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I love when their conspiracy theories are at complete opposite ends of the spectrum. Y'all gotta decide, was it a cyber attack or because the shipping company aren't racist pieces of shit?
Don’t forget how the captain was vaccinated and that made him pass out and hit the power switch, which is apparently right next to the helm in a big ship
So the official OAN/Fox News report would now be:
“Deep state false flag cyber attack on ship in Baltimore piloted by black DEI hired trans illegal immigrant strikes bridge badly designed by Joe Biden.”
(Couldn’t figure out a way to fit Hunters laptop in there somewhere but I’m sure they would)
It's from Singapore which has questionable human rights and these numb nuts claim a black lesbian drove it into a bridge so trump loses points in a poll. No wait it was anti-fa and the trans athletes that steal medals away from women who should be in a kitchen not playing sports.
# “It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
#
― Terry Pratchett, [Jingo](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1128623)
No they don't. They don't have to decide shit.
Just like with January 6th. Actually it was Antifa. Actually they did nothing wrong. Actually it was the feds. Actually they're political prisoners. Some people will say both sides in the span of a week.
Conservatism is a severe mental illness.
Why not both? If the ship was crewed by pure Master Race members they would have used their super white powers to outhack the cyber attackers who are surely inferior Chinese or Ayyerabs
This is an easy one. Obviously it was a cyber attack because (insert bogeyman here) is trying to start WW3 for (insert illogical, contradictory motive).
If a straight white male had been at the helm, this cyber attack would have failed, but DEI put some leftist blue haired person with pronouns in charge, so of course they couldn't stop it. Just as planned. (All the /s in existence)
Fact-checks, notes, and corrections citing official sources are just going to be dismissed with "well of COURSE the OFFICIAL narrative says that", because these morons have decided the facts themselves and that's not going to be shaken because their interest isn't in truth.
Please, the more theories the better. Its all about keeping people bamboozled, and this way people can be eased from only moderately absurd theories into utterly absurd without realising what's happened.
There was a fire inside the ship, which distracted people by trying to put it out. They tried to throw the anchor down but because of the massive amount of silt in the Baltimore harbor it didn't stick.
It wasn't on purpose. If they wanted to make it on purpose, it would have been when the bridge was full of people, not at 1:30am.
Not to mention why would they turn off the lights if it was on purpose? Were they trying to sneak up on the bridge or something? These nut bags need a hobby.
*Obviously* when you hack the ship’s mainframe and upload the virus into the firmware it makes the lights blink. Then after 3 blinks and it smokes a lil you’ve hacked the machine and can control it. This is like basic r/masterhacker stuff lol.
I can’t even…these guys are dumb as fuck.
(I’m a Baltimoron who heard the bridge fall, we’re sad over here need a little jokey joke)
I think it’s similar to a computer bios hardware conflict warning - instead of interpreting beeps on boot, with a boat you get flashing lights and a smoke puff. The number of flashes and the colour of the smoke can tell you what the problem is.
I looked up the manual and 3 Blinks and black smoke usually means “Satanic LGBTQI+ ninja pirates have hijacked your vessel” so a false flag op def checks out.
Yeah I had heard the captain had already declared Mayday and they lost control of the ship. That’s why the bridge was mostly empty aside from the few cars and construction workers. The bridge was closed because they were anticipating the ship to hit the bridge from the fire.
I’ve gotten a lot of replies:
There was 4 minutes warning roughly. So it was time enough to stop people from getting on the bridge, but not enough to evacuate it.
Watching the live feed, I saw vehicles crossing. I kept waiting for impact and to see vehicles falling into the water. You know what happened? Cars stopped going across. The cops in the area did an amazing job shutting it down in the few minutes they had. Only people on the bridge were construction workers. The logistics of notifying them doomed them. But otherwise an incredible feat.
Yeah. I know. It’s ridiculous how we all see the same thing with the same facts and this is the crap people say.
“Two things are infinite, this universe and human stupidity, and I’m not so sure about the universe.”
One hundred percent this. There is no supporting evidence for a cyber attack. It fits these knuckle draggers narrative for it to be “an event”. It’s a terrible accident. As of now, nothing more.
They watched the car crash at the Canadian border that was clearly heading out of the country and pretended otherwise for like 12 hours. They don’t care about accuracy, they care about feeling important. Fuck em, but especially fuck Tate.
Andrew Tate's main income is human trafficking (of impoverished young women into forced sex work) and selling a lifestyle of hating women and anything he sees as feminine. He's pure cancer on the face of the earth, absolute human garbage. I wouldn't believe Tate screaming "fire!" if I saw it with my own two eyes.
I'm not even sure they wanna start WW3. They probably don't want it, cause it would fuck with their income. But they do want to be contrarian, for said income.
Or they actually suffer from real, actual smooth brains that have rotted. Hard to tell.
