𝐿𝒢𝓃𝒢 "not yet begun to fight"Mar 19
Hey what stage of winning is it when our troops are maybe setting fire to their own multi billion dollar warships in order to avoid a war the pedopresident started and has no idea how to finish
Show threadV'gerMar 19
@Lana Does the Simple Sabotage Field Manual have any details on this?
Show thread𝐿𝒢𝓃𝒢 "not yet begun to fight"Mar 19
@vger "fuck shit up"
Show threadCharlie Stross

@Lana @vger

"fuck shit up" is fine and dandy IF you're standing on terra firma and the shit in question doesn't include a couple of nuclear reactors and a buttload of high explosives.

If I was a sailor on that ship I'd be really angry about the over-long deployment, but not to the point of sabotaging something that dangerous *and hard to escape from*.

Mar 19 at 7:18pmWeb
Show thread𝐿𝒢𝓃𝒢 "not yet begun to fight"Mar 19
@cstross @vger as someone else pointed out, passive resistance can simply be worked around by deploying someone else. Sabotage takes the entire ship out of commission until it can be fixed or replaced.
Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftMar 19
@cstross @Lana @vger yeah I read an interesting reddit thread from a USN sailor who works in those spaces and they have _very_ serious Marines with automatic weapons who look poorly on fucking anything up especially in the explodey hard to escape from areas.