I don't like his metaphor, please allow me to suggest another:

It's like one ship is a rusted out shit bucket that is falling apart because the first-class passengers and crew refuse to pay for maintenance and it is only afloat because of a large number of buoyant corpses in steerage and boiler room. And there is another ship that is much more modern, well designed, and maintained. The new ship could help the foundering rust bucket but instead the rust bucket is trying to ram the new ship hard enough to sink them both out of spite, obstinacy, and denial. Hopefully it will tear itself apart in the attempt before it can do so.

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It says we hit the iceberg decades ago

a great ship on the high seas, when the sextant is telling you you're going the wrong way but you keep going regardless until you slam into a sandbank and sink

What do you mean we're about to wreck? Don't you see the water extending off into the distance.

Heat mirage? What are you talking about? I've never heard of such nonsense.

What a fucking loser.

Ship of fools

Well, I see lots of people (even socialists) that think that the path taken by the ship is good, it just needs socialism or whatever. Of course, my stance is that this path doesn't lead to socialism and a violent change of world order is necessary before it can achieved. Which might be true or false, but I see it's what you guys defend (edit: to clarify, you guys defend the same position as me, "my stance", not the first one I mentioned, "I see lots of people").