The Beginning
If the world is ending then you have nothing to lose
My disillusion left me lost and adrift without hope
What i did not understand was that all things are impermanent
Every ending is a new beginning
Every death is a rebirth
Things can be changed things can get better
We have the power
Revolution is ecstasy
Fascism arises because of the collapse of institutional legitimacy of liberal institutions
If you think there's not going to be more ecological and economic
Catastrophes in the future that liberalism is wholly unsuited to fucking deal with
And that that failure is not going to lead to fascism filling that fucking hole
You got another thing coming
We're coming at a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe and it's going to either require
Mass redistribution of the ill gotten gains of the first world or genocide
And these are the first people who have basically said well if that's the choice i choose genocide
And they're getting everybody else ready intellectually and emotionally for why that's gonna be okay
When it happens why they're not really people
When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away
And so that we can watch them die with clear consciences it's gonna be
Because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly
On the other side of them you have people who are saying in full fucking voice
No we have the resources to save everybody that is the difference
Ask a peasant and he'll say they'll always be kings
Pharohs rule for three thousand years and never think
That one day the greeks would come along and up and change it all
Well call me alexander 'cause i'm 'bout to break down some walls
The whole fucking systems on it's last legs
It's begging to be killed so baby i say
Look into a future one where bosses don't abuse ya
One where putting in a suture dont make ya broke and make ya lose your
Home they've sown the seeds i preach
Cuz we're at war but yall don't see
The very first shot of this seige its was the first factory
Bitch you cant reform it try to change it will conform ya
Yes we cannot fucking fix it Yes we cannot stop the killing
I've been thinking that the choice it's just an illusion
I realize to vote yeah it's just a delusion
Thinking that you're changing shit but really you just buying in
To a system that designed to crush whatever purifies it
Co-opt that protest appropriate that movement do whatever it takes to prevent any improvment
I got one piece of optimism though
Consensus reality's out the window
The internet it is a cancer it's a disease
I ain't ted k but i can see realities
Competing incompatible and ever more so radical
This much stimulus yeah it is unnatural
Genie's out the bottle we ain't ever going back
No consensus reality it's a thing of the past
What will replace it is the question that shapes us
If you stay in the center it will be vacant
Got to own reality to rule it and the lease is not renewing
So you best believe that i'm the one to move in
If it aint the socialists then it will be the fash
And only the rich would like that
One day you'll gotta choose a side because the centrist fucking lies
They won't sell like they used to so you might as well just buy what im selling
The other dude is telling ya he wants a world in which billions die
Thats a hell of a ride if you don't join the program it is him by your side
I've got nothing to hide
I cannot believe you walk around like you are normal
You're lucky the consensus yeah it is so immoral
In any other reality you'd be a fucking nazy
But in this one you're just a liberal like trotsky
I see you for the genocidal a worm that you are
Repeating propaganda yeah you just serve the czar
Everyone else thinks you're so fucking progressive
But i can tell that your heart is a oppressive
I'm unimpressive with your logic
I'm unswayed by your arguments
I'm talking liberation while you're tryna sell armaments
I'm trying to build an army while you're trying to get compliments
You don't understand a fucking thing
You're the most ignorant slug i've ever seen
Your pretentious condescension your elitist aprehension
Your disgusting attention should get you a suspension
Bitch I'm trying to stop violence while you snicker in silence
I don't think you'll ever fucking get it you'll just keep thinking that you're righteous
Good will triumph evil no mercy
Gale force wings of change will blow away all you fucking slugs like tears in rain all
I'm trying to say is that your days are numbered
All i'm trying to say is that your centrists have blundered
All i'm trying to say that you better get hunkered
Cause the ones who have plundered are outnumbered
My minds at war but so are we
I feel alone like i'm at sea
Bitch i act this way cause i know there's no other option
If i sat back in silence then i'd choke upon the toxins
I ain't self righteous and i ain't narcissistic
I'm just trying to be realistic cuz the world it is vicious
So miss me with the shit about how i'm an extremist
Miss me with the shit about how we must believe it
