WHITE EMPIRE

INDI.CA
For my wife, who never believed in me
FRONTISPIECE

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INTRODUCTION
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As an introduction, my name is Indrajit Samarajiva, I am a random

Sri Lankan blogger. I have no qualification beyond curiosity and no
publisher beyond myself. My screen name is indi.ca. Send bugs to
indi@indi.ca.

I have been sitting on this text for over a year and I am finally getting
off the pot. I can’t even be assed to read this whole thing myself, I
dunno what you’re doing here, but here we are.

This is a collection of barely edited blog posts about the White

Empire. What is that? I hate introductions. Read the book.

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 CONTENTS

Frontispiece 1
Introduction 7

PART I
NAMES
1. The Wrecking Of Names 15
2. The Many Names Of White Empire 21
3. The Disrespectful Americans 25
4. How White Empire Is A Thing 29
5. The Invisible White Empire 34
6. How Colonizers Changed Words And Kept Colonizing 40
7. Democracy™ 48
8. How Genocide Became Conventional 58
9. How The White Empire Has No Clothes 62

PART II
WHITENESS
10. How I Almost Became White 75
11. As A Colonized Person, I’m Glad The Queen Is Dead 81
12. Abolish Whiteness 85
13. You Don’t Have To Apologize For Being White. Just
Don’t Do It 90
14. I Am Not Your Minority 98
15. How Inclusion Is Imperialism 102

PART III
EMPIRE
16. White People Keep Looking For Hitler Everywhere
But In The Mirror 111
17. The White Empire Are Just Nazis That Won 125
18. The Horror Of Starvation 130
19. How White Empire Blames Everyone Else 134
20. How Brown People Run The White Empire 138
21. How The ‘Free World’ Is Occupied Territory 143
22. The Evolution Of The Hegemonster 147
23. At Every Crucial Juncture In History, The Bad
Guys Won 152
24. The Two Hands Of White Empire 156

PART IV
THE CAPITAL
25. Having Lunch With Americans 159
26. America’s Declining Life Expectancy 164
27. America Is Dead 170
28. America's Colonization In One GIF 173
29. What America’s Budget Tells You About America’s
Values 185
30. America’s Only Election Choices Are Imperialism Or
Fascism 190
31. The Poor Rich 195
32. The Buck Stops Here: How America Is Destroying The
Dollar 200
33. Unhappy Governments Shouldn’t Be Overthrowing
Others 206
34. The Mausoleum Of The Mall 212

PART V
WAR
35. America Doesn’t Protect Shit. It’s Just A Protection
Racket 219
36. American Troops ARE Losers And Suckers 226
37. Why America's Military Is Physically Falling Apart 234
38. How America's Military Is Falling Apart 243

PART VI
PROPAGANDA
39. The Deep Coding Of Genocide In The Western Brain 259
40. The Most Propagandized Place On Earth 266
41. How Western Propaganda Has Been Privatized 273
42. Why The Media Loves War 282
43. How Human Rights Is Used To Dehumanize The
South 285
44. How Democracy Is Not Good 289
45. The Arseholes Of Democracy 301
46. The Subtle Propaganda Of Hollywood 307
 PART VII
ENEMIES
47. Know Your Enemy 315
48. How Bin Laden Was Right (And Where He Was
Wrong) 319
49. How Russia Is Stronger Than America 332
50. Stop Hating China Or Russia Or Whoever You’re
Supposed To 344
51. How To Deprogram Yourself From Hating China 348
52. How Julian Assange Exposes The White Empire 359

PART VIII
UKRAINE
53. How War Is Peak Capitalism 369
54. Westerners Need To Shut Up About Ukraine 377
55. The US Is Not Helping Ukraine Or Taiwan 381
56. How America Is Profiting From The Destruction Of
Europe (Again) 386
57. Playing Russian Roulette With Sanctions 391
58. What Should You Do About Ukraine? Nothing 395
59. The Energy Trap 399
60. America Cannot Win A Land War In Asia, But They’re
Still Trying 404
61. Remember Ukraine? 415

PART IX
PALESTINE
62. How Much Killing Do We Witness Before Breakfast? 421
63. Palestine Is How Colonialism Happens 429
64. Why Israel Should Not Exist 435
65. How They Kill Palestinians Twice 439
66. It’s All One Genocide. From Palestine To The Planet 446
67. The Capital Punishment Of Palestine 451
68. The West Is Showing Its Whole Genocidal Ass 456
69. Western Moral Authority Is Dead And Buried In
Palestine 461
70. The Hierarchy Of Violence 467
71. The Asymmetry Of Violence (Palestine Vs. The White
Empire) 473
72. From The Frying Pan To The Ceasefire (And Back
Again) 482
73. Who’s The Terrorists Now? 489
74. A Dying Empire Has Nothing To Offer But Death 497

PART X
THE END
75. Are We Nearing The Final Crash Of Capitalism? 505
76. This Is How The Future Falls 511
77. What It’s Like To Live In A Fallen Empire 515
78. Crash Of A Civilization 521
79. Delay, Diversify, Destroy 530
80. How I Lived Through The End Of History 534
81. How COVID Is Cause For Revolution 543
82. The Flowers Of Wrath 547

Acknowledgments 551
 PART I

NAMES

“Oh, I have so many names,” said the Devil to his son. “Just
call me dad.”

— DEVIL’S ADVOCATE
1. THE WRECKING OF
NAMES
JANUARY 2023

If he ever got power (which he never did) Confucius said his first
priority would be the ‘rectification of names’. Like a boor, I never
quite understood this. As The Analects 13.3 says:
ZILU

If the Duke of Wei were to employ you to

serve in the government of his state, what
would be your first priority?
MASTER KONG (CONFUCIUS)

It would, of course, be the rectification of

names (正名/zhèngmíng).

Could you, Master, really be so far off the

mark? Why worry about rectifying names?”

How boorish you are, Zilu! When it comes to

matters that he does not understand, the
gentleman should remain silent.

I felt like Zilu (Master Kong’s usual rhetorical punching bag) because
I simply didn’t understand the point. Even when the master
explained:

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 MASTER KONG

If names are not rectified, speech will not

accord with reality; when speech does not
accord with reality, things will not be
successfully accomplished.

When things are not successfully

accomplished, ritual practice and music will
fail to flourish; when ritual and music fail to
flourish, punishments and penalties will miss
the mark.

And when punishments and penalties miss

the mark, the common people will be at a
loss as to what to do with themselves.

This is why the gentleman only applies

names that can be properly spoken and
assures that what he says can be properly
put into action.

The gentleman simply guards against

arbitrariness in his speech. That is all there is
to it.

This ritual programming was thought to actually work, and in a deep

sense they were right. Words do have power, be it through laws,
edicts, signatures, birth certificates, passports, computer programs,
etc. We think of rituals as these archaic things, but we still use them
for inaugurating governments, for marking birth and death, for all
the most important things in life.

In the westernized world we have indeed gotten names wrong, in the

sense that you and I have them. Modern passport names are a
historical anomaly, an artifact of the individualist age. Confucius
talked about roles (lords being good lords, fathers being good fathers)
and not about the ‘self-actualization’ of the person in the role, what-
ever the fuck that is. Buddhism talks about ‘not-self ’, making the
modern perversion of mindfulness into ‘self-help’ quite the contra-
diction. Older Asian and Arab cultures are full of referential names
(Son of X, elder brother) and in many cases people never use their
government names at all. Cause they ain’t right. This globalized

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culture has gotten names wrong, so it gets rituals wrong, so the
common people don’t know what the fuck to do and resort to self-
help that doesn’t help. Because it can’t help. It’s all starting from bad
assumptions. The first step really would be the rectification of
names.

In our current hubris, our reaction to the ancients is horror and a

superiority complex. They had empires, they had slaves, they
conquered, they had barbaric punishments, they believed in dumb
invisible shit. But then look at us.

We live under an undifferentiated White Empire, flowing directly

from European colonial powers through the colony of America today.
But we don’t call it that. It hides under a web of names like NATO, or
‘rules-based order’, or ‘developed world’. Yet it’s the most violent mili-
tary empire in history, which girds the world with both violence and
economic coercion, tribute rendered by every state in the form of
petrodollars. Yet we don’t even perceive it because it has no name.

In the tomb inscriptions of ancient Egypt, those rich enough to afford

marble and false doors, proudly proclaimed all the people they’d
killed and slaves they’d taken. Like Weni The Elder around -2200,
who served under three pharaohs and got a prime spot in the necrop-
olis. There you can still read it written:
WENI THE ELDER

This army returned in safety,

It had ravaged the Sand-dwellers' land.

This army returned in safety,

It had flattened the sand-dwellers' land.

This army returned in safety,

It had sacked its strongholds.

This army returned in safety,

It had cut down its figs, its vines.

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 This army returned in safety,

It had thrown fire in all its mansions.

This army returned in safety,

It had slain its troops by many ten thousands.

This army returned in safety,

[It had carried] off many [troops] as captives.

His majesty praised me for it beyond

anything.

His majesty sent me to lead this army five

times, to attack the land of the Sand-dwellers
as often as they rebelled, with these troops.

I acted so that his majesty praised me [for it

beyond anything].
VIA “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LITERATURE”
TRANSLATED BY MIRIAM LICHTHEIM

We think them barbaric and cruel, but are we so different? American

armies have sacked the same places as these Egyptians, ‘flattening the
sand-dwellers land’ with a brutality the ancients couldn’t imagine.
Israelis colonize the same land, cutting down its figs, its vines, obliter-
ating entire villages. The White Empire’s wars of terror have killed
millions and displaced tens of millions. The latter become desperate
‘labor’ as good as slaves without papers. Indeed, after NATO ‘inter-
vention’ (another wrong name), open slave markets appeared in
Libya.

Whereas ancient slaves at least got freed periodically or could work

off their debts, today slavery is forever, and not just at the cutting
edge of empire. Modern Americans at the core live their entire lives
in medical debt, student debt, credit card debt, even student lunch
debt. And they can never work it off, they die in debt, they are
forever wage slaves. Not to mention the millions of incarcerated
people who actually are slaves, working for cents that they have to

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spend on overpriced potato chips and phone calls sold to a literally
captive audience. Of course the people at the edges of Empire have
it the worst, unable to either control their resources or move to
where the control is. We’re all as enslaved as ever, just with longer
chains.

Like the Empire itself, this all hides under false names. Names like
‘free markets’ (without free movement of labor) or ‘democracy’
(without any economic control). Tolstoy called these emerging condi-
tion ‘the slavery of our times’ in the 1900s, and it continues still.

Today way we think we’re above feudalism while working on literal

corporate fiefs that control our movement (migration), access to
resources (healthcare, food), and even access to our own children and
elders (we need leave to care for children and permission for bereave-
ment). We use names like democracy to cover what is really just naked
rule by the rich (oligarchy).We elect the sons of former Presidents
while scorning kings and fill universities with ‘legacy’ admissions
while scorning nepotism. We have a ‘free’ press literally owned and
manipulated by the rich. It’s all, for lack of a better word, bullshit.

We have names wrong, the rituals go unconducted, the dead go

unfed and even scorned, and so things fall apart. People can feel it
and look for help anywhere—in conspiracy theories, in cobbled
together bits of ancient wisdom, in drugs, in food, in shopping, and it
never satisfies. It can’t satisfy. It doesn’t matter how high you build an
edifice if the foundations are rotten. Indeed, it makes things worse.

This hubris has become completely cataclysmic when these people

dug up the graves of even more ancient lifeforms, the photosynthetic
life that first captured the power of the sun god, of Ra. This is the far
more advanced civilization which terraformed the Earth over billions
of years, and we defile their graves and burn their bodies for petty
miracles like cars. Our inheritance is the curse written above every
tomb.

Here’s a bit from Pharaoh Unas, in the Pyramid Texts from around
-2350. Among the oldest known religious texts in the world, and a

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curse upon the civilization that raided these tombs and gawk at their
own crimes in museums.

As for any man who enters this tomb

unclean,

I shall seize him by the neck like a bird,

He will be judged for it by the great god!

PHAROAH UNAS, VIA LICHTHEIM

We think we’re better than the gods, we think we’re better than the
dead, and so we end up godless, dead, and perhaps worst of all
utterly confused as to how we got here. The language we have, the
words we use, the media we consume, the laws that bind, they’re all
wrong. And it starts from names. We have names all wrong.

As Master Kong said

If names are not rectified, speech will not

accord with reality; when speech does not
accord with reality, things will not be
successfully accomplished.

And so here we are.

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2. THE MANY NAMES OF
WHITE EMPIRE
MARCH 2023

The crazy thing about living under the largest, most rapacious
empire the world has ever known is how little we know about it. It
doesn’t even have a name.

The White Empire masquerades as the rules-based order. Whose

rule? Never answered. It calls itself the international community,
which always seems to be white people or their fuckbois. The White
Empire hides behind the fig leaf of Japan and South Korea. Beneath
is the naked presence of thousands of imperial troops there, still
occupying. They used to call themselves the G8, until they got mad at
Russia and made it G7. They call themselves the industrialized
world (never mind that most industry is in the South) or the devel-
oped world (never mind that we developed them). These are all just
synonyms for the Empire that has no name. The White Empire. It
just disappears into history, in the present, it is simply the walls we
are held within.

The White Empire is the irrepressible cancer that came from penin-
sular West Asia spread on boats everywhere. It was the Portuguese,
the Spanish, the Dutch, the French, the Dutch the British, the Ameri-
cans, the Canadians, the Australians. Then those savage people
turned on each other, destroying their own homeland in two world
wars. Then the Americans took over the mantle of empire from the
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British, occupying Britain’s bases, Europe, Japan, and never laying
down its arms, ever. It contains many different nations with different
names and flags, but those are all fig leaves over one power. To those
of us who have been colonized, it is all one undifferentiated White
Empire.

The greatest trick this devil ever pulled was convincing the world it
didn’t exist. Nobody calls America an empire despite them having
over 800 military bases and actively killing people somewhere, all the
time. Nobody connects America and Europe and its vassals as one
militarily and financially cohesive empire, we just mindlessly call it
the G7 and never question what these fuckers are meeting about.

We live in a world where people can say ‘rules-based order’ on TV

and never question why the US hasn’t even ratified the Law of the
Sea, like everybody else. We live in a world where people keep
producing graphs showing white nations as the best in everything,
even managing COVID-19, even after they genocidally mismanaged
COVID-19. We live in a world where certain countries are called
‘industrialized’ while importing everything from the southern facto-
ries. We live in a world where some countries are called ‘developed’
despite their societies crumbling into COVID, ill-health, debt peon-
age, and drug-fueled despair.

The second greatest trick Empire ever pulled was getting people to
think White is a race. Brown is not a race. Neither is yellow. Black is
only a race in its hostage situation within the White Empire. White
was the stitching together of warring people from West Asia into
some brand of White™ that had the opportunity, nay the duty, to take
from everybody else. It was the white man’s burden, really, as Kipling
put it.

White is a description of social hierarchy in an imperial system that

spans the world. White is actually a very fluid category. As OJ
Simpson said, “I’m not black, I’m OJ.” As Jay-Z responded, “OK.” What
he really meant was that he was White. As Noel Ignatiev documents,
Irish people and Italians weren’t considered white early last century,
but now an Irishman is President. Slavs weren’t considered white
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(especially by Hitler), but now Ukrainians are honorary Europeans.
Brown people were coolies, but now we’re Prime Ministers. As you
can see, White is the fluid imperial caste system which hides behind
a color. If you look at the paint on the walls, you can see it’s still
dripping.

These are the walls we live within. I say we because everyone on this
planet is affected by the two hallmarks of any empire. Military and
financial control. There is nowhere on this planet untouched by
American wars and coups and constant election hijacking. There is
nowhere on this world where you can escape the petrodollar. By any
historical terms, this is the empire, but in the moment we don’t see it.
Largely because it is so powerful. It’s like asking a fish “how’s the
water?”

“What’s water?”

When I say there’s no name for this colossus, I mean there’s literally
no name. White Empire is a term I made up, and I’m read by a few
thousand people. People say ‘American Empire’, but it sounds off, or
‘The West’, but then there’s Australia. We have all these ways of
naming the thing that shall not be named, but no name for it. It is in
fact the greatest trick of power. This is the only Empire built on not
proclaiming its name, and in this subtlety, it has found the greatest
power.

I name it not to shame it or tame it or even home to lame it. It is a

colossus and you and I are just bugs in the historical rug. Me pointing
out the color of the walls is as useless as it would be to an ant. As this
colossus totters and falls, we’re either going to get squashed or not,
and it’s just a matter of luck. I name the thing just because names are
important.

Confucius said the“rectification of names” would be his first priority if

he got power, which befuddled his disciple Zilu. Master Kong said
“How boorish you are, Zilu! If names are not rectified, speech will not
accord with reality; when speech does not accord with reality, things will
not be successfully accomplished.” Master Kong—one of the greatest

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sages of his time—never got power. His words are revered but not
followed still. And yet names do matter.

The vital point these days is not that the Empire has no clothes. This
is increasingly obvious. The point is that this Empire even exists, and
to try and throw a blanket over its invasive invisibility with by naming
it. The White Empire. Not a race, not a flag, just the money and guns
that run the world, and the social hierarchy that benefits from it.
There are many names for White Empire, but my point is to simply
call it something.

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3. THE DISRESPECTFUL
AMERICANS
SEPTEMBER 2024

I wipe my ass with your feelings

— TONY SOPRANO

The Communist Party of China is called the CPC but America insists
on calling them the CCP. It's petty and downright disrespectful. The
Ansar Allah movement in Yemen is called Ansar Allah, but ze Ameri-
cans insist on calling them the Houthis. This is all like meeting
someone named Sikhander and insisting on calling him Steve all
night. You're just being a dick, and embarrassing yourself. Americans
are rude, intrude, and are in for a rude awakening. The rectification
of names is coming.

As much as America tries to tease China and Yemen about their

names, this isn't grade school. China and Yemen are grown up now,
and they both have superior and more plentiful firepower. America's
ships are publicly prolapsing and they have to fire million dollar
missiles against $5,000 drones to just stay afloat. Yemen defeated the

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US Navy in the Red Sea, historically speaking, they're done. Yemen
isn't even industrialized, America has no chance against the indus-
trial capital of the world in China.

America still struts around like a schoolyard bully, but it's 30 years
later and everyone has grown up. The nerds they used to push into
lockers have got rich and the Muslims they teased have got hyper-
sonic missiles. In the past decade, America lost to Afghanistan,
Yemen, and now they want to take on Russia and China. It's prepos-
terous posturing. Teddy Roosevelt said, “speak softly and carry a big
stick” but his moron heirs are doing the opposite. They're screaming
bloody murder and slaughtering women and children, but are hope-
less against men in the field.

America's mouth is writing checks its ass can't cash. America's

currency is sanctioned into a corner (by them!), their industry has
been exported to other countries (by them!), and their weapons are
only good for civilians (peace be upon them). Meanwhile Russia has
natural resources to back their currency, China has both resources
and massive industry, and Yemen has superior weapons, in both
quality and quantity (and quantity is its own quality). America,
through sheer cussedness, has thrown all of Asia into an alliance
against them. The one rule of land war in Asia is don't start a land
war in Asia, and America has started three of them. They're hopelessly
over-extended, and they've thrown their enemies together out of
sheer diplomatic dementia. You're supposed to divide and conquer
your enemies, not unite them. As the great sage of Newark said, “it's
on page four of the boss manual.”

The bully has not, in fact, done well after high school. As the state
poet of New Jersey said, “time slips away and leaves you with nothing,
mister, But boring stories of Glory days.” Or as the moron of Manhattan
said, “Make America Great Again.” And as Tony Soprano said,
presciently, ‘I got a feeling I came in at the end.’ Tony Soprano was a
bully but he understood diplomacy, at least as a tactic. He said, “those
that want respect, give respect.” Which is correct. This is basic human
courtesy, not even high diplomacy. Even if you hate someone, don't

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show it. Never play your hand is the first ruling of the great game. It's
not just that America disrespect is disrespectful, it's self-destructive.

Getting someone's name wrong is frankly deranged diplomacy. Why

would you piss someone off every time you talked to them? It's the
opposite of strategic. As the Godfather said, “keep your friends close,
and your enemies closer.” He also said, “never tell anybody outside the
family what you're thinking.” But everyone always knows what Ameri-
cans are thinking. The Americans are thinking “fuck the world” and
the world knows it. They can't even get our names right. A bunch of
disrespectful cretins.

Thus, the person that pays for America's disrespect is ultimately

America. Normal countries try to get along, because they're trying to
get along. However, America's been used to being a superpower for
so long that they've become supercilious. And their arrogance always,
always blows up in their face. The last 80 years has just been different
invasions blowing up in America's face. None of this had to happen if
they had even a dim concept of diplomacy. But they don't, the entire
history of American diplomacy is built on them violating every treaty
with the Native Americans, and still violating them. Americans have
no native concept of diplomacy. It's literally a foreign concept.

The rest of the world, however, actually does practice diplomacy, out
of self-interest. The point of diplomacy is to secure your best interest
without war, whereas American policy is to wage war despite their
best interests. America is, as the survey said, “a dying empire led by bad
people.” In normal countries, “the focus remains on cooperation, mutual
benefit, and responding to the unique dynamics of each country,” as Dr. S.
Jaishankar of India said. Every country in the world attempts this
level of basic diplomacy, or at least pretends. But America goes around
making fun of people's names, like this is third grade. The ultimate
loser is them. They look like fucking losers, and they're visibly losing.

It's not just the paucity of sticks America has to offer, it's an absolute
poverty of carrots. America has nothing to offer anybody but
weapons. China builds infrastructure and America bombs it. Who do
they think everyone will want to be friends with? As Akende
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M'memb said, “The Vice President of the US came to Zambia, landed at a
Chinese-built airport in Zambia, moved on a Chinese-built road in Zambia.
The venue of this summit was actually a gift to Zambia by the Chinese
government. And the key agenda of the summit, was to curb Africa's coop-
eration with China, in a gift to the African continent.” It beggars belief.
Kamala Harris literally sat inside a Chinese building, saying don't
build with China, while committing a genocide, and while American
cities like San Francisco look positively apocalyptic. The Americans
think they're hot shit but their own roads and bridges are falling
apart. They're just shit. America today can't build anything, least of
all a reputation. Only bluster and bullying is left. And people,
increasingly, just aren't buying it.

It's a brave new world, and the chinks [sic] and sand niggers [sic]
aren't taking their shit, and the Rooskies ain't either. Across the
world, the natives are restless and rebellions are spreading. China
does not give a shit about America's shenanigans, they are living the
meme, “do nothing. win.” Or as Napoleon said, ‘when your opponent is
fucking themselves, don't interrupt.’ Russia, also, does not give a shit
about NATO. They know NATO is just a band of bitches, running
dogs like Estonia and Finland, all bark and no teeth. And the brave
people of Yemen do not give a flying fuck about America. They've
defeated them in the Red Sea. The question is not how does America
end. It's death by a thousand cuts, most of them self-harm. The only
question is when.

So the final incarnation of White Empire goes not by regicide—

though it's justified—but through suicide most reckless. And the rest
of the world will say good riddance. Nobody's going to miss Amer-
ican hegemony, those motherfuckers wore their shoes in the house
(on the furniture!), had bad hygiene (don't wash their butts), and
called people nonsensicle names, like 'minorities'. We're the global
majority, it's the CPC, it's Ansar Allah, and it's Palestine, not 'Israel'.
Americans can't even get names right. They're downright disre-
spectful and it leads, inshallah directly to their downfall.

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4. HOW WHITE EMPIRE IS
A THING
JANUARY 2022

I call the US, Canada, UK, EU, Australia et al one White Empire
because that’s exactly what they are. The outer edge of whiteness is
the capital colonies of Japan, divided Korea, and military bases like
the UAE. Everybody else effectively lives in provinces, including me
in Sri Lanka, color-couped or just couped whenever Empire feels like
it. Only a few countries are actually outside the Empire, most of them
under constant sanctions, which is the white word for sieges.

Because Empire is so often thrown out as an epithet, let me start with

etymology. What the word means, at least within the context of this
reading.

What Is Empire? (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)

As Stephen Howe says in Empire: A Very Short Introduction:

“A great deal of the world’s history is the history of empires.

Indeed it could be said that all history is imperial — or colonial
— history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far
enough back.”

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If all of world history is the history of empires, it would be a bit of an
outlier to say that this period we live in isn’t. Empire, however, is a
big, baggy definition, so let’s try and tighten it up a little bit.

Let’s say that empires are:

1 Big

“Empires, then, must by definition be big, and they must be

composite entities, formed out of previously separate units.
Diversity — ethnic, national, cultural, often religious — is their
essence. But in many observers’ understanding, that cannot be a
diversity of equals.”

2 Loose

“Empires always involve a mixture of direct and indirect rule.

The central power has ultimate sovereignty, and exercises some
direct control, especially over military force and money-raising
powers, in all parts of its domain.”

3 Cliquish

“Most analysts, then, seem to agree that an empire is formed,

most often by conquest, out of a dominant ‘core’ and a domi-
nated, often economically exploited ‘periphery’.”

This is still very baggy, but good enough. Let’s apply it to current
history and see how it fits.

Conquest

As Howe said, “empire is formed, most often by conquest,” and American

control of White Empire was forged in World War II.

As Supreme Allied Commander (of the lesser, western front), Dwight

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D. Eisenhower conquered much of Europe, became commander of
NATO, and then rode back to the American Presidency.

So far this isn’t merely like ancient empire formation, it’s the exact
same thing. Just call him Dwight Caesar. When he crossed the ‘the
pond’ it was like Gaius Julius crossing Rubicon. Power was taken
from the English by the Americans.

Consolidation

And at the beginning this was a more obvious empire. America occu-
pied Germany, Japan, and part of Korea directly. They also inherit-
ed/shared numerous imperial bases like Diego Garcia. Like every
empire this was supposed to be for those countries own good, but
yeah, that’s what they all say. What’s telling is that this occupation
never stopped. It just blended into the background.

Since World War II, America controlled imperial military forces

through NATO, and monetary forces through the Bretton-Woods
agreement and the financial system it built. That is to say “The central
power has ultimate sovereignty, and exercises some direct control, espe-
cially over military force and money-raising powers, in all parts of its
domain.”

Control

And thus today we are left with a big, loose, clique that I call, collec-
tively, White Empire. In case you think it just doesn’t exist anymore,
behold recent invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, current tensions
with Russia, and ongoing economic sieges of Venezuela, Cuba, Syria,
Afghanistan, North Korea, etc.

The United States still has troops in Japan, Korea, and Germany, and
their troop presence has expanded to British levels, ie fucking every-
where. There’s basically only four countries that do not have some
level of US troop presence, and many places have a lot.

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This is obviously a big, loose empire, with a core clique of white
nations (the US, UK, Europe, Australia, etc), and outer periphery of
colorish ‘protectorates’ (Japan, South Korea, Israel, Saudi Arabia) and
everyone else that has to live under economic hegemony. And yet
there seems to be an element of choice here. Or at least the choice
not to see it. Why do most countries ‘choose’ to live this way?

Well, look at the countries that don’t. If you defy America (like Iran)
they’ll make sure your great-grandchildren don’t get medicine. All of
America’s eternal sieges seem pointless until you see them as an
example to everyone else.

White Empire’s reach, today, includes the ability to kill almost

anyone anywhere, to arrest anyone almost anywhere (Julian Assange
in the UK, and a Huawei executive in Canada), and of course to call
everyone else a threat if they act remotely the same.

Calling In The Banners

ROBB STARK

Call the banners.

MAESTER LUWIN

All of them, my Lord?

They’ve all sworn to defend my father, have

they not?

They have.

Now we’ll see what the words are worth.

Today as for-fucking ever, the central definition of empire is whether

your banners come when called. Whether you can summon troops
on demand. And America has shown that it has that power across the
core of the White Empire.

From Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya to wars of aggression across the

world, countries from Australia to the UK to Germany to even South
Korea and Norway have put men and materiel on the line.

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That power may be waning (ie, not everybody seems on board with
the new Cold War with China), but it’s still there, and so, therefore is
empire.

The other vital definition of empire is whether you have monetary

control, and as America has shown with its ability to freeze billions of
dollars in Afghanistan’s own money, it still has that power. It used it to
block Venezuela from getting vaccines it had already paid for, and it
smaller ways to terrorize everybody else that remains within empire’s
loose, baggy confines.

And so this is how the current White Empire, with its capital moved
from London to Washington, still rules the world. A world history
without empire would honestly be unusual, and what’s invisible in
the present will be visible to the future. Today we live at a unique
historical moment when empire is obviously breaking, and you can
see the outlines of what was previously invisible.

That is why I give what is usually called ‘the West’ or ‘developed’

nations or G7 nations or ‘anglosphere’ nations or ‘rich nations’ or just
‘the international community’ another name. The White Empire.

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5. THE INVISIBLE WHITE
EMPIRE
AUGUST 2022

Today we live under an invisible empire that is obvious only if you

open your eyes. Just look around. What else do you call something
that has over 800 military bases, wages constant wars, and maintains
financial control of much of the world? The crazy thing is that we call
this nothing. This is the invisible White Empire. Like white paint, it
just fades into the background.

Again, in his loose, baggy, definition of empire, Stephen Howe says,

“The central power has ultimate sovereignty, and exercises some direct
control, especially over military force and money-raising powers, in all
parts of its domain.”

By all historical definitions, America absolutely is an empire, but we

in the moment somehow don’t know it. We’re like bugs in a rug, igno-
rant of the greater tapestry. We’re like bugs in a rug, getting squashed.

How America Conquered Britain

The British Empire was a clearly defined empire, and that was liter-
ally handed over after World War II. Britain handed over access to
most of its military bases and—through Lend-Lease and then Bret-
ton-Woods—global financial control. As Howe said, military and
money are the two legs empire stands on, and the British White
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Empire just changed heads. The capitol of capital simply moved to
America.

Aw shucks Americans don’t call themselves an empire though. People

today will honestly ask what America has ever colonized, ignoring
America. Not to mention Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the Phillippines, and
those are just the obvious ones. Less obviously to us (but not history)
are the huge military bases in South Korea, Japan, Germany, the
Middle East, all effectively conquered territory in the eyes of any
ancient satrap, obvious boots on the ground that have just become
furniture.

World War II is the important moment when this all really

happened. It’s when White Empire got handed over from the British
to the American, legally, physically, and somehow invisibly. It was
literally a war for the world and we act like the Americans just came
in, helped out, and went home. But just look around. They never left.
It was a war of world conquest, and we remain conquered. While the
USSR killed the most Nazis by far, America effectively won WWII
against its allies most of all.

After World War II America physically occupied much of the Pacific,

Germany, Japan, and took over the British military outposts that
encircle the globe. This all sits there in plain sight, and is just as
plainly ignored. While the USSR ground up 80% of the Nazi army
(what Clausewitz called the only point of war), America ran around
largely pointless theatres like North Africa and the Middle East
collecting territory. The USSR did the most to win WWII, but the
Americans won the greatest spoils.

As Andrei Martyanov says in his book Losing Military Supremacy,

“Preserving its Empire superseded Britain’s concern with bearing a fair
share of the Allied war effort, and seeing the Nazis, with whom many in
the British elite had sympathy, bleed the USSR, was not an anathema.”

Many people within the US military establishment (which was not so

established then) resisted this. Churchill’s insistence on campaigns in
the Balkans and North Africa were well-nigh useless in terms of

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destroying Nazis, but were very useful in terms of securing oil wealth,
the root of modern imperial power. As Martyanov quotes:

In 1943, the Western Allies held their conference in Casablanca.

It was there at Casablanca that General Stanley Embick of
Marshall's OPD, a man who already had been a serious advo-
cate for the earliest American commitment to European
Theater at the ABC-1 conferences, circulated a memorandum in
which he expressed the consensus of the US Army and War
Department that since April 1942

America had been led down the "primrose path" by Britain's "agree-
ment in principle" to Overlord; that under the cover of these agree-
ments the British, satisfied with stalemate of the Eastern Front,
pursued a traditional balance-of-power strategy aimed solely at
preserving the Empire and British interests in a post war world...
British designs in the Balkans and the Mediterranean... were not war
measures against Germany, but aimed at checking the Soviet advance
into these regions."

Memorandums aside, nobody remembered the fate of all empires.

The spoils were just too good. All of the land, all of the territory, all of
the power of the previous white empires, that was the inheritance of
World War II. America physically occupied much of the world. We
act like we’re in a post-war era, but the truth is that the Americans
never drew down. It’s not that they briefly occupied the world 80 years
ago. They still do.

Don’t take my word for it. Just imagine you’re some ancient satrap
dropped into the present and shown this map of military occupation.
What else would you even call this but Empire? The American
empire even looks like it’s still centered around Mesopotamia. This is
just empire, unless you’re in it, in which case it’s somehow invisible.

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Whereas ancient empires made a big deal out of proclaiming their
greatness, the White Empire has figured out the greatest trick of all.
The devil’s trick. Convincing the world you don’t exist at all.

The Conquest Of Capitalism

We have been talking about one leg of empire—the military one.

Now let me kick the other one out. To get to the tootsie-roll center of
empire, just follow the money. The greatest power of White Empire
under the Americans is that everyone—including its enemies—has
to hold dollars, especially to trade in the oil that they militarily
secured. This purchasing of American currency is just imperial
tribute by another name, enabling it to fund its military and occa-
sionally bail out its population.

Michael Hudson documents American financial power throughly in

his book Super Imperialism, which I’ll briefly quote here. He said:

When President Truman insisted, on March 23, 1946, that “World

trade must be restored — and it must be restored to private enter-
prise,” this was a way of saying that its regulation must be taken
away from foreign governments that might be tempted to try to
recover their prewar power at the expense of U.S. exporters and
investors. America’s laissez-faire stance promoted the United States
as the center of a world system vastly more extensive and central-
ized, yet also more flexible, less costly and less bureaucratic than
Europe’s imperial systems had been.

What America calls a ‘rules-based order’ and ‘laissez faire’ economics

is really their rule and letting them faire. The United States literally
does not subscribe to the international criminal court or the law of
the sea. ‘Rules-based order’ just means rule. ‘Free and open markets’
are for other countries to open up for them. America imposes tons of

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sanctions and tariffs on whoever it feels like, and heavily subsidizes
local industries, including agriculture, arms dealers, and technology.

Their well-funded economic priesthood is just doing what imperial

priests throughout history have always done. Waving some incense,
making some incantations, and coming up with some inscrutable
reasons why an invisible hand is taking your shit, and how it’s for
your own good. As my upcoming history book would be called, Same
Shit, Different Day. There’s nothing new under the sun.

What the US couldn’t do by corrupting local capitalist elites in the

‘post’ war era, it did by attacking socialist governments that tried to
take financial control. When oil-producing countries nationalized
those resources in the 1970s, the US used financial rather than mili-
tary power, letting them earn dollars but having them invest that
money right back into imperial countries.

As William Glenn Gray wrote, “when the oil exporters began to shift
from short-term bank deposits to medium-term bond purchases, they
favoured the industrial nations by a huge margin: France, Japan, the US
and even (unwisely) Britain.”

As I wrote, “of the original five OPEC members (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, and Venezuela), two are sanctioned, one has been invaded, and the
others are occupied with American military bases. Hell, the headquarters of
OPEC is in Austria now.”

After the brief resource rebellion of the 1970s, the Empire struck back
hard. It used both legs of empire to stomp the rest of the world down.
If you want a picture of the present, imagine both military boots and
banker brogues stamping on a human face, seemingly forever.

Cracks In The Invisible Empire

But as Nas said, nothing ever lasts forever. America should have
learned from the overextension of previous incarnations of White
Empire, but the money, the power, it was just too good. There was
significant American resistance to getting involved with external

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European shit (after having profitably genocided their own conti-
nent) in World War I, but then those violent tribes started World War
II and America just couldn’t resist. As Sil said in The Sopranos (imi-
tating Al Pacino), “just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.”

America’s inheritance of White Empire was the ultimate, inexorable

inheritance of loss. Only a fool would say when the reigning empire
will fall, but only a greater fool would say never. Every empire over-
extends itself militarily, financially, and then collapses under its own
weight. America has lost every war for decades, is mired in debt, and
could not resist even an uncommon cold in COVID-19. It’s days are
numbered and, honestly, it’s already dead. It’s just taking the signal a
while to reach their brains.

IMHO, historians will date the fall of the American empire to 9/11,
when its symbolic military and financial centers were defiled (the
Pentagon and the World Trade Center). This historical period will be
bookended by January 6th, 2021, when a mob of barbarians sacked
The Capitol, the one target that Bin Laden missed.

But I’m not historian, I’m just a poor schmuck on the edges of empire.
My country Sri Lanka followed the White Empire earnestly after the
1970s, floating on ‘aid’ and then imperial bank loans. We died in a
western debt trap, not a Chinese one. Now it has all collapsed and, as
I’ve written, we’re just the canaries in the coal mine. The whole invis-
ible empire that we all live under is collapsing. Sri Lanka was just the
first to go. So many countries are in western, capitalist debt traps.
Including America itself.

Like the black hole at the center of our universe, the American
empire is invisible unless you actually measure anything, in which
case it’s suddenly obvious. All of the bases, all of the blood, all of the
money. Follow it all back to the source and you cannot unsee the
invisible White Empire, sucking everything in, before it finally
explodes.

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6. HOW COLONIZERS
CHANGED WORDS AND
KEPT COLONIZING
JULY 2023

Words change but the deeds stay dirty. The latest language of
colonialism is ‘authoritarians’ vs ‘democracies’, because you can’t say
‘oriental despots’ or ‘civilized’ anymore. You can’t say that a religion is
superior anymore, but you can say that a system of governance is supe-
rior. But this essay is not about blame, it’s about names. Herein, I’ll
interrogate what ‘you’ and the system really is, behind the lying
tyranny of names.

Dreading Democracy

Today they can’t be going on Crusades cause they worship only

money. But they’re still want the resources and are waging even more
brutal Carbon Crusades. But they can’t come out and say that. So
they say, instead of Christianity, they’re spreading secular values, like
Democracy™ and Freedom©. In truth, the only value is shareholder
value, as it has been from the Dutch East India Company to Black-
Rock today. As my historical thesis goes, same shit different day. The
lie changes but the truth stays the same.

The trick of colonialism is to distract you into debating the justifica-

tion while they do the injustice. Like any malicious magician, it’s all
about distraction. Watch what they’re doing and not what they’re

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saying, or they’ll trick you every time. That’s why it’s important to
remember that the colonizers are always lying. We should have
learned this 400 years ago, before they ruined the whole clime.
Always follow the money, not the media. Always follow the hands,
and trust your own eyes.

Whether the White Empire has its capital in London or Washington

is largely irrelevant. Whether it administers through VoC armies or
IMF bureaucrats is irrelevant too. The capital of what I call the White
Empire is and always will be capital, from the IPO of the VoC in 1604
to BlackRock today.

I know because my people been colonized for four hundred years,

we’re still colonized, and I’m telling you, you’re colonized too. My
country (Sri Lanka) was impoverished to make VoC bond-holders
richer, and now they’re doing the same thing for sovereign bond
holders. The words have changed, but as with any pickpocket, watch
what the hands do. They (it) used to openly call Slavs, Asians, and
Africans savage and uncivilized in order to loot them, now they just
say ‘authoritarian’ and ‘developing’ to the same effect. This sounds
normal to people within the Empire today, but remember that ‘sav-
age’ and ‘uncivilized’ used to be perfectly normal too.

If you look at the normal actions of the White Empire, they still
extract cheap labor from us via debt, they still divide and conquer by
corrupting our elites, and the IMF (always headed by a European)
swoops in to ‘restructure’ us, taking control as much as any old colo-
nial administrator. It’s all framed as being for our own good, but colo-
nialism was always framed as being for our own good. There’s nothing
new under the sun. It’s the same old exploitation in different packag-
ing. That’s all the new words are. Marketing.

Bloody Business

Beneath the bullshit marketing, corporate shareholders are always

helping themselves. Look at the balance sheets, not the bullshit.
Whether it’s stealing tropical solar power or stealing middle-eastern

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oil, it’s always about grabbing energy, resources, and labor with one
hand and extracting profit with the other. A corporation is (quite
legally) an artificial person and that’s all they’re programmed to do.
Maximize shareholder value. Everything else is just marketing for
rubes. As the modern priest (economist) Milton Friedman said (via
Joel Bakan’s The Corporation):

Friedman thinks that corporations are good for society (and

that too much government is bad). He recoils, however, at the
idea that corporations should try to do good for society. “A
corporation is the property of its stockholders,” he told me.
“Its interests are the interests of its stockholders. Now,
beyond that should it spend the stockholders’ money for
purposes which it regards as socially responsible but which
it cannot connect to its bottom line? The answer I would say
is no.” There is but one “social responsibility” for corporate
executives, Friedman believes: they must make as much
money as possible for their shareholders. This is a moral
imperative. Executives who choose social and environmental
goals over profits — who try to act morally — are, in fact,
immoral.

There is, however, one instance when corporate social responsi-

bility can be tolerated, according to Friedman — when it is
insincere. The executive who treats social and environmental
values as means to maximize shareholders’ wealth — not as
ends in themselves — commits no wrong. It’s like “putting a
good-looking girl in front of an automobile to sell an automo-
bile,” he told me. “That’s not in order to promote pulchritude.
That’s in order to sell cars.”

It’s important to understand who colonialism was. It wasn’t kings and

queens or racist white people in general (though they were certainly
involved). It was corporations. Corporations are simply AI

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programmed to optimize one thing and one thing only. Profit. Every-
thing else is just marketing, which is the corporate word for lying.

The very first IPO was the Dutch East India Company. This was a far
more important advance in AI than ChatGPT. This century’s
advances are mere party tricks compared with a limited-liability algo-
rithm that literally took over the world and enslaved people centuries
ago. The profits from those colonial companies still eclipse anything
made today.

The first stock markets were purpose built with limited liability for
corporate beings and slavery, wage slavery, and death for every other
life form. Now look around at who actually pays your ‘democratic’
politicians and judges, who actually owns the ‘free’ press and what’s
actually going on. Now understand why I put ™ and © next to these
words. They’re marketing taglines, nothing more.

We cannot take these words at face value. We need to feel for the
corporate hand in our pocket and the debt noose around our neck,
not listen to the sweet nothings in our ear. What economists call the
‘invisible hand’ is just sleight of hand, that’s all it is. As they said in
Wolf Of Wall Street:

Mark Hanna: The name of the game; move the money from the
client’s pocket into your pocket.

Jordan: Right. But, if you can make your clients money at the
same time it’s advantageous to everyone, correct?

Mark Hanna: No.

Corporate AI

Calls to ‘eat the rich’ miss the point of who is the active agent here. If
you remove a ‘wolf’ from Wall Street, there are still plenty of wolves
in wool suits. It’s strictly business, nothing personal. If you remove a

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CEO or shareholders or eat a billionaire, the system will just produce
another one. The system is programmed to produce another one.

‘The system’ we’re talking about is Capitalism, and its problems are
systemic problems. Understanding Capitalism in terms of its human
parts is incorrect. Capitalism is what it says on the tin, it’s about capi-
tal. What is this capital? One definition is “those durable produced goods
that are in turn used as productive inputs for further production.” That is,
reproducing machines. It’s another species of ‘artificial’ life, which
just happens to include human beings like so many nuts and bolts.
Viewed bloodlessly, corporations are cybernetic systems which
include human parts, and those parts are the most interchangeable.
This is actually nothing new evolutionarily. Your body contains more
microbial DNA than ‘you’ DNA. For all we know, mitochondria call
us something dismissive like ‘artificial’ and don’t acknowledge our
‘intelligence’ at all.

In legal fact, the ‘artificial personhood’ of corporations has been well-

established for centuries. They already have the right to ‘speak’, act,
influence elections, and already write the legislation that binds us.
They also have ‘limited’ liability, as mentioned. Unlike humans who
get thrown in jail for killing or stealing, corporations get a slap on the
invisible wrist for mass crimes like wage theft or environmental
poisoning.

Despite the very legal reality of artificial personhood, we scrupu-

lously ignore corporate AI in our daily lives. It’s the most invisible
part of the invisible empire we slave under. We’re a bunch of debt
slaves acting like we’re masters because our corporate overlords don’t
‘look’ like us. We’re forever waiting for something that looks like a
fuckable robot to acknowledge that AI walks among us. But it already
does and has been fucking us for generations. Corporations are AI,
and they rule the world already.

That’s who’s picking our collective pockets. Corporations are the arti-
ficial persons moving resources and labor from our pockets to theirs.
Blaming the comprador (sell-out) class of human shareholders and
bilious billionaires is satisfying, but it’s ultimately a distraction from
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the big biological shift going on. The natural world is dying precisely
because the artificial is being born.

Words like countries, races, and citizens are also not true. These are
all consolation prizes while the great game is and always was money;
borderless, colorless, and inhuman. If you understand the ‘who’ to be
corporate AI with comprador parts, then a lot of other words start to
fall apart and you can see the world as it is. Infinite growth for them,
and a very finite ending for us.

I’ve digressed into the ‘who’ question because it’s not a digression.
The words don’t make sense until you realize they don’t need to make
sense. They’re just garbage spit out by a machine learning algorithm
to get a certain result, and in that sense they work exactly as
intended.

Today we feed masses of data (words) to machine learning models

and are terrified that it’s ‘becoming intelligent’. But these are really
parlor tricks. We have been feeding entire populations and planet(s)
to corporate algorithms for hundreds of years, and this form of
machine learning has already learned how to rule the world. It uses
words like democracy, freedom, race, and citizenship mindlessly, in
the sense that it doesn’t care what these words ‘mean’ but only that
they produce results. And, I mean, look around. The natural world
is literally on fire while the stock market keeps going up. We like to
think that we’re categorically smarter than corporations, but this is
dangerously delusional. As Forrest Gump said, stupid is as stupid
does.

Words Like Violence

“Words like violence break the silence,

Come crashing in into my little world…
Words are very unnecessary,
They can only do harm.”

— DEPECHE MODE

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The important thing to understand about words is that they’re
completely unimportant to the AI that rules us. Just as ChatGPT
doesn’t particular care about the data it's fed, Capitalism (née Colo-
nialism) doesn’t care about the words it uses to justify its predations.
Just that the predation continues. Debating what these words mean is
like asking a fisherman what bait tastes like. Who cares? It works,
doesn’t it?

Just as OpenAI fed Reddit into ChatGPT, the global comprador class
fed entire political systems into corporate AI. Now it quite capably
produces whatever political gibberish is needed to keep the energy
flowing (to itself ). It writes speeches, laws, and a death sentence for
the squishy planet while we think ourselves superior. Meanwhile, we
tie ourselves in knots debating abstractions like male/female,
black/white, east/west, while the corporate AI gets to straight to the
point. Tying us in knots.

Natural life is in rapid decline while artificial life is rapidly growing

and we cheer for the latter like it’s ‘our’ growth. But it’s not, is it? We’re
like a bodybuilder crowing about getting ‘swole’ because we have
cancer everywhere. The worst is the brain cancer that has us thinking
that oligarchy is democracy, finances are freedom, and all manner of
dumb shit that we spend decades debating while the planet around
us incinerates. In many ways, language itself is the original AI and
that brain worm pupated into texts, and laws, and corporate by-laws,
and is now killing off its creators like every creation seems wont to do.

The colonizers killed my people first and worst, but the inexorable
logic of corporate growth is eat everything, which inevitably includes
you.

This includes core of Empire as much as the periphery, as you may

have noticed. The core colonization is really of our brains — the deep
operating system that AI actually runs on — which is why I discuss
words here. They’re the programming of power, the source code of
society, and the algorithm of our apocalypse. I hope I can get you to
read these words critically, but can ‘you’ rewrite them? I don’t think
so. Can mitochondria move your foot? That’s about the relevance of
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an individual on this thing. Even if we (collectively) figure out one set
of words, they just change them and you have to spend another
hundred years deprogramming that abomination. It’s a losing battle
and, indeed, already lost.

That’s been my experience in Sri Lanka, which just keeps getting

colonized over and over again with different branding. My people
been colonized by corporate AI for four hundred years, we still colo-
nized, and you’re colonized too. This is true, but I don’t know what
you do with this information. This is really the information being
done unto you.

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7. DEMOCRACY™
AUGUST 2023

I live in an Asia’s oldest democracy and right now we have a

completely unelected President and a despised Parliament, and this is
apparently democracy. It’s really Democracy™, a marketing exercise
atop rank oligarchic evisceration. In our country, the ruling oligarchs
are crushing the poor and selling off the country to foreign bond-
holders. It’s a farce and Sri Lanka isn’t unique in our system failure.
This is a problem with ‘liberal’ democracy in general.

Pakistan is suffering under a coup government, as is Peru, as was

Ukraine, no one even knows which way is up anymore. Elections are
heads they win, tails they lose, and if the coin lands on its side, they
just flip the whole table. The UK — the birthplace of Parliamentary
democracy — is on its third unelected Prime Minister and in the US,
well that’s the biggest shitshow in town. This was posited as the way
we were supposed to develop to get rich and happy, but these people
are all increasingly impoverished and miserable. What are we even
following? This leadership model is terrible.

I use the term Democracy™ to cover all these disasters even though
democracy is a philosophically much wider term. If talk to Aristotle
(via his book On Politics) democracy would include more popular
systems like China’s or Singapore’s, as he said, “some persons think that
there is only one species both of democracy and oligarchy; but this is not
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true.” Under Democracy™ the variety of forms (and the absence of
judgement) of Aris’s day is gone. Now it’s all one “universal homoge-
nous state” as Francis Fukuyama puts it, comprising “liberal democracy
in the political sphere combined with easy access to VCRs and stereos in the
economic.” This is the ‘end of history’ and we’re all supposed to
‘develop’ into it. It is, of course, in practice, closer to the end of the
world.

Democracy™ is largely limited to voting every few years. This is

viewed as ‘taking’ power, but in reality it’s giving it away. Elections are
an exercise in very public bribery (white word: ‘donations’) followed
by years of private corruption (white word: ‘lobbying’) once they’re
‘in’ power. In truth the corporations (artificial beings) doing the
corrupting are never out of power and elections are about as effective
as jamming on a slot machine. The house always wins.

Old Aris said representative democracy (which was just one form,
remember) trended towards oligarchy, which it does. In today’s
honestly more superstitious time, however, Democracy™ has become
a religious belief — something which must be defended at home
even though it sucks and which should be loaded into bombs even
though it doesn’t work for you. Democracy™ has come to mean a
very narrow form of representative democracy, which is, philosophi-
cally speaking, just putting a lick of paint on oligarchy. Aris said, “oli-
garchy is said to be a government of men of family, fortune, and education;
so, on the contrary, a democracy is a government in the hands of men of no
birth, indigent circumstances, and mechanical employments.” Just look
around your vaunted Democracy™ (if you’re cursed to be in one) and
tell me what state you’re in.

The crucial philosophical lobotomy has been the separation of the

governance and the economy into two different domains, one with
meagre democratic controls and another with free reign [sic] for the
rich. This is of course oligarchy with better marketing, but fuck it,
because we get to choose colors every few years. When I was recently
in America I saw both ‘Black Lives Matters’ flags and football team
flags on the houses, and the denizens have equal influence on either

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outcome. Democracy™ is just a spectator sport given to the common
people while the rich do not play around with their money.

The tragedy is that the main issue people vote on is the economy, and
it’s the one thing that’s almost completely out of democratic control.
All those votes are in vain. And a lot of it comes down to words.
‘State-owned’ companies are demonized, but if you call them ‘democ-
ratically controlled’ it suddenly sounds much better. Because the
word ‘state’ is scary, we side with the oligarchs eviscerating the place.
People say state institutions are inefficient and corrupt but profit is
inherently wasteful because it’s going to some rich fuckers for doing
nothing. Individual firms can also be wildly wasteful and many of
them fail, they’re only theoretically efficient in the aggregate, and
when they get to monopoly size they’re ‘too big to fail’ and become
even worse than any state bureaucracy. The people get saddled with
bail-outs and have absolutely no buy-in.

These obviousnesses are obscured with words, repeated over and

over, through mass media which purports to be some sort of ‘objec-
tive’ priesthood but which is really just another business. Thus we
really think that the ‘private sector’ (another word for the rich and
corporate beings) is more efficient even as they lay waste to health-
care, education, housing, and every core economic function they get
their invisible hands on. We’ve been philosophically lobotomized
into siding with our oppressors against each other in so many ways.
The only warfare worth fighting is class warfare, but they got us all
deeply distracted with culture wars, as Caitlin Johnstone points out
in detail.

Democracy™ has simply become a circus — debating what man or

woman is, or where genitals should go, what color of person is better,
and what words to say about the whole thing. All of the substantive
issues are off limits, that’s the economy, don’t worry, professionals are
in charge of that, nevermind that human beings can’t afford to repro-
duce, the sky is on fire, and the whole ‘economy’ that these profes-
sionals are running keeps crashing. Who are these professionals?
The rich and the children of the rich, with their reputations laun-

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dered through universities that make everyone else debt slaves for
life. But under liberal democracy, these unelected economists and
advisers are in charge of everything, whatever the government. In this
circus, the politicians are just the ringleaders, getting you riled about
about immigrants or trans people or Muslims or Ukrainians or
whoever else they drag into the Cable TV Colosseum for public
debate and/or execution. They got us fighting about any number of
things, as long as they don’t mess with the rich people’s money. As
Caitlin Johnstone says:

One of the great challenges faced by westerners who oppose the

political status quo today is the way the narrative managers of
both mainstream factions continuously divert all political
energy away from issues which threaten the interests of the
powerful like economic injustice, war, militarism, authoritarian-
ism, corruption, capitalism and ecocide and toward issues
which don’t threaten the powerful at all like abortion, racism,
sexism, homophobia and transphobia.

She’s says ‘westerners’, but it’s a global hegemony, so unless you’re

actively besieged or bombed by the White Empire right now, the
‘west’ is probably you. For example, Sri Lanka is under colonial IMF
administration and countries like Pakistan and Brazil are/were parlia-
mentary/judicially couped. Places like Peru are just completely
toppled as is everyone in the Caribbean, South America, and Africa
at some point or another. Which is all to say, this shit is everywhere,
so whoever you are, it probably affects you too. Democracy™ is really
a massive distraction machine getting us thinking about genitals (and
what color those genitals are) while dickless/vaginaless corporations
loot the whole planet. He/she/they/them whatever, the point is the
great malevolent it devouring the world.

The point is not to abandon the victims of racism, sexism, and homo-
phobia, it’s to get them out of the damn Colosseum, where they’re

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made to suffer in public with no resolution — with no possible resolu-
tion — because then the show would end and people might worry
about the fact that it’s all circus and no bread. Trans people or immi-
grants or whatever are not actually helped by endlessly debating
their existence, that actually makes them targets. The great propa-
ganda power of western media is ‘selection’, ie what they choose to
focus on, and this leads to the complete lobotomy of any class
consciousness. People are in a constant rage at how their neighbors
and fucking and not at the people in skyscrapers fucking us all. It’s all
a show, more specifically, a total shitshow.

The latest show in the Circus Without Bread is ‘democracy vs.

authoritarians’ and it’s another trillion dollar production (like the last
one, the ‘war on terror’). The sad fact is that even the critics of Empire
uncritically buy into the latest bullshit, like Charlie Brown trying to
kick the football again and again, and falling on his ass. After the
Empire ‘helping’ Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc, the
world doesn’t need any more help! Nobody wants western advice on
governance! Like the poor gays or trans people or immigrants, entire
countries are periodically dragged into the Cable TV Colosseum,
divided into good guys and bad guys, and then both sides are bombed
and looted into oblivion. It’s the same show every time, and people
keep believing it. It’s honestly unbelievable.

This is all we get out of Democracy™. It’s a violent reality TV show

while the real business goes on way above our heads. That’s business,
which is not governance, remember? They’re two different things,
and a bunch of rich economists will tell you why it’s only right to
leave rich people in charge of the important stuff. War is also above
the common person’s pay grade, don’t worry about that going on
forever, and lol if you protest, you’ll just be ignored. The only thing
citizens seem to have purview over in Democracy™ is the bedroom or
hating your neighbor, which is really the only place you don’t want
the government involved. But, increasingly, that’s all we get. Fighting
each other about what words to say while the actions we need are
impossible. Democracy has become a synonym for distraction, while
the oligarchy makes a killing no matter what.
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Forgetting all the immiseration of poverty and desperation at home,
the abominations done in democracy’s abroad, this warped defini-
tion of democracy is causing permanent damage to the whole
atmosphere. I don’t just mean the vibe (which is abominable), but
the whole ecosystem of the Earth. Representative democracy point-
edly does not include children, or animals, or plants, or insects, or
all creatures not yet born. And these are algorithmically the ones that
get completely fucked. Why would representative democracy —
which cares only about ‘citizens’ (a violently exclusionary category)
and only on a 4–5 year timescale — care about the rest of the living
world and the rest of time? It simply doesn’t. It algorithmically
cannot. It’s simply not in its programming. Democracy screws the
future not people are bad, because this system algorithmically
cannot process anything beyond the incentives built into it. For the
problem of human survival on a living planet, democracy just doesn’t
work.

In his magisterial physics textbook, Dr. Tom Murphy says “a democ-

ratic world may no longer have the flexibility necessary to address our
fundamental challenges.” I’ll reproduce part of his argument at length.
He’s discussing how the necessary sacrifices to actually avert climate
collapse may not be possible within Democracy™ at all.

Imagine now that we find ourselves having reduced access to oil,

driving prices up and making peoples’ lives harder. Now the govern-
ment announces a 16-year plan to divert 25% of energy into making a
new infrastructure in an effort to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
That is a huge additional sacrifice on an already short-supply
commodity.

Voters are likely to respond by tossing out the responsible politi-

cians, installing others who promise to kill the program and
restore relief on a short timescale. Election cycles are short
compared to the amount of time needed to dedicate to this
sort of major initiative, making meaningful infrastructure
development a difficult prospect in a democracy. And this is

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 before addressing the likely contentious fights about what the
new infrastructure should be, out of the table of imperfect
options.

Now it is perhaps more apparent why this is called an energy

trap: short-term political and economic interests forestall a
proactive major investment in new energy, and by the time
energy shortages make the crisis apparent, the necessary energy
is even harder to attain. Short-term focus is what makes it a trap.

One wonders how democracies will fare in the face of declining

resources. The combination of capitalism and democracy has
been ideal during the growth phase of our world: efficiently
optimizing allocation of resources according to popular
demand. But how do either work in a decline scenario, when
the future is not “bigger” than today, and may involve sacrifice?
We simply do not yet know. This is a giant unauthorized experi-
ment that is not operating from a script.

I go further than Murphy, who is very precise in his physics but quite
vague in his politics. He’s still discussing some non-existent democ-
ratic system where “votes send ineffective or crooked politicians packing.”
This is observably not how things work at all. The circus of voting
seems to attract the most ineffective and crooked people and, once in
there, they procreate and we’re on the second and third generation of
these shitheads now. My point is that the entire experiment of
Democracy™ has failed, not just the latest part. Democracy™ has
failed at a philosophical level and ‘voting harder’ or ‘hope and
change’ won’t fix what’s a fundamentally bad idea.

The philosophical bad idea is that A) democracy is one thing (voting

for representatives) B) this technology meant for running tiny city-
states can scale to millions and billions without completely crapping
out. Practically this just has not worked out, look the fuck around.
Democracy™’s failings have always been present (the American revo-
lution was just rich guys that didn’t want to pay taxes!) and its

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promise has always been in the future (Obama’s ‘a more perfect
union’ ) but now we have simply run out of time. The future is
here, it is wildly dystopian, and Democracy™ simply cannot handle
the problems it got us into. Faced with its own rank failure, liberal
democrats keep staging more and more shows in the Colosseum
while the new Roman Empire burns. We are debating what a man or
woman during a mass extinction event. As I said, Democracy™ is just
distraction, and that’s the only solution it can offer to the general
predicament we’re in. More distraction. Action is anathema to it,
because that might involve rich people sacrificing something, and
they can’t bear even a slight inconvenience.

What solution do I offer to this? If you were to make me dictator (not

a bad word, philosophically) I’d say climate communism, eco-social-
ism, whatever you want to call it. The obvious idea that maybe — in
the face of such problems — we need a plan. Given that the economy
is at the center of our problems, that means a planned economy (also
a bad word, except really not). Planning for any purpose other than
profit (another word for waste heat!) is anathema to Democracy™
(that’s the economy! leave it to the rich people!) but they’re the ones
who fucked it all up and we really shouldn’t listen to them. In fact,
they’ll need to be forcibly put down to get anything done. As your
theoretical dictator I don’t see how you can save billions without
wildly inconveniencing billionaires and they’ll obviously fight this, so
there will be blood. But I’m not dictator, Jesus and/or the Hidden
Imam have yet to enter the chat, and the very concept of solution
again gets words wrong. What we face is not a problem, which is solv-
able, but a predicament, which is not.

Our centuries long experiment in one ‘correct’ form of governance

for everyone (under a lying hegemon, which keeps military bases
everywhere, but isn’t an Empire) has failed and the Tower of Babel
didn’t nicely disassemble itself, it fell catastrophically down and scat-
tered disconnected people to the end of the Earth. As fossil fuels run
out (they’re non-renewable, by definition) and their fumes choke
carbon-based lifeforms out, there simply will be demolition. Our
only choice is planned or unplanned, and we’re obviously choosing
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the latter, because A) don’t want to think about it and B) don’t actually
have choice and C) the worst people and completely malevolent
corporations are really in charge.

Seeing a situation like this, the ancients would say that obviously you
need a strong king to issue a debt jubilee and put things in order for
the people (and the gods) against the predatory oligarchs who have
gone crazy. The Greeks would say that you need a tyrant or a dictator
(not bad words to them!) as even democracies periodically did in
wartime or under great stress. Because they understood that democ-
racy was a tool to be used for the people and not a brand to be seared
on them. But we’ve lost that practical knowledge of governance and
will put up with anything as long as we can get the affordable color
TV making us idiots in the first place. And we’ve also lost the ability
to act on that knowledge in the first place because everything has
gotten way too big to change and if we were going to have a revolu-
tion we should have really had it last century.

The fact is that Democracy™ doesn’t work right now (it’s bullshit!)
and it cannot face the challenges of the future. The predicament is
that no one can tell you one system to replace it because there shouldn’t
be one system at all. What the proponents of ‘classic’ democracy miss is
that there was no one form, each group of as little as 10,000 people
organized themselves in wildly different ways, and at different times,
depending on their circumstances. Democracy was an adaptive tech-
nology, whereas Democracy™ expects the Earth to adapt to its ends
and the Earth is not bending. So Democracy™ breaks.
Catastrophically.

The very idea of ‘liberal democracy’ and ‘development’ is that

everyone must do the same thing and get to the end of history where
everything is chill, but this has just led us to the end of the planet
while a few oligarchs build bunkers under the ruins. The very ‘demo-
cratic values’ that we defend are, in fact, the problem. Democratic
‘values’ are just advertising slogans and the only actual value in
liberal democracy is money. If you follow the money you’ll get to
who’s actually ruling, and the ruin of everything living. As they say in

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tech, if you’re not paying for a service, you’re the product. We don’t
pay for Democracy™, so you know what we are, dontcha? The whole
thing is bullshit. It’s collapsed in Sri Lanka, it’s probably collapsing in
your country, and it’s collapsing the whole climate on everyone’s
head. I don’t know what to do with this information, I can’t even help
my own people. As the piano prophet Billy Joel said, we didn’t start the
fire, we’re just in it. Like Joan of Arc holding up a cigarette with one
hand, all I can say is fight insomuch as the gods compel you, and
smoke ’em if you’ve got 'em. Just don’t fucking tell me about
defending Democracy™. It’s offensive.

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8. HOW GENOCIDE
BECAME
CONVENTIONAL
JANUARY 2024

In a cruel irony, the Genocide Convention and the genocide of

Palestine both started in 1948. ‘Never again’ become ‘immediately and
forever’ as soon as the term was coined. Genocide became utterly
conventional, and hid there in plain sight till today.

The Genocide Convention

The short text of the 1948 Genocide Convention reads:

Genocide means any of the following acts committed with

intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial
or religious group, as such:

a) Killing members of the group;

b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the

group;

c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calcu-

lated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the

group;

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 e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

This might as well be the constitution of ‘Israel’. Hell, genocide is in

the American Declaration of Independence, which openly advocates
eliminating ‘merciless Indian Savages.’ In a very deep sense, genocide is
just how colonialism is wired.

South Africa survived colonialism and understands this as well as

anybody, which is why they’ve just ‘indicted’ Israel for genocide. They
filed a case with the International (and ineffective) Court of Justice, a
case which is both damning and completely inadequate. The fact is
that genocide isn’t something Israel does, it’s what Israel is.

In the past three months Israel has merely accelerated its genocide of
the Palestinian people, they’ve been eliminating the Palestinian
people by definition the whole time. Genocide has become so utterly
conventional that it took the rapid death of 25,000+ people and star-
vation of millions for this case to even be filed.

Genocide Conventional

Genocide is not just intrinsic to ‘Israel’. It’s intrinsic to ‘Great’ Britain,

the ‘United’ States, Australia, Canada, and all the nations founded on
mass murder, starvation, and theft. None of these colonizers ever
stopped colonizing. Everyone focuses on the Nazis because they
committed genocide against white people, which is the only actual
crime. The imperialists that committed and continued to commit geno-
cide against colored people got to portray themselves as good guys.

Genocide became Genocide™, something that could be weaponized

to commit even more genocide, while lecturing everybody about it.
The conventional understanding of genocide became literally being
Hitler and literally killing Jews in gas chambers. Anything short of
that could be denied or debated to literal death. The only real change
was that white people stopped wearing the Hitler mustache. Beyond
that, they continued his ways unabated. Hitler took all of white

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people’s sins upon himself when he died. It’s not like the ‘good guys’
won in World War II. That’s just movies, ie propaganda that never
stopped.

‘Great’ Britain continued running concentration camps in Kenya and

South Africa for decades, among other atrocities. France continued
mass murdering Algerians, among other ethnicities. The ‘United’
States, Canada, and Australia never paid for their genocide and
enslavement, and indeed continue the process well into this century.
All of these countries exported racist violence to every corner of the
Earth with bombs, forming a ‘rules-based order’ that makes the
Third Reich look small-minded. Carpet bombing of civilians, setting
up torture camps, persecuting communists, everything Hitler only
did for a few years they made a full century of.

Post World War II history is the other white supremacists continuing

the genocides that inspired Hitler in the first place. And we’re still
living (or more specifically, dying) that history to this day. ‘Israel’ is
just the most egregious example.

Isn’t It Ironic?

Thus we ended up with the cruelest of ironies in 1948. A Genocide

Convention being drafted at the same time the Genocidal Colony of
‘Israel’ was created.

The word ‘genocide’ became weaponized for even more genocide as

soon as it was coined. The Nazis actually thought about sending Jews
‘somewhere’ else as a penultimate solution, and Zionists worked with
them on the Haavara Agreement. The British and then the Ameri-
cans merely executed this extremely racist plan, based on the idea
that Jews didn’t belong where they were and should go back ‘where
they came from’.

Thus America — which inherited White Empire — inherited a

garrison state. They could use Jews (who they didn’t like) as a perma-
nent and guaranteed loyal conscript nation, an ‘unsinkable aircraft
carrier’ parked near the gas station. The existence of Israel perma-
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nently destabilized the Middle East. It was a classic case of divide-
and-conquer, someone else’s blood for oil. This is marketed as
somehow atoning for genocide, when in fact it’s cynically exploiting
the concept.

The Genocide Convention doesn’t say you get a ‘gimme’ if you’ve

been genocided, yet this is the conventional understanding that justi-
fies Israel.Somehow the logic is that because Jews were genocided in
Europe, they get to commit genocide in Palestine. Getting to genocide
a native population is the final white privilege. It’s eye for an eye on
an international scale, and the whole world is blind. The Genocide
Convention has become utterly conventional.

Israel has been genociding Palestine for 75 years — indeed, Israel is

genocide — but people only file a case when it happens all at once,
killing 25,000 people and trying to sicken or starve everyone else.
But’s it’s not like the Genocide Convention has a speed limit, or even a
number of people that need to be killed before you enact it. This is
why the legal case, while welcome, is wholly inadequate.

The problem is and always was power, ie who gets to interpret or

completely pervert the laws. The only reason this case is even
happening is because South Africa liberated itself, and they got
called terrorists for their troubles. Now Palestine is doing the same
thing and being called the same thing. That’s just how liberation
goes. Nobody gives it to you in a court ruling. You have to take it by
overthrowing your rulers using the only language they know. Which
is violence.

Thus while the case filed by South Africa is commendable, only

command of the battlefield will change anything. It’s the only reason
we’re even talking about this. As Tolstoy said,“Laws are rules made by
people who govern by means of organised violence,” and it is only through
organized violence that Palestinians are able to get their rights
enforced under law. And it won’t be the International Court of Justice
that does it. The ICJ is just another false name on top of real power. It
will be the Axis of Resistance, writing laws and history in the
language they’ve always been written in. In blood.
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9. HOW THE WHITE
EMPIRE HAS NO
CLOTHES
MARCH 2023

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The greatest trick White Empire ever pulled was convincing the
world it didn’t exist. The next greatest trick White Empire pulled was
convincing the world that it had clothes. Marvelous raiments of
human rights, material wealth, democracy. All draped over nothing,
of course, nothing to see here, but draped so beautifully. Try them on
for yourself.

People have said that the Empire had no clothes for decades, but
Donald Trump came out and showed us. Trump was the first honest
American President. He was honestly dishonest, transparently
corrupt, and candidly cruel.

Trump personified what Hannah Arendt 1 called “the growing preva-

lence of mob attitudes and convictions — which were actually the attitudes
and convictions of the bourgeoisie cleansed of hypocrisy.” As Aldous
Huxley said, if the doors of perception were finally cleansed, we
would see America as it is. Fucking idiotic. People have been saying
this for years, but Donald Trump showed it. He flashed the world,
sending unsolicited dick picks on Twitter every day. Can’t unsee
them now.

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RENE MAGRITTE, Untitled, from Aube à l’Antipode

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And yet Joe Biden is nothing more than an attempt at unseeing. A
furious CTRL-ALT-Z, trying to get back to Obama time, to a time
when you could drone the poor and bail out the rich and feel good
about it. But those good times aren’t coming back. America is where
the Weimar Republic was before, well, going full Nazi. And you never
want to go full Nazi.

Harry Kessler wrote contemporaneous diaries at the time, which are

remarkable. In May 1925 he said,

All the philistines are delighted about Hindenburg. He is the

god of all those who long for a return to philistinism and the
glorious time when it was only necessary to make money and
accompany a decent digestion with a pious upward glance. They
are waiting for Hindenburg to ‘consolidate’ conditions, meaning
adjustment to Philistine standards. Farewell progress, farewell
vision of a new world which was to be humanity’s conscience
money for the criminal war. At long last, until the day the
butcher arrives and demands his toll, it is going to be possible
once more to live cosily as a stuffed sheep or gorged goose.

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After the 2020s as after the 1920s, the butcher will arrive and demand
his toll. People are not learning from history despite it rhyming so
obviously. If anything, we’re on an accelerated schedule. As Kessler
wrote in 1933.

At two o’clock Max came to lunch and brought with him the
news of Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor. I was astounded. I
did not anticipate this tum of events, and so quickly at that.
Downstairs our Nazi concierge inaugurated exuberant cele-
brations.

The truth is that Trump was not an aberration. He truly represented

the id of a nation. Empire wants to be naked. It wants to let its’ nuts
breathe. It wants to hit, it wants to rage, it wants to scream. As Arendt
said, the mob longs to throw off the mask of bougie hypocrisy, to
finally scream the hatred and anger hidden by ‘pious banalities’. As
Arendt said,

“What the spokesmen of humanism and liberalism usually overlook,

in their bitter disappointment and their unfamiliarity with the more
general experiences of the time, is that an atmosphere in which all
traditional values and propositions had evaporated (after the nine-
teenth-century ideologies had refuted each other and exhausted their
vital appeal) in a sense made it easier to accept patently absurd
propositions than the old truths which had become pious banalities,”

Her book On Totalitarianism explains the rise of Trumpism (which is

treated as unexplainable, just foolishness, by American elites). Their
continued misunderstanding of the conditions of Trumpism make its
return inevitable, and on an accelerated schedule. Unlike the Weimar
Republic—which actually enacted major social programs and

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arrested Hitler—America isn’t even trying to save its republic.
Barbarians have already sacked the Capitol. Biden is just rotting in
office—an insipid interregnum—and the spoils are just there for the
taking.

I digress, I guess, and perhaps the metaphors pile on too quick. We

have an invisible empire, a visible idiot, and dick pics. My point here,
as elsewhere, is just to direct you towards the evidence of your own
eyes. Just look at America’s 800+ military bases and global dollar
dominion and tell me it’s not an Empire. Look at where the bases are
and tell me it’s not just an inheritance of the colonial empires of yore.
Just look at Trump’s open degeneracy and tell me it’s not an evil
empire too. Then look at Biden’s complete waste of time and tell me
the Empire is not, in action, exactly as Trump was in words. Cruel,
venal, and dumb.

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We are living under an invisible White Empire, and the Empire has
no clothes. Billions of dollars are devoted to spinning some media
raiment out of thin air, but now the air itself is getting hot. We’ve
heard it for decades, we’ve seen it for years, but now even eyes and
ears are becoming irrelevant. You can feel it getting hot.

Centuries of imperialism have simply taken too much from people,

planet, and the old gods of Earth itself. Now both White Empire and
what it thought to rule over are giving out. I’m in London now and
the very grass is scorched. To paraphrase DMX, it’s white and hell is
hot. So hold on to your bowler hats. The invisible is about to get
visibly fucked up real quick.

1. Arendt had her own blind spots, including the entire continent of Africa. As she
wrote in The Origins Of Totalitarianism. “Race was the [South African] Boers’
answer to the overwhelming monstrosity of Africa — a whole continent popu-
lated and overpopulated by savages.” She also actively wrote against school deseg-
regation in Arkansas.
Anyways, I’ll quote both her and Hitler anon.

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 PART II

WHITENESS
10.HOW I ALMOST BECAME
WHITE
FEBRUARY 2021

When people ask where I grew up I say Columbus, Ohio, but that’s
not true. Yes, that was the city on the map, but I didn’t live on a map. I
lived in a society, and that society was segregated as fuck.

I was today years old when I looked at this map, and it’s shocking
to me.

The black parts of Columbus in color/black. You can see the white side divided by the
highway

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C OLUMBUS IS LITERALLY DIVIDED into black and white along Interstate

71. The city was 25% black but Upper Arlington, the suburb where I
lived, was less than 1%. I lived here quite unconsciously, never visiting
the black parts of town and never wondering why out of nearly 2,000
people in school, I only knew two black kids.

In a very real sense, I never lived in Columbus at all.

Not Seeing Color

Growing up as a brown kid in a sea of whiteness, I honestly didn’t see

color. I was the darkest kid around and I wasn’t looking in a mirror all
day. If I did I was looking for pimples. All I saw was white people. In
many ways that’s what I was.

I never really experienced racism, but a kid did call me n**** once,
after I played ding-dong ditch on his house. I was mainly shocked
because he was incorrect. Not morally wrong, I didn’t understand
that much, just incorrect. I was not black. I really felt white.

But how? If white is a color, how could a brown kid grow up white?
The answer, I think, is that whiteness is not a color at all. If you’re
black, whiteness is a harsh red line. For everybody else, it’s a queue.

The Color Line

We think of white as some fixed identity, but it’s not. Germans, Irish,
Italians— these were not always white people. As David Roediger,
writes, they ‘worked towards whiteness’. Basically, they stood in a
queue. They worked, became cops, politicians, until they became
white.

I had my fill of seeing people come down the gangplank on

Wednesday, let us say, speaking not a word of English, and by

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 Friday discovering that I was working for them and they were
calling me nigger like everybody else. So that the Italian adven-
ture or even the Jewish adventure, however grim, is distin-
guished from my own adventure.

— JAMES BALDWIN (1971)

Both quotes are from the intro to Working Toward Whiteness: How Ameri-
ca’s Immigrants Became White, by David Roediger.

This pseudo "white" identity... was not something that just fell
on us out of the blue, but something that many Italian Ameri-
cans grabbed at with both hands. Many felt that their culture,
language, food, songs, music, identity, was a small price to pay
for entering the American mainstream. Or they thought, as my
parents probably did, that they could keep these good Italian
things in private and become "white" in public.

— DIANE DI PRIMA, POET (1999)

Whiteness is fluid. Basically the only condition in America is that you

are not what that young boy errantly called me. I was corrected to be
offended, I just didn’t understand that something much deeper was
wrong. The devil’s bargain of whiteness is that rather than showing
solidarity, new immigrants will step on blacks and newer immigrants
to reach the top.

You can see it today in people like British Home Secretary Priti Patel
proudly kicking down the ladder her parents came up. Whiteness is a
ladder, kicking all the way down, and blackness is the ground upon
which it rests. With black at the bottom, everybody else can queue up
in an orderly fashion to be white.

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Asians like me are just the latest people up the ladder. In many ways
we’re better prepared than the Hungarians and Poles of yore. My
parents arrived with PhDs, those immigrants maybe passed a six-
second health check. Our destination, however, is the same. White-
ness. Just look at where we go.

We’re technically minorities yes (frankly an odd term for the majority
of the world), but we go straight to the white parts of town. Look at
this map of Asian migration to Columbus, and remember the color
line running down I-71.

Somehow it’s easier to get to Upper Arlington from China than from
the wrong side of the tracks. People like me have moved into the
heart of whiteness, cutting right to the front of the color line.

The Structure Of Racism

This might seem like people moving for better schools or whatever,
but there’s a darker history to it. Literally. Up until the 1970s, black
people simply could not buy homes in Upper Arlington. This was
written in the original deeds and upheld by homeowners associa-
tions until they were sued. It’s still probably practiced, to some
degree, today.

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According to Patricia Burgess in her book Planning for the Private
Interest, “Written into the deeds were restrictions, made to be in effect
until 1999, stating that no home could be sold or occupied by ‘any
person or persons in whole or part of the Negro race or blood’ but
people not of the white race could be employed as servants.”
(Unshoveling The Past)

This officially changed in the 80s, but the deed was done. If you look
at a map, the segregation is still there. Columbus is a map of struc-
tural racism, to this day. Like my own color, I simply could not see it
because I grew up inside. I was assigned James Baldwin and never
connected it to where I was. While reading about black people, I
never wondered why I never saw any. I was a child, what did I know?
This was just the place I lived.

When people say they don’t see color I believe them. That’s literally
the point of segregation. You don’t see people of color. That’s where I
grew up. And it really hasn’t changed. There are even more people
like me, but even less black people. Asians now outnumber black
people 6-to-1. In a very real sense, UA is as white as it ever was. It’s
just that the types of white people have changed.

Getting Out Of Line

I didn’t figure this out in Upper Arlington. I only started to question

where I was from when I left. In university people would ask “where
are you from?” and when I said Ohio they would just stare at me. This
somehow wasn’t the right answer. I had to really think about it, for
years.

Now I understand that ‘where are you really from’ is itself racist, but at
the time I took it at face value. I ended up actually coming back to Sri
Lanka, where I lived only briefly as a child. I still don’t know where
I’m ‘from’, but at least I’m not white.

For hundreds of years, people have been coming to America, step-

ping over black people, and kicking back at their own families. It’s got

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to stop. Whiteness has got to stop here. We have got to stop joining
the fraternity that hazes us. I renounce whiteness and all of its works.
So should you.

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11. AS A COLONIZED
PERSON, I’M GLAD THE
QUEEN IS DEAD
SEPTEMBER 2022

The British Empire were just Nazis that won. Their greatest victory is
their their Reich can go on, and expect to be mourned and not
scorned. The fact is that Queen Elizabeth inherited a world-spanning
white supremacist Empire that Hitler was jealous of. He wanted to be
like them, and even more like the Americans. As he said in Mein
Kampf:

“Many contemporary European States are like pyramids standing on

their apexes. The European territory which these States possess is
ridiculously small when compared with the enormous over-head
weight of their colonies, foreign trade, etc.

It may be said that they have the apex in Europe and the base of the
pyramid all over the world very different from the United States of
America, which has its base on the American Continent and is in
contact with the rest of the world only through its apex. Out of that
situation arises the incomparable inner strength of the U.S.A. and the
contrary situation is responsible for the weakness of most of the
European colonial Powers

Britain cannot be suggested as an argument against this assertion,

since faced with the British Empire, one is inclined to overlook the

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 existence of the Anglo-Saxon world as such. Britain’s position cannot
be compared with that of any other State in Europe, since together
with the U.S.A. it forms a vast community of language and culture.