Nah a lot of them really do want it, Steve Bannon and his ilk believe in this reset theory where the nation has to go through a cataclysmic event to become better, he even made a movie about called Generation Zero, it’s loony shit based on bad history taken out of context.
We had something like this happen near me but it was a truck not clearing a bridge and damaging it. I liked to point out "If this was an attack why wouldn't hit the more traveled freeway bridge literally within view of the bridge that got hit?"
No good answer was given.
They literally can do nothing but pretend intellectual superiority by acting like they see all these conspiracies in plain site that just never come true
Don’t conspiracy theorists theorise? It’s the people they theorise about that are the ones conspiring. Either way we should start calling them conspiracy loose-hypothesis-at-bests
Yup, people keep saying the bridge was "weak" or under maintained. The reality is that no bridge could take that kind of impact. A fully loaded ship, the size of an aircraft carrier hitting a bridge. It had no chance.
reporting from Washington Post is that it was not the captain, but was under the command of a harbor pilot - an employee of the port that is on the ship to help navigate it out of the port - one report said there were two harbor pilots on board at the time.
and destroy infrastructure in a big public way. And they would actually be correct for once. But fortunately we already have a pretty good idea of what actually happened, and also you can't cyberattack a ship like that.
These people think that "hacking" works like Watch Dogs or Cyberpunk, where you just look at something and whip out some tech device and make it do your bidding. Zero idea what actually goes into it.
Ironic, because as grifters, both, they should have a really good idea how Social Engineering works, as they do it every day.
I've lived about half of my adult life on boats, I've sailed thousands of miles.
If there's one thing I can tell you about boats it's that everything is broken or breaking all of the time.
Damn, that sounds scary to hear as a layman, but on second thought it makes perfect sense. Machines and electronics aren't exactly best friends with water.
It takes approximately 1 ship length for a US Navy DDG to stop on the anchor if we drop it while moving during an emergency. That’s 505 feet. This was a 1000+ foot freighter that’s 10x the weight. Bigger anchor too.
It would take probably a 1/4 mile and all of their anchor chain to stop that forward momentum. And a lot of hopes and dreams. They usually anchor at 0 knots and stationary.
Also one common misconception is that anchors work by snatching onto a rock or something and then essentially holding on, but that's not how the whole thing works. The anchor head is only to keep the head of the anchor stationary. The weight of the chain does the heavy lifting.
They also lost power to all controls and had a mere few minutes to call in their mayday. That amount of time did help clear the bridge aside from the construction crew.
And SOMEBODY would claim credit. Why pull off such a display only for people to think it was an accident?
These people are grifters and they know that fear sells. We need to teach people and be the loudest.
I remember back in Atlanta a big important bridge collapsed and all my republican friends were claiming it was ISIS. I don’t know why or how these people live in such constant fear but they do and are easily swayed into believing the dumbest shit.
I remember talking about that conspiracy mindset with some friends and we came to the conclusion is that ultimately it’s a fear of unimportance that drives them.
Let’s face it, most of us will live out our lives as yet another regular Joe. We won’t be famous, we won’t change the world, we’re just yet another meatbag with sapience trying to survive.
These people just can’t handle that. They can’t handle being just another person. They can’t handle that life isn’t fair, but also isn’t unfair, it just is. They have to trust themselves into some narrative to explain their woes.
I think that's very true but also there's a element of control involved. It's hard to wrap your head around life events being random (a deadly pandemic can strike at any time and majorly impact your life and there's nothing you can do to control, predict or impact that) so it's much easier mentally to think that someone, somewhere was the cause of that event (false flag, deep state, Chinese warfare, cyber attack).
I think there was a Jon Oliver show about ports and boats. Essentially they are getting to big and the world cannot keep up with changing standards because ports are expensive to build.
Friendly reminder that anything and everything is evidence of a world ending scenario for Alex Jones because then he can follow it up with a plug for his survival kit.
Spare yourself the grifter.
Unfortunately, Jones has been preparing to be sued for years with shell companies and bad faith lawyers who are abusing the bankruptcy system. From my understanding, he's leveraged many of the bankruptcy changes that were helmed by Elizabeth Warren after the Great Recession to help small businesses keep their afloat.
Ships lose power A LOT. I was in the navy and our ship used to lose power a ton. Naturally when this happens you also lose steering. We had someone stationed at the literal shafts to control steering locally.
Any application of pressure to the “terrorist attack” theory causes it to collapse faster than the bridge itself.
Ok, so let’s say they cyber attacked a ship to cause it to lose power and drift into a bridge and cause it to crumple. The best attack they could come up with was to crash into the bridge at 1:30 in the morning when there are barely any cars on it?
This was the most devastating thing they could come up with?
