My apologies for the Twitter link. Appears to have happened around 1:30 EDT, judging from the timestamp in the video. Seems unsurprising that Amerikkkan infrastructure is in this dire of a state (at the cost of innocent people’s lives, as usual), but I’d still love to know what the hell happened here. Hopefully the early hour meant that more people weren’t harmed.
Photo of the aftermath:
Port of Baltimore being sorta closed down seems like a bit of an issue for the treat machine no? Anyone have any idea what the knock on effects of this might look like?
its not the biggest port so its capacity can probably be absorbed. Seems like vehicle deliveries are the biggest single item everyone’s talking about, so maybe expect some disruption there, and the higher rates/slower deliveries of some other cargo might trickle down into consumer prices a little
At the very least, it doesn’t sound like there were very many vehicles on the bridge. Imagine if this happened during rush hour.
Real annoying how the only posts with any information beyond this are coming from the most MAGA chud accounts imaginable. Serves me right for using Elon’s hellsite.
I’m afraid to
what some of the causes might be.8 years ago, the bridge was called “structurally deficient”, although I don’t know if anything changed since then.
It was called one of Amerika’s scariest bridges for truckers 3 years ago. People have called it “high and tight”.
20 workers were actively doing bridge repair as it was knocked down
Good to know. Really sad for those workers. I hope they’re OK.
reports are 7/20 went into the drink, can’t imagine hearing a loud crash while working on a bridge and turning to see a freighter knocking out a support column while you’re on it, the anticipation of knowing that falling hundreds of meters is inevitable and that the freezing water leads to hypothermia quickly, all to the soundtrack of screaming, twisting metal and crunching concrete
Can’t imagine working on a bridge and seeing a ship that size and thinking… huh… that’s getting awfully close… its… its going to miss right?
And then …OHFUCKOHSHITOHFUCKOHSHIT!
I wonder if the chuds will blame TikTok and trans people for this, and not like, the state of their Empire
Well I saw a blue check on Twitter say the shipping company does DEI and that anti-whiteness is to blame for the incident
There’s a bunch of people screaming about DEI in the twitter thread lol. That, ukrainians, China and Joe Biden false flag. Also some libs going “WHY DIDN’T THE ENGINEERS MAKE THE BRIDGE UNCOLLAPSABLE WHEN HIT BY A SHIP” to mock people suggesting that maybe they should’ve constructed dolphins or something like that.
I refuse to see anything on twitter anymore, especially since nitter was killed
liberal politics is deeply unserious, all these chuds and libs screaming about nonsense when it’s clear it was because a massive ship hit a bridge.
Local trans people are just too damn cute and I can’t keep myself from staring.
the Baltimore Sun is linking the incident with local trans YouTuber ContraPoints
damn she hates nonbinary people enough to do terrorism?
shes not that cool
I saw a post about this less than an hour after it happened.
Infrastructure decay in the US has been something to be concerned about for awhile, but when I first saw it my first reaction was from a new kind of horror that will only get worse:
My first thought was that it was AI. The post I saw was written in a way that felt like AI bros excited about their new toy, what it could do, trying to bring the horrors it creates to relevancy by creating a fake news story.
And after all that, it actually is a real tragedy where real people died.
This plus drama about contrapoints and philosophy tube have filled my Twitter feed with the seemingly ever increasing presence of chuds, who seem to be of a new breed lately on social media, much more aggressive towards all leftists on there then I remember.
Anyway, it’s hell world
Sorry but what would lead you to believe this Is AI?
The context of social media feeds, this has been more of a problem on Instagram, there’s a 50/50 an image that initially looks interesting is AI or real but on a page that thinks any buildings made before the 20th century were built by aliens.
That and catastrophic engineering failures are commonly rendered enough that a leap to AI seems reasonable. And the poster basically accompanied the video with saying “poggers”
jesus
also this bridge is a massively important part of keeping the entire east coast functioning. the tragedy of the people who were on it is obviously more important, but this is a massive disaster, like holy shit. the number of people this bridge is important to?
Redundancy and overflow management is communism
Reminds me of how
talks about the social value of bridges in bullshit jobsAmerica bombs Russia and Palestine I could care less, its karma.
I wish I could believe in karma, because America deserves far, far, FAR more than this.
Karma in the proper sense takes effect after you die, not before.
Frank Sobotka didn’t die so you could spit on his grave like this.
So youre a catholic then
Ah yes, a night-shift construction worker in Baltimore trying to feed and house themself and their family deserves to pay for America’s foreign policy.
There are a lot of good people in Baltimore. AFAIK relatively high number of leftists. Remember they all marched in the wake of Freddie Gray’s murder.
