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Those who claim that some Americans are anti-immigrant are missing an important point. Our current system does three things completely wrong.It imports people at a rate that is unsustainable. Given a number of factors we cannot continue to bring in 1 million or more people a year without negatively impacting the lives of the citizens or immigrants already here.It rewards those who break immigration laws (they get to cut in line), thereby advantaging them over those who follow our laws.It does a poor job of sorting applicants for how beneficial or detrimental they will be for society as a whole. It has weak mechanisms for keeping out criminals or returning criminals to their country of origin.First of all, there are literally tens-of-millions of people waiting to come to America legally…people like Corporal Ronil Singh. Officer Singh immigrated legally from Fiji. He became a law enforcement officer, a contributor to society, a husband and a father.The day after Christmas he pulled over a suspected drunk driver named Gustavo Arriaga Perez. Not wanting to be arrested, Arriaga gunned Cpl. Singh in cold blood. The drunk driver was also an illegal alien and member of a violent street gang that deals drugs and engages in human trafficking. Basically, they FORCE women into prostitution against their will.Arriaga was afraid of getting a DUI so he murdered Cpl. Singh in cold blood.When people come into the country through legal means, we can vet them. We can put in place policies that give us more Ronil Singhs and fewer Gustavo Arriagas. I’m not saying everyone who comes here illegally is bad and everyone who comes here legally is good. Even with vetting in place, some really bad people can slip legally into the United States.But let’s table the whole legal vs. illegal immigrant issue for now.Right now the United States takes in a million legal immigrants a year.1,000,000 per year!Legally!That’s a lot of people…and it’s extraordinarily generous on America’s part, and completely unsustainable. Parts of our nation have significant shortages on affordable housing. Right now there’s a huge homeless crisis in California.If you listen to NPR, the reason for that crisis is a lack of affordable housing. The problem is that places like LA and San Francisco are fully developed. There is no land to build housing on. The crisis is so great that a scheme is working its way through the legislature to allow developed to ignore local zoning laws and destroy single family neighborhoods. A lot of the immigrants coming to America are heading for places that have shortages on affordable housing. Even worse, some places have water shortages as well. Many Californians will have to live under Permanent water restrictions for the rest of their lives because of immigration driven increases in population.They also have to send their children to overcrowded classrooms in much of the state. In my school, class sizes over 35 student are the norm, even though many of the new (energy efficient) classrooms are smaller and can barely accommodate 30.If you don’t have enough affordable housing, enough water and enough classrooms for the population you have now, how can you responsibly take in more people?There are places that don’t have a housing shortage. What they also don’t have is a lot of good paying jobs. Jobs, like rent, is subject to the laws of supply and demand. The more unskilled workers you import, the more downward pressure you put on wages of low skill workers. You can pass all the $15/HR “living wage” bills you want, but if a businessman can’t afford to hire more workers, they can’t afford to hire more workers.In the past, agriculture was always able to absorb lots of low skilled workers. Labor leader Cesar Chavez recognized that farmers wanted illegal immigration so they could avoid paying decent wages to the people who pulled weeds and picked tomatoes.The idea that undocumented workers depressed wages was hardly something you needed a PhD in Economics from Harvard to explain.But things have changed in the agriculture sector. The same technology boom that allows GM to put robots on the assembly line also allows farmers to pick tomatoes with machines.So the demand for unskilled labor would be shrinking if that were the only factor. But that’s not the only factor. Remember those water restrictions I mentioned earlier. They don’t just apply to houses and apartments.California’s central valley is considered the “Worlds Salad Bowl” because of it’s agricultural productivity. But because of the shrinking aquifers and growing population, more and more farmers are having to leave fields fallow.A farmer with a patch of dry scrub doesn’t need a farm worker any more than a farmer with a brand new picking machine.In 2016 America took in 1.6 million people from the rest of the world, most of them desperately poor and poorly educated. At 1.6 million/year it takes a little over 4 years to absorb the equivalent of El Salvador. Yes. some immigrants come to America and earn PhDs and start tech