The Empire Is The Real Enemy

The Empire Is The Real Enemy

August 13, 2024

U.S. EMPIRE - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

The U.S. has offered to drop its ridiculous criminal charges against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro if he agrees to leave power. These freaks really do believe the entire planet is their property.

Normal person: Genocide is bad.

Crazy person: DO YOU WANT TRUMP TO WIN??

Normal person: The candidate you are supporting wants to commit actual genocide.

Crazy person: Hey, look, nobody’s perfect.

President Trump, 2025: [bombs a middle eastern hospital] I bombed that hospital because Muslims are terrorists.

President Harris, 2025: [bombs a middle eastern hospital] Our thoughts are with the victims of this terrible tragedy as we work toward peace and stability in the region.

Zionism and Christian fundamentalism are used as excuses to inflict vastly more violence than Islam is. Muslims are not the enemy, the murder machine of the globe-dominating US-centralized empire is.

It’s so sociopathic how anyone who complains about struggling to make ends meet under the oppressive, exploitative systems in this civilization is told “Get another job” or “Work harder”, like that’s a real response to complaints of systemic problems.

It’s sociopathic because telling someone who’s complaining about systemic problems to change their circumstances as an individual is just telling them to make sure it’s someone else at the bottom of the societal pyramid instead of them. Even if the person making the complaint got a better-paying job than the one they had, their old job would be filled with someone else who would find themselves struggling to make ends meet in the same way. Our entire capitalist system is built on the premise of the existence of a permanent underclass of exploited and underpaid laborers, and an individual moving out of that underclass doesn’t change the existence of that underclass.

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