When they tell us this the only option there ain't no other way
When they say that we gotta just process and give our labor away
Revolutionary streets will soon run red with the elite
My will tunes into anyone who dreads the coming bombing run
Shed customary logic to defeat the ones demonic
Come immune to the lies spun and you will see they are dishonest
I promise you a better life the eyes see thru disguise of strife
And sees the one that causes it the mechanism's haunted it,
It's not normal it should be changed my moral compass is richard made
I quarrel with the ones who stood silent when i pictured change
So i'll create my own reality one where yall aint mad at me
One in which you brainwashed little bitches don't talk down to me
I know y'all hate to see me leave but please don't be naive
It was never gonna work between us so just let me leave in peace
I succeed from the genocidal immoral consensus and i believe that you cling to a lie that is senseless
So i'll leave y'all behind and make my mind so defensive
I've got a moat inside my brain and i'm putting up defenses
So don't believe what they tell you
So don't believe what they tell you
So don't believe what they tell you
I beg you do not believe what they tell you
The central tenet of american national identity is the broad faith
That the united states is a unique force for good in the world
Superior not only in its military and economic power
But in the character and morality of its way of life
The fact that the united states is a colonialist and imperialist country can hardly be questioned
The conquest and near extermination of several hundred indigenous nations by american settlers
Provided the land on which the contiguous united states was built
And native people continue to live in colonial conditions
Deprived of sovereignty and self determination
The united states also colonized liberia alaska
Hawaii puerto rico guam the eastern samoan islands
The philippines the us virgin islands and the northern mariana islands
The people of american samoa are not even recognized as U.S citizens
In addition to its long history of conquest and colonization
The united states has always energetically exploited other people's resources markets and labor
The enslaved labor of africans fueled early american economic development and the industrial revolution
In the early decades of the 20th century american corporations came to dominate the economies
Of mexico the caribbean central america and large portions of south america
To protect its investments and promote its interests
The empire militarily intervened in the mexican revolution of 1910
And invaded and occupied nicaragua haiti and the dominican republic
Afterwards the united states invaded soviet russia supported the
Guomindang regime in china and welcomed european fascism as a bulwark against communism
Entering the second world war only because the axis powers threatened its own imperialist interests
Since then the imperium has vigorously sought to obtain
The oil strategic materials and other resources it requires
And to keep the world open for exploitation by multinational corporations
Since 1945 the united states has fought devastating murderous wars
In korea vietnam laos cambodia iraq and afghanistan
It has launched proxy wars routinely attacked nations
Overthrown and installed governments destroyed popular movements
Assassinated foreign leaders engaged in economic sabotage
And supported many of its allies violent domestic oppression
The only nation to ever use atomic weapons
The united states has deployed nuclear bombs around the world and
On several occasions brought humanity to the brink of nuclear holocaust
Today the empire has a network of client states encompassing about 40 percent of the world's countries
About 800 foreign military bases and more than 200 thousand
Military personnel and contractors deployed in about 140 countries
The pre history formation expansion and global ascendancy of
The U.S empire has required endless holocaust at home and abroad
An unrelecting endless succession of such catastrophes lies at the heart of U.S history and U.S society today
Far from being occasional and unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benevolent historic record
Different kinds of large scale annihilation of human life have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world
This succession of catastrophes will continue as long as the imperium exists and as its primacy erodes
The united states ruling class may commit heinous new crimes against the peoples of the world
Including the peoples of this country to maintain as much wealth and power as possible a
Although this focuses on the manifold forms of mass death
It also points to an extraordinary history of resistance by indigenous peoples
Peoples of african descent, workers, people in other nations
Brutalized by U.S imperialism and democractially minded people all around the world
Everyone who supports the dismantling of an empire can draw inspiration from this history of resistance