firms, but a higher percentage lack a high school diploma.Most people who lack a high school education are going to spend their lives as net tax consumers… i.e they will take far more in government services than they ever pay in taxes. Every single net tax consumer means that all the net tax payers have to pay higher taxes and receive fewer government services than they are paying for.Most people are OK with some amount of immigration. What they don’t want is more traffic, more expensive housing, lower wages and more crowded schools. They also don’t want criminals from Albania, Russia, Somalia or El Salvador in the United States with zero likelihood that they will be sent back no matter how much they disrupt society. They don’t want to take in millions of individuals who will use government services that will cost many multiples of what they will pay in taxes.

In the beat era and even moreso in the late 60’s, with the Summer of Love, San Francisco adopted an open, tolerant and expressive culture. Still today, aside from LGBT issues the city does not strike me as politically progressive so much as a “live and let live” culture—you do you, I’ll do me. It’s been longtime tolerant of rebel lifestyles.Then in the 70’s many soldiers returned to the port of San Francisco from Vietnam (even if they were not from San Francisco) with PTSD, minimal support and no clear next step.In the 80’s Ronald Reagan closed California’s public mental health institutions releasing thousands of mentally unstable patients to the streets.In the 90’s, 00’s and today, the physically constrained “NIMBY” or anti-development city has become increasingly dense with wealth, causing housing costs to skyrocket. (And this isn’t blue collar boomtown wealth; it comes from specialized jobs in finance, pharma and tech.)The weather remains temperate throughout the year, and despite there being not nearly enough to go around, the city and other organizations offer a lot to the homeless.There is a community here for homeless people, by services and weather and culture and prohibitive housing with fewer working class jobs and shortsighted historical decision-making. The existing community attracts a bigger community.One thing that’s important to note is that the homeless are an incredibly diverse group of people so this is accordingly a vague answer. All they share is the strife and often humiliation of not having a fixed home.Most of the homeless in San Francisco are actually from the Bay Area. Many just had a bad turn. Those struggling with mental and substance use disorders are the most visible, because you wouldn't take the more normalized ones for homeless.Imagine you lost your job, got divorced, house foreclosed on lost income; no applicable skills for the income you’d need, but wanted to remain, for family, like a child; maybe you sleep in your car while you figured things out, only to lose it to minor violations. It’s hard to get a job when you can’t give a street address. Easy to find relief in drugs. That story or something like it—it’s common.On balance, San Francisco is a better place to be than many for the homeless. It’s an incredibly complicated problem and many people are working on it from different angles but we need to do more to get homeless people off the streets and into supportive neighborhood housing (which is also ultimately cheaper.)Talk to the homeless and ask directly. Mostly, they are lucid about how they came to the streets because they spend a lot of time thinking about how and why it could have happened to them.

My answer, if anyone cares. I kind of went overboard.-A lot of what I’m going to do will make me enemies. I will therefore call upon the protection of those Custodes not immediately protecting the Emperor, and set up shop deep within the Imperial Palace. Only the Emperor Himself will be better-protected.-The Officio Assassinorum is far to powerful and influential for the utility of what it does, but pissing them off is very stupid if you’re an individual on Holy Terra. As such, I will instead completely revitalize the Assassinorum, with loads of types of new not only assassins but also elite soldiers, army-killers along with individual-killers. One idea that comes to mind is the unholy union of an Eversor and a mecha built around their specific talents. This will not only make them much more useful but greatly ingratiate them to me, and they will be needed for some of the purges that I intend to enact.-Order the most powerful and knowledgeable of the Mechanicus’ tech-priests to disassemble and reverse-engineer all of the artifacts that they have so as to learn how to mass-produce them again. Convince them that the ancients that they idolize were innovators and would view NOT innovating as techno-heresy. Tell them that what they were told about innovation was to never engineer artificial intelligence, not to never engineer anything at all. While I don’t expect this to at least immediately sway all or even most of the Mechanicus, it should get enough on the right track to make a huge difference. Some of the stuff I want them to do will be individually mentioned somewhere.