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๐Ÿ—ฝ UNITED STATES POLITICS ๐Ÿฆ…

>Thread for the country which raids the world and doesn't even bother to redistribute the treats to the herrenvolk

<Langley Datacenters Edition

OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
๐Ÿ’€ ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison โ€” for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/

Jailhouse Reading:

๐Ÿ“– Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
๐Ÿ“– How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
๐Ÿ“– National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
๐Ÿ“– Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
๐Ÿ“– An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
๐Ÿ“– Prisonersโ€™ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf

โš’๏ธ LABOR!

Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
โ–ถ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY

โš–๏ธ Deeds of the Burger Reich ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes โ€“ master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/

๐Ÿ“บ Glowie News ๐Ÿ“บ

(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))

CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather

๐Ÿ“บ Gommie News ๐Ÿ“บ

Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol

๐Ÿ๏ธ Epstein's Client List ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide

Essential American Politik ๐Ÿ“–

๐Ÿ“– WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
๐Ÿ“– Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
๐Ÿ“– Power Anywhere There's People! โ€“ Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
๐Ÿ“– War is a Racket โ€“ Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
๐Ÿ“– Letters From an American Farmer โ€“ St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
๐Ÿ“– Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
๐Ÿ“– The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
๐Ÿ“– The Ballot or the Bullet โ€“ Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
๐Ÿ“– What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? โ€“ Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
๐Ÿ“– A Trail of Broken Treaties โ€“ American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
๐Ÿ“– Custer Died for Your Sins โ€“ Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
๐Ÿ“– Emancipation Proclamation โ€“ Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
๐Ÿ“– Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
๐Ÿ“– Common Sense โ€“ Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
๐Ÿ“– An Indigenous History of the United States โ€“ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
๐Ÿ“– Huey Long โ€“ Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech

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>>2930165
>he fell for the lulag memes
bro…

>>2930009
>I'm kind of seeing a similar issue with Lula. Y'know he did a hell of a lot better than the Dems in terms of actually arresting Bolsonaro, but the fact Bolsonaro's kid is running and isn't in a jail cell with him has cost in the first round of elections and possibly the presidency.
Guess what, if Trump was arrested and Biden's inflation was the same, Donald Trump Jr. would habe been president in 2024 and be in a similar position as Brazil. Anyone who thought Trump getting arrested would have done anything is naive

>>2930167
Oh my god if you think the Redditor Occupied Government is bad with DJT, imagine with Trump Junior.

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>>2930165
>does "the Leftโ„ข" really need more of that?
You are asking the guy for whom pragmatism is putting the last Dem betrayal behind you, and focusing on elevating the next Dem betrayer's career lel

>>2930154
the idea that jews as a collective are in any kind of danger is laughable, if zionists actually cared about that they would just work on preserving liberal democratic freedoms (yes I am aware this is leftypol but you know what i mean) in the countries that already exist. i oppose nation-states on principle, i think the entire globe should be one big country

>>2930170 (me)
If it was up to the DSA they'd end up with their own version of Anti-Deutche, who denounces USanos in favor of broader, western chauvinism… just to boost some milquetoast "progressive" anyway, with whom they share 99% of values. And values is the word here, actual tangible policy resides in a different galaxy from the DSA.

>>2930171
also ironically my position that there should be one world government or whatever is called cosmopolitanism and is ironically often associated with jews by the far-right. which is hilarious because opposing zionism because you oppose nation states is antisemitism according to zionists

>>2930170
i know, but deep down im still too much of a humanist to give up on him

>>2930085
she did something weird to her nose and i don't like it

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>>2930138
heh

>>2930078
>Eye for an eye is the law of abraxas-yaldabaoth.
Hammurabi crying in the corner because you gave him no credit and also forgot he was a reformist because before he came along it was "take my eye and I rape and pillage your village"

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>>2929728
>Hunger is a solved problem.
not everywhere

>>2929939
No maid can clean that up. That would be more difficult than Hercules cleaning the Augean Stables.

>>2930200
they dont have grocery store dumpsters in the congo. another example of treatlers having it too good

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>>2930208
well that's what makes capitalism so absurd, right? is that we throw half the food out, put it in locked dumpsters. we overproduce, then destroy the surplus to keep the prices high, instead of just giving it away, because that would "cost too much"

Wanna make stuff cost less? Nationalize the big food processors and retailers, public universal single-payer healthcare(semashko style), nationalize oil,gas,hydropower and nuclear industry. Thatโ€™s what skoy cooper and skichael whatley wonโ€™t tell you.

another one just resigned

>>2930228
usa regime is about to collapse!

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What's the explanation that hyper capitalistic countries like Japan or South Korea manage to have a great public infrastructure and public transport? Wouldn't one expect the opposite?

Consider these countries are highly undemocratic, meaning these policies don't come from popular influence.

>>2930241
It's pretty good at getting you to your 16 hour shift

Real movement status?