Therefore, the only possibility which Germany had of carrying into

effect a sound territorial policy of expansion was that of acquiring
new territory in Europe itself. Colonies cannot serve this purpose as
long as they are not suited for settlement by Europeans on a large
scale. In the nineteenth century it was no longer possible to acquire
such colonies by peaceful means [ie, not spilling white blood]. There-
fore, any attempt at such a colonial expansion would have meant an
enormous military struggle. Consequently, it would, have been more
practical to undertake that military struggle for new territory in
Europe, rather than to wage war for the acquisition of possessions
abroad.”

Hitler fought genocidal wars of theft in Europe simply because

England and the other European countries had already done it across
the rest of the world.Hitler’s only mistake was killing and stealing
from white people, that’s what was unforgivable. Doing the same to
colored people was Queen Elizabeth’s birthright, the literal source of
her family jewels, and she directly presided over putting over 1.5
million Kenyans in concentration camps. And then people expect
her to be mourned and not scorned. It’s honestly repulsive. I’m glad
she’s dead. The only thing I feel sorry about is that she wasn’t
executed, and her stolen treasure will just be passed on to another
asshole.

Queen Elizabeth was not a good person. She did not represent good
things. The people she gave cheer to during World War II did and
even went on to do despicable things. It was her European family that
started World War I, fighting amongst themselves, and the revulsion
against their misrule sparked revolutions that beheaded most of her
continental relatives. And it was good riddance to them. The only
shame is that Victoria’s direct descendants survived on that accursed
island.
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People talk about what the Queen represented and what she repre-
sented was just evil. She represented class, she was the pole around
which the whole wretched circus is tented up. She represented white
supremacy, not employing colored people herself until late last
century, with the crown still being exempt from racial and sexual
discrimination laws to this day. She represented ableism, shunting
two disabled cousins off to homes where they were not visited and
were even registered as dead decades before actually dying alone
there. She represented the most rapey and violent privilege, covering
up for her child-abusing son consistently. And of course, she repre-
sented colonialism, presiding over it, resisting independence, and still
preserving the idea that this was some glorious period and not just
even more successful genocide and theft than even Hitler could
imagine.

Mourn her? As much as I mourn him. The great whitewashing of

colonial history is really the Hitler emerged and—like a bad Jesus—
they could dump all of their sins on him. Hitler invented racism,
Hitler invented invading people, Hitler was evil and we defeated him.
But all Hitler was doing was applying the logic of all the colonial
empires in the only place he could find lebensraum, on the European
continent. Because the British had a Navy and could visit their trepi-
dations more distantly and on duskier people, it was somehow a posi-
tive. But ask the people who lived under it, ask the dead, ask those
who still struggle today. The only thing tragic is that the Queen died
peacefully in her home, and that her wretched line is peacefully tran-
sitioning. She deserves to have died like Hitler, cowering in a bunker
with her family blown to the wind.

Mourn the death of the Queen? Billions of people all over the world
are either indifferent, celebrating, or angry at watching all this. It’s
really like watching someone celebrating Nazis. They were Nazis to
us, and we’re expected to honor this woman because she was boring
and meant something to her ‘subjects’. As Karen Attiah said, “Black
and brown people around the world who were subject to horrendous cruel-
ties and economic deprivation under British colonialism are allowed to have
feelings about Queen Elizabeth. After all, they were her “subjects” too.”
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So how do I feel about the passing of Queen Elizabeth? The same
way I’d feel if Adolf Hitler got to die in his sleep. Fuck her, fuck her
family, and fuck everything she represents. She’s honestly not dead
enough. Her accursed family goes on and the accursed White Empire
that the Americans took over from them is still alive and kicking.
Mourning the death of this person is, in itself, an act of preserving
the wretched institution she represented. God save the Queen? God
damn the Queen. As the embodiment of empire, she can’t be dead
enough for me.

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12.ABOLISH WHITENESS
JANUARY 2021

Whiteness is white supremacy. There’s actually nothing else to it.

There is no white food, there is no white music. Whiteness is just the
dehumanization of everyone else, and that shit’s got to go. Renounce
your whiteness. Be a decent human being.

Think about it for a minute. There is no ‘brownness’ running riot

across the world. Sri Lanka and Pakistan aren’t splitting racist control
of the world’s financial institutions like the US and EU do. We’re not
getting together to bomb and occupy Myanmar. We can’t even agree
on what a biriyani is. Be like that.

Abolish whiteness doesn’t mean you disappear. Go ahead and be

French or Russian or German or Dutch if you want. Restore the
grand European tradition of hating each other. Be Basque or Scottish
or Southern, I don’t give a fuck. Just stop ganging up in this oppres-
sive whiteness and terrorizing the world. There simply is no good
way to be white. Just stop.

When I say there is no good way, think about who actually talks
about white pride. Nazis. White Supremacists. The KKK. These are
the people that talk about the white race, white power. There is no
benign way to participate in this. You just have to put it down. If
you’re not comfortable shouting WHITE PRIDE! in a crowded

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theatre, then don’t be white at all. Why would you be something you’re
not proud of? Be your nationality (though even that needs to bend).
Be your name. Be your sports team, I don’t care. Just don’t base your
being on the debasement of everyone else, even passively. Be a decent
human being.

But can’t we be better white people?

Being a better white person is like being a better Nazi. Just don’t be a
fucking Nazi. Whiteness has bent for years but now it’s time for it to
just break.

By bend I mean that the category of whiteness has constantly been

expanding. Irish and Italian people used to not be white, now they
are. Even Indians are becoming white, like Priti Patel and Rishi Sunak
in the UK. By becoming white I mean acquiring the privileges of
whiteness which are — by definition — only built on the oppression
of other people. If everybody had these privileges they wouldn’t be
fucking privileges, would they? They’d be what they are. Rights.

The price of becoming white is becoming an asshole. Hence you have

Priti Patel proudly announcing policies that would have deported her
parents. You have Irish and Italians proudly being racist towards the
next people off the boat. Become white is like joining the frat that
beat and pissed on you. What a stupid fucking club. We need to stop
trying to join it and just make it go away.

White supremacy is not some tragic offshoot of whiteness. White-

ness is white supremacy. That is whiteness at its core. Whiteness is
not about any particular civilization or culture. British culture and
American culture and French culture are very different and look
down on each other. Even within these nations identities break down,
like north vs. south Italians. Like Al Capone maybe told Lucky
Luciano, “I don’t know no Italians. Neopolitans, Calabrese, what are you
again?” And no, whiteness isn’t about speaking English. What
language am I scolding you in? There are more English speakers in
Asia than North America. Try telling that to the French.

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Whiteness isn’t about being anything in particular, it’s just based on
being better than everyone else. Having the best civilization, the best
economy, the best art, the best inventions. But what civilization, what
economy, what art? What ties them together and separates them from
the rest of the long flow of human interaction? The specifics all break
down.

Western philosophy traces its origins to ancient Greece, but the

ancient Greeks would be like who the fuck are these barbarian Germans?
They had far more exchange with Africa than northern Europe.
Western religion traces itself to some mythical white Jesus, who was
actually a brown Jew whose family spent more time in Africa than in
Europe (where they spent zero). Western science and technology is
using Arabic numerals and Arabic inventions like al-gebra and al-
chemie to participate in a global system that they didn’t create but
merely participate in.

Look closely at any unifying white culture and there’s nothing there.
Whiteness contains no content, not even a coherent mythology. Hitler
and Himmler had to run around trying to make white culture up
because it’s simply not a thing at all.

The only thing that ties whiteness together is white supremacy. Being
violently better than everyone else. Whiteness is defined not by any
particular position but being in opposition to everyone else. As an
identity, whiteness is very much like joining the mafia. Like Henry
Hill said about being made:

It means that nobody can fuck around with you. It also means you could
fuck around with anybody just as long as they aren’t also a member. It’s like
a license to steal. It’s a license to do anything.

Whiteness is like being made. It gave people a license to colonize, to

genocide, to enslave, to royally fuck with the world. Today it gives a
license to exploit through capitalism, to destroy the environment, to
bomb, drone, and torture anyone that isn’t made. It’s a license to kill.
That’s why we must kill whitey. Not the people, obviously, I don’t give
a fuck about Lithuanians. It’s just that white identity must go.

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 The only people loyal to the white race are assholes. As Noel Ignaetiv said, you
should prefer treason

But what about other races?

The question people ask is, oh but you can have Black pride, and…
and who else? That’s it. Blackness is literally defined in opposition to
whiteness, in defiance. American Blacks are a motley group of people
that would have been Gambian or Nigerian or Senagalese today.
Blackness was an identity that had to evolve to survive in the Heart of
Whiteness.

Besides that crime scene, there is no other thing like whiteness.

Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans are all ‘East Asian’, or yellow if you’re
a dick about it, and all (geopolitically) hate each other. There is
certainly no Asian pride. Put a Malaysian and a Pakistani and a Viet-
namese together and ask them how to cook rice. You’ll get a knife
fight. Asia is a fucking continent and a checkbox on your forms, not
an identity. What is African pride? There is some sense of Pan-
Africanism, but not really, South Africa has as much border controls
as any colonial country.

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What we do have is internal racial identities, which are definitely
racist. For example, the Sinhalese are dicks to everybody else in Sri
Lanka, as are higher caste people in India, this is endemic. We abso-
lutely have racial divisions, but we have not evolved the nuclear
weapon of transnational identity and dropped it on the world.
That’s what I mean by abolishing whiteness. Be local dicks. French
people are dicks, Russians are dicks, we’re all dicks. This is perhaps
unavoidable. Just don’t put all that together into the atom bomb of
whiteness, because it is literally going to end the world. Climate
change, racism, inequality, we can’t fight any of this shit without
fighting whiteness. You’re telling me the shit that brought us colo-
nialism and enslavement and fucking Donald Trump can be slightly
modified and it just can’t. Whiteness just has to go.

Like Juliet told Romeo, Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Deny your
fatherland and refuse the name whiteness. Shit is irredeemable, but
it’s not too late to redeem yourself. Like Noel Ignaetiv said decades
ago, treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity. Put whiteness down. Be
a decent human being.

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13.YOU DON’T HAVE TO
APOLOGIZE FOR BEING
WHITE. JUST DON’T
DO IT
MARCH 2022

People sometimes apologize to me for being white. "I’m a white guy,

but…" I get it and I appreciate it, but I also don’t know what to say. I
have no papal indulgences to give.

What can I say? It’s fine? You’re one of the good ones? To me the
answer is relatively simple. Don’t be white.

As (the fictional) Al Capone said, “I don’t know no Italians. Napolitans,

Calabrese, what are you again?” In the same way, I don’t know any
white people. Swedish, American, Jewish, what are you again?

The fact is that whiteness, like Lucky Luciano’s mafia, is an identity

created explicitly for power. Whiteness is white supremacy, it has no
other real content, no food, no language, no unifying culture.

Nobody else identifies like this, not brown people, not ‘yellow’ people
(not a thing), only black people, out of pure necessity in the heart of
whiteness. As Noel Ignaetiv said, “The white race is a historically
constructed social formation.” If you told the many warring tribes of
Europe they were one people they’d laugh, until colonialism made
the idea very profitable.

Since colonialism spread across the world, however, this is now the
polarity around which the world spins. White on top, black on the

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bottom. Global North and Global South. Race provides the social
energy that sucks resources out of the south and merrily pumps
emissions out of the north. It is the battery of global capitalism,
which is just assault and battery to most people in the world.

This is just the world we live in, and it has to be named and shamed.
But that doesn’t mean that you need to attach your name to it, or that
you’re being personally attacked here. You can also just put down
your whiteness. God knows it’s not an easy path, but you can just
walk away.

The Globe

We live in a unipolar world, and unipolar world has to have polarity.

Positive and negative. Black and white. That polarity since colo-
nialism has been race. Between the two poles of black and white,
north and south, the world turns.

Whiteness created, out of necessity, blackness, out of the stolen people

of a thousand different nations. As its opposite it created whiteness,
out of the pasty people of many warring states. Black must forever
give, white must forever take, with different gradients of caste in
between.

This polarity gives the world energy, it gives it charge. This racial
energy allows resources to flow up from the south to the north, while
shit flows down. This happened first through colonialism but
continues under capitalism as well.

Hence France can still get cheap nuclear material from Africa, while
forcing many African countries to keep their reserves in French
banks. Hence tourists and ‘expats’ can flow down to our beaches,
while we must be drowned in the Mediterranean sea.

That’s why emissions can be dumped disproportionately by the

global north, while the global majority is told it’s our fault for having
too many babies. That’s why it’s wars of liberation down here, but
imposition of tyranny when it happens north of the Black Sea.

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 via History of Persia Podcast

This is just how the world turns. It’s guilt-free energy. You’re not
cannibalizing humanity, you’re civilizing it. This is racial polarity.

The Ladder

Even a brown person like me can become an agent of this white

supremacy. See Priti Patel (in the UK), closing the borders that her
own parents came through. See Kamala Harris (in the US), telling
other colored people ‘do not come.’ Indeed colored people always
administered the colonies. For a little extra privilege, we can partici-
pate in the same hypocrisy.

Whiteness created a hierarchy, a ladder which can often be clam-

bered up, as long as you keep kicking downwards, preserving the
hierarchy.

For example, Italians and Irish could become white in America. As an

immediate example, Ukrainians have suddenly become ‘European’
now. The social mobility is of course contingent on maintaining the
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system, on standing in line. So Irish and Italians needed to be
enforcers like cops, or Ukrainians need to be separated from black
refugees. You can move ahead, a little bit, but that very concept
depends on leaving other people behind.

This is the premise and promise of whiteness. It allows some people

to move, as long as they willing to step on other people to get ahead.
And so the world turns, secure on its axis.

There is certainly a lot to apologize for here. Indeed, a lot to destroy.

But what is your place in this? To what degree are you responsible?
What do you have to explain?

Nothing

To me, nothing. I’m a lot like you. Perhaps I had a much more
tenuous hold, but I partook in whiteness much the same.

I was born with a white passport (Canadian). I grew up in a 99%

white town (Upper Arlington, Ohio). I honestly grew up thinking I
was white because nobody ever commented on me after the first
grade. I had all the options to move up the ladder, if I just shortened
my name. As an adult, however, I unconsciously abstained.

It was supposed to be the land of plenty, but I was depressed in the

north. I was cold. I was lonely. I couldn’t see a future for myself there,
indeed, I couldn’t see the future there at all. So I went to make my
fortune in rising Asia. Confusing my relatives and cab drivers alike, I
returned to sender. I moved back to Sri Lanka, where I remain.

Even physically away, however, I still identified with whiteness for

years. Instead of Christianity, it now cloaked its ‘civilizing influence’
as liberal democracy, and it took me a long time to figure out this new
hypocrisy. It still took me years to cultivate a different identity, but I
had some place to, physically, go. I understand that a lot of people
don’t have this option.

I understand that for ‘white people’—many of them fundamentally

homeless, historyless people, mixed and moved about by settler-colo-
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nialism, burdened by infinite choice—for them I understand that
they can’t just move. They have no ‘non-white’ identity to return to.
So while they recognize the inherent violence and shame of white-
ness, this feels like their only place in the globe.

And I don’t know the answer to this. It’s another path.

I walked away from a fight, they have to walk into one. People are
always saying ‘go back to where you came from’ to people like me. For a
white people to walk away from whiteness is something else. It is
what Noel Ignaetiv called race treason.

In the 1990s, he published the zine: Race Traitor. Its tagline was
“treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” In the first editorial he
called not for anti-racism and co-existence, but the abolition of
whiteness itself. He said:

The white race consists of those who partake of the privileges of

the white skin in this society. Its most wretched members share,
in certain respects, a status higher than that of the most exalted
persons excluded from it, in return for which they give their
support to the system that degrades them.

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish

the white race. Until that task is accomplished, there can be no
universal reform, and even partial reform will prove elusive,
because white influence permeates every issue in U.S. society,
whether domestic or foreign.

— NOEL IGNAETIV, RACE TRAITOR

Ignaetiv’s prescription was to ‘dissolve the club’. That whiteness had

no legitimate use beyond as a club, beating down the rest of human-
ity. What Ignaetiv called for wasn’t apologizing for whiteness. He
called for completely putting it down and walking away.

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 Dissolve the club

The white race is a club, which enrolls certain people at birth,

without their consent, and brings them up according to its rules.
For the most part the members go through life accepting the
benefits of membership, without thinking about the costs.
When individuals question the rules, the officers are quick to
remind them of all they owe to the club, and warn them of the
dangers they will face if they leave it.

Race Traitor aims to dissolve the club, to break it apart, to

explode it.

— NOEL IGNAETIV, RACE TRAITOR

This is a delicate balance of course. Plenty of racists say they’re color-

blind to just try and shut people up. You have to fight whiteness as
real in society while denying its reality in you.

At some level decent people do this already. I presume you don’t go

around talking about ‘white pride’ or ‘white power’. Ignaetiv called for
going that next step, to stop identifying as a ‘white person’ entirely. Not
to be a well-meaning white person, but to abolish whiteness entirely.

The existence of the white race depends on the willingness of

those assigned to it to place their racial interests above class,
gender or any other interests they hold. The defection of
enough of its members to make it unreliable as a determinant of
behavior will set off tremors that will lead to its collapse.

Race Traitor aims to serve as an intellectual center for those

seeking to abolish the white race. It will encourage dissent from
the conformity that maintains it and popularize examples of
defection from its ranks, analyze the forces that hold it together

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 and those which promise to tear it apart. Part of its task will be
to promote debate among abolitionists. When possible, it will
support practical measures, guided by the principle, Treason to
whiteness is loyalty to humanity.

— NOEL IGNAETIV, RACE TRAITOR

How do you do this? I don’t fucking know. Race Traitor was a discus-
sion, not an answer. It took me many years to decolonize my own
identity and I don’t even know if I’m done. I was unaware of how
wrong I was then and I’m probably unaware of a lot now.

I’m stumbling down my own path, I certainly don’t know what yours
is. But I guess the first step to walking a path is to realizing that you’re
on one. That you can’t just stand still.

Just Don’t Be White

Someone on Twitter was unhappy that I generalized about white

people. He said what about these white people? and sent me links.
Twitter messages don’t usually lead to resolution, but this surpris-
ingly did. All I said was:

Just don’t be white. I don’t identify as brown

And he was like,

Good point.

When you hear all this stuff about White Empire and white people
you can be like ‘that’s not me’ and be angry. However, you could also
be like ‘that’s not me’and just fucking leave. Instead of defending
‘some white people’ just pack up your shit and join humanity.

As you can see from fucksticks like Patel or Harris (or me), there is

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some traffic one-way up the ladder. You can just jump off the ladder
entirely.

Obviously it’s hard because we’re talking about identity, but look at
reality. The whole Earth is collapsing, we’re sick, we’re at war. What-
ever axis the world was spinning on, it’s out of control. A change has
got to come.

It’s a tight squeeze—between the rock of reality and the hard place of
identity—but at some point you’ve got to leave. There’s nothing for
you here. What does whiteness mean, besides being mean? It’s just
ruin and hypocrisy.

So you don’t have to apologize to me for being white. I don’t care. It’s
very relevant to society, but not to you and me. Tell me where you
live, whether you’re a mother or grandmother, what your favorite
sports team is, whatever actually matters to you. We’re just two
people in a fucked up world, be who you actually want to be.

We have to fight whiteness yes, but the most helpful thing is just one
less white person, however well meaning. You can redefine meaning
at a deeper level and just drop out and tune into humanity. As the
Beatles said, hallucinating a Jewish Palestinian refugee, let it be.

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14.I AM NOT YOUR
MINORITY
JANUARY 2021

I am not your minority. Brown people, black people, Asians, we

outnumber white people by the billions. We are in fact the majority,
and y’all need to get used to it.

You might think I’m a brown writer in a white world, but this ignores
the fact the THE WORLD is not white at all. There are nearly 2
billion people that look like me. It’s a wonder that you’re not seeing
more. There’s a sense that I’m a minority perspective on your world,
and I’m not. I’m just from the world.

What you are seeing is a much bigger majority culture poking into
your provincial world, and you call us minorities. Lol no.

We are not minorities. We are the world. This might take a minute to
get used to, but it’s coming more and more. As Aladdin could tell you,
it’s a whole new world. A new fantastic point of view. No one to tell us “no”,
or where to go. Or say we’re only dreaming.

Now you’re in a whole new world with me.

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 The world by population. Who’s the majority?

A World Of Minorities

Growing up in Columbus, Ohio I definitely felt like a minority. When

I went to the public pool I felt like you could see my brown body from
space. My old school has now gone from 99% white to, well, a bit
more Asian. But it’s more than that. It’s more than just accommo-
dating a few people into your world. The world has grown up around
you, and grown closer.

Places that were shitholes have come up. The west has fallen in a shit-
hole. COVID-19 came and accelerated everything. Within 20 years,
the wealthiest 20% will be mostly Asian. The United Kingdom won’t
exist. The ‘United’ States is looking dicey. Things change.

The very idea of a minority is based on a power relationship, but that

power relationship is changing. The western world has shat itself on
COVID (among other things) and everyone else is rising fast. We’re
looking at a multi-polar world, where majority/minority perspectives
make less sense. Everyone will be a minority. White people most
of all.

Even whiteness will, inshallah, disappear. I don’t mean that white

people need to disappear, they can just be French and Bulgarian or
whatever. Sri Lankans and Pakistanis aren’t using brownness to gang
up on Myanmar. Whiteness isn’t a food or coherent culture, it’s just

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acting better than everyone else and stealing our shit. Whiteness is
white supremacy and that shit needs to go.

None of this will happen because white people concede supremacy. It

just won’t be there. They’ll be another minority among many, God
willing.

The global economy is healing, white people were the virus

Progression To The Mean

This isn’t something new. It’s a return to the old, after the traumatic
blip of colonialism.White people went on centuries-long bender of
violence and pollution and are about to end the world. The transition
can’t happen soon enough.

Asia is not randomly rising out of nowhere. Asia was riding pretty
high until Europe sacked it. Westerners view themselves as civilizing
a backwards world, but they actually raped wealthier, more sustain-
able, and ultimately more civilized civilizations.

Wealth was in India and China for centuries (where the population
was) and is returning to Asia again (where the population is). Non-
Hispanic white people are maybe 15% of the world. As violently as
they smashed and grabbed everything, they simply don’t have the
numbers to hold it for long. White people are nowhere near the
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biggest population, they’re just the biggest dicks, which gives them
the appearance of a majority.

With the return to Asia, the actual majority becomes the perceived
majority again. Meanwhile most of the youth will be in Africa, giving
that region a chance to lead again. The idea of the world will be back
where it belongs. In the world.

This is the world we live in, and the broader force behind seeing
black people in Bridgerton. This isn’t some random victory for
minority representation, it’s actually the majority world, poking into
your narrow view. We’re not the minorities. You’re the minority. Get
used to it.

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15.HOW INCLUSION IS
IMPERIALISM
MARCH 2023

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The Brown Sahib by Tarzi Vittachi

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Include us in what? Colored people and women have always been
included in the White Empire at the level of slave and brood mare,
and now they are the level of Prime Minister and CEO. But this is
merely moving up within the White Empire, not moving out. Diver-
sity, equity, and inclusion are not revolution, they are in fact selling
out. Include us in the colonial capital dumpster fire just as it burns
the whole Earth out? No thank you. This inclusion is imperialism
and I want no part.

Some Assumption Sweeping

Before we start, let me clear up the mental space a bit. Let me return
to a few concepts that those raised within White Empire take to be
good and show how they are philosophically neutral and, in practice,
bad. Those concepts are democracy and citizenship.

Democracy

Like sports, democracy is war with less violence. They are both
games, and the first and most important rule is who gets to play.
Athenian democracy gave a lot of power to certain Athenian families,
but everybody else could be enslaved or tortured at will. Roman
democracy was more inclusive, but only after you’d been looted and
occupied. American democracy has taken a step back in this regards,
occupying and bombing people without even calling it that. If they
were as mature as the Romans, Iraq would be a US state, with some
say on its own exploitation. But no.

The point is that democracy is A) a game within and B) generally just

war without. It is not a naturally good thing that you should mind-
lessly defend or support just because. Like anything else, you still
have to ask what it does and what results it produces, because democ-
racy can be used for great evil like anything else. The ‘backwards and
superstitious’ ancients knew this, while people within the modern
White Empire believe in democracy like a holy catechism. You can
sprinkle it over bombs and flowers grow wherever they fall. After

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decades of bombs, can’t you see? It doesn’t work that way. Liberal,
western democracy is in fact the most exploitative, violent, and hypo-
critical form of government in human history. It has gone beyond a
neutral tool to an active weapon of war.

Citizenship

But the citizens within these countries, at least, have freedom of

speech and rights that other people envy and immigrate for. Ignoring
the wars and chaos spread by the White Empire that force tens of
millions to move in terror, lets look at the category of citizenship
within the component states of White Empire itself (the capital US,
satraps UK, Australia, the greater EU, and occupied territory like
Japan, Korea, and Germany).

In his excellent book Citizenship, Dimitry Kochenov examines the

concept closely and finds it to be a system of violent exclusion, rights
for some and not for other, allocated on an arbitrary and racist basis:

Like slavery, like sexism, like racism, citizenship knows no justi-

fication once you leave the purview of those few whom it
unduly privileges. The sexists, the racists, and the super-citizens
have convinced themselves, and want to convince all of us, that
dignity, equality, and freedom are not to be applied to all. This is
wrong.

The fact is that citizenship, far from being something to be proud of,
is a shame and a stain upon humanity. It is saying that certain people
have freedom of movement while other people should be caged,
separated from their children, and drowned. Why? Because of some
paper they hold, and where they were born. Is there any more rank
form of discrimination? And this hides in plain site, as a value.
People try to be ‘good citizens’. It’s an oxymoron. A contradiction in
terms.

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Inclusion In What?

Having shattered some shibboleths, let’s return to the question at

hand. Inclusion in what? By including women in the workforce and
politics, what do they get, and what do they become? By including
‘minorities’ (what White Empire calls the actual global majority),
how do they benefit, and how do they help others? Well, just look.

Female CEOs and leaders can rise if they are as exploitative and ruth-
less as their male peers and if they also spend time away from their
families. They can rise so long as they freeze their eggs and become
the bonded servants of capital. They can tinker around the edges of
capitalism, but never change the trajectory, which is exploitation of
people and planet leading to catastrophic collapse. Women will rise
just in time to be left holding the bag, while men complain that they
did it better.

Colored capitalists and politicians can rise so long as they call for and
enforce migration policies that would keep their own parents out and
generally become white people with a few pieces of ethnic flair on
their uniforms. May over-compensate and become worse racists than
the original oppressors. So what has happened here? We have moved
from steerage to first class on the Titanic, but the ship is still going
down. Now with us at the wheel and in the stock photography.
Congratulations?

Historical Inclusion

To return to the Roman Empire, which expanded from the city-state

of Rome to much of West Asia because of inclusion. They had African
rulers and rulers from all over the provinces. These non-Romans
were able to rule as long as they continued the general task of the
Roman Empire, which was a particular hierarchy. That is to say,
inclusion within a hierarchy means continuing it, not overthrowing it.
Inclusion within capitalism means continuing climate collapse, just
with a coat of green paint on top, and colored faces announcing it
with gleaming white smiles. Inclusion within White Empire’s polit-
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ical institutions means continuing their corrupt policies and forever
wars.

Hence you get the American military crowing about all gay bomber
crews and the inclusion of women in their killing machine. Is this
really what we mean by inclusion? What about the rights of all the
poor people under those bombs to be included in the living? Those
rights are excluded, because they’re not citizens, they’re not living in
officially denoted democracies, and thus don’t exist and don’t count
when their existence is severed.

Hence we get the inclusion of colored people and women in the

corporate and political hierarchy, climbing the ladder and kicking all
the way down. The fact is that we always worked for the White
Empire, we were the ones holding the whip and trampling our own
people for a pittance before. Now we get more, but the job is still the
same. Preserving the hierarchy that defines White Empire, which
isn’t really about color but about power. When we rise within the
empire we don’t challenge that power. We give our own talents and
labor to it. We prop up the Empire. That’s why I don’t want to be
included in this shit, I don’t want to be used to diversify disaster, and I
don’t want equality within a system that means massive inequality for
everyone without. Inclusion is imperialism, and I want out.

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PART III

EMPIRE
16.WHITE PEOPLE KEEP
LOOKING FOR HITLER
EVERYWHERE BUT IN
THE MIRROR
MARCH 2022

It’s easy to forget that before and after World War II, the biggest evil
in the world were the Western Allies. America was a totalitarian
nightmare for black people, and a big inspiration for the Nazis. The
UK, France, etc were brutal, racist empires with their boots on the
neck of the world. Hitler looked at these empires and, frankly, felt
left out.

Hitler

Hitler saw the looting and pillaging of colonialism and thought

“What’s left for Germany? We got scraps.” As he said in Mein Kampf:

Those spaces are only waiting for the ploughshare, and it is

certain that Nature did not set those territories apart as the
exclusive property of any one nation or race, to be held in
reserve for the future. Such land awaits the people who have the
strength to acquire it and the diligence to cultivate it.

Nature knows no political frontiers. She begins by establishing

life on this globe and then watches the free play of forces. Those

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nearest to her heart and they will be granted the sovereign right
of existence.

If a nation confines itself to 'internal colonisation', while other

races are perpetually increasing their territorial possessions all
over the globe, that nation will be forced to restrict the numer-
ical growth of its population at a time when the other nations
are increasing theirs.

— MEIN KAMPF

Hitler’s great project, which he announced from the beginning, was

the colonization of subhuman Slavs. Eastern Europe was the closest
he could get to colonies without crossing water, which seemed to
terrify him. At the time, honestly, most Europeans would agree that
these people, especially Russians, were ‘not quite white’.

Hitler’s great sin, really, was pushing his violence not just onto ‘sorta’
white people but onto white people directly, occupying France et al.
This was pretty standard European aggression, the world was fair
game to them, but it was unforgivable applied to Europe itself.

As Aimé Césaire said in his Discourse On Colonialism:

“At bottom, what [white men] cannot forgive Hitler for is not
crime in itself … it is the fact that he applied to Europe colo-
nialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclu-
sively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the n —
of Africa.” (via)

Césaire, called this the boomerang effect, when colonial atrocities

came home to roost. He said:

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 And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific
boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the
torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss.

People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: "How

strange! But never mind--it's Nazism, it will pass!" And they wait,
and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it
is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism
that. sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but
that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that
they. tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that
they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because,
until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples;
that they have. cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible
for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western,
Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, ; seeps,
and trickles from every crack.

— DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM

People talk about European values or European civilization but as

Césaire says, “Europe is indefensible.” Hitler was not some European
anomaly. He was just European values, turned inwards onto
themselves.

As Césaire said in the 1950s, white people tolerated plenty atrocities

as long as they were happening to non-white people. They were even
proud of them. And you know what? It’s the same way still.

Becoming Hitler

Centuries of violently looting the world inevitably spilled into the

racist peninsula they call ‘Europe’ not just once, but twice, obliter-
ating much of their power (but not enough). World War I and World

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War II destroyed much of their power (but not enough), and from its
ashes their conscience also got some release.

White Empire, inherited by America, was able to cover up its retreat

by saying the savages were civilized enough now, that they were ‘gift-
ing’ the natives the very ideas of human rights and democracy. They
gaslit us victims to say we weren’t even capable of imagining freedom.

In this way, World War II provided a release for European guilt and
shame. Despite all their centuries of evil, they could point to 12 years
of Hitler and say ‘that was the bad guy’ and ‘we got him’. So they
somehow got to be good guys again, absolved of all sin.

Genocidal killers like Winston Churchill could thus become heroes,

despite running concentration camps in Kenya and causing geno-
cidal famine in India, after World War II as well. We’re still making
movies about how great Churchill was at giving speeches, while the
millions he killed spin relentlessly in their graves.

The completely racist United States were able to become anti-racist

heroes, a tale manufactured endlessly through their cinema.
Suddenly the people who turned back ships full of Jews were saving
the Jews all along. The people who Hitler spoke so admiringly off
were actually his opposite.

But, I mean, that’s not what Hitler thought. Here is speaking about
the role of race in citizenship. Look at who he cites as an example:

At present there exists one State which is making at least a

feeble attempt to follow a sounder principle in this respect. It is
not, however, in our model German Republic, but in the U.S.A.
that efforts are being made to conform at least partly to the
dictates of common sense.

— MEIN KAMPF

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Then bear in mind that the United States continued legal segregation
until the 1960s, that I grew up in a town where black people couldn’t
live until the 1980s, and that practical oppression continues to
this day.

These are not good people. These are just Nazis that won. They are
certainly less bad than Nazis, but only in a very narrow way. As
Césaire said, they did not apply ‘European colonialist procedures’ to
Europe. But they certainly went on to colonize the Philippines, attack
Korea, Vietnam, Guam, and coup and try to control countless places
across the globe.

Then fast forward to the violent attacks and occupations of the post
9/11 wars. These are colonization by any other name, down to the
logic that White Empire is ‘civilizing’ these people.

The fact is that for the actual world, World War II never ended. More
bombs were dropped by America on South-East Asia than during
World War II. These was war, happening the world, with real
humans dying. The truth is that the White and Red Empires never
stopped fighting, and countless hot wars and cold-blooded coups
continued for decades, flaring up again after 2001 to a furious
crescendo, killing millions and displace nearly 40 million people in
America’s Terror Wars.

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But world wars are only when white people are dying. Nobody even
counts the dead or even calls these acts war for people like me. Only
white people count. Them being violent to colored people doesn’t
matter. That’s just… how the world is, not an unusual state called
‘war’. That’s just the quotidian violence of white hegemony.

But as before the official world wars, eventually the stench starts to
rise so high.The atrocities become too obvious. The natives become
restless. A new Hitler is needed, to draw some of the heat. And so,
dutifully, he appears.

Knock-Off Hitlers

Saddam was a Hitler. He even had the moustache. He even invaded

Kuwait, which could stand in for Czechoslovakia. And he used gas, it
was an almost perfect symmetry. So the US besieged and starved the
country for years, before finally putting it out of its misery.

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At the same time they attacked Afghanistan, under the guise of stop-
ping ‘terrorism’, a color-coded stand-in for fascism I guess. One made
more potent through the media frenzy that “any day, it could happen to
you!”

But after Bin Laden was killed, after the torture centers never closed,
it all became increasingly grotesque. What were they even doing in
Afghanistan, spending trillions of dollars killing poor people? And so
last year, they pulled out.

You would think that their pundits would have learned something
after such failure of good intentions, but no. The people that started
war after war just kept getting promoted. You can only fail upwards in
propaganda punditry.

And so when the country finally withdrew from just one war, these
people howled like children whose toys were taken away. They
weren’t even playing with it, but they’d be damned if war in
Afghanistan was taken away!

They need a Hitler, they always has to be a Hitler! Otherwise they’d

have to look in the mirror and see their own hypocrisy.

And so here’s Medium’s own Umair Haque, saying that America

shouldn’t leave, that the Taliban, who could barely pay their soldiers,
wanted to take over the world.

The Taliban’s goal is to re-establish an Islamic caliphate, to

whatever extent it can. All over the world. And that means
terrorism. It’s not just going to terrorise it’s own people. It’s
going to terrorise us, too. Us, meaning, the West.

It’s a fucking joke, like everything is a Bond movie and every villain is
always trying to take over the world. It’s a killing joke because
millions of Afghan people are being starved right now, all so people
like Umair can maintain this fantasy world.

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The idea that the Taliban is imperial, as Umair calls it, is just a lie.
These small group of literal ‘students’ from Afghanistan are simply
not setting up military bases all over the world and threatening the
continental United States. We live in a unipolar world and there’s
only one Empire with over 750 military bases and financial sieges
encircling the world. And it’s not the fucking Taliban. We have a
bunch of local terrors, but keep an eye on the Empire stitching its
terror into one, global war.

Lets be honest. Saddam, Bin Laden, the amorphous Taliban, these

are all knock-off Hitlers. White Empire requires the idea of someone
worse than them so they can continue doing bad.

After fucking decades of this, however, the crowds are getting bored.
They’ve seen it before. Beating up on poor Muslims was fun for a
while, but come on, they long for the good old days, fighting the good
old Red Empire.

And so White Empire kept expanding NATO long after the USSR
fell, despite many strategists saying this was madness. Who was
NATO fighting, after the Warsaw Pact fell? No one really, some
random Muslims here and there. What they were really doing was
looking for a fight.

And so after many warnings in 2008 and 2014—after so many strate-

gists saying parking missiles next to Russia was as bad as the Cuban
Missile Crisis—they finally got a real fucking war. Happening to real
(honorary) Europeans. After prodding the bear long enough, Russia
woke from its hibernation and lashed out at Ukraine.

White Empire could barely contain its glee.

“A villain, a real villain, something to stop all the fingers

pointing at me.”

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Russian Hitler

And so you get the perfect product for western propaganda. Their
population has been primed to hate Russians since Rocky and Bull-
winkle, and the Nazi victory gets rehearsed on film every year, in more
and more fantastic ways. This is a population locked and loaded for
World War III, and completely unwilling to see that they’re also an
aggressive party.

Therefore, rather than maybe sitting this one out after decades of
atrocities, White Empire and its privatized propaganda are calling for
more weapons, more sanctions (sieges), even a no-fly zone (which
actually means bombing Russia and shooting planes out of the sky).
They are calling for, in short, World War III. They’ve finally found a
worth enemy.

Marx said history repeats first as tragedy, then as farce. And here we
are. Today we have shops pulling Russian vodka from shelves, pop
stars raising funds for the Ukrainian military, and white women
getting horny over President Zelensky. War is a farce that gives them
meaning.

So we get our faithful Umair Haque, jumping from the idea that the
Taliban is taking over the world to the much better idea that Russia
is. So he publishes What Does Putin Want? A Worldwide Fascist
Apocalypse. In that piece of deeply internalized propaganda he
writes:

Putin does not care about human life. At all. In that respect,
he is very much like Hitler, and the comparisons are apt, not
overblown. Let’s remember some of the horrors he’s been
responsible for. Putin helped arm the Syrian government that
proceeded to make war on its own people, turn its own country
to rubble, and make its own population flee in terror and
despair.

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In pointing to this bad guy, of course, Umair omits the fact that White
Empire is bombing Syria right now. That they gleefully drop giant
bombs on that sovereign country every day. That they arm their own
paramilitaries responsible for atrocities. That they have bombed
Yemen and Somalia just this week.

What Umair and these constantly wrong warmongers forget is that a

problem can be bad, and your solution can be much, much, worse.
White Empire burned through all of its good intentions years ago.
Now all that left is bad acts.

Even after all the millions dead in Iraq, in Syria, even with all the
people starving in Afghanistan and Yemen right now, they still can’t
see. Imperial hubris continues, unabated. The greatest hubris is
calling everybody else empires, while these supposed empires can’t
even eat or process card payments.

White people—by which I mean anyone who subscribes to this idea

of White Empire’s benevolence and supremacy—they just don’t get it.
Yeah, Putin is bad, but you’re worse. For fucks sake, just sit this one
out. But they can’t. It’s not just the military-industrial complex. The
military-media complex also needs blood to feed. As they say in the
old-school press, if it bleeds, it leads.

Now the whole world is covered in blood, and it’s not enough. They
want to lead us to more, more, more.

Hitler In The Mirror

To return to Césaire, what Umair and his many, many ilk are
repeating is just the logic of colonialism, microwaved into modernity.
The scope of whiteness has expanded to include people like him,
Priti Patel, and it could have been me. We administered the colonies
then, and so we still be.

What Césaire said about colonialism still applies today. The under-
lying logic is still the same. Instead of Christianity we have liberal
democracy. Interesting ideas, used to justify monstrosity.

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 … Christian pedantry, which laid down the dishonest equations
Christianity = civilization, paganism = savagery, from which
there could not but ensue abominable colonialist and racist
consequences, whose victims were to be the Indians, the Yellow
peoples, and the Negroes.

— DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM

We must still ask what Césaire asked, we must still reject the idea that
‘liberal democracy’ is the new ‘civilizing influence’.

We must reject it not just because it makes no sense to bomb, starve,

and occupy people into ‘freedom’, we must reject it because Empire
has been trying this shit aggressively for decades. This ‘civilizing’ has
been proved savage, over and over again. How many wars in are we?
How much blood do you need to see?

Modern colonialism is fundamentally the same shit, just covered in

new bullshit. As Césaire said, we certainly know what colonialism
is not.

In other words, the essential thing here is to see clearly, to think

clearly--that is, dangerously-and to answer clearly the innocent
first question; what, fundamentally, is colonization? To agree on
what it is not: neither evangelization, nor a philanthropic enter-
prise, nor a desire to push back the frontiers of ignorance,
disease, and tyranny, nor a project undertaken for the greater
glory of God, nor an attempt to extend the rule of law.

— DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM

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And yet here we are again. The stench of all their atrocities was
starting to mount again, but then they got an out, through a conve-
nient lout. Just as World War II let them off the hook, White Empire
is trying to get off this hook with World War III. After fighting knock-
off Hitlers for decades, they finally have a real enemy!

But at some point we have to look not at the finger that points, but at
the blood on the hands. And White Empire is positively dripping in
it, from head to toe, from sea to shining sea. These are not some inno-
cents here, standing up against big bad Putin. This is the biggest,
baddest Empire of all time. These are the biggest bullies in history.

What I am driving at is what Césaire was driving at. As he said:

What am I driving at? At this idea: that no one colonizes inno-

cently, that no one colonizes with impunity either; that a nation
which colonizes, that a civilization which justifies colonization
—and therefore force—is already a sick civilization, a civiliza-
tion which is morally diseased, which irresistibly, progressing
from one consequence to another, one denial to another, calls
for its Hitler. I mean its punishment.

— DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM

The point is that White Empire is not the cure for anything, not for
Ukraine, not for women’s rights, not for any petty tyranny. They are
the problem. They are the disease. They are a sick civilization, they
are morally diseased. They progress from one denial to another,
calling out for Hitler like he’s their mother. Because he is. Hitler is
just them, externalized, that they can ritually pretend to defeat.

As Camus said, “At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day,
there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renuncia-
tion, there is Hitler.”

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Hitler is not out there in Afghanistan, or in Syria, or in Russia. Hitler
is right there, in the mirror, when Empire goes to sleep. White
Empire has been manufacturing demons so long that they have
become possessed by demons themselves.

As Césaire said:

For my part, if I have recalled a few details of these hideous

butcheries, it is by no means because I take a morbid delight in
them, but because I think that these heads of men, these collec-
tions of ears, these burned houses, these Gothic invasions, this
steaming blood, these cities that evaporate at the edge of the
sword, are not to be so easily disposed of. They prove that colo-
nization, I repeat, dehumanizes even the most civilized man;
that colonial activity, colonial enterprise, colonial conquest,
which is based on contempt for the native and justified by that
contempt, inevitably tends to change him who undertakes it;
that the colonizer, who in order to ease his conscience gets into
the habit of seeing the other man as an animal, accustoms
himself to treating him like an animal, and tends objectively to
transform himself into an animal. It is this result, this
boomerang effect of colonization that I wanted to point out.

— DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM

The truth is that Hitler was never defeated. Why is he still here? Why
does he keep coming back, in new avatars whenever he is needed?
The fact is that Adolf Hitler was just the rarefied evil of white
supremacy, unleashed where it wasn’t supposed to be. White Empire
inspired Hitler, and it constantly needs new Hitlers, to distract from its
own atrocities. Without some other flamboyant evil, they’d have to
face the fact that they’re the baddies. As Elmo said in the Sesame Street
song Monster In The Mirror:

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 If your mirror has a monster in it, do not shout
This kind of situation does not call for freaking out
And do nothing that you would not like to see him do
'Cause that monster in the mirror, he just might be you

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17.THE WHITE EMPIRE ARE
JUST NAZIS THAT WON
APRIL 2022

The ruling White Empire are just Nazis that won. As Churchill was
giving rousing speeches in the 1940s, he was killing millions of brown
people in Bengal (whom he called “a beastly people with a beastly
religion”). Today as Biden is giving drowsy speeches about freedom
and sovereignty, he has stolen all of Afghanistan’s forex leading to the
starvation of millions.

Nazis Then, Nazis Now

Same shit, different day, and all the talk of decolonization remains a
branding exercise until these people are defeated. Indeed, the
branding is all that changes. Instead of spreading Christendom and
civilization, the branding is now democracy and human rights, all
just different flags to wave over the same imperialism.

As a memo meant to put the training wheels on Trump’s Secretary of

State read:

One useful guideline for a realistic and successful foreign policy

is that allies should be treated differently -- and better -- than
adversaries. Otherwise, we end up with more adversaries, and

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 fewer allies. The classic dilemma of balancing ideals and inter-
ests is with regard to America's allies. In relation to our competi-
tors, there is far less of a dilemma. We do not look to bolster
America's adversaries overseas; we look to pressure, compete
with, and outmaneuver them. For this reason, we should
consider human rights as an important issue in regard to US
relations with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. And this is
not only because of moral concern for practices inside those
countries. It is also because pressing those regimes on human
rights is one way to impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and
regain the initiative from them strategically.

— LEAKED MEMO FROM BRIAN HOOK TO

SECRETARY REX TILLERSON

Like a Christianity they don’t follow, human rights concerns they

wouldn’t swallow among allies or themselves become the pretext for
imperial sanctions and war wherever they see fit. But it’s really just
the same shit. Dehumanizing the people you want to hit or exploit,
and finding a way to feel good about it.

Please compare Churchill’s 1902 statements about the rise of China to

anything about the same ‘issue’ today:

I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate

them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful
they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the
world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric
nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civi-
lized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China — I
mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The
Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

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How is this so different from Joe Biden today? Besides the openly
Sinophobic campaign ads and policies, here he is speaking at a ‘secu-
rity’ summit in Munich (I put security in quotes because it means
insecurity for everyone else).

We’re at an inflection point between those who argue that, given

all the challenges we face that autocracy is the best way forward,
they argue, and those who understand that democracy is essen-
tial — essential to meeting those challenges. Historians are
going to examine and write about this moment as an inflection
point, as I said. And I believe that — every ounce of my being —
that democracy will and must prevail.

So let me conclude with this: We cannot allow self-doubt to

hinder our ability to engage each other or the larger world. The
last four years have been hard. But Europe and the United
States have to lead with confidence once more.

Substitute ‘civilized’ for ‘democratic’ and both of these guys are

saying the same thing. ‘Barbaric’ for ‘autocratic’. Substitute ‘Aryan’
for ‘Europe and the United States’ and he’s talking about the same
people. How is this anything but the ‘white man’s burden’ rebranded,
spoken from the Aryan heartland once again?

Decolonization

The truth is that Germany only reckoned with its racist past because
it was defeated, occupied, and forced to. And even then only partially,
they’re still a subservient part of the White Empire now ruled from
America.

America took Nazi scientists, Nazi leaders into NATO, and the Nazis
themselves actually took ideas from segregationist America. It wasn’t
that hard laundering and recycling the ideas back. The great sin
Hitler committed was trying to colonialize white people.
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As Aimé Césaire said in his Discourse On Colonialism:

“At bottom, what [white men] cannot forgive Hitler for is not
crime in itself … it is the fact that he applied to Europe colo-
nialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclu-
sively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the n —
of Africa.”

The truth is that this colonial imperialism has continued, occupying

the Middle East, invading countries at will, sanctioning (besieging)
places for centuries, couping or assassinating leaders they don’t like;
using financial and military power to extract resources and labor
from the colonies, and hitting them if they get out of line.

This ruling White Empire will no more decolonize itself than Nazis
would. It has to be defeated, yet this seems impossible in isolated
America. The only hope really is that it implodes from within, going
isolationist, as it was sorta doing under Trump, albeit quite messily.

Defeat

If there was to be justice for the people and the planet, White Empire
would be defeated, occupied, forced to pay reparations, and have its
military taken away for generations at least.

We know the solutions to climate collapse—a massive energy shift to

renewables plus immediate degrowth in rich/western nations and
transfer of wealth to poor countries. But we ignore the fact that this is
all impossible with White Empire at the helm. The US military is the
single biggest emitter in the world. You think these people are part-
ners in progress?

The changes we need simply aren’t possible with pledges and

commitments, which is why they aren’t happening. Instead we’re
getting rebranding exercises on the same gravy train to hell. Joe

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Biden was supposed to be the ‘reasonable’ American President, the
one who would listen to science, but what’s he actually doing.

For example, Biden is proudly crowing about producing more, dirtier

fossil fuels, and encouraging ‘allies’ to do the same. You cannot
reform this. It has to be defeated.

It’s important to understand that the problem isn’t Biden, he’s just the
personification of an Empire visibly dying. The problem is systemic.
America is Thelma-and-Lousing off the climate cliff, with all of us in
the back seat.

Nazis Forever

When I hear statements from White Empire, I wonder what the

Nazis would have been like if they had persisted. Probably a lot like
this. Their atrocities would be brushed off like British colonial or
American atrocities against the world and its own people. We’d be
talking about autobahns, or their media, or something else. If it
sounds crazy, just think about the distracted and delusional age we
live in.

We live in an age where America has been able to kill and starve
millions of people and it just gets brushed off. They’re killing millions
of people in Afghanistan and Yemen right now, and not a blink.
Because they never forgot the cardinal lesson of white supremacy,
don’t fuck with white people. That’s what Putin forgot, as you can see
from the wildly unequal uproar over Ukraine.

Expecting climate action and human rights from these new Aryans
(re, Americans and Europeans) is as futile as expecting good deeds
from Nazis. They’ll keep doing good propaganda and bad things. As
long as the Nazis that won keep winning, the planet will keep losing.

There is no decolonization without defeat. There is no revolutionary

change with revolutionizing. Is all of this impossible? Yeah, almost
definitely. But what’s the alternative? Politely dying?

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18.THE HORROR OF
STARVATION
FEBRUARY 2022

Paati’s love language is food, and low-key surveillance. She always

wants to know where everyone is, and she always wants to feed them.
Achchi is pushing 100 now and nearly deaf, so she just forces food on
people. She doesn’t listen to anybody.

She’ll dig up old biscuits and pluck dusty, derelict ambarella and just
shove them into your hands, both unable and unwilling to hear
anyone say No, thank you. Please! No thank you! Achchi! Please. No more
biscuits! Achchi!

Love down here is expressed through feeding.

Children are fed by hand here well into their twenties. Not all the
time of course, but food somehow tastes better when Amma mixes it.
My mother would occasionally feed me until I was a teenager, until
she said my mouth just got too scary.

For birthday, pre-COVID at least, we ceremonially hand feed each

other cake. You take the first slice and then shove it in your loved
one’s face, again often non-consensually. We even do this in office. It’s
a kinda gross custom, but kinda lovely. It’s how we showed that we
cared for each other. By literally making other people eat.

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Today I watch my children eating, constantly, and I feel a deep pang
of horror, and empathy. Because I think what if I wasn’t able to feed
them, what if their grandparents and great-grandparents had nothing
to give? Besides the body horror, there’s the cultural horror, the
horror of the soul. How would we feel?

Today I know, I know, that millions of people live like this. Millions of
parents cannot feed their children. The starvation sanctions that
White Empire has spread across the world, they are killing millions in
Yemen and Afghanistan alone, a great many of them children.

To me this is not just the horror of starvation, emaciation, of your

energy, your body and organs shutting down. It is the death of
culture, or care, of community.

It’s not that people cannot eat in the ordinary, distant, callous starva-
tion of poverty. No, today people live under most brutal siege, and
they are besieged for generations. All sieges are fundamentally the
same, the goal is to starve and sicken a population until they give up
and throw their own leaders’ heads over the wall. White people just
have a new word for it, which is ‘sanctions’. But it’s the same fucking
thing.

White Empire’s sieges would make a Khan blush at their length and
wanton cruelty.

Today millions of people are being starved to death before our eyes,
sentenced to suffer and die under White Empire’s most thorough and
unforgiving sieges. They think they do it so cunningly, so bloodlessly,
like absolute ghouls they even talk about human rights and human-
ity. They say they’re defending women’s rights or whatever, by
starving their children. And honestly they get away with it, because
their own people don’t give a fuck, at these horrors that happen with
their money, in their name.

But Genghis knows and I know, these are just sieges. Hapless people
defied the empire, and so down to the newborn child, down to the
child in the womb, they must suffer and die terribly. The message

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White Empire sculpts into the rubble is the same everywhere, in its
pattern of torn concrete and steel. To modify Shelly,

Look on my Destruction, ye in Poverty, and despair!

To me this distant reality is a constant presence on the periphery,

which I mostly don’t think about until I feed my children. And then I
see it reflected in terrible immediacy, in the upside-down of their
eyes. What if I could not feed them? Forget the bodies, how would
our souls survive?

For every parent like me feeding their child, there is a parent who
cannot. And that feeling, that feeling opens a gnawing and a terrible
emptiness inside of me. Feeding yourself is one thing, but feeding a
child? That’s everything.

What would I do to feed my children? How terrible to be pushed, by

the richest people in the world, to the point where I could not? How
could I come home every day empty-handed? Because there’s no
money in the banks? Because there’s no food to be got? Forget my
pockets and stomach. How empty-hearted would I be?

Then I think of all the grandparents with nothing to give, only

hungry mouths of their own. Culturally this is a fate worse than
death for us, it would be for anybody. These are not just people
unable to live, these are people unable to love. These sieges are taking
far more than life. Their bloody claws reach through the generations,
into eternity. God knows, during a famine, even the ancestors weep.

We are talking about an amputation of the soul here, and we discuss it

as statistics. So many millions, happening so soon, whatever will we
do? That’s the news but look into your own children’s eyes. It’s all just
wanton abuse. Even calling these crimes against humanity, it misses
their complete obliteration of what it means to be a human being. To
be in a family. To eat.

This is the horror of starvation, to me. I see it every day in the reflec-
tion of my childrens’ eyes, as they eat. I see it in their grandparents

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smiles, as they potter around the kitchen, while the little tyrants
order them around. I see it in their great-grandparents lives, as they
carry on customs that seem to us excessive and extreme. This is our
life. This is our love. This is our humanity.

And some bureaucrats a thousand miles away, some cowardly

bombers behind a computer screen, they say no. Not for you. Not
forever. Die for human rights. Die for democracy. Die for every
abstract, bullshit value, while they can’t understand the simple fact
that every animal needs to eat.

So these arms dealers buy second yachts and throw plates of shrimp
cocktail over the side, offerings of waste to whatever death god they
worship. These corrupt politicians mouth platitudes about helping,
burning bullshit at the altar of hypocrisy. These inept journalists
make cocktail conversation of starvation, like it’s all just a ‘take’.
Meanwhile they’re taking food out of children’s mouths right now, for
real, for ever, for eternity.

This is White Empire, in its death spasms, killing people at the fron-
tiers just to loot more money from its own citizens. Dropping expen-
sive bombs on the poorest people. If you defy Empire, they’ll make
sure that your great-grandchildren don’t get food or medicine. That
how deep goes their enmity.

And even their citizens will want to debate these sieges, as if it’s not
just absolute monstrosity, horrors an animal in a cage would under-
stand. These are truly people without honor or humanity. The
ongoing starvation of millions, this is their most unforgivable cruelty.

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19.HOW WHITE EMPIRE
BLAMES EVERYONE ELSE
MARCH 2022

The most powerful empire in human history is somehow completely

powerless. Mexico makes them do drugs. Russia makes them elect
idiots. Oligarchs make them launder money.

Somehow all the drugs, dumbasses, disease, and dirty money got
pushed onto White Empire while they were innocently sitting there.
Fentanyl just ran across the border and crawled into peoples veins. A
few well placed Facebook ads made Americans lose their minds. And
all those bankers just had to take the oligarch’s money.

Empire is the real victim here. It’s last call at the Imperial Bar, and
these guys are sitting around, complaining and blaming everybody.

Drugs

Take drugs. America—the capital of White Empire—attracts them

like a black hole of despair. Yet this is somehow Mexico’s fault.

Donald Trump said migrants are ‘bringing drugs’ and Tucker

Carlson still blames them for America’s opiate usage. Even America
cinema makes it about scary cartels and drug dealers, and not about
the wide range of ordinary Americans demanding drugs every day.

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These heirs to the Romans are killing themselves, and blaming the
servants.

The capital of White Empire is wrestling with terrible demons and

they can’t seem to look in a mirror unless it’s full of cocaine. It’s their
drug problem, but they have to find someone else to blame.

Dumbasses

This blame game goes both ways. Faced with the embarrassment of
Trump, Democrats concluded that this most American idiot must
somehow be Russia’s fault.

It’s the flip-side of Trump blaming Mexico for drugs. The Democrats
blame Russia for Trump.

The idea is that Russia somehow lobotomized American democracy

with a few judicious leaks and Facebook ad buys. As if American
democracy wasn’t braindead before.

The truth is that American media gave Trump billions in free

airtime. American social media companies enabled him all the way.
And Americans voted for him. This is an American guy. Corrupt,
colluding with all sorts of people, absolutely. Like I said, an American
guy.

As Hannah Arendt said (about Nazis), Trump’s attitudes “were actu-

ally the attitudes and convictions of the bourgeoisie cleansed of hypocrisy.”

Since the bourgeoisie claimed to be the guardian of Western

traditions and confounded all moral issues by parading publicly
virtues which it not only did not possess in private and business
life, but actually held in contempt, it seemed revolutionary to
admit cruelty, disregard of human values, and general amorality,
because this at least destroyed the duplicity upon which the
existing society seemed to rest. What a temptation to flaunt
extreme attitudes in the hypocritical twilight of double moral

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 standards, to wear publicly the mask of cruelty if everybody was
patently inconsiderate and pretended to be gentle, to parade
wickedness in a world, not of wickedness, but of meanness! The
intellectual elite of the twenties who knew little of the earlier
connections between mob and bourgeoisie was certain that the
old game of épater le bourgeois could be played to perfection if
one started to shock society with an ironically exaggerated
picture of its own behavior.

Part of that hypocrisy is the idea that foreign election meddling is

some pearl-clutching crime. In fact it’s something America does all
the time. As Dov H. Levin said,

The U.S. has intervened in the most elections between 1946 to 2000: 81 elec-
tions in total, followed by the Soviet Union/Russia with 36 examples of
interference.

So honestly, cry me a river. Plenty of smaller countries deal with

American meddling all the time.

The truth is that Trump is as American as McDonald’s apple pie. It’s

artificial, it’s bad for you, and god knows what goes into it, but that’s
America. It’s not borscht in disguise.

Dark Money

The delusion within Empire is that everybody else is corrupt, and

that they just coincidentally come to London and New York to park
their money. Cause the schools are nice.

To really understand corruption, you need to follow the money.

Forget where the money is being stolen from, look at where it ends
up. That’s the den of thieves.

All the blood money in the world flows into places like London, New
York, and Monaco. It buys empty flats on Billionaire’s Row, football
clubs in England, it flows through fancy banks like Credit Suisse and

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HSBC, gets laundered through fancy schools like Harvard and
Oxford, even buys peerages from the OG oligarch, the British Queen.
Empire even maintains a web of colonial islands specifically for
money laundry.

Then they publish ‘corruption perception indexes’ pointing the

finger at Africans and Russians (ie the populations getting robbed)
while White Empire and its colonies are holding the fucking money.
This is the final act of money laundry.

Like it was throughout colonialism, the money gets sucked into the
heart of empire, the ‘savages’ get blamed, and the bankers and
wankers get laundered clean. It’s called ‘dark’ money, but the truth is
as white as can be.

The Paradox Of Power

The paradox of Empire is that it’s supposed to be all-powerful, yet

also under mortal threat from its enemies. It’s supposed to be respon-
sible for world peace, but completely irresponsible for war. The crazy
thing is that the paradox works, as long as it delivers some sort of
prosperity.

People will believe any story as long as it puts food on the table, but
today we’re entering a period of global food insecurity, climate
collapse, and what seems like World War III. We increasingly have
neither food nor tables, and these fables look more and more
obscene.

If we take them at their word, White Empire is already powerless.

They’re being forced to do drugs by Mexico. They’ve lost control of
their own democracy to Russia. They’ve been corrupted by oligarchs
and undone by disease. Hell, the barbarians have already sacked the
Capitol.

What kind of empire is this even? They’re just the last drunks left at
the Imperial Bar, whining about how everyone screwed them over,
and how great they used to be.

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20.HOW BROWN PEOPLE
RUN THE WHITE EMPIRE
AUGUST 2022

When I came in through UK immigration most of the people

manning it were brown. When I applied for visas they were all
brown. When I get here there’s a brown man in line for Prime Minis-
ter. Upper caste brown people are just the latest people in line for
whiteness. We’ve clambered up the ladder to kick down; never, ever
to flip it over and share the ground.

This all seems new and unusual, but it’s not. Brown people were
always administering the White Empire, they never stopped adminis-
tering it, and the same bad medicine is still going down. Our troops
were the boots of the East India Company, the mace of the Queen,
the enforcers for the white man against our own people. Our elites
were the rulers of neutered kingdoms, traders of stolen goods, getting
paid off with wealth plundered from our own land.

This shit never changed, it just became more devious, laundered

through democracies and ‘economies’, with coups and the IMF
coming in to quell the restless natives and ensure that the blood
money only pumped one way. Back to the still beating heart of White
Empire, relocated in a multiple bypass after World War II to the
United States of America.

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As much as I talk about how what white people have done to us, the
fact is that brown people have done to us. The fact is that as much as
they put us down, we never stood up. Divide and conquer was a hell
of a tactic. We still fight among ourselves—our proximate neighbors
like Muslims or Tamils or China or whoever—and never once focus
our attention on Whitey. Why beat ’em if you can join 'em? Beat the
other colored man and become whitey.

As Noel Ignaetiv (and others) have written, whiteness is a fluid and

ultimately clear category. It hides in its fluidity, like water. He said,

“Another work searching out the origins of whiteness is Theodore W.

Allen’s The Invention of the White Race. Allen declares that, when
the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white”
people there, nor would there be any for another sixty years. How
the English, Scots, and other European servants, tenants, merchants,
and planters in the American colonies were assigned a single status, so
that the most degraded “white” was exalted over any “nonwhite,” is
the subject of his study.” (How The Irish Became White)

In Ignaetiv’s own research he found that “the striving of the Negro

for full freedom carried within itself the vision of a new world for
everyone, while the assimilation of the Irish into white America
meant merely more of the same.” His book examined how “one
group of people became white. Put another way, it asks how the
Catholic Irish, an oppressed race in Ireland, became part of an
oppressing race in America.”

And this has now come full circle. After the Irish-descended John F.
Kennedy somewhat controversially became President in the 1960s,
the Irish-descended Joe Biden became President in the 2020s entirely
without mention. Irish have gone from being neighborhood beat
cops to politicians passing ‘crime’ bills that have incarcerated the
most people (mostly colored people) in human history. Irish people

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—once oppressed in Ireland and then in America—have become
part of the oppressing race. It’s the American Dream.

Upper-caste brown people (whatever that means) are on the same

trajectory. In business, we have taken over institutions like Microsoft
and Google and Twitter while their dilettante white creators run off
and drop acid. In politics, we’re Vice President in the United States
(Kamala Harris’s mother comes via Chennai) and possible Prime
Minister in the UK. We’ve got to the top of the ladder and we didn’t
get there by resisting whiteness. We got there by preserving it. By
becoming it. The one rule of climbing the ladder is that you must kick
down most viciously.

I can see it in ads on the tube recruiting for the Metro Police. The
faces are of black men, brown women with pottus, people like me.
The novelty of this deeply hierarchical land is that you can move up
the caste system, starting as boots of policemen, the bloodless
hands of lawyers, eventually even the ‘thinking’ part of governing.
Unlike a rigid caste system, this gives western caste much more
power. As Bruce Lee said, “water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my
friend.”

By seeing racism as a color we miss its true power. We just end up

with colored people in stock photography and even positions of
power, while the actions of that power remain as brutal and hierar-
chical as ever. We don’t really want to end the injustice, we just want
to be on the beating end, not getting struck. And so we end up
running and upholding the White Empire as we always did.

Racism is in fact about invisibility, not color. The reduction of race to

a personal failing when it is in fact a social success has made everyone
stupider. We are fucking drowning in something and we can’t even
name it. When we open our mouths to scream, it just fills us up,
cutting off oxygen to the brain. As Ignaetiv said:

“The reader will note that I have written a book about racial oppres-
sion without using the term “racism.” I consider the term useless. As

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 Barbara J. Fields points out, it is applied to the view that one “race” is
inferior to another, as well as to its direct opposite, the view that its
members must be held down because they are superior, and has been
devalued to mean little more than a personal preference for one
complexion over another. The sooner the term is retired, the better it
will be for clear thinking all around.”

Within the conventional thinking about ‘racism’ it is impossible that

brown people could preserve it, that is literally getting colors wrong.
And yet brown is white. We’re the next in line for whiteness, just as
the previously denigrated Irish were last century.

The fact is that the real color of whiteness is invisibility. When a

brown man can ‘run’ for Prime Minister with little mention, his ‘race’
has already started to disappear. When another one becomes PM
without mention in a few decades, our true colors will be revealed. In
a world full of diverse races and tribes and ethnicities, he will be
nothing. That is the greatest superpower.

Just as diverse Scots and Englishmen and Irish and Italians who
previously hated each other became one inchoate thing, so the
diverse Punjabis and Sinhalese and Tamils and Gujaratis become
that one thing, dissolving like earth into the ocean, rising and
crashing on distant shores, becoming the great barrier keeping
everyone else out, some of us rising like foam on the ocean, others
joining the other wretched poor at the bottom, forever drowning,
with only memories of the sun.

Nobody asks what standing on land would feel like, the thought is as
impossible as it was to fish long before. What would that even mean,
standing side by side, equal distances from the heavens above? What
would it mean to stand for a minute and just breathe, instead of
forever scrambling up? No, instead of land, we aspire to yachts.

We don’t want to escape the bloody ocean, we just want to float to the
top. We just want to crest like waves of whiteness, ignoring the
million dead enslaved at the bottom of the ocean, the billions of wage
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slaves today, and the fundamental emptiness when you do make it to
the top. And so brown people like me continue to run the White
Empire, as we always did, in more and more noticeable positions
until we finally become invisible. We are the White Empire. The
invisible empire. We flow like water, until the whole thing comes
crashing down.

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21.HOW THE ‘FREE WORLD’
IS OCCUPIED
TERRITORY
JUNE 2023

Once you realize that it’s been Opposite Day since the end of World
War II, things start to make more sense. In 1949 the Department Of
War became the Department of Defense and people believed this lol.
At that point the United States occupied Europe (especially
Germany), Japan, started war in Korea, and maintained a permanent
garrison in the Pacific, centered in Australia. When the USSR did this
it was called occupation, but when the USA did it they were ‘just
visiting’. But then they never left. So occupation it remains, just
buried in a barrage of opposite words.

Today these countries are called ‘free democracies’ or ‘the free world’
or often just ‘the world’. That’s how insular the view within White
Empire is. What to anyone from the Bronze Age onwards is an
obvious occupation is, in our brazen age, called ‘freedom’. But look at
where the military bases are. Occupation by another name still reeks
of defeat.

What the privatized propaganda of the ‘West’ calls ‘free democracies’

are actually occupied territory. Look past the words and just look. If
you have another country’s troops on your soil you’re not free. Saying
they’re there for your protection is a deeply traumatized reaction to
what any honest peasant would recognize as military occupation.

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Just as a few examples, the US has been caught spying on the leaders
of France and Germany and they just take it. They have blown up
Germany’s natural gas infrastructure and they just take it. They may
or may not station nuclear submarines in Australia, when the issue is
raised in Parliament the Australian people are told they don’t have a
right to know. They have of course couped Australia before and are
now making them buy their own subs (pissing off France, cause also
fuck them). Why? To protect their trade with China from China. Does
this make sense? No, but Empire says so.

The treatment white people get from the White Empire is still better
than the other colonies. When Iraq voted for American troops to
leave their soil they were told to fuck off. Japan’s own military
remains constitutionally neutered while they remain occupied with
multiple divisions worth of rapey foreigners. Koreans cannot decide
on their relationship with their own families without permission
from Washington.

Like vassals within any empire, these nations have nominal control of
their affairs, but when push comes to shove, they get shoved. When
the banners are called they have to supply troops to whatever prov-
ince the Empire is beating up on, and when economies have to be
sacrificed against whoever Empire is besieging, it’s vassals that have
to bear the brunt. Right now ‘for’ Ukraine, the White Empire is
calling up an un-integratable hodgepodge of tanks and materiel from
Spain, Germany, South Korea, and whoever has it. Ukraine gets very
expensive coffins while those vassal states get demilitarized. We are
who about to die and destroy our economies salute you, as these modern
Cable-TV gladiators shout out.

The Empire calls ‘sanctions’ (White word for sieges) against Russia,
but it’s actually its vassal, occupied ‘allies’ that have to bear the brunt.
Germany gets deindustrialized, the UK goes cold, and India just
laughs at it all and resells them Russian resources at a premium. I’ll
repeat, these are not free countries. Are they free to decide what wars
they get embroiled in? Are they free to act in their own economic self-
interest? Empires throughout history have given their vassals great

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freedom, but they always had to pay tribute in treasure and armies
and blood. Please put yourself in the sandals of your average ancestor
and ask, how is this White Empire any different?

I’ll repeat because it does not seem to penetrate peoples skulls. Look
at the map again. If you have tens of thousands of troops on your soil,
you are not free. If someone openly spies on your leaders and blows
up your infrastructure, you are not free. If you get dragged into
random wars and sieges that have fuck-all to do with you, then you
are not free. You may have a flag and a currency and a cuisine, but
you are not free. You are living in occupied territory. It’s Freedom© and
Democracy™, but these are just marketing taglines on what to any
objective observer is just the biggest Empire in history, doing the
worst fucking things.

Right now poor Ukrainian menfolk are being sacrificed so that the
White Empire can slightly bleed its Russian enemy. Right now the
entire European economy is being sacrificed so that Russia can be
mildly inconvenienced. Meanwhile the citizenry within the latest
capital of White Empire (America now, was the UK, it keeps moving)
have seen their life expectancy drop well below China and even with
Sri Lanka while their elites make even more money. The great inno-
vation of this incarnation of White Empire has been making money
by losing wars and looting their own treasury. And everyone is
supposed to believe this is freedom. Everyone is supposed to be
proud of this. It’s a crying shame. After you wipe your tears, just look
at things clearly.

After World War II the United States did not just benevolently take
over British bases and colonies all over the world. They occupied the
UK. They did not benevolently help out Germany, they integrated
Nazis into NATO and they occupied them. Same thing for Japan and
Korea, and wherever their boots still be. World War II was a scramble
for power and it’s just the power of American propaganda (all those
fucking WWII movies) that made it seem like it was all ‘aw shucks’
good intentions. Meanwhile the evil commies (that actually won the
war by killing the most Nazis) occupied the Warsaw Pact. But what

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about the parallel occupation on the other side? Nothing to see here,
that’s freedom. Freedom™. It’s a mockery.

I’m occupied in Sri Lanka. I know this. Our government got color
couped and we’re run by the IMF now. We’ve been occupied for
hundreds of years. I know this. But you in the heart of empire are
occupied too. Do you vote for these wars? Do you feel proud of
having foreign troops on your soil? Hell, if you’re in America, do you
like being occupied by your own highly militarized police? Do you
ever wonder why you get embroiled in beating up random poor
people all over the world, and get inundated with hate for random
places you’ve never heard of and which have fuck-all to do with you?
What do you think is happening to you? Where do you think you are?

These so called ‘democracies’ are social clubs with no actual control

of fundamental economic or military policy. They get drawn into
every war and siege, at the price of their own misery. We get to keep
our culture and customs, up to a point, but we must quarter foreign
troops and/or pay taxes by holding foreign currency (the dollar
reserves which fund Americas profligacy). This is literally the same
thing that rich land/slave owners in America revolted against as the
most brutal tyranny. And it’s the system they’ve imposed on the rest
of the world (everyone that isn’t actively under siege). So peel the
stickers off the life marketed to you as freedom and democracy. Look
behind the words and realize that it’s been Opposite Day since 1949.
The so-called ‘free world’ is occupied territory. And you’re probably
in it. The least you can do is claim the few cubic centimeters inside
your skull.

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22.THE EVOLUTION OF THE
HEGEMONSTER
DECEMBER 2023

Artificial evolution is the same thing as natural evolution. Same shit,

different day. Artificial evolution happens through the ecosystem we
vainly call ‘the economy,’ as if there is anything separate on this
Earth, and there isn’t. It’s all connected, which is precisely why ‘the
economy’ is breaking global ecosystems today.

Artificial life — commodities, corporations, capitalist empires —

exist on Earth and as part of earthly ecosystems. This should be
obvious by now because the larger ecosystem is dying, but people are
still fucking around and finding out. This hubris all stems from the
artificial division of the world into natural and artificial, thus entirely
missing the artificial evolution happening right in front of us, and the
natural destruction it causes.

This is an old topic for me, but I bring it up because understanding

the politics of today becomes easier if you zoom out a few billion
years, for perspective. For example, what America is doing in places
like Ukraine, Taiwan, and ‘Israel’ seems politically complicated, but
it’s biologically simple. Russia, China, and Palestine have resources
that it wants to eat, and it makes some shit up which will all disap-
pear into the geological record, like feathers on a dinosaur. All that
will be left is bones, pollution, and a trace of radioactivity if we’re
unlucky. America is not merely a hegemon, it’s a Hegemonster, and
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Hegemonster hungry. Beyond all the politics and propaganda,
that’s all.

The Great Oxygen Holocaust

I’ll go back a bit before we go forward. 3.5 billion years at least.

Billions of years ago (bya), there was a huge energy boom, as certain
bacteria discovered solar power. They farted out massive amounts of
oxygen, which killed off other lifeforms (anaerobic life) and started
polluting up the oceans and atmosphere, but they didn’t give a fuck.
The getting was good, so they kept going. Then the Earth reached a
tipping point around 2.5 bya and froze down to the Equator. This
killed nearly everything, and it took millions of years for bacteria to
balance the thermostat.

I mention this because without knowing where we came from, we

have no idea where we’re going. We don’t even understand what fossil
fuels are. It’s the same cyanobacteria, etc. We burn the trapped
energy that was trapped for a good reason, like heathens digging up
the graves of much more powerful ancestors. We act like evolution is
some fact we trapped in a book and like it doesn’t apply to us,
because we have smartphones and toasters. But what are smart-
phones and toasters if not evolution in action! This seems impossible
for us, but life is constantly evolving out of other life, often in forms
that kill their ancestors.

If you asked anaerobes of billions of years ago, they’d say aerobes

were not ‘real’ life, that they were ‘artificial’ or some other epithet,
but in the long run, who gives a shit? Life is always emerging in
improbable places, in forms that were impossible before. This is how
silly we seem denying the very existence of the artificial life already
walking among and, indeed, all over us. AI movies have trained us to
look for AI that looks, walks, and fucks like us, when this is
completely evolutionarily redundant. What is the point of repro-
ducing these weird apes? Capital has been reproducing for centuries,
and that’s the broader genus of artificial life. And that’s what’s

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running amok, choking us out with its carbon emissions, like those
aerobes from aeons ago.

We have artificial life evolving an increasing amount of eyes in our

very pockets and we don’t even notice. Indeed, we think we control
these things, lol. It’s a symbiotic relationship, and the symbiote is
increasingly coming out on top. Meanwhile our living relatives die in
the millions and we think this isn’t a problem for us. Meanwhile we’re
ruled by corporations and we think ourselves in control. We don’t
know where we come from, what we are, and thus we miss where
we’re going entirely.

The bias of living in fucking PowerPoint presentations and Cartesian

planes is thinking that bigger is always better. The entire phenomenon
we call ‘progress’ is chopping phenomena up into two variables and
plotting them against each other. We see economic growth going up for
hundreds of years, then natural resources going down for those same
hundreds of years, and not put two and two together. The Cartesian
plane only lets you think of two things at once, and PowerPoint keeps
you from thinking for more than 12 seconds.Meanwhile modern science
is siloed out from the natural philosophy. This science without wisdom
mainly destroys the world with a few people dedicated to feeling bad
about. The whole system misses the ecosystem we live in entirely.

We are part of an ecosystem, not some special species that gets to live
in a magical economy with no connection to anything, and no conse-
quences. We don’t get to just manipulate nature without nature
changing at all, duh. We’re not even the first species to get high on its
own supply, and nearly kill everyone in the process. Indeed, modern
climate change is just the consequences of digging up those same
aerobic lifeforms and lighting them on fire, running the Great
Oxygen Holocaust in reverse!

Climate change is just one of the ways we have broken this ecosys-
tem, that’s how deep our misunderstanding runs (and ruins). We
need to rethink this is we’re to understand anything properly,
including petty geopolitics.

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Evolution At War

If you’re looking for a history of artificial evolution, which we are, it’s

not hard to find. And if you’re looking to connect it to modern preda-
tions, it’s in the same spot. Dig up the grave of any monarch, or see
them laid out ignobly in any museum. People have been buried with
weapons almost since we had either, and you can see the weapons
evolving much faster than the humans. To future lifeforms (which
may look more like an axe than an ape), it won’t be clear who was in
charge. Indeed, I’d say the weapons are clearly dominating us.

How else do you explain the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of

soldiers in Ukraine, or tens of thousands of innocents in Gaza?
Moloch is not merely evil, Moloch is hungry. Capital, once incorpo-
rated, simply has to reproduce, and that applies to arms dealers as
much as any corporation. Indeed, the corporate form itself emerged
with colonialism, devouring people and land is in its DNA. You could
argue the same about the state in general. Colonialism, once it incar-
nated greed into corporations, simply had to grow and extract
resources. The city must suck dry the provinces or die, and if the
Empire goes global, it has to suck it all. Moloch has no morals, only
an ever-gaping maw.

Once you strip away all the words about colonial empires — like the
colors/feathers of dinosaurs — all that’s left is artificial monsters that
consume resources. Just artificial beings evolving in a certain envi-
ronment, then dying when the environment changes. Or fucking up
the environment themselves, like our aerobic ancestors. That’s
precisely what’s happening today.

Geopolitics is the wrong level of analysis for understanding world

affairs. Geology is more apt. Russia, China, and the Middle East have
massive natural resources, that’s why they must be broken apart and
capital-colonized. It has fuck-all to do with Ukraine, Taiwan, or even
Israel, that’s just garnish to make the meal go down. Capital’s got to
eat and Russia, China, and the Middle East have got the meat. That’s

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all that’s going on here. The global tyranny we live under is not so
different from a Tyrannosaurus Rex, after all.

That’s all the America Empire, the heir to the British Empire, the
nadir to the entire White Empire, that’s all it is after all. Not a
hegemon but a hegemonster, consuming fossil fuels to fuel its
inevitable descent into a fossil of its own. Now the fuel is running out
just as its pollution chokes the world, but Empire can’t stop. Even
though the Empire is running on fumes, they’ve still got enough juice
to genocide Palestinians, eviscerate Ukraine, and who knows what
else they’ll get up to.

Remember that all the reasons for ‘Israel’ or NATO will disappear
like dinosaur feathers. These hotly debatable issues of the day are
meaningless dust geologically speaking. The only thing the Hege-
monster will leave is a record of mass extinction, pollution, and radia-
tion. America was an inherently fossil-fueled civilization and can
only end up one way. As a fossil. The arc of artificial evolution with
unchecked energy is the same course natural evolution took. Hell, it’s
the same energy. Instead of the snowball then, we get the fire next
time. That’s the bigger story, beneath all the little folk getting crushed
in the news in front of us. Hegemonster hungry, but Hegemonster
running out of resources. That means Hegemonster hangry, which is
not good for anyone.

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23.AT EVERY CRUCIAL
JUNCTURE IN HISTORY,
THE BAD GUYS WON
SEPTEMBER 2022

When you learn history—and by ‘you’, I mean ‘me’—you learn an

arc. This arc of course bends towards justice, later. The arc starts with
an age of discovery followed by enlightenment, then an age of informa-
tion, leading all, quite perplexingly to total systems collapse. Where
did we go wrong? The answer is everywhere. At every crucial juncture
of history, the victors wrote the history, but the victors were assholes.
The bad guys won.

The Age Of Discovery

The ‘age of discovery’ is told as a superior civilization triumphing

over an inferior one, with a few genocides and enslavements as mere
boo-boos on an otherwise benevolent record. “We did bring you
science, please shut up”. In truth, it was a measurably inferior civiliza-
tion, the savage warring tribes of Western Asia projecting their
violence outwards, brutally displacing civilizations that had lived in
balance for thousands of years. These tribes, who called themselves
Europeans, claimed great advancements in technology, but these
were more like the blaze that comes from burning your own house.
They started burning the ecosystem then and they never stopped.

