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
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.
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.
It’s simpler then that, it’s a car.
Hey, if we are fighting Islamic fundamentalists, they are doing it too.
They’re gonna go kill brown people to get the focus off of the richest ruling elite in the world (including their own commander in chief) trafficking, raping, and murdering children.
And it won’t even work
Remember when DOGE shut down USAID? There’s an epidemiologist from Boston university who’s been making models to estimate the human cost of it, so far they’re showing more than half a million dead children: https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=interval_minutes&order=asc
No one’s paying attention to it. The whole matter has been forgotten, because the whole zone has been so thoroughly flooded.
Seriously? It’ll definitely work for more people than one dares to believe. It’s not about it working in the way you mean on us, the people that nothing will work on, it’s about everyone else. And for us that have functional empathy, conscience, intelligence etc. it will work in another way, we see the horrors about to happen. We see the people it’s going to happen to as actual people and anyone can only handle so much. It’s the classic “do or confess bad thing to make other bad thing seem less relevant”, and that works on everyone, just in different ways.
I can absolutely see even here on lemmy being filled with news about this and less about what they’re doing this to take attention away from. It’ll work on me, no matter how much I don’t want it to, because I feel for the people who will suffer and die from this. And It’ll work on others in other ways.Yeah, we’ve already firmly established that the majority of the US still doesn’t care about these countries. I doubt it’ll be more than a blip.
It actually spiked to 3 on Sunday night lol
The FBI sure love to support those that make Cheese Pizza
This is incredible.
I love this. Can’t believe I didnt know this site before.
This is amazing!
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.
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.
He won’t attack Iran, they have the Kompromat
Indeed, another distraction. I’m going to laugh if the EU NATO members tells the USA our airspace is off limits.
He’s not very good at controlling the narrative. Of course it helps to not actually commit crimes that everyone will hate you for.
The media aren’t going to report that Trump has moved carriers into position because what’s the story “Trump has moved carriers into position they haven’t done anything though”. Nah, it’s either big explosions or they will go after the actual juicy story.
Of course internationally the media get way more views for dunking on Trump than anything else, so they’re not going to drop the Epstein story until Trump is either convicted or he’s dead.
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No foreign wars #2.
Pedophilic Boogaloo
Okay. And for those of us that haven’t served what does it mean? Fucking gate keepers, man.
War is coming tomorrow.
Edit: again, I would like to add that this is wild speculation.
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.
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
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.
I didn’t serve and know well that this is a bad omen. When the military gives unprompted moral-boosting rewards, it means they’re buying something.
Gotta be well fed before you kill people.
Oh they meant served as in military service. Given the context, I read it as anyone who has been a server/waiter and served food.
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.
Olympics end today so it’s showtime for the military industrial complex.
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.
Circus is over
They’re sending them to kill and be killed
All those Iranian citizens who think the U.S. is doing this for them… They’re about to find out the hard way what putting your trust in the U.S. is like, let alone Trump. You would think they’d learn from the last time.
Nobody thinks this. Lemmy users need to stop being racist like this. Iranians are not stupid, these people have agency. They know what a war with the US means, they had two of their neighbors go through it. They know it’s hell, but the thing is that the regime right now is so cartoonishly evil that if a war loosens their grip on power and opens up a real possibility for a new government, then it might just be worth it.
I’m Iraqi. My family lived through the terror of Saddam Hussein. The US invasion was hell. It destabilized the country and a lot of people died. Nobody recalls that time as a good one. Yet, at the same time, you’ll be hard pressed to any Iraqi that wishes the US didn’t depose of that evil regime.
I’m Iranian, living in Iran. He is right.
A very big portion of people think trump or netanyahu’s attack and war will save them from the islamic republic.
When people are angry, hungry, getting killed, hopeless and poor, we can’t expect their brains to work properly.
Is trump not cartoonishly evil too?
He is 100%. The difference is that Trump rules the US, not Iran. For Iranians, anything that can realistically help them get rid of their oppressors is a glimmer of hope that cling on to even if the odds aren’t that great.
