{"id":519,"date":"2024-01-06T02:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T02:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/?p=519"},"modified":"2025-01-25T21:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T21:55:30","slug":"final-stage-of-oppressors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/final-stage-of-oppressors\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Stage of Oppressors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are in the cycle of oppressors where they co-opt the histories of the oppressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. will say it was the hero. Because even as the last remaining ally to the settler colonizers \u201cIsrael,\u201d the U.S. Empire will ultimately try to save itself. Because Empire is finally losing grip of its centuries of control. The U.S. Empire will say it tried to help stop Israel. It will say it facilitated and brokered peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know this because the U.S. Empire has done it time and time again. In Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Philippines, M\u00e9xico, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Laos, Cambodia, and Panama, too many to name. Even within its own artificial borders it constantly claims credit and victory to cover up the reality of its treachery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the history you&#8217;ve been taught by Empire is a lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Empire will then try to repeat the cycle of edit, erase, deny, lie, change, co-opt, and continue. And we can never let it continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I share this so we as a collective are not gaslit. And they will go hard with their media PR campaign. Even if you witness everyone else on the news, celebrities, teachers, and authority figures go along with it, remember that we are the holders of the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we will never allow Empire to go back to business as usual, we will never let the cycle repeat, and we will expose all of its lies past, present, and future until all Empires fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be vigilant about witnessing history because not only are we in it, but we are making it. We are the main characters now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the cycle of oppressors where they co-opt the histories of the oppressed. The U.S. will say it was the hero. 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