Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse

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

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

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