The US is the model for settler-colonialism in the modern era, itself being explicitly based on the Roman empire, with a slave-holding aristocracy holding political power, and granting free land and status to those willing to participate in its imperial project.

There have been challenges throughout US history against this rule by aristocracy, but all of them lost at various points, and are now on life support. It genocided its indigenous inhabitants and stole their land. The Civil war was a challenge between two right-wing systems: capitalism and slavery, although slavery was reinstated during the reconstruction era. Its communist-left was purged and eliminated by the 1960s, its union movement predictably died soon after in the 1970s, the anti-war left died in the 1980s.

There has never been the equivalent of a “red-scare” but for the right-wing, because the US is a right wing country and does not permit a public platform of left-wing views. Its a one-party state where both parties are “fluid”, one acting as the “foil” / controlled opposition against the one which currently reflects the more overt interests of its aristocracy.

I highly suggest reading Settlers, an Indigenous people’s history of the US, and Zak Cope - Divided world divided class, for some of the underpinnings of the US’s “master-race democracy”.

The end result of bourgeois “democracy” and voting: Choosing between two geriatric rapists who can’t stay up past 8:30pm.

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• Kept her Orange County DA office from being charged for running an unconstitutional jailhouse informant program they tried to cover up.
  • Oversaw a state prosecutor falsifying a confession to get a life sentence and then destroyed the evidence, upheld a conviction secured by a prosecutor lying under oath, and oversaw the framing of another man. The officers were not fired, but the state was forced to pay out ~13M USD.
  • She fought against providing compensation to those her office wrongly convicted.
  • Sponsored a bill allowing for prosecutors to seize profits before charges are even filed and opposed a bill that would reform civil asset forfeiture.
  • Defended a prison’s religious discrimination in hiring policy
  • Refused to review a case in which a pharmaceutical CEO killed his wife but made it look like a suicide after their son died under mysterious circumstances as well.
  • Refused to prosecute PG&E for its massive gas pipeline explosion.
  • Claimed to be unaware of sexual harassment and retaliation by her top aide over a 6 year span.
  • Refused to investigate Herbalife’s exploitation and fraud, received donations from people connected to the corporation.
  • Refused to prosecute Trump’s treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, despite his bank’s illegal forelosure practices, which ruined thousands of lives. She also was the only democratic presidental candidate to get money from him.
• A favorite candidate of wall street. Helped raise money with a former wells fargo banker who defended the fake accounts scandal.
  • Backtracks on medicare for all, says she doesn’t want to do away with private insurance.
  • Accepted thousands of dollars of campaign funds from Donald and Ivanka Trump multiple times.. Accepted money from Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO and a charter school magnate. 2
• Voted to give Trump increased military spending two different times.
  • Supports Trump escalating the war in Syria. Co-sponsored a “destabilize Iran” bill.2
  • Supports Israel’s right-wing government and cozies up to AIPAC, co-sponsored resolution against Obama in support of illegal settlements, does not support Palestinian rights, and calls BDS “anti-semitic”. Another Anti-Palestine rant at AIPAC, 2.
  • Is against open borders, opposed calls to tear down 700 miles of border fence.
  • Fought to limit amount of land indigenous tribes could place in trust and tried to take reservation land away from a tribe just to keep them from evicting a non-indigenous man who had lived there without paying rent for 24 years.
• Mocks the activist call to “build more schools, less jails”. Mocks criminal justice reformers as unrealistic..
  • Says that Kaepernick’s take-a-knee protest in support of black lives matter, was a russian op. Claims that “russian bots” are targeting her.
  • Laughs out loud when its suggested that she’s a progressive.
• Voted two different times to block federal funding for abortions.
• Wants to use solar panels and green energy… to make war.
• Tells guatemalan immigrants: “don’t come here”
• Appoints a [communication director who was outraged that ICE didn’t pick up two undocumented commentators on M

Kamala Harris

Much credit to this post.