-Make Cawl Fabricator-General if at all possible.-Teach AdMech science so they actually know how their shit works. Introduce it as a companion to STCs to make them less terrified of it. Also prove to them their logical fallacy with machine spirits, that is, most everything that the DAOT made, from their advanced relic guns and armor to capital ships, had some degree of computerization and limited, non-self-aware AI (make sure they realize that it’s self-aware AI, not “dumb” AI, that’s the thing to not do while I’m at it). Thus, much of their more complex shit is indeed able to be appeased/offended/automated whatever, and their cants work on these because they contain the activation words used to work with these actual machine spirits (I won’t make them not call these machine spirits, I don’t care if they use that name as dumb as it may sound). However, they seem to think that this means that EVERYTHING mechanical has such a machine spirit, whereas the actual case is that only the stuff that has computerization has anything like this at all. This will lead to them spending less time appeasing the “machine spirits” of basic lasguns or even fucking pulleys with no computerization whatsoever and more time figuring out the nuances of the computers on things like Terminator Armor.-No more manual loading of things like macrocannons, autoloaders are to be introduced for all ships. If the Mechanicus moans about it, assure them that they can make BETTER ones for themselves if they really feel the need to do so, but SOME kind of autoloader needs to be available for everyone.-Get Volkite weapons back into mass production ASAP. Commission the creation of dozens of new Forge Worlds dedicated to making them. These are greatly useful weapons and will be fantastic against the Tyranids. They were once capable of being manufactured cheaply and I intend to see something akin to the Volkite Caliver replace the lasgun as the standard infantry weapon. The Volkite Charger is a bit too short-ranged for standard usage in my opinion, but could find usage as a replacement for the shotgun or something I guess.-Hand over highly embellished design ideals for modern-day-style tanks to either Cawl or people who think like him. My hope is to have something with insane frontal protection and very good side and rear protection, and yet is very fast. Its crew will be only 3 strong (driver, gunner, commander), as compared to the Russ which with side sponsons has a crew of 7 (driver, main gunner, main gun loader, commander, 2 side sponson gunners, front sponson gunner). This tank will be much wider than the Russ, but also probably still shorter. There will be no sponson weapons, but turret-top-mounted missile systems will likely be incorporated. The back section will carry a very powerful atomantic reactor, which will not only provide very powerful atomantic shielding but will also power everything else in the tank. Additional protection includes an ionic flare shield, void shields, and reactive armor if I can make it work. The hull will be the same material used to make Land Raiders at the least. There will be no retarded top-reaching, WWI style treads, and there will be no sponsons. The tank will be very heavily armed, and will as standard mount an accelerator cannon that fires rounds of a massive variety, no more having to use entirely different types of cannon to fire each different type of shell. The gun will fire large rounds, possibly as large as Demolisher Cannon rounds. Co-axial weapons will consist of a pair of over-amped multilasers that directly draw power from the reactor. Thanks to the internal space by the much smaller crew and lack of sponson weapons, as well as by having the co-axial weapons be lasers with no need for ammo storage, there is space for a lot of ammo for the main gun. Other main weapon options will exist. Other Imperial armored vehicles will become similarly sane, with priority being getting rid of the WWI-style rubber-band treads, adding sloped armor, ditching giant sponsons in favor of bigger main guns, better armor, and more troop-carrying space, compensated for by more external missile systems (cyclone launchers everywhere, and Havocs will be re-introduced), and re-introducing shielding and reactive armor. As soon as applicable, the treads will be replaced by anti-gravity plates and the Imperium will use hover vehicles as standard. Something that resembles the Fellblade but hovering if I can make it so and with sane treads if I can’t will replace the Baneblade. Due to the sheer size, the sponson weapons on this are okay, especially considering that they’re more strapped to the side than anything.-Try to get my hands on at least one Nanyte Blaster from the DAOT. Entrust this to Cawl or someone at his level willing to innovate to reverse-engineer. Considering all the horde enemies that the Imperium faces, especially Nids these days, the Nanyte Blaster would be a total game-changer, with one shot from such a weapon potentially obliterating entire tightly-packed Tyranid hordes, or maybe Orks as well. And of course the others have plenty of usefulness as well.