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There Will Be No Accountability for the Empire

There will be no accountability for the empire or its allies. The ruling class and the entrenched global order ensure that true justice and equity can never take root. The sinews and blood vessels connecting wealth, industry, war, and power are firmly out of reach for the tools provided to us, the people, to enact any meaningful systemic change. Voting is only as effective as they permit, because they dictate how effective politicians and policies can be.

Yes, we can achieve smaller victories and wield limited power in our local spheres—our sub-fiefdoms within the broader empire—but all of it must operate within the confines of the blood-soaked ecosystem that is controlled by forces larger and more malevolent than even the darkest imaginings of fiction. And as I have written before, this malevolence is not rooted in any biblical or moral conception of evil. It is avarice—the insidious, domesticated form of evil that enables people to commit horrific acts of violence in pursuit of wealth and power, endlessly feeding the insatiable hunger of those who already have everything yet remain perpetually unsatisfied.

There will be no justice for what is happening in Palestine. Too many governments, politicians, and corporations stand to lose if the full extent of their complicity were ever acknowledged. Article 3 of the 1948 Genocide Convention names complicity in genocide as a crime, but those who control the courts will ensure that no trial is ever allowed to take place. Justice will be obstructed by the very forces that shape and sustain the global order. There will be no evidence presented, no acknowledgment of the financial and diplomatic support that made this genocide possible. The empire’s core organs—nations like the United States and blocs like the European Union—have shielded and financed these atrocities, ensuring that accountability remains forever out of reach.

By this extension, we are all complicit. Our governments, our economies, and even our daily comforts are tied to this machinery of exploitation and violence. This is the great tragedy of our species: like the Ouroboros, we have swallowed our own tail to feed an endless cycle of greed and destruction.

So, what can we do? The only meaningful goal—the only moral imperative—is the complete and utter dismantling of the empire. But let us not confine ourselves to the tools they permit us, the carefully constrained mechanisms of reform and negotiation. These tools are illusions, designed to maintain the very systems we seek to overthrow. Instead, let us turn to their tools—greed and violence, wielded not for avarice, but for liberation.

The path is grim, but it is the only one left. If we are to reclaim justice, if we are to prevent the endless repetition of these horrors, then we must be prepared to dismantle the empire by any means necessary.

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