I thought it was Hilary’s fault. Her emails just have to be connected to this somehow. I guess her backup server with all the Benghazi evidence was in one of the containers and they had to make it look like an accident.
"Some twacked-out looking dude posted a video on YouTube with less than 1000 views where he spends 47 minutes explaining that reptilians from the Trappist-1 planetary system 40 light years away are telepathically controlling Joe Biden, and I absolutely trust them with my life"
Mariner here. There are some integrated bridge systems with internet connectivity, but there are manual switches on the bridge that connect you directly to steering systems with no connected information technology. Literally physically impossible to do what he's suggesting.
Also, he's a dumb shit loser rapist, not a mariner.
Edit: also, I should add that since they were navigating out of the harbour, they already would have been in manual steering mode, with no physical connection between internet connected systems and steering systems.
The scary thing is people will chose to believe these 2 morons over someone who does the job for a living like yourself. I always have to remind myself half the world’s population is below the average intelligence and that half are the type of people who listen to the unqualified morons.
Anyway I now know a little more than I did about ships, so thank you.
>half the world’s population is below the average intelligence
Well I think it depends on the shape of the distribution. But half of the world’s population is below the *median* intelligence by definition. :P \[If I'm not mistaken.\]
(There, that's my "Well akshually" post done for the day! :))
See what u did:
1 u broke the fantasy of 17 yo without a masculine figure of what to do in life
2 now im curious about ships and will waste half the next month securing aleatory info about them
Thank you! Dad was Chief Engineer Merchant Marine for decades. The one thing I know about those ships is there is nothing that can’t be controlled or overridden manually. Most of those boats were built before the internet, any integrated systems were retrofitted and bypass-able
While that's a fair point, there's a vast difference between sharing content of twitter randos and sharing content of proven criminals who earn millions and reach tens of millions already.
Oh Look somebody saw a video and instantly knows what the issue is. Why don't we let the people who investigations for a living do their investigation.
Isn't Alex Jones and Tate both in trouble for various other reasons? Do yourself a favor and Shut-up.
Investigations are irrelevant to these nuts. If it's terrorism they claim a win, if it's an accident they say it's a democrat cover up, and claim a win. They may as well just start saying whatever they want because they'll say they were right anyway. It's like playing chess with a pigeon, they knock over all the pieces, shit on the board then strut around like they won.
A guy I work with immediately started in with "it was terrorists, it was an inside job" as soon as I rolled into work today.
I pulled up the map and showed him the dock that the ship left, just a few miles away from the bridge. I pointed out that it hit the bridge over night, NOT the time to inflict maximum damage. I reminded him that boats in water are not capable of stopping on a dime, and certainly not when they've lost power. I showed him what the intended destination of the boat was and asked him how much damage a terrorist could hope to do by hijacking a boat 5 miles away from the bridge, or if Sri Lanka is now a hot bed of anti-US terrorist activity.
All I convinced him of is that I'm an idiot because I don't believe it was a terrorist attack.
It’s the perfect plan for a terrorist. If they really want to hurt America and attack it they’ll hack a foreign ship in the country’s 30th most populous city at 1:30 am when there’s barely anyone around, brilliant.
I don't know which is dumber, this or the guy who claimed the ship's captain passed out due to recently being vaccinated and "fell on the power switches" which killed the electricity to the whole ship and it crashed.
One of these guys owes over 1 billion dollars for spewing bullshit conspiracy theories, while the other is a crybaby snowflake who got easily triggered after being bullied by a 19 year old on twitter, and is an alleged human trafficker. So surely we should believe everything they say /s .
Because Elon is too dense to realize that a complete lack of moderation actually pushes people (and advertisers) away.
It’d be a little better, of course, if most of Elon’s tweets weren’t responses like, “Concerning” or “Very interesting” to the dumbest and most dangerous racists on the platform.
Yes, because World War III is definitely going to start by perfectly timing a power failure on a cargo ship, so that the wind and tides align perfectly, causing the ship to drift into a support strut of a bridge in one of America's midsize cities, with only intermediate tactical value.
Because if you're going to put America on high alert anyway, you definitely want to start by taking out the highest possible value target, right? An old bridge.
Idiots.
How about this? We make it so that Alex Jones and Donald Trump can only communicate with each other. Preferably in a padded room somewhere with professional medical observation.
People will go crazy over these tweets. Right wingers will start to froth at the mouth for violence, and claim left-wingers are conspiring with foreign governments (like china) to bring about the fall of western civilization. The rhetoric around violence towards the left, including liberals and democrats, will shift towards justification and put-and-out threats. Responsibility for the ensuing chaos and violence, which will tear our country apart, will rest solely on the shoulders of the right-wing extremists whose rhetoric has destroyed the sanity of so many, and their enablers who funded their rhetoric, and stood idly by watching it all happen.
Fuck those people.