-Try to get a DAOT Phase Walker, and dedicate massive effort to getting it back into wide enough production that elite units can universally employ it to dramatically increase mobility. While I’m at it, get Crusade-era Teleportation Transponders back into mass production, which are just like normal personal teleporters but you can bring other people with you (lets whole unit teleport in on tabletop).-There’s all kinds of relic loot that I want to see back in production at some point that’s desirable but not enough to get its own blurb, most of it dating from the Great Crusade or even the DAOT. Some of these are the Zeroth Conductor Shield, Blessed Autosimulacra, the Grav-Gauntlet, Grav-Flux weaponry, the Conversion Dissonator, the Warp Shunt Field, the Metaphasic Reader, the Cloaking Array, the Displacer Matrix, the Combat Augment Array, the Paragon Blade, the Cyber-Familiar, the Suspensor Web, the Blind Helm of Black Judges, the Blade of Perdition, and Arae-Shrikes.-There used to be Grav-Wave Generators just like what the Tau now have during the Great Crusade. They’re sufficiently similar that if I can’t get them back into production with remaining human tech then I can pass off a finished product with bits nicked from the Tau equivalent with little to no difficulty.-Buy digital weapons from the Jokaero. Try to get them in limited production ASAP for high-level commanders. I hope to have them able to be implanted like Mass Effect’s Omni-Tools. I hope for mass production and mass availability to happen at some point, but this will take a very long time even with a lot of effort focused on it, so putting them into more than limited usage at the top is a very long-term and secondary goal.-Revolutionize the Land Speeder. Make a model for standard mass usage across the military. Dedicate entire Imperial Guard units to using them. This will add another level of fast-response support to the Guard that I think would avail them greatly. The IG model will be fully enclosed, and mount a chin gun and missile launchers as standard. Make a very improved Land Speeder for the Space Marines that’s bigger, tougher, and better armed. I hope to add Voltagheist Fields to these, as they offer not only protection but will allow more powerful ramming attacks.-Get Phosphex back in mass usage. Particularly as usage for artillery and tank shells.-Get jetbikes re-introduced. By getting one from the Dark Angels they indeed have the only ones left, preferably by purchase but by blackmail or theft if I have to.-There’s a weapon type out there called gamma weapons. They’re slightly weaker than plasma, but are better against armor. The only example we see is in the AdMech’s gamma pistol on tabletop, which is Range 12″, Strength 6, AP 2, Pistol 1, Armorbane. I want these, not just in pistol form, but in all sorts of infantry weapon, tank weapon, and even spaceship weapon types, and I want them all over the place, as they’re widely useful against all sorts of target and don’t overheat like plasma does. I’ll dedicate a bunch of new Forge Worlds to making these as well.-Get black hole/singularity weapons back in production, pronto. The priority is for a Nova Cannon sized weapon for use in space battles.-Get AdMech to be able to make atomantic shields and flare shields for vehicles again. They used to be all over the place, and it can be this way again.-Get Inferno Pistols back in mass production. Seriously, it’s just a shorter meltagun, and meltaguns are all over the place. This is one of the dumbest things that AdMech has forgotten yet.-Phosphor weapons. They’re fucking flare guns, the real world has had those for centuries now IIRC and at least well over a century. Any other stuff where it’s basic shit that anyone can do, get someone to make those as well.-Have AdMech study what personal void shield generators are left in existence and reverse-engineer them. I will also need vehicle-sized ones for even standard vehicles, and I hope for basic soldiers to someday be able to carry around portable void shield generators that work kind of like Halo’s 3’s Bubble Shields but reusable.-Approach all other Forge Worlds that make or have tech I want en masse, such as Ryza with its plasma weaponry. Offer to pay for their creating new Forge Worlds under their control that are dedicated to producing this tech, whatever it may be. While I’m at it, get phased-plasma weapons back into production and covertly see if there’s a way for someone to quietly study Tau plasma.-Get every bit of STC data I can together and have someone, likely Cawl if he isn’t too busy (I intend to abuse his being a Mary Sue at every opportunity), make a new generation of Space Marine armor. This armor will be easily produced in huge quantities, will have better armored protection equaling or eclipsing that of Terminator armor in effectiveness, will increase the speed and strength of the wearer, will have a teleporter and a built in compact jump pack if possible, will boast powerful sensor arrays, and will be very heavily shielded. A more tanky version will be rolled out to replace Terminator armor. Next, verisons for elite forces like the Stormtroopers and Sororitas will be made, and finally a new replacement for Guardsman flak armor will be mass-produced. Personal shielding is to become standard even for horde infantry, even if it’s just a super-weak refractor shield.