Isn’t this the 3rd time during the Epstein presidency that soldiers have been served their penultimate meal?
Bro. The Epstein presidency has been running since the mid-90s. It’s a lot more than 3 times.
Olympics end today so it’s showtime for the military industrial complex.
It’s also a few days into Ramadan, a holiday where Muslims fast while the sun is up. (It lasts approximately from fat Tuesday to Easter.)
So, you know, if you want to fuck up someone’s day, make ‘em work extra hard while hangry.(Which is not necessarily true. IIRC, much of the religious understanding and forgiveness in Islam is about intent. They might be cool with breaking a fast when facing an existential threat. But it’s Iran, sooo…)
It can be a bit variable with Islam, but depending on what you follow there’s maybe an exemption from having to fast during Ramadan if your well-being is just generally at risk from doing so. There are also several groups that are exempted (Sick, Pregnant, too young, too old, etc), but don’t think any of them apply here.
Makes me think of those stupid assholes who sell ammo with pig lard in it. As if God would be mad that you touched pig because some guy shot you with it.
That just seems like it would piss the other guy off more than anything.
That doesn’t even make sense. How do you make ammo with pig lard in it?
They greased the ammo with it. Another company made gun oil with lard in it.
Lmao, it would just burn off when you shoot the gun 😂
Yeah they have a clause about even eating pork if it’s a matter of life and death. It’s one of those “God gets it” kind of fine print.
Jesus also has a whole thing where he heals someone during the Sabbath, some guy tries to be a smartass and he claps back.
More like, Ramadan, meaning they’re ticked off because they’re hungry and go fire off a few IRAMs. Attacks always increased when they were fasting.
I had to check the date. It’s been 4 years since the end of the Beijing winter Olympic, also known as the start of Russia’s 3 day special military operation.
And they would’ve taken Kiev too if it weren’t for those meddling kids!
Circus is over
Imagine fighting and risking your life in a foreign country on behalf of a pedophile.
You forgot oil . Those executives cant get that 5th yacht unless innocent desert children die
It’s simpler then that, it’s a car.
People are doing it for money, that is why it is so important to help the poor. When people are poor, they can do whatever a rich guy says
I agree that it’s important to help the poor to make them less susceptible to financial coercion. After all, that is what capitalism does to quantitive measurements of debt, turns it from debt forgiveness to debt peonage. The second part isn’t necessarily true, there are plenty of poor people that don’t do what rich people tell them to, and plenty of rich people who happily do what rich people tell them to do.
Because Deployment Meals aren’t served in MREs.
Any deployed location that has a bigger presence than a one-person popup tent will have a kitchen.
They’re sending them to kill and be killed
Approximately 45% of the available combat ready aircraft are in position at various air bases, which include carriers. One does not deploy and concentrate air assets like that unless you want the shit to hit the fan. Wasting billions for nothing.
This is Trump’s MO, I think he was hoping for a lot more coverage from the media on this to drown out the Epstein stuff. I guess he thinks if he does order a strike, it will help take the pedo-heat off him, but it’d be the most foolish decision he’s ever made, Iran are not to be fucked with militarily.
Indeed, another distraction. I’m going to laugh if the EU NATO members tells the USA our airspace is off limits.
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He won’t attack Iran, they have the Kompromat
Being sent to fertilise Iranian fields?
A pedophile wants to create a distraction so he asks his genocidal friend how he does it so they start a war together. Imagine dying so a pedophile doesn’t have to face justice. MAGA: they’ll do it.
Isn’t this an old tweet? Why is there no date on it.
Isn’t this an old tweet? Why is there no date on it.
i searched for the username; the tweet is from ~42 hours prior to this lemmy post.
Yankees going to murder more women and children, like they always do
It means it’s surf and turf Friday at the chow hall?
Seriously. I spent 4 years in the army and “surf & turf night” is nothing unusual. And desserts & pies are available every day.
I feel like this needs to be updated
NVIDIA OpenAI Palantir Meta X Google Apple Anthropic
It needs oil and weapon manufacturer logos.
this one is missing
May they suffer in eternal hell for what they are doing
Focus that rage upward.
