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Iran Faces US Wrath, But 5,000 Sailors On USS Ford Face 650 Failing Toilets (www.ndtv.com)

submitted 3 days ago by FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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The USS Gerald R. Ford has been at sea since June last year. The Republican leader's decision to extend its deployment for a second time has snowballed into a growing list of problems, such as blocked toilets and sewage troubles.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thankfully, the ship is surrounded by emergency toilet

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago

As is the US isn’t figuratively shitting on the world, now they’re doing it literally.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

A sailor on board told the Journal that the crew members are angry and upset and wish to leave the Navy as soon as the deployment ends.

A competent president takes this into account and doesn’t run their people into the ground needlessly.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

To be clear, we should all be glad the US doesn't have a competent president in this case.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's weird because USA has 11 aircraft carriers, easily enough to rotate their usage.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Yes, but the Ford is new, shiny, and most importantly for Great Leader, bigger.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Only if they have any interest in people's long term well being. Which if they really had, they would send them to war.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"An army marches on its stomach", meaning the troops need a steady supply of food.

I think that also means "An army marches on its butthole", because the waste gotta go somewhere.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

i mean humans need a steady supply of food

[–] king_comrade@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

'the republican leader' do they mean the president? Trump? What a weird way to reference them.

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Support the troops (with thoughts and prayers).

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Gleefully send them off to a pointless war and then tell them we can't afford to take care of them. The Republican way.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

That's nothing. Wait for them to come back disabled from the war and be called welfare-queens for the miserable rest of their life.

[+] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Man, I wish it were one-sided.

If Joe Biden had his way we'd still be in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya. (The 7 countries where Obama was making war at the end of his presidency all at the same time.)

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Whataboutism is awesome.

'in' is doing some very different lifting from case to case. America is 'in' the local airport, and they haven't invaded yet. Our own troops will be 'in' Haiti or their own back yards, but there for support as a unified force and not just to go armed.

'Making war' is going a lot of heavy lifting here too.

I worry you're making points out of very little, but I don't need to debate that.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It's a special operation then?

[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Biden administration, in a move that infuriated trumpies, withdrew US forces from Afghanistan in 2021.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes, following through on a withdrawal negotiated by the Donald Administration.

But it probably did infuriate Donald supporters, just like how Dems supported the genocide in Gaza until the presidency changed hands and it was no longer convenient. Partisans have no real political convictions. It's all a matter of convenience or just repeating whatever their algorithm tells them to think on a given day.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 7 points 3 days ago

These would be more useful.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Release the Epstein files.

[–] Billy_fuccboi@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Time to open up the poop deck

[–] join@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

some iranian: why do I hear entrance of the gladiator playing from the persian gulf?

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

But at least bidets work...they work, right?

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

What a shitty situation all around

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

Very happy for them.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Don't have to fix the ship if it gets sunk