From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 2/2/2026 3:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish   
   > claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".   
   >   
   > Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen from   
   > the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she   
   return   
   > that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the   
   moral   
   > high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it.   
   > Signaled it, as it were.   
   >   
   > So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will she   
   > turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen   
   > property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an   
   > attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help.   
   > I'd even do it for free.   
   >   
   > In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help house   
   > literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all in to live   
   > with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land",   
   > right Billie?   
   >   
   > In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken   
   > his sage advice:   
   >   
   > https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419   
   >   
   > It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country   
   > who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her   
   > preening performance at the award podium.   
      
   Afaics, all land is "stolen land". And if we ever address such questions   
   openly, it might be the beginning of, say, a meaningful morality.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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