I have such distain for our military industrial complex and ICE, but I recognize so much of the problem is desperate people taking desperate measures. They decided it’s better to risk your life in a foreign war than it is to be home watching you and your family whither away with no healthcare, education, or money. I don’t agree but I can understand- debt will put anyone in a pressure cooker. Two things can be true at once- being a stoog for American imperialism makes you horrible, but people who are stooges can still be people to show sympathy for when you consider the factors at play.
When the revolution comes, as all revolutions do, it is only when the military allows the people to storm the gates. In my head we don’t need to thank service members as much as say I’m so sorry what this country did to them.
I’m Persian, from Iran. I don’t give a fuck why those yank butchers signed up to go murder my family. They already killed my moms side in Iraq now they’re going to go kill my dad’s side. Fuck them and I hope they burn in hell. I wish they would skip to the part where they shoot themselves drunk and spare my family that remains in Iran.
As an Iranian, I agree. Oh, poor baby needs to pay for college, so my dad needs to die? Disgusting ghouls.
Iran is a horrifying dictatorship that deserves nothing less to be taken out with force. The only travesty is that American, on our own path of dictatorship and horrifying capitalism is the one who might do it.
Iran is a horrifying dictatorship that deserves nothing less to be taken out with force.
To be replaced by King Reza Pahlavi, another dictator.
We can take care of ourselves. Thinking that you can “take out” a dictatorship is absolute baby brain levels of understanding how the world works. A power vacuum is never filled by something positive and you support creating the conditions to make everything worse. Grow up.
You can eh? Then do it. I’m not so naive to think that uprising without outside intervention always succeed. Historically, outside support is very helpful for successful uprising.
You can’t just take out a dictatorship. And I don’t think that. You need long standing dedicated occupation that builds up the country over decades to have successes like japan.
You have no right to invade and occupy other countries. All you yank fuckers will do is make everything worse and kill a lot of people. Why don’t you stay in your own fucking country and kill yourselves.
But it is Iranians in North America urging Trump to invade.
350,000 chanting “King Reza Pahlavi”, they want to restore the monarchy and bring back the elite class.
Yes, let’s listen to people living in the US constantly under US propaganda apparatus who won’t suffer the consequence of invasion instead of, you know, actual Iranians living in the country
Frankly, yea you’re right. Our military is absolutely brutally evil. And the reason they were there was to make the rich richer. Frankly when Americans sign up for the military, they should choose a branch and an oil company to serve as well.
I can’t really convince you of anything else, other than know that most everyone I talk to knows we have more in common with you halfway around the world than either of us do with the people who send the military to kill. We don’t hate you, and I’m so sorry what they did to you.
On this side of the world, keeping our class divided will only perpetuate this cycle. War is as profitable an industry as healthcare, so why expect peace or cures if the people in charge are only in it for their own gain?
I’m so sorry for what this horrible country did. No one deserves that fate. But one day hatchets between comrades need to be buried and replaced with guillotines for kings.
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Small story time because I realize the Neo-Futurists don’t seem to record their show and this should be in writing somewhere.
Context: The Neo-Futurists are an experimental theater company based in Chicago but have spread internationally. They have a show where they do 30 scripts in an hour, so each “play” is like… 2 or 3 minutes.
When I went they had one play called “How to Kill a King”
The lights went dark. Then the projector turned on and said “put your phone and wallet into the bucket”. The cast came out holding buckets, and everyone did just that, including me. Then the cast left the theater with the buckets.
Then the projector said:
“Your possessions will be waiting for you in the lobby after the show”
“Trust that you will have your wallet and phone back at the end of the show”
“Trust that the people around you won’t steal your wallet and phone”
“Trust that the people around you have your best interest in mind, and don’t wish you any harm”
“That is how you Kill a King”
And sure enough when we left, everyones stuff was splayed out on some tables and everyone got their stuff back.
