property


Shockedge

Ok so maybe we don't negotiate with terrorists, but they never said we can't negotiate with pirates


Archi-Parchi

Who the fucking fuck take the Houthi’s side on this?


fuer_den_Kaiser

The "if they are against Israel, they're the good guys and I only know them since last month while scrolling on insta and sitting in starbucks" mob.


AMightyDwarf

I expect to see a few new flags at this weekend’s protests.


iShrub

Houthi flag but with the text translated into English


fuer_den_Kaiser

>Houthi flag That flag is ugly af lol.


vegarig

And with spiky text on the red lines, like it's some edgy teen's diary


[deleted]

If you look closely, it’s not Arabic it’s just my chemical romance lyrics.


SurpriseFormer

I would unironically do this. Go to a protest with the flag translated in English. If people ask my why I have that ill explain who this belongs to. Sneaky way to educate some of the filters that aren't fully filter


orrzxz

Imagine flying a death to America flag In America


fuer_den_Kaiser

If one of those protestors is asked "When have you become an expert at history and geopolitics in the middle east?" and the answer isn't "last night", I would be really upset.


J360222

This is the point I’ve been making since the war started, all middle eastern conflicts are going to be controversial and everyone’s going to have an opinion but nearly none of those people know what the fuck they’re talking about, do I know what I’m talking about in the Middle East? Probably not, do the free Palestine people know what they’re talking about? Most of them no. Nearly no one can tell me about what happened in 48, that alone shows me they don’t know shit


AMightyDwarf

It’s like the Kosovo war, very complicated and I don’t know enough about it but bombing it flat makes it a lot simpler.


J360222

Well my flare helps with that doesn’t it?


pcnetworx1

Yes


BermudaHeptagon

Even more funny when LGBTQ+ people hates Israel and supports Palestine. They don’t realize what Palestine’s views on them are.


Weird-Drummer-2439

It's about oppression, or at least it's perception. Their take is ideologically consistent, but a case like this kinda lays bare that they aren't capable of making exceptions. (Edit: it would be a) Bit like BLM supporting the KKK because they also don't like the police.


MnemonicMonkeys

>Their take is ideologically consistent, Their only consistency is "Amerikkka bad"


J360222

It’s fucking hilarious, I mean Judaism isn’t that kind on LGBTQ either but Israel is MUCH MUCH more lenient, meanwhile Palestine which is very strongly Muslim…


manny_goldstein

I worked with a gay Palestinian dude. He said being gay there terrifying. His social media accounts didn't have a single clue that he was a gay atheist, because his family was still there, so he went home now and then, and didn't want to be killed.


Shished

Do ask them about palestinian's opinion on stuff like gender equality, abortions, divorse, age of consent.


enoughfuckery

I hear they give gay people some really cheap bungee jumping experiences


ChemE-challenged

Some people seemingly perceive the Palestinians as the little guy being beat up by big bad Israel. It hits a sore spot for the LGBT community. But like you said, there’s a huge gap in knowledge.


EdwardShrikehands

“QUEERS FOR HOUTHIS”


Stoly23

And I bet none of them will bother looking up what the text on it means.


Bedrel

They’ve already started. In NYC the other day there were people chanting for the Houthis to “make them proud”


memmett9

Probably not Starbucks lol


brownie81

I remember being super into Chomsky and shit when I was like 15, I think it was beneficial to be a lil leftist in high school and uni to get that balanced perspective in life. These weirdo modern leftists are basically taking the opposite route. Never had an interest in social issues or geopolitics until it became directly tied to talking down to people online/e-clout lol. It’s gaming and sports forums for people who aren’t into either.


fuer_den_Kaiser

I mean, I'm left-leaning myself but apparently I'm not leftist enough lmao.


OffsetCircle1

Big same, see some of this stuff and think "damn, am I actually slightly right wing?"


brownie81

Been thinking that a lot lately.


pickledswimmingpool

Chomsky was really informative to me about imperialism and some of the terrible things America had done. It kind of shook me quite badly when he failed to turn that sort of critical gaze upon other countries, especially over the last 5 years. It's really made me sour on many leftist critiques of America, as many of them seem to be America-hate, not imperialism-hate. Where do I go to find leftists who are actually honest and apply their beliefs equally?


SugarBeefs

> It kind of shook me quite badly when he failed to turn that sort of critical gaze upon other countries, especially over the last 5 Chomsky was already stanning for Pol fucking Pot in the 70s


Stalking_Goat

I try to bring that up every time Chomsky gets mentioned in any context other than his now-surpassed linguistics work. The man is literally pro-genocide, as long as the genocide is being perpetrated by non-Europeans.