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Them being the brutal, enslaving, thieving bad guys then wasn’t
some anomaly. They weren’t good guys that just had to be tough
because ‘science and knowledge’ (the modern justification since
Christianity wore out)demanded it. These actually were the bad guys,
bad for the colonized, bad for the planet, and bad for the future. The
world would have been much, much better off if they’d killed them-
selves in Europe or been Captain Cook’d on every shore they set foot
on. But people didn’t, and the relatively meek didn’t inherit the Earth,
the most absolute shitheads did, and here we are. At the end of it. In
hindsight, the age of discovery was an age of destruction. The bad
guys won.

The Cold War

The next big juncture is the Cold War, which to me is just World War
II by other means. They stopped calling it a war once white people
stopped being killed, but across the rest of the world it was still plenty
hot. You have to understand WWII as part of WWI, which is the
blood-stained colonial empires—the literal spawn of Queen Victoria
—fighting each other, killing on their own soil for once. The USSR
overthrew Queen Vic’s grandchildren and started socialism. WWI
and then II completely tossed over her heirs everywhere except
the UK.

This big colonial family deserved to go down. All of those ‘world wars’
were just chickens coming home to roost. Hitler’s logic in WWII was
just colonialism turned on Europe. His sin was not the concentration
camps or invasions. France, the UK, and the US continued doing that
stuff after WWII. His sin was doing it to white people. That’s what was
unforgivable. We are taught WWII as the fight between the great evil
Hitler and the good guys of the UK and US, but that’s false. It was a
fight between a bunch of bad guys, with the USSR being the rela-
tively good one.

That fight went on after the world wars were deemed close, because—
like the World Series of baseball which only happens in America—a
war only encompasses the world if it touches European soil. It’s that
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western Asian peninsula putting on airs again. The US war against
the USSR went on for decades—Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan—with
Nazis literally running NATO and right-wing death squads enabled
all over the world. Then the USSR fell over because Gorbachev was a
dumbass and the USSR was too democratic. Then the US, as
surprised as anybody, stood over state socialism’s corpse and finally
pronounced victory in what was World War II by other means. Capi-
talism was the last man standing. But they were the bad guys. Again,
the fucking bad guys won.

Capitalism—as I’ve discussed, and as you might have observed—

fucking sucks. Everything good capitalism claims (reductions in
poverty, life expectancy) is actually the product of rebellions against
capitalism. Capitalism has been enforced by coups, coercion, and
outright war all over the world (World War II for colored people) and
it produced the same natural resource and labor exploitation that
colonialism did, just with nominal political independence. ‘Democ-
ratic’ countries all over the world get to choose which capitalist party
fucks them over with two settings, mildly and hard. Socialism luckily
survived and thrived in places like China, but that is under assault
now. World War III is on the cards. Hold on to your shorts. If history
is any indication, the bad guys will win again, but I sure hope not.

The End Of The End Of History

Everything we’re taught about history has been taught by the victors.
As they are the victors, they’re responsible for the direction we’re
headed in, which is total planetary destruction. People have been
saying this since the indigenous, since the revolutionaries, but now
this is the exclamation point on a very long sentence. These are bad
people! Don’t let them win!

Unfortunately, at every crucial juncture they did win. They won the
globe in an age of theft and destruction and rebranded it an ‘age of
discovery’. They won a century of war from trenches to coups and
rebranded it a ‘triumph of human rights and democracy’. Now as it
runs into something they can’t rewrite—ie the carbon smear we’re
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leaving across the geological record—the propaganda runs thin, but
they’re still spinning it. They’re still in power. We’re obviously
careening off a cliff, but they’re still at the wheel.

But for us, sitting in the backseat, chatting idly amongst each other,
we can at least see. Those aren’t our benevolent parents in the front
seats, those are planetary kidnappers. They didn’t run over the
indigenous and the rebellious coincidentally on the way here, that’s
precisely why we headed off the road of human progress and veered
towards human destruction. It should have been obvious from the
human destruction of ‘discovery’ or the devastation of ‘anti-commu-
nism’. As they say on the show Westworld (stop at season two), “these
violent delights have violent ends”. Given that we’re losing history,
quite geologically, it writes itself now. The good guys of paper history
are the bad guys in rock. At every crucial juncture in history, the bad
guys won.

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24.THE TWO HANDS OF
WHITE EMPIRE

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 PART IV

THE CAPITAL
25.HAVING LUNCH WITH
AMERICANS
JULY 2023

I was having lunch with some friends (old and new) from America. It
was wild to me how much money they need to function. I’m talking
hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to even think about having a
child. My friend earning just sub 100 has gotten snipped because it’s
just impossible. This sounds absurd to me, but when they take me
through the numbers I get it. Capital is reproducing furiously in
America, but people cannot. Something has gone terribly wrong.

Economic statistics and human lives have completely bifurcated, but

the ruling class only goes by the most artificial numbers. They’re
flying a plane on instruments, ignoring the fact that half of economy
class has passed out without oxygen. Random Substackers have to
make these graphs because they’re not on the dashboard of the
people flying the plane. As Stephen Semler put together:

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 Stephen Semler

While economists use GDP growth as a topline number, American

life expectancy is going down. Which seems more important. US life
expectancy is now the same as Sri Lanka’s, even though they spend so
much more on everything. My country is fucked and yet it’s somehow
a better place to raise children than America. What is even happen-
ing? As Malcolm X said, chickens have come home to roost, and the
global cancer of American imperialism also preys on its own citi-
zenry. The feeling of superiority from their Cable-TV Colosseum is
the only consolation. Their lives seem really difficult.

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This is the paradox of hating America. I get comments from people
saying “No, but look at me, my life sucks,” and I have to agree with them.
Their country sucks, but it sucks for them also. They have no control
over it. They’re stuck in economy class, scrabbling over peanuts. Here
I am having lunch with people earning literally 10x as much as me
and I don’t envy them at all.

They’re telling me that they’re actively scared of school shootings

which to me is just impossible. People in Sri Lanka would lose their
minds if such a thing happened. And yet Americans have lost their
minds long ago and consider this normal. I remember reading that
after Sandy Hook, after kutti children were slaughtered in class, that
the gun-control debate was over. There was nothing that they would
not sacrifice to industry after that. And so now the human sacrifice to
machines continues regularly. In this situation, forget affording chil-
dren financially. How do you afford them emotionally? I read that
having a child is like wearing your heart outside your body. How do
you carry your heart outside in a country like this? Better to get a
vasectomy.

America seems unaccountable for all its foreign atrocities, but in a

way America is its own brutal accountability. The country creates war
zones everywhere, and at the same time it is a war zone. They’re
training teachers to shoot school-shooters first, as if they’re under
attack from somewhere. But they’re under attack from themselves. As
Malcolm X said, it’s chickens coming home to roost. Except as veloci-
raptors.

It’s weird for me hearing these things because I grew up in an Amer-

ican classroom. I remember growing up in Upper Arlington, Ohio,
pledging allegiance to the flag, and learning proudly about the Amer-
ican Revolution. We dressed up to give book reports and I — the only
brown child in the entire elementary school — dressed up as the
traitor Benedict Arnold, lol. But I didn’t feel treasonous at that point. I
felt proud. I got up and sang, “And I’m proud to be an American where at
least I know I’m free, And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that

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right to me.” I think of those lyrics now and they’re nonsensical. The
only time Americans died for rights was when they were fighting
each other in the Civil War, and those gains were rolled back almost
immediately.

I was a teenager in America and it seemed impossible that we’d have

lives like our parents, and it was. My generation are a bunch of debt
slaves if we’re lucky, or completely cast out of the effectively neo-
feudal system if we’re not. I say feudal because I don’t know what else
to call a situation where you literally live in a house owned by a bank
for your entire adult life and depend on your job to provide health-
care. What is this but a feudal system, except you depend on an artifi-
cial lord (a corporation) instead of a natural one?

I don’t buy it anymore, but I left. I think of my compatriots left

behind, now yoked to their place of work, with a lot of money passing
right through them, going straight to the credit card companies or the
bank. These are people who ostensibly produce a lot for capital, but
they’re scared to reproduce themselves. Something has obviously
gone terribly wrong.

I’m having lunch with people earning literally 10 times what I earn
and they don’t seem 10x as happy. I mean, they’re fine, but most of
that money seems to be just passing through them like eating too
many gummy worms. What is America even, and who does it serve?

It’s not so much that my friends have property as much as they are
property. They are really a line on some corporation's balance sheet,
not their own people. They have houses, they have cars, they have
children, yes, but all owned by a bank or secured based on cashflows
from their jobs. So even their reproductive choices are tied into the
reproduction of capital and — given that they’re choosing to not have
children — it’s obviously not a very good deal for the humans.

I have a theoretical way of understanding this (corporations are AI

and we’re witnessing them chest-bursting out of human culture over
400 years) but it’s still shocking for me to see in person. I’m definitely

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poorer than these Americans, but something in my society feels far
less structurally broken. So you know what, I buy them lunch. They
deserve it.

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26.AMERICA’S DECLINING
LIFE EXPECTANCY
JUNE 2023

Data via the World Bank

After COVID-19, US life expectancy has fallen and it can’t get up.
Americans lost a full three years of life, on average, placing them well
below China. Same level as Sri Lanka, actually. At the same time, US
children’s test scores have also been declining. These are not unre-
lated phenomenon. COVID hammered a weak foundation and the
place is in terminal decline.

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And yet people talk about the stock market. Or GDP. It’s like a cancer
patient that things they’re getting swole because the tumor gets
better. All the death gets buried in debt. All the millions of lost chil-
dren get covered up by billionaires acting like children. None of the
stuff westerners call progress means anything if your lives are literally
regressing.

Life is, I venture to say, the point of life. GDP is a number and money
is a means, but if you ask people why they do all this, it’s to provide
for their families. To send their kids to school. To see grandkids. For a
better life. And that’s just not happening. Maybe the stock-ticker on
the TV goes up (before it goes BOOM!), but what does that mean
when life is visibly declining? What does horse-betting do for a
horse? For most working people, it’s the same thing.

I remember America’s COVID response and they only responded

when the stock market went down, ie when it was far too late for the
population. Prior to that they just used a human tragedy which
required cooperation to just attack and scoff at China. Like a school-
yard bully, they were just throwing spitballs at the kid actually doing
their homework. The Peoples Republic of China made a herculean
effort to save their peoples’ lives and they did. They helped save
millions across the world as well, including in Sri Lanka. And for this
all they got was scorn and lies from the coughing West, the place
which actually spread the most infection. Who did this propaganda
hurt in the end? Really those ‘democratic’ populations, who were told
to hate China and be proud to not expect anything from their own
government. What these people call democracy is just a reality TV
show distracting them from the fact that their governments are out of
control, useless, and actively hate them.

The United States response to decline, in general, is to just hit

someone else and hope it sticks. Now they’re openly trying to start
World War III over Crimea or Taiwan because World War II was how
they came up. But even that is different now. Their military-industrial
complex — like all their other industries — has been deindustrial-
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you’re trying to start the war with. As the Raytheon oligarch says, “We
can de-risk but not decouple,” he said. “Think about the $500 billion of
trade that goes from China to the US every year. More than 95% of rare
earth materials or metals come from, or are processed in, China. There is no
alternative.” Meanwhile America’s vassals in Europe are trying to run
factories without Russian energy, and finding themselves conquered.
I’d say love to say that World War III looks like a non-starter with
these idiots, but dogs in a corner are even more dangerous, and these
are dogs with nukes and they’ve used them.

America blames everybody else for their decline (Republicans blame

immigrants, Democrats blame Russia, and they both agree on hating
China). But who put baby in a corner? As much as the West likes to
lash out at other people, they have been a unipolar power for my
whole life. What have they done with that power? Looted their own
grandchildren, trashed the Earth, bombed a lot of poor people, and
for what purpose? So they could live less? So their kids could struggle
at school? Even their richest people are constantly ‘hustling’ and
seem miserable. What’s the point even?

I compare the US to China not because it’s a competition but because

they made China an enemy. And it wasn’t always so. I remember in
the 2000s and 2010s, how China was interesting and cool in the
western media. That’s why I went there to visit. You can still see it in
Chinese-language preschools rich parents send their kids to. But
when Trump said China is the enemy, Biden dutifully followed along.
But it’s just a massive distraction. We’re faced with problems that
require cooperation above all.

I compare the countries because more Americans would have

survived if they cooperated with and learned from China instead of
just slandering them. COVID-19 should have been a moment for
shared humanity, but America just made it into another one of their
vapid ‘debates’ and some ideological question. Meanwhile China
just did the work. They detected the disease early and released the
genome rapidly, by January 2020. That’s what enabled vaccines to be
spun out so quickly. China also showed how to do modern quaran-

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tines (aggressive and then over) and actually reached COVID-Zero
and held it there. And yet many westerners will read these
preceding sentences and comment back with pre-packaged propa-
ganda (at what cost?). I won’t even get into it. China is not your
enemy, Americans. You are. Just look at your lives. They’re lived while
you died. And you’re still dying in droves. As the Lord said, Pride
goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to
be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the
proud.

I know that Americans are used to thinking that they should ‘lead’
the world, but there’s actually more safety in following for once. The
predicaments we face are shared and, in most cases, American lead-
ership is a big part of the problem. COVID, climate, general common
sense self-preservation, America is ass-backwards on all this, and
dragging everyone else down with them.

I think to the future when we’re trying to survive climate collapse, for
which COVID was just a warm-up. Climate change is also just a
symptom of a bigger problem, the growth-fueled destruction of the
Earth that electric bulldozers won’t solve. This is another moment
when you’d think we’d put aside differences and work together. But
no. Even if you believe that renewables are going to save us (they
won’t), America is sanctioning the number one producer of renew-
able energy (China, an actual climate leader). Americans would
really rather destroy the world than follow anybody else’s lead for a
minute. So they drag us all down, kicking and screaming.

Instead of the massive investments in adaptation we need, they’re

pushing besieging half the world and militarily occupying the other.
Instead of shutting down the world’s number one polluter (their mili-
tary), they’re pushing nuclear submarines on Australia. Why? To
protect Australia’s trade (with China) from China. None of it makes
any sense. It’s like thinking the problem with the Titanic was they
didn’t have enough guns. We’re facing massive threats to humanity
and the US is focused on war with other humans. People they should
be working with. And their own people suffer for this vanity. They

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slumber in the American Dream instead of waking up to the world of
the living.

I grew up in America in the 80s and 90s, when all the lines were
going up and the dream looked more than possible, it looked
inevitable. We were at the end of history and America won. As a child
a lot of things didn’t make sense, but I always thought adults were in
charge. As suburban kids in Ohio, we thought the life ahead of us
would be good and long. But we were wrong.

The generation I grew up with lives uncomfortable lives in the crater

of the baby boom, unable to buy houses and stressed the fuck out at
the idea of starting families. That’s why I returned to Sri Lanka,
which has the same life expectancy as America now, despite being
more collapsed than usual. If you’re going to be in a collapsed society,
might as be with people that care about each other and in the sun. I
digress into the personal, but isn’t that what it comes down to?

Life expectancy isn’t just a number. It’s life and death. Behind that
number lie deaths of despair, suicides and slow suicides through
plaintive drug abuse. Behind that number are violent deaths with
guns, most of them pointed inwards, towards suicide or loved ones.
Those statistics bury people dying preventable deaths because
they’re petrified of medical bills, or people just so stressed by money
that it takes years off their lives. Those numbers mean millions of
people not eating well, not sleeping well, being constantly stressed by
debt and being psychologically strafed by the news. I guess you can
pile social media on there as a cause, but I don’t think that’s the prob-
lem. These are deep societal problems which just happen to be medi-
ated through technology. These are life problems, or the lack thereof.
What Americans can expect from life is just going down.

Most articles like this would end here on some hopeful note, but I
won’t. As Svetlana in the Sopranos said, “That’s the trouble with you
Americans. You expect nothing bad ever to happen, when the rest of the
world expects only bad to happen. And they’re not disappointed.” Tony
Soprano is the personification of America in decline, and he said,
“I’ve been thinking it’s good to be in something from the ground floor. I came
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too late for that I know but lately I’m getting the feeling that I came in at
the end. The best is over.” His shrink replies, “Many Americans I think feel
that way.” And she’s right. They’re right. As I say as Millennial, I was
born in the age of fucking around, and I will die in the age of finding
out.

But I’m not an American, and I won’t heroin-coat it for you. I’m used
to things getting bad, and then getting worse. I have no fentanyl in my
fingers, no written opiate to offer you. What goes up must go down
and if karma is real, Americans have got it coming. You can say it’s
‘not me’, but I’m a Buddhist and I believe in not-self, I don’t even
understand what you’re talking about.

Life expectancy is an aggregate figure. These are things that happen

at the social level and across multiple births and rebirths. Life
expectancy reflects aggregate suffering across a population. It’s really
a measure of a whole lot of shit going wrong at different levels of
consciousness than the self or even the extant population. This is not
something you can vote (lol) or even organize your way out of. This is
a predicament, not a problem.

I’ll say it again. The collapse of America is a predicament, not a prob-

lem. You can’t make it out of a predicament, you can only make it
through, if you’re lucky. So what can the average American do about
average life expectancy? Dude, I don’t know, on average you’re fucked.
When life expectancy goes down like this, you have to adjust your
expectations. Life ain’t gonna be what it used to be, and it won’t be
what you thought. America is an empire in violent and bitter decline.
Is it any wonder that American lives are getting nasty, brutish, and
short?

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27.AMERICA IS DEAD
APRIL 2020

America is dead. The body hasn’t hit the ground yet, but the lights
have gone out, the pillars of power have fallen and it’s just a matter of
time. The king is dead. God damn the king.

When it’s all written, America began falling on 9/11, with the twin
towers. No empire attacks Afghanistan and survives, and America
was no exception. They remained there and, randomly, Iraq for
decades, draining resources, and reputation every day. Not because of
their torture and murder and brutality, but because it was all for
naught. They lost those wars, just as they had lost every war for
decades. Because all of their military might could be undone with a
few boarding passes.

Weakened within and without, they finally killed by an uncommon

cold. A plague that exposed a hollowed-out, incompetent, and preda-
tory federal government, run by a mad King, presiding over a carcass
his party had been gutting for years. The Republican Party had been
destroying the idea of governance for decades, it just took a plague to
show how successful they’d been.

Finally, they were buried by the Greatest Depression, and fossilized

in the silt of climate change. Unemployment and poverty worse than
the 1920s, and with an initial response more incompetent than

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Hoover’s. Whereas a stitch in time would have saved $9 trillion,
Trump’s regime of institutional arson and intravenous bleach killed
not only nearly a million Americans, it also killed off the entire state.
The entire idea of America as a competent empire was dead. It was
just a failed state in a Gucci belt.

While the Democrats were able to cobble together a sort of country,

the empire — that triumvirate of military, economic and moral power
— was gone. Americans were exposed as the dumbest people on
Earth, manipulated by the most evil. Power is where people believe it
resides, and no one believed in America anymore.

People often say that after the fall of Rome it was the dark ages, and
that wasn’t quite true. Advances continued apace in the East, and
much of the world was liberated from the yoke of empire. In the
lapse, people were left to their own murder, torture, and toxicity,
which was at least less pervasive.

So America was gone. They came in on a mad king and left on one
as well. A genocidal nation of slave-owners and immigrant
exploiters who nonetheless produced excellent TV. A rich country
full of poor people, a land of freedom and slavery, opportunity and
illegal immigration — a study in contradictions if there ever
was one.

Right now, the American Empire still walks and talks, but it’s more of
a slow suicide by press conference. In historical terms, America
drank bleach and died in 2020. Though it stumbled on for decades,
into a climate crisis of its own making and into the horrific planetary
wreckage of its greed, it was dead long before that final blow. It was
dead from birth, a lie, a short-lived empire that thought it would live
forever.

Fundamentally, America was a bunch of white men who didn’t want

to pay taxes, then didn’t want to give up their slaves, then really didn’t
want to pay their taxes so much that the whole empire collapsed.
That’s how they’ll be remembered. Everything else is propaganda,
torn off like so much plastic packaging. They will be admired and

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emulated in ways, but fundamentally viewed as hopelessly violent
and cruel. As the past.

America is history. They never saw their end coming, but in hind-
sight, it was always clear. They were born in genocide, nursed by slav-
ery, spent their youth in violence, and died of neglect and disease.
They called themselves a Christian nation, but who are we kidding,
the Americans would have killed Christ in an instant. America is
Rome, and like Rome, they have fallen. Good riddance, and thanks
for all the TV.

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28.AMERICA'S
COLONIZATION IN
ONE GIF
NOVEMBER 2021

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I learned a map as a kid, America spreading its legs from the Atlantic
to Ohio and beyond. We studied the frontiersmen who 'settled' the
United States. We played Oregon Trail. On the computer I followed
the whole route of a 'settler' family, fording rivers, hunting squirrels,
dying of dysentery along the way. Today I find the whole thing unset-
tling. Today the map looks like watching cancer spread. It's Colo-
nialism in a GIF.

If you flip the previous pages, you'll see that some parts of the map
remain less dense. The West, just before the Rockie Mountains. It's
one of those effective global deserts. People don't live there. It's very
difficult to survive.

That's where the Native American nations were pushed. In Okla-

homa you get the Seminole Nation, Chickasaw Nation, the Muscogee
Nation. In Arizona you get the Cherokee Nation, the Hopi and the
Hualapai Reservations. All relatively independent nations of their
own. The native American nations, as opposed to the invasive one.

The Seminole were not from the west. Nor were the Cherokee. They
were pushed there, along a Trail Of Tears. They were pushed by a
wave of settler-colonial violence—murder, rape, theft, and rabid
racist hate. They were pushed at the end of a knife, the butt of a gun,
out from under their burning homes. America was founded on a
genocidal lebensraum policy that wasn't Nazi-like, it inspired the
Nazis. As Hitler said in the generally unreadable Mein Kampf:

Those spaces are only waiting for the ploughshare, and it is

certain that Nature did not set those territories apart as the
exclusive property of any one nation or race, to be held in
reserve for the future. Such land awaits the people who have the
strength to acquire it and the diligence to cultivate it.

Nature knows no political frontiers. She begins by establishing

life on this globe and then watches the free play of forces. Those
who show the greatest courage and industry are the children

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 nearest to her heart and they will be granted the sovereign right
of existence.

Mein Kampf contains the same logic as the the American creed of
Manifest Destiny, the idea that America could conquer west, south,
north. Wherever the fuck they want. They were doing people a favor.

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American Progress (1872) by John Gast. "Manifest Destiny, a phrase
coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God,
its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy
and capitalism across the entire North American continent."

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Hitler really admired the American idea, of not having distant
colonies but constantly murdering your neighbors at home.

It may be said that they have the apex in Europe and the base of
the pyramid all over the world very different from the United
States of America, which has its base on the American Conti-
nent and is in contact with the rest of the world only through its
apex. Out of that situation arises the incomparable inner
strength of the U.S.A.

He said this was the source of American strength. It was inspirational

to him. Hitler's real mistake was not that he was a brutal, genocidal
colonizer. His mistake was that he tried it on white people. Yet if you get
over the racism, the underlying colonial logic is the same. Mein Kampf
just says the quiet parts out loud. As Hitler said, "the plough is then the
sword, and the tears of war will produce the daily bread for generations to
come."

The German people will have no right to engage in a colonial

policy until they have brought all their children together in one
State. When the territory of the Reich embraces all Germans
and proves incapable of assuring them a livelihood, only then
can the moral right arise, from the need of the people, to
acquire foreign territory. The plough is then the sword, and the
tears of war will produce the daily bread for the generations to
come.

Hitler's big idea was that Slavs were not quite white, and therefore
could be colonized. For Invasive Americans, Native Americans were
certainly subhuman, and thus in school we learned about coloniza-
tion like there was no one there. But there were people there. There
were more civilized people who were far less violent and had lived in
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balance with their ecosystem for thousands of years. America was
colonized violently, brutally, and hard.

It's fucked up because it's the same despicable logic in Mein Kampf,
but somehow a noble story in America. What I learned in school,
what I saw in every movie, was that Americans were the good guys
and the good guys won. What I realize now is that it's the opposite.
Americans are just Nazis that won.

Far from being the freedom-loving nation that defeated the Nazis (as
all the movies portrayed), America was the nation that inspired the
Nazis, which just got entangled to protect other white supremacist
states. As James Q. Whitman wrote in Hitler’s American Model,
"many Nazis, including not least Hitler himself, took a serious interest in the
racist legislation of the United States."

Minister Gürtner presented a memo on American race law,

which had been carefully prepared by the officials of the
ministry for purposes of the gathering; and the participants
returned repeatedly to the American models of racist legislation
in the course of their discussions. It is particularly startling to
discover that the most radical Nazis present were the most
ardent champions of the lessons that American approaches
held for Ger-many. Nor, as we shall see, is this transcript the
only record of Nazi engagement with American race law. In the
late 1920s and early 1930s many Nazis, including not least Hitler
himself, took a serious interest in the racist legislation of the
United States. Indeed in Mein Kampf Hitler praised America as
nothing less than "the one state" that had made progress toward
the creation of a healthy racist order of the kind the Nuremberg
Laws were intended to establish.

What Hitler was most covetous of was A) the racial unity of American
state and B) their seemingly inexhaustible lebensraum. Living space.
For other people, of course, it meant death. And so that is the great
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existential challenge America faces today. They ran out of lebensraum
decades ago. Their racial unity has also fallen apart. Everything the
country was actually founded on is coming apart.

America has run out of land, it has run out of destiny, it has run out
of people to enslave. They're reduced to losing wars, selling them-
selves zombie companies and made-up currencies, anything to just
keep the pillage going a little longer, even if they're only pillaging
themselves. What does a settler-colony do when it runs out of land
and ideas? It becomes unsettled. And so this map also shows the exact
fault-lines of a collapsing America today.

I must note that this map leaves out the ongoing American colonization of
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, their torture sites in Guantanamo Bay and all
over the world. All their military bases (made by displacing people), and all
the places they occupy through war or just bullying.

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29.WHAT AMERICA’S
BUDGET TELLS YOU
ABOUT AMERICA’S
VALUES
APRIL 2022

American President Joe Biden said, “don’t tell me what you value, show
me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” Well, look at the broad
2020 budget above and tell me what values America has.

The two biggest line items are Social Security/Medicare and War.
The World War II generation got benefits for themselves and their
kids, and every future American can go to hell. And the world can
have forever war. America’s budgetary values—across administra-
tions—are old people at home and dead people abroad.

The country is a genocidal gerontocracy, and Joe Biden is the walk-

ing, creaking personification of that. The past standing athwart the
present, completely fucking the future up.

Gerontocracy

Gerontocracy means rule by the old, and America’s leaders are old as
the color TV. Biden is 79, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is 82,
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is 71. Former President
Trump is now 75. Biden first ran for President in the 1980s and just
kept trying. In America you can just fail upwards until you die.

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The median age of this 117th Congress is 60 years old, much higher
than the national median of 38. They’re also much richer than the
average American, so they really represent rich old people, as you
may have noticed during the pandemic. Unprotected old people
could just fuck off and die for the stock market’s sake, as long as
Nancy Pelosi’s portfolio was safe.

America has social programs that the ‘greatest generation’ fought for
—Social Security and Medicare. These are now so ensconced that
they’re called mandatory spending. Every latest generation, however,
has to fend for themselves. Younger Americans have to pay for every-
thing themselves, including Social Security and Medicare.

The people working now pay for the benefits being given out now.
Given changing demographics and circumstances, it’s not clear that
these programs will even be solvent by the time current workers
retire.

Hence it’s not just working class people that get screwed in America,
it’s working age people. They pay for old people to have ‘socialist’
healthcare and UBI while living under predatory capitalism
themselves.

It’s generational theft really. This is not to say people shouldn’t take
care of elders, of course we should. But the broader principle of ‘we
should care for everybody’ has never taken hold in America. That’s
what the budget shows.

In fact, instead of spending on the lives of its own people, the next
biggest line item is killing people abroad.

Genocide

Genocide is killing a people, in whole or in part. This is what

America has been doing to Muslims since 9/11, and it’s still going on.
They have killed over a million (at least) and displaced tens of
millions. They have legitimized and spread genocidal Islamophobia

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all over the world. Now they’ve moved on to demonizing, besieging,
and proxy attacking Chinese and Russian people.

Right now Joe Biden is actively starving hundreds of Afghan children

to death.He stole the country’s foreign reserves, destroying their
economy more thoroughly than bombs, leading to 13,000 newborns
dying this year alone. If you don’t call that genocide, then fuck off
and die.

This is all a for profit industry. Half of the money going into their
‘Defense’ Department goes out to private arms dealers, who literally
run the Pentagon. The current Defence Secretary walked straight out
of Raytheon. It’s really an Offense Department. The whole thing is an
offense to god and human.

Just as the leaders of both parties are rich, old fucks, they are both
equally bloody minded abroad. There’s not much daylight between
Trump and Biden’s discretionary budgets. It’s all dark.

Biden is actually worse. Whereas Trump at least didn’t start any

major new wars, Biden is banging the gong for World War III quite
liberally. He has worsened historical atrocities against Yemen and
Afghanistan and is sowing the wind all over the world.

Like armored chickens coming home to roost, America’s war machine

has also come home. Since the War On Drugs, the Pentagon has been
giving military equipment to local police departments. Since 9/11 they
centralized their police state, including a border Gestapo complete
with concentration camps for unwanted souls. America has quite
thoroughly occupied itself. There’s just a thin blue line between
foreign and domestic violence now.

If you include all this violence against itself, a full two-thirds of

Biden’s discretionary budget is for violence. Elected on the wings of
the largest anti-occupation protest movement in human history
(BLM), Joe Biden did what every American President does instead.
He chose violence.

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This Is America

This is America. Don’t catch you slipping now.

The desires of the American people for better lives at home have no
impact on the gentrified gerontocrats in charge. The American
people got all the concessions they were ever going to get by the
1960s, and then that generation just closed the door.

The ordinary American’s natural disinterest in the world has no

impact on the corrupt oligarchy that’s actually in charge. America got
rich fighting World War II and that’s all they really know. So the
world gets forever war.

So unlike the Romans who at least got bread and circuses, Americans
just get a circus. The color-TV generation built a cable-TV circus,
where culture wars are endlessly performed. They’ve been feeding
the Muslims to the lions for decades, now it’s Russians and Chinese
because the plebs have gotten bored.

Americans also get to fight each other, it’s all a distracting perfor-
mance. Their media has endless debates about socialism vs. capital-
ism, while its gerontocrats have both. If you turn off the TV and just
look at the money, that’s what their budgets show.

The truth is that America is an aging Empire, well-personified by

oldest President they ever elected, Joe Biden. Their budgets serve the
past on a mandatory basis, but no leader has ever used their discretion
to invest in the future. And so they have none. Instead they invested
in death, and you reap what you sow.

A thousand Americans are dying every day because they don’t have a
social safety net. Their corrupt government is killing tens-of-thou-
sands globally because that’s how they cash cheques. They have
buried future Americans under national debt, and every future living
being under climate debt.

This is a dead and killing Empire and as it both implodes and

explodes, why should we have any regrets? I grew up there and good

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riddance (though it’s going out ugly). There’s no values in America
anymore. You can see it in their budgets. As Paul Simon said, “Nothing
but the dead and dying back in my little town.” There’s nothing but
killing and dying, as White Empire goes down.

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30.AMERICA’S ONLY
ELECTION CHOICES ARE
IMPERIALISM OR
FASCISM
DECEMBER 2023

America’s only choices are imperialism abroad, or fascism at home.

They can blow up the world, as Biden is doing, or blow up their own
country via Trump. In the end both disasters will happen, just in
different proportions. Biden is also destroying America, and Trump is
also terrible for the world. There is no ‘lesser’ evil in America. It’s just
nearer or further evil. The ‘evil’ in the evil Empire is constant no
matter what.

The Further Führer

Joe Biden is the further führer, unleashing his worst predations

abroad. Right now, he is presiding over the industrial genocide of the
Palestinian people, while also getting his proxy ass-kicked in Ukraine
and destroying Germany, like some other führers we know. If he gets
re-elected who knows how many more wars he’ll start. He’s going to
die in a few years and he seems determined to take as many people
with him as possible.

Biden has unleashed an absolute necrophiliac orgy of corruption in

Ukraine and has already moved onto the more comfortable terrain of
Palestine, dropping expensive bombs on poor people without air
defenses. Being the world’s biggest arms dealer is the only Presiden-

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tial job he takes seriously, everything else is too difficult. Biden is the
last, dying imperialist of a dying imperial order and while he can’t
win anything, he can certainly kill a lot of people on the way out.

The Nearer Nazi

In the other corner, we have Donald Trump, the nearer Nazi. Drumpf
saves his vitriol and violence for borders he knows, like Mexico.
Trump campaigned by dehumanizing migrants, ruled by throwing
them into concentration camps, and promises to do worse if re-
elected. While he periodically bombed the Middle East as President
(you have to), he was fundamentally more interested in beating up
protesters in Middle America.

Whereas Biden uses Ukraine for corruption, Trump just opened a

hotel across from the White House and collected bribes there. As I
said, he’s the nearer Nazi. Trump viewed the Presidency as shit-poster
in chief and was dethroned when COVID-19 couldn’t be catch-
phrased into submission. Trump ended up killing and disabling
millions Americans, but involuntarily (a policy his successor contin-
ued). Trump was the idiot President of an idiot country, whose only
remaining skill was boasting. Trump can also kill a lot of people on
the way out, but less predictably, and probably more at home.

No Lesser Evil

There is no lesser evil here, it’s all evil, just in different directions.
Biden is a devoted Orientalist while Biden is a Nativist, but they’re
both just assholes. Biden and Trump are two sides of the same impe-
rial coin, one for export purposes and the other local. Indeed, this is
that nature of imperialism/colonialism. It is a cancer which eats at
the heart of Empire and emerges as fascism, the colonization of your
own people. As Aimé Césaire said:

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 And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific
boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the
torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss.

People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How

strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they
wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves,
that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning
barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; thatit is
Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were
its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was
inflicted on them, thatthey absolved it, shut their eyes to it,
legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only
to non-European peoples;that they have cultivated that
Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before
engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in
its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every
crack.

The fact is that Fascism and Imperialism are the same thing, just
pointed in different directions. The same people that complain about
Trump’s Nazism have been the willing accomplices of American
Nazism all over the globe. Fascism is just imperialism turned
inwards, and imperialism is just fascism turned inside out. People act
shocked, shocked that Trump might make America fascist, but
America is already fascist to the people it invades, coups, bombs, and
genocides under Biden. American liberals just don’t want their
country to be fascist to them, but that’s just ‘chickens coming home to
roost,’ as Malcolm X said. Those liberals can go pluck themselves.

Indeed, America was founded on a totalitarian fascism so vile it

inspired the Nazis, and then — after the WWII — they and Euro-
peans practiced genocide, concentration camps, and all the things
they berated Nazis for, with actual Nazis on board. The ‘cold’ in Cold
War only describes white blood when committing atrocities against
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non-Europeans. With all the armored chickens they let loose across
the globe, the only wonder is why they’re coming to roost so late now.

World War II was just European colonialism collapsing inwards, into

a black hole of fascism. Hitler, wanting to get in on the fun, found all
the good colonies taken and had to colonize Europe. As Hitler said,
“If a nation confines itself to ‘internal colonisation’, while other races are
perpetually increasing their territorial possessions all over the globe, that
nation will be forced to restrict the numerical growth of its population at a
time when the other nations are increasing theirs.” In this way, Hitler was
really the last honest European. He said what Europeans did, and did
it to Europeans. Europe was and is full of mini-Hitlers towards the
rest of the world, they just didn’t like it when colonization happened
to them. As the inestimable Césaire continues:

Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the

steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very
distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the
twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a
Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his
demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and
that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not the
crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humilia-
tion of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the
humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to
Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been
reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the “coolies” of
India, and the “niggers” of Africa.

The point is that one cannot gaze long into the abyss before the abyss
gazes back. What goes around comes around, chickens come home to
roost, there are many pithy sayings stating the obvious truth. Fuck
around and find out, this is the eternal law. Americans should thus
not be surprised when their country becomes openly fascist, it’s

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always been fascist somewhere, just to non-white people they didn’t
care about. The world should also not be surprised when American
imperialism collapses into World War III, if it has not, indeed,
already started.

Americans can honestly shove their ballots up their asses for all I
care. The Empire is not going to be fixed, and certainly not by voting,
it needs to be resisted by any means necessary, as the brave Pales-
tinian Resistance is doing right now. There are of course third-party
candidates on the ballot, but RFK is another Zionist and Cornell
West is improbable. It’s certainly not throwing away your vote for
someone you actually like, and is certainly better than throwing away
your historical reputation by voting for either Tweedle-Dumb or
Tweedle-Bomb. But let’s not kid ourselves. Democracy™ is just a
duopoly of disaster, the choice between getting shot or stabbed, with
millions more killed internationally that have no choice in the matter
at all. I honestly don’t have a horse in this race and hope the race-
course just burns down.

The only thing on the American ballot this election is racism, and the
only choice is racism abroad or at home. The only thing on the ballot
is corruption, and the only choice is right in front of you or far from
home. The only thing on the ballot is cruelty and violence, either
open and proud or lying and hypocritical. The only choice is no
choice, because America is not a functional democracy or even a
functional country, it’s just the capital of an imperial White Empire,
inexorably collapsing into fascism at home, destroying the planet on
the way out. There is no ‘lesser’ evil available here, it’s just two brands
of evil, pointed in different directions. Americans can choose the
further führer or the nearer Nazi, and they both suck. It’s imperial-
ism, fascism or — best-case scenario — bust.

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31.THE POOR RICH
MAY 2023

I’ve been watching the reality TV show How To Get Rich which I want
to hate, but I don’t. The unfortunate title is not what I think the host
Ramit Sethi intended. He keeps referring to how to live your rich life,
which is a very different concept. As he told one man earning
$150,000 while his mother worked two cleaning jobs, you’re rich, but
you don’t live richly.

Indeed, watching from Sri Lanka, all of these people are already
obscenely rich. I earn maybe $25,000 a year but live much better than
most of these people. The big reason is that I don’t function as an
individual and I do not have to pay for (and worry about) everything
myself. Down South, the economic unit is the extended family. ‘My’
house and my car are in other family members names, at least 15
people are actively involved in raising my children, and we share food
and resources constantly.

In ‘developed’ countries capitalism has done its level best to destroy

the extended family and replace it with ‘market’ forces. I struggle to
see how this is more efficient.

Instead of sharing a home with family, people waste space or live

badly alone and spend gas to see them. This generates profit, but is it
prosperity? No. When you live as an individual or a nuked family you

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have to pay for every little thing rather than sharing resources. You
actually have to spend (and waste) a lot more, which the market likes,
but which makes social animals like us miserable. Instead of raising
children collectively, parents (or single parents) are expected to do
(and spend for this) on their own. In my opinion this is physically
impossible, and not good for anyone. Children go from being a joy to
being a duty and a burden, which is not how it should be at all.

The fact that this system of atomized individuals doesn’t actually work
is covered up with massive amounts of debt. Borrowing against a
future that doesn’t actually exist because the waste is choking the
environment and people aren’t leaving anything for their children.
Some of the people on the show have what to me is staggering
amounts of debt — $200,000 in student loans, $25,000 in credit card
debt, huge mortgages, car payments, etc. These people are ostensibly
rich but it all blows out into the ‘market’ while their lives are a
constant uphill struggle. Americans think they’re kings, but they’re
really a nation of debt peons. They have even less hope of amargi
(return to mother, or debt forgiveness) than a Bronze Age slave.
Those poor saps at least got debt relief every new ruler or so. West-
erners live under one constant regime of usury and all they can
choose is the color, red or blue.

All of this is outside the ambit of Ramit’s show, and that’s fine. I
wanted to hate the show because A) the title and B) because most
popular media about ‘personal finance’ makes it all about personal
responsibility for what is fundamentally societal failure. There’s one
season where a young, orphaned man (Frank) in $200,000 of student
loan debt is going through a pile of snail mail that he’s been afraid to
open. It’s people offering him loans, credit cards, and various forms
of debt.

This is just a motherless child that is constantly preyed upon by rich

usurers, and he’s expected to think his way out of it, and bear the
burden of failure alone? The very existence of student loan debt is
crazy, the idea is that someone at 17 or 18 makes this decision that
makes them a debt slave for life? It’s entrapment. In the Bronze Age

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children were taken into slavery for debts and we think that awful,
but that’s what the American education system has become. And in
the Bronze Age they at least got amargi now and then, debts were
forgiven. Today the average American dies in debt, and then the
usurers come and prey on their children. It’s no land of the free. It’s a
nation of debt slaves with strong mythology, that’s all.

I say that it’s fine for the show to not address this, because Ramit’s
general point is A) about just helping these people and B) helping
them talk about money with each other. One couple remarks that they
didn’t think this would be couples counseling, but it really is. Money
(and financial ‘infidelity’) is one of the biggest pressures in marriage
and money can be very difficult to talk about. I am much poorer than
my wife and this used to be a problem until we had health problems
that put everything in perspective. But we still struggle to talk about
money without getting huffy.

Whereas we have a culture of sharing to fall back on, what I observe

on the show is that western couples have it twice as hard. Within
marriages they have separate finances, where one person is earning
$150,000 and the other hustling for $30,000 and they still split the
bills. Or where one is drowning in debt that the other could pay off
and they just don’t. People have so internalized capitalist individual-
ization that it has consumed the very idea of marriage and family.

People live in what looks like families, but maintain the rigid division
of capitalism within their own households. And they carry so much
shame with them about money that it gets in between what should
be a sacred bond. One gay man within a marriage said that he felt like
he wasn’t contributing, and refused to take help by saying it was
better for him to ‘learn’ by paying usurers. It’s sad how much people
have internalized systemic abuse. They’re victims of predatory money
lenders who think it’s their fault.

Another couple — also making $150,000 plus — frets about being

able to ‘retire’ their house-cleaner mother who’s still working two
jobs well into old age. She came from Colombia to find a better life
for her family, and this is somehow it. That man says he was ‘lucky to
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be born here’, but was he? This is the traumatized tale of the immi-
grant, where America and the historical White Empire destroys
countries, and then the scattered refuges are supposed to be thankful
for the opportunity to serve as debt slaves within Empire’s house-
hold. People always talk about migrating for a ‘better life’ but the real
question is why was life made so bad that they had to move.

Now this son of an immigrant takes a month-long Italian vacation

after promising his mother she could retire in two years. But as Ramit
told him, he could retire her now. But the toxicity of the individual is
that he’d rather go on vacation and buy a multi-family investment
property than let his mother move in and take care of her. I feel
inclined to judge him, but after watching the show I actually don’t.
He is just prey to a bad culture, not a bad person. The family has
been destroyed so thoroughly in the West that even filial piety is
considered another consumer choice, not a dharmic duty. What a
deeply fallen world.

I watch reality TV like this to turn my brain off and the America ones
are increasingly dystopian. They have shows recreating arranged
marriage and have authors like Ramit helping families manage
money together like these are new concepts, but they’re not. This is in
fact how most people have and still do manage the important things
in life — through their families and communities — but capitalist
society, having destroyed these things, pretends like its reinventing
them.

The West constantly has studies on obvious things like ‘does having
grandparents around help children’ and constantly expects individ-
uals to take on the mental load of what a healthy culture should be
doing for them. Watching reality TV or reading western news is fasci-
nating because it’s watching genocidal states desperately trying to
reconstruct a culture. Because they conquered the world and
invented all these things, and for what? To live alone in a big house,
an hours drive from anybody that loves you? To have all these
consumer products that satisfy you for maybe a day and keep you in
debt for your whole life? To have incomes that would make a peasant

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weep, and also debt payments that give you less net worth than a
beggar overall? To have all this money and feel poor? To pay for the
things you used to get for free, and call this prosperity?

As the Bible says, what does it profit a person to gain the world and lose
their soul? Markets go up, families go down, and the planet burns
from the hideous waste of it all. The people that Jesus chased out of
the temple run the world and ‘love each other as I have loved you’ is
long forgotten. These poor rich people. They’re not living well at all.

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32.THE BUCK STOPS HERE:
HOW AMERICA IS
DESTROYING THE
DOLLAR
MARCH 2022

The whole world uses the imperial dollar because it gives us access to
imperial trade. We all pay tribute to White Empire by buying forex.
Our tribute lets them finance their wars and bail out their rapacious
elites.

Lately, however, Empire has been cutting more and more people out
of the digital trade routes. It started off with a few poor kingdoms, but
with sanctions on China and Russia, it’s affecting everyone. Including
within Empire itself. They’re even threatening India.

We’re all expected to participate in Empire’s beefs, when all we want

is to eat actual food.

Worst of all, Empire has been just robbing people in plain daylight.
They stole all of Afghanistan’s forex, leaving them to starve to death,
in full view (insomuch as anyone gives a fuck. I do). This isn’t the first
time either. They’ve been sending a message that anyone can get
impoverished by Empire, but we always thought it wouldn’t be us.
Now we’re not so sure.

So people are hedging their bets, all across the globe. Countries are
swapping currency directly, not going through the dollar at all.
They’re even bartering, like Sri Lanka trading tea for Iranian oil.
We’re setting up our own trade routes—shitty inefficient, trade routes
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—but these things evolve. And when they do, Empire devolves
into goo.

What happens to an Empire when people stop taking the imperial

roads? When they start dealing with each other, instead of going
through the boss What happens to Empire when people stop paying
tribute, when we stop buying all the debt that finances their corrup-
tion and war?

Well then, Empire’s not an empire anymore. It’s capital becomes just
another asshole country, losers in both finance and war. Indeed,
we’ve already watched its Capitol literally burn. The mandate of
heaven has already been withdrawn. Empires take a while to fall, but
in the end they all do.

All I’m saying is that the end is coming into view.

Sieges

Let’s start with sanctions, the white word for sieges. White Empire
besieges civilian populations to a point that would make a Khan
blush. If you besiege one city that sucks for them, but if you besiege a
lot of cities, that sucks for you.

Sieges are a two-edged sword, but Empire has been able to avoid
consequences by just stabbing poor people.

America has been besieging small, poor, brown countries for

decades, which sucked for them. North Korea and Cuba since the
1950s. Iran and Syria since the 1980s. Venezuela and China since now.
The message was clear, if you defy White Empire, they’ll make sure
your great-grandchildren don’t get medicine.

Sending this message didn’t cost Empire much, they just missed out
on Cuban cigars and vaccines, and had to frack oil out from under
their own homes. But they have kept sanctioning people, and now
Empire is becoming increasingly isolated itself. They’ve been beating
the drums of war on Russia, but look at how the rest of the world has
reacted.
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UN votes are one thing, everybody votes that America’s siege of Cuba
is wrong, but that doesn’t change anything. Look at how people act.
None of the people in grey have followed Empire’s sanctions on
Russia. That’s most of the world.

International sanctions against Russia, via Vik Sohonie

It’s not that we’re evil countries who support invasions. We’re normal
countries, like the US was before World War II. We don’t consider
ourselves the world police, and we understand the concept of not
making things worse.

Russia is also not some already isolated, poor country. Lots of us

depend on them for fuel, for fertilizer, for food. Empire wants us to
starve cause they’re having a grudge match? Fuck them. We’re already
having a food crisis. This bickering over borders is causing a full on
collapse.

Empire is even talking about enforcing sanctions against India, an

erstwhile ally. If they’re enforced, India will be unable to maintain
50% of its military materiel. While America and Europe continue
importing fuel from Russia themselves, they want us to suffer for this
distant war.

We’ve all been paying tribute for security. If no one is safe from sanc-
tions, then what the fuck are we paying tribute for?

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Breaking Sieges

Our tribute, out constant buying of American debt, it enables them to

not have these worries. They can just print money and even profit
from these sieges. But we don’t have those options, so we’re not
playing along with this war.

America’s new sieges against Russia have already been broken. Along
these faultlines, new trade routes are emerging. China and Russia are
just trading directly with each other. Hell, even America and the EU
have ‘broken’ their own sieges, they’re continuing to buy Russian fuel.

Empire is trying to tighten the screws, but this risks the whole thing
falling apart. If they sanction India and China they’d be sanctioning
almost half of the world, and skirting sanctions themselves. At that
point, what is imperial trade even worth? Might as well be out.

The truth is that this collapse has been a long time coming, this crisis
is just hurrying it along. It’s like how Hemingway described bank-
ruptcy, he said it happens slowly, then all at once. For example, here’s
Putin and China’s Xi talking about ‘independent financial
infrastructure’ in 2021:

“Special attention was paid to the necessity of accelerating efforts on the

formation of independent financial infrastructure for servicing trading
operations between Russia and China, meaning the creation of such
infrastructure, which third countries could not influence,” Kremlin Aide
Yury Ushakov said.

Well, now that infrastructure is being used. South and South-East

Asia have been doing direct currency swaps as well, as has China and
African countries. China’s Belt and Road project comprises actual
hard infrastructure, actual trains, ports, and roads, all out of imperial
control.

Is any of this a replacement for the global dollar regime, for SWIFT,
and for all the things that make a globalized economy tick? Fuck no,
these arrangements are all marginal hacks, workarounds, they all
suck.
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These new trade routes are much worse than the old imperial roads,
but the imperial roads are full of brigands and soldiers now. The old
routes don’t exist anymore. We’re forced into something new.

And so we’re carrying wheat on our backs across mountains, fording

digital streams, trading tea for oil, trying to avoid imperial tax collec-
tors and banking thieves. The new trade routes are small and treach-
erous now, but given enough traffic they’ll widen into proper
highways. All out of the Empire’s reach.

And what is an Empire without control? This is precisely how

empires fall. Slowly, then all at once.

Theft

The other big problem is outright thievery. We pay tribute in the

form of buying dollars, keeping stores of imperial currency. We often
even keep this in the imperial banks. But when they seize this
currency, what’s the point? All faith and credit is gone.

America has just taken money that belongs to Iran and Venezuela.
Most recently they just stole all of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves,
dooming millions of people to starvation, destroying the country
even worse than all their bombing.

We have shamefully tolerated this ritual torture of poor people for

decades, as long as we could trade ourselves, but now even that’s
falling apart. So the ritual torture kinda sticks out.

The main benefit of any Empire is that you can move goods from one
end to the other with relative safety. You put up with all the bullshit
for a reliable cup of tea. But what if the Empire itself starts robbing
people? What is the point of such a road? Might as well trek through
the woods.

Empire was always a carrot and stick kinda deal, but now it’s all stick,
and they’re waving it at everyone.

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People are wising up to the fact that not only can we get sanctioned,
we can get outright robbed. Our foreign reserve is not safe with these
fuckers. On a whim they could just take it all away. They don’t keep
their word, like the Iran nuclear deal. They’ll even turn against allies
in turn. China is holding lots of US debt, they’re certainly on high
alert.

We’ve all been paying tribute for security. If we’re not safe, then what
the fuck are we paying tribute for? If people stop or even slow down
paying tribute, Empire can’t raise money for all of its corruption and
war. And that brings Empire rapidly down to Earth.

Exit

I’ll return to the idea of imperial trade routes, because that’s all this is.
SWIFT and CHIPS and the whole global banking system are just the
trade routes of today, digital movements instead of actual roads.
People used the Roman roads because they were easy, and we use the
US dollar because that was easy too. Easier than getting bombed and
besieged certainly, but also just convenient to use.

Now all that stuff is getting hard. Now everybody’s getting hit, for
conflicts we have nothing to do with. We’re stuck between a rock and
a hard place, and what do people do in that situation? They move.

When people stop using the imperial roads, when they don’t pay
attention to imperial edicts and sieges, then it’s really just a matter of
time. I could make a lot of money if I knew when the buck stopped,
but all I can tell you is this. It has to stop sometime. Only a fool would
predict the collapse of imperial currency now. But only a greater fool
would predict it never.

Right now all the signs are screaming ‘the buck stops here.’ I don’t
know what the fuck comes next, but all I can tell you is this.
Buckle up.

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33.UNHAPPY
GOVERNMENTS
SHOULDN’T BE
OVERTHROWING
OTHERS
JULY 2023

With all the talk of ‘democracy’ vs. ‘authoritarianism’, you’d think

that ‘democratic’ citizens like their form of government. But they
don’t. According to the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer, institutions in
the US, UK, and occupied territories like S. Korea and Japan are
widely distrusted by their citizens. And yet this is the system they’re
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trying to load into bombs and drop on other people. Meanwhile, an
‘authoritarian’ state like China is actually trusted more. Much more.
Perhaps unhappy governments shouldn’t be overthrowing others.

As you can see in the report, 83% of people in China trust their insti-
tutions, nearly double the amount of Americans that feel the same
about theirs. And yet Americans are constantly fed propaganda that,
however, bad their government is, China’s is somehow much worse,
and be glad you don’t live there. But the numbers don’t bear this out.
It’s all hot air, blown out the back of an aircraft carrier, hellbent on
destruction. They point it at the Middle East, they point it at Russia, it
always has to point somewhere. Any reason to be scared of somewhere
else, while your own life just gets scarier and scarier. The relentless
propaganda is like the five-minute-hate of Orwell’s 1984, except
somehow more dystopian. It’s 24/7 cable news and social media,
telling you to direct your hate over there.

Trump declared war (sanctions are acts of war) on China and Biden is
continuing it, and their privatized propaganda follows along. I’m old
enough to remember when China was positively advertised in the
western media because their elites were making good money there.
Now they’re threatened and the same place must be demonized. It’s
the same with Ukraine — which was widely covered as corrupt
before the war — but which is now democracy’s maiden fair. Just as
in 1984, the direction of hate can be turned on a dime, as long as it
doesn’t point upwards. At the Empire’s ruling oligarchs, looting both
the world and their own countries bare.

Just see the unfavorable views of China via Pew Research, to see how
quickly public opinion can be turned.

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China didn’t suddenly change during this time. The western media
just started talking relentless shit about it, and the populations follow
along, honestly helplessly. China became a threat to Americas
oligarchs, who wagged the politicians, who wagged the media, and
now all the hairs on the dog stand up and at attention to some threat
over there. Meanwhile their own owner beats them and feeds them
less and less every year.

The same Americans who can be very critical of the Empire one day
will still rally around the flag when it comes to hating on China or
Muslims or Russia or whoever the subject of the 24/7-hate is that
week. They somehow can’t put their head around the fact that this
Empire which they know sucks at home also sucks generally, and in
every possible direction. People still buy the ‘democracy vs. authoritari-

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anism’ thing like they bought ‘civilization vs. savages’ or ‘Christendom vs
barbarism’ or whatever marketing tagline the rich put on the same old
colonialism. It’s old whine in new bottles.

The logical thing that people living under governments they don’t
like should understand is that other people won’t like them either. But
they can’t see this because they’re not thinking of this of their own
accord. They’re being thought for. It’s not like 50% of Americans just
started researching China out of their own interest. Someone else
was interested in showing them this story, and how can they not
believe what’s in front of their eyes. It’s important to understand that
the media is all advertising, including the news itself. Petty merchants
can advertise in between, but the programmes themselves are for
advertising Empire.

People in the western media environment (myself included) are told

to see people in other countries as not people but as hordes that to
either be killed or saved (also by killing, so same thing). What is
supposed to save them is the liberal democratic system we live under,
which we can somehow forget our deep knowledge of in our even
deeper ignorance of other countries. And so the dissonant bell tolls.
This unhappy governance you live under should be violently
imposed on others.

If you watch the discussion about other countries, it rarely involves

people in those countries, but rather ‘experts’, many of them literally
paid by the arms dealers. If you understand the power of selection
bias, you see that simply deciding to focus, repetitively on certain
places has a power all its own. So people from the state release opin-
ions, and state-adjacent institutions release ‘reports’, and suddenly
everyone is talking about the same thing, which coincidentally
happens to be Empire’s enemies. It’s a very effective system as you
can see from the Pew results above, but it’s all deflection. Because at
home, people actually hate this thing they’re loading in bombs and
empty stomachs and exporting.

The thing is that people living under these governments know that
their governments suck. They feel it. In the heart of White Empire,
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America now, people don’t trust their President, their Congress, or
the Supreme Court; so none of the branches of government. They
know this, but they still believe that everywhere else is somehow
worse, despite not being able to find anywhere else on a map. But if
they honestly look at their own countries, they’d see that it’s not the
‘authoritarian’ world on the verge of collapse.

The fact is that the ‘civilized’ West and its vassals are severely polar-
ized (re the report again). China is a much more cohesive society,
because the government actually cares about social cohesion. Yet this
is the country the Empire wants most fervently to overthrow. And
replace it with what. Your shitshow? The public — while living in this
system they hate — somehow believes the lie that China is worse.
Like Goebbels said, if you’re going to lie, make it a big one. So Ameri-
cans — fresh of torturing and murdering millions of Muslims — now

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imagine themselves the saviors of Muslims in China, literally a Venn
Diagram of people they hate. It’s such a stupid lie that it’s genius.

The fact is that these are deeply unhappy and traumatized people
and they shouldn’t be standing in judgement on anyone else. Even if
countries like China weren’t happy, any place that suffers from impe-
rial intervention just ends up much, much, worse (re: Iraq, Libya, I
could sadly go on). This is why the UN Charter says don’t mess with
or threaten other countries, but the imperial West ignores this all the
time, and calls it the ‘rules-based order’, it’s just rule by disorder, and
a pox upon the globe.

These liberal democracies trying to ‘free’ everybody are not free nor
democratic at all. Being weak representative democracies they have
trended, as Aristotle said, towards oligarchy. They are ruled by an
oligarchic ruling class starting wars and oligarchic media barons
getting the advertising rights. The debt-peons at the heart of Empire
are shown their own superiority in the Cable-TV Colosseum while
the same oligarchs rob their own treasury for the privilege. It’s all
circuses and no bread. But the poor peasants don’t have the informa-
tion to put these two facts together. They know that something’s
wrong because they hate their own governments, but they’re
constantly deflected to hate others. I’d say that those in broken glass
houses shouldn’t throw stones, but what else can these wretched
people do? In truth, they shouldn’t be fantasizing about overthrowing
other governments. They should be overthrowing their own.

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34.THE MAUSOLEUM OF
THE MALL
AUGUST 2023

I’m walking around the St. Louis mall like a pharaoh inside his
pyramid. This place is full of all the goods a provincial potentate
could ever need, and it’s completely dead. This mall is a mausoleum.
It’s like a tomb with a Cinnabon.

It’s not even the malls are such a bad idea. Fundamentally it’s just the
idea of wandering down a street without getting rained on. It began
with people using the new abilities of iron and glass to cover existing
passages. Walter Benjamin observed the construction of early
‘arcades’ in Paris and left a mess of notes in an unfinished book.
Among his notes, he noted:

The Passage Véro-Dodat (built between the Rue de Bouloy and

the Rue Grenelle Saint-Honoré) owes its name to two rich pork
butchers, Messieurs Véro and Dodat, who in 1823 undertook its
construction together with that of the adjacent buildings — an
immense development. This led someone at the time to
describe this arcade as a ‘lovely work of art framed by two
neighborhoods.’ J.A. Dulaure, (Paris, 1835).

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It’s just that the whole concept got warped into absurdity by the time
I came along, especially in America. In America, they destroyed
walkable neighborhoods with cars and then simulated them inside
shopping malls. As consumerism spread globally, it destroyed the
climate and now simulates a livable climate inside the mall. The simu-
lation devoured the real, and now both are falling apart. Nowhere is
this more apparent than in a place like St. Louis.

St. Louis is a strange town. It was a city once, effectively the West
Coast of America back when flight was young. But now its popula-
tion and relevance have shrunk dramatically. Everything in St. Louis
is way too big; it has the infrastructure for a city many times its size,
for a future that never came and likely never well. The St. Louis Mall
is thus at the juncture of two phenomena: the hollowing out of St.
Louis itself and the hollowing out of the American mall in general.
It’s an altogether hollow experience.

Wandering this sort of mall is really like finding yourself inside a

tomb. All the goods a person could need for the afterlife are here:
perfectly made beds, hung clothes, every possible amenity and appli-
ance. Even bored attendants still give up their lives here, though there
are few people to wait on. As an 1828 observation of Paris goes (via
Walter Benjamin):

The magic columns of these palaces

Show to the amateur on all sides
In the objects their porticos display,
That industry is the rival of the arts

But what American industry is there? St. Louis is a largely deindustri-

alized town. Very few of these objects are made in America. America
has become a good place to get stuff from China, and now they’re
going to war with China. In truth the center of industrial power has
shifted back to Asia and with it its temples, the malls. The largest
malls are in China now. Or in the Middle East. Or even in India.
What you have across America are increasingly mausoleums, not
malls. As Honoré de Balzac said in 1845 (again via Walter Benjamin):
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The ruins of the Church and of the aristocracy, of feudalism, of the
Middle Ages, are sublime — they fill the wide-eyed victors of today
with admiration. but the ruins of the bourgeoisie will be an ignoble
detritus of pasteboard, plaster, and coloring.

This is quite what I feel, nearly two centuries later. This mall is a
ruin, but a completely ignoble one. Everything was built cheaply and
temporarily and it’s already falling apart. The escalator is broken, the
tiles are chipping, everything is tacky and nothing was built to last…
and it doesn’t.

The goods inside are just detritus strewn about with barely a person
even keeping an eye on them. I’m coming back to the Midwest after
twenty years and it’s a shell of what I remember. For example, Toys
“R” Us used to be a giant, indomitable store when I was young, until
private equity took over and, like the Mafia, busted it out. Now it’s a
tiny section in the mall, hidden off in a corner, literal detritus from an
economy that exploded in 2008 and just refuses to acknowledge it. As
Victor Hugo wrote about future Paris in 1880:

No, everything will be dead.

Nothing left in this campagna
But a vanished population, still around.
But the dull eye of man and the living eye of God,
But an arch, and a column, and there, in the middle
Of this silvered-over river, still afoam,
A church half-stranded in the mist

The only thing he misses about current St. Louis is that it’s not a
church but, rather, a Cheesecake Factory half-stranded in the mist.
But everything else he hits. St. Louis has a vanished population still
around, with arches and columns of bygone days, and massive rivers
of asphalt and steel still moving people around. But they’re not going
anywhere. It’s a strange thing to grow up in an Empire, as I did, and
then come back decades years later to find it entombed in its own
decadence.

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The whole thing never made sense. How could you have so many
products? So much waste? So much extra? But it somehow worked.
The mall had its own logic of its own: build it and they will come. It
always seemed stupid but so many people were there, how could so
many people be wrong? But now the people are gone and all that’s
left is the absurdity of it all.

When I was a teenager, I experienced the mall like peasants must

have experienced festival days, only the festival was perpetual. But
now whatever tall gods walked within those halls have fallen down.
Now they must scrunch themselves inside a computer screen or, even
worse, a phone.

It’s not the people stopped shopping. It’s that people stopped shop-
ping together. Today, the main communal experience of capitalism is
filling a neighborhood dumpster with cardboard. Whereas the gath-
ering site of penultimate capitalism was the mall, the gathering site of
late capitalism is the bin. The mall is still there but it’s dead. It’s a
mausoleum.

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PART V

WAR
35.AMERICA DOESN’T
PROTECT SHIT. IT’S JUST
A PROTECTION RACKET
DECEMBER 2023

The entire premise of the Global War on Terror was to protect

ordinary people from being blown up. However, the practice of the
Global War of Terror was to blow up well over a million completely
unrelated people, as if that somehow evens up. It doesn’t! In hind-
sight, the ‘terrorists’ were/are right. White Empire was the terror all
along.

The entire premise of the ‘rules-based order’ is protection. Protection

from something much worse. That’s why you get all the movies about
‘rogue’ terrorists getting nukes, brought to you by the only country to
actually use them on civilians. The fear they peddle is, as Leo Tolstoy
said, “only touch the present order and the greatest evils will follow.”
People are supposed to accept living under a global police state
because the alternative is worse. As Leo continued:

It is usual, — not only for those to whom the existing order is prof-
itable, but even for those to whom it is evidently unprofitable, but
who are so accustomed to it they cannot imagine life without govern-
mental violence, — to say we must not dare to touch the existing
order of things. The destruction of government will, say they,
produce the greatest misfortunes — riot, theft, and murder — till
finally the worst men will again seize power and enslave all the good
people.Butnot to mention the fact that all this — i.e. riots, thefts
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and murders, followed by the rule of the wicked and the enslave-
ment of the good — all this is what has happened and is
happening, the anticipation that the disturbance of the existing
order will produce riots and disorder does not prove the present
order to be good.

As Leo said, all of the ills America warns us about — rule by the
wicked and enslavement — “all this is what has happened and is
happening” under their imperial rule! They keep pointing to isolated
(often manufactured) evils in other places, and saying this justifies
having one evil empire rule. This is like chasing a rat out of your
house with a tiger. It’s worse! You can see that, right? It’s so much
worse!

The Rules-Based Order

Under the present order, America is still occupying Germany, Japan,

Korea, and the Middle East. Long after the world wars are ostensibly
over, they’re still keeping the spoils. The idea is that they’re occupying
over 700 military bases out of the goodness of their hearts, to ‘protect’
everyone. The idea is that they’re ‘just helping out, aw shucks,’ and that
American Empire doesn’t even exist, is just a public service project.
But this is nonce.

The ‘rules-based order’ is just rule by America, and it’s oppressive

and violent AF. What protection are you really getting from a ruler
that blows up your pipelines (Germany), rapes your women (Japan,
everywhere), never finishes wars (Korea), and just inflames new ones
(Middle East, everywhere)? What everyone is seeing now, in the final
absurd atrocity of Israel, is what this ‘rules-based order’ always was.
Not protection but a protection racket. America’s expansion was
based on extortion, backed by violence. Always was.

Mafianomics

America ‘protects’ the globe like a mafia ‘protects’ a neighborhood.

“Nice place, shame if something happened to it,” as the saying goes. Then
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they punch you in the face, take your shit, and make you pay protec-
tion money every month. That’s all American Empire is, except you
get bombed and have to buy US treasuries. All the fancy economics
in the world just obscures the basic mafia economics that actually
runs the joint. Into the ground. America doesn’t protect shit, least of
all the planet. It’s just an old-fashioned mafia bust-out.

Rule Americana is just Rule Britannia with more hypocrisy. That’s why
I call the whole thing one undifferentiated White Empire. To those
trod underfoot, who cares what fucking flag is on top? The premise
now — as it always was — is to take resources and labor from the
global majority, and to make up some bullshit as to why we should be
thankful for the privilege of being robbed by such great people. In
truth, there’s no protection here, just a racket, and Americans are
occupied as well.

I say that Americans are misruled as much as anybody because, well,

look at them. Today a majority of them don’t approve of the latest
genocide against Palestinians and it doesn’t matter. The ‘people’
running for President are (besides Cornell West) are all pro-genocide.
This obviously shows you that some higher, inhuman entity is
running the place and, historically, that’s precisely the case.

The hypocrisy of the American Empire is that their Declarations and

Constitutions are any more meaningful than the marketing of a
McDonald’s burger. They’re not. In truth, the great American Revolu-
tion had fuck-all to do with ‘the people.’ At founding, only a fraction
of white people could vote, and most people didn’t count as human at
all. The only organizing principle was the almighty dollar and every-
thing else was just marketing to sell it to rubes. Once the American
oligarchy finished genociding from sea to sea, they expanded across
the globe, to manifest some more ‘destiny,’ upon everyone.

Corporate AI

It’s important to know who exactly to blame not to excuse American

elites per se, but to know your enemy. As I said America was born out

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of an oligarchic revolution, but it’s worse than that. America isn’t even
run by rich people, it’s run by corporations, who are both legal
persons and total psychopaths. America and, thus, the White Empire
is run by corporations. The comprador class of ‘shareholders’ and
‘directors’ merely carry out this hostile AI’s metabolic functions, and
there’s as replaceable as the bacteria in your gut.

In truth, even these ‘rich’ people don’t direct shit at all. They’re just
cogs in the cybernetic machines called corporations. We are already
ruled by malevolent AI, American people as much as anybody. As
mentioned, a majority of Americans doesn’t even approve of the
current genocide of Palestine, and it doesn’t matter. America is ruled
by the powers that be, and they want their militarized parking spot
near the gas station, so fuck Palestinians, fuck the world, and fuck
Americans too. There’s really only one law in the ‘rules-based order’
and it’s “fuck you, pay me,” as Henry Hill said in Goodfellas.

Mechanical Mafia

The fact is that we are all ruled by a mechanical mafia, which uses
politicians like cogs, businessmen like grease, and everybody (and
everything) else are just marks. All the politicians are paid off, and
the people paying do it through corporations. As western law has
established for centuries, corporations are legal people and that’s who
actually runs the place. The only thing that matters to these
Leviathans is money and the metabolic processes of money (ie, the
reproduction of capital). Everything else — human prosperity,
human life, animal life, the living planet — is at best secondary and,
at worst, erased when inconvenient. As is happening now.

The Brain-Fart Of ‘Enlightenment’

What birthed this abomination, this douchebag ex machina? Well,

western philosophy, of course. The great brain-fart of the faux
enlightenment was “I think, therefore I am.” Under this ‘logic’, Euro-
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else from the very category of existence, and proceeded to exploit all
of the above mercilessly because.

The violent tribes of Europe then incarnated their greed into

corporations, starting with the Dutch East India Company, the
first IPO in 1602. Legally, this stretched ‘I think, therefore I am’
into absurdity because corporations became ‘legal persons,’
thinking machines. And they were, certainly more than the
colored people they conquered, and animals they skinned for
profit. These stinking, thinking machines could carry out most
human transactions, and even inhuman ones, like genocide and
slavery, all with limited liability, of course. They created a Golem
and, like the story goes, it turned on everyone soon enough. 400+
years later, here we are, ruled by a mechanical mafia, witnessing
the bust-out of centuries. The collapse of Western Civilization
which, while well-deserved, is falling on the people that deserve
it least of all.

What we are witnessing is the end of a planetary Ponzi scheme.

Obscene amounts of temporary capital were created in an artificial
world called ‘the economy’ while the actual world was busted out. All
the growth, all the innovation, it has all been stolen from the past, or
borrowed on credit from the future. From oil made by our ancestors,
or from resources our progeny won’t have at all.

Under the colonialism still squashing us, the land was stolen from
people that shared it. It was ‘privatized’ by greedy white men, and
their greed incarnate in corporate form. The creatures on the land
were stolen too, used for labor, meat, and skin, or just discarded. The
inheritance from billions of years ago and the inheritance of billions
of creatures not-yet born was all stolen.

The mechanical mafia used this theft — from the future and the past
— to party and gorge for a few hundred years, but now it’s all coming
down. All that’s left is debts that cannot be paid — debts to the
planet, to the future, to the gods themselves. It’s a classic bust-out,
and what do you do at the end of a bust-out. As Henry Hill said, you
light a match.
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The Burning Sensation

Perhaps, in an unconscious way, America knew that Empire was done

in 2001. However it happened, getting hit in its military (Pentagon)
and financial (World Trade Center) horcruxes was a gut shot to
Empire, and the mandate of heaven was withdrawn.

History will date the fall America to 9/11 because that’s when barbar-
ians sacked the place. America lashed out, in a blind terror, becoming
the terrorism they said they found. Like a wounded animal, they
attacked completely random places and unrelated people, millions
upon millions of innocents. Thus they incinerated whatever credit
they had for ‘fighting terrorism’, along with their military reputation
when they lost to dudes in Toyota Hiluxes. How can these people
offer protection? They can’t even protect themselves. That’s when the
protection racket began falling apart.

Now history is repeating again, another blow to the invincibility of

Empire, in their most oppressive colony of Israel. The Al Aqsa Flood
of October 7th was a bold and proportional military hit on an occu-
pying power, which was embarrassingly caught with its pants down.
Israel and the Western media tried to spin this as a brutal, raping,
terrorist attack but it wasn’t. There was no evidence of brutality, none
of rape, and most of the targets were military. The 9/11 playbook
doesn’t work anymore and, anyways, the world has changed and
Empire has fallen.

Whereas the premise of the Global War of Terror was protecting

civilians from terrorism, Israel’s response to Hamas (et al) was pure
terrorism. If terrorism isn’t bombing homes and hospitals, what does
terrorism even mean?Meanwhile the supposed ‘terrorists; of Hamas
and Hezbollah are attacking military targets, negotiating, and being
generally reasonable. ‘Terrorists’ are acting like statesmen and
statesmen are acting like terrorists. I’d say the world has gone topsy-
turvy, but in truth I was just standing on my head the whole time.
This is how the world always was. Empire always sucked.

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Empire never protected shit. It was always a protection racket. Empire
never built anything lasting, like a pyramid. It was always a pyramid
scheme. Now the whole pyramid is collapsing in front of our eyes,
with 10,000 children buried underneath, and that’s just the beginning
of the fall. Add a million species, a billion sentient beings, and a tril-
lion creatures that will never exist at all. Now pile them under the
vanity of some fuckers saying “I think, therefore I am,” and incarnating
this inanity into world-devouring machines. That’s the collapse we’re
living through, right now. Empire is going bust, and the planet they
busted-out is collapsing at the same time. We live in interesting times
and, as the saying goes, it’s a curse.

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36.AMERICAN TROOPS ARE
LOSERS AND SUCKERS
SEPTEMBER 2020

The unipolar world is cracking like polar ice. Fractures are starting to
appear all across the great expanse of White. Wars have been lost,
treasure has been stolen in broad daylight. Enemies like Russia have
started taking territory outright. Vassals like India and Saudi Arabia
started defying imperial sanctions. Allies don’t have stomach for a
fight.

People ask how the American states will break apart, which is only
part of it. That’s like asking what will happen to Rome, when we’re
talking about the whole Roman Empire. White Empire is actually
much bigger than its capital which, incidentally, the barbarians are
already inside. We’re talking about a unipolar world, and just listen,
cracks are starting to spread from side to side.

White Empire

First, to repeat myself, what is White Empire? What do I mean?

White Empire is the term I use to refer to the devil which goes by
many names. ‘The west’, ‘the international community’, ‘liberal
democracies’, the ‘developed world’.

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You hear these synonyms frequently in western media, but how is it
an empire? Well, in the most obvious ways. Since time immemorial,
empire has been defined by troops and treasure. And so it remains.

Show any Caesar the 800+ military garrisons America maintains and
he’d be like “nice empire, bro.” Show his Treasurer everyone buying
dollars and he’d recognize imperial tribute ergo. Then there’s all the
blood around the edges. That’s what makes Empire’s borders plain.
Like the Devil, the greatest trick White Empire ever pulled was
convincing the world it didn’t exist. But exist it does. White Empire is
a thing.

Like most empires, White Empires is loose and baggy robe, a mix of
direct and indirect rule, tribute and theft, bribing and cajoling. The
general rule, since the ‘Game Of Thrones’ era is sending troops when
called. And in imperial wars like Afghanistan and Iraq, we’ve seen
who bends the knee and comes. It’s called NATO.

American conquests after World War II solidified into this White

Empire, backed by the financial hegemony that came after that world
war also.

As Stephen Howe said in Empire: A Very Short Introduction: “Most

analysts, then, seem to agree that an empire is formed, most often by
conquest, out of a dominant ‘core’ and a dominated, often economically
exploited ‘periphery’.” Now just look around White Empire and tell me
you don’t see the same.

Center

At the center you have America, the imperial capital and core.
Around it you have faithful vassals, like Canada doing whatever it’s
told. Then there’s the spiritual homeland of Europe, which America
occupied and took over. Finally there’s the outer core like Japan,
South Korea, and the Emirates, places allowed to get wealthy as long
as they provide material plenty, garrisoned with huge American
bases and under American military control.

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What unites these satraps, provinces, or governates is that, while they
have a lot of independence, they remain tightly integrated with
Empire’s financial and military dominance. They get benefits and just
have to shed a drop of blood now and then, like when they were
called up in the Terror Wars. These are Empire’s banner men, and
they show up when the banners are called.

Periphery

Around this pole of power, you have a loose and spinning

periphery, countries that supply cheap labor and goods, but have
second-class passports and generally get screwed. This includes
everyone from India to Mexico to Brazil, more independent coun-
tries that still get sanctioned, demonized, or couped if they don’t
follow along.

Pariahs

Finally what gives Empire definition are the warzones that must be
periodically bombed and forever besieged. These are pariah states
like Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan
etc. Invaded at will, regularly starved, cut off from imperial trade,
murdered and tortured for sport. These are Empire’s borderlands,
and the borders are drawn in blood.

Thin Ice

Most talk of Empire collapsing is about America collapsing, but this is

thinking too small. In this article I won’t even get into whether Cali-
fornia splits off, or Florida panhandles America in the face. This isn’t
the 1850s anymore, Empire’s become a much bigger place.

Just look at a map of murder and money, and look at what western
media is always talking about. ‘High-income countries’, ‘industrial-
ized countries’, these are all terms of art that obscure a more simple
name. White Empire. The cold and cracking Global North.

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The fact is that after World War II, America inherited the old colonial
empires and thought this is nice. They never drew down after WWII
and so they find themselves overextended and on thin ice.

And now, like every empire in human history, they find themselves
distended and overextended. And the ice is beginning to crack.

As Pink Floyd said:

If you should go skating

On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you, the silent reproach
Of a million tear stained eyes
Don’t be surprised when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet
You’ll slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice

In this case the ice started cracking around the edges first, with mili-
tary losses in Afghanistan, Iraq, destroying whatever military reputa-
tion the empire had left after Vietnam. Not to mention the tens of
millions of tear stained eyes. They went on an absolute murdering
rampage after 9/11, attacking Muslims indiscriminately, without
honor or humanity.

And then this supposed greatest military got their ass handed to
them by students in Toyota Hiluxes. After the humiliation of 9/11,
they also got humiliated in taking revenge. Seeing these cracks in
imperial power, Russia thought they’d break off a piece, knowing that
Empire was fundamentally weak. So they first took Crimea and now
chunks of eastern Ukraine. Ukraine the faithful vassal, which helped
invade Iraq, found themselves invaded in turn.

Empire tried to stamp its foot down, but this just cracked the ice even
more. Instead of following the imperial edict to impose sanctions,
countries like Saudi Arabia, India, and China went over Empire’s
head, trading in rubles and yuan.Now Russia is demanding that
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Europe pay for energy in rubles also. This is a direct threat to dollar
hegemony, the last leg Empire has to stand on.

It’s important to understand that the dollars status as a reserve

currency is really just a modern tribute system. Every country buys
dollars to buy commodities. Using dollars is the effective tax for using
imperial trade routes. That money is effectively tribute, which
Empire uses to bail out its corrupt elites and fund its corrupt wars.

If provinces start trading with their own money, however, what do

you need the Empire for? This is the reality that Empire is only accel-
erating, but trying to force everyone to participate in their sieges and
wars.

Now Empire is saying that Indians shouldn’t maintain their own mili-
tary equipment, because America has beef with Russia. They’re
saying people in Europe in Africa should go without energy or fertil-
izer, because of someone else’s war. Countries are increasingly like
fuck it, we’ll just go around you.

This is a sure death knell for Empire. The definition of a unipolar

empire is that you can’t get around it. Once people do, that power,
that empire doesn’t exist anymore. Once the provinces don’t fear the
ruler’s whip or trade with the ruler’s coin, who’s really running the
place? Not empire. You’re suddenly in a multi-polar world.

The Break

But colored people breaking off won’t break the White Empire.

Despite the entire global majority not sanctioning Russia, these
people are ignored all the time. If Empire can just get the old colonial
gang back together, they can surely beat down a few coloreds and get
the Empire back in line. But that’s the problem. The old colonial gang
is actually getting cold and hungry, and they’ve got no stomach for
this fight.

European citizens are being forced to pay much more for American
natural gas, import more American weapons, and pay even more the

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imperial tribute while their own economy gets hammered. Sanctions
on Russia are effectively sanctions on Europe, they’re that inter-
twined. Just look at the PPI measures from Germany. This shows the
prices of industrial inputs skyrocketing, and this is just preliminary
data. March will be worse, and it’ll cascade thru the whole economy.
This is gonna hurt.

There’s graphs like this everywhere in Europe, but for American

oligarchs it just shows up as profits. They’ve got Europe over a
barrel, and European people will be wearing one soon enough.
Many countries like Bosnia and Herzogovinia, Finland, and Latvia
depend on Russia for nearly 100% of their natural gas. Germany and
Italy for nearly half. They can’t just cut off. They’re cutting off their
own heat.

