we must not tolerate it (anti-zionism) in our nation

The context for this was a pro-palestine protest in washington dc, with kamala supporting the police action to break it up.

Kamala also supports sending cops against protesters, especially if they oppose Zionism:

I don't think that's being disputed. Both the USA and Russia had incredibly violent labor histories in the late 1800s and 1900s. The main difference is that in Russia, the workers+peasants organized and won, and in the US, they lost.

Either way this both-sidesing of violence makes no sense. You might as well demonize every just cause in history, or every person that defends themselves from an aggressor with that outlook.

Is your point that the people fighting against Tsarism shouldn't have done so? That they should've continued to suffer without complaint?

Of course the monarchists and reactionaries are going to accuse their opponents of their own crimes, nothing surprising there.

You wouldn't be alive to defend yourself in court. But not only that, US cops are extremely protected legally. If you put a hand on them that's assaulting an officer and you'll get prison time.

Dang I forgot about that one.

If we take most reliable estimates of the casualties than happened in the june 4th incident, ~200, then US cops kill more than that in 2 months.

Or if you want a single internal incident, during the Waco siege the US burned alive ~90 people, many women and children included.

The arming was (and remains) mainly about keeping the US settler garrison empowered to carry out indigenous eviction, and keeping non-white populations under control. Not protecting from a tyrannical government.

You can see that when those groups did try to arm themselves, such as the Black panthers or the American Indian Movement, laws were passed and repression carried out to disarm them.

Highly recommend reading Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Loaded, the disarming history of the second amendment for more on this. You can find the audiobook on torrents.

They're holding a camera, shoot em!!! /s

If this took place in one of the west's enemy countries, we'd be hearing about it for a decade. Since it's the US tho, it'll be forgotten in a few days.

The police representative blandly spouting copaganda and saying how much the LAPD cares about safeguarding lives, while a protestor is currently getting hit with batons and run over by horses, is the most US thing I've ever seen.

Kamala feels the same about protestors.

The US is not a democracy.

Because other people in the datahoarding community already spent a lot of time collaborating and finding the best config.

You really shouldn't build these from scratch, but use existing time-tested configs, like

https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection/

It's mainly just because it has so little dev that I'd like it to be considered alpha software. I've been too busy working on other things lately, and ideally it'd need a full-time dev.

No, you can't just rewrite the definition of democracy

Interestingly, not even the ancient greeks would consider what modern-day western states are, as democracies. Both Aristotle and Plato considered any system based on elections to be undemocratic oligarchies, since only the wealthy have the money to finance campaigns or the prestige to win the popularity contest.

They rightly considered democracy as meaning rule by the poor, which is the opposite of modern day bourgeois democracy.

• Is China a democracy?
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• What kind of democracy does China have, and how is it different from the west?
• 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. How is this possible in a one-party state? (TED talk by Eric X Li)
• How does China’s political system work?
• How are Chinese leaders elected / chosen? How meristocratic is the system? How do elections differ from those in western bourgeois democracies?
• Who runs China? Makeup of the national people's congress.

China is not state capitalist, its a mixed economy with the planned socialist sector predominating. See here.

Is China State Capitalist?

• The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
• Didn't China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn't it liberalize its economy? Is China's drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?
• Is the CPC committed to communism?
• The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
• The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
• Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
• Isn't China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn't it fully planned like the USSR was?
• Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.
• Roderic Day - China has billionaires.
• What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC?
• How is SWCC not revisionist? How is it any different from Gorbachev's market reforms?, 2
• Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?, 2

False:

• Journalist Arrested Under UK Anti-Terror Law Hours After Criticizing It
• UK imprisons palestine action activists under "counter-terrorism" charges.
• Julian Assange’s five-year imprisonment in the UK for exposing US war crimes.