Updating kamala harris.

socialism_faq.md

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 - [Why can't you acheive socialism through voting in our current democracies?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/a9tgff/lsc_insulted_some_democrats/ecmjyjs/)
 - [Comrade Hakim - Why electoralism always fails.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXbaZXQAbuU)
 - [Why not just vote leftists into office: what's wrong with democratic socialism?](https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/duk2yy/the_problem_with_democratic_socialism_in_related/)
+- [What about harm reduction?](http://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/)
 - [Why Sanders is not a socialist - Anticonquista ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbcrJT485r8)
 - [What's wrong with the DSA / Democratic socialism?](https://struggle-sessions.com/2020/04/20/dsa-are-capitalist-pigs/)
 - [How do socialists feel about elections? What about democratic socialism?](https://isreview.org/issue/13/marxists-and-elections)
@@ -488,7 +489,8 @@
 
 * [Is China a democracy?](https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-democracy-does-the-China-have/answer/Godfree-Roberts?share=0ac8c628&srid=JMzz)
   * [What kind of democracy does China have, and how is it different from the west?](https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-democracy-does-the-China-have/answers/81676052?share=0ac8c628&srid=JMzz)
-  * In contrast to low US political approval ratings, 96% of Chinese are satisfied with the national government (Edelmans 2016). World Values Surveys says that 83% think the country is run for their benefit rather than for the benefit of special groups. [87% believe their country is headed in the right direction.](https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/08/09/china-most-confident-and-optimistic-country-in-world-ipsos-survey/) [How is this possible in a one-party state? (TED talk by Eric X Li)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0YjL9rZyR0)
+  * In contrast to low US political approval ratings, 96% of Chinese are satisfied with the national government (Edelmans 2016). World Values Surveys says that 83% think the country is run for their benefit rather than for the benefit of special groups. [A Harvard research center study of long-term public opinion survey finds that > 95% of Chinese citizens approved their government.](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/) [How is this possible in a one-party state? (TED talk by Eric X Li)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0YjL9rZyR0)
+  * 
   * [Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043159032935006208.html)
   * [How does China’s political system work?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu4QTxl9GVw)
   * [How are Chinese leaders elected / chosen? How meristocratic is the system? How do elections differ from those in western bourgeois democracies?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgpQxVCekgw)
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 ### Kamala Harris
 