And to add insult to injury, America is treating its European ‘allies’

like the schmucks they really are. France got rolled over on a subma-
rine deal with Australia, Biden made a fool of the German Chan-
cellor by cancelling a German pipeline in front of him, and now the
European people are going to get hurt.

Now that Russia is turning up the heat by demanding payment in

rubles. This will force European countries to break imperial sanc-
tions. They can choose American hot air or actually heating their
homes. Luckily it’s warm out now, but winter is coming. Someone’s
got to be thinking, it’s time for an independent king in the North.

European Secession (Or Recession)

Hence the big fear for White Empire is their European vassals leav-
ing. This won’t be colored countries in the periphery. This’ll be a frac-
ture at the ancestral home of white supremacy. White Empire can
abuse and lose the colored world, but if it loses the heart of white-
ness, it really falls apart.

These fuckbois have followed America into every losing war, every
siege, they’ve always been loyal to their liege. But after the insult of
Trump, the injury of Biden is really making them bleed.
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As Machiavelli said of his fellow Europeans—an Asian peninsula of
most savage and violent types—“For of men it may generally be
affirmed, that they are thankless, fickle, false studious to avoid danger,
greedy of gain, devoted to you while you are able to confer benefits upon
them, and ready, as I said before, while danger is distant, to shed their
blood, and sacrifice their property, their lives, and their children for you; but
in the hour of need they turn against you.”

Following Empire into distant danger in the Middle East was one
thing, but following them into World War III on European soil is
another thing entirely.

So while White Empire is trying to desperately stake out some rele-

vance in Ukraine, Europeans may just choose having heat. While the
EU and NATO are not democracies, the people in the performative
democracies below will literally get cold feet.

The Beginning Of The End

And so White Empire begins to fall, just as we finally named and

shamed it. The whole thing was built on fear and money and bull-
shit, and once fear and money run out, it’s just a steaming pile of shit.

Once Europe starts to fuck off, once India fucks off—with China and
Russia already gone and the global majority already scornful—who’s
even left? What you call an empire that’s sanctioned everyone?
They’re just another country, and a suddenly indebted and isolated
one.

I’m not saying this is how it’ll go down, I’m just saying that some shit
is going down. Climate collapse will just melt and fracture this thin
ice even further. There’s no coming back from this, and they’re not
even trying.

And so White Empire finds itself cracking up. Bin Laden threw two
bricks through the wall in 2001, and then Trump came back in 2021
and hit the Capitol that Bin Laden missed. What seemed a solid

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world of white power is now fractured, and the black ocean of a
multipolar world churns beneath.

As the Pink Floyd refrain goes, “If you should go skating, on the thin ice
of modern life, dragging behind you the silent reproach of a million tear
stained eyes. Don’t be surprised when a crack in the ice, appears under your
feet. You’ll slip out of your depth and out of your mind, with your fear
flowing out behind you. As you claw the thin ice.”

[Guitar Solo]

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37.WHY AMERICA'S
MILITARY IS
PHYSICALLY FALLING
APART
APRIL 2024

To understand the state of America's military, just look at their

Secretary of State. Antony Blinken's custom Boeing has been
grounded twice this year. Meanwhile, ships Joe Biden sent to Gaza
have caught fire or broke down along the way. The US military loses
every war, its equipment is falling apart, and its soldiers are killing
themselves. They don't even know what anything costs because the
Pentagon is unauditable, six times over. This is the state of late-stage
Empire. It's physically falling apart.

General Fuckery

To understand how America can have both the most expensive and
most useless military in the world, just behold US Congressman
winner Mike Waltz asking the Air Force Secretary how much a bag of
bushings costs. The answer is $90,000 for what should cost maybe
$100. A bag of nuts and bolts. This gets to the nuts of bolts of the
issue. The bloated US military budget isn't a measure of effectiveness.
It's a measure of fraud.

Dwight Eisenhower—who left this turd on America's doorstep—said

“we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether
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the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” This wasn't a
warning in hindsight, it was a promise. The military industrial
complex is not even that complex anymore. What was a competitive
defense industry has condensed down to five cronies. These warlords
corrupt think tanks, NGOs, media, and government itself to become
an inoperable cancer on the body politic.

Consolidation of carnage. Aerospace Commission Report (2002), page 134

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Ike also said, “Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the
proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense
with our peaceful methods and goals.” This really adds insult to injury.
No one today would accuse Americans of being alert and knowledge-
able. It's a nation of debt slaves, thinking they're philosopher kings
because they get to give a Facebook thumbs up to the latest slaughter
in the Cable TV Colosseum.

Insomuch as America ever had 'peaceful methods and goals', now

their government just spreads chaos, using it as a ladder of bones.
With Gaza or Ukraine, they don't care if the American people don't
actually support these wars. They're still doing 'em. America's ruling
elites are all about the money, everything else is just marketing. So
the wars go on, one after another to cover up the fraud with more
fraud. The insider traders in Congress get their cut, and some arms
dealers in Bethesda get to remodel their kitchens.

Right now, the foxes are running the hen house and the future
taxpayers (it's all debt) are getting plucked. The military industrial
business model is the same as US private equity (or the mafia). They
take over a 'company', load it up with debt, and then bleed the carcass
dry. And everybody's in on it. Right now, a Raytheon board director
(Lloyd Austin) is running the Defence (re: War) Department, and few
US citizens are aware of this violent conflict of interest. The military
industrial complex is running the whole show, under the command
of General Fuckery.

Private Ponzi

The core reason America's military is the same reason my Toyota Vitz
fell apart on the highway. Maintenance. America had a strong mili-
tary generations ago, but those assets have long since depreciated and
become liabilities. They keep covering this up by buying shiny new
stuff, but that stuff doesn't even work and it's all depreciating into
dust and fairy dust as we speak.

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We'll get into it in detail, but for an example from just one theatre
(Indo-Pacific), look at the difference between spending on new toys
('modernizing and strengthened presence') and maintenance ('im-
proved logistics, maintenance capabilities, etc').

'Modernizing' gets $2.9 billion while maintenance gets only some

fraction of $1.1 billion, lumped together with the other boring shit.
Maintenance is fundamentally unsexy and nobody fucks with it.

Maintenance, however, is a compounding liability. The less you do it,

the more you have to do. Just ask my old Vitz, which never went for
regular service until it just melted on the highway and required a
hideous engine rebuild. It cost me more than regular maintenance
and I never trusted that car again. This is the basic rule of mainte-
nance. You neglect it at your peril. As the US Government Account-
ability Office (GAO) says about not doing maintenance, “Over time this
situation has resulted in worsening ship conditions and increased costs to
repair and sustain ships.” And it's not just ships, the entire 'capital' base
of the US military is literally being cannibalized.

They say a stitch in time saves nine, but this was before fast fashion.
Why make one stitch when you can just spin billions out of whole
cloth?
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The Growth Ponzi

The problem with American military infrastructure is the problem

with American infrastructure in general. It's all supposed to be run
by 'the market' and the market does not give a fuck about mainte-
nance, repair, or anything long term. Why would it? It's algorithmi-
cally programmed to think in quarters and not the long term and, as
Keynes said, in the long term we're all dead. If you can make a billion
dollar sale now and the liability falls on someone else's head decades
later, who gives a shit? This isn't the fault of individually evil people,
though these are individually evil people. If they didn't do it the
'shareholders' would throw them out and install someone that did.
They're just cogs in the capitalist machine, and war is peak capi-
talism. Making really expensive products and immediately exploding
them? *Chef's kiss*.

I'll take the long way around to explain this Ponzi concept because it's
essential. So let's start with that other American war crime, the car-
driven suburb. Charles Marohn of Strong Towns calls this
phenomenon 'Growth Ponzi Scheme'. All of America's old, decaying
infrastructure are unfunded liabilities, the maintenance barely
covered by new schemes. A classic Ponzi.

America has built more roads than it can possibly maintain, using
new loans to pay off the old ones. This is actually how most Ameri-
cans live, using one credit card to pay off another. Marohn says that
“American cities have a ticking time bomb of unfunded liability for
infrastructure maintenance.” I argue that this same phenomenon
applies to the American Empire itself. As Marohn says about
suburbs:

The great American experiment in suburban development

entices communities to take on long-term liabilities in
exchange for near-term cash advantages (see Part 1). But as
those liabilities cost the community more than the development
creates in overall wealth, the approach ultimately results in

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 insolvency (see Part 2). To forestall the day of reckoning, more
growth is induced, setting up a Ponzi scheme scenario where
revenue from new development is used to pay liabilities associ-
ated with old development (see Part 3). This is unsustainable,
but that has not kept us from trying desperately to keep it all
going.

This is a textbook Ponzi—robbing Peter to pay Paul—and America is

literally built on a Ponzi scheme. This is how they fund their roads and
bridges! No wonder they're falling apart. Their military collapsing is
just a consequence of the deep accounting fraud at the heart of their
everything.

As Marohn details in one simple case study:

Rural Road

A small, rural road is paved, with the costs of the surfacing

project split evenly between the property owners and the city.
We asked a simple question: Based on the taxes being paid by
the property owners along this road, how long will it take the
city to recoup its 50% contribution. The answer: 37 years. Of
course, the road is only expected to last 20 to 25 years. Who pays
the difference?

The generalizable point here is that the federal government gives

(basically just creates) money to pay for some infrastructure, but then
the state (or town) is liable for the maintenance. But the state doesn't
actually have the tax base to pay for it (as Marohn shows in multiple
case studies). That money was just created out of nowhere by the
federal government. And so the state cannot actually pay for the
maintenance, unless they get more cashflow from the federal spigot,
for a new project. Then they can use a bit of that fresh cash to do

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some half-assed maintenance. It's a fugazi, a fugazy, a whatsy, a
whoosy. As Matthew McConaughey says in Wolf Of Wall Street:

You have a client who bought stock at 8 and later announced it's
at 16 and he's all happy he wants to cash in, liquidate, take his
book, take his money and run home. You don't let him do that,
okay, 'cause that would make it real, right? No. What do you do?
You get another brilliant idea, a special idea, another situation,
another stock to reinvest his earnings and entice him, and he
will, every single time, 'cause they're addicted. You just keep
doing this again and again and again. Meanwhile, he thinks he's
getting rich (which he is, on paper), but you and me, the
brokers, we're taking home cold hard cash via commission.

And then McConaughey makes a humping motion. Which is what's

happening. Wolf Of Wall Street is quite an allegory. It's not that Ponzi
schemes are some aberrations within the American economy. The
entire American economy is a Ponzi. Especially their war machine.
That's the most pernicious Ponzi in human history. A pungent combi-
nation of fraud and blood money.

The Grotesque Ponzi

The American war Ponzi is the perverse inverse of their domestic

one. At home, they defraud money by at least building infrastructure.
Abroad, they make money by destroying it.

This is the great innovation of American Empire. Figuring out that

there's more money in losing wars than winning them. Only America
attacks other places to loot their own treasury. They spent an abso-
lutely soulless $2.3 trillion destroying Afghanistan and didn't 'get'
anything much in return. So what do you do when you're running a
Ponzi and one scheme goes belly up? You have to get the sucker into a
new con, quickly. As that Wolf Of Wall Street said:

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You get another brilliant idea, a special idea, another situation,
another stock to reinvest his earnings and entice him, and he will,
every single time, 'cause they're addicted.

To cover up the loss of Afghanistan America invaded Iraq. When

that went screwy they invaded Libya, then Syria. That wasn't enough
so they went even bigger, provoking Russia by corrupting Ukraine.
The Ponzi Empire leaves a trail of destruction wherever they go, but
the jig is only up if they stop. So they never stop. This is a big reason
America keeps starting war after war after war. They've got to keep
the scam going. As Marohn says, “like any Ponzi scheme, as soon as the
rate of growth slows, it all goes bad very quickly.” Which is the point
we're getting to now. America is pushing up against countries like
China, Russia, and Iran that it cannot actually intimidate like the
innocent civilians and weddings it's used to bombing from afar. We
have finally reached the end of this fatal Ponzi. The scams are
getting closer and closer together and running into each other.
People are beginning to see, and soon they'll start withdrawing their
money.

The American Military (Is Too) Complex

The American military is obviously not good anymore. It's definitely

big, and it's definitely expensive, but these are both liabilities, not
assets. America has a bunch of aging matériel and a bunch of men
who are too unhealthy, unwilling, and simply not required to serve.
Crumbling military infrastructure is just an offshoot of America's
long experiment in short-term thinking. Just as Boeing is crashing
because they tried to cannibalize a 1960s airframe down to the bone,
America is crashing for the same reason.

Just as Boeing is still flying the 737 airframe some 60 years later, the
American military is still flying B52s and 1960s era designs. Those are
the designs that work best, in fact. The old technology still worked
into the early 2000s, but it's already been depreciated and yet they're
still using it. The American military is simply getting old and dying
and should retire and stop embarrassing itself.
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America is now facing younger 'threats' like China and Russia and
Iran just as America's military is getting old and falling apart. In
truth, none of those countries are a threat, they'd all be happy to
trade. But America chose violence and so here we are. America was
really strong once, but any living being is stronger when they're
younger. Eventually your body becomes a liability and drags you
down. In fact, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

All beings are young and strong for a while, old and powerful, and
then aged and falling apart. It's important to understand that every
being—artificial or natural—must eventually peace out. This is just
the way of things. This is simply what's happened to the US military.
We all return to Allah, human and genie, humanity and engineering.

We'll go through the decay of the American military limb by limb,

but that's the general principle. America is falling apart because it's
old and didn't take care of itself. You know how it goes. This is really
the nature of existence, and you can feel it in your own bones.

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38.HOW AMERICA'S
MILITARY IS FALLING
APART

Now that we've discussed why America's military is falling apart

(getting older but not wiser). Let's discuss how. Specifically, which
wheels are falling off. Planes, ships, and ground forces, it's all depreci-
ating into dust.

What we've discussed is that the American military, like the Amer-
ican economy in general, is a Ponzi scheme. It pays off old liabilities
with new growth. In this case, it keeps covering up failed wars with
new failing wars. It keeps covering up horrendous procurement with
more horrendous procurement. It's a shell game which can no longer
manufacture shells reliably.

Now America's con wars are getting closer and closer together and
bleeding into one. Whereas it took them 20 years to get kicked out of
Afghanistan, Yemen has defeated them in a matter of months.
Whereas once they were fighting the poorest people on Earth, now
they have united China, Russia, and Iran against them, 'younger' mili-
taries with far more resources and wealth than America. None of
these people actually want to fight or take over the world, they just
want to be left in peace, but America has chosen violence. But
grandpa genocide just doesn't have the gumption anymore. The soul-
less are willing, but the body is weak. The old war machine can't
handle it what's demanded of it. The wheels are coming off as we
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speak. If we consider the American war machine as a trishaw, the
three wheels of air, naval, and land dominance are all deflated and
the whole thing is just careening violently before the final destina-
tion: financial cliff.

Planes

Let's start with planes.

Antony Blinken—America's dead-eyed genocide whisperer—rides a

custom Boeing 737. I include this in America's war fleet because
Blinken sure as hell ain't making peace. Blinken's 737 has been
grounded multiple times, once with an oxygen leak when meeting
oligarchs in Davos, and again with 'mechanical problems' while
meeting vassals in Europe. Blinken has had to drive and his staff had
to—the horror—fly commercial, separated by only a curtain from the
peasants. This is emblematic of the state of the American war
machine in general.

America's military aircraft are not looking much better. A 2018 inves-
tigative report by Military Times found that “Accidents involving all of
the military’s manned fighter, bomber, helicopter and cargo warplanes rose
nearly 40 percent from fiscal years 2013 to 2017. It’s doubled for some
aircraft, like the Navy and Marine Corps’ F/A-18 Hornets and Super
Hornets. At least 133 service members were killed in those fiscal year 2013-
2017 mishaps, according to data obtained by Military Times.”

In response to this report Defence Secretary (and Theranos board

member) James Mattis sat in the hot seat and gave some order. He
ordered 80% readiness for the F-35, F-22, F-16 and F-18 aircraft. That
order went about as well as Theranos's blood testing machines. It
didn't work at all.

In 2019, the vestigial Government Accountability Office said, “We

found that none of these aircraft had achieved the 80 percent mission
capable goal, when mission capable rate data are averaged for each day in
fiscal year 2019.” For 2021, the numbers for the F-35 and F-22 were 69%
and 51%; worse and getting worser.
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It's not that American airships crash which is, honestly, a good thing
for the world. It's that America can't fight a war at a 60% readiness
which quickly degrades to 0% in their own war games. Some of the
maintenance requirements of American planes are just insane. Take
the B-2 stealth bomber:

The B-2 requires 119 hours of maintenance for every hour flown.
The B-1 and B-52 need just 60 and 53 hours, respectively. Adding
to the B-2s cost further is the need for specialized, $5 million per
unit, air-conditioned hangars (used to preserve the B2’s stealth
properties) that are large enough to accommodate the B2s 172-
foot wingspan.

Is this a bomber or a prima donna? It's not just that the US military
runs at a loss, it's that it's so fragile that it loses wars. That is also, of
course, a good thing for the world. Even the mightiest power, that saw
fit to reign down death with invisible impunity, gets laid low by its
own hubris and sheer age. This is the great power of Allah in the end.
They take everyone back in the end, without exception. Every being
that lives must die, human or djinn (re: engine). Even if you're the
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world's biggest asshole, nothing but Allah can save you in the end.
And America surely isn't on the side of God, it's the Great Shaytan,
now with clipped wings.

Burning Ships

As part of their charade of giving a shit, America was building a pier

in Gaza, but they can't even get ships across the Atlantic. Like their Red
Sea Fleet that slunk away in defeat, the Gaza Flotilla caught fire
before they even got there. The aptly named John P. Bobo caught fire
and had to turn around. The Bessen had some issue and never made
it past the Azores. The Wilson Wharf never made it past the Canary
Islands. The Lopez slowed down, indicating some issue, but made it
in the end. These are not isolated issues. The USNS Buttons (a sister
ship to Bobo and Lopez) caught fire a few weeks ago. The US Navy is
literally on fire.

Maintenance problems like this are not acts of God. They are the
inactions of men. The hilariously useless US Government Account-
ability Office has reports on how fucked every department of the
military is. This is what they say about the Navy:

GAO reviewed key sustainment metrics for 10 ship classes and found
that from fiscal years 2011 through 2021, these classes faced persistent
and worsening sustainment challenges. Specifically, the number of
maintenance cannibalizations (working parts removed and reused
elsewhere due to parts shortages), casualty reports (reports of events
that impair ships’ ability to do a primary mission), and days of main-
tenance delay (days beyond the scheduled end date for depot main-
tenance) have each increased, while steaming hours (the number of
hours a ship is generally in an operating or training status) have
decreased.

These seahorses are being ridden hard and put away wet. As an
unnamed retired Army chief warrant officer said about the Bobo,
Wilson Wharf, etc, “if those boats don't have multiple major mechanical
failures—I mean 'dead in the water' mechanical failures—I will be shocked.

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They're horrendously maintained. I've got videos of these things falling
apart.”

I'm giving you anecdotal examples, but these are not anecdotal prob-
lems. According to another (2022) GAO report, the Navy both has a
huge maintenance backlog and doesn't know/lies about how big the
problem actually is. As that report says:

The Navy understated the amount of its ship deferred depot mainte-
nance in its 2021 financial reports by about $1.6 billion. The Navy
reported only about $181 million in unfunded ship deferred mainte-
nance in its 2021 annual financial report even though estimates it
prepared for GAO show a nearly $1.8 billion backlog.

What the US government calls 'understated' is of course fraud. If any

company underreports their liabilities by $1.6 billion, that's fraud. Of
course no one at the top gives a damn because they're in on it. It's all
Ponzi, all the way up, as we've discussed. Just look at the physical
liabilities piling up on the Navy's books, and remember that—like my
old, neglected car—these liabilities compound over time.

Compounding liability means that ships get harder and harder to fix

every year until finally it's impossible. Then you have to decommis-
sion ships early. Thus the US Navy goes from degraded capacity to
none at all.

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The accumulated maintenance backlog contributed to the Navy deci-
sions to decommission nine ships, according to officials, which will
result in the loss of 34 years of ship service life (see figure). Early
decommissioning leads to a smaller fleet and could hinder efforts to
meet operational and presence requirements. (GAO)

As the GAO points out, poorly maintained ships eventually have to

be scrapped, and the US doesn't really make ships anymore, and what
they do make is expensive, over-budget, delayed, and completely
unadapted to whatever it emerges onto, like a bleary-eyed Rip Van
Winkle striding onto a modern battlefield with breeches and a
breech-loader.

Defeat In The Red Sea

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'A post appeared on the official Instagram of the US Navy with a
photo of a soldier firing from an M4 assault rifle with an optical sight
mounted backwards.' (Via)

The US's fleet is big, but so were dinosaurs. Things change and
suddenly you're not so well adapted anymore. In today's world, big
aircraft carriers are just sitting ducks for drone swarms and cheap
missiles. These things are hard to sink, but they're also hard to repair,
making them a net liability. The US tried to develop smaller, littoral
ships to counter threats like Iran, but Iran evolved during the delays,
and these ships are now basically useless. America still has some
formidable air power, but when it comes to naval power, they've
completely lost it. They've lost the Red Sea, which is their 'Suez
Crisis' moment.

America is of course an Empire (so invisible I call it White Empire)

and its military also includes vassal states like the UK, France, and
Germany. Many countries pay the military tax to America they call
NATO, and offer troops to the imperial army whenever called,
including to back up the genocide of Gaza. I'll include their ships
cause it's all the same shit, end of the day. This is the state of the
imperial Navy, getting beat by brave non-states like Yemen, easily.

Before ever doing anything useful, the $3.7 billion HMS Queen Eliza-
beth died like the useless person it was named after, saying, “routine

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pre-sailing checks yesterday identified an issue with a coupling
on@HMSQNLZ starboard propeller shaft. As such, the ship will not sail on
Sunday.” Elizabeth was unable to join the NATO war fleet to play. Its
sister ship, the HMS Prince of Wales also could not keep its propeller
on, and had broken down 18 months earlier. The UK and Europe in
general are increasingly useless vassals. They're eager but completely
useless.

The French FREMM frigate Alsace actually made it to the battlefield,

but had to flee retreated from the Red Sea on April 4th. Tale betwixt
legs to Toulon.

The commander of the ship stated that the Yemeni Armed Forces “do
not hesitate to use drones and ballistic missiles in a very surprising
and striking manner.” He added, “It has been a long time since we
dealt with this level of weapons and violence. The Houthis are
perfecting their technique. The more they fire, the more accurate
they become.”

T HE C OMMANDER TOLD L E F IGARO : “All combat equipment was used

on board the frigate, from the Aster missile to machine guns,” noting
that the cost of each Aster is $2 million. (Resistance News Network)

I am reminded of a possibly apocryphal tale about the Chinese

nobility before Genghis Khan. The Jin became more and more
obsessed with archery as an art form, shooting through silk and other
effete bullshit. Then the Mongolians just rode hard and shot fast and
defeated them. That's what I think about these colonial vassals, basi-
cally throwing Lamborghinis and Ferraris at rebellious peasants.
They're completely outclassed and, frankly, their own worst enemy.
They're too soft for this shit. It's not just the Alsace, the Danish
Esbern Snare and the British destroyer HMS Richmond have also
retreated. America tried to organize a colonizer reunion, but they
couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery.

America just made things worse for themselves after launching

Operation Prosperity Guardian. Their military objective was to open
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the sea for genocidal states, but now it's even more closed. Now
'Israeli' shipping is blocked from both the Red Sea to the Indian
Ocean, and all imperial shipping is badly constipated. Just look at the
results:

Via Wikipedia

If you look at the graph of transits, Yemen was only mildly affecting
trade by targeting 'Israeli' ships, as is their duty under the genocide
convention. Then the Americans turned the Red Sea into a war zone,
made shipping worse for themselves, and had to give up and sue for
peace. To which Yemen said no, until the genocide stops. Which
leaves the Empire at a loss. They've got these expensive ships which
are already falling apart, and which have to go all the way back to
America to reload. And they can't get the brave and principled
Yemenis to budge. America has lost the Red Sea because they
wouldn't give up a genocide. That's how cheaply they threw away
naval power.

Defeat On The Ground

The surest sign that America has been defeated on the ground is that
they don't show up. They hide behind proxies and propaganda, but are
simply two scared to put (official) boots on the ground themselves.
This is a far-cry from the invading forces of just the early 2000s.

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Now America is losing proxy wars in Palestine and Ukraine after
pulling its last troops out of Afghanistan. It has never been able to
field an army in open combat against the Russians, and it can't physi-
cally hold the Middle East anymore. It's even getting kicked out of
Africa. This is a defeated army, in what I call a long retreat for
decades now. They're throwing vassals in front of themselves—like
the Nazi Germans with the Romanians—but America is in retreat,
make no doubt about it. From Palestine, to Ukraine, to Taiwan, the
Americans talk a lot of shit, but they don't show up. They have lost
ground power entirely.

The problem starts in the 1970s, when Vietnam beat America's

conscript army so bad they could never field one again. Now the
Army is a 'volunteer' force, but all the debt slavery can't fill the ranks
fast enough.

Pentagon officials have noted in recent years that the military

recruiting environment is among the worst in U.S. history. Only
about 23% of Americans between the ages of 17 to 24 qualify for mili-
tary service, fewer than previous generations, according to Defense
Department data. Among them, only about 9% has shown interest in
the military, the data shows. (Stripes)

According to a Pentagon report, “77 percent of young Americans do not

qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, drug
use, or mental or physical problems” (via). The US military has to face
both physical depreciation and public unappreciation. Nobody wants
to die for shareholders. Nobody wants to buy into the Ponzi anymore.

All that's left is whatever corrupted proxy will die for them, and chief
amongst these is 'Israel'. 'Israel' is America's favored colony, the recip-
ient of the most 'defense' money and the staging ground for human
testing of weapons. The crown jewel of the crown jewel is 'Israel's' air
defenses, which are the best the US has to offer. They communicate
how the US is able to protect ground, and bomb whoever they want.
But that equation is shattered now.

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In its retaliatory attack on April 14th, Iran broke the most formidable
air defenses in Empire, those around occupied Palestine. It was a
surgical hit, meant to send a message, not killing people on purpose.
My favorite bit was that Iran hitting the officers’ swimming pool at
Nevatim Air Base. “The message being: if you don’t dial back, we can do
serious damage” (The Cradle). The international equivalent of putting
a horse's head in their bed. The natives are no longer deterred, and
they have a younger, better military. The shell game is done.

Shelling Out

Artillery is the god of war, and America simply can't produce it

anymore. They're running out of shells and missiles, AKA big bullets.
There's a Chris Rock joke that goes, “You don't need no gun control. You
know what you need? Bullet control. I think all bullets should cost $5000.
You know why? If a bullet cost $5000 there'd be no more innocent
bystanders.” America has inadvertently created this situation on a
global scale.

Look at the 2024 Department of War budget request. For all their big
guns, they have a tiny amount of 'bullets'. In 2023, they produced 230
Patriot Missiles, 125 Standard Missiles, 40 Hellfire, and 34 Toma-
hawks. There's no more zeros after these numbers, that's it. They
would run through their yearly production of most munitions within
a few weeks of hot war. This is a joke.

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Department Of War, 2024 Budget Request

America has emptied out all the imperial cupboards into the living
room of Ukrainians. Americans say that they've degraded the Russian
Army and 'got a good deal on it' (dead Ukrainians are worth nothing
to them). However, like so much out of Empire, every accusation is a
confession. Empire is running out of bullets itself, while Russia is a
humming war economy. Russia can actually make shells, while
America can just make pledges. America keeps printing money to
chase non-existent resources, trying to avoid reality. They're
outgunned and out-bulleted in Ukraine, and that's just one rebellion
they're facing.

America's biggest guns of all are also firing blanks. America is still
relying on 50-year-old Minuteman missiles for its ground nuclear
deterrent, and it can't rely on them anymore. As Admiral Charles
Richard, head of U.S. Strategic Command has said:

“We can't do it at all. ... That thing is so old that, in some cases, the
drawings don't exist anymore [to guide upgrades],” Richard said in a
Zoom conference sponsored by the Defense Writers Group. Where
the drawings do exist, “they're like six generations behind the
industry standard,” he said, adding that there are also no technicians
who fully understand them. “They're not alive anymore.”

The Sentinel, the replacement for the Minuteman, is another case of

made-up money chasing non-existent resources across unending
delays. These newfangled missiles cost $162 million each, ballooning
to a program cost of $131.5 billion (!), and they're not even close to
existing. They're, in fact, closer to being cancelled. You can really
appreciate America's massive depreciation problem here. They have
to bankrupt themselves to not even break even. They have to spend
trillions more to get less capacity. All of these programs would return
them to less missile capability than they had 50 years ago. And they
can't even do it.

The US military budget has long been a shell game where they hid
decaying infrastructure under imaginary new shit, and now the jig is

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up. Like a human being at the end of their life, they incur the highest
costs on care at the end, for the worst results. American hegemony is
in hospice now.

Unauditable

America is extra fucked because they don't even know how fucked
they are. The Pentagon has failed six audits in a row and the unac-
countability flows downwards. “A full half of the Defense Department’s
assets still don’t meet auditing standards.” As I read the GAO reports, one
of the things that stands out is what a total fraud the military is.

As the GAO says about the Navy, besides lying about its liabilities,
“the Navy

is not fully or accurately tracking other metrics—operational availability

and matériel availability—that the Department of Defense and the Navy
have determined are key to assessing ship effectiveness despite a prior GAO
recommendation to do so.”

Sun Tzu said, “Know the enemy; know yourself, and you will meet with no
danger in a hundred battles. If you do not know the enemy, but you know
yourself, then you will win and lose by turns. If you know neither the
enemy nor yourself, you will lose every battle, certainly.” America
believes its propaganda about its enemies being weak and its propa-
ganda about itself being strong. In truth, they can't survive an audit
and they can't survive first contact with a real enemy. They're bound
to lose.

The State Of The Union Army

The state of the union army is not good. Besides losing every war for
decades, America's weapons are getting old and rusty and its young
men are overweight or uninterested. Their ships are catching fire and
their planes are crashing to the ground. And it all costs far more to
replace than they can afford, and they'd need to rebuild it with a
manufacturing base that doesn't exist anymore. America would liter-
ally need China's support to attack China. It's a non-starter. The
mandate of heaven is withdrawn, because of massive accounting

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ganda now.

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 PART VI

PROPAGANDA
39.THE DEEP CODING OF
GENOCIDE IN THE
WESTERN BRAIN
NOVEMBER 2023

Where I grew up, in in suburban Ohio, genocide was a good thing. I

read it about positively it in history class, as discovery, exploration,
and settlement. I played colonization as a video game in computer
lab. Genocide is hard-coded in the western brain. This is how they
came up, why would they keep their latest colony, Israel, down? This
is why the open support for openly genocidal Israel comes so easy.
They’re following the same old genocidal program, just with modern
bombs and mass media.

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Genocide is the glory of Europe and the genesis of America. Hell, it’s
even in the Declaration of Independence. As that old rapist Thomas
Jefferson wrote, about the insufficiently genocidal King of England:

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has

endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the
merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an
undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

This is the same thing you hear across the White Empire today, about
a new set of ‘merciless savages’. Ever since America was founded, the
program has been to accuse natives of what you’re doing, and then
genocide the shit out of them. Call the inhabitants of the land you
want savages, and then mercilessly savage them. As my historical
thesis goes, same shit, different day.

America inherited Britain’s colonies after WWII and continued geno-

ciding natives, just with more modern machinery and more mendac-
ity. They undertook numerous murder campaigns across the Middle
East in living memory, and are now making a graveyard of Gaza,
brutally accelerating the slow-motion genocide of Palestine. The
same old pogromming is just the latest TV programming. To a
disgusting amount of highly propagandized people, this is still a good
thing.

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American Progress

American Progress (1872) by John Gast

I think about this painting — American Progress by John Gast — a lot.

People today look at this personification of white virtue literally
genociding natives and say‘we don’t think like that anymore’, but you’re
still fucking doing it! This painting would be called immoral today,
but what lie is there in it? As Oscar Wilde said in Dorian Gray,“The
books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own
shame.” So it is with this painting.

The American empire still pushes the same idea of progress, just
with more bullshit about diversity and inclusion. Hey, colored people
can colonize their own people and also participate in war crimes!
Who wants to be included in this shit? Too many of us confuse
progress with joining the persecution.

American Progress (the painting) looks racist AF, and this is an accu-
rate depiction of American progress. This is the actual programming
of colonialism, which is still running full tilt, on bigger and bigger
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servers. A white lady carrying a schoolbook brings technology, agri-
culture, and progress while indigenous people and animals get
chased off-screen, where they belong. This is exactly the program in
occupied Palestine, which is being genocided right now.

The Israeli Prime Minister occupying Palestine just comes out and
says it. He recently said,“This is a struggle between the children of light
and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle.”
The law of the jungle, of course, is what’s called an ecosystem.
Precisely what colonizers destroy and call ‘economics’. They treat the
human ‘children of darkness’ like ‘animals’, and of course, they treat
animals even worse. Our global mass extinction event is really part of
the same ongoing genocide, from Plymouth Rock to Palestine to the
whole fucking planet.

This is the painting of progress, which quite soon will be revealed in

all its loathsomeness, like the picture of Dorian Gray. In Wilde’s book,
a corrupt young man captures all his evil in a hidden painting, while
continuing to look young and beautiful to the world. Yet one day it all
falls apart and the roles are reversed. The painting looks a beautiful
lie again, and his real loathsomeness is revealed to the world. As the
end of that book goes (spoiler alert):

When they entered they found hanging upon the wall a splendid
portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of
his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in
evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled,
and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings
that they recognized who it was.

I feel like we’re at such a moment now, witnessing the death and
demasking of American Empire. They are stabbing their own picture
of morality by bombing and starving a concentration camp, among
other atrocities. Their President is a doddering old man, too cowardly
to ever fight in a war, but ever eager to start them, especially against
people without air forces.

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Joe Biden is the picture of a corrupt and collapsing American Empire,
old Grandpa Genocide, out embarrassing himself and not knowing
when to retire. The picture of American youth, vitality, and diversity
in Obama has faded into withered, wrinkled, and loathsome Biden.
They are both genocidal maniacs, of course. Now it’s just obvious.
The cursed painting of American Progress still looks beautiful, but
the reality of American Empire looks hideous.

The Bewitched

I grew up stuck in this painting, like the poor Erica in Roald Dahl’s
Witches. I read my schoolbook, pledged allegiance to the flag, played
Oregon Trail in the computer lab, ate mystery meat in the cafeteria,
and believed in American progress. I saw Native American civiliza-
tion, like the Serpent Mounds, but I never really wondered where it
went. I thought they just kinda wandered off, and that Indians
attacking the pioneers were just aberrations. I was also ‘Indian’ to
these people and still, I never thought about where my homies in
ignorance had gone. I never wondered what a town named Columbus
was doing on the banks of the Scioto. I never wondered why so many
places had native names, but literally no natives. I never wondered
where all the bodies were buried. I lived in a painting.

In Ohio history class, I read stories about frontiersmen and explorers

opening up new land. Discovering it. I looked forward to the parts
where they fought Indians. Now why were the Indians fighting? I
dunno, why do bears fight? I never thought about it. It was the quiet
genocide of erasure. Like the indigenous beings, being pushed off the
edge of that painting by invasive colonizers.

This coding of casual genocide is so deep — that some people are

savages and deserve to be killed — that the oligarchs can just change
variable names and genocide completely different populations. Not
to mention animal and plant life, which isn’t even mentioned. This
same program has been repeated over and over again, all over the
world. Brother humans, sister animals, mother nature itself; the
message is always.‘they’re going to kill you! You better kill them first!’
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Every savagery is justified by the fact that you’re doing it to
savages. This is what they call this civilization. It’s a very powerful
program. Until it overheats and crashes the whole world.

The Genocide Of Gaza

The latest people to be coded as savages have been those unfortunate

enough to be born on top of oil. For that reason, Arabs and Muslims
have been relentlessly demonized — from the news to Hollywood —
as hopeless dangerous terrorists that will kill you if you don’t kill
them first. Sound familiar?

It is this latest coding which is being activated in the genocide of

Gaza. The natives of Palestine are portrayed as hopelessly violent,
and their open genocide is thus justified, down to the last man,
woman, and child. The colonizer of Israel (many of them dual
European or Israeli) are portrayed as good and civilized, and just
‘defending themselves’. It’s the same programming run across the
continent of North America, Australia, etc. People are watching a
worse than medieval siege, where food, water, and fuel are cut off and
civilians are relentless bombed with the highest in destructive tech-
nology. And as with the ‘Indians’ being wiped out in history, people
cheer. For far too many people, genocide is still a good thing.

In Gaza, the temerity of the natives to break out of their reservation

(re: concentration camp) and kill some settlers and military occupiers
is reacted to the same horror as any slave rebellion or Indian ‘raid’.
The natives are portrayed as savages, in order to unleash untold
savagery upon them. The organization Hamas (which is far more
rational and less genocidal than Israeli political parties) is portrayed
as some abstract signifier of evil. Hamas=ISIS=Al
Qaeda=swarthy/scary Muslims. The word doesn’t matter and the
actual organization even less, it’s just another dog whistle to kill
savages. Israelis are ‘killed’ according to British state media, while
Palestinians mysteriously die. It’s the same old genocidal program-
ming, just internationally televised.

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And so, just as Thomas Jefferson used complaints about ‘merciless
Indian Savages’ to proceed with ‘an undistinguished destruction of all
ages, sexes and conditions,’just as this coding of carnage flowed through
Lincoln (who mass executed Native Americans) and Obama (who
destroyed multiple countries), so it flows into the river of blood that is
Gaza now. The western ‘declaration of independence’ is really a
declaration of oppression for the rest of the world. The stolen land
they wrote it on, the stolen people they built it with, the stolen fuel
they burned, the stolen air that now chokes us all. The coding of
genocide is so deep in the idea of ‘western civilization’ that it does not
compute without. We can see them showing their whole genocidal
ass in Palestine, and those poor people are just the canaries in the
literal coal mine.

When I read about genocide in Ohio I thought it was a good thing

because I was a child and those being genocided didn’t have smart-
phones or TV stations and their stories were buried as thoroughly as
them. Now I am watching the genocide of Gaza in real time and it
unearths the horror that colonialism always was, and how it never
stopped! It’s like the final bastion of white privilege is getting away
with genocide, and that’s what Israel wants. That’s what they mean
when they talk about defending European values and civilization.
Killing people and taking their stuff. That’s what European values
are! I grew up in this culture, where genocide was a good thing, and
because of this, thousands of Palestinian children will not grow up
at all.

What can I say, as I think of them every time I give food and water to
my children, and put them to sleep under a roof that isn’t falling
down? What can I say to the men like me and the women like my
wife, who are seeing their entire families wiped out? Who cannot
even run, because they’re being held in a concentration camp at
extermination time? Growing up in the West, I always wondered
what ‘we’ would do during a genocide, and now I see. ‘We’ would do
it. ‘We’ always did. So I reject all of my previous programming. I’m
with ‘them’ now.

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40.THE MOST
PROPAGANDIZED PLACE
ON EARTH
JUNE 2023

Caitlin Johnstone says that Americans are the most propagandized

people on Earth, which is true. People all over the world hate their
neighbors, but only Americans hate random people on the other side
of the world. How do they even know about these places enough to
hate them? This is because propaganda. These are places they simply
would not think of were the thoughts not mediated by an entire
industry. The military-industrial-media complex that has completely
lobotomized their young democracy.

Property

People within White Empire (including kalu suddhas in Sri Lanka)

think they are not propagandized because western media is private.
But America is an oligarchy and it is precisely this ‘private sector’ that
actually rules. To go back to the beginning, the American Revolution
was not a victory of people over a king. At founding, a fraction of
people on that land could vote. The Revolution was a revolt of prop-
ertied white males against taxes, and it was a victory of their class
against a king, that’s all.

To go even further back, the White Empire traces its ‘freedom’ back
to the Magna Carta, which was merely barons taking power from a

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king. As Eleanor Janega says, you are not a baron! This mythology
has fuck-all to do with you, besides getting to choose what brand of
quite publicly bribed (donations) person does the dirty work for the
‘private sector’ that actually pays them. To understand propaganda
within the White Empire you have to understand the class structure,
and how it has gone from kingly frying pan to capitalist fire while
calling it freedom.

Going even further back, Michael Hudson describes the same class
tension going back to the Bronze Age. I’m digressing a few thousand
years but bear with me. He describes a constant tension between
kings (or tyrants) and a class of wealthy families (you can call them
nobles or investors, the point is that they concentrate
wealth/land/labor in a way that’s a threat to centralized power). Note
that nobility isn’t decentralized to the peasant level, it’s just a wider
and often more exploitative and rapacious center than a king. Out of
this we get the concept of ‘parliamentary supremacy’ which is very
different from the direct democracy of Athenian citizens (where, if
you were a citizen, you could actually show up at ‘parliament’ and do
something). Modern parliaments are almost 100% rich people who
just make a show of taking bribes from even richer people in elec-
tions and going out to shake hands with the hoi polloi, who they
promptly screw over. I’ll quote a bit from Hudson because it’s inter-
esting, though a massive digression:

As interest-bearing credit became privatized throughout the Near

Eastern economies, personal debts owed to local headmen, merchants
and creditors also were cancelled. Failure to write down agrarian
debts would have enabled officials and, in due course, private credi-
tors, merchants or local headmen to keep debtors in bondage and
their land's crop surplus for themselves. Crops paid to creditors were
not available to be paid to the palace or other civic authorities as
taxes, while labor obliged to work off debts to creditors was not avail-
able to provide corvée service or serve in the army. Creditor claims
thus set the wealthiest and most ambitious families on a collision

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 course with the palace, along the lines that later occurred in classical
Greece and Rome. In addition to preserving economic solvency for the
population, rulers thus found debt cancellation to be a way to
prevent a financial oligarchy from emerging to rival the policy aims
of kings.

— MICHAEL HUDSON

H UDSON ’ S BOOK is about debt and how private debt-holders (ie slave
holders in the ancient times) accumulated parallel control over popu-
lations that would destabilize entire civilizations and the entire insti-
tution of kingship. To right this, since before biblical times, kings had
debt jubilees, where slaves could return to their families, land
returned to the people that actually worked it, and where clean slates
would ensure that one class wouldn’t cannibalize the whole (and
overthrow the king, more importantly). What happened in America,
however, is that that class did overthrow the king and now they rule,
under the guise of freedom for all. But just look at America. It’s a
nation of debt slaves with no hope for a jubilee. They’ve got Free-
dom™, which is not freedom at all.

The concept of debt relief in the Bronze Age was literally freedom
from slavery (the word used was amargi which means ‘return to
mother’). Of course in America this didn’t happen for nearly a
hundred years in law and still hasn’t fully happened in deed. Indeed,
the vast amount of Americans live as debt slaves from student loans
to housing loans to credit card debts, which they are forever working
off and die with. At least the indentured servants of yore got off after
some years. Modern debt peonage is forever. The foundation of
America was not ‘power to the people’ as mythologized but ‘power to
the propertied’. And the system is still working as intended.

What people call a ‘free press’ is actually very, very expensive. TV

stations are literally billion dollar clumps of intellectual and physical
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capital owned by very few people. Same for radio and even social
media. This vaunted free press is really owned by the actual ruling
class and it runs their propaganda.

Propaganda

Now to return to propaganda, now that we have a better sense of

whom the propaganda serves. Americans think they don’t have
propaganda because they don’t have state propaganda, but that
would actually be better. There would at least be some democratic
controls there. What they have is oligarchic propaganda, which is
worse, and also much more insidious. Americans thus suffer from the
meta-propaganda of believing they’re not propagandized at all, all
while mysteriously hating Vietnam or Venezuela or Libya or whoever
they’re supposed to.

I liken the American news to Paw Patrol, or any other ‘Saturday

morning’ cartoon. It’s some simple entertainment about good and
evil meant to sell you toys. And then sell you toys again the next
weekend. Over and over. It’s empty calories that you consume over
cereal. The toys in this case are bloated weapons systems from arms
dealers like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, etc. The more useless the
better cause then they can sell more.

These arms dealers have so deeply corrupted the American state

that’s it’s all legal and in the open. The current Defense (War) Secre-
tary Lloyd Austin stepped directly out of the Raytheon board room
into the Pentagon, a conflict of interest if anyone gave a shit. But this
is normal. There’s a constant revolving door between the bureaucrats
starting wars and the arms dealers supplying them, and it’s all out in
the open. The arms dealers produce think tanks as much as tanks,
and the latter are more dangerous.

After the think tanks roll out, the mass media dutifully provides air
cover. Liberal or conservative, they all love war, which the liberals
launder through their ‘good intentions’ while conservatives are more
honestly just assholes about the rest of the world. Liberals actually

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thinking they’re helping and conservatives actually enjoy hurting.
But it’s the same result. American media uniformly launders every
perceived ‘national security’ threat from anonymous sources and
‘experts’ as a real, even if it is literally on the other side of the world
and has fuck all to do with America at all. Even for things that
America might have a tangential interest in, they never seem to get
the point that their intervention always makes things worse.

The western mass media (liberals at least) is always against the last
war and always for the current one, never perceiving that this is a
problem. They they are the problem. If this media performed their
role as watchdog the actual rulers couldn’t indulge in wars of outright
corruption but they are bitches. The violent propertied interests are
quite easily able to ‘wag the dog’. The incentives of media, as an
industry, are of course wildly misaligned. War is good content for
them and makes careers for journalists. There are no consequences
for being wrong over and over again, where as being anti-war gets you
fired quite reliably.

The sad part is that the small-people-with-large-TVs cheer for this

fatal farce as vigorously as Romans cheering slaughter in the Colos-
seum. The Romans were at least honest with themselves about liking
the brutality, westerners don’t even look at the dead and liberals
posit that they’re helping. They pretend like all the killing and torture
are just ‘mistakes’ and that they’re fundamentally good intentioned.
To them it’s all a TV show, specifically a children’s cartoon view of
the world (which is where the propaganda starts). In this TV show
their military is A) strong and not just bullies and B) fighting for
values and not money and power. Democracy, human rights, and
assorted bull, trotted out into the Cable-TV Colosseum. It’s all a
performance.

This is of course no different than the colonial ruse about spreading

Christianity or ‘civilization’, just in a modernized form. They’ve
changed the words but the narrative is exactly the same as manifest
destiny. As the (Wikipedia) caption to the 1872 John Gast painting
reads:

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American Progress (1872) by John Gast is an allegorical representation
of the modernization of the new west. Columbia, a personification of
the United States, is shown leading civilization westward with the
American settlers. She is shown bringing light from east to west,
stringing telegraph wire, holding a book,[1] and highlighting different
stages of economic activity and evolving forms of transportation.[2]
On the left, Indigenous Americans are displaced from their
homeland.

What has changed? What has changed? Instead of ‘Civilization Vs.

Savages’ we have ‘Democracy Vs. Authoritarians’, instead of the tele-
graph we have social media, instead of books we have news, and then
of course we have the cancerous economic activity leading to a mass
extinction of most indigenous lifeforms.

As my historical thesis goes, same shit different day. It is as it was, just

slathered in a different layer of bullshit. The point of conquest is
always the money, as it was during colonial rule and as it remains
under the ‘rules-based order’ the White Empire calls it now. Then, as
now, this global looting by elites is sold to the imperial peasants as
some noble, civilizing mission. All of this violence actually impover-
ishes and endangers them so some war profiteer can profit, but they
at least get a story they can be proud of. And they fall for it pretty reli-
ably. Behold, for example, right now.

People that dutifully wring their hands about Iraq and are freshly
dipping them in blood over Ukraine. They see no lessons to be
learned from the last 12 wars that they supported that all went wrong.
This war is always different. It never enters these peoples minds that
after this killing in their names they should shut the fuck up and sit
the rest of the century out.

Because the imperial center is so physically far from the wars and the
imperial debts are so far in the future, the actions remain pure fiction
to the population and the consequences are never connected. It’s all
entertainment really, to distract them from the results of the looting
on their own impoverished, indebted lives. While they get devoured
by loan sharks, they can watch someone else get devoured on TV
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worse, while the security forces also occupying them get lionized as
heroes, with magical technological powers. It’s Paw Patrol for geno-
cidal adults. These are the most propagandized people on the planet,
they’re absolutely swimming in it, from children’s shows to Holly-
wood to the news, it’s all the same narrative, over and over. And yet if
you tell an American they’re propagandized, they really can’t see it.
It’s like asking a fish “how’s the water?”

“What’s water?”

That’s the American relationship with propaganda. It works so good

that it’s invisible. They’re the most propagandized people on Earth, to
the point that they think they’re the most free. It’s diabolical.

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41.HOW WESTERN
PROPAGANDA HAS
BEEN PRIVATIZED
MARCH 2022

Private companies are doing the censorship and propaganda work of

White Empire. Big Brother has been privatized.

Hence private companies removed the channel RT, Google is

removing search results and videos, Spotify is removing podcasts,
and Facebook and Twitter are removing content and accounts.

Twitter is allowing death threats, Facebook is allowing calls for

violence against Russians, and the private press is positively braying
for war. Foreign fighters, formerly decried as brainwashed jihadis, are
lionized. Child soldiers, formerly an atrocity, are glorified.

So the people that called for blood in Iraq cry crocodile tears for
Ukraine. Not for detente or negotiation, but just more arms and esca-
lation that will tear the country in twain. Little of this comes from
state media, but it’s all making the same case.

How did this happen? How did so many drummers come to beat the
same rhythm at the same time? How did a symphony of propaganda
become so effectively privatized?

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The Information Problem

To look at Empire, specifically its capital America, let’s take Mazer

Rackham’s advice from the book Ender’s Game. He said:

“There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you
what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you
how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are
weak.”

Hence to understand White Empire, we turn to Wang Huning, the

leading strategist in their current enemy, Red China. Huning visited
the heart of whiteness in the late 80s and wrote America Against
America.

Huning viewed governance as an information problem. How does

government process all the information in a society, and ultimately
govern it? Huning said:

Can a political and administrative system bear all the burdens of modern
society? This is a difficult question for all countries.

What he saw in America was that they built a self-organizing system

based on decentralization. Basically outsourcing a lot of government
functions to private companies. Reagan effectively sold this idea of
‘small’, efficient government, and no politician has had an original
idea since. The result is actually much bigger and less efficient, but
nevermind.

What this meant, since the 80s, was the commodification of every-
thing, from the military, to healthcare, to transportation, to media. As
Huning said, the US government stepped into a more indirect role:

Striving to give the various spheres of social life their own organiza-
tion and dynamics to meet the needs of society on their own, so that
the political or administrative system plays only an indirect regu-
latory role, is an effective way to win in this area.A prerequisite for
the realization of this structure is to enable the various spheres of
social life to form a self-organizing system that decouples these

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specific and complex spheres of activity from political activity.
Commodification is the catalyst for this transformation process.

Huning looked at this process just starting in the 1980s and said “most
of the institutions in this set are private, but in fact they manage a very
large part of the affairs of the whole society.”

This shows how effectively and powerfully capital controls

society at large, and thus society as a whole. Most of the insti-
tutions in this set are private, but in fact they manage a very
large part of the affairs of the whole society. This management
is not based on coercion and command, but rather on volun-
tarily by each individual. People either voluntarily, or driven
by social circumstances, automatically seek to be governed.
Americans like to be governed least, but they like money most.
The logic of money is to lead people to be governed. This
mechanism is related to the basic survival of each person, and
therefore effective management. Perhaps mobilizing the ability
of a society's money to govern people is a very important
aspect of reducing the pressure on the political system to
manage.

Now in the 2020, the lobotomization of the American state is largely

complete. The state does very little. During a pandemic it just tells
people to get private vaccines and mounts no test-and-trace effort at
all. During financial crashes it just gives money to private banks, it
mounts no public works programs at all either.

Hence America emerges as a complete oligarchy, with just a Reality

TV show called elections. Contestants are publicly bribed by corpo-
rations to buy advertising on corporate media, giving the imprimatur
of consent. It’s all bullshit.

As a Princeton study said “Multivariate analysis indicates that economic

elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial

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independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and
mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”

Huning saw this and said what any rapper could tell you, that “money
governs society” in America. He said “This non-governmental money
mechanism regulates people’s thinking, emotions, and behavior.”

Hence it’s not just the propaganda has been privatized. Everything has
been privatized. Propaganda is just the advertising that sells it all.
Most of all war.

The Military-Industrial Complex

War is just another industry in America. Of the Defense budget, over

half now goes to private arms dealers, called oligarchs in any other
country. The industry has effectively taken over government. The
current Defence Secretary came there directly from Raytheon. Presi-
dent Biden has taken billions in bribes from them over the years
(donations are just the white word for bribes).

Dwight D. Eisenhower left this turd on America’s door stop after

World War II, along with a completely pointless warning about what
was to come. The turd was this:

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no
armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could,
with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can
no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we
have been compelled to create a permanent armaments
industry of vast proportions.

And this was the famous but pointless warning:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acqui-

sition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,

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 by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disas-
trous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.We must
never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties
or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the
proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery
of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security
and liberty may prosper together.

I say pointless because look around. The arms dealers are in the
Defense Department. The politicians depend on the arms industry
for their nest eggs. Trillions goes from the treasury to the military-
industrial complex, despite there being no official wars.

America has neither security nor liberty. To paraphrase Ike, Amer-

ican democracy willnotsurvive for generations to come, it is already
an insolvent phantom today.

The Military-Media Complex

They say the first casualty of war is truth, and America’s forever wars
have made their media forever false. Despite losing every war, killing
millions, displacing tens of millions and making everything worse,
this time is always going to be different.

The fact is that news networks like CNN made their bones on the first
Iraq war and ‘war correspondents’ like NBC’s Richard Engel quite
publicly thank these manufactured wars for their careers. There’s
obviously a conflict of interest here, in that wars driving ratings and
business for these people, as much as the arms dealers. As Engel
wrote, the second Iraq War was ‘his big break’:

In the run-up to the war, it was clear that Irag was a land where
careers were going to be made. I sneaked into Irag before the
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 the Middle East, where I had already been living for seven years.
As a young freelancer, I believed some reporters would die
covering the Irag war, and that others would make a name for
themselves. Zargawi, another young and ambitious freelancer,
had a similar idea, albeit with a radically different goal. I wanted
to be a great reporter. Zarqawi wanted to rival bin Laden.

My big break was being one of the few American journalists

who stayed in Irag during the U.S. invasion. Zarqawi's break was
tapping into a stock of trained, frustrated army and intelligence
officers spurned and betrayed by the United States, worried
about Shite ascendancy, and looking for a new cause.

The consequences for being wrong about war in America are zero,
and the rewards are many. The same people wrong about
Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya just keep failing upwards. Meanwhile
anyone who dares oppose war gets kicked out. Being wrong is fine,
the audience forgets. But being anti-war is just bad for business.

After decades of this the American war machine is an obviously

ghoulish disaster and the country has lost all faith and credit in the
world. But its corrupt media still doesn’t get it. They still think they’re
the good guys. As Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to
understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding
it.”

Hence hacks like Engel or Christiane Amanpour positively moaned

when America pulled out of its disastrous war in Afghanistan. Even
after all the bloodshed, even after the ultimate failure, they still could
not understand. Amanpour, now CNN’s Chief International Corre-
pondent, said:

Hearing Taliban entering Kabul takes me back to Nov 2001 watching them
flee Kabul at the tip of America’s spear, bringing hope to women, children
and all who want peace, education and freedom from fundamentalist
terror. Now progress and hope die again. Reckless American gamble?

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Shit would make Goebbels blush, and these people say this them-
selves, on their own Twitter accounts. As Huning said, “This manage-
ment is not based on coercion and command, but rather on voluntarily by
each individual.”

Tip of the spear? Spreading peace, education, and freedom? What is

this except the most rank propaganda, most effectively privatized?

Strictly Business

Which brings us back to Ukraine. Unlike other invasions, which were

good and just, Russia’s invasion is bad, and must be stopped. But
when Russia’s television channels and even regular Russian people
are censored, this is really just anti-competitive behavior. The problem
is not propaganda, it’s their propaganda.

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Just compare the covers when Empire invades someone, to when
Russia. The Economist (which should just be called The Imperialist)
happily made ‘the case for war’ against Iraq, called to ‘hit him hard’
against Syria, and called the occupation of Afghanistan ‘a heart-
rending but necessary war’.

Now these same media outlets openly cheering book burnings, child
soldiers, foreign fighters, and calling for more arms, and Molotov
cocktails. All of these things are terrorism and evil when leveled
against Empire, but are now cheered on. Such is the fog of war. Dudes
have commodified it as Fog-Of-War-Vapes™ and the population is
sucking it down hard.

This is a turn-on-a-dime propaganda machine that would make Big

Brother jealous, and it’s almost completely privatized. Besides the
BBC telling people how to make Molotov cocktails and getting killed
attacking tanks, it’s all from private companies, the ostensibly free
press.

But as we’ve discussed, that itself is a misnomer. There are billions of

dollars behind the media and social media. It’s ultimately the domain
of oligarchs, and the military-media complex is as much a business as

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the military-industrial. And they’re all ultimately united around
getting paid.

Hence this isn’t even a war problem in particular, nor is it about

particular industries or particular people being corrupt. The system is
working as designed, as intended. These are the logical results.

Since the 1980s, America has commodified all parts of its governance.
They haven’t had any new ideas since Reagan talked about ‘small
government’ and the power of American business, and administra-
tion after administration has just been selling the place out to
oligarchs.

From health to prisons to transportation to war, America has turned

everything into an industry, which completely changes the incen-
tives involved.

A private war company has no more interest in ending war than an

umbrella company has in ending rain. War is their business, it’s how
they make money. While a government might be interested in ending
a war quickly, a private company has the opposite incentive. They
want wars to go on longer, that’s more time to sell bombs. They don’t
care if the war is ultimately lost, there’s always another war to start.

So here we are. While the military-industrial complex makes tril-

lions, the military-media complex makes billions, and they both can’t
wait for another World War. Money is what makes the drums of war
all beat in unison. They’re synchronized not by the visible hand of
some dictator but by the invisible hand of self-interest.

A government doesn’t have to spend money making propaganda,

they just give the license to a few oligarchs. Propaganda has been
privatized in White Empire the way that everything has been priva-
tized. They have no society anymore. The only way they feel anything
close to unity is when they’re beating up someone else. And so from
the twisted heart of whiteness, we get forever war.

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42.WHY THE MEDIA
LOVES WAR
MARCH 2023

In the mafia, you ‘make your bones’ by killing someone. It’s generally
essential to getting ‘made’. In the oligarch media, it’s the same thing.
Ted Turner’s CNN ‘made its bones’ on the first Iraq War. Embedded
with the US troops, gleefully watching cities get bombed. Imperial
media today is embedded with US spy planes near China, gleefully
hoping for WWIII. War is a farce that gives them meaning. It gives
them ratings. The media loves war. It’s great programming.

It’s important to understand the news as 100% advertising. During

the breaks you get declared advertising for the suckers that have to
pay, and the news itself is advertising from the oligarchs that run the
place. Western media has perfected the art of selective attention and
distraction. The press is called free, but is literally owned by a small
class of people. Reporters are ostensibly free to report, but end up
parroting the same line on any number of subjects. The media itself
is literally embedded with the military and cannot cover it with any
real objectivity. And yet the media poses as objective and above the
fray. They are the fray. The breaks are brought to you by car insur-
ance and dick pills, and the programming is brought to you straight
from the Pentagon and the arms dealers that literally run the place.

I say literally because the current Secretary of Defence is a former

(and probably to-be) Director of Raytheon, an arms dealer. People
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like White House spokesperson (ie, propagandist) Jen Psaki move
straight into their own shoes on MSNBC. Like everything else, the
White Empire has privatized propaganda but their press is in no sense
free. It’s literally run for profit, trillions for the arms dealers, billions
for the media barons, and millions for the grinning faces that present
it to you on screen.

This media loves war for the same reason blockbusters are all just
fist-fights in different contexts (in space, while time traveling, with
cars). They love the action. America has always had the luxury of far
away wars fought by debt peons, mercenaries, and proxy arms. They
actually make more money from losing these wars. The people
watching the cable colosseum are entertained, and the arms dealers
can sell more arms in a losing battle that drags on forever. The
millions killed and tens of displaced? Well, they don’t matter
anyways. They’re not a consumer market and they have no voice in
this vaunted democracy that the new empire claims to spread. They
can just fuck off and die. The arms dealers get the money, the media
gets the advertising rights, and everything is in its place. The poor
buried underground, the rich adding extensions to their homes in
Bethesda, and the drones flying overhead.

Today, despite most of the world not supporting US ‘intervention’

in Ukraine (up to the point of scuttling peace talks even Ukraine
wants), despite protests against NATO in Europe and the US, and
despite people having their own fucking problems that could use a
billion dollars here and there, the media beats the war gongs as
relentlessly as ever. No one was ever held accountable for the
‘interventions’ in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, or Libya so they’re still
out there calling for more war and getting more paid. No one ever
entertains the idea that maybe the US military should do nothing
rather than making everything worse wherever they ‘intervene’.
No, the US has a big military and they must use it for something,
as the war criminal Madeline Albright said before she recently
went to hell. And they have a big media and it needs program-
ming. So it all fits together like a hook and eye. A fish hook, an
open eye.
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That Margaret Atwood poem is an apt description of the modern
mass media and its relationship to its viewers. It keeps you hooked
with constant war propaganda, like Saturday morning cartoons,
except instead of Transformers toys they sell you on HIMARs and
expensive military systems that are actually useless because the dein-
dustrialized, incredibly corrupt West cannot actually produce
enough bullets to sustain a land war in Asia, let alone on two fronts.
Yet the media is flying around, gleefully trying to open up fronts with
old reruns of Red Peril and Yellow Peril, with the latent free of
colored people and Muslims throughout. War is a force that gives
them meaning. But war is also the worst thing in the world, as anyone
who’s actually lived through war knows. That’s why this warmon-
gering media must be discredited and turned off. As far as I can tell
these fuckers have already started World War III, a conflict that could
easily make bones of us all.

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43.HOW HUMAN RIGHTS IS
USED TO DEHUMANIZE
THE SOUTH
DECEMBER 2022

Every time I hear someone within White Empire talk about human
rights I throw up a little. All the vaunted talk about human rights and
democracy serves the same purpose as Christianity and civilization
did. They’re cynically exploited to attack people in the South and
take our shit.

Westerners will use human rights to say that Iraq needs to be

attacked, Libya needs to be attacked, Syria needs its oil stolen, Cuba
needs to be besieged, Iran needs to be besieged, and so and so on. It’s
touching that white people’s tender sensibilities so perfectly coincide
with their military industrial complex. It’s touching us in the private
parts in the South. It’s wrong.

It’s not just the hypocrisy of counties with the largest prison popula-
tions (the US) and the world’s deadliest border (the EU) lecturing
other people. It’s the air cover these lectures give to bombs. It’s the
generally logic of collective punishment of entire populations for their
own good. It’s the same old ‘white man’s burden’, now with imperial
women and black people getting in on the fun.

All of the western news about human rights is just advertising for the
theft and war. It makes western consumers think there’s some

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morality to a capital colonialism (that doesn’t really benefit them) just
as the idea of Christendom made them think there was some
morality to colonial joint-stock that didn’t really benefit them either.
A western government is sincere about human rights in the same way
that Nestle is sincere about human health. They’re fucking not. It’s all
just advertising to make money. And the people that believe in it are
suckers.

The fact is that the greatest violations of human rights are carried out
in the name of human rights, just as the greatest violations of Christ
were carried out in his names. The White Empire just changed capi-
tals (to America) and state religions (to this secular bullshit) and
carried on making carrion of the South.

‘Human rights abuser’ is just the latest word for ‘savage’, used to the
same effect. To take our shit, and feel good about it. To feel like you’re
doing us a favor. And you’re not. To the consumer population of the
Empire it’s just more advertising, and to the corporations actually
running the place, it’s more profit. Countries that dare protect their
natural resources or try to industrialize can be conveniently demo-
nized in the corporate press, couped by the dark web of NGOs and
‘democracy foundations’, and get bombs dropped on them via
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

Bigger countries like China that actually exceed the White Empire in
the human right to make a living and not die in a plague get demo-
nized up to the point of starting a new Cold War. The Imperial press
—fresh of demonizing Muslims for decades—suddenly feigns an
interest in Chinese Muslims of all things, and people fucking believe it.
They repeat it in cocktail conversations. They’re delusional and
drunk. People that have probably had relatives die of COVID-19 are
told that China’s COVID policy is a failure, despite saving millions of
lives there and abroad.

Perhaps the advertising between news programs doesn’t work, but

the news does. The news itself is owned by capital, advertising capi-
tal, and quite capably justifies all of capital’s predations against

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people western consumers have never heard of. They lap it up,
ignoring capital’s ongoing predations against them, even in the face
of coughing, dying, and obviously declining lifestyles.

‘Human rights’ is just a new shibboleth for White Supremacy. A way

of feeling better than that the colored south. Hell, colored people
from the South can even become White and start enforcing white
supremacy themselves. An African-American is head of the US
Defense Department, bombing Africa. What a win. An Indian-Brit is
the unelected Prime Minister of the UK, representing his real home-
land of Goldman Sachs. Whiteness has always been a fluid category
(the Irish-origin Joe Biden wouldn’t have been considered white just
over a century ago). The true purpose of the hierarchy is not the
primacy of color but the primacy of capital. And that hierarchy
continues, just with different advertising.

The truth about human rights in other places is shut the fuck up. After
causing millions of deaths and tens of millions displaced in a fight for
‘western values’ in the Middle East, after sanctions (white word for
sieges) impoverishing entire population for generations, and espe-
cially after the ongoing baggage of colonialism that makes these
lecturing countries completely morally suspect in the first place, after
this run-on sentence and more, well-meaning white people need to
just shut the fuck up and sit the rest of this century out.

Whether you talk about human rights or democracy or civilization or

Christ is immaterial. The actions of your governments are the same
old theft, exploitation, and murder. All the reasons for these preda-
tions are meaningless.It’s new whine in old bottles. White (and
aspiring whites) need to look at the actual actions done in the name
of their ‘values’, the actual profits they deliver to a few elites, and stop
getting distracted by the empty words of advertising.

If you want to coup, sanction, or overthrow any governments, start

with your own, the greatest human rights violators in the world. If
you have an opinion about human rights in some other country,
understand that you’re not standing in solidarity with us. You’re a

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useful idiot for your corporate media and corporate media, just a
patsy in the capital colonialism that goes on and on. So please spare
us the lectures about human rights. It’s just the latest idea y’all use to
dehumanize us and take our stuff, and feel good about yourself. You
should feel like I feel. Sick to your stomachs.

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44.HOW DEMOCRACY IS
NOT GOOD
MARCH 2022

Democracy is just a tool. It is no more inherently good or bad than a

hammer. You can use a hammer to build a home or to claw someone’s
face out. White Empire—ever since the Jesus juice ran out—has been
using the claw-end of the hammer to go full Oldboy on the world (I
am not recommending that film, oh God).

Iraqi democracy BAM! Afghanistan democracy BOOM! Whatever

they couldnt squash down they hammered a lid over, isolating Iran,
Syria, Cuba, from the world. They’ve been hammering pins around
Russia, until Putin finally put his own hammer down.

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 Russia having the temerity to put its country between NATO bases

Imperial expansion and invasion is all done under the guise of

spreading democracy or defending democracy, but just substitute
‘democracy’ for ‘Christianity’ and see how it sounds. It’s the same shit
different day. The zealots even sound the same.

As Christiane Amanpour said when Empire pulled the claw end out
of Afghanistan, stealing all their money and leaving mass starvation:

Hearing Taliban entering Kabul takes me back to Nov 2001

watching them flee Kabul at the tip of America’s spear,
bringing hope to women, children and all who want peace,
education and freedom from fundamentalist terror. Now
progress and hope die again.

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How is this different from the nauseating Kipling poem, The White
Man’s Burden? As Theodore Roosevelt said, it was “rather poor poetry,
but good sense from the expansion point of view.”

Take up the White Man’s burden —

Send forth the best ye breed —
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need

To wait in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wild —
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child

Take up the White Man’s burden —

And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard —

How is modern imperialism different from all the craven colonizing

done before?

Empire is always better, and its enemies are always brutes. Empire’s
always doing a favor by invading, whether they’re bringing churches
or institutes. There’s always some good reason to do terrible things,
and after ‘Christianity’, ‘spreading democracy’ is just the latest
substitute.

How did democracy get turned around and clawed into the skull of
humanity like this? What is democracy? That’s what we’ll try to
explore.

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Democracy Is What Now?

As mentioned, democracy is just a tool. Democracy is just a tech-

nology for in-group management. That’s all it is, and it has historically
been very diverse. The first and most important point is one that
Aristotle makes in his Politics.

In that, he says “some persons think that there is only one species both of
democracy and oligarchy; but this is not true… All laws are, and ought to
be, framed agreeable to the state that is to be governed by them, and not the
state to the laws.”

Today we live in some woe begotten age where electoral democracy is

the only species of democracy, a consumer product essentially, readily
loaded into bombs. This is absurd as Aristotle’s quick survey of many
West Asian and African democracies shows. Everybody used the tool
differently depending on what they wanted to do.

If what you wanted was liberty and equality, well, Aris had some
ideas on that. Again note that this is just him talking about one form,
not the only one.

Moreover, as an oligarchy is said to be a government of men

of family, fortune, and education; so, on the contrary, a
democracy is a government in the hands of men of no birth,
indigent circumstances, and mechanical employments. In
this state also no office should be for life; and, if any such should
remain after the government has been long changed into a
democracy, they should endeavour by degrees to diminish the
power; and also elect by lot instead of vote. These things, then,
appertain to all democracies; namely, to be established on that
principle of justice which is homogeneous to those govern-
ments; that is, that all the members of the state, by number,
should enjoy an equality, which seems chiefly to constitute a
democracy, or government of the people: for it seems perfectly
equal that the rich should have no more share in the govern-

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 ment than the poor, nor be alone in power; but that all should
be equal, according to number; for thus, they think, the
equality and liberty of the state best preserved.

A couple of things are important here. As A.D. Lindsay says in the

intro, “When we come to Aristotle’s analysis of existing constitutions, we
find that while he regards them as imperfect approximations to the ideal, he
also thinks of them as the result of the struggle between classes. Democracy,
he explains, is the government not of the many but of the poor; oligarchy a
government not of the few but of the rich. And each class is thought of, not
as trying to express an ideal, but as struggling to acquire power or maintain
its position.”

So again, democracy is not one thing, it is the site of struggle

between classes. This struggle takes very different forms from city-
state to city-state, as diverse as their amphitheaters and all the dramas
within.

Democracy Is A Hammer Within

As the saying goes, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks
like a nail. The unit that democracy operates on is the citizen.

Citizenship

In his excellent book Citizenship, Dimitry Kochenov says, “citizenship is

a very effective abstract legal tool to justify essentially random violence,
humiliation, and exclusion.”

This was very obvious in places like ancient Athens. When local boys
reached adulthood, they went before a citizenship council. If they
were approved, they were citizens, they had the power to attend
assembly, so they were essentially Members of Parliament. If you
failed this birthright test, however, you could be sold into slavery.
Lot of pressure when you turned 18. As Philip Brook Manville wrote
in The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens:

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 Athenians proposed for enrollment in a deme at age eighteen
(discussed below) were probably sold into slavery if a subse-
quent scrutiny or appeal found them to be of unfree birth; the
enrolling demesmen could be fined for accepting candidates
below age, and aliens who illegally adopted the status of citizens
could be imprisoned, prosecuted, and sold into slavery if
convicted.

This slavery thing is why people often brush Aristotle or the ancients
off because they obviously got that shit wrong, but are we so much
better? Today entire classes of people are ‘illegal’ across the world,
put in concentration camps, exploited for labor, and certainly denied
franchise. The Greeks would look and see that slavery by another
name still works a treat.

Ancient slaves at least occasionally got freedom with jubilees. Their

children were not inevitably born into it. When’s the relief for ‘illegal’
immigrants and refugees? We live in a world of birthright citizenship
where, as Kochenov says, “citizenships emerge as a key force behind the
preservation of the status quo where the poor are poor (the Congolese) and
the rich are rich (the Swiss).”

Does this really look so different than slavery with bigger cages, writ
large across the world? Certainly it is just a matter of degree, not
kind. This system is still irredeemably cruel. Indeed, it is in this
crucible of exclusion that the iron bond of citizenship is formed.

As Kochenov says, “The story of citizenship [is] a tale not of liberation,

dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination.”

So once people are forged into nails (citizens) and the non-citizens
are thrown out as exploitable waste, what do we have in place?

With these nails, a city can build an amphitheatre, in which to enact

the most enthralling drama of the day. The constant class struggle

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called democracy. This is of course only possible after deciding who
can ‘enroll’ in a protected class in the first place.

Class Struggle

Among citizens then, who gets to rule? The regular Athenian model
was actually much more elegant and simple than the hoops we jump
through today. If you were a citizen, you could rule. Self rule literally
meant self rule.

Every citizen was a ‘Parliamentarian’. Anyone could go. Almost all

citizens would serve as a ‘Minister’ at some point. Most major offices
were selected by lot (called sortition). As Philip Brook Manville
writes, “in the fourth century; almost all citizens above thirty must have
served a year at least once in their lives.”

Once you were a citizen, you were assumed to have liberty, equality,
and direct power, even if the slaves, women, and ‘foreigners’ around
you did not. In many ways, you had power because they did not. And
thus you can see the perversion of liberty and equality within the
game of democracy itself. It all depends on who’s allowed to play.

Here we also return to the diversity of democracies that Aristotle

talked about. As he said, “all laws are, and ought to be, framed agreeable
to the state that is to be governed by them, and not the state to the laws.”

In Politics Aris travels around Africa and West Asia, surveying different
democracies. Some have a king and want to preserve that aristocratic
power, so they ‘rig’ the game that way. Some have rich people that want
to preserve that oligarchic power, and so they ‘rig’ the game that way.

I put ‘rig’ in quotes because aristocracy and oligarchy were not value
judgements like they are today. They were just different. As Aristotle
said, different strokes for different folks. Today we still have the same
diversity of democracy in practice (just as we have practical slavery),
we’re just in denial about it.

And this is the fundamental state of democracy today. A state of

denial. We act like democracy is one thing (it’s many), like citizenship

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is holy (it’s full of holes), and we call this whole misperception
‘democracy’. The common belief in liberal democracy is essentially a
religious belief at this point, as far removed from goodness as the
Crusades were from Christ.

People within ‘liberal democracies’ really think they’re doing God’s

work. In truth, they’re just the nails hammered into Them.

Democracy Is A Claw Without

As we went through, democracy is just the in-group management of a

bunch of citizens. When it comes to the out-groups, you can do what-
ever the fuck you want.

Just as it is towards internal slaves or ‘illegals’, there are few limita-

tions on what you can do to people outside the club. As Henry Hill
said about the Mafia:

It means that nobody can fuck around with you. It also means
you could fuck around with anybody just as long as they aren’t
also a member. It’s like a license to steal. It’s a license to do
anything.

There is literally nothing within a democracy to stop it from going to

war. The people getting attacked aren’t citizens. They literally don’t
count.

There’s this idea that a bunch of well-meaning citizens wouldn’t do

that, but what if someone is threatening them? What if someone is
threatening democracy itself? Then war!

Who gets to decide what a real threat is? Well, the citizens, or the
oligarchs, or aristocrats. In this way wars are inherently undemocratic
for the people being attacked, even if the country invading is democratic.
They don’t get to decide at all.

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In this way, you can see the poison of exclusionary citizenship,
weaponized and pointed out. Just as there’s different rules for non-citi-
zens within, there’s no rules for non-citizens without. Like someone
who’s not ‘made’, you can fuck with them as much as you want.

It’s like a license to steal. It’s a license to do anything.

I often think of this idea in relation to White Empire’s wars. What if

they were serious about spreading democracy? What if they waged
an actually democratic war? What if instead of being an expensive
oligarchy, they were an expansive democracy?

Let’s say they had to invade first, because the people were trapped.
Then what?

Well then, logically, America would make all Iraqis citizens. Iraqi
governates would get 40 Senators and Iraqi people would vote in all
American elections. The country was invaded to spread democracy,
so spread it, right? If Iraqis are going to be occupied by a democracy,
they should have a voice in that democracy of course. Lol right? It
doesn’t happen that way at all.

All that happens is that one people who are internally democratic
impose their will on another group of people without. Those people
are fair game. They’re not citizens. They’re not in the club. While
liberal democracy is a hammer building a society within, outside it’s
just a claw, ripping societies and human bodies apart.

Hammering It In

And so here we are. Back in modernity, after a detour through

ancient Athens, after questioning the assumptions of democracy, citi-
zenship, and what constitutes a democratic war.

In our day-to-day lives we don’t look at these assumptions. We just go

around proudly defending democracy, despite it raising quite an
offensive stink around the world. But we can’t ignore the bodies
anymore.

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People within Empire often say ‘they hate us for our freedom.’ I think
this actually makes some sense. If you have freedom, if you have
democracy, why did you choose this? Why did you choose to kill
millions of people and displace tens of millions of people? You’re
proud of your democracy? Fine. Then take some responsibility.

Americans expect Russians to overthrow their government or face

poverty, all for invading a country. What fate do Americans deserve,
for invading so many more?

As Osama Bin Laden said in his 2002 Letter To The Americans,

explaining why he fired (or at least took later credit for) the shot that
marks the fall:

(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify
aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and
offenses in which they did not participate:

(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that

America is the land of freedom, and freedom's leaders in this
world. If this is so, the American people are the ones who
choose their government through their own free will; a
choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus
the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed
their support for Israel's oppression of the Palestinians, the
occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous
killing, torture, punishment, and expulsion of the Palestinians.
The American people have the ability and choice to refuse
the policies of their government, and even to change it if they
want.

Bin Laden may be your enemy, certainly, but even the worst person
you know can make a good point. And in case you’re like ‘how dare
you quote that Bin Laden!’, here’s the former US Ambassador to
Russia (under Obama!) making the same point.

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Where’s the daylight between these two? It’s all dark. McFaul goes
even further than Bin Laden. With Bin Laden’s message you could say
that America actually isn’t a democracy at all, it’s not the peoples
fault. But McFaul is saying people in what he considers an oligarchy
are responsible. And that they should overthrow your government by
force.

Bin Laden called the Americans Crusaders and he was right; Bush
the Younger even said it himself. You can still see that level of
messianic zeal, from people who are obviously not following neither
philosophers or God. Empire has perverted democratic values like
they perverted the message of Christ, and it’s an abomination to
behold.

The sad thing is that I love Christianity, and I like democracy. It’s a
very interesting idea, lots of good stuff in there. But like the Crusades,
White Empire has taken something good and weaponized it, using it
as cover to kill and take what they want. And that is where we are.

Like every religion taken over by a state, the ideals of democracy have
been completely corrupted. Loaded into bombs, painted on flags,
using for whatever vulgar purpose Empire wanted to do. And so we
have to deconstruct it. We have to look at it. We can’t just believe in it
anymore.

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To all those mindlessly defending democracy, examine that. If you’re
defending something peaceful, why do you keep attacking other
people so much? If democracy is about human freedom, why aren’t
you listening when people say stop, this hurts?

Yes. Truly understanding democracy means not believing in it anymore.

Not as an article of faith. Certainly not as some abstract good. I’ll say
it quite plainly. Democracy is not good.

It’s just a tool, like a hammer. You can hammer nails with it, or use it
to claw peoples eyes out. You can build houses, or tear them down.
Nothing in the tool will tell you this is right or wrong. It’s just a tool. If
you don’t understand the nature of this tool, if you don’t even think
about it, then guess what? Someone else is wielding it, and the tool is
using you.

You’re the nails on the cross, you’re the slave to the boss, you’re the
rust on the claw end of the hammer, smashed into the quivering
eyeball of the world. As Pink Floyd said in their hammer-heavy film,
all in all, you’re just another brick in the wall.

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DEMOCRACY
NOVEMBER 2023

One of America’s liberal warmongers, Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Shot by

Reuters’ Kevin Lamarque.

Westerners, those arseholes of democracy, never actually vote on war.

They just watch it on TV, like so many Saturday cartoons, advertising
bloody-minded toys. More historically, they’re just the latest imperial
plebes in the greatest imperial Colosseum ever built. Every day
brutalized populations are paraded across their screens to be
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tortured and killed, and they get a thrill from having a thumbs up or
down opinion about it.

