alt Hacker NewsI hate this "War on X" rhetoric. They're not going to bomb the ocean or send troops to shoot it, so why make it sound like it? Just say what they're actually going to do about it.
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"War on X" was originally a way of mocking Richard Nixon's "War on drugs". Everyone thought it was a stupid term at the time, for the reasons you list. So we started talking about the "war on cheap beer", the "war on disco music", etc (I was in college at the time). I'm not sure when people started using the term seriously.
In the article they did send the navy.
They’re gonna kill the whole ocean and conquer it in its entirety. Any resistance by the ocean will be futile!
When the only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
At least the War on Seaweed is more real than the War on Christmas.
> Just say what they're actually going to do about it.
People don't have infinite attention. That's why headlines and slogans carry so well, even when they are lossy/misleading to the reality.
Do not give this administration any ideas, after all Caligula ordered his legions to wade out and attack the waves with swords.
Whoever's dubbed it so doesn't know it's a quixotic effort they'll never win, just like the War on Drugs and the War on Terror.
A strange case of nominative determinism.
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If war is a constant of humanity, better it be against the seaweed than the people. Jokes aside, I agree, but in general folks love dramatic names.