The One That Answers to No One (Patreon)

By Sam (@StuffFromSam)

If you can place sanctions and embargos on me, but I can't do that to you, this is not flat but hierarchical. The US is every country's authoritarian. They even get to be the authority on who's authoritarian or not. And it's never them.

Who does everyone have to answer to? The US. Who does the US have to answer to? No one. They'll say "God" but only to distract you from noticing that on this planet, the US is God. Who gets to write history? Who controls the world's media? Who gets to shape reality? They are the final end boss. Everyone else is doing whatever to not get killed by the end boss.

Their bases are everywhere, their military ships are everywhere, their language is spoken everywhere, they have their businesses everywhere, their money is what capitalism is denominated in, and it is so absolute that even socialist movements are forced to play by the rule of US dollar.

"Never a real socialist revolution," why do you think that is? How can you ever run socialism right if you have to transact in the US dollar—a currency that only they control and can print more of—and they say you have to borrow money from them if you want to do anything? But before that, you need accounts in their banks. If you can't open a bank account because you're on Chexsystems, you know how annoying it is when people take for granted they can do things you can't because they assume everyone has a bank account or can open one. Or that everyone can borrow money or has parents to gift them. Without a bank, everything you do is illicit and shady. Double punishment: first by not allowing you to have an account, then penalizing you for not having one. Now think about that GLOBALLY, where the US is not only the bank, the treasury, but also the parent.

That's not even getting into the goods movement and the pollution they cause, the emissions from the US military-industrial complex, and environmental racism.

If your lens is authoritarianism, why don't you look at the top authority? Even calling on the US to constantly intervene speaks to the underlying belief that they're the teacher and everyone else, the students.

Words used say everyone else is the auths, and the US brings equality. But the actual actions and demands for actions say the US power is absolute and final. Even to be the bringer of anything for everyone means they have God-like hegemony. You can disagree on whether they're the devil or Jesus, but one thing both confirm is the power scale. (You also can't ignore their one-way religious influence. Think about how the US can spread the prosperity gospel everywhere, and we don't question it. Can send missionaries everywhere, and we don't question it. But Muslims merely moving to the US is an outrage.)

If other currencies collapse, the world will continue. If the US currency collapses, then you'll see the real Domino effect. If the US sneezes, the world catches a cold. If you are fish and they're water, you don't notice you are wet. If the devil/angel tells you they don't exist, they don't exist.

They can run torture camps in your country while simultaneously isolating you, and you can't do the same. They can judge you, but you can't judge them. It is NOT bidirectional. It is all a one-way stream that runs down from the top of the mountain with one clear authority at the top. They can do absolutely anything, and it is still good. You do anything remotely similar to things they've done, you are bad. Who does this describe? God, but also the US.

How did you not see this? How do you not see generations of protests here and not relate it to our authority but do so for other countries? Because absolute power means if they tell you not to see, you don't see.

If the US wants to end this hierarchical authoritarian system, they have to end themselves.