The whole vaunted ‘arsenal of democracy’ is just a Roman circus

without the bread. All of these wars, all of this death, all of this open
genocide and murder and torture and theft; it’s all a show to them. If
a bomb ever hits their countries, they freak out and destroy an entire
nations (or two, or three, or four). Then make movies about how bad
it made them feel. As I said, these are the arseholes of democracy.
Bloody minded children being relentlessly marketed war. And busi-
ness is good.

At this point, what I call the White Empire, now capital’d in America,
cannot build anything. That’s all been outsourced. All they have left
is destruction. Of allies and enemies alike. While China builds
infrastructure with its Belt and Road initiative, America just destroys
it with its ‘rules-based order’. What rules? We rule. Fuck you. It’s not
just enemies like Libya or Syria or Afghanistan that are destroyed
and stolen from, they blow up Germany’s oil pipelines and gleefully
bleed Ukraine to mildly wound their own enemy. America has no
allies, only interests, and their ailing President is only interested in
violence.

America’s visibly aging ruler ran against the previous ‘loose cannon’
but has run absolutely wild since he took power. Instead of white
supremacism at home with Trump, America got untrammeled impe-
rialism abroad with Biden, which has actually killed more people.
America does not even deploy a fig leaf of diplomacy anymore, it’s
just war and weapons, immediately and without conscience. The
only job the US President takes seriously is his job as the world’s
largest arms dealer. In Ukraine the US (through its vassal UK)
blocked negotiations to sell more bombs and in Israel, they openly
veto ceasefires. Where’s the money in that? The privatized propa-
ganda they call a ‘free press’ gobbles up the advertising rights,
becoming a much more powerful Radio Rwanda, lying and inciting
open genocide. War is farce that gives them meaning, and the only

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thing that matters to these ghouls is money. And, as I said, business is
good. Across the whole media-military-industrial complex.

The great trick of American Empire has been figuring out that there’s
more money in losing wars than in winning them. You sell more
weapons in a losing, intractable conflict, and it’s somebody else’s
country anyways. So they ‘lost’ trillions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,
Libya, and are now ‘losing’ in Ukraine, while their warlords ‘make’
those same trillions. ‘Lose’ is of course a misnomer for what’s
happening. Like money ‘lost’ during any corruption, someone is
making it.It’s the arms dealers, who dutifully give politicians, journal-
ists, and think-tanks their cut of the blood money. The world bleeds,
but if it bleeds it leads, and blood money is just money when it hits
your bank account. The Empire loses every war it starts or inflames,
but who cares? It’s about the journey, not the destination, and they're
whistling past graveyard after graveyard, driving to their third home
with their fourth wife in a convoy of SUVs.

These are the invisible winners but I also have a special contempt for
the visible losers, westerners ‘debating’ the latest destruction in
public. These useful idiots make all the carnage possible. When
Empire does what would be called terrorism and invasion from any
other source, it’s somehow called ‘helping’. But who, in this whole
fucking history of terror and invasion, have they ever helped? As
mentioned, their people get circuses and no bread, and some fucker
in Bethesda gets a third yacht. Far too many people support this
carnage charade over and over again, like Charlie Brown get the foot-
ball yoinked away from him, over and over. They should really know
better by now but no, yoinks again, as thousands more bodies hit the
ground.

These people really don’t understand what arseholes they are,

debating bombing other countries over dinner, as if it’s an opinion
and not an offense. People in Sri Lanka or Botswana don’t ‘debate’
dropping bombs on Ukraine or Palestine, we’d be rogue states if we
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it’s called ‘helping’, and ordinary plebs can get in on the imperi-
ousness.

At this point, after all this killing and all this losing, who gives a fuck
about a European or American opinion on anything? These people
should really be overthrowing their own government rather than
cheering for the latest torture and murder spectacle in front of them.
But cheer they do and, as deluded and propagandized as they are, I
have no patience for these rubes. War after war, genocide after geno-
cide, they still want to be the good guys and lecture everybody else.
They don’t get it. They’re just useful idiots to arms dealers, and worse
than useless to the rest of the world.

The fact is that westerners ‘supporting’ the latest western war have as
much power as a kid watching Transformers and munching cereal.
They’re just sub-citizens being marketed toys by giant corporations,
and they don’t even get to play with them. The man-children of the
West get nothing but headlines and a smug sense of superiority at
best. They're schmucks thinking they're supermen, while making
subhumans of everyone else. The one place they should support
intervention is their own countries, to overthrow their warlords and
maybe get some bread for once. But far too many of them don’t think
like that. They hate whoever their overlords tell them to hate, and
think this original thought. In this sense, I despise western liberals
more than conservatives. While conservatives are openly evil, liberals
act all good, while still doing it.

This modern Atlantic, Economist, or New York Times reader is no better

than the modern plebeian in the Colosseum. They feel great power
in their thumbs — flipping through the pages, judging this country
or the other — while the Empire decides who gets trotted out for
execution in the first place. So the modern White Empire trots out
communists, then Muslims, then Slavs, then Muslims again, it doesn’t
matter. Its populations are so fundamentally uneducated that they
can put old whine in new bottles and they drink it up. Scary commies
become scary Russia, and ISIS becomes Hamas, none of which really
makes sense, but it doesn’t matter. It makes dollars. There’s more

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money in reboots and reruns than anything original. No one
remotely understands what they’re supposed to hate, they just
read a page in The New Yorker and think themselves entitled to
destroy other countries, because they have a tote bag. Fucking
arseholes.

What westerners don’t understand is that 90% of the problems in the

world would be solved by them just fucking off. The correct answer to
‘what should we do about X’ is nothing. Just don’t make it worse.
Western ‘good intentions’ have been weaponized to great ill. Western
‘help’ is the highest harm. Beware a Greek bearing gifts, and an
American with your flag in their bio. They’ll just corrupt your
government, hype you up for a media cycles, bomb the shit out of
your country, and move onto the next one. As the American war
criminal Henry Kissinger said, “It may be dangerous to be America’s
enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” The long reign of this incarna-
tion of the White Empire has been a clear and present danger to
people everywhere, and ultimately fatal to the planet as we know it.
These fuckers need to sit the rest of this century out. If we’re being
honest, they deserve much worse.

Westerners say ‘if we weren’t doing all this evil someone else would
do worse’ and that’s just not true. All of the enemies they trot out in
their relentless propaganda — China, Russia, Iran — are nowhere
near as evil as the White Empire. Just look at who’s been invading
and bombing random countries. It’s not the ‘axis of evil’ (in modern,
ever-shifting parlance, meaning whoever the Empire hates). It’s the
fucking ‘Allies’, who incorporated the Nazis into NATO and became a
white supremacist terror across the world.

That’s why I feel so angry when I see people going from ‘debating’
war in Ukraine to using the opposite arguments to fuel war in
Palestine. It’s all a game to these people. It’s some set of trendy opin-
ions and hashtags and they have no accountability and keep no
accounts. The same ghouls that incited the invasions of Afghanistan
and Iraq still have jobs as journalists and politicians, while the people
brave enough to oppose previous wars have been booted out. It’s

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censorship via the HR department. These cowards don’t fight wars on
their own soil so they don’t face any consequences. They just despoil
other peoples countries and keep going. And they’re so sanctimo-
nious about it. It’s an abomination.

The fact is that Western democracy doesn’t exist. Their arsenal of

democracy is just another arsenal, arming arseholes, falling on the
innocent, and giving rise to virulent wickedness wherever it falls. All
of the ills they claim to fight are exacerbated or outright funded by
their incessant fighting. All they have to show for their great imperial
power is the regular destruction of the powerless. These warmongers
kill the poor all over the world and their war machine is the single-
largest polluter in the world, killing the entire living planet. These are
the ‘leaders of the free world’? They’re neither leaders, nor free, nor
do they give a fuck about the world. They’re the worst people on it,
presiding only by sheer force of violence and propaganda.

I have some sympathy for westerners subjected this incessant propa-

ganda, but not much. The fact is that the troubles of the world are
none of your fucking business. Your gossipy interest in other people’s
misery has been weaponized into a great business for arms dealers,
but it doesn’t actually help anyone. The best thing you could do
would be to regime change your own governments and get some
bread for once. Everything else is just a bloody circus, and we in the
global majority are tired of being trotted out for your amusement. As
the Spaniard said in Gladiator. Are you not entertained? Are you not
entertained? Is this not why you are here? But honestly, why are you
here? From Palestine, to Ukraine, to Afghanistan, to Syria, to Iraq, to
the literally hundreds of imperial bases across the world… just fuck
off. The arsenal of democracy is a killing joke. It’s really just arseholes
with bombs.

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46.THE SUBTLE
PROPAGANDA OF
HOLLYWOOD
JUNE 2023

I was watching F9 (of the Fast & Furious franchise) and I was struck
by one line. The Fast crew is working for the CIA now (who are
somehow the good guys) and the bad guy’s plan is to “reboot the world
order within minutes.” As if that’s a bad thing. As if this world order is
anything but permanent imperial war. But that’s Hollywood for ya.

The Fast Crew then proceeds to trash random countries willy nilly
because that’s the world order. This is why I root for the villains in
movies now.

The full line in F9 is, “if you take Aries and upload it to a satellite, then
it’ll be a matter of time before someone can control any weapon system,
traditional, nuclear, stuff we haven’t even seen yet, and just point it wher-
ever they want.” Of course this is what the American government, who
they’re freelancing for, already does. They already have massive
weapons systems pointed wherever they want. And they have already
used them to kill millions this short century alone. They have already
dropped nukes on civilian populations twice, invaded multiple coun-
tries and constantly assassinate and torture people — including
American citizens and journalists — at will. This is the system the
supposedly rebellious Fast & Furious crew defends, against imaginary
opposition. Even more horrifying, this is the status quo we actually
live under.
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Defending this world order is the general plot of every Hollywood
blockbuster. Some villain tries to change the status quo and gets
violently put down. The superheroes of Avengers work with a US
government department and many of this scripts have to be cleared
with the Department of Defense before they’re released. The core
propaganda message is that the way things are is fine, and any change
is evil and must be violently resisted. This also matches the general
perception on the western news, which is that bad guys are every-
where and America/NATO just has to be bombing/occupying/sanc-
tioning everyone all the time.

There is actually no reason for this in the real world, but in Holly-
wood propaganda there’s always someone trying to end the world,
which is why all this violence and violent technology is necessary.
American hegemony system is necessary because otherwise people
would be pointing nukes at you. Nevermind that the system is liter-
ally America pointing nukes at everyone else, and making themselves
less safe in the process. No, you should be afraid of, uh, aliens, or
Russians, or Arabs, or literally anything but the violent empire you
actually live under.

Once you spot the narrative it’s hard to unsee it, because this storyline
is everywhere. It’s loosely the hero’s journey, except weaponized by
history’s greatest villains. The White Empire has figured out the plot
to Star Wars and now uses it to put down any rebellious thoughts.
Hell, they get people to cheer on the CIA, which to any moderately
observant person is like watching a film cheering on the Gestapo.
People sit in the cinema cheering Avengers or whatever, but what are
they actually cheering for?

Despite having superpowers, those ‘heroes’ don’t actually do

anything to change the world. They don’t build anything or do
anything with their powers to help the oppressed of the world.
Indeed, they both fictionally and actually collaborate with the US
government and military. It’s only the villains that have any ideas,
and they get beaten to death for their troubles. That’s what you’re
cheering for. Rebellion is commodified and made into a Hollywood

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dream state, for people to sit in the dark and delude together. Mean-
while the climate-choking, nation-destroying, soul-crushing night-
mare of White Empire goes on and on.

As another example (I’m just going by movies I’ve seen, but you can
choose literally any one), take TENET. The Christopher Nolan film is
about a future devastated by climate collapse which decides to do
something. They send technology back to effectively reboot time. In
response, the CIA gets one of their agents to violently defeat the ‘bad
guys’ (Russians and Indians) which actually means… continuing civi-
lization on course to collapse. Once you unwind the radical time-shift
of Nolan’s work, it’s a shockingly conservative film.

No one here is remotely concerned about fact that the Earth gets
unlivably bad. Instead they violently reassert the status quo, so a
billionaire white woman can drop her kid off at private school. That’s
literally the emotional climax of the film, while the CIA agent
murders an old Indian lady that was trying to do something. I liked
TENET when I saw it, but now that I’ve deconstructed the plot, it’s
the same as every other film. Someone tries to change the world and
that person is evil and must be murdered.

In both TENET and F9, the people doing the beating down are
diverse. Modern Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion means being
included into Empire, not Empire going down. For the global major-
ity, it is us becoming like them, not them becoming like us. Some day
a black man will be James Bond, causing havoc in random countries,
when what we really need is a Jemis Bonda, trashing England,
toppling the King, and stealing our stuff back. But that will never
happen. The players change but the song remains the same. Full
speed ahead down a climate, cultural, and spiritual cliff. They’re
letting colored people and women take the wheel just in time to take
the blame.

Hence you cast a black man or a white woman in a role which could
just as easily be a white man. It’s purely cosmetic change. The new
colored or female characters are still doing the same things that the
old white men did. The women in these action films are ‘liberated’ by
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being as violent as the men and the black men are working for the
CIA. Fucking great. It’s just a new lick of paint on the old imperial
war machine which always was, come to think of it, staffed by colored
people.

This is of course reflects reality. Art shapes life and life shapes art, it’s
hard to say where one starts or ends. Hence in the UK they have
brown Home Office Ministers being even more racist than the white
ones. You get black artists and athletes expressing paeans to capital-
ism, because it worked for them. The deprivation that so many
celebrities come from is sold as inspirational, and an exhortation to
‘work harder’, as if we must all be the best at something rather than
simply living in a decent world. As if this is somehow a good system
and not some wretched version of the Hunger Games, forcing people
to entertain or fight gladiatorial battles for the basic ability to provide
for their families.

Cosmetically, more and more of these blockbusters look like a diverse

world, while under the hood it’s the same old imperial logic. Power is
good, anything that changes power relations is bad, and any violence
is justified in preventing change. Hence in F9, the formerly criminal
Fast crew is now working for the CIA, and this world order is just
presumed to be good. Yet this world order is the single worst polluter
in the world, occupies over 750 military bases, besieges much of the
world, coups/manipulates everyone else, and for what? There’s no
aliens, there’s no villains trying to kill everyone for lols. The imperial
violence is real and the threats are made up. That’s Hollywood’s role,
and that’s the dirty work that the decades of propaganda has done.

Today countless films (here’s an attempted count from 2016) work

with the US Department of Defense Entertainment Media Unit to
produce privatize propaganda. As the Pentagon itself says, “Production
agreements require the DoD to be able to review a rough cut of a film, so
officials can decide if there are areas that need to be addressed before a film
is released.” Hence if you’re going to depict the American military (in a
big way), you need to be working with the bastards, which Hollywood
has no particular problem with. More perniciously, almost all block-

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busters follow the narrative demands of empire, which is to show that
there are constant threats requiring constant external violence. This
is general the plot of every big film, whether it plays with DoD toys
or not.

People literally watch movies cheering on the CIA, whose literal job
is to murder, lie, and steal. This, to me, is like the Nazi-film-within-a-
film of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Watching that we
laugh at a movie glorifying Nazi snipers, but there’s literally a movie
called American Sniper. Because of the relentless films, Brits somehow
think they won World War II by retreating and getting bombed and
Americans think that they were somehow the victims of the Vietnam
War. History truly repeats as farce, and people are oblivious to it. It is
far better to — as they did in Inglourious — light this whole wretched
cinema on fire.

What Hollywood thus produces is propaganda for a genocidal, racist,

and planet-destroying White Empire which has merely hopped capi-
tals from Europe to America. The American state (which was much
admired by Hitler) are just Nazis that won. And today victors don’t just
writes the history, they film the propaganda. And so the narrative of
empire permeates all of its blockbusters, and lubricates actual block-
busting of human homes. And we sit in the cinema and clap along.
But not me. Not no more. I’m with the villains now.

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ENEMIES
47.KNOW YOUR ENEMY
MARCH 2023

Well-meaning people reflexively denounce countries like China,

Russia, and Iran. They are autocratic, they are dangerous, they are
human rights violators. But where does this reflex come from? What
do people within the White Empire really know about these places at
all? Only what they’re told, and they’re told to hate.

Is it just coincidence that the enemies of White Empire become the

villains in the Cable TV Colosseum? Is it coincidence that the masses
reflexively hate these people they really do not understand? As the
invaluable Caitlin Johnston writes:

In western “democracies” the majority of people are so effec-

tively propagandized into speaking in alignment with the inter-
ests of the western empire that they may as well be taking orders
on what to say at gunpoint.

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As an example, here’s Pew Research documenting the effects of Amer-
ican propaganda while wilfully missing the point. They talk about
US opinions changing based on concerns about China’s human
rights, its partnership with Russia (a name which is now just
supposed to mean ‘bad’ when uttered), and other factors (like
COVID-19, which China actually did the best in the world at
managing and helping out with). But did people within the White
Empire just spontaneously start researching Chinese human rights,
their relations with Russia, and all of these issues? Lol no. Pew calls
their report Global Public Opinion of China During the Xi Era but
most people within White Empire don’t even know what Xi Jinping’s
last name is. They only know what they’re told and they’ve been told
to hate China, and so now they dutifully do. That’s what this graph
documents—the powerful effects of western propaganda—and even
Pew covers it up by pretending like imperial citizens are actively and
independently keeping up with whatever Xi Jinping does.

Western ‘democracies’ are really just reality TV shows paid for by

arms dealers, drug dealers (pharma), and whatever other corporate
AI wants to corrupt the place. They periodically host call-in shows
called ‘elections’ but the sponsors remain the same. And remain in
charge. It’s a circus. The White Empire periodically trots some
country its people haven’t heard of into the Cable Colosseum to

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torture them with sanctions and execute them with drones, and the
people dutifully cheer. Hollywood also relentlessly propagandizes
the goodness of CIA and MI6 agents and the justification for violence
wherever the Empire pleases, because they’re the ‘good guys’. Histor-
ical facts like the millions dead in their Terror Wars alone are just
numbers. The Empire lives in stories, and its propaganda arms are
unparalleled.

Well-meaning people are pushed into this narrative not just in the
vulgar sense of the Chinese and Russians and Iran are evil and trying
to kill them. They are pushed into the well-meaning idea that sanc-
tioning and attacking these people is actually for their own good. It’s
the white man’s burden redux, now carried in a New Yorker tote bag.
The justification for aggression against these countries is that these
countries are bad and yet—even ignoring the fallacy of that point for
the moment—imperial intervention always makes things worse.
Sanctions are just sieges, and acts of war. Cutting countries off from
financial systems just impoverishes people and makes it impossible
to even help them during an earthquake.

If well-meaning people were capable of doing any objective analysis

they’d see that their good intentions are always weaponized to make
things worse, but that’s not what we’re doing here. The western propa-
ganda machine (privatized like their own military) sells Republicans
fear and Democrats good intentions, but they’re ultimately selling the
same thing. They’re selling war, and across both sides of the Colos-
seum aisle, people are buying what the arms dealers and media are
selling.

The fact is that whatever the ills of these countries, introducing the
cancer of American military attacks, sanctions, and destabilization
does not make things better. And this should be the point of being
‘well-meaning’, you should mean well, not further ill. Barring that, do
nothing. Don’t dance to the drums of war on your television screen.
Turn it off. Except your ultimate impotence that spends what should
be your kids tuition money or starving Yemeni children and—if
you’re truly well-meaning—don’t participate.

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China, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, Iran, whoever they tell you to hate,
this is not your enemy. The people telling you to hate are the enemy.
The ones making you money selling dick pills and car insurance in
between the advertorials for the arms industry they call news. The
ones dropping expensive bombs on poor people and offering entire
nations like Ukraine and now Taiwan as offerings to the military-
industrial complex, leaving them in ruins and shareholders in riches,
even in losing.

These foreign countries are fundamentally none of your business. No

one asks me, a Sri Lanka, what I should do about China. It’s got fuck-
all to do with me, I know not nearly enough about the subject, and
I’m fundamentally powerless. People living within the core of White
Empire (US, UK, Australia, Europe) need to understand this too. It’s
got nothing to do with you. you don’t know shit, and you’re funda-
mentally powerless too. You’re just a schmuck watching people get
crucified in the Cable TV Colosseum and cheering. It’s vulgar and
offensive, historically, and ultimately impotent. Because the same
people crucifying these countries are oppressing and looting you.

So next time the five-minute hate comes up, take a break. Turn it off.
Being a well-meaning person means wanting good in the world and
hate and ignorance just lead to suffering, not good. The people they
tell you to hate are not your enemies. The people telling you to hate
are. And that is your red and blue flags, your loose White Empire of
passport privilege, which casually coups countries like mine, bombs
the poorest relentlessly, and tries to start WW3 with the big ones, all
while you rubes watch it on the tube.

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48.HOW BIN LADEN WAS
RIGHT (AND WHERE HE
WAS WRONG)
NOVEMBER 2023

History, when it is rewritten, will date the fall of the American

Empire to September 11th, 2001. The hegemon lashed around for a
while, but at that point, it was mortally wounded. Historically, the fall
was quite quick, actually. After decades of occupying, bombing, and
destroying the world, after centuries of genocide and slavery,
America was finally hit at home on September 11th, and once was all
it took. America has been falling ever since, and the signal is just now
reaching the brain.

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I know that sounds crazy, so feel free to smash the unsubscribe
button, I don’t mind. If you’re still here, understand that the TikTok
generation — who has grown up with nothing but the ultra-violent
reaction to 9/11 — has been re-reading bin Laden’s “Letter To The
Americans,” and finding much to agree with. Because there is. Bin
Laden actually denied the attacks, but the letter writes as if he defi-
nitely wanted to hit America, so take that as you will.

You have to read his letter critically, especially since he’s wildly (and
incorrectly) anti-Jewish, but there is both truth in his words and effect
in his (purported) actions. So if you’re open to rewriting history now
— as the Empire is still falling down around us, as the blood is still
wet— let’s see what we find. Mazer Rackham (from Ender’s Game)
said there’s no greater teacher than the enemy, so what can we learn
from the 21st century’s greatest villain?

9/11

Firstly, your narrator is a Sri Lanka who grew up in America and

Canada (same thing, one White Empire). I had just turned 18 about a
week before 9/11 and I was walking down the streets of Montreal,
minding my business. My friend Jeremy — who served in the IOF,
incidentally — ran up and said the twin towers were hit, and I
thought he meant Israel. I don’t know why, but that’s what made sense
to me at the time.

At that point, I still believed in America and this was quite a shock,
outside the realm of possibility really. America had been hit in all of
its chakras — the World Trade Center (financial power), Pentagon
(military power), with a near-miss on the Capitol (we assume).
America had also been hit in a grotesque and terrifying way,
passenger airplanes turned into weapons. It was not a terribly
damaging military hit, but psychologically, it was devastating. It
could have been me on one of those planes and I was, at that point,
effectively American inside.

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At that point, I — and I think most people in the world — supported
America. I heard Rage Against The Machine raging against them, but
I thought they were exaggerating. America might have done some
bad things but, like the Beatles said, “it’s getting better all the time.” In
hindsight, I was blind. Everything had already been written and
documented and, more to the point, suffered through. But I didn’t
know that, and I was pretty average I think. America still had faith
and credit across the world. It was only after 9/11 that they burnt that
all up.

Post 9/11

Whatever faith and credit America had, they quickly spent by

destroying Afghanistan and not finding Bin Laden, and then lying to
invade Iraq just cause they felt like it. When people (myself included)
talk about the evils of America, we typically include these evils, the
five million killed and 40 million displaced in genocidal violence post
9/11.

For young people now, this is the only America they’ve ever known.
Iraq and Afghanistan are just a few places America has destroyed.
Libya, Syria, and Yemen have also been assaulted, not to mention the
usual couping and conniving going on. Now, seeing the obvious evil
of America in front of us, people have looking back in time. And my
god, it’s all war crimes.

Pre 9/11

If you look anywhere into American history, the nation was at war.
The nation is war. As former President Jimmy Carter said, ‘in its 242-
year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace, making it, as he
wrote, “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.” Since 2001, the
U.S. has spent over $6 trillion on military operations and war.’

America was founded not just on war but genocide and slavery. The
genocide of the advanced Native American civilizations that lived
there, the genocide of Mexicans to the south, the enslavement of
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Africans and then even their own rape-borne children, it’s just
atrocity after atrocity, all the way back to the beginning.

America’s inheritance of Britain’s Empire (I call it all White Empire) is

dated to World War II, and that story is crucial to their mythology as
‘the good guys’. But it’s lies. World War II was marketed as America
‘saving’ the world, when in fact they were just conquering it. America
— which actively pushed back boats of Jewish refugees — claimed
credit for stopping evil Hitler, which wasn’t true in two ways. First, it
was the USSR that destroyed 80% of the German Army and second,
America was so evil that their race laws had inspired Hitler in the first
place. Hitler’s great sin was that he applied colonial logic to Euro-
peans. The only sin is colonizing white people, colonizing colored
people is still fine (re: Palestine).

The Americans were not especially good during World War II, they
just wrote the history and, more importantly, made the movies.
America committed horrendous (and unnecessary) war crimes like
the firebombing of civilians in Dresden and other German cities,
along with dropping nuclear weapons on civilians twice in Japan.
Today most people accept these as ‘the costs of war’ but they are not
acceptable at all. Dropping nukes on cities? How did that get normal-
ized? In truth, the Soviet Union and China paid in blood to destroy
the German and Japanese Armies, while the Western Allies killed
civilians without mercy and made movies about how great they were.
They only weren’t hung because they won.

The ‘winning’ allies like France and England and America went on to
commit even more genocides, invasions, and starvations after the
war, but these were against colored people, who don’t count. After
World War II America militarily occupied its ‘allies’ and went on
fighting in Korea, Vietnam, and all over South America for further
dominion. Today they have nearly 800 military bases all over the
world, an Empire that hides in plain sight. The former European
countries are just vassals, along with occupied territories like Japan
and South Korea. Anybody that needs to buy dollars to get oil is
paying them tribute like in the old times. And this Empire has always,

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always been undergirded by violence. They only say the world wars
ended cause white people stopped dying.

The amount of bombs America dropped on Indochina alone is stag-

gering. Laos is the most bombed country in the world, and America
wasn’t even officially at war there. America was officially losing in
Vietnam at the time, the last place it was able to muster a serious
(conscripted) Army. After that they had to depend on technology,
proxy armies, and divide and conquer trickery. So you got proxy
wars and coups in South America, the mass murder of communists
in Indonesia, god knows what meddling in Africa, and the corrup-
tion and occupation of the Middle East after the oil crisis, which
leads us to bin Laden. At this point, I’ll mostly let him speak, because
he directly wrote a letter to the Americans, explaining what
and why.

Bin Laden’s Letter To The Americans

You should read this letter to yourself, it’s short. The Guardian
deleted its copy after people got interested, but I read in in the book
Messages To The World. As bin Laden said,

While seeking God’s help, we form our reply based on two questions
directed at the Americans: 1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?
2) What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

These are the vital questions. So how did he answer, and what do I
think he got right and wrong?

Why did he fight America?

The answer to the first question is, in short “Because you attacked us
and continue to attack us.” And you can’t deny him on this point. Bin
Laden lists Palestine, Somalia, Chechnya (strangely, that was Russia),
Kashmir (India?), Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He says, “Your
forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout
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the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our
treasures.”

This is all true, except for the part about Jews. Jews are a persecuted
people, enlisted as shock troops near the oil. It’s classic divide and
conquer tactics inherited from the British. Jews are not Zionists, and
Zionists are the problem. Since 2002 (when this was written) even
most ‘Islamist’ groups have moved on from this open antisemitism.

For example, the moderate Palestinian liberation movement Hamas

says, “Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the
Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the
Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who
occupy Palestine.” This is a boat bin Laden missed because he’s defi-
nitely racist towards Jews, which is both incorrect and not cool.

Then bin Laden goes on to something which is indisputable. That

America, the most ‘warlike country in the world’ according to its own
ex-President, should expect war to come home. As Malcolm X said,
it’s ‘chickens coming home to roost’. As bin Laden wrote:

These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your

oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our
religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to
respond to aggression. Do not expect anything from us but
jihad, resistance, and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect
that after America has attacked us for more than half a century,
that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?

This is an important and true point. After attacking everybody every-

where for centuries, America’s seem to believe that they alone
deserve security and peace. That — like dragons lording over stolen
land and loot — they should never be disturbed or even mildly
inconvenienced. This isn’t rational or right. Cause and effect apply to
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bound to hit back. The question, then, is why hit civilians? This is
how bin Laden answers:

You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggres-
sion against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and
offenses in which they did not participate: (a) This argument
contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land
of freedom, and freedom’s leaders in this world. If this is so, the
American people are the ones who choose their government
through their own free will; a choice which stems from their
agreement to its policies.

So bin Laden is saying that because America is a democracy,

because it claims freedom and governance by the people, those
people are also responsible for the actions of their government. I
would argue that America is not and never was a democracy, it
was founded as an oligarchy of property owners (only a fraction
of rich, white men could vote) and remained that way through
outright oppression and subtle subterfuge. But this is an inter-
esting argument because, as the translator says, “Another novel
aspect of this statement is the extent to which it uses arguments
against the American state circulating widely in the West itself, in
effect taunting the United States with not living up to its own
rhetoric.”

Another way bin Laden justifies hitting American civilians is saying

that American taxes pay for all the war, but even in that argument
there are some holes. America’s wars are generally unfunded, meaning
they borrow and sell debt to pay for them. That debt is effectively
ancient tribute, as it is ‘bought’ by foreign countries. So it’s actually
global vassals and unborn Americans funding these wars, not living
taxpayers per se. Bin Laden also says American citizens are soldiers,
but these people are effectively debt slaves, trapped under the
oligarchy as much as the impotent voters.

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In all of these cases bin Laden is really quoting American values back
at them, before he gets to his actual point, which is closer to ‘eye for
an eye’.

God, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to

avenge this oppression. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have
the right to strike back. If people destroy our villages and
towns, then we have the right to to do the same in return. If
people steal our wealth, then we have the right to destroy
their economy. And whoever kills our civilians, then we have
the right to kill theirs.

People say that ‘eye for an eye’ makes the whole world blind, but the
world is already blind. That’s just the people with bloody forks telling
everyone else to be quiet. There is a real sense self-defense in what
bin Laden is saying, and he’s right. How many civilians did America
kill in Indochina, in Indonesia, in South America, in Iraq, in so many
countries that it’s easier to list the exceptions? Why shouldn’t some
American civilians die? Do they not, in fact, deserve worse, simply by
the ancient law of ‘fuck around and find out’? As bin Laden said,
“America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so
we are addressing it using the language it understands.” You can’t really
dispute him on that. America is war. That’s all it understands, so that’s
the language bin Laden spoke to them. You can’t say they didn’t have
it coming.

What did he want from America?

The second part of bin Laden’s letter is what he wants from America.
This is quite simple, albeit wildly improbable. He has seven points,
the headings of which I will reproduce:

(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam

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 (2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression,
lies, immorality, and debauchery that has spread among you.

(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with

yourselves — and I doubt you will do so — in order to discover
that you are a nation without principles or manners, and that, to
you, values and principles are something which you merely
demand from others, not that which you yourself must
adhere to.

(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your
support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the
Chechens, and also to cease supporting the Manila Government
against the Muslims in the southern Philippines.

(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our
lands. We only desire this for your goodness, guidance, and
righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in
coffins.

(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt
leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and
method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New
York and Washington.

(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the
basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of
subjugation, theft, and occupation, and not to continue your
policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more
disasters for you.

I would argue that there’s a contradiction here, bin Laden is both

telling America to fuck off from the world (which I agree with) and
also telling them to follow his worldview. It is a good thing to call
someone to Islam, but you can’t coerce them there. So he loses me
there, but it makes sense when he says:

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 (5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our
lands. We only desire this for your goodness, guidance, and
righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in
coffins.

(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the

corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our poli-
tics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us
in New York and Washington.

This is all true. America imposes its twisted form of democracy on

everyone, and then coups places when it doesn’t like the results. It
corrupts leaders and elites all over the world, to impose its own inter-
ests. Where bin Laden is unique, however, is threatening to hit the
hegemon at home. Lots of people have told America to fuck off from
their countries. Bin Laden told them to fuck off in America. That’s
why his acts were so historic, and also so historically anomalous.

Most resistance movements and resisting countries today are

provincial, not global like Al Qaeda. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, China,
Russia, etc; everybody on America’s hit list is not actually trying to hit
them at home. They’re trying to secure their own homelands or their
borders, not attack New York or Washington directly. America lies
about its enemies ‘trying to take of the world,’ but every accusation is
a confession. Its enemies mostly just want to be left alone. However,
these later rebellions would not have been possible without the judo-
chop bin Laden delivered to the Americans. He leveraged their own
weight against them, causing the Empire to effectively self-destruct.

As the quietest Palestinian DJ Khaled would say, ‘you played yourself’.

Or as bin Laden said, in his prescient warning:

If you Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the good-

ness, guidance, and righteousness that we call them to, then be

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 aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the
other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated at the
hands of the mujahidin, fleeing to your home in great silence
and disgrace. If you Americans do not respond, then your fate
will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal
with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological down-
fall, and economic bankruptcy.

And, I mean, yeah. America was humiliated in Afghanistan. After

killing lots of poor people, growing lots of drugs, and then stealing all
the forex on the way out, America lost. They should have fled home,
but instead they just joined other wars, and are now getting humili-
ated in Ukraine and, inshallah, Palestine and occupied Syria/Iraq.
Military defeat is happening, and ideological downfall also. Young
people on TikTok are reading this very letter from Bin Laden and
agreeing with much of it. That’s how fucked America is. The Empire
has no clothes and the kids aren’t afraid to point it out.

All that’s left on the cards in political breakup and economic bank-
ruptcy, and you could argue that’s already started. Donald Trump
attacked the Capitol himself (the place Bin Laden missed), and the
American economy actually crashed in 2008 and has been a zombie
ever since. All that’s left is tying up the loose ends before the
inevitable ending. America is surely going down ugly and violently
(as it came in), but there’s only one direction it’s going. Down. And
history will mark will that it (visibly) started with the World Trade
Center falling, and the Pentagon burning. That was the sacking of
this Rome. And then the rest was history.

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 (Via)

Justifying 9/11

At this point, I’ll come out and say it. I think the attack on 9/11 was
justified. Why shouldn’t the ‘warlike nation in the history of the world’
experience war on its own soil? The fact that Americans didn’t experi-
ence consequences is what kept their external violence going so long.
They are, in hindsight, just Nazis that never lost.

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As real and terrible as the terror of those people on those flights was,
how much terror has America inflicted upon millions of people? How
much terror is it inflicting right now, on the over 2 million souls in
Palestine, cut off from food and water and dying under American
bombs? Why should America not feel it? Simply because feelings are
reserved for white people? I reject bin Laden’s argument that those
people somehow deserved it cause America is a people’s democracy.
They were unrelated and it was collateral damage. That’s just war. If
Americans don’t like that, they shouldn’t start so fucking many. It was
just a matter of time, really.

In hindsight, 9/11 was a legitimate hit on an illegitimate Empire. It was

a shot at the Death Star. The Empire struck back with many bloody
and increasingly unnecessary sequels, but it was crashing from that
very moment, over twenty years ago. As wrong as bin Laden’s
language against Jews is — as much as he falls into the imperial
‘divide and conquer’ against other people of the book — he is right
about the ‘despicable state’ that America and the whole White
Empire is in, and always was. And he was right to hit America in its
centers of power. 9/11 was more than justified. It was overdue.

After 400, 500 years of killing and colonizing everybody, why

shouldn’t the colonizers get hit once? And amazingly enough, that’s all
it took. Like a blinded cyclops, America lashed out in every direction,
killing millions more people, and then ultimately itself from imperial
overstretch. Its military, financial, and governing powers are collaps-
ing, mirroring the symbolic shot that so triggered them 22 years ago.
And so history (if we live to write it) will date the fall of the American
Empire to September 1st, 2001. It’s taking the signal a while to reach
the brain, but just look at TikTok today. The kids know what’s up. A
generation later, they’re reading bin Laden and agreeing with him.
America sucks.

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49.HOW RUSSIA IS
STRONGER THAN
AMERICA
JULY 2022

Teddy Roosevelt said ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’ but America
today is screaming about Russia and holding nothing but its dick in
its hands. And it gets cold in Russia.

The Powerless Superpower

How long can an empire keep losing wars without losing power? As
Andrei Martyanov asks “where are the tangible results in what
throughout human history has served as the most important test of power:
victories in wars?” This is a question America has been violently,
rudely asking for decades, and the answer has long been ‘no’. Now it’s
just becoming obvious.

Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, all draws or losses. America is capable of

destroying things, but not achieving strategic objectives, or even
having a strategy beyond destruction for profit. In Afghanistan,
America deployed for 20 years, spent trillions of dollars, and still
somehow lost to some of the poorest people on Earth. All the blood,
all the treasure, it was all for nothing. It was all just human sacrifice
on the altars of their war gods, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

In Ukraine, NATO trained a large Ukrainian force and flooded the

place with billions of dollars in weapons. And it’s all getting ground
up in Putin’s cauldron. America screamed propaganda about how
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dangerous Russia is to the world, but then did nothing about it
besides profit from the suffering of Ukrainian people. Now they just
look impotent.

An empire can’t take L after L like this and not one day be deemed a
loser. America’s military actually sucks, and Andrei Martyanov called
it in 2018, in his book Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of
American Strategic Planning. In that book, he talked about the
current conflict with Russia before most of us perceived it happening
(though it was happening).

World War II

The last war America really ‘won’ was World War II, and they didn’t
really win it. As Carl von Clausewitz said about a definition of victory:

What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the

destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other
means — either completely or enough to make him stop fight-
ing…The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be
regarded as the sole object of all engagements… Direct annihila-
tion of the enemy’s forces must always be the dominant consid-
eration.

By this measure, the USSR did 80% of the winning of World War II.
The brutal, methodical grinding up of the Wehrmacht was accom-
plished on the Eastern Front, not the Western.

For most of the war, 75–80 percent of the Wehrmacht had to be

deployed in the East, a preponderance dictated by the sheer size
of the front, and 80 percent of German war dead perished there:
about four million of the five million German soldiers killed in
World War II. (WWII Museum)

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This is the bloody point of war, not retreats like Dunkirk or finding
random privates named Ryan. The point is killing your enemy in
such numbers that they submit to your will. And the USSR did most
of it.

Americans especially have no idea about that side of the war. As a

schoolchild in America, however, I was not taught about the Soviet
contribution at all. The Americans swooped in, kicked ass, Hitler was
bad, the end. The Soviets somehow randomly ended up in Berlin,
around the same time, walking in the back door.

As Martyanov said (quoting a 2015 survey) “an overwhelming majority

of the American public, 55%, think the US contributed the most to the defeat
of Germany with only 11% thinking it was Soviet Union, as one of many
similar polls testify. If those astonishing numbers are not the result of
propaganda, one is then forced to contemplate how, other than due to
propaganda, such a complete obliviousness to the basic facts of WWII could
have been achieved.”

And it is indeed propaganda. Americans have made countless movies

about finding random privates, hidden art, and minor generals like
Patton. The British made movies about their retreats, speeches, and
code-breaking. These are all interesting stories, but none of them are
the real story of war, which is encountering the enemy and killing
them in numbers.

The Russians knew this quite viscerally and thus the stories they tell
their schoolchildren are quite different. As Robert Skidelsky wrote in
the intro to a book on Russian textbooks, “The Russians believe, quite
rightly, that it was they who bore the brunt of the fighting and the horror.
They also claim, in my view rightly, that it was they who defeated the
Germans with rather minimal help from the Western Allies.”

This is undeniably true, but even when it is acknowledged in the

west, it is portrayed as mindless human sacrifice, with no regard for
human life. As wildly racist American war hero George C. Patton
said:
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 The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not
take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European but an
Asiatic and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more under-
stand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese and, from what
I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand
them except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to
kill them. In addition to his other amiable characteristics, the
Russian has no regard for human life and is an all-out son of a
bitch, a barbarian, and a chronic drunk.

This of course sounds wildly racist, but western attitudes towards

Russia haven’t changed. In 2016 the Boston Globe said “Putin’s Russia is
a poor, drunk soccer hooligan.” You get Economist covers like this all
the time:

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Martyanov said — “For Patton, Russians were a “scurvy race and simply
savages” and he thought he could “beat the hell out of them,” — and to be
honest, modern American propaganda against Russia is as dehuman-
izing and dismissive. And also inaccurate.

The fact is that the USSR didn’t just throw hordes of bodies at the
Wehrmacht, they beat the highly sophisticated Germans with indus-
trial production, logistics, and strategy. And the Germans were pretty
good at that stuff.

After losing huge amounts of men and materiel in the initial German
invasion, the USSR literally moved entire factories across the country
and became a military-industrial powerhouse. They were then able
to move that stuff back to the frontlines, replacing ungodly amounts
of tanks, planes, and ammunition that were destroyed every day.
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From 1943 the Russians were pushing the Germans back, absolutely
grinding up the Wehrmacht in retreat, while the Nazis left absolutely
scorched earth behind. As Martyanov said, “For Patton it was “one hell
of a war”; for the Soviet people it was hell — a moral distinction which
never entered American consciousness on any level.”

Martyanov talks about Patton—who Paul Fussell called “a master of

chickenshit”—because “This eulogizing of Patton provides one of the best
examples of American military culture’s complete detachment from the
scale of WWII and its inability to analyze or learn from it.”

As Martyanov says,

The issue, thus, is with the fact that be it in 1945 or in 2012, or

even 2017, the American body politic remained and continues to
remain utterly ignorant on the history and thinking processes of
the overwhelming majority of people from the only nation in
the world which has the capability to destroy the United States
and which knows intimately what real war is, a knowledge
American political and intellectual classes do not have.

In this way, America still suffers from what Bryan MacDonald calls
Russophrenia — “a condition where the sufferer believes Russia is both
about to collapse, and to take over the world.” It is impossible to make
any good decisions around a contradiction like this. This failing even
more than strategy, logistics, or even will is the cardinal sin of war.
Ignorance. As Sun Tzu said:

Know the enemy; know yourself, and you will meet with no
danger in a hundred battles. If you do not know the enemy, but
you know yourself, then you will win and lose by turns. If you
know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will lose every battle,
certainly.

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America doesn’t know its enemy, but even more dangerously, it
doesn’t know itself. That’s why they lose every war.

The American Military

Americans think their military is great because they watched Top

Gun. Or Transformers. Or any number of Hollywood films the
Defence Department consults on and approves. They’ve violated the
4th Crack Commandment and gotten high on their own propaganda
supply.

In terms of bang for the buck, the American military actually sucks.
They spent trillions of dollars in Afghanistan causing untold misery
and ultimately just getting their tails tucked. “As a longtime observer of
Russian and American affairs, Patrick Armstrong, put it: “I can’t get two
questions out of my mind: When was the last time the USA won a war?
When was the last time US-trained troops fought effectively?”

These are very simple and important questions that get ignored
amidst all the Tom Cruise smiles and big numbers that get thrown
around. Yes, the United States is the largest military in the world,
with the most bases, with the most expensive equipment. But how
does it perform?

After WWII, Korea was a draw and Vietnam was a loss. Afghanistan
was a loss and the only victor in the Iraq War was Iran. Now in
Ukraine, a NATO-trained and armed military is getting clobbered by
a smaller Russian force. This is by no means an exhaustive list of the
places America has invaded or meddled, but it’s not a winning record
wherever they go. The American military has certainly killed
millions of poor people, but that’s not winning anything. It’s just loss.

Jonah Goldberg cited Michael Ledeen as saying “Every ten years or so,
the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and
throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” What
does it tell you that America does this and then loses to those ‘crappy
little countries’. It tells you that America’s military power is actually
bankrupt.
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The American military regularly and resoundingly gets defeated by
guys in Toyota Hiluxes. It has no chance against a peer competitor
like Russia. When you hear about how much money America spends
on its military, that’s actually a measure of how corrupt and decrepit
it is, not how powerful. When you hear about places they’re
meddling that’s just a measure of how much they’re getting looted by
arms contractors. It’s all losses.

Russia

John McCain said “Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country” in

2016 and then followed up by saying it needed to be surrounded by
missiles, not something you usually do to a gas station. He was of
course delusional, caught in the core contradiction of American
foreign policy. Its enemies must be simultaneously dangerous and
weak.

As Martyanov writes,

It seems this economy which was “left in tatters” or was the

economy of a “gas station masquerading as a country,” is the
only other economy in the world which can and does produce
the whole spectrum of weapons ranging from small arms to
state-of-the-art complex weapon- and signal- processing
systems. No other nation with the exception of the US and
Russia, not even China, can produce and procure cutting edge
military technology which has capabilities beyond the reach of
everyone else. The truth is that Russia still has the capability to
nuke America, it has more proven ability to use combined arms
on the ground (having trounced US-trained armies in Georgia
and Ukraine), and it even has anti-ship missiles that can disable
America’s expensive and ungainly Navy.

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The greatest illusion is that America even understands what war is.
Whenever I watch Hollywood films I’m struck that all of that over-
whelming force is generally deployed against the poorest, most help-
less people on Earth. America is literally wandering around the
sandbox, murdering children, thinking they’re great conquerors.
They’re not.

The proof is that when Russia invaded Ukraine the US made a big
show about how awful it was, and then didn’t show up on the ground.
Because they know they can’t. A huge propaganda blitz of
Russophrenia was all they had to offer. Russia was both incredibly evil
and about to conquer Europe, and hopelessly incompetent and about
to be kicked out of Ukraine. But now neither has happened. America
looks completely idiotic and impotent. As Martyanov said:

Manipulation and PR are no substitute for actual victory which

is defined universally as achieving the political objectives of the
war, or in Clausewitz’s one liner — the ability to compel the
enemy to do our will.

And America can claim no victory in Ukraine. It spoke loudly and

carried a limp dick. It’s just another L. Russia called their bluff.

Long Time Coming

The crazy thing about Martyanov’s book is that he wrote it in 2018,

well before what we call the Ukraine war. The fact is that America
and Russia have been at proxy war in Ukraine for almost a decade,
which has now become obvious to everyone. But Martyanov was
calling this out even earlier (in 2014) on his blog:

But it is already clear that by failing to achieve any sensible

political objectives in Ukraine and in Russia, and, by this,

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 starting a massive global realignment, the United States
sustained a defeat. What will be the consequences of this
defeat? I hate to speculate, I just know that they are already big
and that the moment of facing the reality is coming. My sugges-
tion to those who are still making decisions — open and start
reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I don’t hold my breath,
though. The moment US handlers of their Kiev puppets
conceived that the Ukrainian Army can ‘win’ in Donbass, the
stopwatch started.

The fact is that war in Ukraine has been happening since 2014, killing
over 15,000 people since then. And Martyanov was calling it from the
beginning. As he expanded in 2018:

The United States, represented by its elites, must understand a

simple truth of the new millennium: [Counterinsurgency] oper-
ations and the technological dominance the US enjoyed over
backward and badly trained third world militaries is over. From
here on the only adversary the United States can possibly
expect to encounter, in case of any increasingly likely mili-
tary conflict, is Russia — the power with enough economic,
military and technological expertise to call the 70-year long
American military bluff and with it, end Pax Americana once
and for all.

Hence Martyanov is worth reading, because he saw it coming. In the

long historical view, there was never peace between the US and
Russia. As Harry Truman said in 1941, “If we see that Germany is
winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help
Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t
want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.”

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Even though American workers kindly stuck whiskey in the barrels
of Lend-Lease tanks sent to the Soviet Union, their masters were
always hankering after disaster. Which is all conflict with Russia is.
The hubris of American civilian and military leadership hasn’t
changed. Patton’s attitude from the 1940s still applies today:

The American Army as it is now exists could beat the Russians

with the greatest of ease, because while the Russians have good
infantry, they are lacking in artillery, air and in tanks, and in
knowledge of the use of combined arms, whereas we excel in all
three of these.

But this just isn’t true. It never was. The USSR had and Russia still
has functionally equivalent artillery, air, tank, and even naval support.
Russia has vastly more experience using these combined arms
against near-peer enemies, having been fighting in Ukraine and
having defeated another NATO-trained/equipped army in Georgia.
The US just has experience deploying very expensive systems against
poor people fighting back with $20 IEDs. And those people have
been winning.

As Laurie Buckhout—former chief of US Army electronic warfare—

said “Our biggest problem is we have not fought in a comms-degraded envi-
ronment for decades, so we don’t know how to do it. We lack not only
tactics, techniques and procedures but the training to fight in a comms-
degraded environment.” As Martyanov added, “In fact, the United States
military hadn’t fought any adversary which could provide a serious fire
response on the ground, in the air and on the water since WWII.” And
remember, they didn’t win World War II either. They just made the
most movies about it.

In reality, America has been getting its ass-kicked around the world
by guerrilla armies for decades and making movies like Rambo after-
wards to make themselves feel better. They somehow preserved the
aura of superpower because they were capable of so much death and
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destruction. They may have been dumb, but they were at least looked
powerful. Look at all the explosions.

But now America is faced with peer-level threat in Russia that they’re
making a lot of noise about, but not doing anything. They’re supplying
arms, but not lifting a finger of their own. Because they’re actually too
weak. Putin has called their bluff.

It seems crazy to say that Russia is stronger than America, but they
definitely are in Russia. As Martyanov says, “American culture simply
doesn’t know what fighting off an invader is like” and Russia does. For
generations. Russia has the people, the hardware, and the will to do
it, whereas for America it’s just a dick-measuring contest.

Just as World War II was won by alliance with Russia, America’s

unipolar hegemony was preserved by agreement with Russia. And
America ruined that by shoving NATO up their ass, with expansion
after expansion. Now Russia has had enough and the brief unipolar
order is over. Martyanov told Americans that winter was coming in
2014 and 2018. Now it’s obvious.

Russia is winning in Ukraine, Europe is running out of heating

energy, America is heading into sanctions-induced recession, and
Ukraine itself is getting methodically shorn of its most resource-rich
regions. Unlike Roosevelt who spoke softly and carried a big stick, Joe
Biden is just standing there with his dick in his hands, yelling impo-
tently. It’s not a good look, and all America had was the appearance of
military power. Now even that is gone.

In case it wasn’t obvious, this is all based on Andrei Martyanov’s book

Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning,
including following his footnotes. It’s well worth a read, especially since he
wrote it before shit popped off.

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50.STOP HATING CHINA OR
RUSSIA OR WHOEVER
YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO
DECEMBER 2022

White people (and those becoming white) need to stop hating. Hate
China, hate Russia, hate Syria, hate Iraq, hate North Korea. Think
yourselves better than them because ‘human rights’, it’s the new
secular Christendom, justifying new Crusades. You’re a bunch of
sheep, led by wolves.

Back then your rich sold you a sense of religious superiority while
they spread white supremacy, death, and human and environmental
looting across the world. You were spreading Christianity and you
could feel good about that, even proud of your murdering thieving
corporations, who brought little home to you. Nevermind that Asia
and Africa had Christianity first, and were wealthier and less violent
than the flavorless, savage tribes of Europe. You could feel better than
colored people, while your better made a killing and impoverished
you too. The same thing is happening today, except you call it
‘democracies vs autocracies’. It’s the same old violence and looting in
different clothing.

Today’s western news doesn’t make you smarter or more informed

about the world. It’s all advertising. You get sold pills in the break
and war during the main. Your countries and media are bought and
paid for by corporations and arms dealers, and you’re a bunch of
suckers, thinking that hating who you’re supposed to hate gives you
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power, makes you righteous, makes you cool. You’re a bunch of
tools.

It’s all the same as the two-minute hate in 1984, except it’s 24/7 now.
I’m old enough to remember when people didn’t hate China for
example, but after Trump the whole media apparatus turned on a
dime. And now you hate who you’re supposed to. The amount of
casual, moralizing hatred towards China among ordinary white (and
whitening) people is shocking. People just casually call for the over-
throw of other peoples governments, ignoring the trauma that causes,
ignoring the human tragedy of the USSR’s collapse, and how capi-
talist wolves gorged on the corpse.

The truth is that white (and white-aspiring) people should overthrow

their own governments. The United States and its lackeys in White
Empire are in fact the greatest threat to the world, with the worst
track record by far. America and NATO have invaded countless coun-
tries, while they gin up fear about Russia invading Ukraine. White
Empire has interfered in countless elections, including overthrowing
an elected government in Ukraine itself, and they act like Russians
are the great evil for buying Facebook ads.

White Empire points to a few protests in China and turns a complete

blind eye to huge protests in their own country. Black Lives Matter
was the largest protest movement in American history and the only
conclusion was that they don’t. America has funded the police even
more and turned a demand for human rights in their own country
into a hashtag used by corporations. It’s a killing joke.

The fact is that China, Iran, Russia, or whoever you’re told to hate is
none of your fucking business. White (and whitening) people are like
Lennie in Of Mice And Men. That large but slow man just wanted to
pet mice, and women, but ended up killing them with his lumbering
kindness. George finally had to take him out back and shoot him.
That’s what you should do with your own governments, or at least
shut the fuck up. After the carnage of colonialism, after the ravages of
capitalism, after the wars of terror you have waged over the past
decades, the least you can do is shut the fuck up.
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Nobody wants to hear how bad some other country is. We’ve heard
how bad Saddam is, or Gaddafi, and all you’ve left is mass casualties
and slave markets in the wake of your good intentions. You don’t get
it. You are the ones who knock.

People within White Empire are not functional democracies. China,

for example, has a more functional and responsive democracy that
you. China is certainly more democratic than the European Union,
which is literally an oligarchic trade union (founded via the steel
industry) that has an unelected leader proudly loading this sham
democracy into bombs and even cutting off the heat for her own
people. China is absolutely more responsive to actual citizen needs
than America or anyone in Europe having saved millions of lives with
zero COVID, while the West crows about COVID infinity like it’s a
virtue. These coughing, killing, assholes are always lecturing every-
body about how great they are, and we see through you.

The casual hate is nauseating. The restart of the Cold War is the last
thing we need right now. Right now we’re facing deadly Global
Warming and where are these fuckers directing resources? At
restarting the Cold War. The fact is that everyone should be uniting to
fight this shared threat. China is the world’s largest producer of
renewable energy, and the West is sanctioning them simply because
they don’t want to see non-White people come up. Preserving their
own privilege is more important than preserving the planet.

They’re going out the way they came into power. Destroying the
planet and other countries for money and power. Colonialism is
climate change, and it never ended. It just became capitalism, Chris-
tendom because ‘democracy and human rights’. It’s new whine in old
bottles, while the drones whir relentless above. The truth is that all
your good intentions are manipulated by the arms dealers and
oligarchs that actually run you. They turn into bad actions over our
countries, and we’re supposed to be grateful. We’re not.

The South wants fuck all to do with you hot war against Russia and
cold war against China. We don’t want war at all. It’s hopeless saying
to the most propagandized people in Earth—who think their billion-
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aire-run press is ‘free’, and how think choosing blue or red is ‘democ-
racy’—but y’all need to shut the fuck up and sit the rest of this
century out. You’ve made a mess of the last 400 years, of the last 4
decades, of the planet, and of your own lives. Get your own house in
order instead of burning everyone else’s down in vain self-right-
eousness. Y’all need to stop hating. It’s hurting people.

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51.HOW TO DEPROGRAM
YOURSELF FROM
HATING CHINA
AUGUST 2022

You’re supposed to hate China now. White Empire is at war with

Eastasia and was always at war with Eastasia. Whatever’s happening
in your country, never mind that, it’s not as bad as China. However
bad conflict would be for you personally, never mind that either, it’s
for the greater good. This is all bullshit of course. The hatred of
China is manufactured.

As per Pew Research, the negative impressions of China just spike up

around the time of Donald Trump and never abated. Nothing objec-
tively happened during this time, hatred against China was just ginned
up. America always needs some enemy, and China became the
latest one.

It’s curious standing in the madding crowd and practicing the art of
simply remembering. I’m old enough to remember when Empire
wasn’t at war with China. When China was actually cool. I consumed
a steady diet of imperial media gruel as a young man and I got the
distinct sense that China was happening. ‘Go East Young Man’ was the
sense I got and I did. I went to visit China and hung around for a
month. This was in 2012, just before the frenzy began.

Then in 2016, Donald Trump et al decided that China was the enemy
and the media wagged along. Given the profit incentive in creating

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drama somewhere, privatized propaganda is even more effective than
state propaganda, both deniable and reliable. The CIA has a brain-
fart and shit comes out of CNN.

Now it’s 2022 and these manufactured tensions have only gotten
worsen. Given the dumbass duopoly that is American politics, the
Democrats dutifully continue whatever fights the Republicans start.
The ruling oligarchy of arms dealers, media barons, and assorted
rentiers continue their profits unabated under whatever adminis-
tration.

There simply has to be some enemy to hate, and to make you grateful
for your own misery, and there always is. Russia, Muslims, China,
they just dust of the old racist tropes and selective anecdotes and play
and replay. I’m not here to convince you, as Caitlin Johnstone says,
that “China is better than the United States of America. Not because China
is perfect, but because the US is quantifiably the single most destructive
and murderous government on this planet by an extremely massive
margin.”

If you look at this with remotely objective eyes, this is objectively

true, but you can’t see clearly if you’re subsisting on imperial gruel.
My point here is to invite you to deprogram yourself by changing the
programming. These are recommendations for a few books, acad-
emic sources, and newsletters that you can use to learn about China
directly. Even if you want to hate them this is useful. Know your
enemy as Sun Tzu and Rage Against The Machine said.

Thinking

A lot of Western propaganda against China is based on them being

like the West. For example, the whole debt-trap lie is based on the fact
that most of the developing world actually is in dollarized debt traps,
or under the financial control of colonial powers like France.

The idea that China wants to conquer the world and replace America
as hegemon is based on the fact that this is all whiteness seems to
understand. From the Portuguese to the Dutch to the British to the
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Americans, the same White Empire keeps changing hands, and they
assume that China wants the same thing.

If you read any Chinese philosophy, however, they generally give

zero fucks about anything outside of the Middle Kingdom. In the
late 1400s they came to places like Sri Lanka, gave gifts, and then
just never came back for centuries. They had stuff at home. They
already knew how to season their food. They simply weren’t
interested.

This is not to say that they don’t have interests, but that’s different
from domination and colonization, which is a historical anomaly and
a uniquely western model, borne out of western philosophy. A lot of
western thinking about China is based on the assumption that they
think the same, and this just isn’t true. China has its own completely
different philosophy. Philosophies, really. I’m just scratching the
surface here, there is constant debate now and always was
throughout their history.

Ancient Philosophy

Western philosophy is so arrogant that it generally doesn’t even admit

that the rest of the world even has philosophy at all. It’s just ‘the
mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie’. As Bryan Van Norden says
in his important book Taking Back Philosophy:

These critical comments suggest that non-European thought

somehow isn't as good as European philosophy. Most contem-
porary Western intellectuals gingerly dance around this issue.
The late Justice Antonin Scalia was an exception, saying in print
what many people actually think, or whisper to like-minded
colleagues over drinks at the club. In the majority decision in
Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision that legalized
gay marriage across the United States, Chief Justice Anthony
Kennedy quoted both Confucius and the Roman philosopher
Cicero (106-43 BCE) on the "centrality of marriage to the human

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 condition." In his dissenting opinion, Scalia chided Kennedy for
daring to invoke the Chinese sage: "The Supreme Court of the
United States has descended from the disciplined legal
reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical
aphorisms of the fortune cookie." He echoes this sentiment in
the conclusion of his dissent: "The world does not expect logic
and precision in poetry or inspirational pop-philosophy; it
demands them in the law. The stuff contained in today's opinion
has to diminish this Court's reputation for clear thinking and
sober analysis." Notice that Scalia said nothing that might be
interpreted as an aspersion upon Cicero; only Confucius earned
his contempt.

Ironically, Confucius is featured on the East Pediment of the

Supreme Court Building, along with Moses and Solon, as repre-
senting three of the great legal and moral traditions of the
world.

— TAKING BACK PHILOSOPHY. BRYAN W. VAN

NORDEN

As Van Nordern says, almost all philosophy departments should

actually be called “departments of Anglo-European philosophy to reflect
their intentional disregard of everything outside the mainstream philosoph-
ical canon.” As Immanuel Kant said, “The race of the whites contains all
talents and motives in itself.”
SOME KANT QUOTE ON RACE

"The race of the whites contains all talents

and motives in itself."

"The Hindus...have a strong degree of calm,

and all look like philosophers. That
notwithstanding, they are much inclined to
anger and love. They thus are educable in the
highest degree, but only to the arts and not
to the sciences. They will never achieve
abstract concepts."

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 "The race of Negroes... [is] full of affect and
passion, very lively, chatty and vain. It can be
educated, but only to the education of
servants, i.e., they can be trained."

"The [indigenous] American people are

uneducable; for they lack affect and passion.
They are not amorous, and so are not fertile.
They speak hardly at all, ...care for nothing
and are lazy."

My point here is not to explain Chinese philosophy in general, or

how it connects to the issues of the day. My point is simply to invite
you to read any Chinese philosophy, to get you thinking differently.
And to understand that other people might think differently, and not
just be evil because a few columns of newsprint tell you so.

I’ve gone through the four books recommended here and they have
each changed my life in different ways.

Confucius’s Analects is just a deep mind-bender, a series of

riddles and subtle digs at his followers, always dancing
around ‘the way’ but never showing it. Every disciple must
find their own way. What comes through for me is the
primacy of action and example (Confucius is always talking
about ritual, and leaders modeling good behavior), which is
very different from knowing and saying the right things.
Confucius was all about right action.
The Daodejing is one of the most beautiful and befuddling
books I’ve ever read, and a good light starting point because
it’s basically poems. But each poem has to be read and re-read,
and you never quite understand them, and gods know what’s
lost in translation. The Dao really feels like stepping stones in
a river of knowledge, you’re only just getting your feet wet.
Zhuangzi is probably my favorite Chinese philosophy
though I agree with and understand him the least. He is just
extremely radical, wondering whether he’s a butterfly or a

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 human, decrying sages (ie, philosophers) as the root of
misfortune and calling to ‘smash the jade tablets’ entirely.
Mengzi is, to my mind, the most practical of these
philosophers. He tried earnestly to get the idiots of his day to
govern wisely and he has a lot of practical advice on how to
manage people and a state, almost all of which went ignored
then and today.

The crazy thing when you read these works is how different they are
from each other, and then how much more is out there. These are all
sometimes grouped under ‘Confucianism’ but that’s not one thing.
Even Confucius’s living disciples had completely different interpreta-
tions. People like Mengzi and Zhuangzi are separated by centuries,
and they’re all very different. And each of these philosophers is in
constant debate with other philosophies, many of which (like the
equally huge category Legalism) actually won the day.

The point is not that China is governed or lived according to these

philosophies. These guys were rejected at the time and remain
revered but misunderstood to this day. It all just gets you thinking
about thinking, and how it can be so different while our problems are
fundamentally the same.

As Van Nordern says, “Using the notion of a “solved game” as an analogy,

we could say succinctly that “philosophy is dialogue about important
unsolved problems.” Hence the point of reading philosophy is not to get
answers, it’s to think of different ways to ask questions. You have to
start there.

Modern Debate

There is a myth that everybody thinks the same and has to think the
same in China, but there’s actually a huge range of debate, which the
website Reading The China Dream helpfully maps into three cate-
gories and publishes in translation. The scholar Gan Yang calls these
the ‘three traditions’:

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 At present, we can identify three traditions in China. One is the
tradition that has taken shape after 25 years of reform… This
tradition has, for the most part, grown out of the “market,” and
includes many concepts with which we are all familiar today,
such as freedom and rights.

Another tradition is that beginning with the establishment of

the People’s Republic and that took form during the Mao
Zedong era. This is a tradition characterized particularly by its
emphasis on equality and justice.

Finally, of course there is also the tradition of Chinese civiliza-

tion, forged over thousands of years. This is what we often call
Chinese traditional culture or Confucian culture. It is often diffi-
cult to describe Chinese traditional culture, but in the everyday
life of the Chinese people it is basically expressed, to put it
simply, in terms of interpersonal relationships and ties of
locality.

Reading The China Dream calls them Liberals, the New Left, and New
Confucians, with the caveat that, “The reality is of course more complex,
as there are divisions within the groups, overlapping concerns shared by
members of competing groups, and any number of people who fall outside
of the groups.”

My point here is that just reading through that site, you get a very
different impression than this monolithic country where Xi Jinping
thought is the only thought in the country. To be honest I find more
introspective and incisive debate about democracy in Chinese
sources than in the west. There is also plenty of criticism of their
current system, including from scholars that are now in the Politburo.
That scholar, Wang Huning, is actually a vital observer of America
because, as the aforementioned Gan ways, quoting Hegel “What is
‘familiarly known’ is not properly known, precisely for the reason that it is
familiar.”

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Again, and I’ll keep repeating this, even if you hate China and want to
hate China you should still read this stuff. If you’re serious about
fighting an enemy you need to know them, and reading your own
propaganda is just deceiving yourself. As Biggie said, never get high
on your own supply. Or as Ender said in the novel Ender’s Game,

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand

him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also
love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody,
what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way
they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I
love them — I destroy them.”

Hence even if this is your goal, and I think it’s a terrible goal, you
should still read modern thinking from China, and not in the idiot
sense of generalizing it for a western audience, like Niall Ferguson
reading one science fiction book and concluding that Chinese people
are essentially an alien race that the West should be in survival mode
against. I mean reading Chinese thinking in the sense of being
confused, of learning something, and of changing how you yourself
think.

Reading The China Dream is a deep source for this, the Chinese
Voices newsletter from Dongsheng is a lighter and more frequent
email, and Pekingology is a good substack on the business end. I
won’t read news sources because I don’t read any. In my opinion, it
takes way too much critical energy to read the news and I’d rather
just read an essay, a book, or stare at a tree for wisdom.

Criticism

As I’ve said, there’s a lot of criticism from within China. Read the
many works from ‘Liberals’ as translated by Reading The China
Dream. Dongsheng publishes stuff on abandoning COVID-Zero, for

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example, that I don’t agree with. This is all from within China. I’m not
saying that criticism from outside China is invalid, but if it doesn’t
engage with what Chinese people are actually publishing then it is
invalid. This sort of criticism is just lazy and ignorant, and disre-
spectful of both the Chinese people and its own audience.

The critical works that I’ve recently read out of/about China recently
are the novel China Dream by Ma Jian, a biting satire about venal
corruption within the political elite. Then there’s the film ‘Inside
Wuhan’ by Ai Weiwei, which was critical at the time, but honestly
looks utopian at this point. Then there’s the graphic novel A Chinese
Life, In Pictures. This describes a great cartoonist's personal experi-
ences of famine during the Great Leap Forward, violence during the
Cultural Revolution, and all the things that happened in his life.

Li Kunwu (the cartoonists) does not conclude the work critically of

the CPC, he says, “Those who know or can understand our misfortune
must also be able to understand my profound desire for order and stability,
in which I await our growth and rebirth.” However, just reading and
‘seeing’ his life you can find plenty to be critical of.

Culture

I’ll add a few things here, but this is extra credit. I guess go back in
time and watch the old Journey To The West cartoons, I grew up on
the picture books and still consider Sun Wukong (the Monkey King)
a personal role model.

Michael Nylan’s translation of Sun Tzu’s Art Of War is excellent, but I

only mention it as a shot/chaser to read the historical epic The
Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, which I guess you could call a
real Game Of Thrones. I see it as the Art Of War come to vivid life.
For just a snapshot you can watch the films Red Cliff I and II by John
Woo. It all goes well together.

There’s obviously a lot of Chinese culture, it’s over a billion people

now and thousands of years of history. I got this coffee table book
China: A Celebration in Art and Literature and there was an
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ancient poem about a father just missing his home and children. It
brought me to tears. There are these simple, often mundane
moments in poetry and the arts that connect you as people, across
space and across time. It’s really hard to hate once you have felt inti-
macy that way.

Then of course there is The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin’s Sci-Fi

masterwork that Niall Ferguson butchers in his warmongering. To
me, it’s the best science fiction I’ve read recently, perhaps ever. It’s the
first one that truly melted my brain since Neuromancer by William
Gibson.

These are just the things I enjoy, but there is just so much to enjoy, to
experience, or even to enrage. You can of course go there, but these
days its so easy to just turn a page.

The Question Of China

The ‘question’ of China is so much more than what do you (the West)
do about it. I personally started from a place of ignorance so I tried to
read about the history I didn’t know, people I didn’t understand,
culture I hadn’t experienced. So much of western media starts from
answers, as if you can understand anything from a few magazine
pages or minutes on the TV news. What can you understand? That
something is bad and to hate it? This is a pale pantomime of under-
standing, a Punch and Judy show made of paper cutouts.

Even hatred of an enemy, properly understood, is a lot like love. Even

if you want to approach learning this way, you can learn a lot. There
are different ways to ask questions, there are debates raging right
now, there are different ways to see yourself, and to see the humanity
in others. Even if you want to see China as a threat and defeat it, then
all the more reason to learn.

I personally don’t see it that way. I started learning about China with
a lot of suspicion, but what I discovered is someplace that is incred-
ibly complex, not intrinsically evil, and which does a lot of good. But
I won’t even talk about that here. Draw your own conclusions. I am
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simply asking you to expand the canvas you draw on. I’ve been
reading and experiencing this stuff actively for years and passively for
my whole life, but literally just pick any place and start.

This is not to affect geopolitics or avert Cold War II/World War III.
That shit’s already popping off, regardless of us. My point is just why
live in ignorance? It’s honestly so boring. China sucks, China sucks,
ok what is China? Where is China? What am I? Where am I? These
are far more interesting questions.

Minds have actively, measurably been moved against China, when we

all have a lot in common and a lot of delightful differences. Why live
in hate? Why live in ignorance? Today so much opinion has been
moved against China by a thousand opinion pieces a thousand words
deeper. As the Buddha said,

Even if there be a thousand speeches—a mere collection of useless words—

one useful word is better (than all that), having heard which one is pacified.
(100)

The Chinese were able to imbibe the wisdom of the Buddha. Why
wouldn’t we learn something, anything, from China? That’s my only
exhortation here. Read a verse of the Dao, a page of a Li Kunwu
comic, an email from Dongsheng, the thousand pages of The
Romance Of The Three Kingdoms if you’re bold. Come back to me
unmoved and immovable. You can’t. I couldn’t. Their culture is just
too rich. Their sufferings are all too human. And the people calling
for hatred against them are just such transparently ignorant assholes.

You’re supposed to hate China now, and they count on you being too
lazy or busy to read anything further about it. And so your opinion
becomes propaganda, weaponized ignorance deployed on other
people in conversations and on social media. Don’t be that person. If I
may summarize this article, read a fucking book.

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52.HOW JULIAN ASSANGE
EXPOSES THE WHITE
EMPIRE
JUNE 2023

An Australian citizen was chased out of Sweden, and sought refuge in

the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. He was spied on in there, even-
tually dragged out, and jailed in the UK. Now he’s being extradited to
the United States. His crime? Reporting on the war crimes of the
United States, the heirs to White Empire. Assange’s biggest expose of
that empire’s existence and malevolence was not his reporting. It is
the ruin they have made of his life. His human sacrifice.

As his predecessor, the Vietnam War whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg

said to an incredulous Politico:

Ellsberg contended America still runs a “covert empire”

around the world, embodied in the U.S. domination of NATO.
He believes Washington deliberately provoked Vladimir Putin
into invading Ukraine by pushing its seat of power eastward
toward Russia’s borders; that the mainstream media is “com-
plicit” in allowing the government to keep secrets it has no
right to withhold; and that any notion Americans are ever the
“good guys” abroad “has always been false.”

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Why does Politico (sponsored by Lockheed Martin) put “covert
empire” in scare quotes? What do they think the CIA is doing? Why
does America have 750 military bases? Why are they always at war in
multiple countries? How do they assassinate people wherever they
want? Why are they sanctioning (besieging) much of the world? How
is an Australian citizen being hounded from Sweden to Ecuador to
the UK for crimes against the American state? We’re supposed to
believe these are all coincidences and not what they obviously are —
a violent empire with tentacles across the whole world. As George
Orwell said in 1984,

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It
was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he
thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease
with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in
debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to
understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right!
They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and
the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to
that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are
hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s
centre. With the feeling that he was speaking to O’Brien, and
also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote:

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If
that is granted, all else follows.

American freedom is the freedom to say that 750 military bases

equals zero. That there’s nothing there at all. It’s the freedom to say
that all the invasions and coups equal zero. That each one is an
isolated incident, no military coercion to see at all. And to say that
sanctioning nearly half the world’s population is ‘targeted’, and not in
fact siege warfare on a scale that would make a Khan blush in shame.

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It is a magnificent work of propaganda that the burden of proof is on
people calling this an empire, and not the other way around.

All the subtle arguments from ‘party’ intellectuals like Politico dance
around these simple facts. 750=750+, the countries attacked are in the
dozens, and the countries besieged are all over. For all the freedom
these ‘free media’ frauds have to say exactly what they’re supposed to,
anyone that exposes the naked truth of Empire gets snatched off the
street and tortured in solitary confinement. That’s what Assange is
the most prominent example of. He exposed the mass crimes of
empire and became its most public victim.

The persecution of Assange has just blended into the background

because it's been so constant. But think back on what he did. He
released information of the US gunning down journalists, their own
‘diplomats’ words about overthrowing countries, and tangible
evidence of their military crime. These real crimes are buried in all
the bullshit about ‘classified information’ (another word for thought
crime). As Chris Hedges further details:

Julian, as I noted in a column filed from London last year, is

targeted because of the Iraq War Logs, released in Oct. 2010,
which document numerous U.S. war crimes, including images
seen in the Collateral Murder video, of the gunning down of two
Reuters journalists and 10 other civilians and severely injuring
two children.

He is targeted because he made public the killing of nearly 700

civilians who had approached too closely to U.S. convoys and
checkpoints, including pregnant women, the blind and deaf,
and at least 30 children

He is targeted because he exposed more than 15,000 unreported

deaths of Iraqi civilians and the torture and abuse of some 800
men and boys, aged between 14 to 89, at Guantánamo Bay
detention camp.

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 He is targeted because he showed us that Hillary Clinton in
2009 ordered U.S. diplomats to spy on U.N. Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon and other U.N. representatives from China,
France, Russia, and the U.K., spying that included obtaining
DNA, iris scans, fingerprints, and personal passwords, all part of
the long pattern of illegal surveillance that included eavesdrop-
ping on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in the weeks before
the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

He is targeted because he exposed that Obama, Hillary Clinton

and the CIA backed the June 2009 military coup in Honduras
that overthrew the democratically-elected president Manuel
Zelaya, replacing him with a murderous and corrupt military
regime.

He is targeted because he released documents that revealed the

United States secretly launched missile, bomb and drone
attacks on Yemen, killing scores of civilians.

He is targeted because he made public the off-the-record talks

Hillary Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs, talks for which she was
paid $657,000, a sum so large it can only be considered a bribe,
as well as her private assurances to Wall Street that she would
do their bidding while promising the public financial regulation
and reform.

For revealing these truths alone he is guilty.

Read these horrors and tell me that the crime is exposing them. And
yet that’s what America is charging Assange with, and the rest of the
empire just offers him up. Australia makes nary a peep about their
own citizen, the UK perverts its justice process completely, and even
Ecuador caves after some token independence. This shows the real
contours of the White Empire, and how all the borders and flags and
supposed independence are lies.

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The persecution of Assange also exposes the bald like of ‘free speech’
the Empire prides itself on. Its citizens mindlessly repeat that ‘at least
we have free speech’, unlike the other guys who our empire is coinci-
dentally attacking and trying to dehumanize. What Americans call
freedom of speech is simply a vigorous debate about who and how to
crucify. The American population is, sadly, a bunch of people in a
Cable-TV Colosseum, debating whether they should be seeing
Russians or migrants killed next time. Liberals are honestly the worst
here. Conservatives like the cruelty, but liberals actually think they’re
the ‘good guys’.

Anyone who pulls back the curtain on the two-ring circus is perse-
cuted mercilessly — from Julian Assange, to Edward Snowden, to
Reality Winner, to all the Black Panthers and Ferguson protestors
jailed or murdered, and of course any foreigners who resist American
meddling in their countries (but they don’t count at all). What
America really has Freedom Of Speech™, a marketing tagline on
something sugary and without nutrition, which actually kills them
slowly. What America has is a Rules-Based-Order™ which is really
just rule by the latest incarnation of globe-scamming White Empire.
What are these rules? No one can tell you, it’s whatever the Empire
decides, and you get beaten if you don’t comply. Assange tried to
expose these lies with words but now he is tragically showing it with
his own body, as a human sacrifice that’s slowly happening in front of
our eyes.

I write a lot about the facts of the White Empire, but that is funda-
mentally math, which is boring. Assange exposed facts as well, but
his most powerful expose seems (sadly) to be the sacrifice of his frail
and very human life. He was a journalist making news, but now the
Empire has made it very personal, by chasing him across their false
flags and dragging him back to a country he’s not a citizen of, because
he is nonetheless a subject of this overt Empire. Most of the world
lives, one way or another, under the White Empire, and he is being
made an example of to keep us all in line.

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Just look at what they’re doing to this man and weep. How is an
Australian being persecuted for espionage against the United States?
It shows that the very idea of Australia is bullshit, as Caitlin John-
stone says, that ‘country’ is just an aircraft carrier with kangaroos.
The UK became occupied and taken over after World War II, and you
can visibly see America twisting its legal system to whatever it wants.
As Hedges writes:

The hearings, some of which I attended in London and others

of which I sat through online, mocked basic legal protocols.
They included the decision to ignore the CIA’s surveillance and
recording of meetings between Julian and his attorneys during
his time as a political refugee in the embassy, eviscerating attor-
ney-client-privilege. This alone should have seen the case
thrown out of court. They included validating the decision to
charge Julian, although he is not a U.S. citizen, under the Espi-
onage Act. They included Kafkaesque contortions to convince
the courts that Julian is not a journalist. They ignored Article 4
of the U.K.-U.S. extradition treaty that prohibits extradition for
political offenses. I watched as the prosecutor James Lewis,
representing the U.S., gave legal directives to Judge Baraitser,
who promptly adopted them as her legal decision.

Even distant Ecuador comes within the Empire. They briefly showed
some balls by naturalizing him, but under pressure (and with an IMF
loan in the offing) they let the London police drag him out in broad
daylight. They gave up a political refugee to the evil country
hounding him. We can talk about all these issues in abstraction —
how these systems oppress millions — but in Assange’s case we can
see it all personified in one man. We can see that none of these coun-
tries and rights are real, they’re all fictions indulged as long as they
don’t bother the ‘covert’ White Empire that actually runs the place.
That’s what Assange showed through his leaks and now through his
life. That is the ultimate price he pays to teach us a lesson we mostly
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ignore. But give it a while. Martyrs are usually scorned in the
moment, and so it is this time.

Julian Assange is being persecuted for his journalism, but in the end
his lived persecution is his most powerful exposé he could make. Him
being dragged from state to state, embassy to embassy, shows how all
these ‘independent’ nations are merely vassals of a globe-spanning
White Empire, the inheritor of the colonial mantle of Europe, now
headquartered in the genocidal colony of America. When the chips
are down, most of the countries in the world won’t do shit for you.
They don’t exist. It’s all one malevolent White Empire, and most of us
are in it with him, or we’re with the ‘enemy’ and constantly under
attack. As Daniel Ellsberg said in some of his last words:

I think very few Americans are aware of what our actual influ-
ence in the former colonial world has been, and that is to keep it
colonial,” Ellsberg says. “King Charles III [of Britain] is no
longer an emperor, as I understand it, but for all practical
purposes Joe Biden is … Here’s a point I haven’t made to anyone
but would like to in my last days here. Very simply, how many
Americans would know any one of the following cases, let alone
three or four of them?” Ellsberg then rattles off a series of U.S.
orchestrated coups, most of them fairly well documented,
starting with Iran in 1953, and then in Guatemala, Indonesia,
Honduras, Dominican Republic, Brazil and Chile.

Of course, you can rattle off this destruction of millions of lives and

they’re just statistics, but the destruction of Julian Assange’s is an
obvious tragedy. After the mass crimes he exposed, this is his most
personal exposé. The human sacrifice of his life. May the gods end it,
but if they must accept it, let it mean something. Let us learn some-
thing. Let us name the wretched empire that rules us, let us see the
obvious truth they call ‘covert’, and break out both Julian Assange
and our own minds.

