TIL the Pentagon sinked a fishing boat suspected of carrying drugs. The US Defense Secretary gave an order to strike again to finish survivors in the water

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/

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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 93 pts · 278d (28 replies)

Sinked???

TotallyNotADolphin@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 278d (3 replies)

It's when you launch sinks as high speed projectiles at a target.

glitch1985@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 278d (1 reply)

Got sunk by the sinks.

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 278d

Cant let them sinks in.

jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 278d

"Oh shit. They're loading up the cast iron ones."

otacon239@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 278d (6 replies)

This might be one of those edge cases like hanged vs hung where sank would imply they sank and sinked implies sinking someone else.

It was the only part of English class I struggled with, but if I remember right, we’re dealing with the difference between active and passive objects in a sentence. Someone smarter can correct me if I’m wrong.

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 278d

You're sunk.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 278d (4 replies)

Hung means something else entirely

MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 278d (1 reply)

depends on if it's an active or a passive object

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 278d

That's what she said?

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 278d (1 reply)

Mr. Big Penis enters the chat.

TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 278d

He’s incredibly hanged..

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 278d (1 reply)

What are you sinking about?

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 278d (3 replies)

Sanked.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 278d

sank you

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 278d (1 reply)

Sonked.

TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 278d

Sunkado

Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 278d

Its sunkened

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 278d

You sinked my Battleship!

blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 278d

It means to put in a sink, in a kitchen

Zomg@piefed.world · 3 pts · 278d

Yeah, let that sink in

Hegar@fedia.io · 2 pts · 278d (2 replies)

It's the washington post in 2025, what do you expect?

ripcord@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 278d

This title didn't come fro WaPo though....?

glitch1985@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 278d

A pay wall

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d

Well, American education levels...

0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -15 pts · 278d (2 replies)

Reddit is leaking.

OP probably isn't native English speaker and likely knows more language than English grammar Nazis.

Keep your English language elitism to yourself.

tomi000@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d

And how was that comment hurtful before you spouted your bs? It was simply pointing out a mistake, which might even be appreciated by people who are able to learn instead of being butthurt.

starlinguk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d

Non natives tend to spell English better than natives.

OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 278d

It’s murder. Full stop.

Gonzako@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 278d

Yeah mates this is pretty deplorable. Not only you are shooting down a vessel that's not even worth the round is being shot at with, you're double tapping to make sure Noone tells about it?

tym@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 278d
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Doomsider@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 278d

Just straight up murder, no question about it. Even blew up the survivors just to be sure.

starlinguk@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d

Not the first time Hegseth has done this.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d

Cowardly bombing innocent people from long distance.
The american way of doing 'war'

Jhex@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d

are you "there yet" America? or do these not count because they were likely brown?

FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 277d

Breaking news isn't TIL material.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d

They need some Russian missiles