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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (161861)	8/29/2020 5:05:59 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By marcher Respond to of 217549

Re <<modern systemic racism>> (1) would say the fellow who made the video is angry, has enough valid points on topics that seems to be riveting the world (2) observe that other people are also at least as angry on the same topics in all different ways, with varying validity, and thus nailing a society in place so that forward progress seems difficult at the moment (3) unclear, but always unclear at the get-go, that the anger would go away without some discussions, actions, or at least some very agile political dancing (4) so, some sort of impasse, that state which is not helpful, tends to fester unless resolved, over and again Sandia as I understand it, is a government owned organ sandia.gov working on projects to do w/ hush-hush and such, likely not a good place to have group-based anger festering doubtful that such anger festering would dissipate after conclusion of November. diversity is supposed to be, and certainly can be a positive, should the state arise naturally, and I do not believe time matters, but at other times might prove toxic At this juncture there seems a de-Chinese movement on w/i Team USA, especially within academia and research labs of all useful sorts, where careers abruptly end, promotion opportunities vaporise, charges fly, indictments served, trials happen, imprisonment sometimes follow and other times not, and in every case the subjects of such treatment find life and prospect changed. Same same w/ folks not directly harassed, but sport Chinese names. Kibitzers would ordinarily be tempted to invoke the word 'profiling' as in the case of re-education camps in Xinjiang. The refugees are beginning to land across the border in Shenzhen, and when they do, depending on objective knowledge level a/k/a merit, they are matched w/ grants, lab teams, real estate, and new work work work. All very interesting and likely why Core Comrade Jinping is not bothering to even comment on the protocol. Would say Navarro, Pompeo, and the Esper's of this planet are being very helpful to Jinping, in whose view MSR is proving a positive vector. Am uncertain MSR is exactly modern, but undoubted systemic, we skip the issue of racism and can let go at invocation of national security, as scientists & engineers are obviously presumably more consequential than TikTok

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (161861)	8/29/2020 6:51:23 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217549

1. The trending is not encouraging because ... 1-i Perfectly normal everyday looking folks are doing not-exactly-right actions meant to intimidate other folks for reasons short of existential self-protection 1-ii No one seems to be paying attention to where the end-game might be 1-iii The crowds might be riled up 1-iv Crowds do not think 1-v Really does seem to me, at least by internet info flow of words and pictures, and reasoning or lack of same, that happenings seem to be like the earliest days the Great Proletariats Cultural Revolution, say 1966 1-vi Days eventually turn into nights, where gangs of crowds engage in armed struggle, all-of-society 2. Question: has the spark already happened? It takes but a small Mao to start a prairie fire, I read when very young marxists.org Restudying ”A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire” zerohedge.com Chicago Teachers Union "Endorses" Guillotine Built By Protesters Outside Jeff Bezos' HouseLike they say, a rising tide lifts all boats, and while hundreds of thousands of newly minted Robinhood traders have been brought along for the ride as tech valuations soared during the spring and summer, the real winners - as always - will be the insiders, like CEO Jeff Bezos, who saw his personal wealth eclipse $200 billion this week. Sophisticated people understand that market valuations fluctuate often, sometimes dramatically, and that what goes up, typically, must come down. Whatever changes his net wealth has undergone on paper, he still owns roughly the same list of assets from before the pandemic. But to America's most dedicated leftists, Bezos latest personal wealth milestone was a PR opportunity that couldn't be passed up. And so a group of crypto-communists purporting to be former Amazon employees constructed a guillotine - yes, an actual working guillotine - outside of Bezos' home in Chicago. Officially, the "protest" was organized to call for a $30 minimum wage, which is double the $15 minimum wage that is now in place in some of America's most costly cities. Any small business owner - say the owner of a coffee shop - can probably explain why paying someone $30 an hour to pour coffee, or to assemble McDonald's food, simply isn't feasible from a business economics perspective, unless American consumers suddenly start queuing up for $20 cups of plain ol' coffee. We suspect Chris Smalls, the "former Amazon employee" who led the protest, probably couldn't offer a similarly thorough economic argument for why people deserve $30 an hour. "Give a good reason why we don't deserve a $30 minimum wage when this man makes $4,000 a second," he said. Bezos' base salary is actually a paltry $80,000. Smalls told the crowd about the long hours he worked at Amazon's Staten Island shipping center without "adequate" pay (he likely received at least the same $15 an hour that protesters like him were demanding just a couple of years ago, or more). He finally walked out in protest over Amazon's handling of the coronavirus, and was fired shortly afterward. As if the guillotine wasn't disturbing enough, Smalls shouted that he planned to go to every single one of Bezos's homes and perform a similar stunt until "you meet our demands". "Hey, Jeff Bezos. I'm going to let you know something today: We are just getting started," he said. "We're going to go to every single location you've got across the country and set up shop until you meet our demands as workers." "If we don't get, we shut it down!" they repeatedly shouted. Seeing the stunt, the Chicago Teachers Union, which organized a teachers' strike last year and ended up shutting students out of classrooms for 2 weeks, tweeted its support "in solidarity" with the workers of the world (though they missed an excellent opportunity for a pun with "be headed"). It's just one more reason why the US should get rid of all public-sector unions immediately - be they teachers, cops or workers at the DMV. It's also telling that Twitter hasn't removed the Chicago Union's tweet. Just imagine if President Trump had tweeted his support for a guillotine effigy placed outside Nancy Pelosi's house?