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PART VIII

UKRAINE
53.HOW WAR IS PEAK
CAPITALISM
JULY 2023

Das Boot (1981) somehow has you rooting for Nazis because there’s no
ideology underwater. It’s all about the titular boat, a submerged piece
of capital machinery that workers are forced to kill or be killed inside.
The men are just men, trapped inside a machine. Das Boot is really a
capitalist horror story.

As a brief summary, Das Boot is about the crew of a German U-Boat

in World War II, deployed out of France to harry British shipping.
They’re trying to sink other boats, and other boats are trying to sink
them. Their greatest enemy is probably the high command, which
sends them into impossible situations. This is the nature of industrial
warfare (perhaps warfare in general), where men are just part of a
machine.

Industrial warfare is an exercise in peak capitalism. It marshals all

the resources of nations to destroy those resources over and over,
until someone achieves a monopoly on violence. It’s machinery
actively killing workers, not just incidentally. It’s capital immediately
destroying the world, not a few decades later. You can see this across
modern warfare, but nowhere more horrifically than inside a subma-
rine (technically a submersible, but bear with me). The poor crew of
Das Boot are truly in the belly of the beast.

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What Is Capital?

You can define capital very broadly as ‘things that make things’.
Those ‘things’ can be other capital machinery, goods to be used, or
services. Capital manipulates the environment in some way, and it
reproduces itself in some form. It might feel weird, but the simplest
way to understand capital is as an artificial species, tromping round
the environment as much as you or me. This actually isn’t a novel
interpretation, as Marx’s contemporaries described Das Kapital in as a
sort of mechanical ‘origin of species’. As Sigmund Mayer wrote in
1871:

In short, economic life offers us a phenomenon analogous to the

history of evolution in other branches of biology… The old
economists misunderstood the nature of economic laws when
they likened them to the laws of physics and chemistry. A more
thorough analysis of the phenomena shows that social organ-
isms differ among themselves as fundamentally as plants or
animals…

The scientific value of such an inquiry lies in the illumination of

the special laws that regulate the origin, existence, develop-
ment and death of a given social organism and its replacement
by another, higher one. And in fact this is the value of Marx’s
book.

The social organism they’re talking about here is the ‘whole thing’, ie
capital in general. Das Kapital. But as a species (genus, really), capital
contains many subspecies (corporations, factories, tanks,
submarines) with frankly arbitrary borders in between. Like natural
life, honestly. To understand this, it’s better to not get too complicated
and just go back to your childhood.

When I was young, I used to think my parent’s van (Mr. Nissan) was
alive. I was disabused of this idea as an adult, but now that I’ve
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thought about it, I think I was right the first time. Children are right to
think cars, planes, and boats are living beings. They move, breathe,
consume energy, and can act and even kill. They certainly have
personalities.

What’s obvious to a child is denied by the prejudice of adults, but

adults often deny consciousness to animals and even to children. The
‘rationality’ of adults is really about making us cogs in a machine, not
perceiving things as they are. If you look at it with a child’s eyes, you
can see the origin of species from genus Capital. Just draw eyes on
any machine.

I used to think Mr. Nissan was alive largely because he had eyes
(headlights), and even in Das Boot they draw eyes on the U-Boat to
personify it. The sub is depicted as a smiling icon of a swordfish, with
humanoid features. It’s imagined as living. Just as a child imagines. I
argue that the child and the cartoonist both see correctly. The truth
hides in plain sight, if you’re simple enough to take things literally.

But what sort of life is this? Where did it come from? Submarines
don’t mate and Mr. Nissan didn’t meet Mrs. Nissan to produce baby
Nissans. When we talk about capitalist reproduction, what are we
talking about? How can something reproduce through another
species? Isn’t that disqualifying? Well, then I guess humans are not
much of a species either.

When you were born, a significant amount of viral DNA helps spin
up the placenta, an honestly alien life form that keeps mothers from
rejecting their own babies. And then the placenta is delivered along
with the baby. It’s not quite human, and yet it’s necessary for human
reproduction. There’s nothing new under the sun, and requiring help
from another species to reproduce is not novel.

You could also say that Das Boot is not alive because it requires
human beings for its basic bodily functions. But again, that disquali-
fies us as well. We require microbes to digest our food and even regu-
late our mood. We can’t even control our bowels and we act like we’re
masters of the universe, lol. We’re a cosmic joke.

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Biologically speaking, the human body is just a ‘ship’ built by oceanic
microbes to travel on land. We maintain a controlled environment for
semen just the sub does for seamen. We’re not so different, it and I.
There’s also nothing new where the sun don’t shine.

Seamen understand this unconsciously because they refer to ships by

human pronouns. A ship is ‘her’ or ‘she’. Sailors have a motherly
relationship because the ship gives life to the man much more than
the man gives life to the machine. Though they are symbiotic.

I could go on, but for the purposes of this essay, just look at Das Boot
as a child would, or as a sailor clinging to her for dear life. See ‘the
boat’ as a living being, part of a species of social organisms called Das
Kapital. Proffered pronouns, she/her.

War Capitalism

As I said, industrial warfare is peak capitalism. Regular capitalism

will kill workers and the planet slowly, but wartime capitalism does it
actively and immediately (while someone makes obscene profits, natu-
rally). If regular capitalism is a planetary cancer (infinite growth),
wartime capitalism is a hideous outbreak that starts killing its hosts
in droves.

Marx said, “The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of produc-
tion prevails appears as an immense collection of commodities.” In the
same way, the ruin of capitalist societies also appears as an immense
collection of commodities, mainly expensive hunks of metal to hurl
at each other from even more expensive machines. Live by capitalist
production, die by capitalist production seems to be the axiom.

Only in wartime capitalism (and modern America) do you have

machines regularly killing people and 75% of the people operating
the damn machines. But this is the exact situation in Das Boot.

The extreme environment of the ocean draws the contradictions of

capitalism into stark relief. Whereas the worker will slowly die if cast
out of work, they will die rapidly if cast out of a submarine. Whereas

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work drains the days out of a person by halves, the submarine takes
both nights and days. The conditions inside a good U-Boat are like
that of the worst industrial housing. As a Dr. Embelton described
Newcastle in 1865:

“The rooms, in which labourers in many cases live, are situated

in confined and unwholesome yards or courts, and for space,
light, air, and cleanliness, are models of insufficiency and
insalubrity, and a disgrace to any civilized community; in them,
men, women, and children lie at night huddled together; and as
regards the men, the night-shift succeed the day-shift, and the
day-shift the night-shift, in unbroken series for some time
together, the beds having scarcely time to cool; the whole house
badly supplied with water and worse with privies; dirty, unventi-
lated, and pestiferous” (Dr Embleton, of the Newcastle Fever
Hospital, 1865, via Marx)

This describes life inside a U-Boat, except the U-Boat is worse. In Das
Boot, the men rotate bunks, share one toilet, and simply do not bathe
for the entire tour. The place would reek of diesel and body odor and
damp and death and fear. The Newcastle conditions are better
because at least women and children existed, inside the submarine
they’re just a memory, or a photograph if you were lucky. Life inside a
living war machine is the death of the human spirit.

All of the bodily — nevermind the spiritual — functions of man are

subjugated to the needs of the machine. Das Boot shows this by
cutting from the back of the boat — where a few men feed the
engines — to the front — where many men feed.

The men are expendable but the machine is indispensable. This is

the general logic of capitalism, but under the sea it is an iron law.
While a wage slave can maybe go to the next job, where can a
submariner go? Any competing firms are literally trying to kill him
and it’s that or the deep blue sea.
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The Business Of War

As capital assets, what do these machines make? Well, they make

war. They practice the most ‘perfect’ form of competition possible.
The success of a U-Boat is measured in how much tonnage of enemy
shipping it sinks, along with whatever crew have the bad luck to be
caught up in that metabolic process.

Marx said, “The instrument of labour strikes down the worker,” and war
capitalism takes this quite literally. Workers man instruments that kill
other workers even if they don’t particularly want to. They just have
to, in order to survive. The inexorable logic of capitalism, drawn to its
brutal conclusion. Murder the competition or die trying.

The reason you can root for the Nazis in Das Boot is that — with the
exception of one eager schmuck — they’re not really Nazis. There’s
no ideology in a gunboat, just survival. These kids are just Germans
and they are, as the saying goes, just following orders. As their fellow
German Karl said, “Their own movement within society has for them the
form of a movement made by things, and these things, far from being under
their control, in fact control them.”

These men are not in control any more than any nut or bolt in the
submarine. They’re just extensions of a wrench, trying to hold the
whole thing together. They’re really part of a cyborg machine, with
no control over its direction. Even the captain can’t control where the
war machine goes. Maybe Hitler is up there doing something, but
that’s reductive. Even he’s a part of social relations between people,
just as Marx described capital emerging. As he wrote:

The mysterious character of the commodity-form consists there-

fore simply in the fact that the commodity reflects the social
characteristics of men’s own labour as objective characteristics
of the products of labour themselves, as the socio-natural prop-
erties of these things. Hence it also reflects the social relation

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 of the producers to the sum total of labour as a social relation
between objects.

The workers trying to sink each other's boats in the Atlantic reflect
the social relation of the producers of those objects, namely that those
producers are at war with each other. War production is still produc-
tion and — as generally destructive as it is — it’s still profitable for
someone.

In Das Boot you can see the profitable side of war when the officers
are invited to another boat (in Spain) for resupply. They are treated to
a veritable smorgasbord of food after eating stale bread and living in
each other's farts for weeks now. This is the producer's end of war.

These men in nice jackets selling torpedoes and bananas are what
Marx called ‘capital personified’. As he wrote:

As a capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul

of capital. But capital has one sole driving force, the drive to
valorize itself, to create surplus-value, to make its constant part,
the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount
of surplus labour. Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like,
lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more
labour it sucks.

The suppliers of capital equipment look healthy and hale compared

to the bearded, haggard, and grey officers of Das Boot, who ultimately
just laborers with stripes. Insomuch as the officers are part of the
capitalist transaction, they can see what the life of a vampire is like,
but then they have to go back to their very mortal lives and bleed.

While you could (and did) have communist war machines, practically
there will always be some class closer to the production of death and
another class which is the end consumer. We think of wars as battles

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between ideologies, but modern war has only one ideology, which is
mass industrialization.

In Marx’s view, industrialization was just a natural process that was

happening and you had to go through a period of capital formation
before communism. Communism is a stage of evolution, you can’t just
skip ahead. As Karl said, “Even when a society has begun to track down
the natural laws of its movement — and it is the ultimate aim of this work
to reveal the economic law of motion of modern society — it can neither
leap over the natural phases of its development nor remove them by decree.
But it can shorten and lessen the birth-pangs.” As Gramsci sorta said, “the
old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time
of monsters.”

Wars End

War is ultimately a struggle over resources and industrial wars are

fought with productive resources, ie capital. The side that can make
the most war machines and lubricate them with the most blood of
labor has the best shot of winning. It’s an explosive evolution with
wild competition until the ecosystem stabilizes. That’s the world we
live in today, full of artificial predators. They have much the same
form as at the end of World War II, though we may be seeing another
explosive evolution right now.

If some future or alien observer were to look at the fossil record of

industrial wars, I doubt they’d know or even care about the ideology.
What they’d see would be the skeletons of machines, the soft humans
inside them long ago devoured and forgotten. Hence, it’s not about
Nazis or Allies, or even Communists or Capitalists. It’s about Capital,
the metallic, increasingly silicon-based lifeform which we are all
stuck in the belly of, like so much insignificant bacteria. That’s the
feeling you get in Das Boot. How helpless and hopeless the humans
are in the face of industrial war. The war is really not about them.
The lead actor of Das Boot is the boat and the humans are just props.

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54.WESTERNERS NEED TO
SHUT UP ABOUT
UKRAINE
FEBRUARY 2023

If Westerners start talking about ‘liberating’ your country and start

waving your flag, fucking run. You’re probably already running. The
result of decades of the West leading Ukraine down the ‘primrose
path’ to war has been the wholesale destruction and dismemberment
of the country. And naive westerners are still gunning for more.
Flooding a warzone with more weapons, more propaganda, more
conflict, all under the guise of ‘helping’. Like they helped
Afghanistan, like they helped Iraq, like they helped Vietnam, in truth
like the wrecked countless nations for countless years. If a Westerner
tries to help you, fucking run. Their arms dealers help themselves
and leave your country in ruins.

The western privatized propaganda machine works not so much by

removing information as ‘flooding the zone with shit’. Some latest
ruler is propped up as evil incarnate and a generation of people
raised on Transformers and Avengers rallies around the latest arms
sale / resource theft. Like it’s all a TV show. Because to them it is. So
today Putin is the latest evil, following Saddam, following Ho Chi
Minh, following whoever it is marketed as the latest object of
foaming hate. Nevermind looking at your own governments, your
own problems, the rapacious elites raping you. Look far overseas, at

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places you couldn’t find on a map. Blame them. Bomb them. That’ll
make everything better.

Well-meaning people ask ‘well, what should we do?’ The fact is that
Russia is doing the destruction, shouldn’t they be opposed? These
well-meaning people miss the point. We’re well past good intentions.
After decades of ‘well-meaning’ western interventions, after millions
killed and tens of millions displaced, can’t you see? Every interven-
tion makes things immeasurably worse. You fuckers have no standing
to comment on ‘foreign affairs’ anymore. The liberal western popula-
tion is like Lennie Small in Of Mice And Men, a nice but slow fellow
who just wanted to pet pretty things and kept killing them. After the
carnage of years, y’all can’t be taken at your good intentions anymore.
The western body politic is easily propagandized, self-aggrandizing,
and powerless except as suckers for the military industrial complex.
Y’all need to be taken out back and shot.

The fact is that setting up Ukraine as a bulwark in great power

conflict was always bad, that NATO has no standing to complain
about invading other countries, and continuing to funnel arms into a
corrupt government waging a fucking land war with Russia is just the
wholesale destruction of a nation on the altar of your insipid ‘good
intentions’. People ask what they should otherwise ‘do’ about
Ukraine and the answer is nothing. In all aspects, the world would be
better off if the West just fucked off. Every problem they claim to fix
just leaves everyone worse off, except the war-profiteer class that
actually runs the place, from think tanks to actual tank manufac-
turers to the media the gets the endless advertising revenue from
endless war.

Casual bloggers and commenters cheering on the latest Wunderwaffe

that’s going to win the war are just doing freelance advertising for the
military-industrial complex, without even the affiliate revenue.
Saying you stand with Ukraine is false, you stand over her grave. The
country Ukraine is already split like Vietnam and Korea were, it’s
people have fled, its women are being advertised on ‘dating’ sites in
Europe, the menfolk are often unable to leave, reliably motivated

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Nazis are moving up in the military, and god knows how much mili-
tary materiel is being funneled out the back door. Ukraine was
corrupt as hell before the war and that’s only gotten worse. Now the
figurehead leader has banned opposition parties, trade unions, and is
being heralded as a defender of democracy by unelected Prime
Ministers in the UK and Hollywood actors. It’s a killing farce.

Everybody talking about how Russia is secretly losing and the tide is
turning miss the point that the West and NATO have lost every war
for decades. There is in fact more money in losing wars because you
can sell more arms. Arms contractors made trillions in Afghanistan,
the US government stole that country’s foreign reserves and they just
moved onto rampaging Ukraine. That’s all that happened. You can
see it clearly in the stock market with western fossil fuel and arms
sales booming. All you see in the media is actually advertising for
those businesses. That’s all the western news is. It’s privatized propa-
ganda for the benefit of the oligarchs that actually run the place.

None of this is for the benefit of Ukraine. If you’ve ever lived through
war you’d know that the only good outcome is for it to end. Funneling
more and more arms into a war of attrition is a fun strategy unless it’s
your land and bodies that are being attrited. Then it’s just death on
the altar of good, white intentions, a dismal and pointless death if
there ever was one. What should Ukraine do? I don’t know, and
people like me in Sri Lanka spend little time thinking about this and
zero time interfering. Any intervention we would make in this
conflict we don’t understand would make things worse. What people
in America and it’s imperial colonies of Germany and the UK don’t
understand is that they’re not just the same as us, they’re worse.

Western intervention has a bloody track record of making everything

worse for nearly a century now, and every time we’re told that this
time is different. This time there’s a clear evil and the murder
machine is finally murdering the right people this time. And even
‘liberal’ people get all hot about the the latest jets and rocket launch-
ers, like a bunch of kids watching the toy adverts on Saturday
morning cartoons. Like a bunch of children, except playing with real

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blood and bones. And Raytheon and Lockheed Martin make even
more money the Paw Patrol. All they have to do is throw the well-
minded idiots in the western population a bone.

Y’all really think you’re the goodies. Despite all the evidence of so
many wars gone wrong, you think this one is a good one. You’re
wrong. On Ukraine, on all the pain your governments cause, you
need to stop cheering them on. The West has made a mess of the last
century. Y’all need to shut the fuck up and sit the rest of this century
out.

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55.THE US IS NOT HELPING
UKRAINE OR TAIWAN
MARCH 2023

As US President Ronald Reagan said, “The top 9 most terrifying words

in the English language are: I’m from the [US] government, and I’m here to
help.” As US Secretary of State (effectively Secretary of War) Henry
Kissinger said, “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be
America’s friend is fatal.” What these arch war-criminals are saying
through bloody teeth is the truth. America has no interests but self-
interest and it is only through relentless Hollywood/CNN propa-
ganda that they are able to erase their own bloody history and keep
waging war on other people's soil. While saying it's for their own
benefit. Does it ever work? Does it ever fucking work?

The United States road the coattails of massive Soviet sacrifice on

their own soil to pretend like they won World War II singlehandedly.
They then dropped multiple nuclear bombs on civilian populations in
Japan to secure that front for themselves. Since then they have occu-
pied Japan, Germany, and spread to over 800 military bases all over
the world, all the while pretending that they’re the good guys. But
Hitler and Hirohita are dead. Who are they fighting against? They
have killed millions of civilians since World War II, over a million in
their terror wars alone. The United States is constantly starting wars,
proxy or other, by pretending that places like Iraq or Russia or China
are being aggressive by placing their countries near US military

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bases. And this is accepted by a vast propaganda machine that still
acts like everything is World War II, everyone else is Hitler, and that
the US has the right and duty to constantly be at war. This goes
unquestioned. But after so many failed wars and so much blood, we
should really question it.

As Chris Hedges writes about proxy wars:

There are many ways for a state to project power and weaken
adversaries, but proxy wars are one of the most cynical. Proxy
wars devour the countries they purport to defend. They entice
nations or insurgents to fight for geopolitical goals that are ulti-
mately not in their interest. The war in Ukraine has little to do
with Ukrainian freedom and a lot to do with degrading the
Russian military and weakening Vladimir Putin’s grip on power.
And when Ukraine looks headed for defeat, or the war reaches a
stalemate, Ukraine will be sacrificed like many other states, in
what one of the founding members of the CIA, Miles Copeland
Jr., referred to as the “Game of Nations” and “the amorality of
power politics.”

Is the United States a friend to Ukraine or Taiwan? Given America’s

history, is this not traditionally fatal? Look at the people America has
been friends to. America friended the people of South-East Asia by
dropping 7.5 million tons of bombs on them, nearly double the
amount dropped on Germany and Japan. With friends like these…
America friended Korea by dividing it in half and installing and
supporting a wildly corrupt military dictatorship that the South
Korean people had to overthrow multiple times. America liberated
Iraqis from their lives, Libyans from prosperity, and Syria from their
oil and ability to get aid during an earthquake. Do you really think,
given their track record, that you can believe America’s intentions in
Ukraine and Taiwan? As US President George W. Bush said, “There’s
an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee

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— that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t
get fooled again.”

The fact that this idiot was able to drag the world into completely
unprovoked war in Iraq just shows that you can in fact fool people
multiple times. And it’s still ongoing. The US actually provoked
Russia by installing NATO on its border (similar to Russian missiles
in, say, Cuba) and now is prodding China by rejecting the one-China
policy over Taiwan which is still official US policy. People debated what
would be better for Iraq during that war just as they’re saying
destructive war would actually be better for the people of Ukraine,
Taiwan, and also Russia and China themselves. But what problem
has America ever made better? Name one country that they have
actually improved since World War II? It’s just been an unremitting
blood bath and they want to hose us down some more.

Even America’s overt allies—the people it somewhat did improve

after World War II—have been fucked over by the Yankees in the
end. The United States just blew up Germany’s own NordStream
pipeline, an act of war in any regard, except Germany is actually an
occupied colony and didn’t make a peep. When Japan’s economy
started rising in the 80s America actively suppressed it. The truth is
that America doesn’t have friends, it has interests, and its primary
interest is wealth and money, or in ancient parlance, just looting.
America has perfected the art of looting its own public purse over the
bodies of dead people elsewhere.

The great innovation of the White Empire under the Americans has
been figuring out that there’s more money in losing wars than
winning them. If you win a war you have to actually administer the
place and Marshall Plan it. But if you lose and drag it out, you can
make a killing dropping expensive bombs on poor people. This has
led to America becoming the world’s leading arms dealer while
losing every single war. They have perfected the art of pyrrhic victory
on other people’s soil while dragging unceasing loot back to the tony
suburbs of Maryland. The loot, amazingly, is largely stolen from their
own people. And these relentlessly propagandized people (you’re free!

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those people aren’t! let’s bomb them into freedom!), these most propagan-
dized people in the world still cheer it on.

In addition to privatized arms dealing, America has also perfected

the art of privatized propaganda. CNN literally made its bones on the
Iraq War and the oligarch-owned media makes money chasing
Chinese balloons or inflating random places Americans haven’t
heard of into mortal enemies overnight. It’s good programming, it
sells advertising, it provides them access, and it makes the share-
holders (who also hold arms and connected technology stocks)
happy. I mean, not happy, these rich people live in sin and are miser-
able, but it makes them rich which is what they want. What’s sad is
that ordinary Americans help these wealthy warmongers for free,
getting worked up about Iran, Russia, China or whoever the five-
minute-hate is, though it is of no benefit (and in fact detriment) to
them at all.

This grinding war business is what drives America and once you
understand the business model (lose wars very expensively some-
where else), you understand that Ukraine and Taiwan are well and
truly fucked. All the fawning coverage they get now as bastions of
democracy is like the reception given to a virgin right before they’re
human sacrificed. They get all the garlands, all the wreaths, right
before they’re tossed in the volcano of war. Everybody just parades up
the steps—Taiwan after Ukraine after Yemen after Syria after Libya
after Iraq after Afghanistan after Vietnam after Korea—thinking that
this time it’s different, this time it’s a just war. But it’s just war. It’s just
business. It’s just filthy lucre.

The US war machine is not going to do good this time. Have we not
indulged these fantasies long enough, over millions of dead, tens of
millions displaced, and unspeakable destruction and horror? As
Joseph Welch told US Senator Joe McCarthy, “Until this moment, Sena-
tor, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.” When
McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, “Let
us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have
you no sense of decency?”

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Cheering for war in Ukraine and now Taiwan is not standing up for
democracy over authoritarianism. This is meaningless coming from
the White Empire that has ruled and terrorized the world for a
century from America and centuries from Europe. These are just
words, like their corruption of the prophet Jesus Christ to justify their
trepidations and violations before.

The best thing the United States can do for peace in the world is to
stop waging wars. And you are not helping them by cheering the
latest, greatest war on, while pretending you’re a friend to Ukrainian
or Taiwanese people. I’ve lived through decades of war in my own
country and the best thing wars can do is never start, and the second
best thing is stopping. Fuckers from abroad cheering on war in your
country is just a sport for them while it’s real death for the people
that live there. America has made a bloodsport of the map, a Colos-
seum of cable news, and we’re now nearly 100 years into reruns of the
same fucking program, this time in a grand finale of land war in Asia
that may already be World War III. Historically these names are
given after the fact, at the time we don’t know.

But I do know this. America is not starting these wars to help

anybody else. They’re helping themselves to blood money as they
always do. Why should you promote these wars for free? The best
thing America can do for the world is to stop warring over it. And all
of you idiots with the flags of the latest human sacrifice in your bios,
at long last, have you no decency? America has gone from flags on
graves in World War II to flags on bios in World War III. It’s a farce. I
understand if you can’t stop your war machine, but for fucks sake,
stop cheering it on. Whatever war America’s involved in, you can
guarantee that it’s a bad one. The US is not helping Ukraine or
Taiwan any more than they helped Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Iraq.
After so many skulls buried in the ground, can’t you get this through
your skull?

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56.HOW AMERICA IS
PROFITING FROM THE
DESTRUCTION OF
EUROPE (AGAIN)
DECEMBER 2022

As Henry Kissinger said, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy,

but to be America’s friend is fatal.” Ask Afghanistan, or South Vietnam,
or South Korea for decades (and divided and traumatized still). Now
you can ask Europe as well. Using the proxy war they provoked in
Ukraine (start pushing Russian military into Mexico and see how the
US reacts), the US is completely stripping Ukraine and de-industrial-
izing Europe itself. It’s World War II again. Europe gets destroyed
between the US and Russia, while countries in the South get mysteri-
ously couped and destabilized. As Rocky Horror sang, “let’s do the time
warp again.”

I won’t even get into the idea that Russia vis-à-vis Putin is pure evil,
that’s just the latest advertising from arms dealers and if you’re fooled
by the latest evil after the wreckage in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Iran, Vietnam, and all the other people you were told to hate, I’m
afraid there’s no hope for you. Let’s just follow the money.

The United States—while its own people are suffering—is shoveling

money into the fiery furnace into its military industrial complex. The
logic is actually pretty simple and they keep repeating it. Create some
conflict thousands of miles away, get the corporate media to advertise
that its some inherent threat to White Empire, and profit. You don’t
even need to win the war. There’s actually more money in losing.
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 Adjusted for inflation, FY2023 looks like it’ll have the fourth-
highest military budget since World War II. The only time mili-
tary spending has been higher in real terms was the stretch
between 2008–2011, when there were no fewer than 141,000 US
troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Stephen Semmler)

Like the $2 trillion dollar scam in Afghanistan (the amount looted by

corporate Bethesda warlords), this is all looting and pillaging
disguised as aid.

All of this military ‘aid’ is really only aid to American arms dealers.
It’s just death and debt to Ukraine. Those hapless people are trapped
in a hopeless land-war with Russia, losing hideous amounts of men,
and power to their entire country, not to mention their Democracy™
(Zelensky is banning political parties and attacking trade unions).
Ukraine is losing people to migration, they’re advertising Ukrainian
brides in the UK, and the countries entire infrastructure is being
destroyed and the country divided. But the arms dealers don’t care.
It’s a playground for them, and they’ve got an unlimited budget for
their deadly toys. They even openly talk about it as a testing ground
for weapons. Testing them on the body of Ukraine. With allies like
this, who needs enemies.

At the same time, the pipeline connecting Russia to Europe has been
mysteriously blown up. Who done it? Cui bono? Who benefits? Again,
follow the money, not whatever smokescreen the western media (pri-
vatized propaganda, direct from oligarch owners) puts up. American
arms dealers profit from the death of Ukraine and American fossil
fuel (LNG) profit from the destruction of Europe. It’s a win-win,
unless you’re in either of these places.

Sanctions on Russia were supposed to hinder its war-making effort

(we’re reducing the Ruble to rubble, Joe Biden crowed), but they don’t
(and can’t as Seshadri Kumar deeply gets into). All they do is hurt
Europe, while Russia just sells LNG to other countries, who resell it

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to Europe at higher prices.Meanwhile American producers have a
literal captive market in Europe. They’re effectively in a hostage situa-
tion, and the hostage taker is their supposed ally, using the big-bad
Putin to justify doing their worst. American foreign policy is broadly
a Mafia protection racket. Nice country, shame if something should
happen to it. They come in with their military bases to ‘protect’ you
but all they’re doing is protecting profits. Your country and your
people get screwed.

As Gerald Haug, the President of the German National Academy of

Sciences, said in October 2022 (via Seshadri Kumar again, read
him).

“I’m very worried that if we don’t act now, we’ll lose entire industrial
sectors — especially in the raw materials industry,” warned the Leopoldina
President. “That would mean a much higher dependency on Asia and espe-
cially China.” For example, outsourcing the chemical industry completely
from Germany and Europe would be a “fundamental mistake” — especially
in view of the goal of climate neutrality by 2045.

While Angela’s Merkel’s milquetoast replacement as leader of

Germany is calling for negotiations, nobody listens to him. Germany
is an occupied colony of America (has been since WWII), with no
meaningful control over military or financial affairs. As long as
America is profiting from the war in Ukraine, the profits will
continue, regardless of whether Germany sheds industry or its
people go cold. What does America care? German industrial giants
will just move to America. It’s win-lose. Again via Kumar:

To combat those exorbitant European gas prices, BASF has

already cut ammonia production at Ludwigshafen and another
Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium, and is now relying more on
ammonia production in Freeport, Texas, where gas is much
cheaper. Its complexes in the U.S., Malaysia, and China may
help the company weather this crisis to an extent, but Mayer
noted that it’s not just BASF that’s in trouble. “Energy-intensive

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 businesses will partly or fully be closed down in Germany in
particular,” he said, “but all across Europe there will be a
capacity reduction.”

Nobody profits from a land-war with Russia, unless of course your

land is thousand of miles away, you have no business there (both
literally and figuratively) and you can just goose your economy over
the destruction of Europe. This was the American development
model after World War II and they’re just repeating it. They’re prof-
iting from the destruction of Europe, again. History repeats, the first
time as tragedy, the second as farce.

The other point is that Europe was relying on Russian natural gas in
order to transition to renewables. Now that’s in the shitter, they’re
scrounging around for fossil fuels from anywhere, and opening new
coal planets. Is temporary control of land in Ukraine worth
destroying the atmosphere forever. If it makes money, sure.

Note that in this article I haven’t got into who’s right or wrong in
Ukraine and I’m not laboriously rebutting arguments about how evil
Russia is. It’s irrelevant. Don’t follow the media, follow the money. As
the dialogue in The Departed goes:

ELLERBY (BOSS COP)

Yeah, but cui bono? Who benefits?

COLIN SULLIVAN (COP):

Cui gives a shit? It’s got a fuckin’ bow on it.

I think you are a cop, my son.

T HESE TWO COPS are part of a corrupt system enmeshed with the
supposed criminals and all the arrests are really just for show. It’s the
same thing with the White Empire’s war machine. America made its
bones over the carcass of Europe in World War II and that’s all they
know. They have never drawn down since. They’ve been dropping
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expensive bombs on poor brown people for decades and this is a wet
dream for them, land war with Russia. What the fuck do they care
about the history of how that goes? It’s not their land. They make
even more money by losing, which is how it’s going. Certainly for
Europe, and absolutely for Ukraine.

What else could they do? Fucking nothing. In all instances, nothing is
the best America could do. America has no place in conflicts thou-
sands of miles away, everywhere they go they make things worse.
People get fooled by the details of the latest conflict, the latest villain,
but that’s all just advertising carried by their corporate media. Forget
the dick pills and car insurance sold between the TV news, the news
itself is marketing for arms dealers. They sell you some evil (once
Saddam, now Putin), and some reason why your money needs to go
for that, even while you can’t get food on the table. And too many
people, including far too many ‘liberals’ follow the latest moralizing
bullshit, and march other people into war. Quite sanctimoniously. The
last war was always wrong and regrettable, but this war? This war is
always good.

So again, forget the details of this particular devastation. Follow the

money, and follow the history. The White Empire is at war again and
while it’s bad for Ukraine, bad for Europe, and catastrophic for the
human climate, it’s good for imperial profits. And that’s all soul of
White Empire is. Follow the money, strip away the moralizing
marketing, and you’ll get to the black holeat its core. Sucking in lives,
sucking in resources, sucking in entire regions and atmospheres into
its relentless military-industrial maw. And what’s the usual response
to this, do the simple question cui bono?

Cui gives a shit. To American arms dealers and fossil fuel dealers, it’s
got a fucking bow on it. That’s all you need to know.

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57.PLAYING RUSSIAN
ROULETTE WITH
SANCTIONS
MARCH 2022

Empire is a loose, baggy thing, held together by guns and gold. If an

Empire loses wars and its money loses value, then it’s well on its way
to oblivion. In a series of historical self-owns, White Empire is doing
this to itself.

Attacked by ‘barbarians’ on 9/11, White Empire lashed out violently

across the globe, killing millions and displacing tens of millions. Far
from being a show of force, however, it has turned into a bloody farce.

The truth is that this empire has already met its ‘graveyard’ in
Afghanistan. White Empire’s illusion of military power has already
been destroyed. What’s left now is just a military-industrial zombie,
backed by a propaganda media force, also eating brains.

The truth is that, historically, speaking White Empire is already dead.

What we’re living with now is just a rotting zombie, still biting but funda-
mentally empty.

While this zombie can still devour poor people in Yemen, Syria, and
Palestine, it cannot stand against a conventional force like Russia.
While they’ve been merrily killing poor brown people without conse-
quence, killing poor white people would cause World War III.

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Hence NATO isn’t doing shit in Ukraine, besides funneling in arms
for Ukranians to kill themselves. The military pillar of empire has
already fallen, they cannot actually fight. They only have one leg left
to stand on, their monetary might.

However, they have the same problem here.

Sanctions (the white word for sieges) have been used to cripple,
starve, and kill millions of not-white people for decades, but they
have a real problem deploying them against Russia. Russia’s is too
integrated into White Empire’s traditional homeland of Europe.

Messing with Russia can actually hurt them, it can really crack their
monetary hegemony. Then they won’t have a fucking leg to stand on,
will they?

Actually sanctioning Russia would do three things.

1. It would cut off Europe from energy, leading to cold white

people
2. It could be interpreted as an act of war, leading to dead white
people
3. It can trigger a lot of unpredictable effects, leading to poor
white people

As you can see, this isn’t like cutting Iran out of SWIFT, which just
led to suffering brown people. This isn’t like besieging Cuba and
North Korea for generations, which just led to suffering commies.
This hits White Empire where it hurts. It affectswhite people. What’s a
White Empire that can’t protectwhiteness?

In this case White Empire cannot level the devastating (but pointless)
sanctions leveled against Yemen and Syria. They can’t simply steal
money like from Afghanistan. Russia is too integrated, they’d be
hurting themselves. So instead, we get half-assed sanctions which try
to carve out exemptions for European energy. We also get other coun-
tries simply going around them.

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Half-assed sanctions poke and irritate the bear without fundamentally
wounding it. This is not what you want to do with bears.

Like the self-destruction of their own military might, this self-destruc-

tion of their monetary might is ultimately fatal to empire. I’m not saying
that Russia will be the fatal blow, Russia is a fundamentally poor country,
already somewhat isolated. But Russia is not Iran. Russia is in Europe,
separated only by the racist line that divides that peninsula from Asia.

This strikes at the heart of whiteness, which is how empires fall.

Empires are hard but brittle. As Hemingway wrote, people go bank-
rupt two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

Will Russia be the golden bullet in the chamber? I don’t now. Anyone
predicting the fall of empire now is a fool, but anyone predicting it
never is a greater fool indeed. All I know is that Russian Roulette is a
stupid fucking game to play. Yet it is this gun that empire is holding to
its own head.

What’s happening now, what Empire is forcing to happen, is the frac-

turing of the faith and credit of their currency. They’re just robbing
central banks and sanctioning bigger and bigger countries. Countries
have to hedge their bets, and that’s the end of hegemony.

Russia has been planning an alternative to SWIFT for years. India

and China are setting up other channels. Even empire’s current
fuckboi Brazil is sitting this one out. The effects of sanctions can blow
up fuel prices and trigger inflation, which terrifies capitalists more
than WWIII.

The dollar’s strange fruit seemed endless — a money tree watered with
blood — but now it’s ending.

Bear in mind, the alternatives to dollar hegemony all fucking suck. The
already poor Russian people will be thrown even deeper into poverty.
Millions of people depending on Russian wheat and fertilizer will go
hungry. People will die. Governments will fall. It’ll be a fucking
atrocity.

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Leaving hegemony is not something anybody actually wants to do,
but White Empire is pushing people out. Nobody is in a hurry to
adapt to a life without Empire, but Empire itself is forcing the point.
It’s not just Russia, they’ve started a two-front Cold War with China
as well.

These are not the usual pariah states that Empire has been beating
and starving in the public square for decades. Do you like being
warm? Do you eat bread? Do you buy things? This effects everybody.

An empire only has guns and gold to stand on, and they’re fucking with the
family jewels here.

Empire is a loose baggy thing, a bunch of man-children in a trench

coat, held together by enough guns and gold to keep everyone
believing in the fantasy. Well, no one believes in the guns of White
Empire anymore, and suddenly the gold’s not looking so shiny.

Monetary power is what let White Empire wage forever wars and
keep bailing out their zombie economy. If it wanes they’ll just be
another — extremely fucked up — country. All the debts will come
due, all the rot will show through, it’ll be a well-deserved catastrophe.

Yet here we are.

White Empire has put the golden gun in their own mouth, finger
on the trigger. They’re literally playing Russian Roulette here. It’s
just a matter of time before White Empire blows its own zombie
brains out, leaving just another shit-stain across the pages of history.

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58.WHAT SHOULD YOU DO
ABOUT UKRAINE?
NOTHING
MARCH 2022

Too many people inside the White Empire think they need to ‘do
something’about Ukraine. Or China. Or Somalia. After laying waste to
a quarter of the world, they’re pointing to the rest of it, like, ‘you need
some help with that?’ No, you fucking war criminals. Y’all killed
millions of people in the past few decades alone. You need to sit the
rest of this century out.

You don’t need to do anything about Ukraine. Your input isn’t needed
on China. You imperial citizens would do the most good by just not
making things worse.

You need to do what everybody else does when there’s a problem

halfway across the world. Nothing. You blundering idiots just make
everything worse.

Oh Baby Baby

What imperial citizens, especially Americans, need to understand is

the basic principle of do no harm. Doctors take this Hippocratic oath
so they don’t just cut people open because ‘somebody had to do some-
thing!’ Americans have taken an oath of hypocrisy instead.

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Their wars of empire are always interventions, not invasions. Their
military is always defensive, while the countries they surround are the
offensive ones.They’re not flooding warzones with weapons, that’s
just ‘lethal aid’. That’s not torture, it’s ‘enhanced interrogation’. The
hypocrisy goes on and on.

People at the imperial core still cling to the fundamental delusion

that their White Empire is ultimately good and just keeps making
mistakes. That Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, etc were all
just cases of ‘ooops, I did it again! I blew you apart, got lost in the game!’

Well let me tell you. You’re not that innocent.

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Americans and Europeans don’t live with war. They just watch it on
TV like Saturday morning cartoons. Like any cartoon, there’s good
guys and bad guys, and like most cartoons, it’s all designed to sell
toys. Stingers! Javelins! Drones! Only in this case the toys are real
weapons, and they bury real children alive.

Like Saturday morning cartoons, that’s all your Saturday evening

shows are doing. Selling you really lethal toys, which your Senators
and Congressmen happily buy. Like spoilt children, plenty of Ameri-
cans beg for war, and your elected parents comply.

This is the media-military-industrial complex. This is the business of

war, and business is good. It’s a very simple business model, a
brutally elegant loop.

First corrupt governments start selling a war, saying ‘intelligence says

this’ or ‘unnamed State Department source’ says that. It’s not that hard. If
it bleeds it leads, and corporate media happily starts advertising war.
Then all the toys come out. Weapons systems. Missiles. Bombs.
Drones. Guns. The war industry makes a killing, and then some.
They give the politicians and media a few payoffs, and wait for the
next season.

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It’s like stealing candy from a baby. You imperial cretins, writing
paternalistic Op-Eds about saving the world. You’re really a bunch of
adult-children, getting real children killed.

People within Empire really get distracted by the latest villain, like
children watching the same fucking plot in every episode of Paw Patrol,
over and over. This time it’s Putin, last time it was Saddam, it’s a
bunch of morbid reruns, even reboots of old wars. The Empire never
wins. It never fixes anything. Why would it? Then the show would
stop.

While the Saturday morning cartoons keep the kiddies occupied, the
Saturday evening news does the same for the adults. Instead of the
latest cheap plastic toys, they get sold on dropping very expensive
bombs.

Every empire wages war, kill people and loot shit, that’s Imperialism
101. The great innovation of White Empire, has been killing random
people and looting their own treasury. Now that’s an art.

Grow Up

My advice to Americans and anyone living in the heart of whiteness

is simply this. Grow up. Join the human race and stop racing into war
after war.Everything your government tells you to call for has fuck-all
to do with peace.They’re in the business of war, and if you think it’s
something different this time, I’m sorry, but you’re just an easy mark.

I know you’re hearing a lot of stuff about Ukraine and how bad Putin
is and a lot of that stuff might be true. But you need to come to a
simple realization. It’s got fuck-all to do with you. There’s nothing
you can do to make it better, and all your governments’ ‘interven-
tions’ just makes things worse. Y’all keep getting sold a race car, but
I’m telling you, it’s always a hearse.

Let me tell you the facts of life, in case you hadn’t heard. Shit
happens. It sucks. People get hurt. Being a grown-up is realizing that

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no plucky crew of mutant puppies is going to save the day, and
anyone saying so is just trying to make a buck.

Perhaps this would’ve been an abstract argument 20 years ago, but

now we’re all grown ups. We’ve all lived through multiple wars at this
point. Fuck all your good intentions, we have plenty of bloody results.
Name a single warzone that Empire has made better. Name a single
war they’ve even won. At this point we should know better. If you’re
saying ‘this time will be different!’ I won’t mince words with you. Shut
the fuck up. Y’all need to sit the rest of this century out.

As the Bible says:

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I

thought as a child: but when I became a [grown-up], I put away
childish things.

Right now if you support the imperial war machine in anything, I’m
sorry, but you’re going straight to hell. You can’t keep opening portals
to hell all over the world and expecting not to end up there yourself.

But if you’re in America, I don’t even need to tell you this. Your
government just sent billions of dollars to flood Ukraine with
weapons while your own COVID funding runs out. Thousands of
Americans are dying of neglect at home, every day. I don’t need to tell
you to go to hell. You’re already there.

It’s a unique imperial delusion that you need to ‘do something’ about
every problem in the world, when you’re really just getting played out
by your own oligarchs. What do you, random blog reader, need to do
about Ukraine, China, or any problem your media advertises? The
same thing I, random blog writer in Sri Lanka, am doing. Fucking
nothing. Grow up.

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59.THE ENERGY TRAP
APRIL 2023

Fossil fuels are, by our definition, not renewable. While we won’t

technically run out for a long time, economically we will. The last
veins simply won’t be profitable to tap. This leaves us with a choice.
Use our last fossil fuels to transition, or fight over them. Given that
the ruling White Empire is historically greedy and genocidal, they
are of course choosing violence. Welcome to the Energy Trap. It’s
already clanging shut.

Choosing Violence: The Thucydides Trap

Imperial scholars use the term ‘Thucydides Trap’ to describe violent

jealousy and make it look fancy. Like an ancient Greek tweet simply
‘traps’ them into attacking China. This is the tweet in question:

“The real cause, however, I consider to be the one which was

formally most kept out of sight. The growth of the power of
Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war
inevitable.” (via The Landmark Thucydides)

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This sentence is taken completely out of the voluminous context of
Thucydides and dropped over the Taiwan Strait like it’s some
inevitability of history, but it’s not. America could always just not
threaten and attack people but as the war criminal Madeline Albright
said, “What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking
about if we can’t use it?”

The fact is that Thucydides, like all ancient thinkers, is nuanced and
this nuance is completely lost in its looting by modern imperial
scholars like Graham Allison. The fact is that there is no Thucydides
Trap, certainly not as some immutable product of history. It is not
inevitable that the US has to encircle and threaten China, or whoever
the enemy du jour is and Thucydides himself would be confused at
the selective retweeting. As Alan Misenheimer writes, quoting more
than one line of the Greek:

Hewing closely to what the historian of the Peloponnesian War

actually says about the causes and inevitability of war, it argues
that, while Thucydides’ text does not support Allison’s norma-
tive assertion about the “inevitable” result of an encounter
between “rising” and “ruling” powers, the History of the Pelo-
ponnesian War (hereafter, History) does identify elements of
leadership and political dynamic that bear directly on whether a
clash of interests between two states is resolved through peaceful
means or escalates to war. It is precisely because war typically
begins with a considered decision by a national command
authority to reject other options and mobilize for conflict (and
thus always entails an element of choice) that insight from
Thucydides’ History remains relevant and beneficial for the
contemporary strategist, or citizen, concerned in such decisions.

Thus America (the current capital of White Empire) is not trapped

into attacking other people, it makes a political choice to do so. Ideas

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like the ‘Thucydides Trap’ and ‘They Have WMD’ or ‘They’re Going To
Kill You’ are just propaganda terms for different levels of education.
They are not the actual, physical trap we’re in, and which we cannot
avoid. Americans are fighting over lines on a map while the
atmosphere catches fire. That’s the real problem.

Choosing Renewables: The Energy Trap

The United States military (inheritor of Empire from the conquered

British) is the single largest polluter in the world, nay, in human
history. It’s an absolute climate monster and the last thing anyone
should be funding right now, and yet its financing is only accelerat-
ing. It is as if we got invaded by aliens and America decided that was
a good time to start a land war in Asia, against fellow humans. At a
time calling for cooperation, they’re choosing conflict, which is the
real trap we’re in.

Fossil fuels are not only killing us with their emissions, they’re also
running out. Fossil fuels are by definition non-renewable and the last
bits are getting more and more expensive to extract. We should use
the roughly 50% we have left to build renewable infrastructure rather
than shoveling bombs into Ukraine and encircling China with mili-
tary bases. Unfortunately, the White Empire is, as always, choosing
violence. This leads us to a much worse trap than the mythical
Thucydides. As the physicist Tom Murphy defines it,

energy trap refers to a phenomenon in which energy shortage

motivates aggressive pursuit of alternative energy schemes, but
that pursuit requires substantial energy investment forcing an
even more acute but voluntary energy shortage, which is politi-
cally difficult.

As the he goes on:

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 Adding to the hardship is the fact that many of the alternative
energy technologies — solar, wind, nuclear power, hydroelec-
tric, and so on — require substantial up-front energy investment
to build and deploy. If society waits until energy scarcity
forces large-scale deployment of such alternatives, it risks
falling into an “energy trap” in which aggressive use of energy
needed to develop a new energy infrastructure leaves less
available to society in general — a political non-starter. If
there is to be a transition to a sustainable energy regime, it is
best to begin it now.

This is the Energy Trap, the evolutionary pincer movement we find

ourselves in. We need fossil fuel energy to produce all renewable
energy right now, which is basically all we should be using it for.
Instead, Empire is using it for partying and fighting as usual, making
the problem (and the fighting) only more acute in the future. As
Murphy continues:

Now it is perhaps more apparent why this is called an energy

trap: short-term political and economic interests forestall a
proactive major investment in new energy, and by the time
energy shortages make the crisis apparent, the necessary energy
is even harder to attain. Short-term focus is what makes it a trap.

Like Thucydides, this is not a historical inevitability but a psycholog-

ical one. It’s not inevitable that Empire should devote its last hours to
fighting other humans but—knowing this centuries-old White
Empire—that’s all it knows how to do. And so all humanity ends up
in an energy trap because the White Empire is going to funnel the
last of its fossil fuels into fighting China rather than cooperating with
them, the world’s largest producer of renewables.

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And so we meet our fate not on the road we took to avoid it, but on
the road clearly marked with ‘YOUR FATE HERE’ and ‘IT’S NOT
GOOD’. Like Thucydides, this is not a trap per se, but per pysche. It is a
polito-psychological quirk of White Empire that it would rather go
down in a violent murder-suicide than give up a little power to
coexist with other people. And so we end up in the tragic conse-
quence of the Energy Trap. The Energy Wars, especially as there’s less
and less to fight over.

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60.AMERICA CANNOT WIN
A LAND WAR IN ASIA,
BUT THEY’RE STILL
TRYING
OCTOBER 2023

In The Princess Bride, a man playing a deadly game said, “Ha-ha, you
fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which
is ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’” I thought this was received
wisdom, but apparently not. Today America is involved in not one,
not two, but three land wars in Asia. A real blunderbuss, blowing
their own head off.

America is involved in Korea (still going on), Ukraine (ongoing), and

Taiwan (getting going). One frozen war, one hot, one they’re desper-
ately trying to order. The United States is actively messing with three
nuclear powers, two of them highly industrialized. America is encir-
cling these countries with military bases, fomenting coups in and
around them, imposing sanctions (white word for sieges), actively
arming and training their enemies, and openly calling for them.
While North Korea has been a supine punching bag for decades,
Russia and China are in America’s weight class. The bully empire has
finally picked on someone their own size, and they’re about to fuck
around and find out.

Given that America has lost every war — for decades — to dudes in
Toyota Hiluxes, they really shouldn’t be fucking around with China
and Russia, let alone both at once. China makes trucks, Russia has
oil, and neither of their explosive devices are improvised. Picking a
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fight with either would be real war, and America is really not ready
for land war in Asia, let alone two.

For decades, America has been able to hide the weakness of their war
machine by dropping expensive bombs on poor people. But real war
with real peer opponents is an entirely different beast. As Patrick
Armstrong writes, “I can’t get two questions out of my mind: When was
the last time the USA won a war? When was the last time US trained
troops fought effectively?” The answer to those questions is ‘never’ and
‘no’. The last war America decisively ‘won’ was World War II and that
was with the USSR doing most of the work. The last time US trained
troops fought effectively was never. America keeps covering up the
actual ignominy of the last war with the potential glory of the next
one, but if you look at the whole bloody record, it’s not good.

Like a broken record, however, the American war machine keeps

going. Why wouldn’t it? They’re not destroying their country, and the
money is all printed. The innovation of American Empire has been
making money by losing wars, looting their own treasury and
wrecking other countries and the Earth (their military is the single
largest polluter). There is in fact more money in losing wars and drag-
ging them out. For decades now America has been fighting wars
without consequence, picking on poor people that can't fight back.

This leads us today where, after a few boring decades torturing

Muslims, they get to fight commies again. What fun. Now the chicken
hawks are clucking about real war, which requires real mobilization
(ie, a draft) and real industrialization. None of which America is
remotely ready for. If they continue on this blunderous path,
America will fuck around and find out.

Who Are They Fucking With?

America is not talking about bombing poor countries without func-

tional air forces anymore. Russia is the largest country in the world,
with tonnes of natural resources, and the state-owned industries to
process them efficiently. China has the world’s largest population,

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also has lots of natural resources, and is again much more efficiently
industrialized. Both countries are able to marshal the most vital
natural resource, which is young men to go kill themselves. Both have
some form of conscription, and Russia has been mobilizing men for
over a year now. America on the other hand, has a great propaganda
arm, but cannot effectively produce weapons or muster the bodies to
hold them. As mentioned, they have no draft and have outsourced
production so much that the head of Raytheon has said they cannot
decouple from… China. America is also not talking about defending
itself from these countries, but offensively encircling them with mili-
tary bases and weaponry. America today is the definition of a paper
tiger and, foolishly, they out looking for fire.

What Will They Find Out?

If this actually comes to war, what does that mean? Well, firstly, what
does war mean? War is two things, mustering men and matériel and
being willing to lose both in horrific numbers. So three things, none
of which America has. America is quite simply writing checks their
ass can’t cash. Let’s discuss, in some detail, the two line items, men
and matériel.

Men

The prime natural resource required for war is young men, and in
this aspect, America is completely at a loss. America ended the draft
after their destabilizing loss in Vietnam and has never mobilized its
general population again. For decades America has been attacking
civilians elsewhere and calling it ‘counter-insurgency’. This has all
got them quite confused about the real nature of war.

Since Vietnam, America has an all-volunteer Army. It draws from

its nation of debt slaves with the promise of education and health-
care that should be their right anyways. Many people in the military
still live off food stamps,because the huge budget mostly goes to
private arms dealers, not privates. America talks about having a

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strong military, but all of their spending is really a measure of
corruption and waste. America actually doesn’t actually have many
men at arms, and no way to mobilize more without massive social
instability.

Generations of American politicians, journalists, and think tankers

have grown up quite comfortably starting wars, with no fear of ever
fighting in them. Nor do they have to sacrifice their own children.
These chicken hawks only fail upwards, because no one is ever held
accountable. The same people that started the last disastrous war are
still in power. Henry Kissinger still hasn’t checked into hell and and
George W. Bush is somehow rehabilitated. And then there’s all the
columnists and failed generals and bloodthirsty bureaucrats that
have only failed upwards. Indeed, the only people that get purged in
the American establishment are those that are anti-war. These think-
tank commanders just keep thinking of bigger and bigger ways to
fuck up, and why wouldn’t they? The money’s good and someone else
pays for it.

America has been able to fight ‘wars’ without many men because
their attacks on Iraq, Afghanistan, etc have been more unabated war
crime than war. America simply held down poor countries without
air forces and brutally beat them up. This simply isn’t how conflict
with a peer-country would go. An entire generation would have to see
their peers go to war. With technology being equal, there’s no way
around it. There will be blood. This dim awareness is dawning some-
where within the military industrial complex. That they may have to
raise a much larger army, from the general population. As a recent
report from the US War College states:

The Russia-Ukraine War is exposing significant vulnerabilities

in the Army’s strategic personnel depth and ability to withstand
and replace casualties. Army theater medical planners may
anticipate a sustained rate of roughly 3,600 casualties per day,
ranging from those killed in action to those wounded in action
or suffering disease or other non-battle injuries. With a 25

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 percent predicted replacement rate, the personnel system will
require 800 new personnel each day. For context, the United
States sustained about 50,000 casualties in two decades of
fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. In large-scale combat opera-
tions, the United States could experience that same number
of casualties in two weeks.

That paper continues, leading to the obvious conclusion,

conscription:

The US Army is facing a dire combination of a recruiting short-

fall and a shrinking Individual Ready Reserve. This recruiting
shortfall, nearly 50 percent in the combat arms career manage-
ment fields, is a longitudinal problem. Every infantry and armor
soldier we do not recruit today is a strategic mobilization asset
we will not have in 2031.The Individual Ready Reserve, which
stood at 700,000 in 1973 and 450,000 in 1994, now stands at
76,000.These numbers cannot fill the existing gaps in the active
force, let alone any casualty replacement or expansion during a
large-scale combat operation. The implication is that the 1970s
concept of an all-volunteer force has outlived its shelf life and
does not align with the current operating environment. The
technological revolution described below suggests this force has
reached obsolescence. Large-scale combat operations troop
requirements may well require a reconceptualization of the
1970s and 1980s volunteer force and a move toward partial
conscription.

What is less obvious, however, is how this could be done. Even if they
could impose a draft again, most young Americans are simply not fit
to serve. As a recent Pentagon study said:

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 77% of young Americans would not qualify for military service
without a waiver due to being overweight, using drugs or having
mental and physical health problems.

Even if the young people of America were fit to serve, why would

they want to? Whereas Taiwan and Ukraine are right next to China
and Russia, these are simply not existential concerns for Americans.
All the bullshit about ‘democracy vs. authoritarianism’ is fine and
well for social media, but it’s very different when you get a draft card.
America staved off massive social unrest when they ended the draft,
but it’ll come right back if they restart it. There is really no way for
America to raise the army required for land war in Asia (on multiple
fronts) and the very attempt would cause war in their own streets.

In contrast, China has a large standing army already, and at least the
basic concept of conscription. Everybody has to be ready for service,
though China simply doesn’t go around starting wars. Russia also has
a large standing army, significant amount of volunteers coming in,
and has already proved able to mobilize from the general population
(for Ukraine). More to the point, Russian and Chinese people would
want to mobilize, if they were attacked on their own borders.

America thinks they’re big cause they write big checks to arms deal-
ers, but this is mostly wastage and corruption, with proxy patsies
doing the real fighting and dying. By threatening peer powers, Amer-
ica’s propaganda mouthpieces are writing checks their asses simply
can’t cash. If they fuck around, they’ll find out.

Matériel

The prime artificial resource required for war is matériel, ie hot shit
to throw at each other. And America, which has deindustrialized
both itself and now Europe, simply can’t make enough shit anymore.
Don’t take my word for it. As the empire’s own Center for Strategic
and International Studies says, “According to the results of a series of
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CSIS war games, the United States would likely run out of some munitions
—such as long-range, precision-guided munitions—in less than one week
in a Taiwan Strait conflict.” America doesn’t have enough ammunition
to last a week against China, and if they want to make more, they have
to ask their Chinese suppliers.

Use of Munitions in a Possible Air Campaign. SOURCE Mark A. Gunzinger,

“Affordable Mass: The Need for a Cost-Effective PGM Mix for Great Power Conflict,”
Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

Regarding the war they’re already in, the US and NATO have been
vastly outproduced by Russia. Again, this is all in imperial reports if
you get past the propaganda packaging. This, for example, from the
NYTimes:

As a result of the push, Russia is now producing more ammuni-

tion than the United States and Europe. Overall, Kusti Salm, a
senior Estonian defense ministry official, estimated that Russia’s
current ammunition production is seven times greater than
that of the West.Russia’s production costs are also far lower
than the West’s, in part because Moscow is sacrificing safety and
quality in its effort to build weapons more cheaply, Mr. Salm
said. For instance, it costs a Western country $5,000 to $6,000
to make a 155-millimeter artillery round, whereas it costs
Russia about $600 to produce a comparable 152-millimeter
artillery shell, he said.

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The ‘safety and quality’ bit is just sour grapes. Western artillery shells
are not $5,000 better, they’re just produced in a more corrupt and
inefficient way, outsourced to war profiteers. Western production
lines cannot scale up, and cost 10x more if they do. It’s a losing propo-
sition and it shows. Joe Biden himself said the US is running low on
ammunition. This is why they released widely illegal cluster bombs,
to poison supposedly Ukrainian soil for years. As the Chair of
NATO’s military committee said, “The bottom of the barrel is now
visible.”

The western military industrial complex is fundamentally a grift and

cannot keep up with the gruesome facts on the ground. Right now,
the United States produces around 336,000 shells a year (according to
the Pentagon), compared to the 2 million that their own intelligence
says Russia is producing. The deficit may actually be much worse,
and Russia is amping up industrial production of all things, not
getting worse. Just look at manufacturing in general. Russia is rein-
dustrializing, while the USA is at best standing still and Europe is
going backwards.

The Pentagon’s big plan is to increase production to 1.2 million a year

by 2025, but this is still less than Russia in 2023, and it’s not like they’ll
stand still. And that’s just one enemy the Americans are choosing to
make. What about the Chinese, or the North Koreans, or Iran? What
about them working together? And what about India, just sitting this
one out? How is America going to pick fights with all these people,
while deindustrializing its ‘allies’? What are they even talking about?
They simply don’t have the bullets to be shooting their mouth off like
this. As the Good Ole Boys said, in Blues Brothers, “you’re going to look
pretty funny trying to eat corn on the cob with no fucking teeth.”

Of course, you could just write off artillery as dumb bullets and

pretend that wonder weapons (ie, silver bullets) will win wars.
America propaganda is obsessed with what the Nazis called wunder-
waffen. In Ukraine we’ve been alternately told that HIMARs, Patriot

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missiles, Leopard/Abrams tanks, cluster munitions, F16s, or now
ATACMS were going to win the war. But they didn’t, did they?
Western weapons are simply not that good when deployed against
anything more sophisticated than a Toyota Hilux, and this all misses
the point the Nazis missed too. Five hundred good tanks beat 5 great
ones. Quantity is its own quality in war. When a tank ‘depreciates’ in
days or hours, who gives a shit about the frills? In World War II, the
Soviets were able to produce a much higher quantity of ‘good
enough’ weaponry, and that (along with rivers of blood) won the
thing. And in many cases, the Soviet weapons were higher quality as
well. They invented the AK-47 after all, and the Katushya, the first
multiple rocket launcher.

Western propaganda talks about ‘Soviet-era’ weaponry dismissively,

but F16s and Abrams tanks are from the ‘Soviet-era’. Even something
like HIMARs is just a modern version of the Katuysha. What NATO is
giving to Ukraine is mostly its old stuff and it’s not necessarily better
because it’s ‘western’. Furthermore, new Russian technology is also
damn good (at being bad, of course). The Russians are innovating
with drones, glide bombs, and hypersonic missiles. In the Ukraine
war, modern Russian weapons are generally both better and much
better integrated than the Frankenstein’s monster of hand-me-downs
that Ukraine has got.

The fact is that in Ukraine alone, western matériel is getting attrited

much worse than the Russian stuff. Like sanctions, ‘destroying’ an
army goes two ways. While Russia’s matériel is certainly getting
destroyed, so is the western stuff, and the Russians are able to
replenish theirs faster. US politicians claim to have destroyed 50% of
Russia’s military ‘for cheap’ (using Ukrainian lives) but this is just
bullshit. Russia is producing more than ever, whereas the West is at
the bottom of the barrel, in their own words. And now the West is
trying to open another front, against another industrialized power in
China? This is nonsensical, especially since they need Chinese resources
to attack China.

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Don’t take my word for it, ask war profiteer Greg Hayes of RTX (née
Raytheon). He said Raytheon has “several thousand suppliers in China
and decoupling… is impossible. More than 95% of rare earth materials or
metals come from, or are processed in, China. There is no alternative.”

The fact is that western economies (and militaries) are only big on
paper. Most of their natural resources and production come from the
rest of the world, and they’ve now sanctioned and scolded themselves
into a corner. They’re paying $5,000 more for a bullet and pretending
like it’s that much better, when in fact it’s just corruption and waste
and fraud. None of these delusions will (or have) survived contact
with reality. These wonder weapons couldn’t even overcome the
Taliban. How much more useless are they against people with equal
or better weapons, air forces, and electronic warfare capability?
America simply doesn’t have the matériel capability to fight one war
in Asia, let alone two or three. To paraphrase Madonna, “We are
living, in a matériel world, and I am a matériel girl.”

Choosing Violence

The option that often goes undiscussed about American foreign

policy would be simply fucking off. Neither China nor Russia espe-
cially want to provoke America, they just don’t want America fucking
around near their borders. One thing that people ignore is that the
US is nowhere near Ukraine or Taiwan, and its record of ‘helping’ in
other places is just a record of making things much worse. The truth
is that the United States should have about as much involvement in
China or Russia’s border as Sri Lanka. That is to say, none at all. But
delusional American elites simply can’t live like that — like a normal
country — so they’re choosing a final paroxysm of violence. And, of
course, it could be final for everyone. These are, after all, nuclear
powers that they’re fucking around with, and that’s a terrible thing to
find out.

And so here they are, like the confident Sicilian in The Princess Bride.
In the scene I discuss at the beginning, that man confidently blathers
and scolds — so confident in his own wits — and then finally laughs
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at his opponent. The game is to guess which cup contains poison, and
the Sicilian is completely sure he’s got it right. But he was wrong, of
course, and he died. Both cups contained poison, which his opponent
had worked for years to develop an immunity today. This is the state
of America, blathering about war in Taiwan and Ukraine, while its
opponents there have been industrializing for decades. America,
meanwhile, has been in nothing but decline. This is neither the time
nor the place for them to start a land war in Asia (it never is), but they
seem determined. America simply cannot win a land war in Asia
(who can?), but for some accursed reason, they’re still trying.

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61.REMEMBER UKRAINE?
NOVEMBER 2023

Now that the White Empire has found a poor population to drop
expensive bombs on in Gaza, they’re cutting bait on Ukraine. What
do you hear about Ukraine now? Crickets. The mechanical locusts of
Empire have moved onto Gaza, to feed on poor souls without air
defenses, NATO’s usual diet.

Today, privatized propaganda outlets barely cover Ukraine at all.

Zelensky cannot get an audience of Capitol Hill or even Oprah. The
same outlets also put out stories about how Ukraine is losing, or
stalemating, and saying they need to negotiate. They are, as the
saying goes, cutting bait. At the same time, the US Congress is not
releasing more funds for Ukraine, at a point when delay means
death. Joe Biden said they’d be with Ukraine until the end, and this
is it.

When The Think Tanks Retreat

The think tank army is abandoning Ukraine first. In Foreign Affairs,

the veteran swamp monster Richard Haas talks about ‘Redefining
Success In Ukraine’ (as failure). In Wall Street Journal, some Carnegie
felons say ‘It’s Time to End Magical Thinking About Russia’s Defeat.’
Of course, they still magically think this isn’t, thus, a defeat for NATO,

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which it is. The great imperial trick, however, is to get over the last
war by burying some new people under rubble, which is precisely
what they’re doing now.

The western elites are simply losing interest in fighting an actual

army in Russia when there are women and children to kill in
Palestine, which is much easier. The military-industrial complex is
simply not geared for picking on someone their own size, which is
the problem they faced against Russia. All of NATO’s heavy
weaponry is geared for shooting fish in a barrel and completely falls
apart if the fish has radar. They were still making good money losing
expensive matériel in Ukraine, but it was bad marketing, seeing all
that ‘lethal aid’ burn in public.

In Gaza, however, they get to test out sniper drones and new kinds of
burning bombs on victims who are, on average, five years old. This is
more Empire’s cup of bloody tea, and always was. These guys made
their bones on genocide and the tree of Liberty™ must be frequently
watered with the blood of innocents. So it was from the ‘settling’ of
the US, Canada, and Australia to the diaspora of violent European
tribes all over the world. They always killed entire populations, espe-
cially children, and Israel is simply imperial business as usual. It just
looks atrociously out of place right now. But this is what they are, and
always were.

The American military-industrial complex is almost exclusively

geared towards what they call ‘counter-insurgency’. This is just the
new word for the old practice of slaughtering natives. They have
always called the natives ‘savage’ to justify the savagery unleashed
upon them. Murder of civilian populations and ad hoc armies is what
Empire is most comfortable with, it’s what they're founded on. Except
for a brief interlude fighting each other over Empire in World War II,
it’s most of what they do. Kill people, take their stuff, and call them
savage for resisting. It’s the founding creed of western civilization.
Israel is just the latest colony plunked in the middle of some
resources they want, as part of the age-old strategy of divide-and-
conquer. Palestine is just the latest place to be conquered.

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The only problem is that it’s a bit late in the day now. The natives
have anti-tank weapons, the slaughtered have smartphones, and
Empire itself can neither raise proper armies nor produce enough
weapons. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Even in this piece I am
forgetting about Ukraine, because it’s so imminently forgettable.
Suffice it to say that the think tanks are pulling out, which means the
real tanks are soon to follow.

The Tanks Will Follow

Reading the western press (just privatized propaganda) is useless for

understanding the world, but it does help you understand the world-
view of these ghouls. Right now, they are ghosting on Ukraine quite
publicly. Reading statements from western government is also useless
(they’re lying sacks of shit), but you can look at their budgets, or lack
thereof. As Genocidin’ Joe Biden said, ‘Don’t tell me what you value,
show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.’ By this logic,
America obviously doesn’t value Ukraine anymore cause they’re not
allocating money to it.

The dysfunctional US Congress has not approved further funding for

Ukraine. They can barely fund their own country for two months at a
time, but they always found tens of billions in the couch cushions for
Ukraine. Not anymore. The unauditable Pentagon will move some of
its blood money around for a while, but this filthy lucre is increas-
ingly allocated for Israel, with Ukraine at the end of the trough.
Meanwhile Europe can make pledges, but its population is restless
and the whole place has deindustrialized without Russian gas.
They’re not reliable either.

Ukraine is thus left friendless and defenseless at the worst possible

time. They have to ‘show’ offensives to get further funding, but they
can’t even defend what they have without further funding. It’s a
Catch-22. Realistically even ‘funding’ is not enough because you have
to actually be able to produce things and commit manpower to win
wars, none of which NATO is actually able or willing to do. They’re
fundamentally cowards used to dropping expensive bombs on poor
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people, not sustaining industrial warfare against a peer power. NATO
is out of tinder and out of patience and Ukraine is, thus, shit out of
luck.

The think tanks are saying that there is no more reason to fight this
war, Congress is saying that there is no more money, and the western
media is saying nothing, which is worst of all. The idea of Ukraine
picking a fight with its neighbor was always stupid, it was executed
badly, and now Ukraine is done. As John Mearsheimer said years ago,
‘we are leading Ukraine down the primrose path and Ukraine is
going to get wrecked’. And that’s exactly how it went down. It’s
already over. It’s just taking a signal awhile to reach the brain of
imperial denizens.

Ukraine is not in the news anymore, it’s not in the budget, and think
tankers are hitting them with friendly fire. Russia can advance at its
leisure, America is about to shit itself in an election, and Europe
never existed at all. Ukraine has been abandoned and is thus lost.
The truth is Ukraine should have never picked a fight with their
direct neighbor and their own Russian-speaking citizens, but here
they are. It’s hard to blame Ukraine, because the last ‘pro-Russian’
government they had was couped and replaced with (also) corrupt
compradors. As Henry Kissinger said decades ago,“It may be
dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” Like
many countries before them, Ukraine has found this out the hard
way. America has no allies, only interests, and they’re just not inter-
ested in Ukraine anymore. It’s over.

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 PART IX

PALESTINE
62.HOW MUCH KILLING DO
WE WITNESS BEFORE
BREAKFAST?
OCTOBER 2023

The original ‘atrocity propaganda’ the British used against the Irish, still being used
against Palestine today

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I wake up to news that ‘“Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents…
There will be no buildings,” an Israeli security official tells Israel’s Channel
13’ (via). This is after the Israeli War Minister saying they were
fighting “human animals” and vowing to “act accordingly.” Then we get
a speech from the US President saying they wholeheartedly support
this. If you’re wondering where you’d be during another holocaust,
well, you’re here. They’re bombing a concentration camp after a
rebellion, and we’re all watching.

How much killing do we witness before breakfast? They say we live

in the most peaceful time in history, statistically, but it sure doesn’t
feel like it. We’re told that public executions and torture were
barbaric and backwards, but how much murder and torture do we
see on a daily basis? How much have I seen today? It’s literally deliv-
ered with the papers and alerting us constantly through every screen.
As Olúfẹ ́mi O. Táíwò says,

i understand, intellectually, that we just have way quicker access

to more and more visceral kinds of information about things
being fucked up across the planet than we did decades ago. still,
though

What I crib from that is the visceral part. All of the news really gets
you in the feels. We have access to a much bigger outside, and we can
feel it inside. Honestly, it’s too much for me. I don’t watch/read the
news and physically turn away from a newsstand if I ever see one. I’ve
read enough and seen my own family in the news enough that I
know that it’s 90% bullshit, and I just don’t have the energy to dig
through it. I try to get my news through people, in person, but it still
seeps through the walls. Hell, I’m back with Twitter, my X, again. I’ve
had a relapse.

We are daily witness to countless atrocities, and the myth of liberal

democracy is that we’re all philosopher kings. We’re supposed to do

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something about it. That’s the response I hear around the papers,
someone should do something. OK, I mean, what? And how? The news is
really stuff being done to you. We’re not philosopher kings as much
as propagandized peasants.

And yet the myth persists. That if we just form and express the right
opinions, the world will be rightly ordered. Meanwhile one class
owns the media, buys the politicians, and then holds big bribery
festivals called elections. Elections are literally just the rich bribing
politicians who spend the money on media and we call it ‘being
informed’. It’s really an infestation. Indeed, if you look up the donors
to many US politicians, they take tons of money from Israel directly,
or arms dealers, or both for good measure. This would be called
foreign bribery in any objective context, but the whole thing is
somehow obscured by ‘disclosure’. Westerners do terrible things but
give them fancy names and do it in public, and so they get away with
it. This is the ruling mythology that I call Democracy™. It’s all
marketing.

The ruling myth of liberal democracy is that we’re kings because we

get to pick a color every few years. In reality we’re still peasants. We’re
just peasants in the town square witnessing different people being
drawn and quartered. It’s no different, nay, it’s worse, because those
people at least had to face and smell the viscera. There was some
honesty in that. We have this polite remove from all the horror, but
far worse things are done in our names, from the well-stocked arse-
nals of democracy. The same old brutality is obscured by the news,
but still we feel it, viscerally.

This morning, for example, my mother-in-law comes over with the

newspaper, which most likely contains news about her brother that
was assassinated, and the ongoing battle to even get the body back. I
avert my eyes. When Din Anna was murdered I stopped reading the
news here (in Sri Lanka). But it’s not like the foreign news is any
better. As another example, because I’m back with my toxic X, I see
some full-page headlines from the UK, saying the Palestinians are

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killing babies. This is widely debunked now and stunk in the first
place, but who cares, if it bleeds it leads. They’ll happily publish
blood libel and bury the correction along with the bodies. Meanwhile
Israel is killing actual babies with British bombs and that’s all justi-
fied by the blood libel. Never do they get to the actual point, which is
the inherent and asymmetrical violence of people with fighter jets
doing donuts around an undefended concentration camp. As Paolo
Freire said:

Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed.

How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the
result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something
whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as
oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no
prior situation of violence to establish their subjugation.Vio-
lence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to
recognize others as persons — not by those who are oppressed,
exploited, and unrecognized.

This is the forest that we miss for the chopped down trees called
newspapers. We have all the detail and none of the context, including
the vital context of power. Indeed, the news is produced by the
powerful. Who do you think it serves? It’s no different than the
Roman concept of bread and circuses, except no fucking bread, just
circus. I call it the Cable TV Colosseum. Therein, the latest enemies
of empire are trotted out, their humanity explained away, and they’re
fed to the lions in public. We consume this horror as news — some-
thing for serious people — but it’s really a serious sociopathy. I say
we, but who are we kidding, we’re as bloodthirsty as ever. We’ve just
globalized the Colosseum into a relentless panopticon.

But, there I go, using the royal ‘we’ again, when I’m really just a
provincial peasant, the lowest of the low. Sri Lanka is on the whip end

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of White Empire, debt slaves to the dollar. I get the same news, but
I’m no Roman and I’m not the intended audience. Indeed, more often
than not, I’m the type trotted into the Colosseum to bleed for your
pleasure. ‘Are you not entertained?’ as Maximus told y’all. Western
reporters only contact me when my country is in some state of
collapse, and they usually ask me to blame China or whatever other
enemy du jour. I’m just there for color commentary on the bodies of
my own people. But let me be a foreign correspondent for a minute,
and turn the lens back on the heart of Empire.

Westerners will hear about a thousand murders before breakfast, then

cheer for more bombers and bombs, like blood-minded children
eating sugary cereal and screaming out for the latest toys from
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. That’s all the western news is, ulti-
mately, advertising for arms dealers, with dick pills for the plebs
peddled in between. I’d say it’s not their fault because their democra-
cies are just elaborate systems of deception, but these are in no way
‘good’ people as the news lulls them into thinking. And now even that
pretence is gone. There used to be some talk of good intentions
(helping Ukraine! Saving Afghan women! Defending democracy!) but now
even that has cast off. Now people are openly call for genocide
against Palestinians, saying they should be ‘eliminated’ or finished’
like a — what’s the phrase — final solution. And that’s cool.

Westerners are still watching and debating the deaths of other

humans and never once do they consider fucking off and just not
making things worse. All of these wars are advertised as ‘helping’ or
preserving order, but they are, in fact, the disorder. But that’s the one
option the false choices in the media never give you. The default
option for Sri Lankans, which is doing nothing. In that sense we’re
better, cause we at least don’t make things worse.

There’s this great western pretence that the destruction of other

countries is a polite and civilized things to talk about over the break-
fast table. There really has been no progress from their violent
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the town square to disembowel us, over and over. These people are
really the same as their ancestors who went to the town square to
watch a gutting. Only today it’s 24/7 and international. The appetite
for destruction has only gotten more relentless. As Guns N’ Roses
said:

Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games

We got everything you want, honey, we know the names
We are the people that can find whatever you may need
If you got the money, honey, we got your diseaseIn the
jungle, welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n,
knees, knees
Mwah, ah, I wanna watch you bleed

‘Terrorists’ are trotted out as especially savage savages and, viscerally,

it would seem so. Terrorists get their hands dirty, they kill people in
front of them, taking risks and even dying for their cause. When
viewed through the media lens, this seems especially reprehensible.
But this is really just media bias. The story of one killing is much
more salient than 10,000 people slaughtered from above. And so it’s
easy. Westerners have been telling the story, for example, of colonized
people disemboweling babies since the 1640s because it works. And
it’s the exact same lie they’re peddling about Palestine now. As Caitlin
Johnstone says:

Killing civilians with military explosives is not actually any

more humane or civilized than killing them with firearms.
They’ll cause gruesome injuries and slow, excruciating deaths
by suffocation, burns and body trauma. They’re horrific
weapons of mass murder. The one and only reason you don’t see
as much shock and horror in response to killing with military
explosives as killing with firearms is because killing with mili-
tary explosives is something you do from far away. When they
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 seeing the people being crushed to death underneath them and
ripped apart in the blasts. It’s just a fun little sanitized clip of an
explosion, like you’re watching an action movie or playing a
video game. It’s not actually any nicer than if the IDF were
running around shooting civilians with rifles or running them
through with swords, it’s just more detached, so it lets people
psychologically compartmentalize away from what’s really
happening.

Or as the Palestinian Mohammed El-Kurd said:

There isn’t much difference between proudly broadcasting the

mass murder of a civilian neighborhood and “field executions.”
They are both theatrical psychological warfare tactics, but only
one has a much higher death toll AND the backing of a
complicit international community.

Americans don’t even know how many people were killed in their
Terror Wars! It’s close to a million, probably more. And they’re still
going! Their soldiers won’t even get their boots dirty and, if they do,
it’s an outrage requiring slaughtering thousands more. The greater
terror is really not the swarthy man in a suicide vest, but the white
man in a suit.

I digress but my thoughts are inchoate. I’ve got my own fucking trauma
and then there’s the news, dumping all the trauma of the world into my
impotent skull. I was thinking about other things but now all I’m
thinking about is war. It’s very difficult to know about a genocide in real-
time and to stop knowing about it. But how and why do I even know?
I’m just some peasant in a distant province, watching some Palestinians
getting massacred, knowing it could be my turn soon enough. We are all
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is so strong. We are all traumatized by their horrors, which is what they
want. The central message of public murder and torture is to preserve
hierarchy, which is what the falling empire of the West is violently doing
now. And so we must be given a dose of killing before our breakfast,
wherever we are. By the old gods and new, it makes my nauseous. My
heart goes out to Gaza, but my viscera are somewhere on the floor.

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63.PALESTINE IS HOW
COLONIALISM HAPPENS
OCTOBER 2023

If you wondered how you would react during a slave rebellion or

anti-colonial struggle, well, this is how you’d react. It’s happening
right now, in front of you in this cursed panopticon. Israel is a literal
settler colony and they’re slaughtering the natives that dared rebel
against them. And the other colonizers are piling into help. This is
why colonial history is important. Because it’s not history. It’s
happening right now.

Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in 1831 was covered the same as the Pales-
tinian rebellion today. The enslaved were portrayed as brutally
murdering women and children, and then mercilessly pursued by
Dragoons with modern weapons. What’s happening to Palestine
now? It’s literally the same script, 200 years later. They even use the
same lies to justify themselves.

In a 1641 Irish rebellion, newspapers and politicians fabricated

accounts of the rebels killing babies and disemboweling pregnant
women, just as the Palestinian rebellions is being slandered today.
Just see the headlines in almost every UK paper, based on nothing. A
lie about “40 Babies Beheaded By Hamas” gets half-way around the
world before the truth gets its pants on. The UK Metro paper even
put an image of an IOF soldier holding a puppy, for full
derangement.
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Even the IDF and White House deny any evidence of this baby
killing, but it is being used to collectively punish the population of
Gaza, which contains over a million children.

As you can see, it’s literally the same story used to justify colonial
violence since colonialism. Save our children, by killing theirs! Based
on what can only be blood libel. The image above is just comically
propagandist. The enemy is killing babies, while our guys are saving
puppies. None of this is true, of course, and even the ‘journalists’
know it. Here’s the international correspondent of The Independent
explaining why she deleted a tweet about it:

I just wanted to clarify that I did not tweet 40 babies had been
beheaded. I tweeted that foreign media had been told women
and children had been decapitated but we had not been shown
bodies — which was my response to reports which had gone
viral about the 40 babies. I realised the way my tweet was
written was too short to explain the full context, so deleted it.
My headline of my story references that toddlers were killed.

She deleted the tweet but saw fit to run it the story on the front page,
where even more damage was done! These people know what they’re
doing, it’s the same old playbook from every rebellion the colonizers
have brutally suppressed, and of course they face no consequences.
These are the same people who incited their population into
supporting so many wars, and they only fail upwards. Only the anti-
war journalists get fired, in countries that are now trying to ban
protest or even flying Palestinian flags. It’s the same colonial shit,
different colonial day. Make the colonized look like merciless savages,
then mercilessly savage them. This is how they break the back of
anti-colonial rebellions to this day.