-Offer all bands of Eldar, be they Craftworld, Corsair, Exodite, Dark, Ynnari, or whatever, what basically amounts to Letters of Marque (privateer licenses). Those that agree will be offered sanctuary in Imperial territory and given some degree of Imperial resources as necessary, but are encouraged to launch raids against the Imperium’s most pressing foes and cannot attack the Imperium. With the Eldar as besieged as they are, a great many are bound to agree, however reluctantly.-Remove the 1,000-Marine cap for Space Marine Chapters. Chapters are encouraged to gain as many Space Marines as they possibly can, they’ll be needed.-Give Cawl access to the Emperor’s own research notes in creating the Primarchs, Custodes, Thunder Warriors, and Space Marines, and have him create a finalized, even better if possible, version of the Primaris Marines. These new Primaris Marines must be around as cheap to make as normal Space Marines, and must be able to be also made from existing Primaris Marines and normal Space Marines. The goal is to have every existing Space Marine become these Mk. 3 Astartes, and to have every new Space Marine be made as one to begin with. Standardize cybernetics into the process to increase usefulness and toughness in these new Astartes.-Require every Astartes Chapter to take part in a new backup-Chapter program. Each Chapter will send some samples of its geneseed, which will be replicated in the thousands, and a few dozen of their battle-brothers to go into stasis. They will also be required to go down a list of orders that they must place and customize for wargear, such as armor, tanks, ships, etc. All of this is produced to their specifications and goes into deep storage. If a Chapter is destroyed, then they may be rebuilt with an existing new command structure consisting of the Marines in stasis, and they even have their own Chapter fleet to start out with.-Try to get the Custodes back into production if possible.-Bribe the fuck out of the Eldar to help them complete the Imperial Webway.-Offer to hire any interested Orks on a permanent basis. Those hired will be paid handsomely with weaponry and Ork teeth made in new purpose-built cloning banks. They will also be provided with Aquila WAAAGH banners, as the banners seriously seem to help maintain their allegiances.-Secretly dedicate massive resources towards repairing the Golden Throne and incorporating some sort of device to allow the Emperor to communicate with His subjects. Codename the project “Alfabusa” and snicker quietly to myself.-Try to make nonaggression pacts with as many Necron Dynasties as possible. Offer to evacuate their homeworlds. Getting out of wars with them and preferably having them on our side against Chaos and the Nids is more than worth giving up these worlds.-Sign a nonaggression pact with the Tau. Buy samples of all their tech and hand it over to AdMech with orders to copy as much of it as is safe and possible, or at least to try to use it for inspiration of their own tech.-Spread the (likely true) rumor that it was Chaos that brought about the rebellion of the Iron Men and the oncoming of the Age of Strife. While this won’t sway 99% of the Lost and the Damned, a few powerful Dark Mechanicum members are bound to get pissed off and create (even more) dissention in the enemy ranks. As an added bonus, many people, especially Mechanicus people, will be less inclined to join Chaos as a result of this.-Force the Administratum and Munitorum to audit the fuck out of themselves with the end goal of having them run themselves more like 21st-century businesses. While it’s still not ideal it’s a lot better than it would be originally. Reward those who are compliant and successful with power and promotions, and for those who REALLY do well, the opportunity to visit the Golden Throne itself. With the latter reward in place, you can bet that they’ll desperately try to improve.-Get Titans back into production en masse once I can get someone from AdMech to actually study one and not just fap to it. My end goal is to have Warlord Titans as part of most PDFs, and to have Titan Legions spearheaded by Titans far larger than Imperators deployed in even mid-scale battles. The Imperium throws around Cobra-class destroyers like dice, and these dwarf Titans in both size and firepower - hell, even SDF gunboats do, as well.-Try to bring back the Squats from the brink of extinction and have them start building all the weapons that they can to arm this new, re-imagined Imperium. Hopefully they can build what I need that the Mechanicus can’t or won’t mass-produce. If I need something as such, I’ll ask them. I’ll also see if they can start outright innovating for me. I want their weapons and tech made available across the Imperium in exchange. All kinds of good loot here.