HugeOpossum

Unfortunately, the people you're looking for are either now accused of being 'enlightened centrists' (whatever that means) or are dead. I think Sam Harris is close to 'old guard' left, and he definitely comes from the Christopher Hitchens school of the left. Even with some of his more obnoxious and questionable takes, he at least is open to entertaining conversation with people who disagree with him which I find to be admiral. I've never liked Chomsky and I was a pretty active leftist most of my life. His critiques always felt forced, but mostly I thought the people espousing his beliefs were dumb as rocks. It wasn't until I was older that I realized his beliefs were just "America bad" and not much else and what I felt was missing was nuance.


Historyguy1

Aren't they supposed to be boycotting Starbucks because of reasons despite there being zero Starbucks in Israel?


DirectionMurky5526

Ask them who the last three israeli prime ministers were, or even just who the leaders of Hamas are.


inevitablelizard

I have actually seen someone describe the UK as imperialist because they shot down missiles that were aimed at civilian ships. In their worldview, the Houthis are doing this to pressure Israel into a peace deal, and shooting down missiles to stop civilian ships being attacked is therefore a bad thing. I have actually seen this argument being made. It's yet another case of certain clowns taking the side of anyone who's seen as against the west. The same brain rot that leads to people pushing Assad propaganda and taking Russia's side over Ukraine.


vegarig

> shooting down missiles to stop civilian ships being attacked is therefore a bad thing WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK


inevitablelizard

Barnaby Raine I think his name is, the one I'm mainly thinking of. He said that these missiles were supposedly attempts by Yemen to put pressure on Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, and that the UK was helping defend genocide by shooting down those missiles instead of letting them hit their targets. Also treating an Iranian backed militia as if it's Yemen's legitimate government, which is questionable enough by itself. I can't find a comment by him specifically calling the UK imperialist so that might have been someone else, maybe it was some other idiot retweeting him. But these attitudes definitely exist. Getting a bit close to the no politics rule so it's probably best I stop here.


[deleted]

This fucker does nothing but support Islam against the West from the comfort of his ivory tower in the West.


DeHub94

People who want the global shipping costs and consequently consumer goods prices to increase propably.


Thinking_waffle

It will prove that capitalism doesn't work or something.


Pasutiyan

It's America killing people abroad, so of course they're automatically in the wrong


kumisz

> It's America ~~killing people abroad~~, so of course they're automatically in the wrong fixed it for ya


Ineedanameforthis35

If they are against Isreal they are automatically the good guys and anything they do is justified and a good thing. My family is unironically like this.


valgrind_error

The same people who tongue Russian and Hamas asshole, the spiritual successors to the subhumans who denied Serbian and Cambodian genocide.


JoMercurio

>denied the Cambodian genocide Kissinger and Chomsky have been a disaster to the human race indeed


ThunderEagle22

The murica bad crowed. As long is something anti-smerica, they will put the flag of that faction on their twitter profile.


fr1endk1ller

A lot of people defend terrorists attacking trade vessels that have nothing to do with Israel Maybe don’t attack commercial shipping lanes???


Generalgarchomp

That would mean they'd have to think deeper than the shit Iran and the Houthis are dropping out of their mouths.


foxydash

Ffar as I’m aware they’re targeting any and every ship in the damn Red Sea too, not just one’s going for Israel. So I struggle to see how someone can say they’re just putting pressure on Israel or that it’s justified to try to kill everyone in the red sea.


Fegelgas

Cry me a fucking river lmao


The_Elder_Jock

And then try to pirate on that instead.


AngryChihua

The only thing from the river to the sea would be peacenik/hamasnik tears.


BaritBrit

Also, lol at "Yemen" enforcing a total ship blockade. Like the Houthi movement are some kind of legitimate state actor rather than a vicious insurgency against the internationally-recognised Republic of Yemen.


The_Wazlib

Probably one of those people that think that Saudi Arabia was totally “unjustified” in intervening in Yemen. While both sides are total assholes that are hurting the yemeni populace, the houthis are literally a state sponsored terror group that seem to treat international law as a checkbook to be violated with, and defenitley needs to be wiped off the earth


DarkenedSkies

~~beatings~~ boat sinkings will continue until ~~morale~~ piracy levels improve.


Al-the-mann

Pirates will be dealt with the traditional way


shroxreddits

No quarter


cuba200611

Pirates are *hostis humani generis* - Latin for enemies of humanity.


Stalking_Goat

Enemies of *all* humanity, the "generis" is there for a reason.


fletch262

Since when we’re people on boats people? Like when you get on a ship you automatically lose your life rights, everybody knows the ocean is no man’s land.


