• BranBucket@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      11 hours ago

      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?

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        11 hours ago

        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.

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          10 hours ago

          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.

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        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.

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          9 hours ago

          Yes it’s a distinction without a difference. You might even say not worth mentioning.

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          49 minutes ago

          They said they are “in a war” with those countries, but it sounded like more of a description of fact than a proclamation.

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            I get there might be some subtlety of difference there, and language matters. But war, war never changes.

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              There’s a bit more than a nuance between “ I declare war on you!” and “You are making war on me!”

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      Found the Zoomie…

      We were lucky to not be thrown an omelette mre off the back of a deuce and a half.