-- https://twitter.com/WillisJermane/status/1090261366789656578
-- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/31/kamala-harris-laughed-jailing-parents-truancy
-- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/kamala-harris-offices-fought-payments-to-wrongly-convicted
+*Much credit to [this post.](https://politijohn.tumblr.com/post/186036319237/get-to-know-kamala-harris)*
+
+- [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).](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/04/san-francisco-police-department-scandal-racist-texts) [Ignores police brutality](https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/kamala-harris/they-shot-at-little-kids-too-when-kamala-harris-tu/), protected [14 of her officers](http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Letter-to-Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris.pdf) who were caught sending extremely racist text messages. [Oversaw San Francisco’s felony conviction rate rising from 52% to 67% in only 3 years.](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general) 
+  - [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.](https://twitter.com/walkerbragman/status/1146176227797032960)
+  - [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.](https://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-federal-judges-order-state-to-release-more-prisoners-20141114-story.html)
+  - Spent years jailing [disproportionately black nonviolent cannabis users](https://afropunk.com/2019/01/kamala-harris-has-been-tough-on-black-people-not-crime/) while [opposing taking cannabis off DEA’s list of most dangerous substances](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general) and [literally laughing at the idea of legalizing it](https://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/08/06/kamala-harris-laughs-at-pot-legalization/) multiple [times](https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1146174630648057859), even as her [Republican opponent ran to the left of her on the issue.](https://archives.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/08/marijuana-advocates-ditch-kamala-harris-for-weed-friendly-republican) She then tried to pander [by admitting to smoking herself despite prosecuting others, but got her story all wrong.](https://www.marijuanamoment.net/kamala-harriss-snoopgate-is-what-a-political-marijuana-controversy-looks-like-in-2019/) [Drug convictions under her office soared, convicting more people of marijuana possession than her predecessor (she also admitted to smoking marijuana)](https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/11/kamala-harris-prosecuting-marijuana-cases/) [2](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/kamala-harris-marijuana-policy-tulsi-gabbard-debates-866102/)
+  - [Laughs about threatening parents with jailtime for truancy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhJwmIPRmYk) [2](http://archive.is/Hkqdd). [The stories of several mothers she jailed.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e)
+  - [Pushed a law that forced schools to turn over undocumented students to ICE.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-san-francisco-immigrant-policy_n_5c758153e4b0bf166204509b)
+  - [Opposed reforming California’s three-strikes law](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/reforming-three-strikes/), 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](http://archive.is/I2QPh), even while her [Republican opponent supported reform.](http://archive.is/GZtet)
+  - [Tried to deny a transgender inmate healthcare and endangered trans women by forcing them into mens prisons](https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/05/05/harris-renews-effort-to-block-gender-reassignment-for-trans-inmate/), leading to [the rape and torture of at least one trans inmate.](https://theappeal.org/incarcerated-transgender-womens-lives-must-matter/)
+  - [Appealed a judge ruling that the death penalty was unconstitutional and won on a technicality, resulting in continued executions.](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/kamala-harris-touts-her-opposition-to-the-death-penalty-her-track-records-more-complicated/)
+  - [Supports the controversial DNA search technique that can be used on people even if they’ve not been charged with a crime](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general).
+  - [Supported the discriminatory practice of cash bail in court, until 2016.](https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Harris-shifts-says-bail-system-isn-t-fair-to-10787472.php)
+  - [Protected serial child rapists by refusing to prosecute in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.](https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/kamala-harris-san-francisco-catholic-church-child-abuse/)
+  - [Lied about her state’s solitary confinement to block a suit by inmates, claiming there was none in California](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general) when there were about [6,400 victims of the practice](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/scaling-back-solitary/403441/), which is [considered torture.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/solitary-confinement-is-torture-will-the-bureau-of-prisons-finally-stop-using-it/2017/07/15/f719de20-68c6-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html)
+  - [Opposed legislation that would require independent investigation of fatal police shootings](https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-senate-harris-milestones-20160706-snap-htmlstory.html) despite criticism from [many civil rights](https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Kamala-Harris-takes-measured-approach-to-probing-7955937.php) advocates including California’s Legislative Black Caucus.
+  - [Opposed statewide implementation of police body cameras](https://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-ca-harris-police-shootings-20160118-story.html) and [ignored police brutality](https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/kamala-harris/they-shot-at-little-kids-too-when-kamala-harris-tu/), 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.](https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/08/29/mercury-news-editorial-kamala-harris-needs-to-tackle-prison-standoff/)
+- [Fought to uphold wrongful convictions from her office,](http://archive.is/nqODY) 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.](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/kamala-harris-touts-her-opposition-to-the-death-penalty-her-track-records-more-complicated/)
+  - [Used a technicality](https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/man-ruled-innocent-by-judge-still-rotting-in-prison-backers-say.html) to [stop the release of a man serving 27 years-to-life after being wrongfully convicted](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general) of possession of a knife under the three-strikes law she supported. [When civil rights groups](https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/daniel-larsen-murder-conviction-overturned-innocence-project/2058098/) 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.](https://www.scpr.org/news/2013/07/31/38460/san-fernando-valley-man-s-freedom-hangs-in-appeal/)