• Under her jurisdiction, in “progressive” San Francisco, 56% of all inmates in SF jails were black, along with 40% of all arrests (Only 5.8% of the population is black). Ignores police brutality, protected 14 of her officers who were caught sending extremely racist text messages. Oversaw San Francisco’s felony conviction rate rising from 52% to 67% in only 3 years.
  • As part of her tough on crime approach she assigned senior prosecutors to misdemeanors like graffiti and vandalism, tripling the number of cases brought to trial.
  • After a federal judge orders California to expand prison releases to reduce crowding, her office argued in court that if forced to release these inmates early, prisons would lose an important labor pool.
  • Spent years jailing disproportionately black nonviolent cannabis users while opposing taking cannabis off DEA’s list of most dangerous substances and literally laughing at the idea of legalizing it multiple times, even as her Republican opponent ran to the left of her on the issue. She then tried to pander by admitting to smoking herself despite prosecuting others, but got her story all wrong. Drug convictions under her office soared, convicting more people of marijuana possession than her predecessor (she also admitted to smoking marijuana) 2
  • Laughs about threatening parents with jailtime for truancy. 2. The stories of several mothers she jailed.
  • Pushed a law that forced schools to turn over undocumented students to ICE.
  • Opposed reforming California’s three-strikes law, which is the only one in the country to impose life sentences for minor felonies and incarcerates black people at 12x the rate as white people, three different times, even while her Republican opponent supported reform.
  • Tried to deny a transgender inmate healthcare and endangered trans women by forcing them into mens prisons, leading to the rape and torture of at least one trans inmate.
  • Appealed a judge ruling that the death penalty was unconstitutional and won on a technicality, resulting in continued executions.
  • Supports the controversial DNA search technique that can be used on people even if they’ve not been charged with a crime.
  • Supported the discriminatory practice of cash bail in court, until 2016.
  • Protected serial child rapists by refusing to prosecute in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.
  • Lied about her state’s solitary confinement to block a suit by inmates, claiming there was none in California when there were about 6,400 victims of the practice, which is considered torture.
  • Opposed legislation that would require independent investigation of fatal police shootings despite criticism from many civil rights advocates including California’s Legislative Black Caucus.
  • Opposed statewide implementation of police body cameras and ignored police brutality, multiple officers raping a teenager, and other officers sharing racist and homophobic messages, despite multiple requests from the public defender.
  • Stood by silently as $730 million was spent on moving inmates to for-profit private prisons.
• Fought to uphold wrongful convictions from her office, in one case, she witheld information about a police lab tech who was fabricating evidence (and a judge admonished her for it). She refused DNA testing to prove the innocence of a man on death row. Defended Johnny Baca’s conviction for murder even though judges found a prosecutor presented false testimony at the trial, to which she relented only after a video of the oral argument received national attention and embarrassed her office. She hid evidence of exculpaltory evidence of a man who was convicted solely by one witness (he is still serving a 70 year prison sentence). When evidence pointed towards a black defendant being framed by police, Harris avoided DNA testing to keep him on death row.
  • Used a technicality to stop the release of a man serving 27 years-to-life after being wrongfully convicted of possession of a knife under the three-strikes law she supported. When civil rights groups and nearly 100,000 petition signatures got him released after 14 years she took him back to court again for a crime he didn’t commit.
  • Protected several of her officers with records of misconduct, by refusing to provide their names to defense attorneys, so that their convictions would be upheld and people would stay in prison.
  • “Systematically violated defendants’ civil and constitutional rights” in crime lab scandal. SNBC.](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/61a1b6a7-05d4-4c9b-9a08-f96972019e69.jpeg)

This is seriously the best news all year. No shame at all in taking it of course, the US forces you to confess your sins medieval-style before they’ll stop the torture.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/25/julian-assange-is-free-wikileaks-founder-freed-in-deal-with-us

Oh my god please be real, are there any articles on this yet?

Post for context

Queen - We are the champions

Excellent vibes

Seriously what is going on with that photo. It’s like they upscaled a really low-res version and it gave him scales.

iirc, the end of the book Black Against Empire, which is a great overview of the history and repression of the BPP, does have some minor criticisms in the last section, but I don’t remember them.

Anyone got the full video link saved? Youtube keeps removing them.

I’ve had Xiaomi and oneplus phones, both have been stellar. You can easily get year old models used for really cheap.

In his speech, PM Chinh, on behalf of the Party and State, expressed endless gratitude to President Ho Chi Minh, General Vo Nguyen Giap – the direct commander of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign, predecessors, soldiers, Heroic Vietnamese Mothers, the heroes of the people’s armed forces, pioneering youths, frontline workers, war invalids, martyrs’ families, along with the entire armed forces and people nationwide for their utmost dedications, bravery, and sacrifice to create the historic Dien Bien Phu Victory that “resounded across the five continents and shook the globe”.

He also appreciated the precious and wholehearted assistance from China, the countries of the former Soviet Union, socialist nations, international friends, progressive and peace-loving forces worldwide, especially Laos and Cambodia in the combatant alliance of the three Indochinese countries, for the Dien Bien Phu Campaign as well as the Vietnamese people’s struggle for national liberation.

Looking back on the resistance war full of hardships but also bravery and unyieldingness against the French colonialists, he said the Dien Bien Phu Campaign secured a resounding triumph, beating France’s final effort in its invasion of Vietnam.

The PM described this triumph as the peak victory of the resistance war and the essence of Vietnam’s strength in the Ho Chi Minh era, noting that it forced the French colonialists to sign the Geneva Accords on the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam on July 21, 1954, paving the way for the liberation and construction of the North that entered a transitional period towards socialism and forming a solid foundation for the fight to liberate the South and reunify the country.

The historic victory was not only significant to the Vietnamese revolution but also became a source of support for national liberation movements and marked the start of the collapse of the old colonialism around the world, he remarked.

Vietnam gave a much deserved L to France on that day, and the US the next. When they write the history of the 20th century, the struggle and victory of the Vietnamese people to save not only their own country, but the the whole wolrld from western colonialism, will be one of its high points. 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

Etsy has some pretty sick communist watches:

For smart watches, I’d recommend huawei watch fits, or for a cheaper one, xiaomi band series.

Epic watch, they probably should’ve just stopped making new watches after that and called the thing solved.

What are you talking about, are you sure we’re talking about the same book? There is zero bragging, he isn’t even part of that story until the last hundred pages or so.

Don’t skip out on reading Gary Webb - Dark Alliance. The story is so messed up and wild.