U.S. Citizens deserve our scorn, not our pity
They will only have my approval when they take action against their regime.
The United States is vigorously re-embracing its imperialist roots, after a brief period where the Yankee Empire half-heartedly pretended it was something other than a colonial enterprise. Venezuela is not the only manifestation of these colonial projects, as prominent an example as it just was.
In regard to Greenland, it is now the official stance of the United States government that they reserve the right to seize Greenland from Denmark through military force, and annex it as territory. In a bitter irony, while European leaders praised the overthrow of Maduro, the leader of a country of brown people, they now protest that the Yankee Empire seeks to do the same to a country of white people.
And even those protests are weak, feeble even. In a joint statement from the British, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and—most importantly—Danish governments, they undercut their statement that “Greenland belongs to its people” by waxing on for several paragraphs about how the United States is an “essential partner” and “ally” in security.
No, you stupid fucks! The Yankees aren’t an ally or a partner, they’re your enemy trying to conquer your land! Are these puffed-up European leaders so foolish as to not realize this fact, or are they willing collaborators seeking to sell out their nation as Quisling once did? Does Denmark truly think their F-35 fighter jets will be functional when the enemy that Greenland faces is the same country that sold them the jets?
And mind you, Greenland and Venezuela are just two of these colonial projects. The overthrow of Maduro has been seen as a direct strike against Cuba, as these nations shared economic and political ties; indeed, 32 officers of the Cuban military stationed in Venezuela to support Maduro were killed during the United States invasion this week.
Elsewhere in Latin America, Trump has threatened Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro in the same way he threatened Venezuela’s President Maduro, claiming that President Petro is a “sick man who likes making cocaine…and he’s not going to be doing it very long.”
For context, President Petro is the first left-wing president in Colombia’s modern era. The clear implication is that Trump and the Yankees want to forcibly overthrow left-wing governments anywhere they are elected in the Americas, instituting right-wing puppet regimes that will extract all wealth from these countries and their people, and then transfer these stolen gains to Yankees in the imperial core.
Even the Democrats are being brazenly transparent in supporting these colonial projects. Senator John Fetterman has lent his support to the idea of taking Greenland, saying in much the same terms as Trump that “ideally, we purchase it”. The best critique that Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries had is that he also hates Maduro, but that Trump did not follow the right process.
There is no right process, because you fucking kidnapped a world leader, something every civilized nation understands very clearly to be an act of war! Yankees have been more than happy to enforce imperialism across party lines, because Democrat or Republican, they all benefit from colonial extraction as citizens of the imperial core.
And that would be the core problem: citizens of the imperial core like their privileges more than they care about the evil their empire perpetuates. They have no desire to protest, at least not in any way that is effective. ICE is kidnapping people and sending them to concentration camps, or outright murdering them in the streets as they did today in Minnesota.
But how do U.S. citizens “protest”? Aerobics dance parties. Inflatable frog costumes. At best, the Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey tells ICE “get the fuck out of Minneapolis”, to which ICE laughs in his face and then continues to kidnap and murder more people.
What pisses me off the most, though, is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz telling people to protest “peacefully” and to not “take the bait” from ICE. What is this victim blaming nonsense?
ICE is kidnapping and murdering people, and Democratic leaders tell people “don’t fight back, lie down and take it.” Even worse, Tim Walz is actively mobilizing the Minnesota National Guard to preserve “order”, using state violence to restrict how people can fight back against ICE.
If there is a grand irony in the United States, it is that the Yankees crow about how the Second Amendment gives them the right to use guns to overthrow a tyrannical government, and yet gun ownership is largely associated with support for the imperial order. Left-wingers have largely eschewed gun ownership, and now Trump supporters have gained a monopoly on the use of force.
We do not owe citizens of the Yankee Empire our sympathies. By vast majority, they are either supportive of their imperial enterprise, or they passively abide it. Very, very few USians are willing to reject Yankeeism in a material fashion; words are simply not enough.
My sympathy and my support lie with the victims of Yankee imperialism, not with the beneficiaries of it. If a USian wants the approval of those of us victimized by their nation, they must take concrete actions to oppose their regime.
But if you’re one of the so-called “anti-Trump” Yankees complaining that the world is being too mean, that you aren’t being granted an exception from anti-U.S. rhetoric…well, you can fuck off.
Seriously, fuck off. None of us want to hear you complain about how tough it is being a citizen of the imperial core, and benefitting from all the bullshit the United States does in your name. Nobody wants to hear you moan that we’re not being nice enough when your country seeks to conquer the world!
We have no patience left for any of this bullshit. If you are a USian, then you have a responsibility to resist your government through acts of material consequence.
And if you’re not willing to do so, you’re something worse than useless…you’re the enemy.
I’ve said many times that they need to take lessons from France
As Jake knows, I come from Rep. of Korea. People make two mistakes when assessing things there: 1) state of democracy there, 2) how nonviolent protests work.
Former, many non-Koreans get confused because most, esp. those abroad, fail to recognise that fickle nature of voters there tend to cause preventable problems in first place. Latter, is that these nonviolent protests work because the level of organisation in the movements is closer to continental Europe than in US or Canada.