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Nah. I wouldn’t go kill and rape people because a pedo told me to and gives me some crumbs. Destroying countless families to not even save your own, is a fucked up move and i hope they suffer real good for that decision
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I hope good things can grow out of american fertilizer
Okay. And for those of us that haven’t served what does it mean? Fucking gate keepers, man.
It’s like in games when there is suddenly a room with lots of healing items and ammo you know there is a hard fight coming up
War is coming tomorrow.
i will honestly be surprised if it happens this far out from the midterms. i was thinking shit hits the fan maybe a month or two at most before voting day, so fascists can pep rally their braindead supporters into a “we are victorious, therefore the best party” bullshit narrative
i could be wrong. it doesn’t matter. trump was always going to invade iran, regardless of how fucking dumb that always was
Idk, it will spike gas prices presumably, one thinks Iran would shut down the straits of hormuz this time, I can’t believe they didn’t last time though so what do I know. But it will supercharge inflation, and gas prices, 25% of oil moves through there.
Plus once a ship gets blown up, insurance pulls their coverage, and those tankers are worth like a hundred million or more, they won’t risk them in a war zone without insurance.
One would think between mines, and missiles they could have dug in and pull out and shoot off then disappear, that they could shut down the straits, and that maybe last time they were holding back to wait it out and not escalating. Which was a mistake as it guarenteed Israel would want to get some more cost free hits in.
But close to the election the hyper inflation could hurt, now they’ve plenty of time to calm it down, assuming they can keep Israel on a leash enough to keep the gulf ships going through after.
You think Iran could control the Strait of Hormuz against two US carrier strike groups?
I think they could with mines, and missiles, and drones, be able to hit oil tankers well enough to shut down the straits of hormuz.
You don’t think so? I thought they were going to do it last time and they didn’t, so maybe I was mistaken.
There are certain things people can reasonably criticize the US military as being bad at, but I don’t think anyone can credibly claim it isn’t excellent at achieving air superiority. I mean, maybe it could turn out that the Navy is “fighting the last war” and unprepared for drones, but I don’t think that’s likely. Especially not against Iran (China I might give more credit to, what with their hypersonic missiles and all).
I am not saying Iran would beat the US navy, just that it should be able to threaten cargo ships enough to shut down the strait of hormuz and thereabouts. Between mines, floating things that explode when something hits them, sometimes set to intermediate depths. That could be dropped by drones or missiles. To missiles and drones themselves, they should be able to shut down the trade, once there is a credible threat insurance should pull their coverage even if the navy is escorting them.
That is their only real card to play here. Well besides for taking out Saudi oil facilities, which is not a bad idea at all. No matter what the saudis say now that Iran showed they can hit them, the Saudis were the biggest proponents of war with Iran back in the president’s first term. They deserve it, and they are more vulnerable, as the US doesn’t protect them so much.
Besides for that, yeah maybe big maybe they could take out a ship, if they got lucky and overwhelmed their defenses?
The US navy can’t secure the Bab-el-Mandeb strait against less well equipped yemani rebels
Right now is when the situation in Iran is ripe though with their protests.
Ripe for what?
removal of the regime to be replaced with a usa puppet
Not a fucking chance that happens. We could assassinate a string of their leaders, they won’t let a puppet take over, not a fucking chance. If anything hardliners will get in after they kill their leaders, which is what Israel wants, to keep the war going, for cause to come back and hit them again and again after peace is remade, for years. It’s a forever war Israel is buying with their blackmail so they don’t have to face their domestic failures in the ghetto uprising, and elections.
You do realize most of that is a concerted effort to drum up support, that the protests aren’t nearly as widespread as they would have you believe, and that this is 101 for manipulating people into war?
Truthfully I think a new war now would destroy them. If they let midterms happen
People didn’t even show up for their own human rights, they won’t show up because of Iran. Trump will just bomb them to hell and leave it a mess, so no boots on the ground imagery.