My disillusion left me lost and adrift without hope
What i did not understand was that all things are impermanent
Every ending is a new beginning
Every death is a rebirth
Things can be changed things can get better
We have the power
Revolution is ecstasy
Fascism arises because of the collapse of institutional legitimacy of liberal institutions
If you think there's not going to be more ecological and economic
Catastrophes in the future that liberalism is wholly unsuited to fucking deal with
And that that failure is not going to lead to fascism filling that fucking hole
You got another thing coming
We're coming at a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe and it's going to either require
Mass redistribution of the ill gotten gains of the first world or genocide
And these are the first people who have basically said well if that's the choice i choose genocide
And they're getting everybody else ready intellectually and emotionally for why that's gonna be okay
When it happens why they're not really people
When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away
And so that we can watch them die with clear consciences it's gonna be
Because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly
On the other side of them you have people who are saying in full fucking voice
No we have the resources to save everybody that is the difference
Ask a peasant and he'll say they'll always be kings
Pharohs rule for three thousand years and never think
That one day the greeks would come along and up and change it all
Well call me alexander 'cause i'm 'bout to break down some walls
The whole fucking systems on it's last legs
It's begging to be killed so baby i say
Look into a future one where bosses don't abuse ya
One where putting in a suture dont make ya broke and make ya lose your
Home they've sown the seeds i preach
Cuz we're at war but yall don't see
The very first shot of this seige its was the first factory
Bitch you cant reform it try to change it will conform ya
Yes we cannot fucking fix it Yes we cannot stop the killing
I've been thinking that the choice it's just an illusion
I realize to vote yeah it's just a delusion
Thinking that you're changing shit but really you just buying in
To a system that designed to crush whatever purifies it
Co-opt that protest appropriate that movement do whatever it takes to prevent any improvment
I got one piece of optimism though
Consensus reality's out the window
The internet it is a cancer it's a disease
I ain't ted k but i can see realities
Competing incompatible and ever more so radical
This much stimulus yeah it is unnatural
Genie's out the bottle we ain't ever going back
No consensus reality it's a thing of the past
What will replace it is the question that shapes us
If you stay in the center it will be vacant
Got to own reality to rule it and the lease is not renewing
So you best believe that i'm the one to move in
If it aint the socialists then it will be the fash
And only the rich would like that
One day you'll gotta choose a side because the centrist fucking lies
They won't sell like they used to so you might as well just buy what im selling
The other dude is telling ya he wants a world in which billions die
Thats a hell of a ride if you don't join the program it is him by your side
I've got nothing to hide
I cannot believe you walk around like you are normal
You're lucky the consensus yeah it is so immoral
In any other reality you'd be a fucking nazy
But in this one you're just a liberal like trotsky
I see you for the genocidal a worm that you are
Repeating propaganda yeah you just serve the czar
Everyone else thinks you're so fucking progressive
But i can tell that your heart is a oppressive
I'm unimpressive with your logic
I'm unswayed by your arguments
I'm talking liberation while you're tryna sell armaments
I'm trying to build an army while you're trying to get compliments
You don't understand a fucking thing
You're the most ignorant slug i've ever seen
Your pretentious condescension your elitist aprehension
Your disgusting attention should get you a suspension
Bitch I'm trying to stop violence while you snicker in silence
I don't think you'll ever fucking get it you'll just keep thinking that you're righteous
Good will triumph evil no mercy
Gale force wings of change will blow away all you fucking slugs like tears in rain all
I'm trying to say is that your days are numbered
All i'm trying to say is that your centrists have blundered
All i'm trying to say that you better get hunkered
Cause the ones who have plundered are outnumbered
My minds at war but so are we
I feel alone like i'm at sea
Bitch i act this way cause i know there's no other option
If i sat back in silence then i'd choke upon the toxins
I ain't self righteous and i ain't narcissistic
I'm just trying to be realistic cuz the world it is vicious
So miss me with the shit about how i'm an extremist
Miss me with the shit about how we must believe it
When they tell us this the only option there ain't no other way
