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socialism_faq.md

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 ### Whats so bad about Elon Musk?
 - [Crushes unionization attempts at tesla factories, promising free frozen yogurt in return.](https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/musk-slams-union-drive-in-email-to-employees) 
 - [Employees at Tesla suffer twice as many serious workplace injuries than the industry average.](http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-injuries-rates-higher-industry-average-worksafe-2017-5)
+- [Forced to pay out ~$4 Million in a class action lawsuit to 4,100 SpaceX employees who say the company refused to allow them to take legally mandated breaks during the workday, as a consequence of how the company structured its shift patterns.](https://www.inverse.com/article/31478-spacex-settles-underpaid-workers-lawsuit-for-4-million)
 - [Uses public money to fund private ventures, costing taxpayers $4.9B.](http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2016/05/09/elon-musk-tesla-crony/84169496/)
 - [Attracts new investors by hyping failed projects, leading many financial investigators to consider Tesla a ponzi scheme.](https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-05/why-tesla-executives-are-fleeing)
-- [Wants to privatize space travel, leaving colonization and exploration to to the richest few.](https://www.salon.com/2017/10/08/against-mars-a-lago-why-spacexs-mars-colonization-plan-should-terrify-you/)
 - [Elon fires Tesla worker for testing positive for THC, then goes on the Joe Rogan show and smokes weed himself. In reality the worker was fired for her union organizing and supporting the United Autoworkers Union.](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/405711-ex-tesla-employee-fired-for-failing-drug-test-musk-smoking-like-a-slap-in)
+- [Wants to privatize space travel, leaving colonization and exploration to to the richest few.](https://www.salon.com/2017/10/08/against-mars-a-lago-why-spacexs-mars-colonization-plan-should-terrify-you/)
+- [Actively feeds his own cult of personality, as it raises his company's stock price.](https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/26/17505744/elon-musk-fans-tesla-spacex-fandom) [Criticism of Musk or Tesla is often met with toxic harrassment, especially against women.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-its-like-when-elon-musks-twitter-mob-comes-after-you) [Reddit: Why is there such a big cult of personality around Musk?](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/8tfmm6/why_is_there_a_cult_of_personality_around_elon/) One such "Tony-Stark" from [Rolling-Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-the-architect-of-tomorrow-120850/).
+- Despite rumours of Elon being a self-made mad scientist genius, he was born into a wealthy white South African family, and his [father owns Emerald mines.](https://www.businessinsider.co.za/how-elon-musks-family-came-to-own-an-emerald-mine-2018-2) His wealth comes not from scientific discovery or innovation, but from his father funding his first business ventures, and from buying and selling companies such as PayPal, SolarCity, SpaceX, and Tesla. 
+- Elon takes advantage of international crises to raise Tesla's stock price. In one case, [Elon promised to "fix" Puerto Rico's power grid after it was decimated by Hurricane Maria.](http://inthesetimes.com/article/20601/elon-musk-puerto-rico-privatization-utility-climate-solar-rossello) He deploys solar panels to a hospital, dozens of [news articles](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/354154-musk-tesla-can-rebuild-puerto-rico-power-grid) were written about the [business-saviness of this decision](https://www.inc.com/sally-hogshead/elon-musks-response-to-puerto-rico-is-pure-marketing-genius-should-be-required-reading.html), and the stock price soared. PR reps told Elon they don't want their power grid privatized by billionaries.
+- [Despite being hailed as a leader in the fight against climate change, he donates 7x more money to Republicans.](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elon-musk-donations-republicans_us_5b4e4bd8e4b0b15aba897481) “Is it any surprise that a union-busting capitalist donated heavily to the Republican Party? No,” said Sydney Ghazarian, of the Democratic Socialists of America’s environmental justice working group.
 - [Fired his assistance of 12 years for asking for a raise. Divorced his wife after telling her that his life "operated quite smoothly" in her absence.](https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-is-a-jerk-that-once-fired-his-assistant-of-12-1797699824)
-- [Rocket jesus broken promises #1.](https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/73eh4m/tracking_elon_musks_visions_promises_and/)
+- [Rocket jesus broken promises #1](https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/73eh4m/tracking_elon_musks_visions_promises_and/), [#2](https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/7spkqa/happy_2018_everybody_lets_take_a_moment_to_recall/)
-- [Rocket jesus broken promises #2.](https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/7spkqa/happy_2018_everybody_lets_take_a_moment_to_recall/)
 
 ### Whats so bad about Bill Gates?
 
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 ### What's wrong with Bernie Sanders?
 
