[ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2026, 11:20 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> > *On Behalf Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2026, 11:00 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *I can assure you, congress is not going to fund weapon systems which are
> ineffective or obsolete.*
>
> >…Given how often they have before, even without the influence of Trump
> (looking at the span of time between when Congress had its first session
> and when Trump first took office), what do you base that assurance on?
>
> Adrian consider what the US Navy has accomplished in the short span of the
> conflict with Iran.
>
Irrelevant.  The US Navy is not Congress, and the modern US Navy's
capabilities have no bearing on what Congrss authorized long before the
oldest US ship in the conflict was designed.

John and I see your attempted Gish Gallop, and remind you that tactic does
not work nearly as well in written forums like this.
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