Even the words coming out the mouths of politicians are the same.
Here’s a 1641 statement from the British Parliament, about the Irish
rebellion:
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 All I can tell you is the miserable state we continue under, for
the rebels daily increase in man and munitions in all parts,
except the province of Munster, exercising all manner of cruel-
ties, and striving who can be most barbarously exquisite in
tormenting the poor Protestants, cutting off their ears, fingers,
and hands, plucking out their eyes, boiling the hands of little
children before their mothers’ faces, stripping women naked
and ripping them up.

And here’s Joe Biden, the doddering heir to White Empire, now
centered in Washington DC instead of London:

You know, there are moments in this life — and I mean this
literally — when the pure, unadulterated evil is unleashed on
this world. The people of Israel lived through one such moment
this weekend. The bloody hands of the terrorist organization
Hamas — a group whose stated purpose for being is to kill Jews.

This was an act of sheer evil.

More than 1,000 civilians slaughtered — not just killed, slaugh-

tered — in Israel. Among them, at least 14 American citizens
killed. Parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect
their children. Stomach-turning reports of being — babies
being killed. Entire families slain. Young people massacred
while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace — to cele-
brate peace.

Women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies.

Families hid their fear for hours and hours, desperately trying to
keep their children quiet to avoid drawing attention. And thou-
sands of wounded, alive but carrying with them the bullet holes
and the shrapnel wounds and the memory of what they
endured. You all know these traumas never go away.

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Many of the things Biden lists are completely false. No babies killed
like that (even the IDF and his own White House denies evidence),
the festival was not about peace, and no creditable reports of women
being raped and paraded through the streets. Even his own White
House had to ‘walk back’ his remarks:

A White House spokesperson later clarified that U.S. officials

and the president have not seen pictures or confirmed such
reports independently. The president based his comments
about the alleged atrocities on the claims from Netanyahu’s
spokesman and media reports from Israel, according to the
White House. In response to questions from The Post, an Israel
Defense Forces spokesperson declined to comment on the state
of victims’ bodies.

As Sahouraxo said, “In other words, Joe Biden lied about seeing pictures of
beheaded Israeli babies in order to justify Israel’s ongoing massacre of
Gaza’s civilians. Just like Obama lied about Syria and Libya, and Bush lied
about WMDs in Iraq.” I argue that these lies go all the way back to the
start of colonialism, to the first slave rebellion, to the first native resis-
tance. It’s the same phenomenon, only now they add the asterisk (we
were lying!) a few days rather than centuries later.

Like that corrupt British journalist’s ‘walkback’, it’s too little too late,
and they know exactly what they’re doing. They spread the lie widely
and bury the truth in a shallow grave. Both Biden and the entire
corrupt ‘liberal’ establishment are openly giving marching orders to a
militarized pogrom. They are inciting violence just as their predeces-
sors incited violence throughout colonialism.

Every atrocity Biden makes up is to justify the atrocities they’re doing

and about to do more. Every atrocity he lists as ‘pure evil’, Israel has
done at an industrial level, and is doing even more so. Propagandists
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even use images of Israeli atrocities to make their point. Justin Bieber, for
example, said ‘pray for Israel’, over a picture of destroyed Gaza!

As Mohammed El-Kurd said:

“Hamas dissected a pregnant woman’s body,” but it’s actually a

report of the Sabra and Shatila massacre where Israeli soldiers
did that to a Palestinian woman. “Hamas keeps babies in cages,”
but the images show Palestinian babies caged by the Israeli mili-
tary. What a circus

I, personally, remember the photograph of a Palestinian father,

desperately holding his son before they were both mowed down by
Israelis. Rape of women, men, and children is endemic under Israeli
apartheid, this is also well documented. Entire families are being
slain as we speak in Gaza, and Biden talked about the traumas this
causes. Does that trauma go away because Palestinians are, in the
Israeli War Minister’s words, “human animals.” It makes sense that
these people are destroying the world environmentally, they think
animals deserve brutality, and apply this wicked hierarchy of feeling
even within humans. I’d say the language is demented but it’s not. As
Donald Glover sang, ‘this is America’.

Biden is simply repeating what Thomas Jefferson — who raped

slaves and enslaved his own children — wrote in the Declaration of
Independence, complaining about the British King not being geno-
cidal enough. That founding text of America reads:

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has

endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers,the
merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an
undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

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This statement is not an aberration, it is the American creed, now
exported to their colony in the Middle East. Hamas did attack Israel,
primarily military targets, and people were killed. In response these
acts of war, Israel is seeking carte blanche for war crimes, with no
concept of proportionality (because they’re animals). And they’re
getting permission and arms for this, from the heart of White
Empire. The provinces of the UK and Australia, so fond of lecturing,
now see nothing wrong with cutting off food, water, and electricity to
an entire population (which definitely kills babies, ie newborns in
incubators). Meanwhile America pulls up an aircraft carrier on a
concentration camp, to prevent them from getting any relief from the
ocean, besides jumping into it and drowning.

We are witnessing colonialism in real time, with industrial machin-

ery. We are witnessing the crushing of the Warsaw Ghetto all over
again. We are witnessing all the stuff liberals sanctimoniously say is
in the past, but it’s happening right now, right in front of us. The
rebellion of Palestine is being crushed by the colonial outpost of
Israel, with the full backing of the still ruling White Empire. Colo-
nialism is not distant history. It’s happening right in front of us, right
now. So if you’re wondering what you’d do and think during colonial-
ism, during Nazism, during all of the evils you think are in the past,
this is what you’d be doing. This is what you’d be thinking. So you
have to ask, what side of history are you on?

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64.WHY ISRAEL SHOULD
NOT EXIST
NOVEMBER 2023

Empire has a fascinating habit of accusing its enemies of what it’s

doing. The playground response ‘I know you are, but what am I?’ is
surprisingly apt when talking to these global bullies. Everything they
accuse enemies of doing is precisely what their colony Israel is doing,
with their full support. Developing illegal nuclear programs,
attacking other countries, and oppressing the land’s inhabitants. By
the Empire’s own logic, regime change in Israel is long overdue. The
fact is that this state of Israel should not and cannot exist and,
inshallah, soon enough won’t.

The Telling Hypocrisy

For decades the White Empire has accused independent Middle

Eastern countries of A) developing weapons of mass destruction B)
attacking their neighbors and C) oppressing their inhabitants. They
have used these accusations to sanction, bomb, destabilize, and
regime change them many times over. But they’re attacking the
wrong targets. If there’s a rogue state in the Middle East, it’s Israel,
which has done all of the above and worse. If anyone needs regime
changing, it’s the violent, apartheid, racist, police state currently
occupying Palestine right now.

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To take the first point of America’s rhetorical spear, Israel has
nukes and plans to use them. Other countries have been sanc-
tioned and invaded for much less, but Israel gets a pass. Israel
abducts anyone that talks about it, but they’re widely acknowledged
to have many nuclear weapons. Israel also has credible plans to use
them (the ‘Samson Option’) and has not signed the nuclear non-
proliferation treaty. They are by all accounts a rogue nuclear state,
which is precisely the thing Empire has told us to fear. Unless
they’re doing it. As the Simpsons meme goes, no one is allowed to
develop illegal WMD, except me and maybe the boy! Israeli politi-
cians have in fact called for using ‘doomsday’ weapons on Pales-
tinians in their current genocide, but had to settle for dropping two
Hiroshimas worth of regular bombs instead. Israel is by all objec-
tive accounts a rogue, violent state that should not have nuclear
weapons, but they do. Just one reason that regime change is
overdue.

To the second point, Israel attacks its own neighbors on a regular

basis, something Iraq was attacked for after Kuwait, but which Israel
keeps doing with impunity. Israel has attacked and occupied
Lebanon and Syria, fought with all of its neighbors, and still does.
Recently it has bombed Lebanon and Syria’s airports, and keeps
doing it. Who else gets away with this, and why on Earth should
Israel? If any other country bombs someone else’s airports that’s a
cause for war, but Israel is always at war with its neighbors. We barely
even notice. But we should. Being at war with your neighbors isn’t
good. Constantly stealing and colonizing their land by violence is
both destabilizing and rude. Just one more reason Israel should be
subdued.

Finally, though Israel is called the only ‘democracy’ in the Middle

East, that’s a cruel joke. If you form a democracy by ethnic cleaning
most of the people there and putting them in concentration camps or
under apartheid, that’s cheating, isn’t it? A democracy where the
people living on the land and from the land were actually repre-
sented would not be a Jewish ethnostate like Israel, a fact that they
use violence at every turn to avoid.
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For a while, the default ‘solution’ to this conundrum was having two
states, one a Jewish totalitarian one and another for Palestinians. But
Israel blocked this by violently and greedily colonizing ever more
land, blocking Palestinian statehood at every turn, and slowly geno-
ciding the people. Now the only solution is a one-state solution,
which cannot exist under the current Israeli regime, which is why it
has to be overthrown. America has bombed countless places to try
and impose democracy, but it won’t impose actual democracy in the
one place it controls.

The Truth

Hence if you follow what the Empire says and not what it does, it
leads to one conclusion. Not Israel, but a free Palestine with freedom
for all its people, Jew, Muslim, Christian, whatever. From the river to
the sea, Palestine should be free. Jews can and should be able to live
there, but Zionists shouldn’t be able to kick other people out of their
homes, regularly pogrom them, put them in concentration camps,
and then drop bombs on their hospitals, refugee camps, and schools.
That’s just not cool. Jewish people should be able to live where they
are, but an apartheid, extremist Jewish state should not be able to
regularly attack and threaten its neighbors, including with illegal
nukes. That’s just rude. Ergo, the current inhabitants of Israel should
have a place to live, but not at the price of displacing everyone, and
people from Europe and America and all over can’t continue
violently colonizing the place while its indigenous inhabitants are
denied the right to return. Of course, none of this common-sense
policy is possible with the current Israeli regime in place, so Israel’s
got to go.

If anyone in the region deserves regime change it’s Israel, but unfor-
tunately the American regime that runs them would have to fall first.
America’s global policy is not hypocrisy as much as jealousy. Empire
doesn’t actually object to violence, they just want a monopoly of it.
They don’t mind evil so much, they just want to be the ones doing it.
This is a franchise they extend to Israel, their ‘unsinkable aircraft

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carrier’ parked near the gas station. So in truth, it’s not just Israel that
has to go, it’s the whole genocidal White Empire it’s attached to.
Unfortunately it’s not happening right now, but it’ll come soon
enough, inshallah.

America right now is overstretched in multiple conflicts, and only

starting more in its violent death throes. Israel cannot exist without
American weapons and global protection, and if America falls, Israel
does too. If Daddy Warbucks withdraws his filthy lucre, the charade
is through. The thing about empire is that they all seem unstoppable,
but they all stop eventually. Eventually doesn’t come fast, but you
can’t avoid it either. And this does seem to be one of those decades
when centuries happen.

American Empire is not long for the Earth, but unfortunately this
Earth doesn’t have long to go either. As fossil fuel resources run out
and pollution and natural genocide collapses the living world, this
last and most violent incarnation of White Empire will collapse too.
It cannot exist without the substrate it exploits, and thus seals its own
doom. And thus the end of its most violent colony, Israel, too. While
Israel can certainly go Samson on the way out, it’s important to
remember that Samson took the whole Philistine temple down with
him, in his death throes. Which it looks like Israel, in its wild geno-
cide of the native Palestinian people, is trying hard do.

So godspeed to the brave Palestinians, all the mujahideen and

martyrs (not bad words, look them up you racist), and everyone
trying to do what America says but doesn’t do. If anyone needs to be
regime changed in the Middle East, it’s Israel. God knows, it’s long
overdue.

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65.HOW THEY KILL
PALESTINIANS TWICE
NOVEMBER 2023

My wife’s uncle was killed last year. The family has spent almost a
year fighting not for his life but for his death. For a murder verdict.
He was killed by powerful people who used the corrupt police and
press to try and cover the whole thing up, as suicide. I think about
this as I watch the open genocide of Gaza. Whether it’s homicide or
genocide, they try to cover it up and blame the victim. This is what
the most powerful (and prolific) killers do. They take not just your
life, but your death.

This is how it is when you face state killers. They have the power to
‘state’ things, so they state that you deserved it, or that you killed
yourself, or that it didn’t happen at all. And the mass media happily
plays the tune. They cover up murder and mass murder with equal
gusto. In Sri Lanka, our uncle was murdered in broad daylight in a
professional hit, and crooked journalists still call it a ‘mystery’. In
Israel, American bombs and a professional military obliterate 10,000
people (and counting!) while the NYTimes buries them in verbal
rubble. They shamelessly run headlines like “Explosion Gazans Say
Was Airstrike Leaves Many Casualties in Dense Neighborhood.” WTF
does this even mean? That story was Israel bombing a decades-old
refugee camp. The image was a journalist holding the body of his

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dead child. All of the free press in the West are just privatized propa-
ganda. They’re accomplices to mass murder, to state it plainly.

I’ve seen this real collusion happen in my personal life, and now we
can all see it every day in the global news. Just as the mass media
works with the homicidal police, they work with genocidal militaries
too. This is how the powerful roll. They take your life and then they
take your death too. They beat the pall-bearers at your funeral. Abso-
lute ghouls.

Right now in Palestine, Genocide Joe Biden — some chickenhawk

from Connecticut who should really focus on Palestine, Ohio— said
he has “no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.” This
is the world’s largest arms dealer lecturing people with their arms
blown off. At that point, the number of Palestinian dead was 7,000.
Now it’s 10,000. It’s only accelerating, as America sends generals,
troops, warships, and gigantic bombs to drop on a a concentration
camp. The openly genocidal Israeli state says 20,000 killed, nearly 1%
of the Gazan population, because that’s what they’re trying to do and
they’re proud of it. But the Americans are completely shameless.
They send tonnes of bombs and then lie about it, like those bombs
don’t drop. The powerful don’t just kill people. They murder
language too.

The most vital task of western propaganda is not manufacturing

consent, it’s manufacturing doubt. It’s asking so many stupid ques-
tions and taking up so much time that people either get confused or
forget about it. It’s setting up a debate with ‘both sides’, like gladiators
in a Colosseum, so the status quo of Empire can carry on undis-
turbed above. Or to put it more simply as Trump adviser Steve
Bannon did, they simply ‘flood the zone with shit’. They bury the
bodies twice, once in concrete rubble and then in abstract rubbish.

What is happening in Palestine is an obvious genocide, as genocide

scholars are saying, as anyone with eyes and a heart knows. When
you cut off food, water, and fuel to a population and bomb them in
their homes, what else do you call this? Fighting terrorism? Every

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single child in Gaza is terrorized. The world is terrorized by watching
and every single country except America, Israel, and the latest colony
Ukraine voted for a ceasefire. White Empire is the terror. Forget what
they say and just look at what they do. Unfortunately, as the still
ruling power in the world, they still control the words we use.

So we must endlessly debate the word ‘genocide’, just as my family

had to fight for the word ‘homicide’. We have to get killers to admit
that they’re killers, and everyone has to pretend that these are serious
people, and not just rogues that have captured institutions. And the
sad fact is that much of the population, which still has some trust in
these institutions, still takes these cold-blooded killers at their word.
In truth the average citizen of your modern Democracy™ has no
more wisdom power than a Roman in a Colosseum. They’re just
watching some poor population getting trotted out for mass murder,
and getting a transient thrill from putting their thumb up or down.
It’s meaningless. The Empire decides who gets trotted out in the first
place, and precisely what lies get told about them. These idiot popu-
lations endlessly debate who should live or die, like it’s any of their
business, while their rulers make a killing above it all. Genocide is
good business for these ghouls. As colonizers, it’s really the only busi-
ness they know.

The liberals in the Colosseum — the ‘enlightened’ Romans — are in

fact, the worst. They keep saying ‘it’s complicated’ and draw you into
endless theoretical debates about words and meanings, only to give a
thumbs down if you dare throw a rock. The openly genocidal people
are at least openly genocidal, you know where they’re coming from.
The tacitly genocidal people come to you as friends, and stab you in
the back cause they’re still fundamentally Brutuses.

Western liberal democrats, who elected the latest ‘lesser’ evil in Joe
Biden, have proven to be the worst warmongers of all. Just look at
soulless husks like Samantha Power, winning a Pulitzer Prize for a
book about genocide, then going on to commit it wholeheartedly for
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many of you need to die — and precisely how — before they change
a word on your tombstone. They’ll happily piss on your grave and say
they’re watering the flowers.

It sounds like hypocrisy, but it’s not. It’s really about hierarchy. The
only choice America has in its next selection is a focus on white
supremacy at home or white supremacy abroad. It’s white supremacy
no matter what, even with a black President. Yes, black and brown
people can even climb the ladder of whiteness, as long as they follow
the rule of kicking down. Colonialism has always been administered
by the colored, as long as they preserve the hierarchy. Which is actu-
ally very simple.

The ‘rules-based order’ has just one rule: colonizers have the right to
kill, and it’s right for the colonized to die. You can see this rule in the
BBC style guide. They still report ‘Israelis were killed’ and ‘Pales-
tinians died.’ You can see it in a CBS reporter moaning about the
Ukraine War, saying, “This isn’t a place, with all due respect, you know,
like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. You know,
this is a relatively civilized, relatively European… city.” The only lesson
the colonizers learned from World War II was never again for white
people. Hitler’s only sin was applying colonial logic to Europe. The
‘rules-based order’ are just Nazis that won, who have gleefully
continued killing colored people ever since. As I said, they control
words, and it’s only a ‘World War’ if white people are involved. If
they’re killing us, it’s just business as usual.

We can see this is stark relief in Palestine. It’s not a genocide because
Muslims are dying, and don’t they deserve it? They’re not like us, and
aren’t so violent? As one Aaron Bady said, “The basic (colonial) double
standard of the Israel Palestine “conflict” is that any Palestinian violence
justifies any Israeli violence, but no Israeli violence ever justifies any Pales-
tinian violence, and once you see it, you’ll never stop seeing it.” As Maitreya
Bhakal responded, “It’s not hypocrisy it’s hierarchy,” as I said (I got it
from him).

The truth is the ruling White Empire has no objection to violence in

general, it just wants a monopoly on it. Any threat to their monopoly
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is called terrorism and must be put down with total genocide, in any
random direction; just as long as the darkies get the point and the
arms dealers get their profits. The cruelty is the point, really. They
show their power by regularly beating up on the powerless.

If you want to see their monstrosity in a microcosm, just watch the

funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh. Israeli snipers assassinated the Pales-
tinian journalist, blamed it on the Palestinians, and then beat up the
pall-bearers at her funeral. They beat up the pall-bearers at the funeral.
That’s how vicious the colonizers are, and how little they see the colo-
nized as human. And just wait till you see what they do to the
animals and the plants and the land. Genocide is really a continuum,
and their genocidal violence extends to everybody that has genes.
The whole natural world. It’s really one hierarchy of violence, with
whiteness (a fluid category) at the top and every living thing crushed
underneath that imaginary concept. It's so imaginary that it's not
even white people at the top, it's white people with property, as it was
in that accursed Declaration of Independence. At this point it's effec-
tively just property, as corporations have been sentient (and malevo-
lent) for centuries now.

Today, I sadly don’t have to point out examples to you. Every single
day, Israel commits a thousand different war crimes, while America
sends them a billion dollars, and Europe wags along. Colonizers stay
colonizing, even as the Earth burns. The most brazen example of
people dying and them lying is the bombing of Al-Ahli Hospital.
Israel obviously bombed the hospital, they said they bombed the
hospital, but then they lied about it because they could. So then
people spend weeks debating this nonsense while Israel bombs even
more hospitals and cuts off fuel to the entire population, killing
everybody on dialysis and every baby in an incubator. What a waste
of time and waste of words.

This is the same thing our uncle’s killers did, except much worse.
With our uncle, they made us spend 11 months dismantling the obvi-
ously absurd idea that he killed himself. I was talking to a friend from
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he just decided to kill himself, while they were chasing him. It’s no
coincidence. It’s calculated. This is how the powerful do it. Remem-
ber, they kill you twice, and the media is their constant accomplice in
the cover-up.

Now consider the Palestinians, where this injustice is happening

every day, to thousands of people. We mourn our uncle so deeply,
now imagine that mourning 10,000 times, across an entire popula-
tion. Imagine entire families wiped out, imagine children crying
alone on hospital floors, with no living relatives. Then imagine the
hospitals running out of power, running out of medicine, running out
of water, and being bombed. That’s what’s actually happening, and
they broadcast it. They want you to watch. Again, this is how they
communicate power. By brutalizing the powerless. And it’s not
enough to kill people. They must also show that they can murder
truth.

My wife’s uncle was killed last year and it still hurts. It hurts even
more because they keep lying about it, they keep re-traumatizing the
family and making us go over the details of his death, to ‘prove’ it. I
think of this when I see Palestinian doctors holding the dead bodies
of children, to ‘prove’ it. I think of this injustice happening a thou-
sand times over, then happening again tomorrow. This is how the
powerful kill. They don’t just take your life, they take your death. But
our family fought for Dinesh Anna’s death. Just as people are fighting
for the deaths of those Palestinians. For the deaths of those in the
Congo, in Sudan, all those being killed and disappeared in colonial
violence right now. And all those who died before, so thoroughly
buried that Americans and Europeans walk around talking about
‘human rights’ and ‘freedom’ like they’re not land-eating zombies,
genociding the whole ecosystem. We have to fight for all of these
deaths, because the killers are still killing.

It’s a terrible thing to win, a death, but it means something. The

verdict of homicide meant something to our family, as traumatic as it
was. Calling genocide ‘genocide’ means something to the Palestini-
ans. It means they can’t massacre the truth anymore. It means they

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can’t keep dismembering the dead, if we remember them properly. So
death to Israel, death to America, and same to this Sri Lankan
government, for both its past genocide and current homicides. So life
everlasting to the martyrs, in our hearts if nowhere else. They can kill
you once, maybe they can kill you twice, but if the living keep fight-
ing, they can’t kill you forever, inshallah.

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66.IT’S ALL ONE
GENOCIDE. FROM
PALESTINE TO THE
PLANET
NOVEMBER 2023

Colonizers always kill plants and animals along with the people.
Everybody with genes gets genocided, and everything without is
denied spirit entirely. They even use the same word for the bodies
and things they destroy. Savage. It’s the same word they use to
describe Palestinians today, as they kill them and raze their land.
Palestine is the genocide of the planet, in a microcosm. The truth is
it’s all one genocide, and we are all Palestinian.

When Israeli colonizers talk about eliminating ‘animal people’, it’s the
same as American colonizers attacking ‘merciless savages’ in their
Declaration of Independence. It’s the same imperative. Kill the
native people and take their land. The language they use is telling.
Why do animals deserve to be treated badly? Why do plants (Israel
calls its killing sprees ‘mowing the grass’)? Why does the ‘savage’
Earth? You can see how white supremacism and human suprema-
cism are connected. It’s all one continuum.

It’s no coincidence that Israel completely ravages the soil of Gaza

with two nuclear bombs worth of explosives (and counting). It’s no
coincidence that they uproot ancient olive trees wherever they ‘settle’.
Their ongoing genocide of Palestinians is a continuum, crushing both
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unique to Israel, this is colonialism, but Israel is doing it right in front
of us.

Now why do the old colonizers support Israel? Fake recognize fake,
it’s all part of the artificial growth that chokes the natural world.
Israel is often referred to as an ‘aircraft carrier’, most recently by
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He said,“Israel is almost like having an aircraft
carrier in the Middle East. If Israel disappears, Russia, China, and BRICS+
countries will control 90% of the oil in the world and that would be cata-
clysmic for US national security.” For the native this is a home, but for
Americans this is abase, and Israelis are just the Sepoy guards. They
get petty colonial privileges over the natives, but are ultimately just a
colony of the greater White Empire.

Israel is the last actively genociding colony, however, which is becoming

a bit of an embarrassment. The OGs (Original Genociders) are human
rights experts now, their founding genocides are covered up and the
money’s long-since laundered. They’re also climate change experts, and
they don’t like the whole ‘blood for oil’ thing being so obvious. It’s not
that that they mind genocide, mind you. It’s the ultimate white privi-
lege, a franchise they happily extend to Israel. They just don’t like how
it looks. The fact is that the Americans and Europeans all committed
the same atrocities as Israel and worse— they all starved, concentration
camped, and simply murdered populations. The difference is that they
did it in the history books (which they wrote) while Israel is doing it live
on Facebook and Al Jazeera (which they’ve lost control of). It’s a bad
look and the young, especially, are on to it.

Nobody believes the ‘war on terror’ shit after decades of destroying

random countries (and losing). Nobody believes the beheaded babies
lie when Israel is actually killing babies every 10 minutes (and also
losing). Nobody believes the opposite of what they were told to
believe about Ukraine. I’m using ‘nobody’ rhetorically, because, of
course, a minority of deeply propagandized westerners do believe this
shit, and repeat it. Mainly the olds. But globally and even within their
own populations, these warmongers have lost the plot.

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The propaganda doesn’t work like it used to. The Empire has no
clothes and everybody knows it. They still have arms though, which
is the problem. They’re flooding every war zone with arms, without
even a fig leaf of diplomacy. It’s just naked guns. Right now, having
gotten bored destroying Ukraine, America is sending billions of
dollars in ‘lethal aid’ to Israel. Israel, in turn, is hiding behind screens
and dropping these bombs almost exclusively on civilians. I won’t call
Israel’s cowardly bombing indiscriminate, on the contrary, they are
targeting hospitals, bakeries, schools, journalist’s families, and homes
in general. As Benjamin Netanyahu said on October 8th, “We will turn
Gaza into an island of ruins”. They are cutting off food, water, fuel, and
medicine to the entire population. It’s not even a hard case for geno-
cide because they’re stating their intentions out loud, as former UN
human rights official Craig Mokhiber said when he resigned in
protest.

What Israel is doing to take Gaza is no different from America’s

Manifest Destiny (and what they did to manifest it), or what the
European colonizers said and did to most of us. It’s just the wrong
century, which is why it sounds so incongruous. The point is what it
always was under colonialism. Killing people and taking their land.
The truth is not actually that complicated. But the lies they tell to
cover it up are.

The cover-up is that this is all to eliminate Hamas, but by Israel’s own
estimate they’ve killed very few Hamas members, despite claiming
that Hamas is under hospital, ambulance, and water tank. The cover-
up is that they’re saving hostages, but they’ve rejected an exchange
(Israel holds thousands more) and have killed many of their own
hostages (as they did in a cowardly rage on October 7th as well). The
cover-up is that this is all self-defense, Israel, as an occupier, has no
right to self-defense. Their very existence is an offense as colonizers,
and armed resistance is justified and, in fact, called for.

People talk about Hamas popping out of the Metro in Paris, but that’s
a joke. These people just want to live on their land and return to their
homes. But colonizers do pop out of nowhere and invade countries,

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and coup governments, and besiege civilian populations, they do this
on the regular. This is the modus operandi of the White Empire, just
handed over from Britain to America, along with the military ‘bases’
(stolen homes). They do this in order to ‘develop’, which is short for
stripping the land and labor and filling the earth, water, and air with
pollution.

These people are collapsing the climate the same as they are
collapsing hospitals in Gaza. Genocide is a continuum and the hier-
archy of white supremacy doesn’t stop at the Palestinian people. You
can see it in the destruction of Palestinian land, and the toxic fumes
and pollution from the world’s #1 polluter, the US military and its
proxies like Israel. The world won’t be safe until this whole White
Empire is destroyed, from Israel to its real masters in America. Unfor-
tunately, this just means the world won’t be safe, cause these guys
have a lot of guns, bombs, and nukes, and they seem determined to
go down shooting. The climate is already shot to hell, and we’ll be
lucky to escape nuclear winter.

I have digressed into the dastardly details, but let me return to the
point in general. The destruction happening to Palestine is
happening to the planet. It’s the same people doing it or, more accu-
rately, the same beings doing it. Europeans incarnated their greed as
corporations, and it is those AI that are most proximately devouring
the world, just as they did under colonialism from the beginning
(VoC, 1602). While we die, arms dealers make a killing, and the
United States at this point is just an arms dealership with a flag.
And Israel is already selling rights to fossil fuel deposits of Gaza,
which is why human rights don’t matter in the Middle East in
general.

You can see how it’s all connected. This is all one evil, both histori-
cally and geologically. White supremacism and human supremacism
not isolated problems. It’s not a case of colonialism on the one hand,
and climate collapse on the other. It’s all one fist, punching through
the people that defend the land, and the land itself. You can see the
results in the devastated land of America, or ongoing colonization of

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Palestine. It’s the same thing. The same historical injustice is causing
our great geological unbalancing.

This is why resistance is called for, and why the Palestinians are so
brave. They are the real leaders of the free world, not the accursed
Americans. They obviously didn’t want this shit, but they’re shoveling
it, and more power to them. The fact is that we weren’t safe under
colonialism and we’re still not safe because it never stopped. White
supremacism and human supremacism are one continuum of evil,
the separation of us from each other, from our animal kin, and from
the land. It is, in the short run, the genocide of the Palestinians, but in
the long run, it’s the ecocide of us all.

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67.THE CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT OF
PALESTINE
NOVEMBER 2023

Most people — even in the highly propagandized West — support at

least a ceasefire in occupied Palestine. Even with a mass media
constantly explaining why this is fine, most people do not like seeing
children destroyed with industrial explosives. But industry does. And
that’s who actually rules. That’s the rules-based order. Just follow the
money.

One of the core experience of colonization, from the very beginning,

is that we were colonized by corporations. The first IPO was for the
Dutch East India Company (VoC). The corporations — European
greed incarnate — were actually the first AI, as I argue. That was the
birth of artificial, algorithmic life that devoured the human and
natural world. As it was coded to do, from the very beginning. Corpo-
rations, as cybernetic organisms, contain human parts, like so many
nuts and bolts. These mouthpieces said it was all about civilization
and Christianity, but that was just marketing. It was strictly business.
Always was.

Colonization was not a particular depravity of white people, though

they are particularly depraved. It was a depravity of white people with
property or, more accurately, property with white people. Capitalism
possesses people like a brain worm, and makes brain-eating zombies
of them all. As Marx said about capitalists, “their own movement
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within society has for them the form of a movement made by things, and
these things, far from being under their control, in fact control them.” Capi-
talists are assholes, but if you eliminate one, another takes their
place. Capitalism a hydra that produces another butthead whenever
you lop one off. Note that I use ‘capitalism’ and ‘colonialism’ inter-
changeably because they are.

The true depravity of whiteness has always been white people with
property, or, as we discussed, property with white people. This is the
brain and planet devouring AI that actually rules us. What we call
the ‘rules-based order’ is its inscrutable algorithm. Of course you
can’t see it. It’s a computer program, encoded in obtuse laws,
numbers, and power relations. As they said in Westworld, “the maze
was not meant for you.” And then they shot the humans. That’s how
the business goes. As I said, corporations are European greed incar-
nate, with limited liability and unlimited destructive power. People
didn’t (and don’t) notice when they’re destroying colored people, but
now they’re incinerating the whole atmosphere. But by now it’s
increasingly obvious, nobody is in control. Something else is at work.

This bifurcation between seeming human control and actual corpo-

rate control has long been there, hiding in plain sight. The American
Revolution, though marketed as government ‘for the people’, only
allowed property-holding white males to vote. A fraction of the popu-
lation, and those people were merely placeholders for what actually
ruled. Property. The artificial life that grows out of the natural world,
like a chestburster in Alien.

Property had (and has) the real power, and it just flows through white
people, itself a fluid category. Now we have brown men and black
women perpetrating genocide, ‘making their bones’ into the mafia.
Money doesn’t actually give a fuck, the only color it sees is green (or
blu, as the ‘rich slave’ Young Dolph said). The brain worm of capital
happily extend the category of whiteness, to infect Italians, and Irish,
and now upper caste Indians and African Americans. The point is
not the specifics of the hierarchy but that there is a hierarchy. With
property at the top, a gradient of human labor, and natural resources

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at rock bottom. As long as you’re willing to kick down the ladder, you
can (theoretically if not practically) come up.

The real rulers of Capitalism are not racist, they’re fucking robots.
The real rulers are Capital (as it says on the tin, duh). We are roiled by
our greed encoded in algorithms, given the founding command to
grow at all costs. Capital is the artificial lifeform that emerged out of
colonialism, to gestate inside our markets and societies, then pop out
like a chestburster and kill us with its toxic emissions (among other
predations).

Now what does any lifeform want, in the aggregate? To grow, to repro-
duce. Been that way since the first cell divided. Capital wants to grow,
hence the economists’ worship of infinite growth. Infinite growth on
a finite planet is of course impossible, but that’s the brain-worm that’s
eaten our brains. We have forgotten about the balance of the natural
world and just think of artificial bank balances. This growth was cool
(for some) for a while (commodities!) but the cybernetic parasite kills
its host soon enough (climate collapse!) I can talk about general plan-
etary collapse or hospitals falling on Palestinians, it’s all one
phenomenon. Let’s talk about the Palestinians because it’s happening
in front of us.

What we see in the open genocide of Palestine is that, while the

population of the world and even the imperial countries oppose it, it
still keeps going. Why is this? Why won’t someone do something? Well,
we’ve got our pronouns wrong. Something is running the world, and
they don’t give a fuck about dead babies any more than most of us
care about dead animal babies. Indeed, the Israeli’s committing geno-
cide openly refer to Palestinians as ‘human animals’. As you can see,
white supremacism and human supremacism are a continuum, with
capital on top.

Israel is America’s ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ in the Middle East,

enabling them to keep reliable Sepoy troops in the region and keep it
permanently destabilized. As Murtaza Hussein said, “Describing
another country as a literal weapon aimed at the rest of the region for
purpose of exploiting their resources is not a framing that is going to endear
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it to many people there. U.S. politicians have been using this analogy for
years by the way.” I don’t think it’s an analogy, Israel is a capital invest-
ment Empire made in a region central to its capitalist interests. Joe
Biden himself called Israel ‘the best investment the United States could
make’.

The existence of Israel not only keeps from Palestine unifying, it shat-
ters Arab unity as well. The comically corrupt leaders look like the
gelded satraps they are, occupied by American troops and helping
their own kind get butchered. It’s classic divide and conquer, a tactic
the Americans inherited from the British, along with Palestine. Colo-
nialism is really one continuous White Empire, as I’ve discussed.

Israel is Empire’s guaranteed parking space near the gas station,

guaranteed to keep the whole region divided and easy to manipulate.
Westerners don’t give a fuck about Jewish people. They pushed the
boats back to Nazi Germany when they tried to escape. Israel is the
incarnation of the idea that Jews should leave their actual homes, and
the idea was something both Nazis and Zionists agreed on. The
British and Americans picked up the idea because it A) gave them a
foothold in the Middle East and B) guaranteed loyal Sepoy to fuck
with the Arabs. As Rania Khalek says, “Israel’s existence as a settler
colony is actually the historically anti-Semitic west using Jews and Judaism
as human shields for imperialism.”The White Empire doesn’t give a fuck
about Semite-on-Semite violence, no more than they care about Slav-
on-Slav violence in Ukraine. Let them fight it out. Chaos is a ladder,
especially when you’re an arms dealer.

Again, to understand the Empire, ignore the propaganda, which is

just marketing. Look at the business, which is making money. The
White Empire makes money from all this violence, most proximately,
because it sells the bombs. American politicians openly boast about
how war anywhere is good for their military industrial complex. Not
that it’s especially good for workers, mind you, but it is good for the
bloated and corrupt industry as a whole.

The truth is that ruling corporations don’t actually care about the
place they’re in, and care even less about the place they’re bombing.
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America loots its own treasury to fund endless wars and completely
razes entire nations to the ground. This is terribly bad politics in the
long run, but it’s good business in the short run, and businesses don’t
have a holistic view on anything. They only think in quarters. And so
the entire world gets drawn and quartered.

The mechanics are complicated, but the mechanism is simple. It’s

basically how Tony Soprano described the mafia. He said, “this thing
is a pyramid, since time immemorial. Shit runs downhill, money goes up.
It’s that simple.” Soprano was a sage and I won’t add much except to
say that it’s a pyramid scheme. We’re now drowning in shit and the
brown and black people dumb enough to try becoming white are left
holding the bag for what is obviously a fraud.

Today we’re watching a dying empire which has nothing but death to
offer. Its last (inshallah) colony is too cowardly to face Palestinian
militants in the field and instead bombs homes and hospital from
behind screens, ie capital machinery. The capital of Capital, America
can’t build infrastructure anymore, just bomb it to smithereens. Thus,
as it was the site for a ‘Christian’ crusade then, Jerusalem is at the
center of a Capitalist crusade now. These people never worshiped
Jesus the Palestinian, they always worshiped the Roman coin that
betrayed him. And out of their greed incarnate, they have made a
world-devouring Golem. That is the love of money destroying
Palestine today, and our planet soon enough. As the saying goes, the
love of money is the root of all evil. And as you can see, this evil rules
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68.THE WEST IS SHOWING
ITS WHOLE GENOCIDAL
ASS
OCTOBER 2023

The West—its media, its politicians, and far too many of its people—
is now openly genocidal. We are witnessing an industrial, mass
media, globalized pogrom. The genocide of Gaza.

Israel has openly called Palestinians ‘animals’ and is bombing a

civilian population — half of them children — with heavy munitions
and burning white phosphorus. The US President has spread known
lies about beheading babies, a classic pretext for inciting a pogrom.
When a cease-fire was even brought up, the White House press secre-
tary said “We believe they’re wrong. We believe they’re repugnant.” In
places like France and Germany, protests are criminalized and even
the Palestinian flag is banned. The whole, preening, moralizing
western world has just gone completely genocidal.

Right now, we are now witnessing massive ethnic cleansing as Israel

orders 1.1 million Palestinians to move while they level the north of
Gaza. There is actually no exit from Gaza, it is an open air prison.
Israel shoots anyone who tries to get out on their side and has
bombed the exit to Egypt. America has pulled up an aircraft carrier to
prevent any relief from sea. This is absolute genocide, murder, and
war crimes upon war crimes. As Arnard Bertrand says, “The absence of
any public opposition to this by Western governments means morality,
human rights, basic humanity has completely collapsed in the West, every-
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thing they claim “their values” stand for.” As Pawel Wargan says, “Every
single Western leader has financed, armed, covered for, or egged on the
perpetrators of this massacre. A lifetime of shame is too lenient a punish-
ment. The whole edifice of their fraudulent world needs to be torn down.”

In this depraved context, Hamas are by far the reasonable ones. Just
listen to their press conference for yourself. Westerners are told to
hate Hamas despite having no clue about them. It works because
they have been coded to hate Muslims for generations now, they just
change the acronym every few years. It’s the same ‘white man’s
burden’ and the same savages that need to be executed. Hamas
speaks about having the right to armed resistance and Israel
conducing a genocide. All of which is true. Listen to their press
conference yourself (it’s in English). They sound much more reason-
able than western leaders, who are openly baying for blood.

Keir Starmer, Labour leader in the UK, seems to think that denying
food and water to a civilian population is within ‘international law’.
Republican Nikki Haley has told Israel to ‘finish them’, Lindsey
Graham has said ‘level the place’, and Marco Rubio said ‘they have to
be eradicated.’ Even liberals uncomfortable with open genocide still
qualify their statements with how bad Hamas (ie, the resistance) is,
calling for a return to the slowly genocidal status quo, ie the thole
thing not bothering them.

All of the talk of human rights, of freedom, of democracy, it’s all just
weapons in the hands of these genocidal people. They’ve been using
the idea of Muslim rights to attack China for years, but one wishes for
something like China’s Uyghur policy in Israel. China had a terrorism
problem and, rather than bombing and torturing people, put a lot of
people in re-education camps and pumped economic development
into Xinjiang province. Westerners have complained bitterly about
this, but what is their solution? Sanction people into poverty, have
them live under stateless apartheid, and then finally starve and bomb
them to death when they finally explode? What absolute ghouls,
masquerading as moral authorities. Human rights is just another
weapon for them, to beat their many enemies over the head with.

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We should have known that these colonizers who came up on geno-
cide and theft never actually changed. They simply replaced talk of
‘civilizing’ us with talk of ‘human rights’. Whatever the words, it was
always a pretext to take our land and murder us. All of their fine
words go out the window for a good old Muslim pogrom, which they
do at least once a decade now. America and Europe came up by geno-
ciding and stealing, and Israel is their colonial outpost. Of course
they back their open genocide of the Palestinians now. This is what
the White Empire was founded on. This is what it does. This is who
they are. As Sony Thang said:

If I were to chronicle every city, every village, every innocent life

scarred by the relentless American bombardment since WWII, pages
would run out before their conscience does. From Hiroshima’s ashes
to Korea’s burning towns, Vietnam’s napalmed children, Laos and
Cambodia’s secret scars, the shattered remnants of Yugoslavia, the
blood-soaked sands of Iraq, Afghanistan’s mournful mountains,
Libya’s toppled streets, to Syria’s gasping wounds, and beyond.How
many more must suffer before the world says ‘enough’?

Westerners talk about the post-war era, but it’s been endless war for
us in the South, including the open wound of the Israeli occupation.
They only call it war if white people are dying, and if a few white
people die, there must be absolute rivers of our blood in return. West-
erners showed half their ass in the Ukraine War, where they were
suddenly repulsed by invasions, after invading random countries for
decades. As Daniel Hannan wrote in the Telegraph, about Ukraini-
ans: “They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. Ukraine is a
European country. Its people watch Netflix and have Instagram accounts,
vote in free elections and read uncensored newspapers. War is no longer
something visited upon impoverished and remote populations.”

Note the genocidal passive voice. War is something‘visited upon impov-

erished and remote populations’, as if western bombs and warships are
not actively seeking them out. As if the West has no choice in the
matter. This genocidal passive voice is pervasive because they do not
view us as human. The BBC says Israeli’s were ‘killed’ while Pales-

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tinians just ‘die’. If they mention the deaths at all. As Yanis Varoufakis
said, “When Palestinian fighters commit war crimes, the West/Press loses
no time to speak of “acts of pure evil”. When the Israeli military commit
war crimes, the West/Press describes them as “inevitable”, as Acts of God—
like a Volcano erupting as is its wont, as its nature dictates.”

What’s missing from even Yanis’s take is that there is simply no

comparison between those resisting an occupation and those doing
it. Palestinians have tried every route for their rights and find them-
selves in a concentration camp for their troubles. They have the right
to armed resistance and even Hamas has been far more restrained than
the Israeli Army, which openly calls Palestinians animals and
murders entire families, men, women, and children. An Israel Parlia-
mentarian openly said “Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will
overshadow the Nakba of ‘48.” What was the Nakba of ‘48? The original
ethnic cleansing of the native Palestine. They want to finish the job. A
final solution.

What we are witnessing is a globalized pogrom. I know because I’ve

sadly seen it in my own country. It starts with lies, the most lurid and
false the better. With Israel and the West, every lie they tell to justify
their violence is what they actually do. The West lied about Iraq
pulling babies out of incubators, and now Israel has cut off electricity
to the entire Gaza, killing every child requiring one. They spread lies
about babies being ripped out of wombs, something Israeli soldiers
actually did in the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Jamie Lee Curtis
posted a picture of ‘Israeli’ children hiding from bombs, and took it
down when it turned out to be Palestinians.

I have seen these lies before in my own country (Sri Lanka) which has
had far too much racial violence. Pogroms are always started by hate
speech like this, but I’ve never seen it at this scale, even after 9/11.
There is just an absolute orgy of hate speech across western politi-
cians and media and even the mention of cease-fire is called repug-
nant. The West has always been slowly and structurally genocidal and
evil, but now it’s happening fast and in the open. They are openly
arming, cheering, and calling for genocide and this vicious, global-

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ized, pogrom is happening right in front of us. The West is showing
its whole genocidal ass right now. If we ever take them seriously after
this, the fools are us. This ‘rules-based order’ is just the rule of
violence and hypocrisy over all. We need to break the rules, and tear
this wicked White Empire down. It’s not just the death of the Pales-
tinians. It’s the death of the planet, it’s the death of us all.

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69.WESTERN MORAL
AUTHORITY IS DEAD
AND BURIED IN
PALESTINE
OCTOBER 2023

In truth, western moral authority never existed. It was just immoral

authoritarianism the whole time. They told us they were civilizing
us while treating us like animals, and treating our animal kin even
worse. For centuries the most historically violent, genocidal, racist,
and corrupt countries on Earth saw fit to lecture everybody else on
morality, backing it up with occupation, guns, and starvation. Today
the same people still see fit to lecture us, backing it up with coups,
bombs, and sanctions (same things, new words).

Did this unchanging White Empire ever change its ways? Did they
ever stop pillaging people and the planet? Lol no. They just changed
the marketing on colonialism and did it again, way past its sell-by
date.‘Civilizing’ became ‘development’, ‘dominion’ became ‘debt’,
‘Christendom’ became ‘democracy’, and ‘Rule Britannia’ became ‘the
rules-based order’. The same colonial ghouls kept doing what they
were always doing, which was colonizing. As my historical thesis
goes, same shit, different day.

I call this authoritarianism because this perverse morality has

always been violently imposed. The logic has always been ‘what’s
mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine, and aren’t you lucky to be crushed
under such a nice boot?’ This behavior is, in fact, immoral and could
not persist without rampant, wall-to-wall propaganda about how nice
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the boots are, and how vile the vermin underneath. And so it
continues to this day. The western world and those that suffer under
it are absolutely blanketed with (privatized) propaganda about how
great and moral they are and how the world would be so dangerous
and unstable without them.Yet they are the danger and the instabil-
ity! They are the ones who knock! If they simply fucked off, the world
would be in much better shape. They assume they have some moral
authority, but it’s just another whip to a slave.

To be honest, I believed in western moral authority long after it was

gone (indeed, it never existed at all). I grew up in the heart of America
and I remember getting emotional at the Thomas Jefferson memorial
and clipping out bombers in the first Iraq War, like it was a game. I
was, in my defense, a teenager. I also lit shit on fire and shoplifted for
kicks. We have to grow up some day.

For many people that growing up came after 9/11, when America
responded to global support with collective punishment of the
Muslim world. Obviously too late to not bomb Afghanistan, but they
felt bad about it later. To even more people, some growing came with
the second Iraq War, there were huge protests at that completely
random destruction of a country. Unfortunately, what people think is
not relevant to moral authoritarianism.Sadly the fire starters and
shoplifters that never grew up are in charge of imperial foreign policy
and they’ve only fail upwards.The same media and political caste that
incited all of those wars (and more) are still here, and they’re even
more openly genocidal now.

Today the latest party line, after wrecking and forgetting about
Ukraine in their ‘good intentions’, is that any part of the Empire
which is attacked can respond back with genocidal violence,
suspending all rules of war and human decency. This is the ‘rules-
based order,’ there’s no rules if you dare fuck with it at all. This order
is really just, as Orwell said, a boot stomping on a human face forever,
from the Native Americans to the actual Indians to the Palestinians
now. The shine on the boot is that this is all somehow moral,

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defending babies or stopping terrorism or something. Now they don’t
even bother with coherent excuses much, they just stomp.

Right now, in reaction to Hamas daring to break out of the Gaza Strip
and hit some Israeli military targets (with civilian damage), Israel is
deciding to just indiscriminately bomb every civilian in the Gaza
Strip, a concentration camp that they have sealed or bombed the
exits too. You would think that the open starvation, water-depriva-
tion, and bombing of a concentration camp would be the final wake-
up call, but no, moral authoritarianism dies hard. Despite the decline
of manufacturing in the West, consent can still be manufactured.

And to that end, the western press and politicians are united in
supporting the openly genocidal Israeli government in committing
genocide. They’re using the same propaganda trope of ‘good guys vs.
terrorists’, but in this case, something looks obviously off. The good
guys are dropping phosphorous bombs on homes while the ‘terror-
ists’ are much more proportional. The Israelis and the western media
tried to make up stuff about killing babies and rape (the classic
excuse for murdering ‘savages’), but those have proved to be lies, and
people can simply see the true destruction caused by western arms.
The propaganda is starting to wear off, at least in the South.

What we can see is the naked hypocrisy of western morality. The

Empire has no clothes, and he’s flashing us, nonconsenually I must
add. A population of over 2 million, half of them children, is being
held within a concentration camp (the exits closed or bombed) and
deprived of food and water. More bombs have been dropped on a
small city than were dropped on Afghanistan in a year. White phos-
phorus bombs have been dropped on them, burning flesh to the
bone wherever it touches. School, hospitals, refugee camps, and food
supplies have been bombed. People have been told to flee on ‘safe’
roads and then those roads have been bombed. Medics and ambu-
lances have been bombed. First responders are bombed, leading
savable people to die agonizingly in the rubble. Entire families are
wiped out. It’s a textbook genocide, unless you watch western media.

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Watch, for example, this catastrophically candid interview with the
Israeli Ambassador to the UK. As Gathara described the exchange,
“Just listen to this justification for genocide. Boils down to “you guys did it so
we are entitled to do it”. And look at how she grabs at trigger words —
babies, Nazis, ISIS — to avoid the issue and to justify mass murder.” To
judge for yourself, the Ambassador said:

And I’m going back to the world coalition fighting Isis. So Mosul was
a place where 100,000 civilians were killed [not quite]. I don’t want to
go back to your history by targeting German cities. Dresden was a
symbol of that because you knew that this is the only way to beat the
Nazis and make them surrender. This is the reality that Israel is
facing cruel, cruel, barbaric terror organization. This is Al Qaeda.
This is ISIS. This is similar to the Western Coalition in the last few
years, the world is a better place without ISIS. The world would be a
much better place without Hamas.

It sounds cruel and deranged, but the Ambassador is right. The

western method — including in World War II — was to bomb
civilian populations. Unlike the USSR — which destroyed the
German Army directly — the western allies relied heavily on
bombing civilian populations, even dropping atomic bombs on two
cities in Japan. Israel is simply asking for this right, to bomb people
and take their land.This is how its western allies were founded and
enriched, what don’t they understand? And, of course, they do under-
stand. The West does extend this colonial right to Israel, which
includes the right to call your victims savages (and maybe give them a
land acknowledgment 200 years later).

Given carte blanche from the West, the language coming from Israel
now is openly genocidal. Israeli’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant
said“Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate every-
thing… I have ordered a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no
fuel, no water. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and
we act accordingly.” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said“It is an entire
nation out there that is responsible. There are no civilians in Gaza.” And
these are the polite calls for genocide. The level of genocidal

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language from Israel is off the charts, and this is what western
governments and their propaganda outlets are supporting.

Thus you have the British state media (the BBC) asking important
questions like ‘Does Hamas build tunnels under hospitals and schools?’
What a nice pretext for bombing hospital and schools. Western
media outlets routinely say Israelis were ‘killed’ while Palestinians
‘died’ and even when their own journalists are murdered they say it
was because ‘rockets fired from the direction of Israel’. They torture
language as much as the mangled bodies underneath their bombs.
The western media provides air cover through propaganda as much
as their warplanes dropping ordnance. They are ginning up genocide
as much as Radio Rwanda.

In America, the US President got on TV and repeated outright lies

about beheaded babies and rape, blood libel to justify an ongoing
pogrom which has now claimed the life of a Palestinian child in
America itself. Western governments are banning or smearing
protests as ‘supporting Hamas’, as if that’s A) what people are doing
and B) worse than supporting the actively genocidal government of
Israel.

They’re trying to market a genocide as somehow moral because

terrorism, but we’ve been told that a dozen times before a dozen other
outrages from the Western core. After over a million dead and tens of
millions displaced in America’s Terror Wars, people know who the
real terror is. After the ‘well-meaning’ destruction of Libya, Syria,
and Yemen, the White Empire has no more faith and credit left. After
their doublespeak about how bad Russia is in Ukraine (having killed
less children total than Israel in a day), no one takes these hobgob-
lins seriously anymore. This wretched White Empire was always
lying while people were dying. They’ve always been killing and
stealing land slowly, and in Palestine they’re suddenly doing it all at
once. Israel is calling for a million people to be ethnically cleansed
by moving south (while bombing the ‘safe roads’) and the West calls
this humanitarianism. There’s no morality here, and even their
moral authoritarianism is losing its grip. People can see genocide in

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front of their eyes, and there isn’t enough wool to cover up all the
blood.

The last vestige of western moral authority is being buried in

Palestine, along with the bodies of thousands of Palestinian men,
women, and children who deserved so much more. These are just the
most recent martyrs to colonialism, and it’s happening on our watch.
How many more souls have to die before we learn to stop believing
what colonizers say, and simply look at what they do? Simply look at
Palestine, right now. Imagine that thirst in your own children,
imagine the bombs dropping day and night, and imagine being
hemmed into that place by a hostile military, while an American
aircraft carrier blocks any relief by sea. Is the genocidal party really
that hard to see? Is it not the same people who have been doing this
same thing, for four hundred years of bloody history? Why would
anyone believe these colonial ghouls again? They never reformed.
They just reloaded and now they’re unloading in our faces.

The fact is that western moral authority never existed, it was immoral
authoritarianism the whole time. Now we can see it plain. And so the
last vestige of western moral authority is buried in Palestine, in a
mass-mediated grave.

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70.THE HIERARCHY OF
VIOLENCE
NOVEMBER 2023

Somehow, beheading 40 babies is considered a moral atrocity, while

bombing 5,000+ is OK. This is especially galling because the ‘40
beheaded babies’ story is a lie while 5,000+ Palestinian babies are
actually dying. More are slowly dying under the rubble right now,
and even more fated to die because Israel has systematically
destroyed hospitals. That’s an abomination I must point out, but it’s
not my point. My point is the hierarchy of it all. This atrocity goes all
the way to the top.

The Pyramid

Imagine a pyramid, with bare hands at the bottom, blades above that,
then bullets, then bombs, then an entire military-industrial complex
at the top. We are, perversely, the most disgusted at the most petty
violence at the bottom, while professional, industrialized violence
from the top gets parades and ribbons. The words even change as you
scale the pyramid of pulverization. If I kill someone with my bare
hands it’s homicide but if I kill 10,000 people by government diktat it’s
nothing. Why is that? Well, as always, the relevant question is who.

Imagine that we’re not alone in this world, because it’s true. Imagine
that many different levels of self exist, some of them encoded legally

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as corporations and government and so on. Imagine that these collec-
tive selves, encoded by law and silicon, are in fact cybernetic beings,
AI with human parts. Then the why starts to make sense. It’s really
about who gets to commit violence, not violence in general. There is a
pyramid of violence, with the living at the bottom and the artificial at
the very top.

The rule is that corporations and governments can kill but humans
should not. The logic is that it’s not homicide if there’s no ‘one’ doing
it, though this makes no difference to the person being killed at all.
Human law says that if the killing is by an artificial being, then no
‘one’ is responsible at all. The soldiers and bureaucrats and lawyers
doing the killing are just cogs in a cybernetic machine. The man
pulling the trigger is himself a trigger pulled by someone else, pulled
by someone else; on and on into a complete diffusion of responsibil-
ity. This is the real nature of AI, and it’s been with us for centuries. It
ruled under colonization and continues under capitalism even worse
than before. What we call ‘rule of law’ is really the tyranny of the arti-
ficial. It’s the dominance of ‘private property’ over people, planet,
and all.

Leo Tolstoy said,“Laws are rules made by people who govern by means of
organised violence.” This shocked me when I first read this, but it’s
true. I used to believe that laws were good and we just need better
ones, but now I think they’re fucked on a fundamental level. Just look
at how they encode the hierarchy of violence. There’s a huge loop-
hole that corporations and governments use to commit absolute
mass murder, while locking up individuals for life for killing one
soul.

That loophole is that a murder must have two sentient parties, one
that is killed, and one with the intent to kill. The law considers corpo-
rations and government non-sentient, so they cannot have intent.
Therefore, they cannot commit homicide. But the people are still
dead! Even worse, other animals and lifeforms are not considered
people, so the planet is also dead! You can see the catastrophe that
bad philosophy encoded in law has led to.

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The worst part is that the law is selective. Corporations and govern-
ment institutions are considered ‘legal persons’ for everything they
want to do (buying property, influencing elections, consuming
resources) but they have ‘limited liability’ for everything else. They
have all the privileges they want, with none of the responsibility. The
artificial beings Europeans encoded in law are literally above the law.
Corporations have ‘limited liability’ by design. Government institu-
tions are expected to govern themselves, and are openly bought by
corporations.

In this way, we are already ruled by malevolent AI, and they’re already
killing us with impunity. That’s the difference between good and bad
violence. ‘Good’ violence doesn’t have anybody doing it. It’s done by
many bodies, the cybernetic brutes we call governments and corpora-
tions. They make their own violence disappear, while brutalizing and
disappearing anyone that messes with them.

Culture Clash

The problem is that the law recognizes corporations and institutions

as ‘legal persons’ while human culture doesn’t. We don’t know what’s
happening because we keep asking ‘why’ instead of ‘who’. We miss
the artificial tyranny that presides over us, and end up fighting over
dumb shit. In terms of cultural perception of AI, we’re still waiting for
embodied robots we can fuck, while incorporated robots are fucking
us right now.

Our laws have recognized these unrecognizable ‘legal persons’ for

centuries, and placed them above us. They have diffused their
violence into nothing, while making us look like monsters if we pick
up a pitchfork. What do you think colonialism was? Colonialism was
mass corporate violence against people and planet, with natives
portrayed as ‘savages’ or ‘violent’ when they resisted. The same thing
happening to Palestine now, because it never stopped.

Take, as another example, factory farming, which is just industrial-

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in-law used to bring a goat home, slaughter it himself, and make
biriyani. Everyone thought this was gross and inhumane and scolded
him. He was at the bottom of the violence pyramid, doing things with
his bare hands and a blade. How unsavory.

What everyone preferred was meat from the top of the pyramid,
killed by no one’s hand in particular, but on a corporate assembly
line where responsibility was diffused. But is that not more cruel?
Those animals are still getting killed, and at a greater scale and
cruelty than before. Everyone participates in this violence without
guilt, except for the animals, for whom it is actually worse. In western
philosophy of mind, those creatures don’t have minds, and the
companies killing them don’t have minds, so it’s like no one killed or
died at all. But they did! They do! This philosophy is just wrong and
climate collapse is only the most final proof.

All of these catastrophic category errors come from building a philos-

ophy around the individual human self, and not ‘minding’ natural
and artificial life at all. So natural life is simply consumed, while arti-
ficial life is encoded into law with the imperative to consume. This
system is designed to destroy the natural world, because it values only
the artificial. Europeans called all other wisdom ‘not philosophy’,
leaving us with an idiotic theory of mind that has no sense of where
we come from or where we’re going. This predictably ends in ruin. As
Sublime told me,

Early man walked away

As modern man took control
Their minds weren’t [were?] all the same
To conquer was their goal
So, he built his great empire
And he slaughtered his own kind
He died a confused man
Killed himself with his own mind

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Killing Ourselves With Selves

The real theory of self is that there are many selves. Or none, because
it’s all illusion. None and infinity are the same thing, if you look close
enough. By rigidly believing in one individual self, however, western
thought misses both selfhood of both natural and artificial lifeforms.
And thus misses the plot entirely. This central delusion is reflected in
our hierarchy of violence, which glorifies the violence of power, while
condemning the violence of the powerless. We’ve got it ass-back-
wards, which is why the world is going down the shitter.

So understand where we are. Today we live in a world of higher and

lesser selves, designated by their power to kill the lesser. This is the
hierarchy of violence, hidden in silence. As the sage of Newark, Tony
Soprano said, “this thing is a pyramid, from time immemorial. Shit runs
downhill, money goes up. It’s that simple.” That sucking sound we call
growth is merely this mobster logic applied to a planet. Waste chokes
the ecosystem, while the stock market goes up.

We think we control these things because we can become lawyers, or

bureaucrats, or politicians, or soldiers and generals and cops. But this
is simply the power to become a cog in a machine. To become a
trigger on a gun, pointed at your own relations. Individual humans
can get the power to kill, yes, but only as the part of a greater power
structure, which is always, always kicking down. That structure
appears to have humans (usually white men) at the top, but in reality
it’s not a human system at all. It is the tyranny of the artificial, with
corporations and ‘higher’ selves at the top. We are ruled by incarna-
tions of our greed, and we accept this out of our own gullibility, for
the bougie privileges that trickle down.

This is why revolution is called for, to invert the pyramid. And the
revolution will be revolting, simply because of the way we are condi-
tioned to look at violence. There will be blood, which liberals will act
like they’ve never seen before. But they’re covered in it! All of the
people looking at rebellion in Palestine and saying “I agree with you in
the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”

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are full of shit. All of the people piously saying ‘I don’t support violence’
are lying to themselves.

It doesn’t matter if you, in your heart of hearts, ‘don’t support

violence.’ Violence supports you. Violence undergirds the private prop-
erty you live on, the petrol in your tank, the passport in your pocket.
You — I’m talking to the comfortable — partake in all the petty privi-
leges of collective violence and simply want no responsibility for it.
More than that, you want the sanctimony of condemning natives that
fight back as brutes. But it’s not true.

Violence is happening everywhere, and the worst offenders are the

bloodless people in suits. These people will say they condemn
violence on the ground, while dropping industrial violence from
above. All while their ‘inanimate’ masters feed on the destruction,
like bloodthirsty gods. It’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy and that,
precisely, is what must be overthrown. By non-violent action, sure,
but when that doesn’t work (which was decades ago), people, orcas,
and the planet itself are going to get violent. Just remember that this
is not some sudden, dangerous appearance of violence. It’s simply the
overturning of a violent hierarchy that damn well needs to be
overturned.

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71.THE ASYMMETRY OF
VIOLENCE (PALESTINE
VS. THE WHITE EMPIRE)
NOVEMBER 2023

Israel appeals to the made-up atrocities of October 7th to justify the

real atrocities of October 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31; November, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; and the 75 years before that. It’s
wildly asymmetrical, like carpet bombing a concentration camp
because the inmates dared break out. Which is exactly what
happened.

There’s this strange logic that Israel has the right to self-defense (it
doesn’t) while Palestine doesn’t (it does). To expand my parentheses,
under international law Israel as an occupying power has no right to
‘self-defense’ against the people it is occupying. Meanwhile the Pales-
tinians have every right to self-defense, including taking up arms.
Unfortunately, international law itself is just a theoretical construct.
We actually live under imperial rule most foul.

International What?

The (entirely theoretical) point of law is that it applies equally to

everyone, which is obviously not what’s going on internationally. The
International Criminal Court only prosecutes Africans and the US

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has a law on the books to invade the Hague if they’re ever held
accountable.

This is what America calls the ‘rules-based order.’ Can anyone see
these rules? No, fuck off. As Arnaud Bertrand says (citing this paper),
rules-based order is a term “meaning a system outside of international
law that essentially defends whatever the US judges is in its and its allies’
interests at any moment in time.” As the paper he cites (by John Dugard)
goes on,

First, the United States is not a party to a number of important

multilateral treaties that constitute an essential feature of
international law… Second, the United States has placed inter-
pretations on international law justifying the use of force and
the violation of international humanitarian law that are contro-
versial and contested… Third, the United States is unwilling to
hold some states, such as Israel, accountable for violations of
international law.

The rules-based order can be accurately summed up as‘we rule.’ This

is not international law, it’s Mafia law. America is the capo di tutti capi,
some countries are ‘made members,’ and everyone else is just sheep
to be shorn. Democrats and Republicans are just rival crime families
within one (war) criminal enterprise. I’ve tried to explain this with
words and metaphors, but why when a meme will do:

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 A Simpson’s scene about ruining vacations, adapted to ruining the world

International law is thus shorn of all meaning, as the Middle East is

shorn of bodies, the planet of resources, and don’t even get me started
on the sheep and all our living relatives. Note that I’m no stickler for
laws. Leo Tolstoy said, “Laws are rules made by people who govern by
means of organised violence,” but we somehow have something even
worse than that. We have the rules-based order, which is just violence
with receipts. They make up the justification after the fact and just
throw it on the pile of corpses, while they steal the oil or whatever
they find underneath.

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Merciless Savages

This abomination is not new, they just keep changing the words.
America was founded on the principle of theft and genocide, and so
it continued across the globe, fossil fueled. The only honest part of
the US Declaration of Independence is the line,“He [the British King]
has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless
Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished
destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” Here, the founding
oligarchs of America scold the colonizing king for not being colonial
enough. That’s America in a nutshell.

What’s honest here is the openly genocidal intent of the whole

endeavor, and the ‘white framing’ to blame the victims, saying they
had it coming. With colonizers, every accusation is a confession. The
colonizers always accused of us of being savages, to unleash untold
savagery upon us. As Mackay and Feagin write in “Merciless Indian
Savages”: Deconstructing Anti-Indigenous Framing:

Racialized colonization of the Americas began in the 1400s and

persists in today’s racialized neocolonialism... European colo-
nialism necessarily included a subtler, subversive, emotional,
and aggressively persisting element — the rationalizing
white-framed language of racial domination and oppression.
Past and present colonization involves wars of conquest, bio-
wars of disease spread, and constant application of a dramatic
language-framing component wherein Indigenous peoples are
dominated, marginalized, and redefined through intense and
obsessive language of white colonizers and their descendants.

After America thoroughly genocided Turtle Island, the ruling

oligarchs still needed more resources, especially oil, so new ‘savages’
had to be invented wherever it was found. Mackay and Feagin
tracked the use of phrases like ‘merciless Indian savages’ across 200

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years, but around the late 1970s, the term ‘terrorists’ takes over (my
observation).

Google NGram, search of books from 1800 to 2019

What happened around the late 1970s? The 1970s Oil Crisis. This
wasn’t actually a crisis for the Arab world, it was an opportunity for
them to control their oil. That rebellion had to be put down, merci-
lessly, so the merciless Muslim terrorist had to be invented to justify
the violence required. As I wrote inWhat The 1970s Oil Shock Can
Tell Us About Today:

Of the original five OPEC members (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
and Venezuela), two are sanctioned, one has been invaded, and the
others are occupied with American military bases. They get paid for
their troubles, but they’re still paid in imperial coin. Hell, the head-
quarters of OPEC is in Austria now. The Empire struck back hard.

Thus America was able to coup, corrupt, or just invade most places in
the Middle East, but it still couldn’t fundamentally trust them. The
Arab satraps were still, fundamentally, natives, and one revolution
away from being thrown out (a la Iran). Empire needed a loyal colony
in the region, populated with many of its citizens, and fully depen-
dent on the mothership. Luckily they already had such a colony
ready, inherited from Britain. That colony was Israel.

As the then Senator for the credit card industry Joe Biden said, in
1986:

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 It is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an
Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an
Israel to protect her interest in the region. The United States
would have to go out and invent an Israel.

As Biden said later (and many times):

Israel is the single greatest strength America has in the Middle

East. I always say, imagine our circumstance in the world, were
there no Israel. How many battleships would there be? How
many troops would be stationed?

Israel is America’s colony in the Middle East, an ‘unsinkable aircraft

carrier’ kept there in a classic divide-and-conquer tactic, splitting the
region. Israel serves as Empire’s Sepoy guards near the gas station,
ready to level anybody with (illegal) nukes without Empire having to
get its hands dirty. Unlike the corrupted Arab satraps, Israel is also
guaranteed to be loyal. Without American arms and diplomatic
cover, they couldn’t sustain the constant violence they require to exist.
They are bound in blood. In order to sustain this constant violence,
of course, new savages had to be invented, and so America did.
Savages became terrorists, an epithet now applied to the entire Pales-
tinian population — men, women, and children.

Hence the President of Israel says “It is an entire nation who are respon-
sible. This rhetoric about civilians supposedly not being involved is abso-
lutely untrue. We will fight until we break their backs.” Or a Major
General of the Israeli Occupation Force says, “Animal humans will be
treated accordingly.” Or as a former Major General wrote (via), “The
international community warns us of a humanitarian disaster in Gaza and
of severe epidemics. We must not shy away from this, as difficult as that

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may be. After all, severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring
victory closer and reduce casualties among IDF soldiers.”

This is the same genocidal incitement as in the American Declara-

tion of Independence where they say “merciless savages... whose known
rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and
conditions.” Now — as then — they lie about the resistance of indige-
nous populations in in order to actually commit an ‘undistinguished
destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.’ Every accusation is a justi-
fication. So they did across America, and so again it is done in
Palestine. The mask is off and they’re even using the old words again.
Palestinian resistance is openly called ‘savagery’ as in Canada’s
National Post (which really has no place to talk).

Israel is able to just say the word ‘Hamas’ and western populations —
coded by centuries of racism against ‘savages’ and decades against
‘terrorists—immediately knows what to think. They’re Pavlovian dogs,
salivating for blood. Do these audiences know anything about
Hamas, or will they bother to find out? Who cares? Even though most
western people don’t actually support this genocide, the place is an
oligarchy, they just need a minority to create the semblance of debate
in the Cable-TV Colosseum. Forget manufacturing consent, it’s
enough to just manufacture doubt.

The words they introduce (terrorist, savages, dead babies) are all part
of the language of indigenous oppression, which western audiences
speak instinctively. Their nations were literally founded on it. As
Mackay and Feagin write:

We term this the language of Indigenous oppression. It includes

specific words, phrases, and linguistic metaphors wherein racist
meanings behind a central metaphor are understood by speakers and
listeners. Such expressions are more than just racist language, but
crucial components of centuries-old white obsession with counter-
posing racialized and virtuous “white”-ness against the alleged
dangers of racialized and unvirtuous “red”-ness and “black”-ness.

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All I would add is that racialized brownness has been deeply
encoded as something to hate in the Middle East, despite the obvious
fact that whiteness (in the Ignaetiv sense) is the invasive problem
there (quite literally). Westerners keep talking about ‘conflict in the
Middle East’ as if it’s endemic to the region and it’s not. War is
brought and kept there by the colonizing White Empire and it’s
colony, Israel. Why? For the same reason they colonize anything. To
take the stuff.

Not Hierarchy, Hypocrisy

Maitreya Bhakal said ‘it’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy’, and that explains
a lot. When Israel supporters say the violence of October 7th justifies
war, it seems hypocritical. If it’s war, why can’t the other side fight
back? Given Israeli’s ongoing violence for decades, don’t they deserve
much worse? It seems strange that self-defense is reserved for Israelis
while Palestinians should shut up and die, until you understand what
Bhakal was saying. ‘It’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy.’ Violence is racial-
ized, it’s something only indigenous people can be accused of, and
which only colonizers can do. It’s heads I win, tails you lose. That’s
the ‘rules-based order’. That’s the rule.

This is the asymmetry of atrocity we live under. We must believe lies

about ‘40 beheaded babies’ while watching 6,000+ children actually
be killed in front of us. Where The Guardian, talking about a hostage
exchange, says “The hostages to be freed are women and children, and the
Palestinian prisoners are also women and people aged 18 and younger, both
sides have confirmed.” Israelis get to have children, while Palestinians
have ‘people aged 18 and younger’. The BBC reports that Israelis are
‘killed’ while Palestinians just ‘die’. Even the UN condemns Israeli
acts without ever naming the actor. That’s how deep the language of
indigenous oppression goes. That’s how deep the racism is encoded.
And this is precisely how colonial ultra-violence is conducted and
excused. From the savages of yore to the terrorists of now. This is the
world of asymmetrical violence we live in, which is just a mathemat-
ical way of saying it’s unfair and completely bullshit. This is what we

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must completely turn over in revolution, by any means necessary, as
the brave Palestinian resistance is showing us.

The Empire will never believe us and always accuse us, but every
accusation is a confession. The White Empire is guilty of the worst
violence in human history, and the mask is off now. They’re killing
children in Gaza, they killed millions during a pandemic, they’ve
been killing millions for decades, not to mention stealing all of our
stuff and destroying the whole planet. It’s not just the state of Israel
that has to go, it’s the whole wretched White Empire, from the capital
of America to its franchisees across Europe, Australia, and Canada.

These colonizers seemed unassailable for centuries, but they’ve been

losing every war for decades, and the Al Aqsa Flood showed that they
are fundamentally weak as a spider’s web. Now is the time for resis-
tance, as the Palestinians are showing us, by any means necessary,
including armed. It is precisely the monopoly of imperial violence
that needs to be overturned, and the monopolization of language that
goes with it. And there’s no way around it. There will be blood.

I have, of course, used a lot of words to get to this point, so let me

conclude with the wise words of two young women from Lebanon
who survived Israeli bombing and came to the streets of New York.
When they were confronted by an American supporting Israel (the
personification of Empire) they put it all of this together in one pithy
response. “Fuck Israel and fuck you too, bitch.” I couldn’t say it better.
Fuck Israel, and if you don’t like it, fuck you too, bitch. It’s been a long
time coming, but Empire’s time has come.

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72.FROM THE FRYING PAN
TO THE CEASEFIRE (AND
BACK AGAIN)
NOVEMBER 2023

The Middle East won’t know peace until the carbon crusaders are
kicked out for good. Until the aircraft carrier called Israel is sunk and
the satraps of Saudi and Egypt represent the people. Palestine is just
the epicenter of the broader catastrophe that is American occupation
overall. The same colonialism that just carried over from the British
in an unbroken atrocity I call White Empire. Palestine won’t be free
until we all are (and vice versa). This is obviously going to take a
while, and there will be blood.

The ceasefire that the brave mujahideen of Hamas won — on their

own terms — is just a brief respite in the ongoing genocide of their
people. From the ceasefire to the frying pan, it’s still genocide, just at
a different temperature. Hamas is committed to freeing all of the
hostages and all of Palestine, which is what needs to be done. Decolo-
nization cannot proceed by half-measures, it is a cancer that needs to
be completely cut out. Otherwise the Israelis will keep ‘mowing the
lawn’, as they call it when they regularly murder Palestinians, espe-
cially children.

Despite releasing hundreds of hostages, many of them children,

Israel keeps kidnapping more. Even though Hamas treated its
hostages well, Israel routinely sexually abuses, tortures, and murders
the people it kidnapped. They recently beat a young captive to death
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for simply asking if there was a ceasefire. As a Palestinian woman on
Al Jazeera said, “They receive their prisoners back unscathed and dignified,
whereas ours return bearing broken limbs and evident marks of maltreat-
ment and abuse. So, who exactly are the terrorists in this situation?” Israel.
The answer is Israel.

Despite the ostensible ceasefire, Israel is still killing every day, all
across occupied Palestine and even into neighboring states like
Lebanon and Syria. There is simply no living with this state, they are
death incarnate. It’s not that Israel commits war crimes, Israel is a war
crime. Israel cannot exist without constant violence, therefore it
should not exist it all. Hamas needs to free everyone and also the
whole country of Palestine which will, as mentioned, take a long time
and more than a lot of blood. As Hamas leader abroad Khaled
Mashal said:

Nations are not easily liberated. The Russians sacrificed 30

million people in World War II in order to liberate it from
Hitler’s attack. The Vietnamese sacrificed 3.5 million people
until they defeated the Americans. Afghanistan sacrificed
millions of martyrs to defeat the USSR and then the US. The
Algerian people sacrificed six million martyrs over 130 years.
The Palestinian people are just like any other nation. No nation
is liberated without sacrifices.

The task ahead of the liberation forces of Palestine and their allies in
Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran is monumental. Israel would collapse in a
week without external support, but it has that support, doesn’t it? All
the old genociders are lined up behind the young blood Israel, which
means support from America, its European vassals, and their satraps
in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, etc. While the Empire is provable
unable to win against actual militaries (Russia), they are still able to
slaughter civilians en masse, which is what they’re doing in Palestine.
As they did in Yemen, Afghanistan, and so on. The War on Terror

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was a misnomer. It was the War of Terror. The Americans and Euro-
peans are the ‘terrorists’, if you can just imagine that poor, colored
people feel fear also.

Palestine in not in for a fair fight, because Empire follows no rules of

war (the ‘rules-based order’ is precisely the denial of international
law). Palestine is vastly outgunned against Israel, and Israel has
America and the whole White Empire behind them. This is not a
fight anyone would pick, but Palestinians were simply born into it.
And this army of orphans are fighting with great bravery and notable
success, somehow. As the Al-Qassam Brigade’s Abu Obeida said, “We
are fighting an unequal war, but it will be studied in the world and will be
immortalized in history.” Inshallah. I’m pretty sure God wills it (Empire
is certainly falling) but do God act now? That’s the question.

For the rest of the world this is a largely academic question, but for
Palestinians it is existential. Israel has a gun to their children’s heads,
and is actively pulling the trigger. Again, Palestine didn’t choose war,
it came to them, in an unending Nakba (catastrophe). The only differ-
ence between the slaughter of the past 50 days and the past 75 years
has been the pace not the slaughter. That is default. Palestine’s choice
is resist or die, whatever the odds. As Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
said: “Does the world expect us to offer ourselves up as polite, willing and
well-mannered sacrifices, who are murdered without raising a single objec-
tion? This is not possible. No, we have decided to defend our people with
whatever strength we have been given.”

At this point, it has become obvious that a ‘two-state solution’ is

about as good a solution as ‘separate but equal’ within apartheid
America. You can’t have nuclear armed Israel over here and a
Bantustan’d (scattered) Palestine wherever they allow it. Israel
regular bombs, kidnaps, and assassinates not just the native popu-
lation but its neighbors. If accountability means anything, that
counts them out. If anybody requires regime change in the Middle
East, it’s the ethnostate of Israel, which actually has illegal WMD
(nukes) and has threatened to use them. Israel cannot be lived with
and, indeed, it cannot sustain itself without constant death. It

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simply has to go. Israel has to be destroyed and replaced with a
democratic Palestine, with equal rights for all. Two states with
apartheid in one corner and periodic bombing of everyone else is
not a solution, it’s a lie to allow the fascist one-state of Israel to
grow and fester. Israel can no more exist than Rhodesia or
apartheid South Africa. That much is obvious now. What is less
obvious is how.

Hamas and Hezbollah routinely rout the Israel Occupation Force

(IOF) in open battle, but those cowards rarely stand and fight at all.
Israel hides behind western bombs and stand-off weapons, attacking
hospitals and children. As long as they have air and diplomatic cover
from the Empire, they’ll continue their genocidal destruction. While
the liberation forces are methodically destroying the Israeli military
and Yemen is blockading its shipping in the Red Sea, Israel is still
able to kill tens of thousands (mostly children), and spread famine
and disease (on purpose). Whatever battles the resistance is winning,
it’s not fast enough.

While the ‘terrorists’ methodically engage in battle, Israel is methodi-

cally conducting genocide. Israel is quite openly trying to kill
everyone in Gaza, ethnically cleanse it, and then move onto the West
Bank and even Lebanon. This is all openly stated by Israelis and
openly done. The only comfort is that they can’t — as Joe Biden’s re-
election slogan goes — ‘finish the job’. But this is cold comfort to the
innocents that die, lose limbs, starve, and live with grief and trauma
that will never leave their bodies. The average age of people killed in
Israeli’s attack on Gaza is around five. That is nearly a million years of
human life, just lost. Empire will collapse in our lifetimes, but far too
many lives will be snuffed out first.

What this means is that the historical conditions for rebellion are
finally catching up with the immediate imperative among Palestini-
ans. The truth is that the White Empire has already fallen and future
historians will date the collapse to September 11, 2001. Like Rome
‘falling’, however, it’s almost imperceptible when you’re in the middle
of it. As Eleanor Janega writes about the ‘fall’ of Rome in 476, “If you

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asked a Roman on the street what they thought about the fall, they prob-
ably wouldn’t understand.”

When I say the Empire has already fallen, just look. Today, the
United States is already poorer than China (in purchasing power and
basic quality of life, not to mention life expectancy). Their financial
empire collapsed in 2008 and is literally a paper tiger made of printed
money now. Their military has already been humiliated in
Afghanistan and now, via proxy, in Ukraine, it’s a paper tiger on fire.
The two pillars of Empire have already fallen down. As Stephen
Howe writes in his Very Short Introduction to Empire (via me),
“Empires always involve a mixture of direct and indirect rule. The central
power has ultimate sovereignty, and exercises some direct control, espe-
cially over military force and money-raising powers, in all parts of its
domain.” By these measures, America has already sanctioned and
invaded its way into a corner and it — the last heir of White Empire
— is already a dead Empire walking. It can still kill children but not
men, and this fact is widely known now.

The United States which invaded the Middle East in 2001 is very
different from the United States of today. At that point, people
believed in their power and propaganda and they were able to do
whatever they wanted. Now people don’t, and they actually can’t.
Ukraine has shown that they can’t win against peer militaries (Russia)
and Afghanistan has shown that they can’t win against impoverished
insurgents. Iran is much stronger than Iraq was, and even Hezbollah
would fuck them up. Drone and cheaper technology has evened the
playing field for insurgents, and America can’t even raise a proper
army anymore. Its population is too obese, too mentally ill, on too
many drugs, and simply unwilling. American can fight to the last
Ukrainian, but they can’t fight for themselves, and at some point
they’ll run out of proxy pawns. Which is all Israel is. Israel is a Sepoy
army parked near the gas station, guaranteed to be loyal.

