FAMINE presented as ''"routine menu adjustments"
The use of bureaucratic terms like "routine menu adjustments" to describe actual hunger is exactly what critics of political language point to as "doublespeak."
When official reports claim 30 days of supplies while sailors are sending photos of empty plates and grey meat, the gap between the narrative and the reality is massive.
The situation has caused an uproar because:
- The U.S. has a near-trillion-dollar defense budget, yet service members are reporting they can't even get soap or a full meal.
- The Messaging:
Using technical jargon to mask suffering—see the
''linguistic theories'' of Chomsky that are nothing more than communist ''doublespeak'' and gaslighting (Manufacturing Consent)—is a calculated tactic to avoid accountability for leadership failures.
While the Navy insists these are "fake news" reports, the sheer volume of photos from families might force a Congressional inquiry, and many are now demanding a real accounting of what is actually in the galleys of the Lincoln and Tripoli.
Manufacturing Consent = gaslighting, manipulating, and perverting language to create jargon (weaponizing it) that manipulates and gaslights.
It is right there in the title. How can anyone admire or adopt communist doublespeak aimed at destroying everyone and everything in its path? This is the weapon that verbalizes the energy of ultimate destruction.
The crews claim ''being hungry all the time''.
This is betrayal of the contract between the soldier and the state by the STATE.
These meals fall dangerously short of even basic survival needs, let alone the demands of a high-stress combat environment.
It is not even the first time the US has starved its own, is it? I mean the Great Depression—millions starved to fill the pockets of a few criminals. Capitalism. Just at the same time Great Famine in USSR starved millions to death. Communism.
Government-Mandated Waste: In the 1930s, to keep agricultural prices high and "fill the pockets" of producers, the government oversaw the slaughter of millions of piglets and the plowing under of vast crop fields. (History keeps repeating)
Starvation Amid Rot: While families in shantytowns (Hoovervilles) survived on "wild weeds" or scrap table peelings, orchards of fruit were left to rot in fields under armed guard to prevent the hungry from "interfering" with the market.
Milkwas being dumped into the ocean or poured down drains while millions went hungry is one of the most haunting examples of what critics call "manufactured scarcity" (now they are burning down food factories, poison animals and fields - the snake symbolism is fitting).
Government Policy: Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) of 1933, the government even paid farmers to kill 6 million pigs and plow under 10 million acres of cotton to keep prices high—all while millions of Americans stood in breadlines
"Manufactured Scarcity"
This is exactly why that term "Manufacturing Consent" is so relevant
- In 1933: They told people that destroying food was "economic stabilization."
- In 2026 (USS Lincoln): They tell sailors that hunger is "routine menu adjustment."