-Completely and utterly gut pretty much every single noble family, killing everyone off that isn’t absolutely kosher, especially those families of the planetary governors, as their nepotism is one of the single things that’s hurting the Imperium the most. To accomplish this, I will use the Ordo Hereticus and my new revitalized Assassinorum to wipe them out en masse, all at once, a la Order 66, before they can mount an effective response. They will be replaced with successful military leaders, who will be allowed to form their own dynasties, but which will be regularly watched and audited by a new subsection of the Ordo Hereticus made for this purpose.-Prune the tree that is the Navigator Houses. Have a large portion of the Adeptus Mechanicus Biologis research how to minimize mutations and maximize breeding for them. Purge anyone who looks like they’re going to betray me and/or the Imperium. Reward those who comply with me and try to have them pump out as many children as possible.-Order Cawl to secretly examine and reverse-engineer the remaining pieces of the Necron Pylons, which will be recovered by a small, fast stealth raid on Cadia’s ruins. He will use this tech to create implantable psy-inhibitors that will be made cheaply and implanted en masse to the entire Imperial population. They can be disabled long enough to test for psychic talent, and the sufficiently potentially powerful and useful enough are recruited and the criminal are fed into the Astronomican (though the latter will be unnecessary soon with the repairs to the Golden Throne). This effectively all but neuters the danger of rogue psykers on Imperial worlds. Once the Golden Throne is fixed it will be entirely conceivable for weaker psykers to live out their free from any stigma or signs of psychic power. While this is by far the most important of the applications of reverse-engineering the Necron pylons, there are many other uses, the most notable of which are a new generation of psyk-out and anti-daemon weaponry, and, eventually, once it can be made on the proper scale, an effective and portable countermeasure to Warp Storms and maybe even nearby daemonic incursions. If at all possible, I will simply buy examples of this tech from the Necrons, complete with schematics if I can, and hand all of that over to Cawl instead of making the dangerous run to Cadia.-Dedicate massive resources to decoding the data files aboard the Ark Mechanicus Speranza, as she most likely contains the sum total of the DAOT’s knowledge.-Gut the Ecclesiarchy. Most it does nothing but grow fat off of tithes. The new Ecclesiarchs in charge are taken straight from the ranks of the absolute best frontline Ministorum Priests that I can find. They will militarize all of the Ecclesiarchy’s temples, pushing the belief that the best way to praise the Emperor is to further militarize and protect His great works rather than wasting time and resources making pretty buildings with little or no military application. Gilding is still fine but it must be gilding on things that can shoot back at the Imperium’s foes. The Imperium will start to less and less resemble artistic Gothic cathedrals and more and more resemble gilded Gothic fortresses bristling with weapons and battlements at every angle.-Rewrite the code of conduct for declaring Exterminatus. Make it much harder to obliterate a planet for suspected heresy in a tiny area of it but make it much easier to resort to Exterminatus upon worlds in the midst of something like a mass daemonic incursion or a Tyranid attack.-Commission a new generation of Imperial Navy ships (and Space Marine ships too, I guess) which use all the gadgets that the Mechanicus can cough up. Make it a pilgrimage for AdMech and subliminal-message the fuck out of them that building ships that will now have near-DAOT capabilities is not heresy but a titanic degree of worship of the Omnissiah, as they’re bringing about the works of the ancestors once again and on a massive scale. These ships will have Nova Cannons that shoot black holes, macros and lances that shoot awesome exotic new energy weapons, powerful new shields and new engines, and the like. Commission ships of all sizes like this, from comparatively cheap SDF gunboats a few hundred meters long to the new super-capital ship of the Imperium, a pimped-out monstrosity of a battleship hundreds of kilometers in length. My own flagship, which I will move my base of operations to, will be over a thousand kilometers long if I can manage it, and will be equipped with an energy cannon capable of causing a star to go into supernova.-Find a way to detect Tyranid fleets as they’re still well outside of the galaxy but incoming, and then find a way to build millions of utterly gargantuan bombs, probably of a variety resembling horrifically oversized cyclonic torpedoes/nukes, and then fling these at the incoming Nids so that they lose most of their forces long before they actually reach us.