If you’re just learning about this, some of the other questions you might ask yourself next are:
- Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Aruba? - Why the fuck are there even 4 US military bases in Australia? - Why the fuck are there even 3 US military bases in Belgium? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Bulgaria? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Bahrain? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in the Bahamas? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Cuba? (this is of course Guantanamo bay, which is just straight up an illegal occupation of a foreign country to host a US torture prison) - Why the fuck are there even 6 US military bases in Germany? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Djibouti? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Egypt? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Spain? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Estonia? - Why the fuck are there even 5 US military bases in the UK? - Why the fuck are there even 3 US military bases in Greece? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Greenland? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in St. Helena? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Honduras? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Hungary? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Chagos archipelago apparently aka “British Indian Territory”? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Iraq? (when the Iraqi government keeps demanding that the US leave the country) - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Iceland? - Why the fuck are there even 7 US military bases in Italy? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Jordan? - Why the fuck are there even 8 US military bases in Japan, if you exclude the several bases on Okinawa? It’s 13 including the ones on Okinawa. - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Kenya? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Kosovo? - Why the fuck are there even 8 US military bases in South Korea? - Why the fuck are there even 5 US military bases in Kuwait? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Lithuania? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Latvia? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in the Marshall Islands? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Norway? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Oman? - Why the fuck are there even 9 US military bases in the Philippines? - Why the fuck are there even 5 US military bases in Papua New Guinea? - Why the fuck are there even 5 US military bases in Poland? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Portugal? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Qatar? - Why the fuck are there even 3 US military bases in Romania? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Saudi Arabia? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in Singapore? - Why the fuck is there even a US military base in El Salvador? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Somalia? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Syria? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in Turkiye? - Why the fuck are there even 2 US military bases in the United Arab Emirates?
Note: This list (that i got from this website cause their data was pretty recent and they had it in a handy list form) does not even seem to include things like the military airbase in the Netherlands where the americans keep nuclear bombers, or shannon airfield in ireland that the americans get to use freely for their genocide in Palestine, and used for their wars in afghanistan and iraq, so this list seems to be very far from complete.
Let’s not forget about the tragic death of Harry Dunn. A 19 year old hit and killed by an American woman (Anne Sacoolas) in the UK while she was driving on the wrong side of the road. On American bases they drive on the right hand side and in the UK we drive on the left. She left the American base continuing to drive on the right hand side of the road and hit 19 year old Harry Dunn. She then immediately fled the country and the USA gave her diplomatic immunity through a loophole despite her not being in the American base during the accident. They also intentionally used old photos of Anne Sacoolas and hid her name from the public to bury the incident. After approx 3 years of fighting the American government the family finally received justice.
i just found out about this bird (scale-crested pygmy tyrant) trying to find the most biodiverse countries and i feel tears welling up in my eyes because its so cute
why does it look like that i love him so much he’s a little fella
when I was a kid, I complained to my mom about other kids being mean to me, and she said “you have to tell them that your feelings are hurt! then they’ll understand.”
so the next time I was being bullied, I said “hey. you guys aren’t being very nice.” and they looked really confused and stun-locked for a minute and then said “yeah… we know.”
well you know what they say. when you’ve invested billions of dollars into hammers every problem looks like a nail and you keep handing these hammers to your users and they go “i don’t really think i needed this hammer” and “but i don’t have any nails that need hammering in right now” and “this is not a nail this is a glass vase that will break if i hit it with a hammer” and “didn’t you used to have, like, other tools avaliable that might be better suited to this job” and you tell them to suck it up because you’ve replaced all your screwdrivers and wrenches and box cutters and crates and ladders and paint with hammers because your shareholders need to see an increase in value from your hammer investments
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