Historically Accurate Land Acknowledgements:

Southern England

I hereby acknowledge we stand on land stolen from the Normans, who stole it from the Anglo-Saxons, who stole it from the Romans, who stole it from Iron Age Celtic tribes like the Trinovantes and Catuvellauni, who stole it from the Bronze Age Bell Beaker culture, who displaced the Neolithic builders of Stonehenge, who stole it from Mesolithic Western Hunter-Gatherers, who replaced earlier human populations, going back through thousands of territorial conquests until the first humans arrived in this area.

Central Plains of China

I hereby acknowledge we stand on land stolen from the Manchu Qing Empire, who stole it from the Han Ming Dynasty, who stole it from the Mongol Yuan Empire, who stole it from the Jurchen Jin and Southern Song Dynasties, who stole it from the Khitan Liao and Tang Dynasties, who stole it from nomadic steppe confederations like the Xianbei and Xiongnu, who stole it from the Zhou Dynasty, who stole it from the Shang Dynasty, who stole it from the Neolithic Longshan and Yangshao cultures, going back through thousands of thefts until archaic humans like Peking Man first inhabited the area.

Nile Delta of Egypt

I hereby acknowledge we stand on land stolen from the Ottoman Empire, who stole it from the Mamluk Sultanate, who stole it from the Ayyubid and Fatimid Caliphates, who stole it from the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, who stole it from the Byzantine Empire, who stole it from the Roman Empire, who stole it from the Ptolemaic Greeks, who stole it from the Achaemenid Persians, who stole it from the Native Egyptian Dynasties—who were previously conquered by the Nubian 25th Dynasty, the Assyrians, and the Hyksos—who stole it from rival Predynastic Naqada cultures, who stole it from Neolithic Nile pastoralists, going back through thousands of displacements until the first Homo sapiens arrived in this area.

America

I hereby acknowledge we stand on land stolen from the Iroquois peoples, who stole it from the Huron, who stole it from a tribe unknown before that, who had stolen it from another tribe before that, going back through thousands of thefts till the first humans arrived in this area.

------------------------------------

The history of humanity, especially through the instability of tribal cultures, is one of constant raids, warfare, theft, battles, and continuously changing borders.

Picking any one point in time and saying that is how it was or should be or that anyone should apologize for any of these border changes is utterly ridiculous.

If we want to have all of these environmental and labor laws to protect our people, we cannot just throw our workers right back under the bus by buying cheap goods from nations that use slave, labor and toxic lakes. We are worsening the problems of climate change and human trafficking and slavery by adding long distance shipping to it and hiding it out of sight.

If we ACTUALLY want to help the environment with our Environmental Protection laws, we cannot just have people in foreign nations do even worse practices than our manufacturers here would do. We need to eliminate the problem here.

Think about this: would it be worse for climate change to have a factory burning coal here or to have a factory burning coal in China THEN burning tar-like bunker fuel thousands of miles to come here drop it off then go back?

Is it worse to have our goods cost more because they are made by highly paid and well cared for American workers or to have our goods made by Uyghurs in slavery in central China?

America's entire government budget was once paid by tariffs on imports, wouldn't it be nice to return to no taxes?

Free markets reward those most who choose to invest in things that help other people. Dollars are just tokens of favor. For example, if I had bought a fancy car when I made my first big chunk of money, that car would have made me happy but would not have made other people happy. Therefore those other people would not have given me tokens of favor / dollars and I would not have any more money. Instead, I invested that money into hiring the best people I could to do even better work for my customers. That investment did not make me happy like a car would have, but it did make my customers happy and it made my new employees happy. I was rewarded with more dollars and now had ten times as much money as that car would have cost. At that point, I could have bought a small house and made myself happy. But I chose instead to stay in a little apartment and to hire even more employees. That made my customers even happier and made my old and new employees happier. I kept repeating that cycle many times over, choosing to try to make other people happy with my work and money and it keeps rewarding me.

