Adding some stuff.

acab.md

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 Police are the armed enforcers of the owning / capitalist class, in the US having their origins in the [Slave catching patrols of the 1700s](https://medium.com/s/story/slavery-and-the-origins-of-the-american-police-state-ec318f5ff05b). They're the domestic enforcement arm of capital, the hired goons of the elites of their given city, serving their interests, with a monopoly on violence, analogous to the military, who acts as the imperialist enforcement arm. Their daily activities consist of fucking over poor people and trapping them in a cycle of poverty. 
 
-Instead of solving thefts of personal property for working class people, they are themselves active thieves, generating over [$12B USD / year in "civil forfeiture"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States), and even more profit through traffic offenses and court costs. You can call them to come stand around and scratch their heads for an hour (if they don't decide to shoot you), but more likely they'll be at a protest being active agents of the [US police state](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#pervasive)([pic](https://i.imgur.com/KRbulxR.jpg)), where they collect a massive amount of data on "troublemakers" using [facial recognition](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-facial-recognition-became-routine-policing-tool-america-n1004251), and [military grade equipment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police), ([pic](https://i.imgur.com/9wj0OG4.jpg)) against the citizens they occupy.
+Instead of solving thefts of personal property for working class people, they are themselves active thieves, generating over [$12B USD / year in "civil forfeiture"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States), and even more profit through traffic offenses and court costs. Since 2012, [cops have stolen more property than burglars](https://i.redd.it/5rdxigt5ndo31.jpg) ( asset forfeiture ).  You can call them to come stand around and scratch their heads for an hour (if they don't decide to shoot you), but more likely they'll be at a protest being active agents of the [US police state](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#pervasive)([pic](https://i.imgur.com/KRbulxR.jpg)), where they collect a massive amount of data on "troublemakers" using [facial recognition](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-facial-recognition-became-routine-policing-tool-america-n1004251), and [military grade equipment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police), ([pic](https://i.imgur.com/9wj0OG4.jpg)) against the citizens they occupy.
 
 Oh but who will imprison the rapists? Not the police: Less than [0.5% of rapists are in prison](https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system), despite [1 out of every 5 women being raped in the US](https://www.nsvrc.org/about-sexual-assault). Perpetrators of sexual violence are *less likely* to go to prison than for any other crime, such as non-violent drug offenses. Police, when not [abducting and raping women themselves](https://twitter.com/rontkim/status/1130889246162804737)(over [1200 formally charged incidents over a 9 year period, many of them during traffic stops](https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html)), [or beating their wives and kids in high numbers](https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/), have been shown to [protect high-status sex traffic rings](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/26/jimmy-savile-given-free-rein-to-sexually-abuse-60-people-report-finds), and famous, well-connected predators.
 

capitalism_doesnt_work.md

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 - [Runs least 54 agricultural slave labor camps.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm#In_the_United_States_.28partial_list.29). 
 - [34,000 *undesirables* imprisoned in over 500 immigrant prison
     camps.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Detention_centers)
+- [US collapse scenarios by 2030.](https://www.salon.com/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025/)
 - [More here.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#workers-and-the-poor)
 
 Capitalist hegemony has short-circuited people into buying wildly illogical and ridiculous propaganda like: "*Lift yourselves up by the bootstraps*" (which shows the almost religious power of capitalist propaganda, that the impossible can become possible), or "*Communism doesn't work*", when in fact **Communism did work extremely well.**

socialism_faq.md

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 - [What about Stalin, the purges, the holodomor, etc? A revleft podcast.](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain)
 - [Was Stalin actually a good leader?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/cg319t/were_there_any_good_leaders_of_the_soviet_union/euekaxo/)
 - [Why are there no modern revolutions, in the past 40 years?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/9y34ea/why_are_there_no_revolutions/)
-- [Didn't Capitalism bring people out of poverty? The UN says poverty has halved in the last few years.](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/9kdz7p/world_population_living_in_extreme_poverty/e6ypvus/) [Another article refuting decreasing global poverty](https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty)
+- [Didn't Capitalism bring people out of poverty? The UN says poverty has halved in the last few years.](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/9kdz7p/world_population_living_in_extreme_poverty/e6ypvus/) 
+- [Isn't worldwide global poverty decreasing?](https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty)
 
 ## What about human nature?
 
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 ### What's wrong with Elizabeth Warren?
 