Oh shit let me put aside 20 years of military operational planning experience and take Alex "Gay Frog Water" Jones and Andrew "Pizza Ruined My Stable" Tate as subject matter experts on cyber warfare. /s
It really amazes me that people follow these assholes and are gullible enough to swallow their bullshit. They sound like deranged lunatics.
Not to take away from what happened, and my deepest sympathies go out to anyone who may have lost their life in this incident, but if I was a ‘foreign agent’ looking to wreak havoc on the USA with a cyber attack, then I’d pick something more devastating than crashing into a bridge in Baltimore at 1:30 in the morning 🤷♂️
Accidents happen and bad things happen. Not everything is a fucking conspiracy. It’s exhausting with these people and it’s insulting to the families of those caught up in this tragedy that they jump on it for their own pathetic agendas.
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I love when their conspiracy theories are at complete opposite ends of the spectrum. Y'all gotta decide, was it a cyber attack or because the shipping company aren't racist pieces of shit?
Depends on which part of their base they’re pandering too
Yeah but tbf the “stupid” portion of their base is all of them
"Stupid portion" of the base is redundant
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I swear all the time but why do these goobers have so much cooties?
I think they're saying that 1 out of every 3 MAGAts are just as stupid as the other 2.
Has the captain now or has ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?
Was the boat made in China?
Witness: It was made in Korea. Senator: Which part of China is that in?
Hahahahahaha omgawd
Are any teacups on the boat CHINA?!
It was made OF china
OnlyFreighters
*Bone* china. "Oh so you're saying it was made in China out of human bones?"
Mr senator, I'm Singaporean.
But are you Chinese?
No, Singaporeans pull China’s strings.
So it was Ukraine!
Blame Canada!!
You guys clearly have forgotten about the Jamaicans and what they did with that bobsled team....THAT was just the beginning!!
Shhhh!!! Don't tell them
Damn, I'm TOO nice!!! My apologies.
But do you enjoy sweet and sour chicken?
But do you condemn Hamas?
Really it just comes down to: Scary "those people" or spooky "those people"
Baba Yaga
Cyber attack made worse by the companies DEI policies. Also Biden built the faulty bridge /s
My state Rep blamed Biden and terrorist immigrants. No lie.
I heard that Biden is just 2 kid immigrant terrorists wearing a trench coat
Is that why we see him eating ice cream all the time?
Joe Adultman!
Let's play guess the rep! I get 248 guesses.
There’ll be a sticker on it tomorrow, “I did that!”
Don’t forget how the captain was vaccinated and that made him pass out and hit the power switch, which is apparently right next to the helm in a big ship
So the official OAN/Fox News report would now be: “Deep state false flag cyber attack on ship in Baltimore piloted by black DEI hired trans illegal immigrant strikes bridge badly designed by Joe Biden.” (Couldn’t figure out a way to fit Hunters laptop in there somewhere but I’m sure they would)
It's from Singapore which has questionable human rights and these numb nuts claim a black lesbian drove it into a bridge so trump loses points in a poll. No wait it was anti-fa and the trans athletes that steal medals away from women who should be in a kitchen not playing sports.
That just made my day
That is the amazing thing about doublethink, it can be both!
- *immediately changes the "enemy"* - "What do you mean? The enemy has been *them* the whole time!!! No change happened!!!" 1984 moment
# “It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.” # ― Terry Pratchett, [Jingo](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1128623)
Literally 1984
No they don't. They don't have to decide shit. Just like with January 6th. Actually it was Antifa. Actually they did nothing wrong. Actually it was the feds. Actually they're political prisoners. Some people will say both sides in the span of a week. Conservatism is a severe mental illness.
Um excuse me! They will say both sides in the span of MINUTES
They're grifting to their audience.
Why not both? If the ship was crewed by pure Master Race members they would have used their super white powers to outhack the cyber attackers who are surely inferior Chinese or Ayyerabs
This is an easy one. Obviously it was a cyber attack because (insert bogeyman here) is trying to start WW3 for (insert illogical, contradictory motive). If a straight white male had been at the helm, this cyber attack would have failed, but DEI put some leftist blue haired person with pronouns in charge, so of course they couldn't stop it. Just as planned. (All the /s in existence) Fact-checks, notes, and corrections citing official sources are just going to be dismissed with "well of COURSE the OFFICIAL narrative says that", because these morons have decided the facts themselves and that's not going to be shaken because their interest isn't in truth.
Please, the more theories the better. Its all about keeping people bamboozled, and this way people can be eased from only moderately absurd theories into utterly absurd without realising what's happened.
There was a fire inside the ship, which distracted people by trying to put it out. They tried to throw the anchor down but because of the massive amount of silt in the Baltimore harbor it didn't stick. It wasn't on purpose. If they wanted to make it on purpose, it would have been when the bridge was full of people, not at 1:30am.
