We should be using different words to separate the abstract empire from other manifestations of state, see, we are confusing each other. But the state is just a bunch of people. A bunch that another larger bunch of people just tolerates. Many, many people who do the oppression. Share your data with suckerberg? You just helped him. Buy cheap chinese electronics? Support genocide sweatshop and global capital network. Drink a coffee? Sure your neighbor grew it and got a fair price on it, right?

The only way capitalism managed to pull itself out is through bribing the people. Sure, forcing us to do slave work was involved too, but let’s not deny that this scheme has layers and fooled benefitiaries stacked on top of each other, nobody enjoying a fraction of joy and life that being free and real brings. Taking out the head inevitably involves getting through these layers, making them collaborate with all the sane people. You wouldn’t need a raptor if an army regiment who has them did their stated job of defending people by targeting somebody harmful instead of killing innocents half globe away.

I can make a tool on par with a raptor, so can many engineers at lm and raytheon and boeing and roskosmos, there are doctors who treat putin, cooks for kim choke whatever, whores for trump. We are all people with powers and choices. And I wouldn’t say we should kill ourselves overturning the system, no, if I’d think so, I’d be dead long time ago, in a large pool of dead bodies. But we can at least stop collaborating with it, and I’m quite certain that should be enough. Best time for that was 400 years ago or so, next best is now.

After all, capitalism IS a natural order, by the fact that we do empirically observe it as dominating phenomenon in nature. Which does not mean we can’t change that, humans are really good at things like that. The question is - who will do the work towards this change, and I haven’t seen anyone who wasn’t a punk actually doing meaningful work ever. Maybe not all at once, but building the society one community at a time is great rate if done by many people around the globe. It’s just that focusing efforts on resisting USA easily turns into supporting your local oppressor instead of building the right thing. I’ve seen it myself, even with my family. I’ve seen people in US ignoring the things you write too, and that was terrible, but this colonial stance and focus on US local problems is not cool at all. The whole system is corrupt and there is no single state that supports it alone, there is an abstract empire, but it’s wider and deeper than whatever just usa could mean.