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  • Jfc you people are so dense. Ask yourself about how a movement or event that deconstructed the US empire would do so without deconstructing capitalism. You think I’m talking about nuking the shit out of a global empire to save the world? Think before you talk. Capitalism is not just “greed” like it’s some incomprehensible being from Pandora’s Box. It is a system that thousands of people have spent a century identifying and defining.

    Won’t be responding again, you guys have no fucking clue what youre talking about and I think this is actually the first time you’ve spoken to someone who studies the shit you pretend to know about.




  • My brother in christ, it is wild how many people on here talk about shit they don’t know about. I did not say it is a national thing, nations are bullshit anyway. The US is an empire, and yes, that empire operates in the best interest of those at the top of its hierarchy, i.e. its wealthiest. No, the borders of the actual United States are not real, they’re made up and do not represent the actual boundaries of its influence or power. This may be surprising to you, but maybe the way you think about states and nations came from the systems of power you are currently subject to and are imagined in such a way so as to occlude how this system actually functions. Maybe there is some benefit to capitalism to imagine it as natural and therefore inevitable, hm?

    The USA is the dominant capitalist power because it is an empire that modern capitalism emerged through. There are debates about where capitalism actually begins, maybe in property relations in 15th century England, maybe through the mercantilist economies of Euro colonialism generally in the 16th through to 18th centuries, but there is never doubt that the specific property relations and dominance of wage labour in the 19th century industrial shift as the definitive moment where we recognize the capitalism we live in. Capitalism would not have survived the 20th century without the US empire – which was at that point the industrial capital of the world – and they defended it brutally. There is nothing in history that can compare to the scale of violence the US has enacted in its campaign to maintain the power relations of capital. Yes, the United States of America as in the state, not as in the American people (which isn’t a thing anyway) or as in the land which is confined within the US borders, but as in the state with a military, economic, and political coercion network that dominates most of the planet. When rich US citizens like Mark Zuckerberg own a disinformation platform like Facebook, and that platform explicitly promotes fascism in its algorithms, and that platform then incites a genocide in Myanmar, that is a series of actions only made possible through US defense of private property and capital globally. (https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/ ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_leak)

    Also, we “let” them? I have an MQ-9 Reaper drone in my garage you see, I’ve simply not made use of it to free myself from the chains of capital. Do you get why this is an issue? You cannot imagine it as “people aren’t doing enough” because that is fundamentally a liberal, moralistic argument that resorts to ideas of purity to judge the value of human life.



  • We seriously have to stop acting like this is some disembodied event that we are all responsible for. Its the United States, it’s always been them. That is what has protected fossil fuel use, that is what destabilized so many countries that tried to limit fossil fuel use, that is where the most excessive burning happens, that is where the most effective climate activism suppression is localized and operated. This is not “humans vs. human nature,” it’s a fucking death-cult empire vs. the rest of us. Every single person who is afraid of climate change has to get it clear that the US has to end in order to secure a path to as little harm as we can manage at this point. That does not mean Americans are responsible, it means that most of them are also victims of this brutal empire and the violence it cannot live without.




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    Okay, lots to unpack there and I’m not paid to do that so keep in mind that this is quick.

    It satisfied my question though, you think they’re a troll because you don’t like what they’re saying and they sure talk a lot. I’m sorry if you’re still processing this, but the United States is a brutal imperialistic power that has caused an immeasurable amount of damage to the world, not just people, the entire living world. Its entire system depends on extractive genocide to exist, and there is no reform for that. US citizens may choose to support or subscribe to that system, as many fascists and liberals do, or they may choose to challenge it, as many liberationists, climate activists, socialists, and anarchists do. Their leaders have most certainly chosen to continue it.

    People fought slavery in the Americas since it started and they had to fight for hundreds of years through the deaths of untold millions to do it. It was not, “just part of the law,” the law was built to facilitate that violence. Thomas Jefferson – many “founding fathers” actually – only had the resources to carry out a revolution because of slavery.

    I don’t think any serious socialist or anti-imperialist sees American culture as monolithic. Most of my knowledge on mutual aid comes from Black Liberationists in living memory. Instances like the Coal and Rent Wars are powerful examples of how that brutal system is also vulnerable to the popular forces of exploited people, which means there is a lot of them. But, you can’t support the state and ally yourself with those groups.