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Re: Bobby J

"We must require newcomers to adopt English as our common language and embrace an ethos of self-sufficiency. We must require a commitment to the rule of law, protection of minority rights, equality in opportunity and before the law, not outcomes, and individual autonomy, not an unlimited government…"

Would that the First Nations had the power to enforce Bobby's policies.

Back in the day, after losing my wife, I visited my brother in law in Boston. That was 1993-94.

We walked from his place on Marbrourgh St to Paul Reveres House. I remember walking through Little Italy, I think. Hearing Italian spoken. Reading signs in Italian.

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> Bobby Jindal & Alex Castellanos

"Under no circumstances can there be meaningful change, and by meaningful change I mean anything that even suggests I don't get to keep the loot".

The Human Trick is ganging up on problems; not only is this an emotive appeal for the status quo, it's for a status quo of helplessness. We've all got problems that absolutely require both not keeping the loot -- there is no route to a decarbonized future that doesn't involve reducing the global financial system to a condition of obedience -- and a whole lot of ganging up on problems.

"Self-sufficiency" is code for "suffer and die".

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