If Trump does that then the GOP is cooked because they need numbers to win.

So, I don't think the leaders and donor class will let Trump do that just like how they stopped Bernie from trying to push for an alternative Left party.

Just put it in leymans terms. Musk tricked Americans by taking a position against student immigration. Then took a post and is now hiring people off student visas. His past also has corruption.

This is a very different situation from Bernie. Trump has established for 10 years now he can essentially do anything he wants

He escaped 2 impeachments, and nothing happened with the insurrection

All he would need to do is control the channels of information (Twitter, and all other major social media sites) and do what he's best at - getting his followers pissed.

Not like I have any idea what to do about any of this, it just seems like time to watch it play out and not become like his followers

The way these ppl are tweeting as if software engineers must be the most intelligent, hard working and corporate-culturally integratable, when in reality most software engineers couldnt even look me in the eye when you ask them a question about their code

Theyre not exactly ubermensch

The one good thing of Musk attaching himself to this administration is he's def gonna be the scapegoat at some point. theres gonna be so much f***ery and shambolics to come. Hopefully happens early af

Eye-opening thread

but also on the flipside:

in this case, "neo-xenophobia" = tightly-controlled legal immigration of skilled labor, civic nationalist nativism vs. "illegals" who are commonly of the lower classes in their countries of origin, notions of anti-woke/post-racial "meritocracy"

"paleo-xenophobia" = tightly controlling or being against all immigration in favor of "heritage americans" (usually white americans) because immigrants are taking all their jobs

It’s a problem with STEM fields in general, especially in Tech. It’s filled with narcissists and know-it-alls. Just take a stroll through r/sysadmin and you’ll see what I mean.

Exactly.

The Anti-DEI movement was always just a proxy for giving White men more jobs just on the basis of being White men.

They claim it's because "my ancestors built the country" too. It's hilarious that they rail against Blacks for making the exact same argument about how unpaid slave labor entitles us to retribution while use the same f***ing argument. That's how you know it's projection.

Either way, meritocracy for high paying jobs is no joke. These Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Israelis, Africans, Russians, etc. that come for tech jobs in this country are NOT f***ing around and their work ethic and commitment puts many White Americans to shame.

Elon and Vivek recognize this but the broke MAGA clowns that post memes on X don't want to hear that.

Suddenly, embracing globalized capitalism and pulling up your bootstraps sounds "anti-American" to them. You can't make this s*** up lol.

Elon and Vivek also know they can pay these H1-B migrants s*** money for lots of work that you could never do to an American and also they can't unionize and you could get their visas revoked if they stir up too much trouble

Outspoken and opinionated billionaire says controversial thing that some agree with and some don't, goes on to be more influential and powerful tomorrow, world keeps spinning. And on next week's episode..

Yep. It's a f***ed up situation either way.

It's a choice between exploiting workers for exhausted labor and cheaper pay or hurting the tech industry just so a bunch of mediocre White guys can feel like it's the 1950's all over again.

There's a middle ground but it requires corporations to be less greedy and pay more, as well as for academia to be less greedy and charge less for post grad educations

True that

elon musk is a humongous covert bbc s*** and I now have the projection to prove it

lol

Yes but the top 0.01% of engineers from asia are also just miles better than the average american engineer (duh lol)

I dont really like musk and am not really disagreeing w you specifically, but KTT seems to have a very hard time admitting that some people are better at things than others

this bot has the most money on the planet and he out here on alts using voice changers

He’s on an alt so the news doesn’t run it as official news because they can’t prove it’s him when everyone knows, it’s him.

It's true

A layman attitude is an uninformed one