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Back in the Before Days, I went to a presentation by a journalist who was investigating secret bases in Africa and it was kinda wild how he was able to identify them using public satellite photos and Strava uploads.

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Throwback to when US troops and other assets revealed the locations of dozens of secret bases by uploading their runs to a fitness tracking app that put them all on a map

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Like, netflix has to know. In a small town in Afghanistan they keep getting 50 or so IP addresses that pop up every time an episode of the boys drops in English. There is only so secret a big mitary base can be.

Or pornhub knows based on small pockets of preferences that look exactly like military bases in random places across the world.

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They’re not that secret then!

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I think they’re only secret in the sense that the US does not officially recognize them on record

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Ah, like the genocides we do.

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I know this asking about a distinction without a difference, but is it because these are all technically PMC contractors, or is it a JSOC thing where it’s an open secret but all classified?

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US imperialism losing ground, warms my heart

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More like “shitting ducks”, am I right? Heh heh

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Many troops were hospitalized for explosive diarrhea, but anonymous sources from the Department of Defense assure us that this had nothing to do with the rocket attacks.

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Commander Eve Fartlow

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