{"id":1550,"date":"2025-06-22T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2025-06-22T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T14:18:21","slug":"empires-single-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/empires-single-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire&#8217;s Single Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States Empire is attacking the people <em>inside<\/em> its Imperial Core, while escalating genocides and wars <em>outside<\/em> of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People sometimes ask, \u201cHow do we keep track of it all?\u201d But remember that <strong>it is one and the same, not different and many<\/strong>. It is all Empire\u2019s single engine repressing, enslaving, and controlling those inside, and colonizing, transacting, and exploiting those outside of its core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While those in the Global South have been fighting and resisting it from the outside for centuries, for those of us that just happen to be inside its borders, our duty is to shred it from within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have to <strong>grab tight and drag it down<\/strong>. We have to use every method we can think of, infinitesimal and grandiose, to destabilize, diminish, de-center, dissent, and yes, destroy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions marching yes, AND ALSO, neighbors forming human barriers to protect each other from being abducted by agents, having local rapid response networks, bringing up U.S. militarism in every space we are in, disentangling and divesting from Big Tech, demanding radical representation, pushing for LandBack, defying colonial individualism, finding joy in defiance, and truly creating space to be together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyday, choose to fight because to be free, we have no choice not to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Empire that has never not been at war, let us then never let it have peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Empire is attacking the people inside its Imperial Core, while escalating genocides and wars outside of it. 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