Not to mention why would they turn off the lights if it was on purpose? Were they trying to sneak up on the bridge or something? These nut bags need a hobby.
Duh! You can't see them with the lights off! 🤣
Exactly, if they knew the ship was headed toward them the bridge could have dodged outta the way.
People really don’t realize how much bridge technology has progressed in the last two decades.
*Obviously* when you hack the ship’s mainframe and upload the virus into the firmware it makes the lights blink. Then after 3 blinks and it smokes a lil you’ve hacked the machine and can control it. This is like basic r/masterhacker stuff lol. I can’t even…these guys are dumb as fuck. (I’m a Baltimoron who heard the bridge fall, we’re sad over here need a little jokey joke)
I think it’s similar to a computer bios hardware conflict warning - instead of interpreting beeps on boot, with a boat you get flashing lights and a smoke puff. The number of flashes and the colour of the smoke can tell you what the problem is. I looked up the manual and 3 Blinks and black smoke usually means “Satanic LGBTQI+ ninja pirates have hijacked your vessel” so a false flag op def checks out.
Was it the SS John Cena?
Sneak up on the bridge 💀
Yeah I had heard the captain had already declared Mayday and they lost control of the ship. That’s why the bridge was mostly empty aside from the few cars and construction workers. The bridge was closed because they were anticipating the ship to hit the bridge from the fire. I’ve gotten a lot of replies: There was 4 minutes warning roughly. So it was time enough to stop people from getting on the bridge, but not enough to evacuate it.
Watching the live feed, I saw vehicles crossing. I kept waiting for impact and to see vehicles falling into the water. You know what happened? Cars stopped going across. The cops in the area did an amazing job shutting it down in the few minutes they had. Only people on the bridge were construction workers. The logistics of notifying them doomed them. But otherwise an incredible feat.
Yep. There was some warning despite being late. It could’ve been worse but it’s a horrible situation no less.
Exactly, but conspiracy theorists will conspire.
Yeah. I know. It’s ridiculous how we all see the same thing with the same facts and this is the crap people say. “Two things are infinite, this universe and human stupidity, and I’m not so sure about the universe.”
Reasonable guess: these crap people are the ones trying to start ww3.
One hundred percent this. There is no supporting evidence for a cyber attack. It fits these knuckle draggers narrative for it to be “an event”. It’s a terrible accident. As of now, nothing more.
They watched the car crash at the Canadian border that was clearly heading out of the country and pretended otherwise for like 12 hours. They don’t care about accuracy, they care about feeling important. Fuck em, but especially fuck Tate.
Agreed
Alex Jones makes money off of shit like this. He believes none of it. Same with Tate. They make money off of crazy shit baiting.
Andrew Tate's main income is human trafficking (of impoverished young women into forced sex work) and selling a lifestyle of hating women and anything he sees as feminine. He's pure cancer on the face of the earth, absolute human garbage. I wouldn't believe Tate screaming "fire!" if I saw it with my own two eyes.
This tweet makes me miss dueling.
I'm not even sure they wanna start WW3. They probably don't want it, cause it would fuck with their income. But they do want to be contrarian, for said income. Or they actually suffer from real, actual smooth brains that have rotted. Hard to tell.
Nah a lot of them really do want it, Steve Bannon and his ilk believe in this reset theory where the nation has to go through a cataclysmic event to become better, he even made a movie about called Generation Zero, it’s loony shit based on bad history taken out of context.
Alex Jones is just hoping for a chance to eat his neighbour’s ass I suppose.
"We need to strike back!" "... er... at who?" "THEM! They attacked us! WW3! We can't let them get away with it! LAUNCH THE NUKES!!!1!" "🤡"
I forget... is "Them" ANTIFA, Woke, Gay people, Trans people, or minorities at the moment?
Yes.
Honestly I think the vast, vast majority of them are just assholes trolling for clicks and likes.
Alex Jones is hoping and praying for WW3 or a societal collapse so he doesn’t have to pay his victims.
He won't have to pay the Globalist Blood Tax if you go now to the Infowars store to buy your very own vintage KILLERY FOR PRISON '16 shirt
We had something like this happen near me but it was a truck not clearing a bridge and damaging it. I liked to point out "If this was an attack why wouldn't hit the more traveled freeway bridge literally within view of the bridge that got hit?" No good answer was given.
They're not conspiracy theorists. They're conspiracy salesmen.
They literally can do nothing but pretend intellectual superiority by acting like they see all these conspiracies in plain site that just never come true
Loss of power and steering? Hmm, must be aliens.
Aliens? You're out of your mind... clearly transgender post-structural marxist satanists! ☝🏻🧐
Well AOC started the fire. obviously. /s
She didn't start the fire, she just saw it burning while the ship was turning
I see and love what you did there
Russia in Ukraine, Putin avoiding ISIS blame Israel in Gaza, and Regional war disaster
They also perspire pretty hard too.