When they say that we gotta just process and give our labor away
Revolutionary streets will soon run red with the elite
My will tunes into anyone who dreads the coming bombing run
Shed customary logic to defeat the ones demonic
Come immune to the lies spun and you will see they are dishonest
I promise you a better life the eyes see thru disguise of strife
And sees the one that causes it the mechanism's haunted it,
It's not normal it should be changed my moral compass is richard made
I quarrel with the ones who stood silent when i pictured change
So i'll create my own reality one where yall aint mad at me
One in which you brainwashed little bitches don't talk down to me
I know y'all hate to see me leave but please don't be naive
It was never gonna work between us so just let me leave in peace
I succeed from the genocidal immoral consensus and i believe that you cling to a lie that is senseless
So i'll leave y'all behind and make my mind so defensive
I've got a moat inside my brain and i'm putting up defenses
So don't believe what they tell you
So don't believe what they tell you
So don't believe what they tell you
I beg you do not believe what they tell you
The central tenet of american national identity is the broad faith
That the united states is a unique force for good in the world
Superior not only in its military and economic power
But in the character and morality of its way of life
The fact that the united states is a colonialist and imperialist country can hardly be questioned
The conquest and near extermination of several hundred indigenous nations by american settlers
Provided the land on which the contiguous united states was built
And native people continue to live in colonial conditions
Deprived of sovereignty and self determination
The united states also colonized liberia alaska
Hawaii puerto rico guam the eastern samoan islands
The philippines the us virgin islands and the northern mariana islands
The people of american samoa are not even recognized as U.S citizens
In addition to its long history of conquest and colonization
The united states has always energetically exploited other people's resources markets and labor
The enslaved labor of africans fueled early american economic development and the industrial revolution
In the early decades of the 20th century american corporations came to dominate the economies
Of mexico the caribbean central america and large portions of south america
To protect its investments and promote its interests
The empire militarily intervened in the mexican revolution of 1910
And invaded and occupied nicaragua haiti and the dominican republic
Afterwards the united states invaded soviet russia supported the
Guomindang regime in china and welcomed european fascism as a bulwark against communism
Entering the second world war only because the axis powers threatened its own imperialist interests
Since then the imperium has vigorously sought to obtain
The oil strategic materials and other resources it requires
And to keep the world open for exploitation by multinational corporations
Since 1945 the united states has fought devastating murderous wars
In korea vietnam laos cambodia iraq and afghanistan
It has launched proxy wars routinely attacked nations
Overthrown and installed governments destroyed popular movements
Assassinated foreign leaders engaged in economic sabotage
And supported many of its allies violent domestic oppression
The only nation to ever use atomic weapons
The united states has deployed nuclear bombs around the world and
On several occasions brought humanity to the brink of nuclear holocaust
Today the empire has a network of client states encompassing about 40 percent of the world's countries
About 800 foreign military bases and more than 200 thousand
Military personnel and contractors deployed in about 140 countries
The pre history formation expansion and global ascendancy of
The U.S empire has required endless holocaust at home and abroad
An unrelecting endless succession of such catastrophes lies at the heart of U.S history and U.S society today
Far from being occasional and unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benevolent historic record
Different kinds of large scale annihilation of human life have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world
This succession of catastrophes will continue as long as the imperium exists and as its primacy erodes
The united states ruling class may commit heinous new crimes against the peoples of the world
Including the peoples of this country to maintain as much wealth and power as possible a
Although this focuses on the manifold forms of mass death
It also points to an extraordinary history of resistance by indigenous peoples
Peoples of african descent, workers, people in other nations
Brutalized by U.S imperialism and democractially minded people all around the world
Everyone who supports the dismantling of an empire can draw inspiration from this history of resistance
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