This is too on the nose

When the US Navy ship that built the jetty in Gaza left port in the US to go to Gaza, they also played the imperial march.

I fucking hate disney fascism

it's the worst combo of cutesy "teehee I'm just like the cool epic bad guys from my favorite media franchise" and barefaced bloodsoaked murder. Disney fascism and it's associated "empire did nothing wrong" line of thought was one of the reasons I killed my last bit of interest in Star Wars. The original movies had the audience (rightfully) siding with the Vietcong and other resistance groups but overtime that was untenable because of course the average Imperial Core resident can only identify & sympathize with the dominating imperial power. Sure they'll pay lip service to being the rebel alliance/resistance because they know they're supposed to, but the number of people with stormtrooper family stickers on the back of their cars speaks volumes. They know their place in the imperial power structure and so they must support the genocidal fascist empire because that's what they benefit from in their day-to-day life. Just as an example, take the "jokes" that the rebels destroying the Death Star was actually bad because of all the civilian contractors aboard it. They can't (or won't) come to the realization that those "civilian contractors" are just as fucking guilty as the literal nazi-coded stormtroopers. And it's the same irl. American troops are just innocent bystanders even as they bomb refugees and invade half the planet.
- one of the reasons I killed my last bit of interest in Star Wars
  Did you watch Andor? You really should, it's based on the life of Stalin and is quite possibly the best piece of star wars media ever created.
- I'll never stop linking this video whenever this topic comes up: https://xcancel.com/IAFsite/status/1654142612796784641

US navy should play yakity sax right as they crash into some bridge support.

The Ever Given should blare "I'll Stick Around" by the Foo Fighters and/or "Like a Stone" by Audioslave the next time it's in the Suez

Certified baddies moment.

Mark my words, the chanification of the right is going to be so absolute the right will gleefully identify themselves as IRL villains.

Another day more UlyssesT bangers

What's the problem? The OG Nazis played the space Nazi song for their Terf Island friends because they knew nobody would appreciate an evil empire more than them.

they just like it because it sounds like Wagner.

If you say the words "German naval vessel in London" loud enough Churchill wakes from his grave and starts saying misogynistic quips and drinking all the gin

Germany must perish

This is such a German thing, like only a German could do that because it's so dumb and without any finesse at all.

I mean the whole ship is a German CORVETTE. If you know anything about ships, a corvette is like the lamest warship. The Russians have some interesting designs with like 8 or 16 killer anti ship missiles and they are called missile corvettes, but the German ships don't have anything like that, they're just boring coastal patrol vessels, basically. I'm sure the Thames has seen more impressive ships, and even the dumb German navy has bigger and more impressive ships (which still suck, but they're bigger) so one of those lame duck corvettes playing the Imperial March is just wrong.

And on top of that the whole thing is so German, like the captain is a dull rules-obsessed boomer officer, and he probably really though he was so funny and did a great practical joke, but of course it comes out all wrong and coarse. And then on top of that, THE BRITISH ACTUALLY REPORT IT AS FUNNY! Don't you guys have some self respect. Like Donald Trump says, sad!

It's basically the same class of ship the US, China, and Russia use as coast guard cutters. I often find it more than a little entertaining how most Navies outside the great powers label as warships what amount to coastal patrol vessels meant for civilian police actions in litoral water. Is something really a blue water Navy when you don't even have the ships to assemble a Navy strike group (1 cruiser for command & control, 3 to 6 destroyers, and 1 attack submarine)?
- Or to put it the other way around: what much of the world considers a warship, the hyper-militarized US uses as a speedboat for lake cops.
- German corvettes are very chunky though. They're quite a lot larger than Russian and Chinese ones.
  Their Baden-Württemberg class frigate is a destroyer in all but name. It's fairly close to the size of a few missile cruisers.