The US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to German food banks because of the shutdown.

https://home.army.mil/bavaria/about/shutdown-guidance#%3A%7E%3Atext=Running+list+of+German+support%2CToo+Good+To+Go-App

If link is not working: https://archive.is/lG1Cm

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PonyOfWar@pawb.social · 82 pts · 282d (12 replies)

Guess they'll soon find out about the long waiting lists that German food banks usually have. They won't qualify for any German welfare payments either, so time for US soldiers to go begging in the streets I guess?

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 61 pts · 282d (10 replies)

Sadly our cucked german politicians will instantly cave to Trump and just pay their food with german tax money. They should instead force the US soldiers to confront the reality that Trump is a fascist and promise them immunity if they are willing to defect from the US military in order to not starve.

SaltSong@startrek.website · 17 pts · 282d

That might work for people with no families. There was a time in my life where I'd have cheerfully defected in exchange for citizenship and protection.

Today, I'd need that for myself and a few others.

Taldan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 282d

Sadly our cucked german politicians will instantly cave to Trump and just pay their food with german tax money

At least Americans can empathize with that, as we watch Argentina and Israel get billions while our own food programs run out of money

jenesaisquoi@feddit.org · 8 pts · 282d (6 replies)

cucked german politicians

What do you mean? Are German politicians' partners having affairs?

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 282d (5 replies)

Political affairs with the Trump regime maybe. Cucked as in they are letting foreign politicians fuck their own citizens lives. "Cucked" is often used outside of sexual settings whenever someone is letting others decide for them.

jenesaisquoi@feddit.org · 5 pts · 282d (2 replies)

“Cucked” is often used outside of sexual settings whenever someone is letting others decide for them.

Right so the population of every representative democracy is?

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 282d (1 reply)

Sort of i guess, but i think there is a difference between the "cuckedness" of representative democracy and literally bought corrupt politicians.

jenesaisquoi@feddit.org · 3 pts · 282d

I see! So the term is mostly meant to mean corrupt and spineless, right?

Melchior@feddit.org · -1 pts · 282d (1 reply)

Yeah cause having a bunch of starving foreign soldiers with nukes in your country is a great situation /s

Auli@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 282d

The soldiers don't have nukes.

Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 282d

Dont worry, accepting government aid from a eroupean country because some piss shit politicians wont fund their government will radicalize those guys forever.

And it wont be against germany...

ranzispa@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 281d

Hitmans will get cheaper in Germany.

SrMono@feddit.org · 69 pts · 282d (7 replies)

Chuckles in “greatest nation of the world feeds its soldiers with foreigners welfare”

plyth@feddit.org · 8 pts · 282d

Fourage, a tradition as old as time.

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 282d (5 replies)

US Failed state was not on my disaster bingo card.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 282d (2 replies)

Really? I thought that'd be the center square.

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 282d (1 reply)

My centre was Nazi Apocalypse.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 282d

Judges? Bing! Guess they're going to count it.

cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 282d

No it's there, labelled 'free space'.

GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 4 pts · 282d

It was just to obvious...

CAVOK@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 282d (6 replies)

Foreign intelligence must be having the best day ever. Soldiers, with access to lots of interesting stuff, desperate for cash.

I'm not sure the US administration thought this one through properly. But at least they have that "warrior mindset" and no beards now. So that's good I suppose.

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 282d
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splendoruranium@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 282d

Foreign intelligence must be having the best day ever. Soldiers, with access to lots of interesting stuff, desperate for cash.
I’m not sure the US administration thought this one through properly. But at least they have that “warrior mindset” and no beards now. So that’s good I suppose.

That's a very interesting point.

baconmonsta@piefed.social · 7 pts · 282d (1 reply)

I hope this angle gets media exposure

Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d

It won't. Considering you have the pApErS oF rEcOrD doing suck job ride alongs and news pieces of the gestapo roundups, access journalism means you go with what the administration wants so you can keep printing issues.

brainwashed@feddit.org · 6 pts · 282d (1 reply)

If they at least were a little bit fatter, they could last longer without food

cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 282d

Seriously. Worst time to have lost weight. Stabbed in the back.

You@feddit.org · 28 pts · 282d (2 replies)

Someone at the army is on social media. The linked page is already altered and the segment about "Tafel" has been deleted.

It's (still?) here https://home.army.mil/bavaria/about/shutdown-guidance

or if that gets changed too: https://archive.is/e2hvc

MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 282d (1 reply)
You@feddit.org · 6 pts · 282d

So now, they just deleted "Die Tafel" from their list and put the other options into a PDF to hide them better?

Members of the US-Military wouldn't be elegible going by the rules of Tafel branches that I know of anyway (Tafel asks for "proof of need" in form of notices from social security agencies). But who thought this to be a good idea? This non-communication is making matters worse.

Don_alForno@feddit.org · 25 pts · 282d

Hey Merz, I found some welfare tourists you can deport!

verdi@feddit.org · 23 pts · 282d

Please remember the US voted against making food a human right in several UN votes.

Give the soldiers the option to either swear allegiance to the German government or deport them because they cannot sustain themselves in the country and are now, in fact, illegal migrants that tax the government and are an unacceptable burden upon the welfare state.

Anything less than this is backstabbing the German society to the banefit of the pedophile in chief of dumbfuckistan.

JamieDub86@piefed.social · 22 pts · 282d (2 replies)

How much of the USA military voted for Fart?

MisterOwl@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 282d

Exactly. They're in the 'find out' stage now.

rbn@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 282d

Question is how many of them do see Trump and his party at fault now and how many still blame the democrats, antifa etc.?

MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 282d (2 replies)

It took me a few clicks and some depressing reading to find it.

That link brings you to this pdf

After reading through the sadly typical bureaucratic layers of Army, I finally found this:

Also, the richest nation in the world has a military so in need of SNAP benefits that it has an entire machine of paperwork in place to facilitate the distribution.

Ask yourself why.

CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 281d (1 reply)

They have removed this section from the document without updating the document version/date. The link in the page now points to this document: https://home.army.mil/bavaria/2617/6241/4675/ID-E_Furlough_Support_Programs_and_Resources_-_v6_update_4_NOV_2025_2.pdf

Note the "_2.pdf" in the end of the link

MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d

Jesus fucking christ

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 282d

Ah, making other countries pay welfare for our people while our king builds a ballroom.