Make Titanic Great Again 
Not surprising from people who romanticize a perfectly preventable disaster as some sort of unforeseen tragedy
I have been into the Titanic my whole life. I was going to have a point here, but I just realized most of you would meet me and be like "wtf?"
Another lifelong Tiranic dork here. It’s a combination of the dramatic/poignant stories and the Edwardian technology/decor. I also realized following it for so many decades taught me a lot about scientific inquiry and historiography.
There are just so many stories. Accounts from passengers, and the people who built it. The craftsmanship and attention to detail, the way it changed the world at the time...
There's just so many interesting angles. I also like the "old timey-ness" of it
It was one of the first big disasters that made international headlines and that spawned a bunch of media inspired by it. The Titanic movie we all know was like the 6th one made, on top of books, comics, you name it. As such it takes up a lot of space in Anglo cultural memory.
Clive Palmer is an unsubtle book parody of a capitalist from an edgy 80's Hollywood movie about punks trying to save the local skating-rink.
Only he's real.
In a March 13 press conference at the Sydney Opera House to announce his recommitment to reconstructing the doomed ocean liner, Palmer said it would be a beacon of hope amid war in Ukraine and Gaza, bring people together after the era of Covid lockdowns, and embody traditional values as opposed to “woke” politics.
Like that submarine, it will absolutely unite the world in celebration if the Titanic II sinks with its crude Icarus parody at the helm.
the west's symbol of hope for the future is ... a recreation of an old outdated ship that is famous for sinking on its maiden voyage.
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Come on orcas, you have the opportunity to both really put a capstone in your latest activities and also do the funniest thing ever.
Isn't naming a ship after one that sunk... something frowned upon historically and bad luck?
*removed externally hosted image*Those old lakers from the golden-age of shipping in the Great Lakes sure are beautiful though. *removed externally hosted image*They are essentially just self propelled barges and absolute death traps, but damn they are good looking ships.
I love them! Every year, we head up to the Soo Locks so I can get high and stare at them for a couple days. I really miss the old style freighters with the pilot house in the front. At least there are a handful left. I love looking at pictures of the freighters that were built in the 1900's. They're made of steel, but it's like going out there in a canoe compared to the thousand footers
I used to spend all my summers in Lake Erie growing up and loved watching the lakers go back and forth by Put-In-Bay. It's impressive that some of those old lakers are pushing 100 years old and still in service. I've never been to the Soo Locks, but i know that i have to make my way out there at some point to see the thousand footers in action.
It's pretty great in the Soo. Get a hotel across the street from the locks, and download a free ship tracking app, and then you just bar hop (or walk around if You're sober) between arrivals. The boat tours are great too. If you time it right (ship watching app) you can be in and around the locks with the freighters and get really close.
A couple summers ago, we took our canoe up to a place called De Tour Village. It's where the st Mary's river connects to lake Huron. It's about a mile wide in De Tour, so you can canoe right out there and float with them
Man, I could nerd out on ships all day
An alternate universe me committed to the nautical nerdiness. Unfortunately in this one I dropped that subject alongside pottery and German.
Royal Navy did it all the time, until they ran out of ships to name.
But will vaccinated people be allowed on the ship?
Yeah, we’ve got to extend our hand in love and friendship for people being vaccinated despite the side effects. We have to look after them. And they’re all good people. We’re all the same really, like white, green, yellow, whatever it is — to embrace each other.
These anti-vax people are really living in their own little worlds, aren’t they? They genuinely believe anyone who got the vax is walking around like a plague rat. And white folks - even those who aren’t billionaires, have the privilege of being able to create their own little insane realities.
This gets to something you said in your recent press conference, which is that the Titanic reflects traditional values instead of “woke” values. So can you explain what that means?
There’s been a concept in society that you can cancel people. I think you know what I mean by “canceled” people, and we think that’s a terrible concept. The United States was founded on the rights of men to be different. The diversity that we’ve had in our economy, in our intellectual development has really meant that’s developed our society to a higher level. I’m talking about Western society in general. So the French Revolution, the American Revolution, all those things were brought about by individuals [claiming] their rights to express an opinion or view. I mean, you should have the right to be wrong.
In case you’re not familiar with coded whitey speak, this all sounds like gibberish because he can’t say the real reason, which is that he just wants to try and go back to a time where non-white people were just barely visible in the background of white peoples lives, and they were never put in a place power or prominence.
I'm gonna sneak onboard this ship with my Italian friend and seduce a rich redhead
Hey, if they're the ones who get loaded onto titanic and get shipped to north Atlantic, I'm down for the titanic
With the hopes that they also go down
withfor the Titanic.
lmao author immediately calls a commercial transatlantic passenger liner a “cruise” ship
Anyway there won’t be any icebergs this time around since they all melted, so I guess the major event will be one of the fake smokestacks falling over and killing a dozen people
Modern cruise liners are already significantly larger than the Titanic to was when it launched.
Why not just buy one from Royal Caribbean or something?
Titanic was an ocean liner and had a different vibe than cruise ships. The primary focus was to get people across the ocean, not partying with like a hundred thousand people crammed aboard.
The Airplane industry has had multiple titanic level of disasters which led to massive progress in safety and regulations. Then the neoliberals said that the line must go up.
Please Clive, do a research mission to the wreck of the Titanic. Poseidon needs another billionaire sacrifice.
"You can all make your jokes, but it's perfectly safe now that climate change has melted all the icebergs"
he's WOKE!
