CascadeOfLight [he/him]

Their “determined to dominate”

Our “determined to ensure we lead the world”

Labour could axe all hereditary peers…

…from the House of Lords

Really obsessed with faces but you love to see a guy furiously posting Ls because he thinks he’s scoring points against his boogeyman

Not quite, MMT states that money is just a unit of accounting and the government can print as much money as it wants as long as it’s used to mobilize workers and resources that are currently underutilized - likewise the government doesn’t need to tax in order to amass ‘enough money’ to pay for things, only to regulate the amount of currency in circulation and ensure a demand for currency that will mean their ‘orders’ are carried out.

Under neoliberalism, money is seen as a magic substance that cannot be fully controlled or understood and so it has to be left to the invisible hand of the market. Money printing in the US is controlled by the Federal Reserve, a private entity directed by a board of governors appointed by the President for 14 year (!) terms, but with no oversight beyond that - the Fed can print money, but ONLY to lend it to private banks, who then lend it on again. (Except that, thanks to the wonderful innovation of “fractional reserve banking”, those banks don’t even need enough money to cover the total loans they give out, only a certain fraction of those loans, so the private banks get to effectively print money as well!) This money is then lent out however the bank managers decree, which as it turns out is about 80% real estate loans, 15% financing hostile corporate takeovers, and less than 5% investment in actual business loans that might develop the means of production.

The result of this privatization of money creation and its funnelling into the financial sector is exactly the cause of economic crashes like 2008, as this huge influx of money inflates the price of financial assets - most importantly real estate - far beyond the prices of real economic commodities. This is a huge problem because paying the interest payments on the enormous loans needed to buy real estate to e.g. live in or run your business from, drains money out of circulation in the real economy and into circulation in the mumbo-jumbo financial economy, weakening the real economy’s ability to pay further interest. The bankers who made these loans then sell them on to others, with the ‘price’ of the loan - theoretically determined by its value when paid back in full plus interest - also being wildly inflated due to how much money the financial markets have swilling around them!

Of course, eventually, these untenably large loans are defaulted on by the businesses and homeowners that took them out, in no small part because of the economic slowdown caused by making interest payments, and it’s revealed that huge swathes of the portfolios of certain investment banks, in which they were ‘saving’ their customers’ money, are actually worthless. At this point there are two options - write the debts down to levels that can actually be paid (or even write them off entirely) and watch the price of real estate and ‘financial instruments’ plummet OR print an enormous amount of money, give it directly to the banks who ‘lost’ their gambles, and maintain the debts at exactly the level they were before, and if the debtors default on their mortgage: tough, the bank owns your house now. The latter is what the Obama administration did - gave Wall Street trillions of dollars and oversaw the largest wave of evictions and home repossessions in US history.

Meanwhile, a government running on MMT (aside from not being in this situation in the first place) would have let the lenders get owned, written the debts down (or off) and pumped money into the real economy to mobilize the unemployed, perhaps through a federal jobs program of some sort or by hiring into nationalized industries.

That’s why you have to burn it out from the roots

So far this year China has added more solar capacity than the US in its entire history

Here’s the Marine Corps Gazette explaining what happened.

The Kiev regime is controlled by genocidal Nazis trying to ethnically cleanse the population of Donetsk and Luhansk. Those places were already ‘denazified’, the problem was the Nazis on the Kiev side of the trenches continuously shelling the civilian population for eight years (with western support).

Well I was gonna bother responding, then I noticed your account was created five days ago and has done nothing but both-sides this conflict

Have a very shitty rest of your shift officer

The argument for it being Israel:

• Israel has complete air superiority
• Israel is conducting a bombing campaign against Gaza
• Israel has threatened to attack hospitals
• Israel has previously bombed hospitals
• Israel has previously bombed this exact hospital
• The audio and visual characteristics of the bomb and the damage caused (captured by multiple, independent observers) match with a JDAM guided bomb, which Israel has already used
• Israeli sources first claimed the hospital was a Hamas base or had Hamas tunnels or arms caches, before rapidly rolling back their position to “we didn’t do it”
• It is clearly in Israel’s interest to kill Palestinians and destroy Palestinian infrastructure, especially medical services and supplies, because they are conducting a genocide