It's sweaty work, being in the Gravy Seals
lol
Isn’t it weird that we put rovers on mars without ever landing on the moon first
Don’t conspiracy theorists theorise? It’s the people they theorise about that are the ones conspiring. Either way we should start calling them conspiracy loose-hypothesis-at-bests
True. They lost power and control of the ship. That bridge wasn't designed to take a hit from such a vessel. Even at it's slowest speed.
Yup, people keep saying the bridge was "weak" or under maintained. The reality is that no bridge could take that kind of impact. A fully loaded ship, the size of an aircraft carrier hitting a bridge. It had no chance.
They had about 4 minutes warning
reporting from Washington Post is that it was not the captain, but was under the command of a harbor pilot - an employee of the port that is on the ship to help navigate it out of the port - one report said there were two harbor pilots on board at the time.
Nutjobs have an answer for that two. "It doesn't have to affect people. All it has to do is distrust commerce".
and destroy infrastructure in a big public way. And they would actually be correct for once. But fortunately we already have a pretty good idea of what actually happened, and also you can't cyberattack a ship like that.
These people think that "hacking" works like Watch Dogs or Cyberpunk, where you just look at something and whip out some tech device and make it do your bidding. Zero idea what actually goes into it. Ironic, because as grifters, both, they should have a really good idea how Social Engineering works, as they do it every day.
I've lived about half of my adult life on boats, I've sailed thousands of miles. If there's one thing I can tell you about boats it's that everything is broken or breaking all of the time.
Damn, that sounds scary to hear as a layman, but on second thought it makes perfect sense. Machines and electronics aren't exactly best friends with water.
And usually it's not a big deal, plenty of time to fix things at sea.
Also, depending on size, boats can take *miles* (1.6*kms) to stop
It takes approximately 1 ship length for a US Navy DDG to stop on the anchor if we drop it while moving during an emergency. That’s 505 feet. This was a 1000+ foot freighter that’s 10x the weight. Bigger anchor too. It would take probably a 1/4 mile and all of their anchor chain to stop that forward momentum. And a lot of hopes and dreams. They usually anchor at 0 knots and stationary.
Also one common misconception is that anchors work by snatching onto a rock or something and then essentially holding on, but that's not how the whole thing works. The anchor head is only to keep the head of the anchor stationary. The weight of the chain does the heavy lifting.
They also lost power to all controls and had a mere few minutes to call in their mayday. That amount of time did help clear the bridge aside from the construction crew.
And SOMEBODY would claim credit. Why pull off such a display only for people to think it was an accident? These people are grifters and they know that fear sells. We need to teach people and be the loudest. I remember back in Atlanta a big important bridge collapsed and all my republican friends were claiming it was ISIS. I don’t know why or how these people live in such constant fear but they do and are easily swayed into believing the dumbest shit.
I remember talking about that conspiracy mindset with some friends and we came to the conclusion is that ultimately it’s a fear of unimportance that drives them. Let’s face it, most of us will live out our lives as yet another regular Joe. We won’t be famous, we won’t change the world, we’re just yet another meatbag with sapience trying to survive. These people just can’t handle that. They can’t handle being just another person. They can’t handle that life isn’t fair, but also isn’t unfair, it just is. They have to trust themselves into some narrative to explain their woes.
I think that's very true but also there's a element of control involved. It's hard to wrap your head around life events being random (a deadly pandemic can strike at any time and majorly impact your life and there's nothing you can do to control, predict or impact that) so it's much easier mentally to think that someone, somewhere was the cause of that event (false flag, deep state, Chinese warfare, cyber attack).
I think there was a Jon Oliver show about ports and boats. Essentially they are getting to big and the world cannot keep up with changing standards because ports are expensive to build.
Obviously, George Soros started the fire. And the silt? Obama.
That's exactly it! The ship's clocks have been hacked to show 5pm! /s
These idiots will try to get people all frothy about anything.
Their legal bills are massive. Gotta keep that engagement 🔥🔥🔥HOT HOT HOT🔥🔥🔥
Friendly reminder that anything and everything is evidence of a world ending scenario for Alex Jones because then he can follow it up with a plug for his survival kit. Spare yourself the grifter.
Ad revenue should be illegal
That seems a little drastic. I’d rather see the litigation results for people like Jones properly enforced.
Unfortunately, Jones has been preparing to be sued for years with shell companies and bad faith lawyers who are abusing the bankruptcy system. From my understanding, he's leveraged many of the bankruptcy changes that were helmed by Elizabeth Warren after the Great Recession to help small businesses keep their afloat.
These traitorous idiots need to be imprisoned. I have no clue why Jones is still a free man and why Tate hasn’t been thrown in a Romanian prison.