>>2930241
Much smaller, denser countries.
>Japan's population density is 325 to 336 people per square kilometer (roughly 840 to 870 people per square mile),
>South Korea has a population density of 531 people per square kilometer (about 1,375 people per square mile) as of 2026
<The population density of Japan counting only the habitable (buildable) area is approximately 1,400 to 1,523 people per square kilometer (roughly 3,600 to 3,900 people per square mile)
>The overall population density of the United States is approximately 93 to 99 people per square mile (about 38 people per square kilometer), depending on the specific census or recent mid-year estimate
America's strategy is all about building outwards, and in most areas there is always room to expand outwards. When certain metros reach the peak of expanding outwards, the metro areas that still have room to expand outwards become more attractive like Texas. There is still so much fucking land available in Texas and they are expanding outwards and outwards. I've been a part of working on it. Mark my words, Austin and San Antonio will someday be like LA County/Orange County/San Bernadino county, just one contiguous sprawl. Hell maybe Dallas/Fortworth/Waco/Austin/Houston will be come one contiguous super sprawl. There are no geographical features stopping it. Just more and more undeveloped land in between all those metro areas. In Japan, everything that isn't a mountain is basically part of a contiguous super sprawl.

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>>2930256
>Greater Tokyo Area 33 million
>California 39 million
>Canada 41 million

>>2930241
>hyper capitalistic
The explanation is that you fell for the meme.

>>2930242
>>2930256
>>2930260

All of these explanations are lacking. I think it's more related to US fight against communism in the region to counter the Soviet threat, and the Japanese elite attempts to keep the population passive by offering a more comfortable life

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>>2930269
How is it not an explanation? Also public transit in Japan and South Korea isn't as good as you think and public transit in America is not as bad as you think. I just created two 17.3 mile trips in Tokyo and Los Angeles.

Los Angeles:
>Drive time: 27 minutes
<Public transit time: 1hr 25m

Tokyo:
>Drive time: 34minutes
<Public transit time: 1hr 29m

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>Trump: โ€œIt's amazing. I can say the stupidest things, and you clapโ€
<Audience: WOOOOOOOOO!!!!

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>>2930269
The moment we could switch from trains to planes we did that because it's cheaper and faster to fly across the U.S. for the same reason Russians fly more than to take trains once that became available on mass scale. Because the country is geographically very big and it doesn't make sense to sit on a train for two days when you can be at your destination in a couple of hours on a plane.

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>>2930276
did he mean stupid things like this?

>>2930276
This isn't real, right?

>>2930285
>I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else!
I love how he does that. I don't know if there is a specific name for this kind of logical fallacy. I feel like it's related to a lack of object permanence. He also loves to say:
>Nobody knew about this
Things don't exist until he learns about them.
>>2930289
100% real. Far from the craziest little vamps he's done at a rally.

>>2930269
>>2930275
this anon is right: >>2930269
it's more likely that samsung's republic of korea and lobotomized anime's republic of japan do that because of China, for the same reason europe enforced social democracy up to some point when the USSR was alive, then europe started to revert all of that.
>>2930280
>it's cheaper
>planes
>than
>TRAINs
nonsensical. trains are by far cheaper than planes. even in Russia. always. it's only the time factor that makes planes attractive. and because time was factored in, the industry pushed for more plane production, which reduced the cost. but if I take $100 million in investment split 50/50 between the train and plane industries, I get a cheaper production return from the train industry than I would from the plane industry. And China is closing that gap with high-speed rail, which is close to a plane price within the same distance. And in China people chose trains over planes so often, even airlines have been dropping the prices to stay relevant.

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>>2930293
Why is it so hard to understand that higher density metro areas are the ones that are going to benefit most from public transit? Even then, the public transit can't magically just go faster. It really only works if you are traveling shorter distances.

>The average one-way commute distance for home-based work trips by car, van, SUV, or pickup truck in the U.S. is 14.4 miles (with a median of 8.9 miles), according to the National Household Travel Survey
>One-Way Travel Time: Mean travel time to work is 27.2 minutes (U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey).

>In the dense urban hub of Tokyo, the average one-way commute distance is 16.94 kilometers, which converts to roughly 10.53 miles
>Tokyo average one way commute: 42.39 min

>The National Time Standard: Nationally, the Statistics Bureau of Japan reports an average one-way commute time of 39.5 minutes
>Regional Variances: In rural cities with populations under 300,000, the round-trip average drops to 1 hour and 9 minutes (approx. 34.5 minutes each way) where cars are much more common. In contrast, the Greater Tokyo area features the longest commutes, averaging 58 minutes one way.

I'd like to see the public transit shills actually do some numbers based comparisons and address the reality of time and convenience and all that.

Public transit:
>Cheaper
>safer
>less pollution

Cars:
>Faster
>more convenient in all ways. You operate on your own schedule, easily go to any place you want without even thinking about it. Can move large amounts of objects in your vehicle.
>Privacy, hygiene, don't have to be trapped for half an hour in a little box with whatever crazy, rude, or dirty strangers. You can play your music loud on speakers.