+  - [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.](https://www.sfgate.com/crime/amp/Kamala-Harris-accused-of-withholding-vital-info-3186525.php)
+  - [“Systematically violated defendants’ civil and constitutional rights” in crime lab scandal.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/crime-lab-scandal-rocked-kamala-harriss-term-as-san-francisco-district-attorney/2019/03/06/825df094-392b-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html)
+  - [Kept her Orange County DA office from being charged](https://www.ocweekly.com/kamala-harris-president-campaign-2/) for running an unconstitutional [jailhouse informant program they tried to cover up.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/orange-county-jail-scandal_n_5a833276e4b02b66c512a049)
+  - [Oversaw a state prosecutor falsifying a confession to get a life sentence and then destroyed the evidence](http://inlandpolitics.com/blog/2015/03/05/ny-observer-california-prosecutor-falsifies-transcript-of-confession/), upheld a conviction secured by a prosecutor lying under oath, and [oversaw the framing of another man.](https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/03/19/jamal-trulove-framed-murder-case-sfpd-13-1-million/) 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.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/kamala-harris-offices-fought-payments-to-wrongly-convicted)
+  - [Sponsored a bill allowing for prosecutors to seize profits before charges are even filed](https://www.montereyherald.com/2015/02/23/luis-alejo-kamala-harris-back-asset-seizure-before-criminal-charges/) and [opposed a bill that would reform civil asset forfeiture](https://twitter.com/cjciaramella/status/888055742745518080).
+  - [Defended a prison’s religious discrimination in hiring policy](https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-calif-sikh-barred-from-job-over-beard-settles-2011oct27-story.html)
+  - [Refused to review a case in which a pharmaceutical CEO killed his wife but made it look like a suicide](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/california-ag-wont-review-suicide-findings-in-bizarre-death-of-rebecca-zahau-6630223) after [their son died under mysterious circumstances as well.](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2018/04/04/rebecca-zahau-verdict-adam-shacknai-responsible-coronado-mansion-death/486598002/)
+  - [Refused to prosecute PG&E for its massive gas pipeline explosion](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/pge-california-politics.html).
+  - [Claimed to be unaware of sexual harassment and retaliation by her top aide over a 6 year span](https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-kamala-harris-attorney-general-settlements-20190301-story.html).
+  - [Refused to investigate Herbalife’s exploitation and fraud](https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harris-accused-of-letting-company-exploiting-latinos-off-the-hook/), received [donations from people connected to the corporation.](https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/kamala-harris/documents-show-san-diego-prosecutors-told-kamala-h/)
+  - [Refused to prosecute Trump's treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, despite his bank's illegal forelosure practices, which ruined thousands of lives.](https://theintercept.com/2017/01/03/treasury-nominee-steve-mnuchins-bank-accused-of-widespread-misconduct-in-leaked-memo/) She also was [the only democratic presidental candidate](https://www.rollcall.com/2017/02/14/harris-was-only-2016-senate-democratic-candidate-to-get-cash-from-mnuchin/) to get money from him.
+- [A favorite candidate of wall street.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/us/politics/2020-democratic-donors-wall-street.html) Helped raise money [with a former wells fargo banker who defended the fake accounts scandal.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-wells-fargo-miguel-bustos_n_5d1545fde4b07f6ca57ab47e?fli)
+  - [Backtracks on medicare for all, says she doesn't want to do away with private insurance.](http://archive.is/kqfm9)
+  - [Accepted thousands of dollars of campaign funds from Donald and Ivanka Trump multiple times.](https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article226975319.html). [Accepted money from Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO and a charter school magnate.](https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/01/19/california-senator-kamala-harris-enter-democratic-presidential-primary-mlk-day/2455046002/) [2](https://capitalandmain.com/reed-hastings-the-disrupter-1101)
+- [Voted to give Trump increased military spending](https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/23430/61033/120012/national-defense-authorization-act-for-fiscal-year-2018#.XQQgLtNKifQ) two [different times.](https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/25215/64284/120012/department-of-defense-and-labor-health-and-human-services-and-education-appropriations-act-2019#.XQQhV9NKifQ)
+  - [Supports Trump escalating the war in Syria](https://thegrayzone.com/2019/05/24/bipartisan-war-congress-trump-syria-iran-russia-hezbollah/). [Co-sponsored a "destabilize Iran" bill](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/722/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded).[2](https://thinkprogress.org/media-outlets-lawmakers-us-violated-iran-nuclear-deal-5907a0e5743a/)
+  - [Supports Israel’s right-wing government and cozies up to AIPAC](https://theintercept.com/2018/03/07/kamala-harris-israel-aipac/), co-sponsored resolution against Obama in [support of illegal settlements, does not support Palestinian rights](https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/31/kamala-harris-and-israel-taking-the-aipac-line/), and [calls BDS “anti-semitic”](https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin/status/1146595730489876480). [2](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/11/netanyahu-top-cop-kamala-harris-israel-racism/)
+  - [Is against open borders, opposed calls to tear down 700 miles of border fence.](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-says-we-cant-have-open-borders-as-she-swipes-at-beto-orourke-far-left-dems)
+  - [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.](https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/10/10/supreme-court-puts-end-to-case-challengi.asp)
+- [Mocks the activist call to “build more schools, less jails”.](https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1090067362907340800?lang=en)  [Mocks criminal justice reformers as unrealistic.](https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1089984902706200576).
+  - [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.](https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1293286190892888067?s=20)
+- [Voted two different times to block federal funding for abortions.](https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/06/06/guess-who-else-voted-against-federal-funding-for-abortion-443667?cid=su_tw_pb)
 
