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submitted 10 months ago by plinky@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

With poverty soaring, unelected leaders of island kingdom continue undeterred with their wmd program:

“It left the submarine but it just went plop, right next to them.”

Militaristic regime offered further explanations: "The whole point of the hundreds of billions we are spending on the nuclear weapons programme is that it is supposed to work.”

At the same time, food bank use is soaring

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/21/labour-seeks-trident-assurances-after-missile-test-anomaly

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

the best comment i've seen about this story is "british sailors fill water with missile"

this is not that comment, this is just a tribute

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is just one of many recent public failings of an island kingdom in deep turmoil. The hereditary ruler, Charles Philip Arthur George, is reportedly ill with cancer. However, intelligence officials believe that he is, in fact, already dead - executed by his own son, Henry Charles Albert David, as revenge for the assassination of his mother - Charles' ex-wife - Diana Frances Spencer.

[-] TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

you got me, I fell for the bit

eviscerated

[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago
[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago
[-] D61@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

live-tucker-reaction "Common hermit kingdom fail."

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

You would have got me if I hadn't seen that news already

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

But I provided new enlightening quotes from the guardian 🥺

[-] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

The Ministry of Defence said that an “anomaly occurred” during the exercise involving the submarine HMS Vanguard on 30 January that was “event specific”, implying it would not have happened in the unlikely event of a war.

Yes because weapons are famously more reliable during war than in peacetime.

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