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The US Navy has denied reports of food shortages on board two major vessels participating in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Yesterday USA Today reported crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli were not getting enough to eat.
One photo taken by a Marine showed a mostly empty lunch tray with a single scoop of shredded meat and one tortilla.
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You know how Americans were making fun of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine because it revealed that Russia had a super out-dated and under-maintained military? Yeah, about that… Turns out, we’re not so different after all. Not that I think we should be investing in the military, frankly we’re not close enough to qualifying as a democracy for me to approve of anything beyond non-interventionism.
That’s because currently America is run by a Russian guy who also thought it will just take 3 days.
It’s shocking that the US actually engaged in war with Iran so readily without the administration considering the known scenario of the Straight of Hormuz being closed by Iran. I’m amazed by the lack of planning and logistics for something that should have been planned and discussed a good while beforehand, but I guess I shouldn’t be with this administration.
There really need to be safeguards implemented to prevent actions like this from just being conducted on the turn of a dime without any awareness of others, discussion, etc. beforehand.
I used to think that illegal actions of the US Executive Branch would just fail like getting a 403 error when trying to access a Web resource without proper authorization, but I guess this was naïve to think.
There really need to be major changes in the US Government to make it so that the mechanisms of government won’t so willing put illegal actions into play. Though the response of the courts has often been good, it is super slow and merely reactive. Instead, impermissible, illegal actions need to be preempted before the mechanisms of government carry them out.
Trump had a plan:
step 1. bomb everything in sight
step 2: rape all the surviving kids
step 3. become god
step 4. blow bubba again.
There really need to be safeguards implemented to prevent actions like this from just being conducted on the turn of a dime without any awareness of others, discussion, etc. beforehand.
These systems and safeguards exist, but they remain inactive due to political capture and entrenchment. You can make all the laws you like, but they mean nothing when oligarch rule prevents enforcement or encourages inconsistent enforcement.
This is what I’m talking about when I say we’re not close enough to qualifying as a democracy for me to approve of our interference in foreign affairs. The people do not rule in the United States. We’re not a democratic republic, we’re an electoral oligarchy.
Worse, we seem to be choosing this. States choose how their elections work. We could switch to a ranked voting system with a lottery option without the federal government being able to do anything about it. Heck, a lot of individual cities could do it, but people aren’t engaged enough to overcome local entrenched powers much less state and federal ones.
I think that in a rewritten Constitution, there would be automatic consequences if a public official fails to receive support. For example: 10 days after attacking another entity, the President requires a vote of approval. If not received, that President is removed from office. The vice president now needs approval within 10 days themselves, else they also get removed. And so on.
If one threw that slop overboard, the fish would swim away from it too.
To be entirely fair, it seems like they have enough food as in enough calories to feed everybody minimals adequately for the expected duration. What they don’t have is fresh food.
There’s nowhere near 1600 calories on that plate
I didn’t hear anything about that being their only meal for the day.
They don’t even have that.
It’s almost worse if there’s no food shortage and this administration just chooses to feed our service members like we’re still suffering through the Great Depression. Wish they’d stop voting for Republicans though, this is what you get…
Your fucking service members are killers for money, nothing else. Nobody attack USA to defenfd, they choose to kill for money, change for them, proffit for Donald/Biden/Obama/Bush/Clinton/“however is in charge”. Everything they get, bullet, PTSD, misserable life, everytning is deserved. KARMA IS A BITCH!!! Fuck them all.
You’re right, but you vastly underestimate the power of U.S. propaganda. A majority (not all) of the people who enlist have no clue what they’re signing up for. They were told it’s the right thing to do then suddenly they are stuck. Our schools don’t teach critical thinking like they used to so these poor souls are brainwashed into joining or their only other option is death on the streets.
I think there is a lot of misunderstanding in the world about the scale of the USA’s problems, what individuals in the military do, what caused them enlist, how our population is orders of magnitude greater than most nations and how that has such a powerful effect and consequence to our democracy / republic.
I dont go around making these wild claims about other nations but many folks outside US see no issue for to make uninformed, inflammatory statements about us.
Its easy for them say : military bad Its true but not comprehensively true, as if it would be so easy for us to just stop. This shit is an incomprehensible large machine that has inertia…and it truly truly sucks. But can we please prioritize blaming and holding accountable the mother fuckers making these damn decisions instead of a mother fucking janitor or an accountant or truly does fuck all and definitely isnt killing anyone.
No doubt…unquestionably so, there will be investigations, eventually into the nature of attacks recently thst led to innocent lives being killed-- hopefully it is public enough for us to peer inside those happenings…
Something something nine meals between mankind and anarchy…
What food group is that fork suppose to belong to?
Appears the cook got sole fish and sole shoe mixed up …
The writing was on the wall when the navy couldn’t even build a deck to off load cargo in Gaza.
The military has been hollowed out and tall that is left is a slick looking facade.
Well atleast one good thing happening
It is nice seeing the US getting it’s ass kicked. Unfortunately I think a good chunk of the ripped out copper wire, missiles and equipment has been sent to Israel.
They managed to do it. However they had to keep repairing it because of bad weather. In the end it wasn’t as efficient as simply driving trucks in through the border.
The pier was only really useful for a while where internal distribution inside the Gaza Strip was a big issue. At times the aid was stacking up inside the border, but local truck drivers didn’t want to or couldn’t deliver to some areas because of truck robberies, ongoing fighting and rubble blocking streets.