The argument for it being Hamas:

• Israel says it was

Reddit, or rather , is controlled by the US security state, so r/combatfootage - which banned all combat footage from Palestinian viewpoints - is not a reliable source. The idea that a ‘rocket piece’ could accidentally fall on a hospital and kill 500 people (a number reported by a first-hand MSF witness) is laughably absurd. If a Hamas rocket could cause this kind of damage, Tel Aviv would look like the surface of the fucking moon. It was OBVIOUSLY another genocidal act by the entity continuously and overtly engaged in genocidal acts. To think otherwise requires you to want to fall for their propaganda. No one in full possession of their faculties looking at the facts dispassionately could possibly conclude it was anything else.

Banned for being factually incorrect in a blindingly obvious way

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You’re right, Donetsk and Luhansk doing what it took to protect their citizens from genocidal Galician fascists by inviting Russia into the civil war was exactly the correct course of action.

As always, the sluggish Russians are years behind the bold and forward-thinking Ukrainian patriots!

You’re so right, if Russia had just never got involved then that missile could have been used to obliterate a grocery shop in Donetsk like it was supposed to

Those fools, if they’d just set his car on fire afterwards it could have been ruled a suicide.

United States Marine Corps

Germany

• Camp Panzer Kaserne, Böblingen

Japan

• Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa
• Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture
• Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa
• Camp Courtney
• Camp Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture
• Camp Foster
• Camp Hansen
• Camp McTureous
• Camp Schwab
• Ie Jima Auxiliary Airfield
• Henoko Ordnance Ammunition Depot
• Kin Red Beach Training Area
• Kin Blue Beach Training Area
• Makiminato Service Area (Camp Kinser)
• Camp Kuwae (Camp Lester)
• Northern Training Area (Incl. Camp Gonsalves Jungle Warfare Training Center)
• Tsuken Jima Training Area

South Korea

• Camp Mujuk

United States Navy

Bahamas

• Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center

Bahrain

• Naval Support Activity Bahrain

British Indian Ocean Territory

• Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia

Cuba

• Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Djibouti

• Camp Lemonnier

Greece

• Naval Support Activity Souda Bay

Iceland

• Naval Air Station Keflavík

Italy

• Naval Support Activity Naples
• Naval Air Station Sigonella

Japan

• Naval Air Facility Atsugi
• Misawa Air Base
• Naval Forces Japan, Okinawa
• United States Fleet Activities Sasebo
• United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka
• Hachinohe POL Depot
• Misawa ATG Range (R130, Draughon Range)
• Kisarazu Auxiliary Landing Field
• Negishi Dependent Housing Area (Naval Housing Annex Negishi)
• Ikego Housing Area and Navy Annex
• Azuma Storage Area
• Fukaya Communication Site (Naval Transmitter Station Totsuka)
• Urago Ammunition Depot
• Tsurumi POL Depot
• Iwo Jima Communication Site
• New Sanno U.S. Forces Center
• Sasebo Dry Dock Area
• Akasaki POL Depot
• Sasebo Ammunition Supply Point
• Iorizaki POL Depot
• Yokose POL Depot
• Harioshima Ammunition Storage Area
• Tategami Basin Port Area
• Sakibe Navy Annex
• Hario Dependent Housing Area (Hario Family Housing Area)
• Tengan Pier
• Camp Shields
• Awase Communications Station
• White Beach Area
• Kobi Sho Range
• Sekibi Sho Range
• Oki Daito Jima Range

Poland

• Naval Support Facility Redzikowo

Romania

• Naval Support Facility Deveselu

Singapore

• Singapore Area Coordinator

South Korea

• Busan Naval Base, Busan, Gyeongnam, Korea
• Commander Fleet Activities Chinhae, Changwon, Gyeongnam, Korea

United States Air Force

Aruba

• Queen Beatrix International Airport (Cooperative Security Location of U.S. Southern Command)

Curaçao

• Hato International Airport (Cooperative Security Location of U.S. Southern Command)

Estonia

• Ämari Air Base

Germany

• Ansbach
• NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, Geilenkirchen
• Ramstein Air Base
• Spangdahlem Air Base
• Buchel Air base

