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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[–] 162 points 6 months ago (16 children)

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.

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Its scary shit. And I don't see us going back to normal for a long time

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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 ?

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Hey hey hey, don’t forget about the “one other thing”. That’s the lynchpin that brings it all together! /s

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    1: piece of chicken

    2: piece of broccoli

    3: corn tortilla

    4: ????????

    5: a wholesome meal

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 65 points 6 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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...

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    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.....

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Caption says it is unidentified meat.

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Looks similar to the packaged gyro strips I buy, but you need more than one for a gyro.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    There's a proper photo of the tortilla in the article. That grey thing is "unidentified" meat.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I love how to this day, no one can tell what that gray slab on the tray is.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    We're number 1! We're number 1!

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Well, you don't get to number 1 by treating the slave class like human beings!

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Mmm...unidentified piece of meat.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    Reminds me of Steak-umm. Ground up meat trimmings formed into a loaf that is sliced thin before cooking. Frequently used in place of higher quality cuts in cheese-steak sandwiches. I don't think I've ever seen it presented in such a depressing manner, though.

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  • [–] 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

    In the past, I've read that the US Navy ships are on skeleton crews already, and not anywhere near as effective as they used to be. For example, they've struck civilian ships due to short staffing and lack of lookouts. Maintenance is a huge problem.

    This was some years ago, and it was already a total mess. Is it worse now? Looks like

    Also, I think meals like this indicate graft somewhere in the supply chain, or some kind of colossal fuck up. We're a lot closer to 90s Russia than we like to think.

    ETA found the article, from 2019

    https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crashes-japan-cause-mccain/

    "It’s getting harder and harder I think for us to look the troops in the eye."

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Makes one really wonder where this massive budget for the military actually goes if not into the military.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    "Quantity has a quality all of its own,” Mabus liked to say.

    Mabus sounds like a real dumbass

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Like it's true but usually that quantity needs to have a minimum standard. Throw a million men at 500,000 Nazis and you end up with a million corpses, give those men Mosin Nagants that mostly work and you have a million and a quarter corpses but also no Nazis. It's a bit of a shit method but it works, so long as you know what you're doing and can actually do it.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Makes you wonder where all that money is going...

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    “Ignore the evidence before your eyes”

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    New image challenge just came in: US Military dinner or US school lunch

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    Potential recruits: If they're not even going to feed you properly, what makes you think they're gonna pay for college?

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  • [+] 37 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    So, it’s safe to say the authenticity of the photo is indeed legitimate.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    Not even a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a tortilla, and one other thing

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    During WW2 in the pacific theater the navy had a ship that was used to make ice cream.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Anyone with relevant experience able to tell me what the kinda grey, silvery thing on the tray is? Maybe it could be fish, but I can't see any scales? Looks kinda like a large, used condom.

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    [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    This is how Putin treats his troops.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Im sure they have plenty of boiled boot slabs to go around

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    routine menu adjustments are simply how we optimise our endurance to keep our warships in the fight

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    Ambiguous glistening meat slab again? We had that last night!

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    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 all that is left is a slick looking facade.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It's funny, I thought it was out logistics that made our military so effective?

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    And your empire was built on soft power and trade, both of which you also don't have anymore.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    The U.S. military was "effective" because:

    After losing in Vietnam they never picked on a country that teeth to bite back.

    They had allies that would follow them into their shit stirring and fill in the gaps in their support structure.

    Had semi-qualified and only moderately corrupt military leadership.

    This year they picked a fight with someone that could bite back. Pissed off their allies with trade wars. Installed extremely corrupt and incompetent leadership.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    The ships are way past the point where they were supposed to dock and have maintenance, but they were rushed to Venezuela and then extended the mission to Iran without stopping.

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