You mean the private maritime company that the navy contracted managed to do it. Might as well privatize the whole navy. Half the damn crews on ships are corporate civilians who have to be there to service their new enshitified systems because they won’t let the navy teach their proprietary trade secrets to sailors,
The pier was only really useful for a while where internal distribution inside the Gaza Strip was a big issue. At times the aid was stacking up inside the border, but local truck drivers didn’t want to or couldn’t deliver to some areas because of truck robberies, ongoing fighting and rubble blocking streets.
What do you mean by robbed? There was no fighting at those crossings. The aid trucks were 100% being attacked by hooting subhuman Israeli psychopaths. Not that it did them any good because the food trucks that did make it in were used as bait to lure starving people in before blowing them away. Absolute demonic shit.
Kind of like that “fish” slab!
Not even a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a tortilla, and one other thing
If only they were near a country with kabab koobidehs and javaher polow.
Hegseth has begun to refer to the media as Pharisees, after the group of Jewish religious leaders now remembered as instigating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Wow, these people are full on delusional. I hope they rot in hell for their obvious hypocrisy.
America is beyond fucked.
Its scary shit. And I don’t see us going back to normal for a long time
I see the extreme plunging of religion among the newest generations and the deep backlash against the current brand of xenophobia. It gives me hope that things will go back to normal and maybe get some gains in a very short time.
We’ll see. Gen Z males showed up in force to vote for Trump in the 2024 election. Some of the younger ones are alright, but others are doing the whole Hitler Youth thing. Overall I couldn’t tell you if they’re any more or less shitty than any other generation, but their voting record isn’t off to a great start.
I don’t see us going back to normal for a long time
what normal ? hanging black people ? slavery ? segregation ? invading some random country? vilifying native americans? shitting in a river? dumping battery acid in a stream ?
Idk man maybe we can just start with not having a pedophile and convicted felon as president and go from there.
Yes, i obviously mean that…
It’s interesting cause this is what American Christianity has been my whole life, go to any duck blind or Dairy Queen or high school football game, Hegseths are absolutely thick on the ground. These guys are there because they’re a mirror of their constituents.
You just call people who criticize you Pharisees in the US?
I’m so glad I grew up with the united church, where the lesson was mostly help your neighbour and strangers.
No, only fuckheads like him do that. Most Americans wouldn’t even know that that means.
That’s too big a word and too specific a bible reference. They’ll just ask if you’re some kind of queer and then vaguely threaten to shoot you.
Nope, but I did grow up around people who would hear that in a meeting and then absolutely want to use their new linguistic toy every chance they got, despite not at all analyzing even the half-layer deep that would be required to understand what using it implies about who you think you are (or your boss is).
Yes, it’s just lingo
I don’t, I’m an atheist because of people like that. But yeah Americans love to think they’re a Bible protagonist.
Yeah I don’t know what this guy is talking about. I grew up in a very rural very republican part of a southern state and I sure as shit never heard anybody call anybody a Pharisees.
Or at least not outside of a church
Time and time again, every accusation is a confession.
Almost makes me wish Hell and eternal damnation were real things.
Sorry, but I think this is fucking hilarious.
Those people have gun and are evidently risking their lives for some greedy bullshit. If that’s not showing them that their leaders don’t give a shit about them, what would?
That’s right, all you need is a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, and a tortilla.
So that plate is plenty
I’d love to see the glittery plastic bitch who proposed this having nothing to eat except this meal for a month. Her and her children.
I bet you they could not do it. They would be pawning their pearls for “another item” I fucking hate these assholes.
Hey hey hey, don’t forget about the “one other thing”. That’s the lynchpin that brings it all together! /s
Does the tray/plate count as the other thing?
1: piece of chicken
2: piece of broccoli
3: corn tortilla
4: ???
5: a wholesome meal
What’s always got me about that is how big is a piece of broccoli?
- profit!!
routine menu adjustments are simply how we optimise our endurance to keep our warships in the fight
omg I thought your quote was parody and then I read the article
Oh, that’s a tortilla! I guess it’s just the lighting that makes it look gray? I hope.
You just know these guys will do their best for Epstein after weeks of eating nothing but the finest cuisine.
Caption says it is unidentified meat.
That really doesn’t look like meat… Or edible for that matter.
Have you seen milspec “food” before? IIRC, it’s “graded” right above prison quality (which is just above dog food, I believe?).
Looks similar to the packaged gyro strips I buy, but you need more than one for a gyro.
That’s exactly what I thought of when I saw it. It looks a bit undercooked though, those meat strips are a bit like bacon and tend to curl up and bubble when they’re cooked.
Not if you boil them in water.
Could it be scrapple? It’s definitely some kind of processed meat that’s been fried on the flat top
Yeah, scrapple was what i was thinking too (there name escaped me when I posted the image though).
There’s a proper photo of the tortilla in the article. That grey thing is “unidentified” meat.
There are two photos that have been going around. One is a tray that has just a lump of minced meat and a couple tortillas, the other has a gray slab, minced meat, and boiled carrots.
And both are in the article for the small minority that manages to click the link
I love how to this day, no one can tell what that gray slab on the tray is.
Looks similar to the packaged gyro strips I buy, but you need more than one for a gyro.
Oh OK. In the picture I thought it was some kind of weird fish slice.
It looks like a whetstone. At this rate, the sailors will need to sharpen their implements and start hunting each other for sustenance…
One folded tortilla; apparently the grey thing is “gyro meat,” that’s not been shredded and reheated on a flat grill.
Meat is not flat, gray, and shiny
