#imperial decline

[victusinveritas]

[lordandgodoftheobvious]

If God is cruel enough to allow the United States of America to continue to exist for another twenty years, by that point the average USAmeican will be so weakened by the government deliberately poisoning us for profit and allowing preventable diseases to cull the surplus population that any interaction between us and the Chinese will look like something out of r/HFY.

"You mean you can lift 100 lbs over your head without all your bones crumpling into dust? Truly you must be a super-soldier handcrafted by the See See Pee."

[reinterlacing]

Banning TikTok will surely turn the youths on to Zionism!

Don't forget to vote for Dear Old Joe in The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetime™, kids!

[victusinveritas]

[armb2]

American EMPIRE: Trump Mismanaging Imperial DECLINE

[absurdlakefront]

What we are now seeing are the obvious characteristics of the West after the fall of Rome: the triumph of religion over reason; the atrophy of education and critical thinking; the integration of religion, the state, and the apparatus of torture—a troika that was for Voltaire the central horror of the pre-Enlightenment world; as well as, today, the political and economic marginalization of our culture.”

Morris Berman, Dark Ages America,  2006

[the-two-germanys]

The Pyramid of Errors Old Europe's Suicide; or, The Building of a Pyramid of Errors Brigadier-General Christopher Birdwood Thomson New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922.

[theamericanbear]

The claim that this Orwellian surveillance apparatus is devoted to the struggle against terrorism is absurd. There is no need to monitor hundreds of millions of citizens in order to track down a handful of terrorists, who in many cases have their own links to the intelligence services.

The real target of the intelligence surveillance is the vast majority of the people. This is the real enemy identified by the ruling class. This is confirmed by any brief look at social statistics and the social counterrevolution currently taking place.

In the US, the richest ten percent of the population control more than half of all income and about three quarters of all private assets. At the bottom, the poorest 15 percent of the population live below the official poverty line of $22,300 annually for a family of four.

In Europe, austerity measures dictated by the EU have resulted in mass unemployment and social decline on an unprecedented scale. After five austerity budgets in Greece, 40 percent of the population are no longer covered by health insurance and therefore not entitled to health care.

The ruling class senses that popular opposition is growing and is responding by placing the entire population under surveillance. Such surveillance is not limited to passive observation. In the event of an escalation of the class struggle, as is currently occurring in Egypt, the profiles and addresses stored in the vast databases of the intelligence agencies would be mined to draw up lists of dissidents and political leaders for arrest and prosecution.

The ruthlessness of the ruling class is most clearly shown in the case of Edward Snowden. The 30-year-old must fear for his life and is being hunted across the planet because he had the courage to expose the criminal activities of the NSA. The forced landing of Bolivian President Evo Morales in Vienna made clear that even the elected leader of a sovereign state is not safe from the machinations of the US Secret Service and their European accomplices.

The intelligence agencies are also quite prepared to use provocations and acts of terror to further their ends. The secret NATO Gladio organization in Italy was infamous for carrying out such acts of provocation in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, is expected to resign today due to a similar case, the so-called “bomb-planting affair”. In Germany, meanwhile, new evidence is continually emerging on the involvement of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the racist murders conducted by the National Socialist Underground (NSU).

The case of Edward Snowden contains vital lessons. No confidence can be placed in any of the institutions of the capitalist state—the courts, the political parties, the legislatures, or the capitalist media—to defend basic democratic rights. The ruling elites disregard the most basic rights and are developing police-state methods to defend their wealth and privileges. The defense of democratic rights, along with the struggle against social cuts, can only be carried out on the basis of a mass movement of the working class aimed at overturning the capitalist system.