-- [Supports US imperialism](https://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-troubling-history-supporting-us-military-violence-abroad). [2](https://leftistcritic.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/bernie-sanders-an-imperialist-worth-despising/)
+- [Supports US imperialism](https://leftistcritic.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/bernie-sanders-an-imperialist-worth-despising/). [2](https://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-troubling-history-supporting-us-military-violence-abroad)
   - [Voted for troops to be deployed to somalia.](http://votesmart.org/bill/2732/7934/27110/bernie-sanders-voted-yea-passage-with-amendment-s-j-res-45-authorization-for-use-of-%20us-armed-forces-in-somalia#7934)
   - [Supported the US invasion and bombing of Yugoslavia.](http://www.libertyunionparty.org/?page_id=363)
   - Voted for $1 Billion in aid to Ukraine's right wing government.
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 - [She supports Israel, and its genocide of Palestineans. ](https://i.imgur.com/K6QsYZo.jpg)
 - [Says her policies are more reminiscent of Norway than Caracas, repeating the right wing myth of socialism destroying Venezuela, and wrongly conflating nordic social democracy with socialism.](https://i.imgur.com/fTJfV2k.png)
 - [AOC selling "law and order" and "family values" and not being "weak on crime" as socialist values. ](https://i.imgur.com/VRKjkXV.jpg)
+- [Thinks the US military is socialist. Also thinks social services like schools and libraries are socialist.](https://i.imgur.com/JHOZDlg.png)
 - [Claims that socialist theory is only for priviledged few with college educated parents, and that working class people aren't capable of understanding theory. Is unaware of the Spanish-speaking socialist tradition. ](https://medium.com/@marko_v_kobak/sharpening-the-mind-a-response-to-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-24babecac9c5?fbclid=IwAR2I8uYX9ZUvPyd5MZxKiIEeXgbgnfzulR4qjzOGF1hxK6SEX7oqkFmyBIc)
 - [AOC wants abolish ICE, only to replace it with a resurrected INS, yet another agency whose goal was breaking up families. ](https://i.imgur.com/ficPkrO.jpg)
 

us_hate_crimes.md

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 - On Jan 10th, 2018, [19-year-old Brandon Griesemer made 22 death threat phone calls to CNN's Atlanta headquarters:](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/23/michigan-man-accused-of-threatening-to-attack-cnn-identified-with-hitler-former-classmate-says/?utm_term=.2829a1ddec97) “Fake news. I’m coming to gun you all down,” he told a CNN operator.  According to the Washington Post, a high school classmate of Griesemer described him as a Trump supporter who “came in after the election and was very happy.” The classmate, reported the Post, “compared Griesemer’s reaction to that of a fan whose team had won a big game.”
 - On October 20th, 2017, after a Richard Spencer rally in Gainesville FL, 3 white supremacists from Texas drove around in a pickup truck, shouting pro-hitler slogans, and then [opened fire on a crowd of protesters](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/attempted-homicide-richard-spencer-speech-gainesville-florida_us_59ea766ae4b0958c468228ff). They drove off, and were arrested. One of them, in an interview with HuffPost, laid out the grievances that had brought him to town. "Basically, I’m just fed up with the fact that I’m cis-gendered, I’m a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side," wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. "And I get demonized if I don’t accept certain things."<sup>[1](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/attempted-homicide-richard-spencer-speech-gainesville-florida_us_59ea766ae4b0958c468228ff)</sup>
 - On July 14th, 2017, alt-right activist, anti-feminist, and former intern of Milo Yiannapoulous, Lane Davis, [murdered his father for calling him a nazi](https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi). 
-- On August 14th, 2017, at the [Unite the Right rally](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally) in Charlottesville VA, 20-year old Neo-nazi James Alex Fields Jr., [drove his car toward a crowd of antifascist counterprotestors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide), wounding 19, and killing Heather Heyer, a paralegal from Charlottesville. Heyer's mother said she wanted Heather's name to become "a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion." <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide)</sup>
+- On August 14th, 2017, at the [Unite the Right rally](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally) in Charlottesville VA, 20-year old Neo-nazi James Alex Fields Jr., [drove his car into a crowd of antifascist counterprotestors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide), wounding 19, and killing Heather Heyer, a paralegal from Charlottesville. Heyer's mother said she wanted Heather's name to become "a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion." <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide)</sup>
 - On August 5, 2017, three members of a far-right militia [bombed the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/us/minnesota-mosque-explosion.html) McWhorter is alleged to have told an FBI agent that the attack was an attempt “to scare” Muslims “out of the country.” Luckily no one was killed. Back in 2017, one of the bombers, Hari, who owns a security company, [submitted a $10 billion proposal](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/14/he-wanted-to-build-trumps-border-wall-he-was-just-charged-in-the-bombing-of-a-minnesota-mosque/?utm_term=.f9c1d8da2fe1) to build Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. “We would look at the wall as not just a physical barrier to immigration but also as a symbol of the American determination to defend our culture, our language, our heritage, from any outsiders,” Hari said.
 