Really I think most of the public transit shills, at the end of the day just hate driving for whatever reason, so it really comes down to personal preference. I think most Americans would prefer to drive, and very few metro areas would it even be possible to make public transit even somewhat comparable to driving. I used to ride the public transit every day, and it wasn't even a bad route, but I'd rather drive 100%. Shit maybe if they actually made the trains and busses comfortable to sleep on and you could set some kind of app to wake you up when you get close to your stop it might have some advantage.

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>>2930293
I feel like this whole conversation is getting confused between local public transit and long distance rail.
>>2930241
>great public infrastructure and public transport?
Japanese rail is mostly privatized.

>If you look strictly at the 7 core operating companies that split from the state-owned national monopoly:
>57% Private (4 out of 7): JR East, JR Central, JR West, and JR Kyushu are 100% fully privatized and publicly traded on the stock exchange
>43% Public (3 out of 7): JR Hokkaido, JR Shikoku, and JR Freight remain 100% state-owned. Their shares are entirely held by a government public agency called the Japan Railway Construction, Transport, and Technology Agency (JRTT).
<~70% JR Group Infrastructure: Around 70% of the physical rail network in Japan belongs to the JR Group. Since that network is split between the private and public JR companies mentioned above, the bulk of Japan's major intercity tracks and Shinkansen (bullet train) infrastructure is privately managed
<~30% Independent Private & Municipal Operators: The remaining 30% of the rail network is operated by dozens of completely independent private companies (like Tokyo Metro, Kintetsu, and Hankyu) and local municipal governments

So that's like 70% privatized.

Dealing with gravity is expensive

Capitalism has twisted human evaluation of material costs

>>2930303
>I feel like this whole conversation is getting confused between local public transit and long distance rail.
there are two different individuals i was replying to in that same post. two different replies could have two different ideas.
One: backing up one anon's ideas.
Two: Calling out dumb the idea that planes are cheaper than planes, and explain differences in some countries.
See? two different ideas, none of them confusing local public transit and long distance rail.

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I can't even understand the narrative they're trying to spin here.
>we interviewed a bunch of bike delivery guys, and a lot of them are immigrants
>import the third world, become the third world
>cut to footage of Africa showing heavy motorcycle usage
Like what are they exactly trying to complain about? Too much two wheel usage? Bicycle delivery is the problem? In America we love four wheels goddamnit!

>>2930329
There is a current rightoid shill campaign about the 3rd world and I still don't understand what exactly the argument is either.


>>2930241
japan and south korea being hyper capitalist is a myth. they have an outsized portion of state control on the economy compared to america

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>>2930348
>japan and south korea being hyper capitalist is a myth. they have an outsized portion of state control on the economy compared to america
<source: I made it up.

>>2930352
>public sector employment statistics
irrelevant. i was talking about the amount of state control in shit like banking, not employment. can you people even read?

>After the surrender of Japan the Allied occupation forces partially attempted to dissolve the zaibatsu which had worked closely with the militarists during the first half of the 20th century and during the war. However, the United States government later rescinded those orders in an effort to reindustrialize Japan as a bulwark against communism in Asia, so the zaibatsu were never completely dissolved.

>>2930289
I've obviously never been to a trump a rally so I'm talking completely out my ass but people don't attend these things to do "politics". They aren't thinking about it that way at all. It's a social activity/performance. They are tailgaiting these things and swapping trump merch and basically throwing a party. I am sure some of these people ARE deeply devoted, but a lot of them cheer and laugh at the proper moment because the crowd does. So it's not surprising that you have all these clips of Trump saying insane stuff from a political point of view but the crowd not seeing it that way.

The same republicans who say if your house floods just sell it and move!

>>2930224
should be noted that the cost of producing that surplus of food is factored into the price you pay. so if we're throwing away half the donuts, you are effectively paying for two donuts when you buy one. the purpose of the throw-away donut is not to be eaten but to create the appearance of abundance because market research shows people are more willing to buy the fuller your stock appears to be. since it's always in your interest to buy food, one has to assume this is due to some kind of altruistic tendency where you don't want to take away someone else's opportunity to get the food. so the overproduction is not just wasteful and built on denying food to the poorest people, it's also trying to circumvent people's subconscious desire to make sure everyone gets fed.

>>2930433
>>2930433
>>2930433
NEW

>>2927592
Enver hoxha once said in one of Jack wilimos dreams โ€œyou are one of the last knights of true communismโ€.

>>2930301
>I think most Americans would prefer to drive, and very few metro areas would it even be possible to make public transit even somewhat comparable to driving
Because we developed our entire infrastructure around cars and individualism. So the idea of public transport is repulsed because it brings crime and forces you to be around people. Because you dont invest in your people let alone your public infrastructure it breaks down and becomes intolerable like the public transportation you were using. Public transportation should have investment so people have options to use it and help with congestion


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