Honduras

• Soto Cano Air Base

Italy

• Aviano Air Base
• Camp Darby (Pisa-Livorno)
• Sigonella Naval Air Station

Japan

• Camp Chitose (Chitose III, Chitose Administration Annex)
• Misawa Air Base
• Yokota Air Base
• Fuchu Communications Station
• Tama Service Annex (Tama Hills Recreation Center)
• Camp Asaka (South Camp Drake AFN Transmitter Site)
• Tokorozawa Communications Station (Tokorozawa Transmitter Site)
• Owada Communication Site
• Yugi Communication Site
• Sofu Communication Site
• Itazuke Auxiliary Airfield
• Sefurisan Liaison Annex (Seburiyama Communications Station)
• Tsushima Communication Site
• Okuma Rest Center
• Yaedake Communication Site
• Kadena Ammunition Storage Area
• Kadena Air Base
• Tori Shima Range
• Idesuna Jima Range
• Kume Jima Range

Kenya

• Camp Simba

Kuwait

• Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base
• Ali Al Salem Air Base

Lithuania

• Šiauliai Air Base, Siauliai

New Zealand

• Christchurch Airport - Operation Deep Freeze

Netherlands

• Volkel Air Base

Poland

• Łask Air Base

Portugal (Azores)

• Lajes Air Base

Qatar

• Al Udeid Air Base

Romania

• Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base
• Câmpia Turzii Air Base

Saudi Arabia

• Prince Sultan air base

South Korea

• Kunsan Air Base
• Osan Air Base

Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Cyprus)

• RAF Akrotiri

Spain

• Morón Air Base

Turkey

• Incirlik Air Base
• Izmir air station

United Kingdom

• RAF Alconbury, Huntingdonshire
• RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire
• RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire
• RAF Lakenheath, Brandon, Suffolk[45]
• RAF Mildenhall, Mildenhall, Suffolk
• RAF Molesworth, Cambridgeshire

United Arab Emirates

• Al Dhafra Air Base

United States Space Force (lol)

Greenland (Denmark)

• Pituffik Space Base

United States Coast Guard (wtf)

Bahrain

• Patrol Forces Southwest Asia

Cuba

• Air station Miami - Navsta Guantanamo Bay

Germany

• Maritime & International Law - U.S. Africa Command

United Kingdom

• HMS Support Program - Portsmouth

Japan

• USCG Activities Far East

Netherlands

• USCG Activities Europe

Saudi Arabia

• Saudi Maritime Infrastructure Protection Force

Singapore

• Activities Far East-Singapore

ETA: These are just the ones officially listed on Wikipedia

List of United States military bases

Joint bases

Australia

• Pine Gap – Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), near Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
• Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt – located on the northwest coast of Australia, 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of the town of Exmouth, Western Australia.
• Robertson Barracks – located in Darwin, Northern Territory.
• Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station – located near Kojarena 30 km east of Geraldton, Western Australia.
• Other U.S. bases in Australia are present and this list does not include ADF bases with U.S. access. The U.S. military has access to all major ADF training areas, northern Australian RAAF airfields, port facilities in Darwin, Fremantle, Stirling naval base in Perth, and the airfield on the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.

Iraq

• There are approximately 2,500 U.S. service members in Iraq, spread across several facilities in Iraq and other bases in Iraqi Kurdistan, being used as training bases for Iraqi and Kurdish forces as well as launching operations against targets in Syria.
• Al-Anbar Governorate
• Al Asad Airbase
• Camp Habbaniyah
• Baghdad Governorate
• Camp Victory
• Duhok Governorate
• Atrush Field
• Erbil Governorate
• Al-Harir Air Base
• Erbil International Airport
• Nineveh Governorate
• Kariz near Zummar
• Saladin Governorate
• Balad Air Base

Niger

• The U.S. operates drone bases from three locations across Niger. These locations are staffed by several hundred U.S. Special Operations Forces in a non-combat role, aiding the Nigerien military with training and surveillance.
• Arlit
• Nigerien Air Base 201, Agadez
• Niamey

United States Army

Belgium

• Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• NATO Headquarters Sarajevo