Oh yeah if he didn’t put any boots on the ground that’s different. The American people have a record of being just fine boning anywhere and anything
Truthfully I think a new war now would destroy them
why do you think that? tell the public that X is a threat to america, so therefore we need to invade/obliterate X-- done, mission accomplished. see: bush 2
If they let midterms happen
this is key. trump will put pressure on state governors and state boards of elections to throw away all the D votes, because that’s what he fucking does. and even if that fails, it seems to me that he gets whatever the fuck he wants anyway.
so again: doesn’t matter. i hope you don’t have kids
why do you think that? tell the public that X is a threat to america, so therefore we need to invade/obliterate X-- done, mission accomplished. see: bush 2
You are forgetting 2 very big reasons why Bush was able to start that war
i have a feeling you’re about to support my point, so please–enlighten me
Sure, but let me get ahead of what you’re going to say. 9/11 provided the justification. As of right now, we have not had another 9/11 like event to justify invading another country. Citing a vague threat used to work immediately after 9/11, but that faded after about a decade. All you have to do is look at public opinion of the war in Afghanistan. The vague "threats’ of danger stopped working.
Of course as with all horrible things about 30% of the dumbest demographic will support it no matter what.
I believe it’s a 9/11 reference, with the “two very big reasons” alluding to the Twin Towers.
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Not really doomerism when we literally had the DHS secretary on mic in public say “we’re going to have ICE making sure the right people vote for the right leaders”.
When the enemy tells you their plan, believe them the first time.
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I just looked up the original tweet. It was sent out on Friday. (20 Feb 2026)
The Pentagon Pizza index shows a weeklong 160% spike in afternoon activity at the Papa Johns 2.3 miles from the Pentagon.
The 5 closer pizza places are currently showing a bit busy, but nothing outside of the ordinary.
The military isn’t well known for their cuisine. The exception is when they’re about to deliver some bad news. Steak and lobster means you’re about to get shipped off to war.
Or Christmas dinner.
Every time unscheduled good food showed up, shitty orders followed.
I thought it was about how the continental army had a thing in their contract that limited how much lobster they were forced to eat since it was treated more like slop than fine dining back then. 🤔
Such good food is served to boost morale and mood of soldiers before the battle. In this case, before a new war. To be more precise: before war between the USA and Iran(and Israel as an ally).
I would have expected this admin to serve McDonald’s and diet Coke
Ally? The US is subservient to Israel.
Cute, you think it’s a country in charge? HA
The USA and Israel serve the same master
What master would that be?
The 0.1%!
If I’m in the wealthiest fraction of humanity, how does Israel help me? I must be missing something because I’m not aware of that connection. Are we just talking about arms dealers?
Holy shit, I don’t want another needless war in the middle east but my god do I want to see Berserker Blobby go absolutely ape shit and start wailing on everyone in his path.
Blobby!
BLOBBY!
BLOOOOOBBBBBBBBBBBY!
It’s more like Israel is our unsinkable aircraft carrier next to the gas station
Or less charitably we can say the president, and congress, are Israel’s bitch.
It means that it’s steak and crab legs day in the meal rotation. Or that anyone outside the immediate chain of command is visiting for any reason.
In other words, it means nothing.
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Gotta be well fed before you kill people.
You know how they feed a death row inmate a last meal before sending them off to die. Kinda like that, only more fucked up because our troops are going to die for the machinations of billionaires and warlords.
The US won’t be suffering that many casualties. Iran is powerless to respond to most of these aerial attacks and guided missiles and advanced drones. That’s why they are doing it, well that’s why Israel is using their epstein blackmail to get the US to do it for them. Then Israel can always find another pretext to bomb and assassinate them even after peace is declared. Forever war, a permanent foil for Israel, their bogeyman their media has crafted, despite their lack of advanced weapons systems.
I wouldn’t want to be on that aircraft carrier when the missiles sink it.
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This is the “You’re about to maybe face gruesome death tomorrow” meal. It’s one last pat on the back for morale before they send you to die.
Not in the us either, but these are thought of as ‘quality’ foods (especially for soldiers), so its akin to them having a ‘last dinner’ of sorts before a deployment. Since middle east, and US has syrian (or iranian??) interests I assume its Syria (or Iran?), and that something big is aboutto go down there.