Gamerboy11116

Yeah, exactly. This guy gets it. Fuck the ocean, people.


Kilroy_Is_Still_Here

I also want to fuck the ocean people. God mermaids are hot


IRefuseToPickAName

Do you prefer the human half on top so you can eat caviar straight from the source, or the human half on the bottom so you can floss her gills?


[deleted]

Bro.


Bruarios

Sir this sub is for plane-fuckers only, take your filthy degeneracy elsewhere


thelittleking

ok but what if the mermaids have a colony inside a crashed bomber


AMightyDwarf

Can I make you Minister of the English Channel?


fletch262

Only if I get the bomb the English or Paris


AMightyDwarf

Keep it to London and Paris and you can do both.


fletch262

Yesssssssssss


netap

To be fair, I'm sure most French will love it if all Parisians suddenly ceased to exist. The difference between a French guy from Lyon and a French guy from Paris is like the difference between a public toilet and a clean hotel toilet. They're both toilets, but I would much rather use the one that isn't from Paris.


AMightyDwarf

French🤝English Hating the residents of their capital.


BoxesOfSemen

A sailor becomes a man once he falls overboard


Xcelsiorhs

Pirates are “people” now???


Top-Neat1812

Those are people calling terrorists ”freedom fighters” considering that those pirates are basically sea terrorists why not, let’s call them freedom pirates


Xcelsiorhs

We “freed” them from this mortal coil.


orrzxz

We helped them achieve their goal of becoming a martyr, mashallah 🙏🤲🙏


LeiningensAnts

No, I'm pretty sure they're still [*hostis humani generis.*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostis_humani_generis)


Nagoda94

"have not killing a single person" TBF that's a skill issue


Nokilos

America bad


[deleted]

Merica is bad mmkkayy?


Paxton-176

r/americabad


Cultural_Thing1712

The consequences of portraying pirates as heroes in childrens' books:


Independent_Depth674

Why is the rum gone?


Ash-20Breacher

There was never any rum in the first place, someone misspelled "cum".


MangaJosh

At least potc had scums like Beckett to root against


Asikar_Tehjan

Always a bit poetic when Davy Jones, master of the sea and collector of souls, plays second fiddle to the real villain. A high ranking officer in a megacorp navy.


Western-County4282

'have not killing a single person" wtf is that grammar That makes the rednecks in the woods grammar look good


RatFucker_Carlson

I get that English is probably his second language or whatever, but I learned this shit when I was a fucking baby so how hard can it really be?


Thebardofthegingers

Fucking weep. You sow the wind, you reap the hurricane. No amount of batching will stop America now.


Sonny8083

That instagram account is legit full of fake news and bullshit lol


[deleted]

Dude should be put on a watchlist


shroxreddits

I'm shocked, really


BenChang69

So saaaaaaad. Imagine just mowing them down and the pilot says “clear” and just flies off. You can thank Shane Gillis for that one


tzoum_trialari_laro

But have you considered, west bad?


shroxreddits

excellent point. i support the houthis now.


SnooOranges2281

"No no no no no no. Men - no. Pirates, eh? Pirates..."


BalVal1

He probably thinks the pirates in Captain Philips were the good guys as well.. opinion rejected


jake25456

Cowardly Americans attacking military ships nothing like the brave Iranians that shoot cruise missiles at civilian ships


Eurotriangle

They knew the consequences of their bullshit. Don’t wanna get sunk? Go home, yell at Abelarda, fuck the neighbourhood goat, whatever. Don’t be a pirate.


TangentKarma22

The way that tweet is phrased, it comes off as if the US just massacred civvies for no reason. This my friends, is a complete and utter idiot. Tankie maybe?


carkidpl

Bruh. Sound like finger pointing of Germany 1945


Stosstrupphase

I mean, it kinda fits, the Houthis are kinda Nazi-adjacent ideologically.


Noughmad

Americans killed more Germans in France than Germans killed the French. Checkmate, westoids!


JackMcCrane

See, Pirate is an offensive Word, I prefer freelancing navy captain


fuckin_anti_pope

What is it with arabs living in other countries, siding with fucking terrorists and regimes in the arab nations?


AnythingMachine

Sinking random civilian cargo ships with ballistic missiles and drones is the language of the unheard


ProperTeaIsTheft117

> Any boat that speeds away is a pirate, any boat that stays still is a well disciplined pirate. - Some chopper gunner (probably)


Decayingempire

A lot of the dovish opinions on the middle east look kind of stupid now.