Bulgaria

• Aitos Logistics Center, Burgas Province
• Bezmer Air Base, Yambol Province
• Graf Ignatievo Air Base, Plovdiv Province
• Novo Selo Range, Sliven Province

Cameroon

• Contingency Location Garoua, Garoua

Germany

• Bleidorn Housing Area, Ansbach
• Dagger Complex, Darmstadt Training Center Griesheim
• Edelweiss Lodge and Resort, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• Lucius D. Clay Kaserne (formerly Wiesbaden Army Airfield), Wiesbaden-Erbenheim
• Germersheim Army Depot, Germersheim
• Grafenwöhr Training Area, Grafenwöhr/Vilseck
• Hohenfels Training Area/Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels (Upper Palatinate)
• Husterhoeh Kaserne, Pirmasens
• Kaiserslautern Military Community
• Katterbach Kaserne, Ansbach
• Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart
• Kleber Kaserne, Kaiserslautern Military Community
• Lampertheim Training Area, Lampertheim
• Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl
• McCully Barracks, Wackernheim
• Miesau Army Depot, Miesau
• Oberdachstetten Storage Area, Ansbach
• Panzer Kaserne, Böblingen
• Patch Barracks, Stuttgart
• Pulaski Barracks, Kaiserslautern
• Rhine Ordnance Barracks, Kaiserslautern
• Robinson Barracks, Stuttgart
• Rose Barracks, Vilseck
• Sembach Kaserne, Kaiserslautern
• Sheridan Barracks, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• Shipton Kaserne, Ansbach
• Smith Barracks, Baumholder
• Storck Barracks, Illesheim
• Stuttgart Army Airfield, Filderstadt
• Mainz-Kastel
• USAG Wiesbaden Military Training Area, Mainz, Gonsenheim/Mombach
• USAG Wiesbaden Training Area, Mainz Finthen Airport
• USAG Wiesbaden Radar Station, Mainz Finthen Airport
• Urlas Housing and Shopping Complex, Ansbach

Israel

• Dimona Radar Facility

Italy

• Camp Darby, Pisa-Livorno
• Caserma Ederle, Vicenza
• Caserma Renato Del Din, Vicenza