Yeah, because the US has a stellar history if installing fair dictators. That’s how Hussein came to power in the first place.
For the record, I don’t support the US installing a new regime. I want the Iranian people take their country back for themselves, not be under new management. I just think that with how ruthless and evil this regime is willing to be, it’s simply not possible for the people to overthrow it by themselves.
The issue with that is that’s how they got into this mess the first time. And the midterms are coming, Kamala lost on Palestine. I don’t mean to be a dick but the timing seems very similar…
Kamala lost on Palestine.
I wholeheartedly disagree with this. You grossly overestimate how much people care about Palestine. The vast, vast majority don’t care, it’s very much down on the list of priorities for most people, including the ones who vote Democrat. Kamala lost for 3 reasons:
- Biden lied about being a one term president, the Democrats refused to have primaries, and Biden refused to step down until the very last minute, which didn’t give her campaign enough time to make waves
- She was explicitly saying that she was going to be Biden 2.0 on the economy, and that didn’t go well with people. Even though it wasn’t Biden’s fault that Russia invaded Ukraine or Covid happened, people still blamed him for the economic problems that these events caused.
- She’s a black woman. It’s really I sad, but I personally know about a dozen people who unironically voted for Trump solely because Kamala was both black and a woman. It’s safe to say these are not the brightest people, but they unfortunately make up a very large chunk of the voter population in this country
I think you’re probably right that Trump might start a war because the midterms are around the corner, but at the same time, I genuinely think he’s too dumb to think that strategically. I think it’s much more likely that he wants something to distract the population from the Epstein files.
Honestly, I used to not understand that mindset. But living in the US now, I’m starting to feel that desperation. Literally anything that would knock that clown off his stool would be worth it, even a deal with the devil himself.
Fuck, this sucks so much.
The strongest empathy comes through experience. What Iranians are experiencing now might be what we experience in 10 years if not sooner. The fight against fascism is a global one, and there’s no such thing as a good fascist regime.
Americans and their main character syndrome drives me up the wall sometimes. Even well meaning ones can’t not interpret the world from the perspective of US doing a thing, and everything else being the consequence of that.
I just hope that most of that are bots trying to stir chaos, otherwise it’s too sadCalling out USA on its atrocities and its bad rep with foreign interference throughout history is USdefaultism now?
WTF are you smoking?
You’re more bot-like than the OP. Just calling names making things up to manufacture consent in a made up reality in a bot farm.
Americans and their main character syndrome drives me up the wall sometimes. Even well meaning ones can’t not interpret the world from the perspective of US doing a thing, and everything else being the consequence of that.
Lemmy users need to stop being racist like this. Americans are not stupid, these people have agency. They know what a war with the Iran means.
You’re not talking about reality, you’re talking about your perception and your perception is built on a negative stereotype meme.
One of my uncle shared the same sentiments with me; they want Iran invaded because they hope it’ll get rid of the regime.
I told him that no country capable of invading Iran will do so in the interest of Iranians. He said he knows, but he sees no alternative.
I have some family in Iran, and they tell me that the regime is so universally hated that it has no legitimacy left. They can only rule through fear and violence, and people desperately want something that can give them the extra push to overthrow the regime.
In 1979 Iranians revolted against the Shah. Toronto filled up with Iranians in the 80s who ran and grabbed billions of dollars from the country. Ask any of them where they got their money and you got shady answers. The Canadian government let anyone in with money. There are so many of these people they call the city Tehranto.
These people want the return of the Shah and a corrupt crony class to steal the wealth of the country, taking trillions in oil wealth to leave most of the country in poverty.
Iran will get bombed, thousands will die, US will install a puppet Fascist and the cycle will reset. There were good reasons why the people put Ayatollahs in power.
Thanks for the downvotes, toronto Persians.
I downvoted you out of principle. No religious leader is a good replacement, and should never be considered better than what came before.
the regime right now is so cartoonishly evil
Not sure if you mean the regime in Iran or USA.