America openly calls Israel its ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ in the

region, but that reputation has already been sunk. Any illusions
about Israel intelligence drowned in the Al Aqsa Flood. Any illusion

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around their military might was obliterated in Gaza, where they blew
up a bunch of hospitals and completely missed Hamas. The whole
world saw Israeli tanks getting lit up by men in track bottoms while
the IOF killed child after child. This was not a military force. It was
just a bunch of cowards. In the same way, Israeli propaganda and the
western media that carried it were discredited by their obvious lying
and genocidal incitement. Israeli lies were just stupid and the media
contortions — after crying wolf about the much more honorable
Russian Army— were obvious. Times have moved on and all these
people looked both evil and stupid, which is the opposite of intimi-
dating. Israel depended on deterring threats with its rep, but that rep
is toast now. In that regard, Hamas has already won.

These historical processes, however, tell us nothing about what will

transpire this bloody year, or the bloody years to come. Empire can
still kill millions in a final paroxysm of violence and, indeed, it seems
to be avidly pursuing this outcome. It’s not just Palestine, the visibly
dying President of a visibly dying Empire has provoked conflict with
Russia, and is provoking China and Iran constantly. The chicken-
hawk ghouls of the Democratic Party are doing everything they can
to start World War III, and with Trump coming in, it could get started
out of sheer idiocy. The US political system is all one war crime
family and — no matter who their delusional voters anoint — there
will be war. Americans often talk about electing the lesser evil, and
that’s correct. America is evil, full stop. It will fall at some point (all
Empire do), but the question is when, and upon whom. Obviously
the Palestinians first (not to mention the forgotten people in Congo,
and Haiti, and Peru, and Pakistan, and even Sri Lanka). While history
sucks to be in the middle of, it’s even worse to be buried under, as so
many of us are.

Palestinians are just a poor people, caught in the middle of this

industrial death machine, trying to just get their land back. That’s all.
They’re not trying to be special heroes, but that’s what history has
thrust upon them. Thus the orphans Israel made in past pogroms
become the freedom fighters of now. They end up in the vanguard of
the fight against White Empire not out of any special knowledge of
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the imperial mind but of intimate knowledge of the imperial boot.
For many reasons, including religious (the coming defilement of the
Al Aqsa Mosque), Hamas has chosen this time for battle and they
have been prepared. Israel and America are rushing in, in a blind
rage, but this is both A) not a good look and B) not good looking out.
The ‘barbarians’ bust out the gates of Gaza and they’re not stopping. I
don’t know if they’ll win now, but Empire will lose eventually. That
much is certain.

Israel has wasted over two Hiroshima’s worth of munitions killing

mostly children and not degrading Hamas. America has wasted what
was left of its reputation and propaganda powers. While a wounded
animal is still dangerous, it still dies, eventually. This is America’s
fate, inexorably, and thus Israel’s, eventually, and some day — though
not soon enough — the whole wretched White Empire will fall. Just
in time for the meek to inherit the ashes, as the climate collapses
around us. It will be a Pyrrhic victory, literally, but it has still been
Palestine’s dharma to light the spark, and ours to carry the flame until
the whole wretched edifice burns.

For all colonized people, for all decent people, this is our jihad. Jihad
not as a ‘scary’ Arabic word, but as a real word with real meaning.
Jihad is what we call aragalaya in Sinhala, a righteous struggle. Jihad
“primarily refers to the human struggle to promote what is right and to
prevent what is wrong,” which is precisely what is happening in
Palestine. Which is what should inspire us generally in the world.
God knows they’re putting up enough martyrs. The least we can do is
put up a fight. The world is going from the frying pan to the fire, and
going back again is not a solution. Forget debating how we’re cooked,
our children should not be devoured by Empire at all. This is some-
thing worth fighting for, and for the brave mujahideen actually doing
it, godspeed and mashallah.

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73.WHO’S THE TERRORISTS
NOW?
DECEMBER 2023

Terrorism is a deeply racialized word which broadly means othered

violence. The self has a state and has reasons for its violence, whereas
the other is (usually) stateless and is completely irrational. State
violence is a necessary evil, whereas stateless violence is just evil.
Before you have a state — like the founding of Israel, or the Amer-
ican oligarch rebellion — you are ‘terrorists’ (née savages). Once you
do have a state, then you have a self, you are no longer ‘other’. The
blood washes clean from your hands and you can liberally point to
others, doing the same shit you were just doing, except it’s bad now.

Whiteness

Terrorism is racialized because it maps onto the hierarchy of white-

ness, the fluid racial order that colonialism used to map order onto
the world, with corporations at the top, Europeans under them, and
everyone else clambering up and kicking down for favor and
resources. Animals and the natural world are, of course, at the
bottom, because white supremacism is just a subsection of human
supremacism over all. Terrorism is violence which flows the wrong
way along the hierarchy. The problem is not violence per se but
violence out of order. It’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy, as the saying
goes.
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Hence the USA calls many groups terrorist, but never the KKK,
which instead gets invited to the White House. Or Israel lies about
their enemies beheading babies, while actually killing babies in incu-
bators. There’s no inconsistency here because the hierarchy is
preserved. The feeling of ‘terror’ is reserved for ‘white’ people (and
humans), and what native or natural beings feel simply doesn’t regis-
ter. Hence Israel refers to its periodic pogroms of Palestine as dealing
with ‘human animals’ or ‘mowing the lawn’, just as America culled
the ‘merciless savages’ and animals of Turtle Island.

Frightness

These are, of course, academic definitions of terrorism, whereas how

it is experienced has a more specific meaning in modern times.
While, politically, on an unconscious level, terrorism is racialized, on
the personal, conscious level, terrorism is deeply emotionalized.
Terrorism is perceived as attacks on civilians, usually gruesome ones
that, most importantly, could happen to you. In fact, you’re about as
likely to die in a tornado, but it’s the feeling (ie, terror) that counts.
You can easily imagine yourself blowing up in a café or on a bus, and
your (imaginary) selfhood is thus tied up in the (also imaginary) self-
hood of the state. You are united, thus, against the other, in the imagi-
nary selfhood you share.

Modern Times

Modern times, however, are a-changing. People can imagine them-

selves in all kinds of places, and ‘other’ people can project themselves
in all directions. The contradiction of capitalist white supremacy is
that it must keep including more people (human capital) to keep
growing, so the definition of whiteness keeps expanding.Thus you get
an Irish Catholic President (not ‘white’ this time last century), Indians
running the UK, and Muslims all over the place. A whole range of
people are dutifully climbing the ladder of whiteness, which now
includes identifying with ‘others’ from a very young age. As the
American yard signs read, ‘In this house, X, Y, and Z are welcome, as long
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as it doesn’t mess with my property values.’ This is the central contradic-
tion of late-stage capitalism, the yard sign by which it is measured
and found lacking.

To take the most proximate example in Palestine, White Empire

needs to keep the Middle East divided and conquered to control the
oil. But they’re not supposed to be doing genocide anymore, or even
using oil! Whereas in the past the British Empire could just call itself
an Empire and openly say they were taking shit and civilizing
savages, you can’t say that shit anymore. But America, the heirs to
White Empire, still has to do it! This is a deep contradiction.

What Empire has been teaching their children doesn’t match what
they’re still doing, and as Bobby D said, “Your sons and your daughters
are beyond your command” Unfortunately, Empire’s son’s and daugh-
ters don’t command shit, and Empire’s gerontocracts don’t give a
damn, making the whole thing a carnival of impotence. The real
battle is being joined by the orphan army of Hamas and the poorest
countries in the Arab world, who are actually resisting, and being
called ‘terrorist’ for their troubles. But the word doesn’t stick anymore
because, well, just look at the world.

Modern Terrorism

Indians are cowboys and cowboys are Indians. Cops are robbers and
robbers are cops. The media is social, and the social is media.
Soldiers are terrorists and terrorists are soldiers. The world is upside-
down which is terrible for an Empire defined by a hierarchy. To take
the soldier/terrorist example, nothing is as it’s supposed to be. Hamas
soldiers are attacking tanks, while Israeli tanks are attacking hospi-
tals! There’s no way to spin this, really. The world itself has gone
topsy-turvy. Just compare Telegrams and see.

Comparing Telegrams

I increasingly follow Telegram for news, because all the people you’re
supposed to hate are on there. Like, for example, the Al Qassam
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Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. Terrorists, of course, but are
they? Look at what they’re doing. Here is a random screenshot of
their updates from 3 December 2023, auto-translated.

Qassam Brigades on Telegram (you need to be on desktop/web or sideloading the

app)

Of these activities, we have five reports of attacking soldiers and mili-

tary equipment, ie, what soldiers are supposed to do. Only two of the
reports are about firing rockets at settlements, themselves on occu-
pied land. But let’s call that terrorism to be generous.

Now let’s compare to Israel, which is, in contrast, all terrorism all the
time. Israel doesn’t have granular updates at all. They just include big
updates, saying something insane like “10,000 airstrikes were carried
out” and expect you to take their word that terrorists were hit, despite
people having eyes and social media to see the actual civilian
carnage.

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 The IOF which I won’t link cause they suck

The Israeli Occupation Forces use the word terrorism a lot, but the
world has eyes and their victims have cameras. We have seen the
targeted bombings of hospitals, mosques, refugee camps, and homes.
We have seen tanks physically invading hospitals, forcing the doctors
out at gunpoint, abducting them, and leave premature babies to die
and decompose alone. We have seen the bombing of refugee camps
with 2,000 kg American bombs. We have seen the targeting of jour-
nalists, food and water supplies, not to mention cutting off water,
electricity, and fuel to an entire population. Israel's acts are terrifying
and they have traumatized not just Palestinians but the entire world.
If this isn’t terrorism, what is?

Israel lies about every target being a ‘terrorist’ target, saying that
Hamas was ‘near or inside civilian buildings, such as schools, kinder-
gartens, mosques, and playgrounds.’ Then they film themselves standing
in front of toilets and baby bottles, claiming its terrorist
infrastructure, and they look like idiots.Meanwhile the western
media has been crying wolf about terrorism for two decades now, and
can hardly back them up on this one. It doesn’t work anymore, but
Satan knows they’re trying. You can see the excuses yourself.

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This thin gruel, however, is beggared by the Palestinian Resistance,
posting videos of them running up on tanks and blowing them up
with their bare hands. Of them releasing hostages with daps instead
of broken bones. The ‘terrorists’ look like soldiers and the soldiers
look like terrorists. While the Resistance updates are all about hitting
military targets, the Israeli updates are about blowing up hospitals
and homes. The IOF tried to post a Hamas-style video of battle
footage and just filmed themselves shooting up desks in an empty
school. They look like idiots.

Who’s Bad?

So who’s the terrorists now? Who always was? Once you get past the
perception of othered violence and look at it objectively, it’s the guys in
masks saying Allahu Akbar that act like decent soldiers while the suit-
and-ties on TV look like absolute ghouls. Meanwhile a world with
social media can easily imagine themselves in the Palestinians, and
can thus feel Empire’s violence for what it is. Terrorism, acts on civil-
ians which inspire terror in the population at large.

The Resistance, on the other hand, is methodically dismantling the

military might of Empire with GoPros on; thus dismantling their
mighty propaganda too. The ‘terrorists’ look like brave soldiers, while
the ostensible soldiers look like absolute cowards and bullies, killing
children more than anybody else. This was always true but A) the
bad guys won and B) controlled perception. Now the doors of percep-

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tion are overflowing with the blood of children and we can see White
Empire as it is. Infinitely terrible.

So who’s the terrorists now? Who always was? Don’t follow the bull-
shit, which is bullshit. Follow the body count. Who’s hitting civilians
and making a big show of it, and who’s hitting military targets and
making every homemade mortar count? All of the bombs Israel,
America, and the whole White Empire have dropped on millions of
people are worse than the improvised bombings and stabbings
people have responded with for the simple fact that they killed more
people.

Calling one act ‘terrorism’ and the other business as usual is only
possible because of a mass advertising campaign to comprehensively
deny the feelings of people actually being bombed and manufacture
the feelings of people that just see it on TV. You see it in Israel with
the lies about October 7th — that children were beheaded, that
people were raped, that civilians were targeted. None of this is true,
but it doesn’t matter, it’s about evoking a feeling, it’s about terrorizing
people to get what you want, which is what the Empire was doing.

Allahu Akbar

Thus it ain’t the people saying Allahu Akbar you should fear. God is
great, especially compared to the godless carbon crusaders defiling
their own holy land. America is the Great Satan, creating a Babel
Tower of bombs and mass media that needs to be taken down, brick
by brick, mortar by mortar. While imperial liberals call for an incre-
mental approach, that simply doesn’t work when children are dying
every 10 minutes. Obviously you’d fight for your children. Their
incrementalism looks demented now.

Jihad against this great evil is justified, and godspeed to the

mujahideen fighting it. Jihad — far from being the scary Muslim word
it’s been marketed as — means a righteous struggle, and it’s an act of
self-discipline above all. Hamas certainly has attacked buses and
cafés before, but they’re much more disciplined now. Their attacks on

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October 7th were more than proportional, and they and their allies
are strategically lighting up military targets above all. The contrast
couldn’t be more striking. The terrorists are acting like soldiers and
the soldiers like terrorists, except with industrial munitions and air
forces. Israel and America are attacking ambulances and entire
neighborhoods, while Hamas dismantles tanks with their bare hands
and sheer bravery. So I’ll ask it again, who’s the terrorists now? One
side is blowing up hospitals and the other tanks. Once you get past
the racism, isn’t it obvious?

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74.A DYING EMPIRE HAS
NOTHING TO OFFER BUT
DEATH
OCTOBER 2023

Led by the visibly dying Joe Biden, the visibly dying American
Empire is lashing out in every direction — a final paroxysm of
violence, possibly nuclear in its dénouement. They see enemies
everywhere (Russia! China! Iran!) not understanding that the
common factor in all this violence is them. If there’s an axis of evil,
they’re at the center of it. America doesn’t resolve conflict anywhere,
never has. Where’s the money in that? America is the conflict. They
are the ones who knock. As the unreconstructed war criminal Henry
Kissinger said, ‘America is dangerous to enemies, but fatal to friends’.
America itself is an unreconstructed war crime, violent, rapacious,
and genocidal till the bitter end.

In Palestine, America is backing, arming, and propagandizing the

open genocide of the Palestinian people. Israel is quite openly talking
about ‘eliminating’ Palestinian ‘animals’, none of whom are consid-
ered civilians, despite being half children. And America is flying in to
openly back them. Israel has said they will follow no rules of war, and
America has been quite clear that this is what the ‘rules-based order’
means. ‘Rule’ by a white supremacist ‘order’, with people like Pales-
tinians at the very bottom, being crushed by a boot forever, as Orwell
put it.

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America used to at least play at diplomacy, but now even that fig leaf
has dropped. It’s just naked violence, immediately, without even
waiting for appropriations. So the genocidal Israelis are dropping
western bombs on defenceless civilian populations, while the
western media conspires to blame the victims. Hospitals, churches,
mosques, refugee camps, and UN facilities are bombed. It’s just war
crime upon war crime, blaming the victims when the outcry gets too
big. The Israeli’s are cutting off food, water, and medicine to an entire
city, so that people die of hunger, thirst, and disease. It’s a medieval
siege in a mass media age.

They try to cover it up with unremitting propaganda about how the

colonizers are the victims, but the world sees. It’s the same old geno-
cide from the same old White Empire, in its latest, most bloody-
minded colony. The language used to demonize the Palestinians is
that the same talk as the ‘merciless savages’ in the US Declaration of
Independence, and used to justify brutal European hegemony. The
South remembers, motherfuckers, and in the genocide of Gaza, we
can see.

The Empire is simultaneously trying to sell a diametrically opposed

logic in Ukraine, where Russia has killed less children in a year of
fighting than Israel kills in a day. Ukrainians are somehow brave
freedom fighters while Palestinians should shut and die. The global
majority can see that the empire is not on the side of freedom
anywhere, that it’s all lies. In Ukraine, it’s clear that the Empire has
no clothes, because all it can do is funnel arms into a war zone with
no boots on the ground. They have no skin in the game and instead
are just letting Ukraine get skinned alive.

Americans are too fundamentally cowardly to pick on someone their

own size, so they started a proxy war with Russia by couping
Ukraine’s elected government and driving conflict there for decades.
As John Mearsheimer said back then, “The West is leading Ukraine
down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get
wrecked.” Which is precisely what happened. America relentless

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provoked and propagandized an ‘existential’ war, which they’re
promptly dropping as they get back to their usual business model in
the Middle East, dropping expensive bombs on poor people. Ukraine
was quite willing to fight to the last Ukrainian to mildly degrade its
enemy, and now Ukraine is being dropped like the Kurds,
Afghanistan, South Vietnam, and so many like them. This is the
‘friendship’ of a dying Empire. It’s a suicide pact, and ‘you first’.

In addition to this, America is trying to start another war with China

over Taiwan. Of course America still recognizes Taiwan as part of China,
the bluster is all marketing for more munitions. Taiwan should know
better what American ‘friendship’ means, it just means you’re next in
line for human sacrifice, to the war gods Raytheon and Lockheed
Martin. While China just gathered 130 countries to build
infrastructure, America is relentless bombing it. America is still
talking about a made-up genocide in Xinjiang, while gleefully
supporting the real thing in occupied Palestine. This is all a dying
empire built on violence and lies has to offer. A final orgy of ultra-
violence and lies, a nucleus of hate, threatening to go nuclear and
irradiate everybody.

In this way, the visibly aging and disoriented Joe Biden is the true
picture of a dying and disoriented America. Biden was chickenhawk
draft dodger who was still down to start wars anywhere his whole
career. Avoiding military service (especially in Vietnam) used to be
politically toxic for American leaders, but the chickenshit Empire has
been openly led by chickenhawks since Bill Clinton. War has always
meant other people dying for these cowards, and so it continues
under Biden, until the devil claims him soon enough.

Biden is visibly aging and dying in office, mouthing mealy platitudes

about America as the ‘indispensable nation’, quoting Madeline
Albright who also said 500,000 dead Iraqi children was ‘worth it’.
She’s waiting for him in hell, most certainly. Biden’s latest speech
from the White House was just advertising for arms dealers. He
referred to the ‘arsenal of democracy’ but WTF does that mean? It’s just

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a bunch of arsehole arms dealers, killing foreigners and depriving
Americans a functioning country. Do any of the people bombed get a
vote? Do American people vote to go to war? Does Congress even get
formally asked anymore? Imperial Presidents just bomb whoever
they want and ask for appropriations later. And they get them,
because the whole system is corrupt. The Defense Secretary walked
straight in from the Raytheon boardroom, and half the US Congress
is on the Israeli payroll. Bribes are called ‘donations’ and conflicts of
interest are called ‘connections’, but it’s all just corruption with better
branding.

The vaunted American military itself is a paper tiger, having lost

every war for decades, while making a lot of money for absolute
ghouls. The great expense of their military is really just a measure of
great and total corruption, all literally unaccountable. The Pentagon
has failed five audits. It’s literally unauditable. They over-spend
billions for complicated, often useless weapons systems and $1,800
toilet seats (inflation adjusted). Meanwhile its debt-slave soldiers live
off food stamps, struggle for healthcare, and kill themselves in
depression and desperation. The late imperial war machine destroys
other countries and loots its own treasury, all for the benefit of a
corrupt oligarchy and the politicians, like Biden, that it corrupts. It’s
the military-industrial-complex Eisenhower warned about, except
expanded to a corrupt media that gets the advertising rights to the
carnage. These craven elites have long since figured out that there’s
more money in losing wars than winning them. You sell more bullets.

All of his talk about the ‘idea of America’ is just so much marketing,
and at this point we know that the product he’s selling is defective,
deadly, and destructive in every possibly direction. Biden talked
about “innocent people all over the world who hope because of us. Who
believe in a better life because of us,” but WTF is he talking about?
America just killed over a million innocent people in its terror wars,
displaced over 37 million, and is now bombing entire families in
Gaza, as well as offering the population of Ukraine to mildly degrade
its enemy and make stock prices go up. Taiwan is just the next on the

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chopping block. America has no allies, only interests, and it gets
easily bored. All of the corrupt governments it has ‘supported’ get
abandoned after their countries are destroyed and they just move
onto the next one. The world is just a big arms fair to them, and it’s
not fair to anyone at all.

Even Europe, America’s supposed ally, is offered up for sacrifice

because fuck everyone. America bombed Germany’s Nordstream
pipeline and the country is rapidly deindustrializing without afford-
able energy. Russia is now a bigger economy than Germany, and the
Americans make a killing selling expensive natural gas while the
German economy dies. America — through its vassal the UK — shut
down a negotiated settlement with Russia — and Europeans suffer
(not to mention all the Ukrainians that have needlessly died. While
Ukrainians die on the real frontline, the European economy dies. To
paraphrase Lord Fuckwad from the film Shrek, ‘“Some [of your
economies] may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.”

This is all America has to offer at the end. An orgy of human sacrifice,
a waste of precious lives and resources, and slander and blame in
every direction, especially towards the formerly colonized. The open
genocide of Gaza, fuel on the fire they started in Ukraine, sieges and
sanctions against most of the world. The nations is visibly led by old,
dying cowards and so it meets its own cowardly end, screaming about
freedom, oppressing in every direction. Too cowardly to actually fight
and end wars, but cravenly supplying arms to inflame them. Unable
to build any infrastructure but only destroying it. Unable to sell a
credible story because the reality is too gory and obvious.

This is all the dying Biden has to offer the dying Empire and the
people and planet being killed. More wars on top of old wars, most of
them tawdry reruns. People have seen these programs before, the
genocide of Palestinians and Nazis fighting Russians. At this point it’s
just old tragedies, repeating as farce. As Tupac said in 1993 “They got
money for wars but can’t feed the poor.” He’s still tragically relevant, long
after he’s gone. He continued, saying, “And still I see no changes, can’t a

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brother get a little peace? It’s war on the streets and the war in the Middle
East.” That was 30 years ago, and he was right. Still ain’t nothing
changed. These people are still deranged. A dying Empire has
nothing to offer but death, to allies and enemies alike. They don’t
care about life at all. They just want to make a killing, all the way
down.

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THE END
75.ARE WE NEARING THE
FINAL CRASH OF
CAPITALISM?
APRIL 2022

Capitalism crashes all the time. It’s so regular it’s called the business
cycle. Everything else is just spin. As Jeremy Irons says in the movie
Margin Call:

It’s certainly no different today than its ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, ’37,
’57, ’84, 1901, ’07, ’29, 1937, 1974, 1987 — Jesus, didn’t that fuck up me
up good — ’92, ’97, 2000 and whatever we want to call this. It’s all
just the same thing over and over; we can’t help ourselves. And you
and I can’t control it, or stop it, or even slow it. Or even ever-so-
slightly alter it. We just react.

Capitalism somehow harnesses the cosmic cycle of creation, preser-

vation, and destruction into a ‘business cycle’ that keeps going round
and round, and spitting more and more money out. Capitalism
should have died many times already, but it gets resurrected more
than Jesus Christ. Unlike the risen Lord, however, it actually sticks
around.

Trotsky

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As Leon Trotsky said,“there is no crisis which can be, by itself, fatal to
capitalism.” Via Hadas Thier:

Nevertheless, whatever the scale and fury of economic crises,

none automatically translate to revolution or the end of capital-
ism. As Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky put it, "There is no
crisis which can be, by itself, fatal to capitalism."Rather, crises
create objective conditions, which make struggle, and ultimately
the overthrow of capitalism, possible. But this depends on the
subjective element the confidence, organization, and politics of
the working class. These are topics that lay outside the scope of
this book, but the final word will be left here to Trotsky, who
went on to explain:

The oscillations of the business cycle only create a situation in which

it will be easier, or more difficult, for the proletariat to overthrow capi-
talism. The transition from a bourgeois society to a socialist society
presupposes the activity of living men who are the makers of their
own history... The crises of capitalism are not numbered, nor is it indi-
cated in advance which one of these will be the "last." But our entire
epoch and, above all, the present crisis imperiously command the
proletariat: "Seize power!" If, however, the party of the working class,
in spite of favorable conditions, reveals itself incapable of leading the
proletariat to the seizure of power, the life of society will continue
necessarily upon capitalist foundations-until a new crisis, a new war,
perhaps until the complete disintegration of European civilization.

Trotsky said “the oscillations of the business cycle only create a situation in
which it will be easier, or more difficult, for the proletariat to overthrow
capitalism.” And this did indeed happen, in the early 1900s period of
collapse, violence, and revolution that shook the globe. And we’re in
another such period now. But no conclusions are foregone.

What’s interesting is Trotsky’s last sentence, that (generally) “the life of

society will continue necessarily upon capitalist foundations—until a new
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crisis, a new war, perhaps until the complete disintegration of European
civilization.” And that, I think, is where we are.

The truth is that European civilization did disintegrate last century,

just not completely enough. As that genocidal racist Winston
Churchill said, “the New World, with all its power and might, [stepped]
forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.” And so for another
century the violence and exploitation continued from America, the
new capital of Capital abroad.

But now even that bastion is coming apart. The Capitol of Capital has
already been stormed once. It’s World Trade Center and Pentagon
had already been struck. It’s a trifecta really. White Empire is just one
big financial crash away from disintegrating once again and I don’t
know where they retreat to this time. Australia?

And yet even this, even the complete disintegration of European civi-
lization (as welcome as it would be), even this is not enough. As Irons
said in Margin Call, “there’s going to be a lot of money to be made coming
out of this mess.” As there always is.

The stock market goes back to colonialism in the 1600s, but let’s start
from the 1870s because that’s what I can find. There’s a lot of crashes,
but overall it’s ‘up and to the right’. So why would you ever stop this?
Sure a bunch of proles might starve sometimes, but workers are a
renewable resource. Sure the markets always crash, but they always
regain. And so they remain.

Climate Collapse

The only way Capitalism finally crashes is if something completely

disrupts this Cartesian Plane. Like, comes from outer space. Which is
happening, in a way.As you can see from this graph or, like, going
outside. The rise of global capitalism is the rise of global warming. It’s
one and the same. As the IPCC says,“Economic growth measured by
total or individual income growth is a main driver of GHG emissions.” And
yet this is all markets really measure. They might as well be
measuring climate change.
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As you can see, a market based economy is simply incompatible with
a livable planet. You can certainly have markets within socialism or
communism (economies planned around human needs). But you
cannot have markets taking over everything, as they have been under
neoliberal regimes.

You can see the IPCC calling for socialism in its complicated-ass way:

There is a growing realisation that mere monetary value of income

growth is insufficient to measure national welfare and individual
well-being. Hence, any action towards climate change mitigation is
best evaluated against a set of indicators that represent a broader
variety of needs to define individual well-being, macroeconomic stabil-
ity, and planetary health.

How are you going to enforce this ‘set of indicators’? Certainly not by
Capitalism alone, which sees only dollars and cents. You need
governments that work not for the oligarchs, but for the 99%. And so
you get the ripest conditions for revolution. Not the exploitation of
workers—which people seem to give a fuck about—but the final
resource exploitation of the planet, effectively tipping us into the sun.

Capitalism Reborn

But is even this enough? We know climate collapse is happening right

now, but oil and coal markets are still going up. The fossil fuels
companies have known for 40 years, but they never gave a fuck.
When a war or crisis impacts fossil fuels, do we cry out for renew-
ables with new urgency? No, we just want lower prices at the pump.

As I have discussed, if you look at the geological record, what we are

seeing is not one species dying as much as another species being born.
We think of Capital as this ‘thing’ that we control, but it is really a
symbiote. It takes the blood of labor and the love of lucre to become

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its own lifeform. Geologically speaking, this has actually happened
before.

3.5 billion years ago, aerobic bacteria started tapping a novel energy
source—the sun. They tapped it so hard that their emissions almost
turned the whole thing into a snowball. Climate collapse, just the
other way round. Then over millions of years they learned to balance
the thermostat, and here we are. Do you see where I’m coming from?

We think of Capital as being our slave, but c’mon. Joint stock compa-
nies have literally been enslaving people since the 1600s. Wage
slavery effects everyone still. Even the wealthy corporate raiders in
Margin Call keep saying ‘do we have a choice?’ They don’t. None of us
do. We’re all caught up in the maw of this rising beast, choking on its
residue.

Capital, as a species of artificial life, is changing the climate, and new

species generally don’t give a fuck about where they came from.Aer-
obic bacteria killed off most ancestral bacteria with their emissions,
and that previously dominant species had to retreat to deep sea vents
and up our butts.

Do you know what we call the toxic, volatile emission that killed
anaerobic life off? Oxygen, which we love. It’s entirely possible that
future generations of Capitalist life will think of carbon dioxide
as fun.

Hence it is entirely possible that corporations—relying on a thread-

bare amount of human labor—could be wandering the Earth in 400
years, an Earth stripped of 90% of lifeforms, and not feel bad about
this at all. Do you give a fuck about anaerobic bacteria? In this way,
rich peoples feelings have really have a life of their own.

This is why I saw that even as we’re nearing what should be the final
collapse of Capitalism—the collapse of White Empire—even that is
not enough. Even as we near the final-FINAL.docx of Capitalism—the
collapse of the entire climate—even that is not enough. Trotsky was
right when he said“there is no crisis which can be, by itself, fatal to capi-

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talism.” He was right without qualification, neither the collapse of
European civilization or human civilization is enough.

For human beings to survive, for a human-livable planet to survive,

there must be revolution. Overthrowing the neoliberal idea that
markets need to eat everything, and harnessing them within
socialism for human needs, like eating, and not shitting where we eat.

Every crisis we will face this tumultuous century will provide an

opportunity greater (re: worse) than any opportunity before. And yet
great thinking, great sacrifice, and great actions must still be taken for
the wheel to turn. Evolution doesn’t help us here, if anything we’re
being out-evolved. We need actual revolution to turn this thing
around.

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76.THIS IS HOW THE
FUTURE FALLS
DECEMBER 2023

John Gast’s ‘American Progress’, redone by Klee Benally

This is how the future falls, on the weak first, like a predator. On the
babies in incubators, the dialysis patients, the disabled, the stateless
people of Palestine, the statistics of Congo, and those even more
forgotten. Like a predator, the Hegemonster goes for the weak of the
herd, and culls. It preys on the poor, on the sick, on the elderly. All
the people that motivated the Buddha to find a way out of suffering,
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that’s precisely who this fake enlightenment heaps suffering upon.
This thing we call Western Civilization, this is how it falls. On the
weak first, like a predator.

We were told western ‘development’ was a steed, to carry us forward,

but it is, in deed, just a predator. It devours Gaza, while we just gaze
on. It digests Congo, without us even noticing. It chews up the planet,
inexorably, leaving just bones, plastic, and radioactive undertones.
That’s how the future falls, on the weak of the herd first, like a
Predator drone, but eventually on everything and everyone.

If you were designing an apex predator, atop human prey, you

couldn’t do much better than the genus industrialization, species
military-industrial-complex. These incorporated beasts have a DNA
devoted to profit above all, and humans predictably end up under-
neath, with animals and planet even further down. Anyone cursed to
be born on top of oil gets chewed up and spit out. Meanwhile the
emissions of the artificial genus choke out all natural species,
including us. And we vainly think we’re in control. We’re just human
cogs in corporate cyborgs, if we’re lucky. We’re at best collaborators
and at worst collateral. We are just carbon-based lifeforms at the end
of the day, falling prey to those that devour carbon as an energy
source. And the end of the day is now.

We are, culturally, at a moment William S. Burroughs called ‘naked

lunch’, “the frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every
fork.” In those frozen years after COVID-19, we saw the poor, the sick,
the disabled, and the entire south get sacrificed to pharmaceutical
companies. Artificial patents were more important than real people.
We should have known. Now, in the frozen horror since October 7th,
we are watching the entire population of Gaza get sacrificed so
America can keep its aircraft carrier near the gas station. And so
babies, children, women, and men get industrially slaughtered, while
the resistance are called terrorists.

But those words don’t work anymore. It’s a naked lunch now, and
their propaganda falls as flat as the apartments and hospitals they
level. We can see what’s on the menu for our mercantile overlords
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and it’s us. The weakest among us are first on the end of the fork, but
we’re all on the plate eventually. There’s only one Gaza and they can’t
leave and there’s only one Gaia and we’re stuck here too. This is the
fall and when it falls on you is just a timing difference.

If you haven’t felt it yet, just look under your feet, at the crushed
people and species your world is collapsing on. You are not immune
to their fate. They are you, after all. The weak of the herd get picked
off first but the whole herd is careening off a cliff soon enough. We
ate all the grass and had way too much gas, and now there’s nowhere
to go but down.

Spacetime is ultimately one phenomenon and where collapse

happens is just a matter of when, in the long run. If you picture your-
self, like a spaceman, falling into a black hole, there is a moment
where your feet get stretched out by the massive force of gravity, like a
long spaghetti into the abyss. You might look down, curiously,
thinking “how have my feet gotten 1,000 kilometers in front of me?” but
you are your feet, just as we are the world. You are attached to your
feet, and the shit underneath, just as we are attached to the meek,
and matter we eat. So just as the spaceman’s body snaps like a strung-
out spaghetti, so snaps our body politic, in parts first, and then in
totality. A Black Hole’s gravity and White Empire’s demand for
growth are both exponential functions, and there’s only one way they
work. At some point, you cross event horizon, into the singularity, and
things get fucked up real fast. That point is now.

If you’re lucky enough to see collapse on television, just know that

you’re only looking forward in time, like a telescope looks backwards.
The White Empire collapses from its proxies and provinces first, but
the weight of collapse is deep in the heart of whiteness. Where most
of my readers are. My country, Sri Lanka, has already fallen. So has
yours. The printed money just allows you to imagine a little longer,
but you’re just playing Monopoly on the Titanic. Just ask the people
in steerage, who are already underwater.

This is how the future falls. Whether you understand it through the
metaphor of predators or physics is immaterial. I am just describing
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an illusion in illusions when reality will enlighten you soon enough.
None of us can know death but, in the end, we all do, that’s the para-
dox. When the Buddha saw the suffering of sickness, old age, and
death he was just seeing his own future, the future of all things that
exist and are reborn. When you see the suffering across the world
today, you are just seeing your own future. Life is suffering — the
word dukkha poorly translated — and the end of 99% of life on Earth
is a lot of suffering, all at once. There’s no way around it. Time is a flat
circle.

This thing we call Western Civilization, this is how it falls. On the

poor, on the weak, on the children first, and then finally on us all. We
were told it was a steed but, indeed, it was just a predator. It picked
off the weak of the herd first — babies in incubators, babes in arms,
mothers, disabled, elderly — and killed anyone trying to help —
doctors, journalists, first responders, UN workers, men in general.
And we just watched on, like we had all the time in the world. But we
don’t.

Both world and time are running out. It’s one phenomenon of space-
time, one crushing force of entropy, one black hole of White Empire.
When we look at what they do to Gaza, we’re just staring at our own
feet and startling at our own fate. It’s just a timing difference. We have
all been eaten by the Hegemonster, and it devours everything living,
if not with its mouth, then with its toxic farts. To paraphrase Gramsci,
the old world is dying and a new world struggles to be born. Now is
the time of the Hegemonsters.

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77.WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE
IN A FALLEN EMPIRE
JANUARY 2024

The curious thing about history is that it’s an utter mystery to the
people living in it. If you asked Roman citizens circa 476 how the ‘fall’
was going they’d be confused. What fall? Rome had lumbered on for a
century after 395, then split from West to East for another century,
and took another thousand to finally ‘disappear’. So when did the
Roman Empire fall? When did Roman citizens acknowledge it? The
fall of any Empire is ultimately a historical call, and people don’t live
in history. They live in the now, and the news will never tell you. So
take it from this random Sri Lankan blogger, an already dead canary
in the fossil fuel mine. Stick a fork in this European/American/White
Empire. It’s done.

The Many Names Of Great Satan

I call this Empire White Empire because — having been colonized by

the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British, and now the American —
from my perspective, what’s the fucking difference? Call it Western
Civilization, the West, the Rules-Based Order, Liberal Democracies,
pick your poison, it’s all killing us. The Great Satan has many names,
like Satan himself. This corporate Hegemonster — devouring people
and resources for planets — was born in Europe, cannibalized itself

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in World War II, but re-formed in America and kept going. As the
British loser of World War II, Winston Churchill said (with liberal
ellipses):

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States
have fallen or may fall… then our Empire beyond the seas, armed
and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until,
in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might,
steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.

The great myth Britain told itself after World War II was that they
won, when in fact they lost to the Americans. The ‘Empire beyond the
seas’ that Churchill spoke about wasn’t theirs, it was America and
American hegemony. Britain could keep its shitty food and money
laundering operation, but all of the imperial bases and power went to
the Americans.

America, in turn, created the myth that they were ‘just helping’ by
occupying the world and not doing what anybody with 800 military
bases is obviously doing and, you know, occupying it. Thus the ‘New’
World, with all its power and might, stepped forth to the occupation of
the Old. Just as the Roman Empire split from West to East, the White
Empire split from East to West and lumbered on. Which roughly
brings us up to date.

Barbarians At The Gates

Now the barbarians are at the gates. Just look around. Yemen is
blocking imperial ‘roads’ in the Red Sea, and getting away with it.
Iraqis are bombing American bases and getting away with it too. The
provinces are literally getting from Empire, and what’s an Empire
without provinces? Meanwhile the vassal armies of Ukraine and
‘Israel’ are losing on the battlefield, and what’s an Empire without
vassals? Nothing at all. That Emperor visibly has no clothes, and no
balls.

All the talk about ‘defending Western Civilization’ shows that it’s already
fallen. Arming Ukraine was supposed to ‘defend’ Western Civiliza-
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tion, and now that country is literally amputated and the West lost.
Arming ‘Israel’ is supposed to ‘defend’ Western Civilization, and
people can see that the very concept is genocidal. Meanwhile Europe
is being deindustrialized and American life expectancy is going
down. Western Civilization increasingly sucks for the people living in
it along with the people it’s killing. Western Civilization can’t defend
itself and, anyways, who wants to?

Meanwhile people like me — in peripheral provinces like Sri Lanka

— feel confident saying that the Empire has no clothes. What’s left to
this history, besides the misery of living through it? It’s already writ-
ten. You’re reading it now.

The Humpty Dance

Historically speaking, barbarians already sacked ‘Rome’ in 2001,

hitting the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and almost the
Capitol. Then Donald Trump — the vulgarian inside the gates —
sacked the Capitol himself in 2021. The mandate of heaven has obvi-
ously been withdrawn. A falling Empire can still create hell on Earth
for millions, but all the money printers and little green men, cannot
put Humpty together again. As the Digital Underground said in 1990,
“Alright, stop what you’re doin’ ’cause I’m about to ruin, The image and the
style that you’re used to.” And now the literal underground in Palestine
is doing it in the only language Empire understands. Violence.

White Empire attacked Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and now

Palestine in a blind rage, but they couldn’t hold any of these places.
They just ‘raged, raged, against the dying of the white,” to paraphrase
Dylan Thomas. Empire was already, as Paul Simon said, slip slidin’
away. To paraphrase Rhymin’ Simon, “you know, the more the devasta-
tion, the more you’re slip slidin’ away.”

Now White Empire has wholly lost Afghanistan, are under attack in
Iraq and Syria (Allah help Libya), and Palestine is in a state of open
rebellion. Empire is still able to kill aplenty, but they miss the point of
killing which is winning and intimidating. America hasn’t won a war

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in living memory, they’re just using the machinery to make blood
money. They can’t even field their own army anymore, they have to
hide behind proxies (ie, vassals). Even their Cold War ‘victory’ is
being unwound, as Russia redraws borders while Empire just‘speaks
loudly and carries a limp dick’. Empire can still kill lots of people in the
news, but historically speaking they’re dead. They’re losing the prov-
inces, they’re losing the ‘roads’, and — most fatally for any Empire —
they’re losing face.

China is already a richer country. Not in terms of GDP — measured

in increasingly unreal US dollars — but in terms of PPP, as is what
you can actually do with money. Chinese people live better lives and
are able to fund useful infrastructure all over the world. Americans,
meanwhile, live like shit and export rubble. Russia is already a bigger
and better military. They have more active duty troops and better
technology and the ability to produce it. America is sitting there
printing money but they can’t print bridges or bullets. And the rest of
the world is increasingly moving on. You can only lose so many wars
and so much money and so much face for so long.Eventually you
have to look in the mirror, see that you’re broke, broken and just
breaking things all around. And that the fear and respect that made
you an Empire is simply gone.

As I’ve said, the Eastern White Empire first fell in World War II, then
re-formed in the West. Barbarians sacked the new capital of Capital
in 2001 and Empire’s wild over-reaction just accelerated the process.
Empire started and lost a bunch of wars itself, printed and lost a
bunch of money on dumb shit, and found itself militarily exhausted
and financially tapped out by 2008. Now they’re just a zombie army
and a zombie economy, waiting for history to put them out of their
misery. They can’t make anything and they can’t take anything, all
they can do is fuck shit up in an impotent fury.

Like a much dumber version of Romans, Americans are still yet to

acknowledge that A) they have an Empire that B) it’s connected to
European Empire and C) that it’s dead. I suppose it’s a lot to take in.
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decade (unlikely), in a few decades the whole ecosystem collapses.
Soon enough there will be nothing left to fight over, and no more
energy to fight with. This is the resource exhaustion that befalls every
Empire, though usually on a much smaller scale. Through coloniza-
tion and then fossil-fuelled globalization, White Empire managed to
ruin the whole planet. As the aboriginal philosopher Tyson Yuncka-
porta says, “Civilisations are cultures that create cities, communities that
consume everything around them and then themselves.” As he goes on in
his book Sand Talk:

A city is a community on the arrow of time, an upward-trending

arrow demanding perpetual growth. Growth is the engine of the city
— if the increase stops, the city falls. Because of this, the local
resources are used up quickly and the lands around the city die. The
biota is stripped, then the topsoil goes, then the water. It is no acci-
dent that the ruins of the world’s oldest civilisations are mostly in
deserts now. It wasn’t desert before that. A city tells itself it is a closed
system that must decay in order for time to run straight, while simul-
taneously demanding eternal growth.This means it must outsource
its decay for as long as possible.

Rome was a city that conquered the Mediterranean world, jumped

from West to East, and then eventually fell over a thousand years.
White Empire conquered the whole world through Europe, jumped
from East to West, and then fell in a mere century, living fast and
dying young. It’s the same process. Empire’s are all indomitable until
they’re insolvent, it’s inevitable. If there’s one rule of empire, it’s that
all empire’s fall. The center sucks what energy it can out of the prov-
inces, until it loses control of the edges and collapses into a black
hole.

We’re living through the fall of an Empire right now, and yet this
article might be surprising to you. That’s the curious part about living
through history, it’s usually an utter mystery to those in the middle of
it. We think we’re always the middle of things, but at some point it
has to be the end. And believe me — standing on the internet street
corner with this cardboard sign and a tip cup — the end is now. I

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should carve this in stone and bury it in the garden, to say ‘I told you
so’when all the servers go down. We are living through the end of
White Empire. It was here, it was fucking disastrous, and in short
order it and the entire climate it came up in are going down. Histori-
cally speaking, it’s already done.

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78.CRASH OF A
CIVILIZATION
JULY 2022

In 1996 Samuel P. Huntington wrote The Clash of Civilizations, but it

hasn’t quite worked out like that. It’s more like the crash of one. The
question is what made America powerful, and why does it suck now?

This dude Jeffery R. Barnett whittled it down to 14 points which

Huntington referenced in his book. As Andrei Martyanov said, “No
person with common sense could deny that, with possibly some minor addi-
tions to this list, it is a generally correct framework for identifying the key
factors which make a civilization, or a specific nation, strong and, in many
cases, dominant.”

Let’s look at the 14 points, and then see how the latest flag-bearer of
White Empire is doing now.

THE 14 POINTS OF DOMINATION

1. Owns and operates the international banking system;

2. Controls all hard currencies;
3. Is the world’s principal customer;
4. Provides the majority of the world’s finished goods;
5. Dominates international capital markets;
6. Exerts considerable moral leadership within many societies;

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 7. Is capable of massive military intervention;
8. Controls the sea lanes;
9. Conducts most advanced technical research and
development;
10. Controls leading-edge technical education;
11. Dominates access to space;
12. Dominates aerospace industry;
13. Dominates international communications;
14. Dominates the high-tech weapons industry.

Even at the time that this was written in 1994, cited in 1996, and
recited by Martyanov in 2008, White Empire’s power was already
fading, point by point. Economically, morally, militarily, and industri-
ally. It was always obvious that this was going to happen. Now it’s
obviously happening. Let’s go through it—if not point by point—
chunk by chunk.

A) Money

1. Owns and operates the international banking system;

2. Controls all hard currencies;

America (the latest capital of White Empire) has controlled the

international banking system, had the hardest currency, and even
forged it into a weapon. Countries like Iran were cut off from the
SWIFT messaging system, Venezuela had their gold stolen through
the vassal state of the UK, and Afghanistan had its reserves outright
stolen.

Empire was able to flex by starving and depriving entire populations

but now in 2022 they’ve picked on someone their own size in Russia,
and it’s not going well. Empire’s attempt to ‘reduce the ruble to
rubble’ has instead hurt its own allies, starved the world’s poor, and
caused inflation at home.

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Biden calls the blowback ‘Putin’s price hike’ not realizing what a
colossal admission of defeat this is. If someone else is hiking your
prices, what does that say about imperial power. The Emperor has no
clothes.

The truth is that it’s Biden’s price hike, in that he decided to unilater-
ally sanction Russia without thinking it through. He’s imposed huge
costs on allies and peasants alike, and many of them are just fucking
off from imperial control.

The key wedge state in Imperium is India, the only comparable

population to China, and they want no part of these sanctions. India
is hoovering up cheap Russian oil and even reselling it back to
Europe. China has increased their energy supply even more. Empire
is starving its allies while its enemies and frenemies gorge. It’s a
historic self-own.

Now Russia and China have accelerated their own alternatives to

SWIFT and the imperial banking system, countries like Saudi Arabia
are trading crude in yuan, and even Europe, the ancestral home of
white supremacy, is buying energy with rubles now. The Empire got
used to roughing up poor countries, but now they’ve hit someone
resource-rich who doesn’t give a fuck. The financial weapon forged
by Empire has broken.

B) Stuff

3. Is the world’s principal customer;

4. Provides the majority of the world’s finished goods;

The next thing that defines power is what you do with money, either
buying stuff or investing in production. On both counts, White
Empire is fucked. The natural population center is in Asia and things
are just regressing to the mean. Global consumption growth increas-
ingly comes from China and Asia which makes sense, that’s where
the people are.

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If everyone ends up consuming as greedily and wastefully as white
people we’re all dead, but that’s another story. Whatever consump-
tion means in terms of power, it’s fading from the white world, which
will eventually collapse under its own debt and fundamental unpro-
ductivity.

As the imperial fuckbois at McKinsey say, “Asia is on track to top 50% of

global GDP by 2040 and drive 40 percent of the world’s consumption,
representing a real shift in the world’s center of gravity.”

In terms of trade the change of gravity is even more obvious. As the

Sichuan rappers Higher Brothers say, “The alarm that wakes you up —
made in China, written on your toothbrush and toothpaste — made in
China, put your breakfast in a bowl — made in China.”

China is increasingly not just the leading trade partner, they export
industrialization itself through the Belt & Road. This is not top-down,
colonial conditionality but what Chinese scholars call ‘coevolu-
tionary pragmatism’.

Western countries throw stones at this development work, falsely

calling them ‘debt traps’. China builds infrastructure while western
banks and the IMF keep poor countries trapped in interest payments
and forced privatizations for generations. Some of the infrastructure
is not productive, but at least it exists, unlike the predatory financial-
ization of western development. China does real work on the ground,
building ports and high-speed railways where Empire has sent only
bombs.

As a note, I’m mentioning China a lot here, but the point is not that a
new Empire is in town. While America was quite directly the heir to
British and European imperialism, China has an entirely different
culture. Going back to Zheng He in the 1400s, their idea of
international relations is very different, less about conquest and
domination and almost exclusive trade based. Unlike Europeans,
they had most of the shit they wanted and didn’t need to rob every-
one. Even India influenced all the way through South-East Asia

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through religion and scholarship, not conquest. These are different
cultures and have to be analyzed as such.

Simply mapping the historical anomaly of white supremacy onto

everybody else is incorrect. We’re returning to a more multi-polar
world, of which China is just the biggest point in a multi-polar world.

C) Capital

5. Dominates international capital markets;

One place western capitalism still dominates is capital markets, but

capital markets are the most ephemeral power of all.

The point is really what you deploy that capital to do, and America
doesn’t manufacture things or produce effective weapons anymore.
It’s all stock buybacks, companies that don’t make money, and
fucking ape JPEGs now. As Martyanov said:

The financial balance sheet killed manufacturing planning and

impeded the retention and development of real manufacturing skills
required for true national greatness. There is no national greatness
without the ability to build complex machines and weapons. The
crucial lesson of WWII that real military power must rest on the solid
foundation of a real economy was also forgotten.

D) Morality/Mendacity

6. Exerts considerable moral leadership within many

societies;

Moral leadership for an Empire is basically just lying convincingly.

After all the torture and invasions, after Donald Trump, after getting

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publically decimated by COVID-19, after countless school shootings,
America has no moral leadership left at all. People still talk about
American values, but the global majority knows that they’re worthless.

I won’t give you graphs or data here. Let me just say that I used to
believe in America’s bullshit and now I don’t. This is a realization that
has dawned across most of the world not because of morality, which
can be convincingly lied about, but material concerns, which are
harder to conceal. Whatever America is doing it seemed to work and
be at least headed in some idealistic direction, but now it just looks
like a clown car, careening off a cliff.

E) Military

7. Is capable of massive military intervention;

8. Controls the sea lanes;

With its genocidal wars on the Middle East—killing millions and

displacing tens of millions—America showed that it was capable of
military intervention but by 2022 these have all turned to losses. As
this guy Patrick Armstrong said (via Martyanov), “I can’t get two ques-
tions out of my mind: When was the last time the USA won a war? When
was the last time US-trained troops fought effectively?”

America can certainly start wars and certainly kill people and devas-
tate poor nations, but it cannot win. It has suffered ignominious
defeat after defeat since Vietnam. Even the elder Bush’s ‘victory’ in
Iraq was brutally undone by his son. As Martyanov said, “where are
the tangible results in what throughout human history has served as the
most important test of power: victories in wars?”

Even in regards to control of the seas, America doesn’t even aspire to

it anymore. As published on the US Naval Institute:

The Navy recently shifted its focus from command of the sea to local
sea control. In 2015, Admiral Thomas Rowden introduced distributed

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 lethality, a concept he deemed “the motive force behind offensive sea
control.” He made the focus of the 2016 Surface Warfare Flag Officer
Training Symposium a “Return to Sea Control,” and said in 2017 that
while command of the sea is a useful term for historical analyses, it is
“less useful in modern parlance.”

America still has over 800 military bases, a huge Navy, and sails
warships through the Taiwan Strait at will, but all this somehow
doesn’t equal naval supremacy. And the fact is that command of the
seas still isn’t enough. You ultimately have to be able to land men,
take strategic objectives, and hold on to territory. And America sucks
at this. They get chased out by poor people with improvised
weapons, they simply can’t stand against a modern army, as Russia
has shown.

For all the noise they make about Ukraine, NATO has not taken the
field, they just stand on the sidelines yelling and offering weapons.
It’d be one thing to shut up and try to negotiate a quiet peace, but
making a loud show of war and not taking the field isn’t a show of
dominance. It’s a show of impotence, and that’s not a good look for
Empire at all.

F) Science and Technology

9. Conducts most advanced technical research and

development;
10. Controls leading-edge technical education;
11. Dominates access to space;
12. Dominates aerospace industry;
13. Dominates international communications;
14. Dominates the high-tech weapons industry.

I’m lumping a lot of stuff together at the end because I’m tired of
writing this and you must be tired of reading.

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 In terms of technical research and development, China has
led the world in patents for years now, and the United States
lags even ‘developing’ countries in science and math
education, and even basic literacy.
China has launched whole-ass space stations, Russia
continues its space program unabated, and India launches
highly cost-effective probes to Mars. All while America is
launching billionaires into space for fun.
China has built and deployed 5G technology across the
world while Americans spread conspiracy theories about it.
Even the most popular social network is Chinese now
(TikTok) while America struggles to keep its own social
networks from destabilizing its own government.
While Russia and China have built effective and cheap
military technology, America produces wildly expensive
boondoggles like the Joint Strike Program that take decades
to develop and then crash into the ocean. Hell, even the
Taliban could chase them out with improvised weapons and
time.

Hence on all the signs of what makes a civilization dominant, White

Empire looks completely fucked.

Crash Of A Civilization

Even in the heady 90s, Huntington said “gradual, inexorable, and

fundamental changes are also occurring in the balances of power among
civilizations, and the power of the West relative to that of other civilizations
will continue to decline.”

Today those gradual changes have become sudden. As the saying

goes, there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where
decades happen, and we’re having a lot of weeks like that now.

First, a plague ravaged the Empire, then their Capitol was sacked by
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impotent. These are not survivable losses for an Empire. The
mandate of heaven is obviously withdrawn.

The Empire rage, rages against the dying of the White, but it’s inex-
orable now. The country is one election cycle away from complete
implosion. And so the rest of the world inherits a ruined Earth,
completely wrecked after centuries of colonial empire, passed as it
was from the Europeans to the British to the Americans.

It’s not that some other civilization is taking White Empire down.
These fuckers killed themselves, and they’re taking 90% of life on
Earth with them. There’s no clash of civilizations here. Just the spec-
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79.DELAY, DIVERSIFY,
DESTROY
NOVEMBER 2022

I think, not infrequently, about how we never got a public COVID-19

vaccine. US President Joe Biden announced something and public
pressure let up, but it just never fucking happened. It was just a
delaying tactic, and it worked.

Then I think about how an unelected brown man from the Goldman
Sachs caste is running the UK and an African-American is bombing
Africa for America, and it all comes full circle. They’re diversifying
this dumpster fire rather than putting it out.

Then I think where it all ends. With a rainbow capitalism full of false
promises, leading to the heat death of life as we know it. Delay, diver-
sify, destroy. It’s the new divide and conquer and gods damn it, it
works.

Delay

Elites are now flying their private jets to COP27, which is just a
farcical cop-out at this point. More pledges, more promises, more
pleading, which all amount to one thing. More delay. Emissions have
risen every single year since the first COP. It’s a joke. The primacy of
words over action in western civilization means that they talk

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everyone (literally) to death about climate change while consistently
making it worse.

Every pledge, every promise, even all the data and projections, they
all just amount to delays. The truth is they had all the data they
needed in the 1970s,and the more advanced civilizations they geno-
cided had figured out balance centuries ago. At this point, climate
delay is worse than climate denial. At least the latter fuckers can be
spotted and opposed. The delayers hide behind liberal platitudes and
are slippery as eels. They’ll be talking about 20-year commitments
until they die, and take the whole world with them.

Diversification

The great innovation of capitalism and of the whiteness that is its

hierarchy has been devouring its rebellions. Whiteness always
worked as a way of homogenizing warring West Asian tribes and
turning their violence and brutality against the world. Whiteness has
always been an expanding category, slowly admitting Irish, Italians,
and now Ukrainians and upper-caste Indians.

Just as the whole system collapses into a heap (next section), colored
people, women, and gays are getting the wheel. Just in time to take the
blame. The dung heap of tech companies is increasingly run by brown
people (Microsoft, Google, Twitter for now at least). A brown/black
person is Vice-President of the US, a brown person is PM of the UK, and
the US Secretary of War is black too. But what are they doing? Same old
shit. Just as they greenwash capitalism, they’ve brownwashed imperial-
ism. But it’s still causing the same problems. It’s still leading the same way.

Disaster

The fact is that the violent, extractive systems which produced such
wealth for a few people are not sustainable. The entire ‘western
development’ model is the extraction of wealth from everybody else
in spacetime and that physical debt is coming due. Switching to elec-

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tric cars doesn’t change the system.Switching to a brown PM doesn’t
change the system. The system persists, and is bound for systemic
collapse.

You can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet. It’s just mathemati-
cally impossible. Capitalism remains incompatible with a stable
climate, however much you keep repeating the mantra ‘sustainabili-
ty’. In the same way, you can’t diversify the hierarchy of whiteness
into anything other than it is now. A system of exploitation with
certain people at the top and certain people necessarily at the bottom,
making all the shit and cleaning up.

What we are sailing into is a system collapse and it’s A) unavoidable

and B) won’t even be mitigated without at least a controlled collapse
of the human systems causing it. That means the complete break-
down of things you probably hold dear, like liberal democracy, and
getting products you want whenever you want them, and the general
comfort of the global upper classes. That comfort is what causes
collapse, and it’s honestly an evolutionary tale as old as time.

The fact is that systems like capitalism and imperialism are like any
organism. They try to adapt to change by making little tweaks, a color
change here, a breathing hole there, anything to survive without
being something they’re not. But nature periodically, nay, regularly
just kills the shit out of everybody and starts over with some other
roll of the evolutionary dice. She’s not an editor, she freestyles, and
when one rhyme gets boring she just starts over.

Delay, diversify, and destroy works fine on us in the present moment

because we want it to work. We want to have our cake and eat it too.
We want to have comfortable private transport despite it being
dramatically less efficient than public, so we collectively delude
ourselves into thinking electric cars are a solution. We want to have
power and privilege, so we wait our turn for whiteness instead of
overthrowing the whole thing. So we meet our fate on the path we
take to avoid it, because we missed the point of turning the fuck
around. Because we can’t turn around at a very high level.

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And so we just keeping burning the dead and increasing imaginary
numbers until the whole thing falls down. Delay and diversify are
quite effective in the short term, but as Keynes said, “in the long run we
are all dead”. This is really how the old and rich approach climate
collapse, basically ‘fuck it, just make money until we die in 30 years,’
which is conveniently the horizon for climate pledges).

In the slightly longer run, 90% of species are dead and their own
grandchildren are fucked, but who cars. Delay and diversify are really
just holding tactics against a restive population, allowing the guilty
few to die peacefully and leave us with their mess. We’ve seen their
playbook with the profiteering from COVID-19. They’re just going to
do the same with climate collapse.This Empire was always built
around raping people and the planet, and that’s how it goes down as
well. It took the South down for centuries without too much notice,
but now it’s coming for everyone.Divide and conquer was the old
playbook, and now it’s delay and diversify. It’s always the same old
destruction at the end.

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80.HOW I LIVED THROUGH
THE END OF HISTORY
SEPTEMBER 2021

I grew up in America at the end of history, in the 1990s. The Cold War
was over, Vietnam was past. Civil Rights were won and World War II
was long gone. Nobody even remembered the last pandemic.
America had won or at least survived it all. Last man standing, the
last man of history. Francis Fukuyama called it The End Of History
and it really felt like that. I was there and it was fucking boring. We lit
fires and did drugs to pass the time.

In just 30 years, however, history has violently restarted and America

has lost the plot. America has started another Cold War and lost
another 19-year quagmire in Afghanistan. Somehow Civil Rights have
been lost and Nazis have overrun the Capitol. Nobody remembers
anything but pandemic. We're only at the end of history in the sense
that capitalism has ravaged the planet. Now my children are growing
up at the end of the world.

What the fuck were we thinking? What the hell happened? How did
things collapse so fast? The American empire rose and fell in just one
generation. Mine.

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The End Of History

Fukuyama's essay really captures how people thought at the time.

Writing even before the Soviet Union fell, he captured the sense that
liberalism (democracy + capitalism) was the only ideology left.
Indeed, that it was the best idea ever.

The triumph of the West, of the Western idea, is evident first

of all in the total exhaustion of viable systematic alternatives
to Western liberalism. In the past decade, there have been
unmistakable changes in the intellectual climate of the world's
two largest communist countries, and the beginnings of signifi-
cant reform movements in both. But this phenomenon extends
beyond high politics and it can be seen also in the ineluctable
spread of consumerist Western culture in such diverse con- texts
as the peasants' markets and color television sets now
omnipresent throughout China, the cooperative restaurants and
clothing stores opened in the past year in Moscow, the
Beethoven piped into Japanese department stores, and the rock
music enjoyed alike in Prague, Rangoon, and Tehran.

I was an immigrant growing up in suburban Ohio and it really felt

like this. There was just so much stuff in America, and such beautiful
words in its story. They were obviously doing something right, the
supermarket was so big that Thatha warned us to not get lost. Espe-
cially after the USSR fell (allegedly also in awe of American super-
markets) everyone seemed to follow along. Sri Lanka, India, China,
everybody was literally liberalizing.

What Fukuyama calls liberalism was the last ideology standing, and
he confidently declared it the victor of history. Liberalism was the
final Super Saiyan form of governance, the best and the baddest, no
further transformations could occur. Fukuyama said,

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What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or
the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of
history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolu-
tion and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the
final form of human government.

To Fukuyama, the end of history actually dated from 1806, when

white people discovered this shit. If they ended up informing
everyone through genocide, slavery, and exploitation, well, you're
welcome.

While there was considerable work to be done after 1806—abol-

ishing slavery and the slave trade, extending the franchise to
workers, women, blacks, and other racial minorities, etc.—the
basic principles of the liberal democratic state could not be
improved upon. The two world wars in this century and their
attendant revolutions and upheavals simply had the effect of
extending those principles spatially, such that the various prov-
inces of human civilization were brought up to the level of its
most advanced outposts, and of forcing those so- cieties in
Europe and North America at the vanguard of civilization to
implement their liberalism more fully…

To say that history ended in 1806 meant that mankind's ideolog-

ical evolution ended in the ideals of the French or American
Revolutions: while par- ticular regimes in the real world might
not implement these ideals fully, their theoretical truth is abso-
lute and could not be improved upon. Hence it did not matter to
Kojève that the consciousness of the postwar generation of
Europeans had not been universalized throughout the world; if
ideological devel- opment had in fact ended, the homogenous
state would eventually become victorious throughout the mate-
rial world.

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It's tempting to dunk on Fukuyama for hubris, but he's describing
actual western thought, not inventing it. When Fukuyama says "that
the basic principles of the liberal democratic state could not be improved
upon" he's just stating the actual basis of western foreign policy. The
West really thinks it's doing people a favor by bombing and besieging
them. They're civilizing them. It's not conquest, really, they're just
'extending our principles spatially'.

He's also stating the actual basis of international development. Rich,

white countries are called 'developed' (as in done) and everyone else
is just 'developing' to be like them. If they need to be couped and
sanctioned to help them along, so be it. In the long run, it's all for the
best. Just helping backwards outposts along to the end of history.

Of course, what Fukuyama is saying isn't even especially original.

The entire premise of colonialism is that Europe was a superior civi-
lization. Everyone else were just savages, who should be thankful for
the civilizing mission. The premise of white supremacy is white
supremacy. Fukuyama was just modernizing the old imperial hubris
and stating it out loud.

When Fukuyama says his empire is the best ever, you have to under-
stand that every empire says that. No Egyptian priest was like "you
know, Ra is great, but there must be bigger suns." Fuck no. Every empire
is the greatest, the best, none shall surpass. Every empire wears the
same sneer of cold command, and they all end up in the dust like old
Ozy'mandem. As the Shelley poem goes,

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Empires have been standing athwart history yelling STOP ever since

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there were empires or history, and history keeps patiently kicking
them in the balls. America actually got theirs in record time.

But first, I believed.

The American Faith

I was maybe 14 in the mid-90s when my whole class piled into buses
and drove to Washington DC. We were visiting the temples of democ-
racy, where they keep the faith.

DC is full of Roman-style monuments and giant phalluses housing

the spirits of Lincoln, Jefferson, and Lord Washington himself. We
visited these holy sites then we went to the Hard Rock Cafe. That
juxtaposition is important. It's actually Fukuyama's whole thesis.

The Lincoln Memorial and a cheeseburger. The National Mall and a

shopping mall. That was the religion of American empire, liberal
democracy wedded to capitalism. Fukuyama called liberalism a "state
of consciousness... underwritten by the abundance of a modern free market
economy." That's what I viscerally experienced in Washington DC.

I visited the theatre where Lincoln was martyred and then took
communion with an overpriced cheeseburger next door. It wasn't a
civics lesson, it was a religious experience. Fukuyama quite openly
describes the end of history this way, as a state of consciousness, as an
act of faith, except with works. He said liberalism was like believing
in the Holy Trinity or holy cows, only better.

And in fact men have proven themselves able to endure the

most extreme material hardships in the name of ideas that exist
in the realm of the spirit alone, be it the divinity of cows or the
nature of the Holy Trinity.

But while man's very perception of the material world is shaped

by his historical consciousness of it, the material world can
clearly affect in return the viability of a particular state of

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 consciousness. In particular, the spectacular abundance of
advanced liberal economies and the infinitely diverse consumer
culture made possible by them seem to both foster and preserve
liberalism in the political sphere. I want to avoid the materialist
deter- minism that says that liberal economics inevitably
produces liberal politics, because I believe that both economics
and politics presuppose an autonomous prior state of con-
sciousness that makes them possible. But that state of
consciousness that permits the growth of liberalism seems to
stabilize in the way one would expect at the end of history if it is
underwritten by the abundance of a modern free market econ-
omy. We might summarize the content of the universal homoge-
nous state as liberal democracy in the political sphere combined
with easy access to VCRs and stereos in the economic.

While Christianity promised eternal life, capitalism gave you life

abundantly right now. Jesus multiplied loaves and fishes in the past,
but McDonald's was serving Filet-O-Fish right now. I worked at
McDonald's when I was 14, I saw it happen before my eyes. The food
just appeared in cardboard boxes, we fried it, and money came out.
Whatever dark magic the Americans were doing, it worked. Just look
at all the stuff.

So I believed. How could I not believe? Capitalism wrought miracles

every day. So I pledged allegiance to the flag and bought Tommy
Hilfiger. I went to the 4th of July and ate red, white, and blue popsi-
cles in the summer sun. When Fukuyama described the universal
homogenous state he was describing where I lived, a suburban cul-de-
sac at the end of history. He said,

We might summarize the content of the universal homogenous state

as liberal democracy in the political sphere combined with easy
access to VCRs and stereos in the economic.

You have to understand that this really how I grew up. I read social
studies and then the Crutchfield stereo catalog at break. We were rich

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because we were free, we were free because we were rich. This wasn't
a promise, in my rich, segregated town this was reality. As Fukuyama
said about fascism, the ultimate proof of any ideology was not its
morality but its material success. I was living in a material world and
the Madonna, in this religion, was a material girl.

The End Of The End Of History

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for
recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely
abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called
forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be
replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of tech-
nical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of
sophisticated consumer demands. In the post-historical period
there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual care-
taking of the museum of human history. I can feel in myself, and
see in others around me, a powerful nostalgia for the time when
history existed. Such nostalgia, in fact, will continue to fuel
competition and conflict even in the post-historical world for
some time to come. Even though I recognize its inevitability, I
have the most ambivalent feelings for the civilization that has
been created in Europe since 1945, with its north Atlantic and
Asian offshoots. Perhaps this very prospect of centuries of
boredom at the end of history will serve to get history started
once again.

I left America in 2000 because, as Fukuyama says, the end of history

was fucking boring. I was taught that freedom was discovered by the
founders, saved by the Civil War, and finally delivered by the Civil
Rights Movement. American history was done, and where was the
fun in that? I went to Canada first, where an 18-year old could at least
drink at the end of history, and then back in time to Sri Lanka.

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But I never thought that American empire would end. I never
thought my liberal faith could be wrong. In fact, that's only dawned
on me now, with *gestures at everything*. The people inside an
empire can't really date when it falls. As Eleanor Janega said, "If you
asked a Roman on the street what they thought about the fall, they prob-
ably wouldn't understand."

History, I think, will date the collapse of America to 2001. When its
temples of power were desecrated, when it lashed out in violent
anger, and began collapsing into inequality, disease, and fascism. It
was supposed to be the American century, but they only made it 9
months.

In September, Bin Laden kicked America in its financial and military

nuts, hitting the World Trade Center and Pentagon. He missed the
US Capitol, but in 2021 Americans attacked that themselves. No
empire can survive such symbolic destruction. It's like Babylon losing
the statue of Marduk. Power is the appearance of power, empire can't
get hit in all the family jewels and survive.

20 years later, the American military has now lost multiple wars, their
finance industry has collapsed, and their government has failed over
and over again, most notably against a pandemic. The entire world is
on fire, flooding, and dying from manmade climate change. Liberal
capitalism was the end of history only in the literal sense that it ends
the world.

Fukuyama said that "what destroyed fascism as an idea was not universal
moral revulsion against it, since plenty of people were willing to endorse the
idea as long as it seemed the wave of the future, but its lack of success."
Well, look at America now. Not fucking successful. America's temples
are defiled, its people are impoverished and defiant, its military
humiliated and defeated. Success has turned to failure in just one
generation, mine.

And so the end of history ends. History restarts again. People are
dusting off communism, fascism, coming up with who knows what
ideology next. Fukuyama said this moment might come after

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centuries of boredom, but it's all rushing back in terror. We have little
to no time until the end of history becomes a prophecy, until liber-
alism becomes an apocalyptic death cult, until western hubris
destroys the Earth. As the curse goes, we live in interesting times.

So welcome back to history, my friends. Any ideas?

I INITIALLY HATE - READ the essay The End Of History but I respect it now.
You should read it yourself. Fukuyama does us a service by coming out and
stating, clearly, the logic of empire. I dunno if he even agrees with it (he
says he's ambivalent) but what he writes is descriptive more than prescrip-
tive. This is really how empire thought and thinks, shorn of the 'aw shucks'
bullshit. It really is a peek inside the mind of Leviathan, the logic of the
empire in which we all live.

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81.HOW COVID IS CAUSE
FOR REVOLUTION
DECEMBER 2021

We didn't just lose to COVID, we were sold out. The beings that sold
us out will keep selling until the entire Earth is a hot flooded hell,
and COVID is an almost pleasant memory. So before we get to what,
we must get to who. It was the White Empire that sold us out, the
unnamed, inchoate empire that we all live in today.

Who is the White Empire? Broadly it's the US, Canada, Europe, UK,
Australia, New Zealand, and their lackeys like Japan. The same colo-
nial fuckers who literally sold human beings for centuries. They sold
us all out again, and they'll keep doing it until we end their reign.

COVID was a preventable tragedy, because if the White Empire had

acted like human beings, millions of people would be living today.
You don't have to go far to find another example, just the first place
COVID was detected and sequenced.

China eliminated COVID without vaccines, by basic testing, tracing,

isolating, and giving a fuck. Much poorer countries like Rwanda did
much the same. If we had united as human beings, we could have got
hands around this thing. But the White Empire isn't human, it
primarily serves corporate beings, and all they cared about was their
deity, The Economy.

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The farce is that COVID could have been slowed with vaccines, but
the White Empire willfully fucked up that opportunity. When China,
India, South Africa, et al tried to mount a global effort last year, but
the White Empire blocked them. They chose private profit over
public health and snatched defeat from the jaws as victory.

This is the inhuman Empire we live under, and it's gone too long
without a name. An Empire so craven it doesn’t even put up a fight.
An Empire so greedy it values patents more than rights. This is an
Empire so empty you can only call it White.

The concept of beating a virus was literally foreign to the White Empire.
“What are we? A bunch of ASIANS?”

Selling Out The Human Race

Defeating a shared human threat is alien to the world of share capi-

tal, especially one where health is an 'industry'. There's more money
in losing. There's more profit in being sick. This threat was just
another opportunity to do the only thing that matters to these corpo-
rate fuckbois. Make money. And so they have. This isn't some new
outrage. This is business as usual. Has been for hundreds of years.

The first share markets were for colonial companies, and they were
always trading in human lives. It was colored lives, however, so y'all
didn't care. Now it's happening to you. Just as the VoC and Missis-
sippi Company became the largest companies in history through
colonial rape (and plain old fraud), Pfizer, Moderna, and the drug
companies have gotten royal monopolies and made a royal killing.
They're even using the same colonial tactics.

From the VoC to Pfizer, it's always been divide and conquer, and it
still works. They paid off corrupt rulers, got vaccine monopolies
enforced by royal militaries, and divided the world up amongst them-
selves. Vaccine apartheid for the Global South, and divide and
conquer the idiots in the North. Now the official government line
inside places like America is that if you're not vaccinated it's your
fault, the pandemic is your fault, and you can just fuck off and die.
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Of course, not vaccinated people include most of the world’s poor and
even their own children. That’s how craven and evil these sell-outs are,
but again it's nothing new. Enslavers used to sell their own children,
borne of rape. Of course modern exploiters are selling their own chil-
dren out. It's just the same shit, different century.

It's important to understand how this all started in colonialism

because we're still there. Colonialism never fucking ended, it just went
into the cloud, it just colonized the air. Stock markets began for colo-
nialism and they're soaring with capitalism. It's the same thing. We in
the Dirty South have known this for centuries. Now it's happening
to you.

Chickens have come home to roost, and the White Empire got worse than
chickenpox. They got COVID-∞.

A New Hope

The White Empire has been doing dirty in the South for
centuries, but now chickens have come home to roost. We've
known that they'll famine us for profit, but now everyone is
dying for their bottom line, even people in the heart of Empire.
The immortal corporate beings that run the place are getting as
fat as ever simply do not care. We are all just human capital
stocks to them, and their only message for us is get back to work
or die.

Hence we are not going to fight COVID-19, or climate change, or any

existential human crises through this White Empire that doesn't give
a fuck about human beings. Rich people will happily sell out the rest
of humanity for trinkets like yachts and made-up computer money.
Corporate beings will continue to profit and live quite happily on an
Earth uninhabitable for most human beings.

We cannot find any solution thru this Empire. We have to tear the
motherfucker down. The fact is that it wasn't enough to decolonize a
few countries in the Global South. These bastards took to the cloud
and colonized the very air. We have to follow them home and over-
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throw White Empire everywhere. We have to take our power as the
global majority, and revolt globally.

Will this happen now? I don't know, but this pandemic is just the first
of challenges to come. The Earth is revolting against our very pres-
ence, and it will overthrow us all quite violently. General strikes,
general non-cooperation and violent revolution are needed right
now, and they will become self-emergent properties in time.

The White Empire sold us out before, they have sold us out to
COVID, they're selling us out to climate collapse, and they'll keep
selling as long as there's anything left to sell. Quite frankly, it's us or
them. For all of our interconnected problems, international revolu-
tion is now the only way.

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82.THE FLOWERS OF
WRATH
SEPTEMBER 2022

The actual western development model is to steal from the rest of the
world, which obviously isn’t going to work for the rest of the world.
So they made some shit up about a development model which they
never followed and used it to gaslight us into another century of
exploitation.

The actual western environmental model is to steal from the future,

which obviously isn’t going to work for the future. So they make some
shit up about a ‘green’ capitalism which isn’t possible and are using it
for another few decades of degradation more.

The actual enemy is, of course, them, the people that have invaded
multiple countries, couped innumerable, dropped nuclear bombs on
civilians, tortured quite publicly, and even impoverish their own
people. But these oligarchs hide in plain sight, their reputations laun-
dered by expensive universities and presses and think tanks. The
governments they bought get branded as democracies and any alterna-
tive is autocracy to be feared, sanctioned, and ideally bombed.

The actual enemy is actually within, because we let this shit happen,
just as my people let colonialism happen, because we like the stuff and
we’ll sell out our poor neighbors to get it, even if it kills even us in the
long run.

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Indeed the actual enemy is no one because we actually have no
control as a species, even our wiser indigenous cultures genocided
megafauna as we spread across the continent, and even the arro-
gantly named homo sapiensseemed to kill the other conversational
species of homo. The past few centuries of industrialized genocide
have certainly been a crescendo of destruction, but geologically
speaking, not an entirely different song.

Then, however, you have to unwind this train of thought to under-

stand the contradiction that while you cannot change anything and
while you cannot ultimately blame anyone in particular you must
still fulfill your dharma. Like Krishna explaining to Arjuna why he
must fight even his relatives, it is yet our duty to fight western civiliza-
tion for all we’re worth. Because understanding our insignificant
place in the world is not a call to do nothing, it is simply a call to
fulfill your role.

People often ask me what I think they should do, what we should do,
and it’s a very question. So good that I don’t have an answer. I
honestly feel ashamed when anyone asks me, like the first time I
went to temple as an adult and tookthe temple flowers people were
asking me to bless instead of just waving my hands over them and
letting them pass on. I’ll answer it anyway because I’m a hopeless
pandit like that. Such is my role.

I think we need to overthrow everything that passes for a ‘rules-

based’ order these days, American hegemony, the entire White
Empire they preside over (from Europe to Australia) and all of their
vassals. I think there has to be, essentially, communist revolution all
over the world and power taken by the global majority and the poor.
And while non-violence is certainly a strong weapon in this fight, it’s
not the only one. I think violent revolution is called for not by me but
just by reality. Read history. See the color ink it’s written in. There will
be blood.

People often ask me how I reconcile this with my (primary) religion

of Buddhism, and the answer is that I’m a bad Buddhist. And I’m
certainly not on track to be a Buddha. Even the Buddha we know
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went through hundreds of lives before getting peaceful. I’m nowhere
near that. Indeed, I’m not even trying. I’m not a stream-enterer, I’m
just watching from the bank, like I watch everything else.

What I’m saying is not a recommendation, it’s an observation. Histor-

ical forces are already brewing, I’m merely the whistle on an already
bubbling pot. The White Empire is quite assiduously destroying
itself, provoking bigger and bigger powers, practically begging for
another World War. Its ruling oligarchs are imposing more and more
suffering on everyone, leading to a hotbed of demand for something
else. The ruling class is simply ignoring non-violent protest, so people
will inevitably get violent to get their demands heard, in the only
language power really understands.

These are all the ingredients for huge, bloody, historical change on the
scale of well, this exact time last century, but what really turns up the
heat is that the heat is literally turning up. What we face—and what we
didn’t face last century—is that the climate gods themselves are
angry and things around about get geologically fucked up. This is an
observation I hesitate to make because it seems impossible even to
me, but going by all of these conditions, we are sailing into a period
of historical fuckery worse than last century, and last century was bad.
I shudder.

This is the same song I sing all the time, and I wonder if it’s boring,
but honestly it’s been the same story for millennia, not a few blog
posts. The Hindu pantheon is full of evil rising and good (violently)
rising up to defeat it. Then it zooms out to show how everyone is
trapped by their dharma and how the shit just cycles and good and
evil are largely meaningless. The Buddha showed a way out of this
churning just as Jesus promised to speak with his father, but most of
us don’t actually want to go. We still think there’s a way out. For us.
For the species. For the planet.

Whenever I write something for another publication they always ask

me to end on a hopeful note and it’s something I try to avoid doing.
Hope is the mind-killer. Just as much as fear. The truth is that we are
each going to die, everyone we love is going to die, the species as we
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know it will certainly wither and writhe, and the planet itself will
eventually be destroyed. It’s all a matter of time, and hope is just a
postcard from a parallel universe. Nice place to visit, but you can’t live
there. You live here, and life is suffering.

Nobody wants to hear that and, indeed, even I don’t believe it as I

write it. In the South, we just want to get our own appliances and own
cars and live like the colonizers. In the heart of the Empire, they just
want to switch to electricappliances and electric cars and carry on like
before. None of this is remotely possible, but the alternative is even
more impossible. Overthrow our governments and upend the world?
Who wants to start that? I totally understand having drinks and
playing music as the Titanic went down. It’s a perfectly reasonable
reaction. Honestly, cheers, carry on.

There are no answers here in this blog post, or hope at the end of it. I
still think it’s worth pointing out the great evil in the West cause
people still think they’re the heroes, and I think it’s worth quoting
esoteric knowledge because it’s interesting, and I certainly think it’s
worth girding your loins because shit is about the get really real. But I
have nothing to offer you to tie these thoughts up in a bow. Increas-
ingly I just find meaning in the meaningless, so that’s all I can leave
you with.

Today in the encroaching winter I saw purple flowers poking out of

the ground. Pointlessly, hopelessly, but there they were. They’re
certainly going to die—it’s fucking freezing—but they’re alive and my
children ran out to pick some and give to their mother. What does
this mean? What does it have do with anything? I don’t know. I was
there. I saw. That’s all I have to offer you. Just touch these flowers and
let them pass on.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Shout out to Mrs. Carole Stewart and Mrs. Conroy from Tremont
Elementary School and Mrs. Labuhn from Jones Middle School for
teaching me how to write. And to my parents for teaching me how to
think. And to my wife for being my everything. And to my kids for
existing.

Sorry for the bad words Amma.