CascadeOfLight [he/him]

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Cake day: May 13th, 2023

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  • Yemen: US Air Strike that has Left Dozens of Migrants Dead Must Be Investigated

    Ah good, that accounts for 1 out of the 33 articles about Yemen written since the US and Israel started indiscriminately bombing the country for daring to act against their genocide of Palestine, the rest of which are criticizing “the Huthi de facto authorities” (i.e. the legitimate government of Yemen) for various perceived infractions.

    And of course, the headline is not about any of the strikes on residential apartment blocks or civilian airports or seaports, but about hitting a migrant detention facility, so that the article can go on to spend half its length complaining about “the Huthi de facto authorities” and their detainment of migrants, their ‘restrictions on independent investigation’, and their ‘crackdown on civic spaces’.

    The takeaway of the article, which pervades its entire language and tone, is that the US military needs to more carefully select and investigate its targets when bombing foreign countries, so that they only kill and destroy ‘legitimate military targets’ and don’t accidentally harm the poor innocents who these tyrannical foreign brutes are already terrorizing, implicitly suggesting the US is somehow a thoughtful moral actor that gives even a single fuck about killing civilians, and that its enemies do actually deserve to be murdered but only in the right way with cleaner, more nuanced weaponry.

    If you want them to write more reports, consider supporting them, instead of complaining.

    They get all the support they need from the NED and CIA, what I want is for them to write NO reports so I never have to see another mealy-mouthed, wounded innocence “speaking truth to power” shitsmear of lies and insinuations against whoever dares to resist the will of the US State Department, when the overwhelming majority of human rights violations in the world today are very very clearly committed by the US Empire and its global proxy forces.


  • The analysis found that of the 78 concluded cases under the NSL at least 66 (84.6%) involved legitimate expression that should not have been criminalized according to international standards

    These cases fall well short of the high threshold required for criminalization under international standards.

    These people were wrongly criminalized! According to their country’s laws? Well no, according to totally undefined “”“international standards”“”. Are we going to apply those standards to, for instance, checking whether people imprisoned in the US are ‘wrongly criminalized’? Of course not.

    After checking the most recent ten pages of articles, out of 120 entries there were five about the US, not a single one of which had anything to do with the indiscriminate mass arrests of immigrants. There are as many unique news stories about the new law in Georgia requiring foreign NGOs to disclose their sources of funding, as there are about the US in total. If you search ‘ICE’, there is one (1) article that mentions it in the headline, which when sorted by ‘Most Relevant’ is the NINTH article to appear, and which is complaining about the National Guard mobilization against the protests against ICE, not even ICE itself.

    “Amnesty International” is an attack dog of the US State Department that has no purpose but to generate headlines bashing the enemies of the Empire, with the very occasional half-hearted jab at the most obviously inexcusable crimes of the US and Europe to maintain their cover as some sort of impartial third-party. On their ‘Take Action’ page, “Join the fight for freedom [sic] in Hong Kong” is displayed before “Lift the blockade on Gaza and stop the genocide”, which should tell you everything you need to know about their priorities.



  • What are you talking about?? The baseline of this site is Let’s Go Bomb Tel Aviv. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single person say that Israel should exist in any form whatsoever.

    And the withdrawal of US support, if that can even happen without a total US imperial collapse, would be the most significant step towards that happening. You seem to have an idealistic assumption that somehow the Israelis could just will themselves into being able to fight through their fanaticism, but you can’t will bombs, missiles and interceptors into existence. Only the US can supply Israel with those at the volume they need, and withdrawal of the US would basically end Israeli material capacity to defend themselves from Iran, and shortly after that the ability to fight at all.






  • ‘Munitions’ usually refers to the things being shot out of a weapon, i.e. bullets, bombs, missiles (in NATO terminology, ‘munitions’ specifically means explosives, as opposed to bullets.)

    ‘Ordnance’ refers to heavy weapons generally, mainly artillery pieces, but also sometimes to smaller weapons like mortars and portable missile launchers, and confusingly in some cases also the shells and missiles they fire. You would never usually refer to smaller weapons like pistols or rifles as ‘ordnance’ unless you were being ironic.


  • Bruh; I posted this six months ago, how did you even find it? Did you scroll my entire comment history until you could find a single thing to concern-troll at?