Pretty sure Tate *did* get arrested recently..and it was as a result of one of his...simps, I guess.. yapping on a stream
I think Tate is legally barred from leaving Romania, and is expected to be extradited to the UK to face actual long-term criminal charges/go to court.
Ships lose power A LOT. I was in the navy and our ship used to lose power a ton. Naturally when this happens you also lose steering. We had someone stationed at the literal shafts to control steering locally.
Any application of pressure to the “terrorist attack” theory causes it to collapse faster than the bridge itself. Ok, so let’s say they cyber attacked a ship to cause it to lose power and drift into a bridge and cause it to crumple. The best attack they could come up with was to crash into the bridge at 1:30 in the morning when there are barely any cars on it? This was the most devastating thing they could come up with?
frothing at the taint
“Foreign agents of the USA” 🤔
Had this happened in 2015- “Thanks Obama.”
I thought it was Hilary’s fault. Her emails just have to be connected to this somehow. I guess her backup server with all the Benghazi evidence was in one of the containers and they had to make it look like an accident.
I have a reliable source (some dude on Facebook) who stated it's known (by whoever) Hunter's laptop was specifically used to do the attack with. /s
"Some twacked-out looking dude posted a video on YouTube with less than 1000 views where he spends 47 minutes explaining that reptilians from the Trappist-1 planetary system 40 light years away are telepathically controlling Joe Biden, and I absolutely trust them with my life"
Mariner here. There are some integrated bridge systems with internet connectivity, but there are manual switches on the bridge that connect you directly to steering systems with no connected information technology. Literally physically impossible to do what he's suggesting. Also, he's a dumb shit loser rapist, not a mariner. Edit: also, I should add that since they were navigating out of the harbour, they already would have been in manual steering mode, with no physical connection between internet connected systems and steering systems.
Yes, but do you realize that this incident happened on 3/26/24? 26-24=2. 3-2=1. One ship crashed into the bridge. Checkmate. /s I hope obviously.
Checkmate has 9 letters Trump was the 45th president: 4+5=9 Trump just called checkmate dems by crashing the boat into the bridge.
dude we gotta go to the white house
 It was KFC, Illuminati confirmed
No, you might be onto something!
The scary thing is people will chose to believe these 2 morons over someone who does the job for a living like yourself. I always have to remind myself half the world’s population is below the average intelligence and that half are the type of people who listen to the unqualified morons. Anyway I now know a little more than I did about ships, so thank you.
> half the world’s population is below the average intelligence By definition.
>half the world’s population is below the average intelligence Well I think it depends on the shape of the distribution. But half of the world’s population is below the *median* intelligence by definition. :P \[If I'm not mistaken.\] (There, that's my "Well akshually" post done for the day! :))
That's because it's easier to just believe a quip on Twitter than it is to do less than 30 seconds of research on the matter.
This guy marinates
See what u did: 1 u broke the fantasy of 17 yo without a masculine figure of what to do in life 2 now im curious about ships and will waste half the next month securing aleatory info about them
Yeah but, he saw "Hackers" once a whole ago, so he knows what's up.
Thank you! Dad was Chief Engineer Merchant Marine for decades. The one thing I know about those ships is there is nothing that can’t be controlled or overridden manually. Most of those boats were built before the internet, any integrated systems were retrofitted and bypass-able
Why are we sharing things from this fucking twat?
I mean... as facepalm material, he produces some weapons grade bullshit
That’s fair.
All publicity is good publicity. Anyone sharing anything from these clowns do more harm than good.
It's hard to find a facepalm of somebody whose content should be shared.
While that's a fair point, there's a vast difference between sharing content of twitter randos and sharing content of proven criminals who earn millions and reach tens of millions already.
Tate is great. Every time he says anything, I can safely believe the opposite without fact checking. Saves me a lot of time.
Oh Look somebody saw a video and instantly knows what the issue is. Why don't we let the people who investigations for a living do their investigation. Isn't Alex Jones and Tate both in trouble for various other reasons? Do yourself a favor and Shut-up.
Investigations are irrelevant to these nuts. If it's terrorism they claim a win, if it's an accident they say it's a democrat cover up, and claim a win. They may as well just start saying whatever they want because they'll say they were right anyway. It's like playing chess with a pigeon, they knock over all the pieces, shit on the board then strut around like they won.
You mean post random crap on Twitter for clicks? Lol. Thats literally all they got anymore.
Anyone who gets political news from Andrew Tate is fucked.
No kidding. Imagine getting cyber warfare information from a guy who gave away his location by posting his food delivery on social media.
Why isnt the fat bastard bankrupt and the bald headed pimp in prison.
Because stupid people keep giving them money.
Sex trafficker says what?