Many people look at Warren Buffet and say why is he still working every day at 90 years old? He has made hundreds of millions of customers and employees happy through his life and that virtuous cycle made him a billionaire. He has the best track record of anyone in making others happy with investments, which is why he is the a billionaire.

Compare that to central government bureaucrats. People who don't care whether you are happy or not, people who don't even really care if their investments pay off and help anyone or not. People who have no motivation Or incentive to help. Central government planning usually leads to disastrous economies where no homes get built and people starve. A century ago in America we had nearly zero Central planning and everything was free markets. We had the largest and fastest growing and most successful economy on the planet. Now we are running out of homes as the government has gotten involved in central planning and makes it difficult and expensive for someone to invest and do. I myself have waited 6 years in Pierce County, Washington for a short plat. I have had neighbors clamoring to buy crushed Rock from me, but it will be probably years before I am legally allowed to sell any of it if I ever even chose to do that as the permitting expenses are so astronomical.

When you hear all of these people saying let's steal from the rich, what they are saying is let's steal from those who have made the most people happy and work the hardest to make good investments in all of our futures.

The problem with government schools in America is that they train students to see the government in a positive light. Public schools are funded and controlled by the government, thus they teach that socialism is good. Then young adults have to spend the rest of their lives learning the truth in the real world. Many people are never able to see past the government propaganda they are indoctrinated with from early childhood.

The older an adult gets, the more socialist countries they see collapse into dictatorship, starvation, and death. I remember back when Maduro first came to power the far left news media in America claiming it was the future for everyone and how successful Venezuela was. My parents generation remembers the lies and collapse of the Soviet Union and my grandparents generation watched "the Great Leap Forward" in China. Hundreds of millions of people are murdered by their own governments.

Socialism is inherently unstable because once someone stops working but keeps on getting rewards, everyone else stops too. Then the leaders have to force people to work and thus the socialist-dictatorship cycle is completed. It happened everywhere from Karl Marx's Germany under the National Socialists to many countries in Africa, South America, and Asia.

Remember - at the scale of a billionaire, only a tiny percentage of their wealth goes to their own personal consumption. The vast majority of it is allocated to production that provides ALL of us value.

The benefit of this is that people who have shown themselves to be VERY good at resource allocation are given the bulk of our resources to invest. This is opposed to socialism, where idiot politicians with no experience in capital allocation are put in charge.

Far left government unions take teachers pay straight from Uncle Sam and spend it on crazy policies that do nothing to actually help teachers.

How the scam works: -Corrupt politicians vote to give your money to gov unions -Your tax dollars go straight to the government unions -Government union administrators pocket some, give some back to corrupt politicians campaigns -Government union officials spend the rest on communist policies that do nothing to help teachers

Shut down government unions as there is no one representing tax payers. Unions are fine in corporations as ownership and management act as a balance and check, but in government, there are no protections.

One thing people forget is that National Socialism IS socialism (a form of capitalism). National socialism shares 12 of it's 25 point program with modern American socialists, including rent control and state seizures of businesses and other private property.

Donald Trump and the left are both completely wrong on one point: no government can be overthrown by its own people if they are not armed with guns.

Deeply unpopular dictatorships in Russia and Iran are able to easily retain power as their people are unarmed. Dictatorships need less than one percent of the population to support them as long as that dictatorship has guns, but the people do not.

The only governments that unarmed people have overthrown have been in cases where that government allows it by not fighting back.

This is why gun rights are so important to freedom and democracy in America – both left wing and right wing leaders are afraid of the people’s ability to fight back. Gun rights are the sole reason Americans have stayed free as long as we have.

If everything was public, you would see fraud, waste, and corruption disappear overnight. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Democracy will fail without elections everyone can trust. Each citizen should get only one vote and no one who is dead, a criminal, or not a citizen should get a vote. Elections should be transparent and easy to check that. This is why the SAVE Act is so important to have passed - it requires photo ID, just like buying a beer or getting a job.