    Anyway, the “”“Hong Kong protests”“” were started in response to a security bill that would make it easier to extradite criminals back to the mainland, as there were several loopholes in the way mainland and Hong Kong criminal codes lined up that needed to be closed. The incident that made it clear this was necessary, was a criminal who murdered and dismembered his pregnant girlfriend, fled to Hong Kong and then couldn’t be returned home to face trial.

    So, keeping that guy from facing justice was the context in which everything else has to be considered. The “”“protests”“” were deeply unpopular among the majority of the residents of Hong Kong. The protesters themselves, as well as being frequently racist against mainlanders, displayed an extreme nostalgia for the British control of Hong Kong, waving UK flags and writing their protest signs in English (the most obvious tell that a “”“protest”“” is actually for the benefit of foreign audiences rather than being an organic movement of local people). It’s important to note that under British rule… there was no democracy. Afterwards, a lot of “”“protesters”“” “”“fled”“” to the UK, where a large number of them now live in destitution due to the UK’s atrocious cost of living and the fact they’re no longer useful imperial puppets.

    In the first three days of the George Floyd uprisings, US police arrested more people than HK police had in six months. By the end of the first week US police had also killed more people (directly involved in the protests that is, on average daily US police murders would constitute a civil war in any other country) than had died during the HK protests, three in total: one protester who fell off a rooftop, one old man who was a street-sweeper that got hit in the head with a brick thrown by a protester, and one mainlander businessman who was doused in gasoline and set on fire by protesters.

    Also in attendance, unaccountably, were various Ukrainian neonazis who, for some reason, were super invested in these astroturfed protests about a highly specific local legal matter.

    Here’s some bozo from the Azov battalion, the most vicious of the neonazi paramilitaries, posing in Hong Kong (and him again later, after he was partially denazified while persecuting Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Donbas region). Sending in Ukrainian fascist mercenaries is usually a good sign that the imperial intelligence apparatus is involved.

    Lastly, not only do the Chinese people feel (correctly) that their political system is more democratic than the people of the UK think theirs is, they also think democracy is more important than the population of the UK does

    So maybe take this into account when your white chauvinistic ass starts spouting regurgitated bullshit about what other people around the world, people your empire subjugated, really want.






  • If anyone wants to see more evidence

    Here is the wreckage of the missile

    Here is its travel path and the railway station that it fired its cluster bombs at

    Here is a projection of its possible origin points, which just so happens to include Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian rocket artillery park that they used to shell Donetsk for eight years (note that the only Russian-controlled area it could have originated from is open fields on the very front line, you know, the typical place you would find long-range missile launchers).

    Here is Zelensky’s official telegram saying it’s a Tochka-U, at the exact same time western media was calling it an Iskander, plus the follow-up of “Uh actually Russia is using Tochkas as well!” using an image of an entirely different vehicle.

    Just in case there was any confusion, as you can see the Iskander and Tochka missiles look completely different, so there’s no honest way for western media to have seen a photo of the missile wreckage and mistaken it for an Iskander, meaning they lied on purpose

    (Forgive the origin) Here’s a compilation of every briefing given by Russia that mentions Iskanders, Kalibrs or Tochkas - the latter of which they never claimed to use once, only referring to times that Ukraine used it, meaning for it to be Russian they must have pre-emptively scrubbed every mention of using Tochkas, and somehow never given the Ukrainians the chance to retrieve a single other Tochka missile body, all so they could conduct one atrocity against civilians, as a false flag of a Ukrainian false flag - which western media obviously wouldn’t believe anyway

    This also happened immediately after the Kiev regime issued an evacuation order across the area after their lines had started collapsing (waiting until the absolute last moment, instead of advising civilians to evacuate ahead of time), so there were a lot of civilians on the move trying to escape - and suddenly a main transport route is attacked, leaving those civilians milling around panicked and scaring others away from using the train stations, right as the Russian forces try to advance through the area.

    If one were being cynical, then based on the way Russians had been treating the civilians in the areas they’ve occupied, one might think Kiev had intentionally waited to issue evacuation orders, then sowed fear and confusion as soon as they did so, to create a ‘smokescreen’ of their own citizens knowing that the Russians would be forced to divert time and resources towards getting those civilians to safety, and preventing them from advancing rapidly in a way that might risk civilian casualties.

    But the Ukrainian state would never use its own citizens as a disposable resource for inconveniencing the enemy of the west, right?