• Cypher@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    feel free to continue picking a fight with a pedantic enginee

    I don’t pick fight with toddlers who quickly resort to vacuous appeals to authority.

    that the ships were in fact related and they had been lying.

    Vessels have no reason to publicly tell the truth if that’ll get missiles fired at them. I know this is hard to understand for a pea brained engineer but people lie. People are even more likely to lie when money and lives are on the line.

    Maybe they didn’t cover that in your courses, personally I hope they would, as people often lie about materials used in construction which is why so many regulations exist. I’m sure they aren’t required with really smart engineers like you around though!

    If your options are to list Israel on your manifest and eat Houthi missiles or lie and not eat missiles which do you choose? Now if you want to shut down shipping to Isreal you have a couple of options, intercept and search every vessel or target them all with missiles.

    Given the US and UK naval presence boarding won’t be an option. Jeez I wonder what the Houthi will choose.

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      6 months ago

      Very telling that you’ve devolved to strawmen and personal attacks instead of actually addressing my point:

      You provided a source to explain how they were related to the Palestinian conflict and how they were purportedly helping the Palestinian people.

      Your source said despite the Houthis’ claims, their attacks were on ships unrelated to Israeli.

      You said, contrary to the article, that the ships were in fact related and they had been lying.

      Don’t dodge it. Am I supposed to believe the articles? Or do I believe you – and if I’m supposed to believe you, why did you use those articles as evidence in the first place?