Richard Banania

@avidseries @TheFieryBones It's Twitter, what do you expect besides hyperbole designed to whip up emotions? Substack is thataway

@TheFieryBones So he should just say this. But that won't get him likes. It's so much easier to whip up emotions with truth-splattering hyperbole.

In other words, he's saying that the entirety of young people have embraced the extremist politics of either the far-right or far-left (which apparently is advocating mass murder). This is the quality of discourse that gets 19,000 likes on rightwing Twitter these days.

@paulg They are who they are, not who lib leaning technocrats want them to be

The last time this happened it was a disaster for the Democrats. In return for her support, she insisted on a network of key appointments. One was Gensler, who alienated Silicon Valley to such an extent that many founders switched to supporting the Republicans.

@balajis Armed left and right wing nations with real militaries fighting wars in the US isn't happening. One side will win and one will lose without a lot of bloodshed.

Unfortunately, I completely agree that the United States of America is rapidly descending into all-out conflict between left and right. The Luigi left, Kirk killers, anti-Tesla terrorists, and Altman attackers are already in shoot-on-sight mode against conservatives, libertarians, and technologists. The right isn’t there yet; they’re called reactionaries because they only react, so they’re always one cycle behind. Thus, the left has already started shooting while the right is still “only” mirroring the lawfare of last decade’s left. But anyone can see how incandescently angry the American right is getting, so one can expect them to mirror leftist tactics eventually, just as J6 followed BLM. A problem then arises. You see, when communists and nationalists duke it out, technologists tend to be hated by both sides…and tend to leave. That’s what happened in Europe. In the early 1900s, Europe was the undisputed center of science. But then the far left rose to power in Russia, and in response arose a far right in Germany, and then those two psychotic factions blew each other up and took much of Europe with them. The result was that scientists with options left. Shown below is the graph of Nobel prizes. Science used to be centered in Europe when America was still a relative backwater…renowned for cranking out widgets but not much else. Then, as Europe tore itself apart, the smart scientists (and capitalists) simply left for America. Many had no choice; you just couldn’t be a Russian capitalist in the Soviet Union or a Jewish scientist in Nazi Germany, no matter how many years your family might have been in the country. Passionate protestations of ideological loyalty and everlasting patriotism didn’t matter. At best the enemy classes and races were unbanked and denaturalized; at worst they were simply killed. And arguably, all of that — the communism, the nationalism, the wars — all of that arose from the disruption wrought by the Industrial Revolution. We might anticipate similar levels of disruption from the Information Revolution. If so, if America is torn between Democrats and Republicans, or Wokes and MAGAs, or whatever factions succeed them, it’s just not going to be a good place for technological progress. Instead, progress will decentralize to other locations around the world, as it did before.

@GOP__Ls The bill also explicitly said that sodomy between consenting adults was legal, and this is why some Republicans voted against it. Bestialiry was already illegal anyway.

🚨 Louisiana Democrats introduced a bill to ban bestiality. 10 Republicans voted against it.

@NickJFuentes That wouldn't be a great precedent for you personally. The Democrats you support will certainly do the same to you when they get the chance.

If Trump wants to win us back, putting Hasan Piker in prison forever would be a good start.

@saarvicular I don't hate Indians like a lot of people here and I respect the hustle but this represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be American.

Indians are literally the most American citizens on the planet, fight me. We show up to this country, work 80 hour weeks like it’s normal, then use the remaining 4 hours to start a business, hire 12 more Indians, and turn one gas station into a chain while y’all are busy ‘finding yourself’ at Burning Man and crying about capitalism. We came here with $8 in our pocket and a dream, now we’re running motels, tech empires, pharmacies, and 7-Elevens like it’s our national sport. Your ancestors fought for freedom? Ours fought for H-1B visas and still built more wealth in 20 years than most natives do in 3 generations

@SeanALarabee I haven't called support and spoken with an Indian in a long time. They are all Filipino now (an improvement)

I made a decision today. When I call for customer support I will no longer speak with ANY Indians. From now on, I will tell them politely, but firmly that I will not engage with an Indian and that I will need any other support personnel they have that is not an Indian. I am under no obligation as a consumer to deal with Indians. And I just won’t do it anymore.

@mattyglesias This is a democracy, that's where the votes are. You can't win elections with the 20 guys who identify as libertarians, never Trump R's, or abundance libs.

Turning to the astute public opinion analysis of "Roman Helmet Guy" to reach the conclusion that the only available options are stark binary in which tech entrepreneurs must embrace braindead nativism or else be murdered.