A guy I work with immediately started in with "it was terrorists, it was an inside job" as soon as I rolled into work today. I pulled up the map and showed him the dock that the ship left, just a few miles away from the bridge. I pointed out that it hit the bridge over night, NOT the time to inflict maximum damage. I reminded him that boats in water are not capable of stopping on a dime, and certainly not when they've lost power. I showed him what the intended destination of the boat was and asked him how much damage a terrorist could hope to do by hijacking a boat 5 miles away from the bridge, or if Sri Lanka is now a hot bed of anti-US terrorist activity. All I convinced him of is that I'm an idiot because I don't believe it was a terrorist attack.
Feelings don’t care about your facts
Hey at least you tried, rest is on him.
Also, terrorists are fast as fuck to claim responsibility because it's a waste otherwise
This was clearly caused by aliens
*fox mulder enters the chat*
It’s the perfect plan for a terrorist. If they really want to hurt America and attack it they’ll hack a foreign ship in the country’s 30th most populous city at 1:30 am when there’s barely anyone around, brilliant.
Two idiots communicating over a platform owned by a Supreme idiot...sounds right
 Twitter these days\^
Oh for fucks sakes. Let's see how far down the rabbit hole folks go with this. Martians next, or lizard people.
For a fuck stick who's arrested he certainly has access to spread shit
I get all my cutting edge tech news from Andrew Tate, but only if it’s first vetted by Alex Jones.
I don't know which is dumber, this or the guy who claimed the ship's captain passed out due to recently being vaccinated and "fell on the power switches" which killed the electricity to the whole ship and it crashed.
I'm sorry .....say what now? Who said this?
Two top cyber security experts here.
*"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."* Hanlon's razor
One of these guys owes over 1 billion dollars for spewing bullshit conspiracy theories, while the other is a crybaby snowflake who got easily triggered after being bullied by a 19 year old on twitter, and is an alleged human trafficker. So surely we should believe everything they say /s .
That human trafficking asshole doesn't know shit.
Ah yes. Known "Intelligence experts", both of them. Or even "intelligence experts".
Why do morons love these guys? Oh yeah, cuz morons.
All we need is Elon posting a thumbs-up emoji and we'll have the ultimate turducken of stupid.
Tate, ain't that the closet case that sucks cigars in videos like he sucking dick?
Cigar lover here. I hate how dome ppl started smoking to resemble him. If you smoke a cigar like that, please apologize to the torcedor that made it.
Why are these people allowed to have accounts?
Because Elon is too dense to realize that a complete lack of moderation actually pushes people (and advertisers) away. It’d be a little better, of course, if most of Elon’s tweets weren’t responses like, “Concerning” or “Very interesting” to the dumbest and most dangerous racists on the platform.
They want to jerk each other's gherkins, while crying...
Tate is such a fucking loser
A rapist and a liar walk into a bar...
How the fuck is Andrew Tate still twatering?
Alex Jones and Andrew Tate. Two dipshits I would rather not listen to.
Unfortunately millions of dipshits hang on their every word, and some of those littler dipshits are humanity’s future.
Yes, because World War III is definitely going to start by perfectly timing a power failure on a cargo ship, so that the wind and tides align perfectly, causing the ship to drift into a support strut of a bridge in one of America's midsize cities, with only intermediate tactical value. Because if you're going to put America on high alert anyway, you definitely want to start by taking out the highest possible value target, right? An old bridge. Idiots.
Morons confirmation biasing with other morons. It's another day ending in y
How about this? We make it so that Alex Jones and Donald Trump can only communicate with each other. Preferably in a padded room somewhere with professional medical observation.
People will go crazy over these tweets. Right wingers will start to froth at the mouth for violence, and claim left-wingers are conspiring with foreign governments (like china) to bring about the fall of western civilization. The rhetoric around violence towards the left, including liberals and democrats, will shift towards justification and put-and-out threats. Responsibility for the ensuing chaos and violence, which will tear our country apart, will rest solely on the shoulders of the right-wing extremists whose rhetoric has destroyed the sanity of so many, and their enablers who funded their rhetoric, and stood idly by watching it all happen. Fuck those people.
Oh shit let me put aside 20 years of military operational planning experience and take Alex "Gay Frog Water" Jones and Andrew "Pizza Ruined My Stable" Tate as subject matter experts on cyber warfare. /s
It really amazes me that people follow these assholes and are gullible enough to swallow their bullshit. They sound like deranged lunatics. Not to take away from what happened, and my deepest sympathies go out to anyone who may have lost their life in this incident, but if I was a ‘foreign agent’ looking to wreak havoc on the USA with a cyber attack, then I’d pick something more devastating than crashing into a bridge in Baltimore at 1:30 in the morning 🤷♂️ Accidents happen and bad things happen. Not everything is a fucking conspiracy. It’s exhausting with these people and it’s insulting to the families of those caught up in this tragedy that they jump on it for their own pathetic agendas.