It’s a major artery for Baltimore traffic. It’s going to massively fuck traffic patterns for the city for the foreseeable future. I’m very thankful that this happened at 1:30, because of that hit during morning rush hour, so many more people would’ve lost their lives.
It’s going to massively fuck traffic patterns for the city for the foreseeable future.
5-10 years if they can even bother to try and rebuild it, or permanently if they cancel the project half way through which is entirely possible if they decide it’s already killed the businesses and life of the city in a few years.
If it were me I would simply not build a bridge that has no safety precautions against getting rammed by container ships, but I am built different.
I dunno if there’s anyrhinf you can do to protect a bridge from that
I think modern bridges have artificial islands below the water that larger ships will run into, although I don’t think those would have done anything against a loaded 300 meter ship like that.
Putting some dolphins in place might be a start
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My hot take is this shouldn’t be possible to occur as an accident during normal operations. Either the bridge is dilapidated or poorly designed, or ships that large should not be allowed under it.
Shit like this will occur with increasing frequency in America, and it will be normalized as an unavoidable, just like mass shootings.
The bridge was opened in 1977. I believe loaded cargo ships have gotten much more massive since then. Does that mean the bridge could withstand getting hit by a standard 70s cargo ship? I don’t know. That doesn’t invalidate the point that a cargo ship that size should be crossing it - but these massive container ships are what drive global capitalism. No surprise that they would disregard safety for profit here.
No bridge is going to be designed to take a direct hit from a container ship. This is a multi level failure of the ship and the tugs.
Most bridges have safety precautions to avoid a head on collision however.
Maybe America shouldnt be so reliant on its waterways to transport treats?
Apart from treat discourse being a weird response to this, waterways are the most efficient way to move treats massive distances, so this doesn’t even make sense.
??? you’re treatposting in response to a container ship hitting a bridge & causing its collapse. world’s best communist
I’ll alienate myself from any working class in the pursuit of communism
La Forge, report to sick bay and then the holodeck for a mandatory time-out
Oh ok I didn’t realize you were gonna solo communism, now it makes sense
looks like we’ve got the Big Communism Builder Himself right here. bask in His glory, He will awash the masses in communism and they will give thanks to Him
Bruh, did someone switch out your theory reading list for iseksai web novels or some shit? What world are you on?
why not?
This is the kind of take that people point to when they say, “America bad is no substitute for an actual analysis”
I would think that bridges should have redundancy such that taking out a single support doesn’t cause total failure. Idk I’m not an entomologist
Mr President, a third 
has hit the towers
God it’s so embarrassing how many online libs are suddenly bridge engineers now and trying to explain away this disaster. Like their only explanation for this is that sometimes massive ships will just hit and collapse bridges and that fine.
Like no reflection on why a 50 year old bridge didn’t have any modern protective measures, why massive Panamax ships are apparently seconds away from catastrophic impact every time it passes this thing, how they even let a ship on the verge of a double power failure into the harbor in the first place.
how they even let a ship on the verge of a double power failure into the harbor in the first place.
Is there new news I haven’t seen on the root cause of the power failure? cause it likely wasn’t obvious. Plus the ship regained power pretty quickly, just not soon enough to stop. I won’t be at all surprised if some signs were ignored but I don’t think “they’ve got mechanical issues, bar them from the harbor” would be normal procedure regardless right?
But I agree, it’s wild how many people are going “freak accident nothing to see here, nothing we could have done” when there are no protective barriers around the main piers, and this is like a known problem for decades that could easily have been solved, and should have been, for a bridge near a busy port
there is no alternative
there is no alternative
there is no alternative
Calling it now, the rescue operation will be a shitshow and cops will get in the way
it’s typical burger dreg construction
The bridge had about 30k daily crossings and it appears to be part of an outerbelt system, so while it will detour lots of traffic (including regional distribution hubs, i.e. Amazon), I think the bigger effect will be on shipping because Baltimore is the 18th largest port by tonnage and the only way in is full of bridge.
Update: The port is indefinitely closed until the channel can be cleared to a depth of 50 feet
The Baltimore Port ranked first in the nation in handling automobiles, light trucks, farm and construction machinery, as well as imported sugar and gypsum. The Port ranked second in the country for exporting coal… Moreover, in 2023, the Port of Baltimore handled a record 52.3 million tons of international cargo, valued at $80.8 billion.
Notably, this may negatively affect rumored union action that was already prompting companies to reroute cargo to the West coast.
Something to consider, I guess.
Companies will crash a boat into a bridge before giving organized labor an inch, huh?
What about my sex arses? I can’t have them stuck on a container ship for a second time!
destroyed flat arses
Looks like a Dali painting. He even signed it.