 - On May 30th, 2017, [Anthony Robert Hammond attacked a black person](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-hammond-hate-crime-us-clearlake-617485) with a machete causing serious injuries, while shouting racial slurs, in Clearlake CA. <sup>[1](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-hammond-hate-crime-us-clearlake-617485)</sup>
 - On May 29th, 2017, Jimmy Kramer, a 20 year old Native American, [was run over during his birthday party](http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/young-father-run-down-killed-in-grays-harbor-county-campground-confrontation/) in Washington state by a man and woman in a large pickup truck who first circled the party yelling racial slurs and taunts at the group from inside the truck. Kramer died and his friend was hospitalized. <sup>[1](http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/young-father-run-down-killed-in-grays-harbor-county-campground-confrontation/)</sup>
 - On May 28th, 2017, White supremacist [Jeremy Joseph Christian stabbed and killed two men](http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/us/portland-train-teenager-stabbing-arraignment/) who defended a 16-year-old and her Muslim friend on a train in Portland OR. As he was brought into court, Christian yelled, "Get out if you don't like free speech," and, "You call it terrorism, I call it patriotism. You hear me? Die." 16 year old Destinee Mangum told reporters, "He told us to go back to Saudi Arabia and he told us we shouldn't be here, to get out of his country," Mangum told KPTV. "He was just telling us that we basically weren't anything and that we should just kill ourselves." Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, of Portland, and Ricky John Best, 53, of Happy Valley, died defending them the two high-schoolers.<sup>[1](http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/us/portland-train-teenager-stabbing-arraignment/)</sup>
 - On May 21st, 2017, Sean Christopher Urbanski, a University of Maryland student and member of online alt-right facebook groups, [randomly stabbed to death Richard Collins III](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-umd-stabbing-arrest-20170521-story.html) in College Park, MD, while he was waiting for an uber. <sup>[1](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-umd-stabbing-arrest-20170521-story.html)</sup>
+- In May, 2017, 18 year old Devon Arthurs, a member of Atom-Waffen, a white supremacist hate group, [murdered two of his roommates, also members, to prevent them from carrying out violent attacks.](https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery) Pipe bombs, explosive materials, timers, and firearms were found in the apartment. A detective asked if Atomwaffen had drawn up a list of specific targets. “Power lines, nuclear reactors, synagogues, things like that,” Arthurs replied.
 - On March 20, 2017, Timothy Caughman, a black 66-year-old man, was collecting cans for recycling in Manhattan, New York City when James Harris Jackson, a white 28-year-old, allegedly approached him and stabbed him [multiple times with a sword, killing him](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Timothy_Caughman). Jackson subsequently turned himself in to police custody  and confirmed that he traveled from Maryland to New York with the intention of killing black men in order to prevent white women from having interracial relationships with them.<sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Timothy_Caughman)</sup>
 - On Feb 22, 2017, white US navy veteran Adam Purington, [shot and killed 1 Indian man and wounded another](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Olathe,_Kansas_shooting), whom he had mistaken for Iranians, at a restaurant in Olathe, Kansas. He yelled, "get out of my country" and "[terrorist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist)" before firing. A third man, Ian Grillot, was wounded after he came to the two men's aid. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Olathe,_Kansas_shooting)</sup>
 - On Jan 29th, 2017, White supremacist Alexandre Bissonette [shot and killed 6 people and wounded 19 others](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting) at a Mosque in Quebec city, Canada. He was charged with 6 counts of first-degree murder, and not domestic terrorism. People who knew him said he had expressed support for [Marine Le Pen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen) and [Donald Trump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump),[[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting#cite_note-troll-31)[[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting#cite_note-lui-m.C3.AAme-30)[[34\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting#cite_note-34) and had [far-right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics), [white nationalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalism), and anti-Muslim views. The manager of a refugee-support Facebook page said Bissonnette frequently denigrated refugees and feminists online.<sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting)</sup>