Both can be true but what’s the point of your comment?
I don’t think that’s true. the US one has definite cartoon vibes. The Iran one seems a bit more “physical”
Yeah, the US has a level of incompetence to it that makes it somewhat amusing, from a distance.
The Iranian regime is a lot better at what they do, and that’s the scary part.
Sorry, let me clarify that my comment wasn’t meant to express an opinion, but to ask why their response was to skip the main content of OP’s post and ask that question. However as another user pointed out OP seems to be a Tesla shill amongst other things, so I guess neither of those posters is worth engaging with. The internet is miraculous
another user pointed out OP seems to be a Tesla shill amongst other things
Users on this site are really are gullible to misinformation. That user was lying. You’re free to browse my account history as you please, and make your own opinions instead of relying on a single dishonest user who’s engaging in bad faith.
I scrolled enough to know you’re somebody I wouldn’t enjoy talking to, so farewell. Tell my kids I love them
The Trump administration is evil, but it’s still night and day compared to the Iranian regime. The Mullahs make MAGA look tame in comparison.
There is a not insignificant (at least by noise level) portion of the Iranian Diaspora that want the US to invade specifically to install Reza Pahlavi as King. I know because they are harassing my wife on social media when she posts her position which is as you described. You are right in that the majority don’t want a war like this, but Royalists specifically (including the prince of nothing himself ) seem to actually believe that this would be a good thing.
You only have to look at what happened around Huda Beauty, when their Iraqi owner said the same thing you are saying.
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.
Does it count as stopping the most wars when you started them all?
He made the “Bored of Peace” with several war criminals for a reason…
Gotta replenish if he wants more wars to stop. Record breaker!
/joke
I’m not saying this isn’t a sign of something, but Surf and Turf nights are fairly common at overseas bases. Sometimes once a week.
EDIT: Pie is pretty much nightly anywhere with real kitchen.
Found the Zoomie…
We were lucky to not be thrown an omelette mre off the back of a deuce and a half.
And well it is 18 hours after your comment now, which came a day after this was posted, and this OP shows a tweet which is… how old? Another day?
Are we at war and I missed the news?
In light of everything else that’s going on it’s a distinct possibility.
But I commented because the tweet and title of this post seemed to imply that good food for troops can only mean war. That’s simply not the case. There are a number of reasons you’d want to improve morale with a (comparatively) nice meal. War is only one of them.
Yeah I’m just backing up your point now that some time has passed. This does indeed appear not to have amounted to anything yet.
Only Congress can declare war, anything else is just a “police action”. That used to actually mean something…in the 1800s. It lost its meaning with good ol’ Teddy Roosevelt.
Yes it’s a distinction without a difference. You might even say not worth mentioning.
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.
Has there been at least a piss weak justification for this new war? Or is he still crapping on about Iran developing a nuclear weapon in the next five minutes? At least the last Iraq war had a good foundation of lies leading up to it.
Fighting Israel’s wars is the justification
The lies for Iraq were no better. Everyone knew that it was Bush jr wanting to finish Daddy’s war. He had been making noises about it since day one January 20 2001.
It was an easier sell because of 9/11.
It was an easier sell because of 9/11.
Not that that made any fucking sense either, mind you.
“We must go after the Afghani terrorists by (checks notes) attacking Iraq!”
Saudi terrorists
We must go after the Saudi terrorists by going after the Afghani terrorists by attacking Iraq! What part of that don’t you understand!!!
It was a different sort of atmosphere. Americans, especially the American right-wing, were consuming a media diet that was 100% fear and paranoia.
Republicans and Republican voters knew that Iraq was all based on lies, and they didn’t care. And since they had enough votes in Congress, they pushed forward.
Where’s the “different” part?
No doubt. Most of the world knew they were talking shit about Iraq, but they at least tried for a while and got their stupid Coalition together for the invasion. In the current case with Iran it looks like they’re not even trying that.