 ### Pete Buttigieg
 
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 ### VaushV
 
+- [A compilation of his takes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyaRosqQOxk)
 - Vaush on LGBT and Trans people: ["The left community online, **particularly the LGBT community**, is cancerous as fuck"](https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1230667829537427462?s=20) "You don't have to be a psychologist to see that a large portion of the broader woket--d cancel-culture idpol left, is predicated on **shared mental illness**. This is **particularly prevalent in the trans community.** If you disagree with me on this, you're wrong. [...] These people are sub-human."
-- [Vaush goes on a rant about "fucking queer people", calling them "mentally ill degenerates."](https://www.reddit.com/r/MoreMoreTankieChapo/comments/hshrxs/vaush_drops_the_mask_for_48_seconds/)
+- [Harrasses a woman by asking her if she wanted to see his penis even though she said no repeatedly. Sends her a picture of himself in the shower anyway.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/i5nka7/vaush_says_tankies_are_irrelevant_because_he_has/g0raeoh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x)
 - [Vaush says in his discord that: "if trans people didn't exist, my notification feed would be a lot better". Rails on about "trans-advocates".](https://i.imgur.com/lR5NhnF.png)
 - [Compares the purchase of a computer to the purchase of child-porn.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/g7bwgd/famous_breadtuber_vaush_i_cant_blame_people_for/)
 - [Defends using the N-word as a "power-move" which he is unashamed of.](https://i.imgur.com/ExE1sFZ.jpg)
 - Calls people ["Mentally ill crybabies"](https://i.imgur.com/T0RnOCC.jpg), "Woke-Scolds", and "Simps".
-- ["US geopolitical power is important to me personally, because I'm not ready to lose that to China"](https://twitter.com/AlMuntherO_O/status/1260679840698634242?s=20).
+- ["US geopolitical power is important to me personally, because I'm not ready to lose that to China"](https://twitter.com/AlMuntherO_O/status/1260679840698634242?s=20). *got removed*
 - [Is against decolonization.](https://twitter.com/trikstr_/status/1280053214117793792)  "We're not going to fkn leave America, white people are staying... we're not gonna give something back to native Americans... the best way forward is to integrate our communities". Vaush responds to a native person talking about indigenous movements and rights by saying: ["I'll listen to the scientists."](https://twitter.com/guajirx/status/1280314035217588224?s=21)
 [Says: "If you identify as LGBT, then you must consider North Korea your enemy", citing wapo, the geneva US mission, and CIA NK org. Ignores the DPRK's pro-lgbt stances.](https://i.redd.it/nvgx1vz4z3b51.png) [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20050806002431/http://www.korea-dpr.com/faq.htm#20)
-- He's in no leftist orgs, plays video games all day, and takes home [$1.5k / from his subscribers.](https://www.patreon.com/vaush)
-- ["Marxism isn't a rejection of liberalism, it's about making it better" ](https://twitter.com/commiefr0g/status/1290343782450434049)
+- He's in no leftist orgs, plays video games all day, and takes home [$1.5k / month from his subscribers by holding "debates" where he just rants at people.](https://www.patreon.com/vaush)
+- ["Marxism isn't a rejection of liberalism, it's about making it better." ](https://twitter.com/commiefr0g/status/1290343782450434049)
 - [Claims that tankies only exist in "small online circles", ignoring the millions of communists in the global south.](https://twitter.com/duck_azz/status/1291635709154033664?s=20)
 
 ### Buddhism