What’s a spox? I highly suspect it’s some kind of insider slang.

It’s never an “accident.” Rule 1 of firearms.
It’s called a “negligent discharge.” At least nobody died in this blue-on-blue this time. Or red-on-red, I guess.

Yes police are working class. With no police to enforce the property laws of the bourgeois, private property wouldn’t exist. Why else do you think “defund the police” was a thing? It wasn’t random. Gosh, nobody has ever heard of the bourgeois fooling working class into working against their class interests before. They lack class consciousness.

Yes enlisted sailors are working class. They are trading their labor for a wage. Draftees are even worse, literal slaves who do not know why they are fighting each other and only wish to go home, as in the Great War that led to the Potemkin incident.

Sailors are working class. The entire point of the Mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin was that their lives were about to be wasted in a completely pointless operation. Like right now. This is really mean-spirited. Iran has supersonic cruise missiles and this ship is the biggest target. If it is hit it is a HUGE escalation guaranteed to cause tens of thousands of deaths. Of working class on all sides.

Whatever, who cares! No war!

IDF soldier.

That was probably Newsom.

The pro-Israel right is absolutely furious at Candace Owens right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 2A types show up at her house soon.

I don’t want to know how you know that.

This didn’t happen on any other ship. Mutinies are like on that one destroyer whose captain drove it full speed into a busy shipping lane and got rammed by a cargo ship. The investigation afterwards revealed that they were rarely on the bridge and did not train their sailors properly. The crew tried filing complaints up the chain of command like they were supposed to but got ignored. The captain had been to Annapolis, see? They all stick together. Class consciousness, but in the wrong kind of way.

That was the post-Vietnam US Navy. It was war-weary and out of control. There were spaces that officers did not dare to go. They were putting bricks of heroin in body bags of KIAs to smuggle it back to the States. The military got rid of conscription for a reason.

There are plenty of shore-based jobs in the Navy. The USS Ford is based in Sasaebo which means Japanese girls. You have to specially sign up and compete for a job on a ship like this. They knew what they were getting into.

Is that true, or did you hear it on NPR? If NPR said shit tastes good you’d eat a mouthful?

They also stole our hearts

LOL in the 80s they had to change the name to canola. I remember the time I was reading Xinhua news and they were doing a rural agricultural photo spread about the fields of [the real name] and I was like what the FUCK, Xinhua! Back then they didn’t know subtext or synonyms and just translated straight out of the dictionary. The “this is so weird / Chinglish” era is all but over. Between AI and returnees they’ve got it now. Returnees really help a country because they say, “why does it have to be like this? Where I lived it’s not like this at all!This is stupid!” And then they change society for the better.

I thought facecrime was totally stupid and made-up. But here it is. It’s how Parsons was caught by the Thought Police, despite being a loyal Party member for decades.

This is the worst news to drop on Japan since Hiroshima 1945