@SensitiveManlet I know this is true because my German speaking grandpa told me this was why he stopped speaking German in 1917. He is long gone by now as is everyone else of his generation. Currently living descendents are generic white Americans, mostly with mixed ethnicity by now.

@Lzozzll Yep because they were essentially forced to abandon German identity during WW1 when anti-German sentiment became prevalent. German was commonly spoken in homes, public, and business settings until that point.

This isn’t even what happened tbh. Immigrants more often than not discouraged assimilation and continued speaking their native language. To this day, most immigrant groups in the United States haven’t fully assimilated.

@MD_pause @SMHS1212 By their names? Is this a real question?

How would you even know who is a foreign physician? You have almost certainly been treated by one. So has your family. From Mayo Clinic to Johns Hopkins to NYU Langone Health to MD Anderson, about 1 in 4 physicians is not a US citizen. They pass the same exams, complete the same U.S. training years, and meet the same standards as their US citizen counterparts. You can never tell which is which unless you ask them for paper.

This decision will severely damage U.S. physician retention. Foreign physicians often spend 7 to 11 years in the U.S. before obtaining a green card. Many are structurally barred from permanent residency unless they first complete years of residency or fellowship, then serve another 3 to 5 years in underserved communities through J-1 waiver programs. After a decade of training, paying taxes, treating American patients, and filling critical shortages, telling them to leave the U.S. and wait abroad for a green card is absurd, especially when they may then face a travel ban. The message is clear: America wants immigrant doctors’ labor, but not their stability. That is how you destroy recruitment and retention. If you are an IMG thinking of coming to the U.S., please don’t. #PhysicianShortage #IMGs #ImmigrantDoctors #HealthcareCrisis #J1Waiver #Conrad30 #LiftTheHold #USCISPause #SaveOurDoctors #RuralHealthcare #PhysicianRetention #MedicalWorkforce #KeepDoctorsInAmerica #HealthcareAccess #FixLegalImmigration

@alanthefisher I don't believe we need people from shithole countries to be a superpower and if I did I don't want to be a superpower that badly

Chuds don't realize that America is great because it's the only place in the world built off generations of backs & brains of immigrants that came here for a better life and to share their ideas Isolationism is death for the US as a superpower.

@avidseries They can go be more talented somewhere else.

It's almost impossible to view these people as anything other than insecure downwardly-mobile losers afraid of competition from more talented immigrants.

@Michaeldudufudu Ice raids over in Minneapolis, Bovino and Noem out, deportations down, all because wasting these libs in the street polled badly. Yeah I think they accomplishd something

Completely forgotten by the left. Achieved nothing and threw their lives away for nothing.

@frontierism Funny, I noticed the same thing in the delivery room in Texas in the 2000s when my first child was born. Who could have possible imagined the children born then would eventually grow up and make up the next generation?

Seen texting at a Texas high school graduation: “Holy hell nothing but Mexicans at this graduation lmao” The cherry on top: every single name announced in the background is hispanic

@WomanDefiner We've had elections this whole time and no candidate ever won on a restrictionist platform until Trump. Stop acting so innocent. If people care about an issue they will vote accordingly.

I'm in my 40's, I've never once been asked to vote on if I want 200 million more immigrants here. None of us were asked if we wanted 200 million people imported since 1990.

@CaptainLionHart @BullyEsq Every candidate who was ever nominated by a major party since Eisenhower was a leftist with regard to the border, and you can't blame that on the youth.

@BullyEsq If people under 30 couldn't vote, no leftist would ever be elected. So sure, keep blaming the Boomers for the leftarded culture you voted into existence while you admire the pictures of the one we had.

@DanRidesPA @BullyEsq It was obviously happening by the 90s if you just stepped outside and looked around, and their response was to nominate people like W and McCain, while restrictionist candidates polled in the single digits.

@BullyEsq No “boomer” I know ever expressed a desire to open the border. That was imposed on us and most were manipulated by lies, distortions, and emotional chicanery to keep quiet about it.

@tedcruz The disconnect between the replies here and Massie's humiliating defeat in the real world shows how Twitter isn't a real place

I wish he hadn’t said this.

@Aella_Girl @bankertobuilder Some yimbys managed to get this legalized in my city but nobody has taken them up on it because it's obviously a terrible money losing business

@bankertobuilder It's almost certainly illegal. Look up zoning laws.

Every neighborhood should have a cute, walkable coffee shop in it