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The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed when Mexico ceded California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Colorado as territories to the United States, after the Mexican-American War, guaranteed our right to speak Spanish in all seven of those places. Six
“People who curse are more honest, according to science,”
People used to be skilled because skills were needed for survival. Now, people couldn’t do anything real for themselves. They still had an instinctual drive to feel accomplished, but they aimed it at worthless pursuits, like taking selfies, complaining about injustices on Twitter, or subscribing to the New Yorker. The modern world had gone to pure bullshit.
