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@amechi_nwandu @mattforney @myth_pilot Replacing Tillis, Cornyn, and Mcconnell with Republicans would be real progress.

@mattforney @myth_pilot We don’t need a red discharge honestly. We’re purging a lot of people this cycle. Just maintaining a 53R Senate 220R House conference looks a lot different in 2027 with all the primaries and retirements.

I don't believe in the BLOO WAVE, but I also don't believe in a red discharge. But if Trump smashes Cuba, we could legitimately see a red wave. Boomers who remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and most Latinos would be so overjoyed that the Democrats would be completely flattened.

@mattforney Too bad about the pointless $200 billion distraction in Iran.

@__theOA @AndrewYNg There is no such requirement.

@AndrewYNg Most people in the comments have no idea about the hiring process of said foreigners. The employer is required to prove the “foreigner” they hired was more qualified than any other applicants including Americans. The “Americans first” is already a requirement in hiring process.

The new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.

@Chi1idip @AndrewYNg It’s over 100 million foreigners, including anchor babies.

@AndrewYNg 53,000,000 foreigners. 1 out of every 7 people in America aren’t Americans, and no other country is remotely close to this kind of unregulated immigration.

@StefanFSchubert No. We’re badly overcrowded and we don’t want it to get worse. Stop growth.

Many people overrate overestimate analysis of the type “they don’t want more growth/houses” and underestimate of the type “they’re intellectually dishonest about trade-offs”. Shoddy reasoning about trade-offs is a huge problem (and often blameworthy).

@IsidroAvila Once.

A ver, ¿cómo les gusta?

@RyukyuanRipper @FischerKing64 Proving there is no such thing as assimilation.

Immigration to the USA - legal and illegal - has been totally out of control for 40 years. Some shock therapy is necessary.

@samsaraas @FischerKing64 Sending them all back fixes the cultural crisis and renews the economy.

@FischerKing64 Over the long term this will not accomplish any of the cultural goals and will further only deepen the economic crisis, which will make the cultural situation even worse.

@WillHavePeace @FischerKing64 Don’t turn it back on.

@FischerKing64 Boomers flooded the system with too many immigrants and now the nation is collapsing. We're going to have to turn the immigration system off and back on again to fix it.

@dvassallo @HedonismBot17 @FischerKing64 It’s over 30% of America’s population today.

@HedonismBot17 @FischerKing64 That’s 0.2% of the population.

@dvassallo @FischerKing64 “Legal” immigration is insanely out of control. Fifty million more of them here than we can possibly absorb. Wrecking the future of America’s young people and our education system.

@FischerKing64 Immigrating legally into the USA takes a minimum of 10 years of bureaucratic headaches, lotteries, travel restrictions, family separation, and tens of thousands of dollars. Hardly out of control.

@peternolan @JerusalemDemsas That’s not what they’re doing.

@JerusalemDemsas Dems 2028 platform: "We love everything "public" – schools, parks, libraries, health, transportation… And yes, public safety. We will make everything public BETTER and fight anyone who tries to stop us."

nothing is more personally destructive to my desire to take the bus than it being routinely more than 20 min late

@mattforney @Dbob_77 Cornyn and Massie have been very different in Congress. Both ultimately failed to be effective, but for wildly different reasons and Massie is far more decent and deserves more empathy.

@Dbob_77 They're the ones disproportionately crying over the defeat of a certain Kentucky lolbert earlier this week and predicting TOTAL DOOM for the Republicans based on that

Trump's endorsement shifted Paxton into a landslide lead. Mind you, Texas has open primaries, meaning that Democrats and independents can also vote. "MAGA is finished!" the zoomer says nervously for the six millionth time.

@littles1313 @Birdyword @asymmetricinfo It was pervasive already under Clinton.

@Birdyword @asymmetricinfo The corruption has been there. Sue and Settle: See. Trump is bringing into the open. It’s all wrong, and it’s all corrosive. But let’s not pretend it’s just happening now.

I think people sometimes get the impression that corruption creeps up on a country over time, but actually it turns out if you turn the tap on everyone is pretty much ready to go at a moment's notice

@Birdyword Weaponization has to be reversed if America is to survive. I admire Trump for throwing every idea he has at it, but I wish he were more assertive with collaborators. Banks and social media companies that worked with Biden should be fined hundreds of billions for this fund.

@AugustusYizzard @Delicious_Tacos Yes?

@Delicious_Tacos You think people buy watches in order to know the time?

Just look at your phone

@Dogotomoon @McKamyk US citizens who marry foreigners should go live in their new foreign country. Our nation is not here to cater to your fetish.

@McKamyk It’s not just h1b we are talking about. Spouses of us citizens are also included forcing families to separate. Unconscionable!

I did an internship at FedEx some 10 years ago as I was leaving college in Memphis. I busted my ass and built stuff I'm still impressed with today, and got a lowballed offer I'm still surprised with today. $55k if I recall correctly. I thought it was a visibility problem. I'm just not impressing the right people, the company is too large with too many first-hire policies for me to move fast in it, or maybe I didn't build the right thing or didn't sell it or myself well enough. Come to last year, Vivek has that splat amongst the right with this H1B commentary and it reminded me. If I were to guess, 70% of the entry-mid level engineers at FedEx were all temporary visas, or started there. They also sucked ass. They were very slow, didn't work at all, couldn't figure out the most basic stuff, and I'm pretty sure half of them had fraudulent "credentials". It was bad. Now I'm feeling my offer was low because why would they offer more? Why wouldn't FedEx take the money to hire me an instead hire 4 people on H1Bs with fake degrees and accents so thick people leave meetings because its too frustrating. To all of the West Coast, tech elite, SFers. I hear you, but there's two sides to this story, and this side is very very ugly.

@liekitisnot @SenWarren @dmartyn76 Jo Ann had some good deals on cheap textiles for prototyping projects.

@SenWarren @dmartyn76 You couldn’t pay me to go into any of those stores except maybe Red Lobster if I wanted my girlfriend to dump me.

How private equity gutted local malls: Joann Fabrics, Red Lobster, Claire's, and more.

@kori_rotir @Anarseldain Time for the whole family to go home now.

No the correct analogy is you moving to Europe for a job with your family and kids, having a dog or other pets. Then someone in the family gets sick, so you come back to the US...and while you are returning to Europe....they tell you that you cant and you need to go a consulate to get a new visa, and btw the next time slot available is in 18 months. And H1B and what you call temp visas are dual intent visas, student visas arent. So there is no fraud here either.

I’ve never been “stranded” in my home before. But I guess that I’ve never travelled to a foreign country and used a temporary visa to commit immigration fraud, so maybe things work a little differently over there.