Iraq

• Camp Al-Khalis (Rock City FOB)
• Camp Al-Khalis (Rock City FOB)
• Camp Al Watani (Green Zone)
• Camp Anah COP Ocotal
• Camp Andaluz (Spanish Camp)
• Camp Anderson
• Camp Apache
• Camp Gunner Main
• Camp Arkansas
• Camp Arrow
• Camp Avalanche
• Camp Basilone
• Camp Black Jack
• Camp Boom
• Camp Brassfield Mora
• Camp Bristol
• Camp Buffalo
• Camp Bulldog
• Camp Bushmaster
• Camp Bushwaker
• Camp Buzz
• Camp Clairborne
• Camp Cobra
• Camp Cold Steel
• Camp Combat Outpost (Ar Ramadi)
• Camp Cooke
• Camp Cropper
• Camp Dahuk
• Camp Daniels (Samarra)
• Camp Dakota (Baghdad)
• Camp Dracula
• Camp Dragoon (Baghdad)
• Camp Duke (Najaf)
• Camp Eagle (Baghdad)
• Camp Eagle III (Najaf)
• Camp Eden
• Camp Edson (Diwaniyah)
• Camp Ellis
• Camp Endurance
• Camp Fenway
• Camp Freedom (Mosul)
• Camp Freedom I
• Camp Freedom II (Green Zone)
• Camp Ganci (Abu Ghraib)
• Camp Geiger
• Camp Gilligan
• Camp Golf
• Camp Graceland
• Camp Griffin
• Camp Hotel (Najaf)
• Camp Hurricane Point (Ar Ramadi)
• Camp Independence
• Camp India
• Camp Iron Horse (Sadr City)
• Camp Jennings (Al Amarah)
• Camp Juliet (Karbala)
• Camp Junction City (Ar Ramadi)
• Camp Justice
• Camp Kalsu
• Camp Klecker
• Camp Knot
• Camp Korean Village
• Camp Lancer
• Camp Leader (Mosul)
• Camp Libeccio
• Camp Liberty (Camp Hurriya)
• Camp Lima (Baghdad)
• Camp Manhattan
• Camp Marez (Mosul)
• Camp Malboro (Sadr City)
• Camp Mejid (Al Asad AB)
• Camp Mercury
• Camp C.W. Myler (Baghdad)
• Camp Nakamura (Nippur)
• Camp Normandy (Muqdadiyah)
• Camp Outlaw (Green Zone)
• Camp Pacemaker
• Camp Pacesetter
• Camp Paladin
• Camp Paliwoda (Balad)
• Camp Packhorse
• Camp Camp Parsons
• Camp Performance (Mosul)
• Camp Patriot(Green Zone)
• Camp Qayyarah
• Camp Raider
• Camp Red Knight
• Camp Redcatcher
• Camp Redemption (Abu Ghraib)
• Camp Renegade
• Camp Ridgeway (Al Taqaddum)
• Camp Ripper (Al Asad)
• Camp Roach
• Camp Rustamiyah
• Camp Shield (Baghdad)
• Camp Slayer
• Camp Smitty
• Camp Snake Pit (Ramadi)
• Camp Solidarity (Camp Al-Tadamum)
• Camp Speicher
• Camp St. Mere (Fallujah)
• Camp Steel Dragon (Green Zone)
• Camp Steel Falcon
• Camp Stone (Sulaymaniyah)
• Camp Strike (Mosul)
• Camp Striker
• Camp Sullivan (Baghdad)
• Camp Sustainer
• Camp Sycamore
• Camp Taji
• Camp Taqaddum
• Camp Thunder
• Camp Top Gun (Mosul)
• Camp Trebil
• Camp Twin Tower (Topical!)
• Camp Ultimo (Baghdad)
• Camp Union I (Camp Al-Tawheed Al-Awal)
• Camp Union II (Camp Al-Tawheef Al-Thani)
• Camp Victory 51 papa (Abu Ghraib)
• Camp Vigilant (Abu Ghraib)
• Camp Viper
• Camp Volunteer
• Camp War Horse
• Camp Whitehorse
• Camp Whitford
• Camp Wolf
• Camp Wolfpack (Green Zone)
• Camp Zadan (Zadan)
• Camp Zaytun (Erbil)

Japan

• Shariki Communication Site
• Akasaka Press Center (Hardy Barracks)
• Yokohama North Dock
• Camp Zama
• Sagami General Depot
• Sagamihara Housing Area
• Kyogamisaki Communication Site
• Akizuki Ammunition Depot
• Kawakami Ammunition Depot
• Hiro Ammunition Depot
• Kure Pier No.6
• Haigamine Communication Site
• Gesaji Communication Site
• Torii Communications Station (Torii Station)
• Naha Port
• Army POL Depots

Kosovo

• Camp Bondsteel
• Film City, Pristina

Kuwait

• Ali Al Salem Air Base
• Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base
• Camp Arifjan
• Camp Buehring (formerly Camp Udairi)
• Camp Patriot (shared with Kuwait Naval Base)
• Camp Spearhead (shared with port of Ash Shuaiba)

Lithuania

• Camp Herkus, Pabradė

Poland

• Camp Kosciuszko (formerly FOS Poznan)

South Korea

• Camp Ames
• Camp Carroll
• Camp Casey
• Camp Coiner - northern portion turned over to US Embassy in Dec 2017, southern portion remains open
• USAG Daegu
• Camp George
• Camp Henry
• Camp Hovey
• USAG Humphreys
• Camp Liberty Bell
• Camp Long Jon
• Camp Mercer, Seoul - 44th Engineering Battalion
• Camp Mobile
• Camp Walker
• USAG Yongsan
• K-16 Air Base
• Kunsan Pol Terminal Site
• Madison Site
• Masan Ammunition Depot
• Seobingo Compound
• Pier #8
• Yong Pyong

Like… name all of the US foreign military bases??

Also “appeasement” is a made up post-hoc explanation for the western Allies’ actions before WW2, blaming the supposed naivete or lack of spine of the leaders for simply allowing the Nazis to make expansionist moves uncontested, rather than it being an intentional policy to get out of their way and try to direct them eastwards against the Soviet Union.