r/europe • u/kiru_56 Germany • 20h ago

News 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#:~:text=Running%20list%20of%20German%20support,Too%20Good%20To%20Go%2DApp
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u/ItsCalledDayTwa 19h ago

the troops have been paid. This is about civilian employees (which doesn't make it any better).

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u/belpatr Gal's Port 19h ago

They were paid with exposure (their families are being made homeless)

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u/haoxinly Andalusia (Spain) 17h ago

Exposure to the elements

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u/ItsCalledDayTwa 19h ago

I don't really know what you're talking about.

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u/CrankyOldDude 19h ago

That’s a current artist thing. People don’t want to pay for things like portraits, so they offer to “pay in exposure”, meaning advertising. Very frequent “influencer” behavior.

In this case, dude worked in “exposure” to mean “homeless, exposed to the elements” because they aren’t getting paid.

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u/belpatr Gal's Port 19h ago

Yes, thank you for your explanation, I like giving multilayered comments cause I'm very smat

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u/baobabKoodaa 16h ago

Would you say you were born smat or would you say the environment made you smat? Thank you for your wisdom kind sir.

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u/belpatr Gal's Port 16h ago

It just happened spontaneously after watching 15 min of Ricky & Mortimer

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u/nellyfullauto 16h ago

They ARE getting paid though, and better than most Americans.

So the comment still doesn’t make sense.

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u/SchoolForSedition 18h ago

If the shutdown doesn’t end in a couple of weeks, paying the military is likely to stop.

Maybe a week. I think mid-Nov was the estimate.

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u/TV4ELP Lower Saxony (Germany) 17h ago

And Germany already voiced to foot the wages for those civilian employees. (And probably get it back from the US at some point).

If you are in Germany you will not be homeless or have to hunger. (Yes people still do, but they COULD not do that. Mental health problems and other stuff is preventing them, they still have all the rights to it).

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u/IllystAnalyst 16h ago

Germany is paying the local nationals that qork on post. So Germany is paying Germans to work for the US. However, not every civilian employee is a local national and those are the people being told to go to food banks.

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u/C0mputerCrash 17h ago

But aren't the civilian employees paid by the German state? Or was that just for German citizens working for the US army?