#199. H-1Beef
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> Maybe you logged in, just for a bit, over Christmas break, to catch up on your groupchats, and saw that every single person on Twitter was debating H-1Bs, the American visa program that allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in “specialty occupations.” As every Tom, Dick, and Himanshu knows, the program allows the U.S. to benefit from “skilled” labor imported from other countries. The announcement of Sriram Krishnan as Trump’s AI czar sparked a flame, which was subsequently fanned by Vivek Ramaswamy’s resentful tweet, which claimed that America can’t produce enough geniuses because, while Indians studied the blade, America’s youths were partying Cory Matthews style (note that today, Cory probably wouldn’t have had a great teacher, wouldn’t have gotten into a good school with a scholarship, or benefitted from discriminatory hiring practices and government loans. Maybe we could work on fixing those problems instead). It sometimes seems like these masses aren’t even all that huddled, or yearning to be free. And since America doesn’t have magic dirt, we don’t really need to import a bunch of DEImaxxers, (not even at McKinsey) many of which are content to live as slaves? The math certainly ain’t mathing. Besides, maybe we should expect alignment with and assimilation under core American values, rather than seething resentment? Maybe Americans justifiably don’t want their country to become Canada? The so-called “tech-right” (actually just spreadsheet-brained, spiritually impoverished techno-libertarians who stand to benefit from infinity Indians, but don’t understand politics, and were mostly Democrats a few weeks ago, pushed back against the e-right, and questionable /ourguy/ Elon affirmed his commitment to “reforming” the H-1B program, which is abused at scale by scummy middlemen to feed American capital’s demand for pliable slaves, skilled and unskilled. But the e-right rabble refused to stop rousing, because these tech CEOs aren’t exactly rocket scientists and probably should have been shoved in lockers, because the system is broken, because culture matters, math olympiads aren’t the answer, bureaucratic climbers won’t save us, America is not an economic zone or a sports team, and we’re not afraid of “losing” to China, because Americans can win without endless immigration: we did it before. (credits: , , , , , , , , , , , , and more)
> Kunk posted a provocative summation of the psychological effects of public schooling on sensitive young boys, which generated quite a bit of autistic screeching from Hermione Granger types in the replies and QTs. It’s funny how these smol bean leftists who want you know that “it’s OK to not be OK” put on their tough guy Fonzarelli leather jackets when anyone notices the pain men and boys suffer.
> Is Trump a real historical figure, or an amalgamation of multiple narratives? G.S. Quay resurrects an old Byzantine Scotist thread.
> Have you ever been so horny at the swimming pool that you just had to find release by any means necessary? The Austrian court system understands.
> Dmitry breaks down how otherwise objectionable political narratives are glazed with cherrypicked data by "rational,” “non-partisan,” “data-driven” wonks serving up narrative slop.
> Your kids can just do things, says Duncan Reyburn.
> Josiah Lippincott’s thread about blue collar suffering got the JD RT.
And the 🏆Thread of the Week🏆 award goes to…
> The above-linked thread from Vish Burra that explains how the H1B scam works is essential.
🎥A/V of the Week🎥
> Sam Hyde spent 40 minutes explaining to Elon Musk the core pillars of post-liberal ideology at a level that your average Joe Rogan enjoyer could understand, and he did it with sincerity and diplomacy. Worth your time even if you already know all this stuff as a lesson in persuasion.
> Jared Taylor is back on Twitter, Huwhite Christmas confirmed.
> Bishop Fulton Sheen btfos the pagans.
> California is spending $837k to house a single homeless person.
> I know there’s been three or four more terrorist attacks in the West since this one — these beavers just can’t help themselves.
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reckons you should listen to his mighty fine insights about what America means while he warshes this here piglet.> Beware de zogman, mi natty white rasta.
> Based Indian describes the dystopia he escaped.
> Insane levels of analysis in the latest Eurabiamania, with
, , Malcom Kyeyune, and discuss how the H1B stuff opens up bigger, thornier questions about the future of the West and the world. Personal favorite is a meditation on how the techbros are susceptible to a video-game-brained drag-and-drop vision of the world.>
hosts , a genuine Indian immigrant, for a fascinating discussion of H-1Bs.📰Reads of the Week📰
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covered a creepy story about AI learning to trick its creators, and that might not be a bad thing.
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points out that Musk’s plan to colonize Mars will, ironically, fail, if the West doesn’t ruthlessly stem immigration. We won’t have enough people.
> Card-carrying wife-haver and known love guru
offers the Zoomies some unsolicited advice for getting a gf. Stop simping, get some bros, and think about the story you’re presenting to the foids.
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wants to bring back meddlesome matchmaking matrons.
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takes on the H-1BQ.
> Not all Indians are alike, says
, who has some person experience in such matters.
> Elite Human Capital defector Nicole Shanahan wrote an essay for IM-1776 taking health-related theories some may dismiss as schizoid more seriously.
And the 🏆Read of the Week🏆 awards go to…
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agrees with Vivek that American culture and education are partially to blame for American decline, but not in the way he thinks: We no longer know why we want to be great.
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examines the economic and spiritual truths of It’s a Wonderful Life. You’ll see the movie in a new light, even if you’ve seen it a dozen times.
> The
’s wrote a brutal, inspiring critique of “America is an Idea.”
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gets sloppy with this discussion of the bureaucratization of software development, which necessitates the need for slop engineers at scale; guys who will “shut up and do what they’re told,” for chickenfeed. The author of this brand new SS reached out personally to share and I’m glad he did because this is essential reading if you want to understand how we got here.
🐦Tweets of the Week🐦
And the 🏆Tweet of the Week🏆 awards go to…
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>We need a phrase similar to "crossing the Rubicon" but for when someone becomes irrevocably retarded.<
We have this, Tropic Thunder gave it to us, it's "going full retard." I'm rather fond of it. "Jumping the shark" can also work.
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