 - [She supports Capitalism. ](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/23/elizabeth-warren-i-am-a-capitalist-but-markets-need-rules.html)
+- [She was a republican most of her adult life, during the Vietnam and Reagan eras... until 1996. She does not talk about her republican past in her autobiography, or speeches. She only became a democrat to support free markets: "I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true anymore"](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/12/elizabeth-warren-profile-young-republican-2020-president-226613) [2](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/elizabeth-warren-confronted-by-her-republican-past)
+- [She claims she doesn't take PAC money, that democracy shouldn't be for sale, but much of her funding comes from wealthy donors, at a minumum of $10 Million.](https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/elizabeth-warren-2020-big-donor-ban-bernie-sanders-corporate-money)
+- [How Elizabeth Warren is courting the establishment democrats.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-democrats.html)
 - [Defends Israel's continued bombing of Gaza Hospitals and schools.](https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5733164)
 - [Supports US troops in South Korea.](https://mobile.twitter.com/senwarren/status/979457592975134720?lang=en) [2](https://i.imgur.com/k6Qx3v3.jpg)
 - [Copies Sanders program of full student debt cancelation, adds eligibility requirements.](https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/23/politics/elizabeth-warren-cancel-student-debt-bill/)
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 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seRaSRZKo2U
 
+# Greta Thunberg
+
+- http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
+
 ### Others
 
 - [What's so bad about Winston Churchill?](http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/80sxhj/-/duy08zm) , [2](https://crimesofbritain.com/2016/09/13/the-trial-of-winston-churchill/)
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 ## Other Topics
 ### Why are socialists against bitcoin mining?
+
 - [A single bitcoin transaction wastes as much energy as your house uses in a week.](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-electricity-consumption-ethereum-energy-climate-change)
 - [Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity per year than all of Ireland.](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/27/bitcoin-mining-consumes-electricity-ireland)
 
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 * [Overpopulation isnt causing climate change. Blame capitalism.  ](https://www.redpepper.org.uk/overpopulation-isnt-causing-climate-change-blame-capitalism/)
 
 ### Why don't socialists support a UBI / Universal Basic income?
+
 - [Would basic income fix our problems?](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/8p097l/i_just_realized_that_monopoly_has_integrated/)
 - [A Marxist critique of Basic income.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/8wizh9/marxist_critiques_on_the_universal_basic_income/)
 - [Why basic income is a bad idea - Paul Cockshott](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/9lj3bh/why_basic_income_is_a_bad_idea/), [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGBQwZsp3T0), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/9li3gj/what_do_socialists_think_about_a_universal_basic/)

us_atrocities.md

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 ### Middle East
 
+In September 2019, the [US killed at least 30 pine nut farmers, and injured 40 others via a drone attack](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/afghanistan-dozens-civilians-killed-drone-attack-190919072728303.html) in the nangarhar province in Afghanistan. Malik Rahat Gul, a tribal elder in Wazir Tangi, said the air raid happened at a time when tired workers, mainly daily wage earners, had gathered near their tent after harvesting pine nuts in a field nearby. "The workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone targeted them". This marks the 18th year of war in Afghanistan. 
 - On April 14, 2018, the US, UK, and France [launched 100 more missiles](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/14/syria-air-strikes-us-uk-and-france-launch-attack-on-assad-regime) at 3 different targets in Syria, again claiming that the Syrian government used chemical attacks against its own citizens in douma as justification.  On 10 April, the Syrian government again invited the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to send a team to investigate the sites of the alleged attacks. Trump, Macron, and May have all issued statements saying that this is not an intervention in the Syrian civil war. [1](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/14/syria-air-strikes-us-uk-and-france-launch-attack-on-assad-regime)
 - Starting in June 2017, photos and videos from Syrian civilians in Raqqa showed that the US-backed coalition in Syria was illegally using [white phosphorus](https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/josepha-ivanka-wessels/white-phosphorus-over-raqqa) in civilian areas. White phosphorus can burn human flesh down to the bone, and wounds can reignite up to days later. “No matter how white phosphorus is used, it poses a high risk of horrific and long-lasting harm in crowded cities like Raqqa and Mosul and any other areas with concentrations of civilians,” said [Steve Goose](https://www.hrw.org/about/people/stephen-goose), arms director at Human Rights Watch. One attack on an internet cafe killed at least 20 civilians, while other deaths are still being confirmed. One of those civilians killed was in the process of sending a report to Humans Rights Watch, when the cafe was struck. The US killed 273 syrian civilians in April, slightly more than the number killed by ISIS. A US attack in July killed another 50 civilians. In August, the US killed another 60+ civilians. [1](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/world/middleeast/raqqa-syria-white-phosphorus.html),[2](https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/14/iraq/syria-danger-us-white-phosphorus),[3](https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/josepha-ivanka-wessels/white-phosphorus-over-raqqa)
 - On April 4th, 2017, following the [Khan Shaykhun chemical attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack), Trump ordered an airstrike of 59 tomahawk cruise missiles (worth $70 million) fired at the Shayrat air base in Syria (one that Trump claims is the source of the chemical attack) in the [2017 Shayrat Missile Strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike). This is the first attack by the US directly targeting [Ba'athist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Syria_Region) [Syrian government](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_government) forces, who are closely allied with Russia. Russian Prime Minister [Dimitry Medvedev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitry_Medvedev) said the attack brought the U.S. "within an inch" of clashing with the Russian military, and could've sparked a nuclear war. The attack was praised by US politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well >30 countries. Over 700 children have been killed US coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since August 2014. The US conducted another airstrike against Syria on June 7th, 2017.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike)