I should probably have linked to this @ElonMusk tweet for the “wants a lot of them” point: https://t.co/zSiLwi5EgO https://t.co/67IIYkyWfz
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Dec 27, 2024
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December 26, 2024 at 07:56PM
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Beating a welcome strategic retreat? …With the help of a seemingly paranoid conspiracy theory … https://t.co/AuCNV75k8g
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Dec 26, 2024
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IT’S ALL ‘FRIENDS’ FAULT: What Vivek really thinks about America. He has a point. a) Also has the arrogance of many striving immigrant families (maybe also a tech thing–did German Jews who came here and flourished before and during WWII have it?) b) Does not seem to have a firm… https://t.co/QPf8ttGVGs https://t.co/Z5UffKqxbT
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Dec 26, 2024
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December 26, 2024 at 04:40PM
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IT’S ALL ‘FRIENDS’ FAULT: What Vivek really thinks about America. He has a point. a) Also has the arrogance of many striving immigrant families (maybe also a tech thing–did German Jews who came here and flourished after WWII have it?) b) Does not seem to have a firm feel for… https://t.co/sCCosZzFuX https://t.co/Z5UffKr51r
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Dec 26, 2024
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December 26, 2024 at 03:53PM
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Reinforces my view that a) a man who seems to be selling snake oil is usually selling snake oil b) it was a mistake to give Ramaswamy co-leadership of DOGE, and we will come to regret it.
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Dec 26, 2024
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The scam is how Ramaswamy suggest, when appealing to the NatCon crowd, that the number he’d let in via his civics exam would be close to the number needed to preserve wages. Zero reason to think that’d be true (unless he fiddles with grading scale to achieve illicit wage goal).
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Dec 26, 2024
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Note that there’s nothing in Vivek’s speech about “winning” or “merit” either. He is against numerical caps because…well, I guess he thinks all people should be able to come here if they accept our values. Any attempt at limiting the flow is part of the evil “regulatory state.” https://t.co/hoJ1Aw2H5j
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Dec 26, 2024
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December 26, 2024 at 02:19AM
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See https://t.co/mCcwRkCbIA
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Dec 26, 2024
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Oy. In that speech you oppose all “numerical caps”! You’d whittle down the 700M people who want to come here with a civics exam. But there’s no reason to think 20M/a year wouldn’t pass the exam. You deride any concern for wages. At least Musk is only talking about tech workers https://t.co/6W0PSBcSRl
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Dec 26, 2024
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December 26, 2024 at 02:16AM
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Et tu, Vivek? https://t.co/xRXm01yFh4
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Dec 26, 2024
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Musk clearly wants a lot of them! https://t.co/v3KiTiAOsK Do @JTLonsdale s “superstars” = Musk’s “super talented engineers AND super motivated”? Does “super motivated” mean effectively indentured? No wonder there aren’t enough Americans …
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Dec 26, 2024
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December 26, 2024 at 01:20AM
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I dunno. @sriramk was appointed. Somebody pushed for him. @LauraLoomer objected, which is her right. Then @elonmusk weighed in with an extreme and unnuanced attack (“infinite potential for job and company creation”) on the idea of limiting immigration to protect American jobs,… https://t.co/TUn6Fdsct2 https://t.co/dsj2ML5eB8
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Dec 26, 2024
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December 26, 2024 at 12:07AM
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Thats Sen. Durbin (D-Dreamers) … https://t.co/rbHcNBoF0m
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 25, 2024
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December 25, 2024 at 04:06AM
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Matloff has been a voice of wisdom on this subject for years https://t.co/VipMiFCMAl https://t.co/ETBeIoX9w3
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Dec 25, 2024
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I’m against crude attacks. But if you want to see crude attacks you might also ask Sen. Durbin, who got on the wrong side of the anti-country-cap lobby
https://t.co/McDIzJwW34 https://t.co/MnTDhkZ3iC
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Dec 25, 2024
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December 25, 2024 at 03:18AM
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Only “very highly paid superstars”! https://t.co/hIqE34fDyE
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Dec 25, 2024
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December 25, 2024 at 03:15AM
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“Superstars”–OK! Depending on what that means, you’re not that far apart from the @I_A_Project … It doesn’t mean 200% of the median income or anything close to the system we have now. https://t.co/Q0hUM6TDoR
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Dec 25, 2024
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December 25, 2024 at 03:10AM
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In which @mattyglesias tries to con @JTLonsdale into setting the minimum salary for imported ‘best and brightest’ *way* too low. It’s as if he still wants https://t.co/78MesBfRlj https://t.co/uyAuqbH2k0
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Dec 25, 2024
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December 25, 2024 at 02:27AM
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And this was in response to this: https://t.co/XvTUOcdLN0 https://t.co/Le8oHhPesG
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Dec 25, 2024
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December 25, 2024 at 12:57AM
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This comment was a response to this @DavidSacks post: https://t.co/46ChcPZu4d https://t.co/omKr9cG8ab
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Dec 25, 2024
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December 25, 2024 at 12:47AM
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I guarantee you in India they know what it means.
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Dec 25, 2024
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December 24, 2024 at 11:26PM
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This means, in effect, Indians (and Chinese) as far as they eye can see, no? That may or may not be a good or bad thing, but why doesn’t @DavidSacks confront this reality instead of rolling out generalities (“skills based criteria”)?
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Dec 25, 2024
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December 24, 2024 at 11:25PM
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Of course there will be a compromise. But the fallacy behind “comprehensive immigration reform”–aside from fact that the enforcement parts were illusory–is the idea you can do all parts of the compromise at once. Enforcement is so hard to do, and restrictionists have been… https://t.co/c4JBaBmRtf
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Dec 25, 2024
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December 24, 2024 at 10:23PM
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Of course there will be a compromise. But the fallacy behind “comprehensive immigration reform”–aside from fact that the enforcement parts were illusory–is the you can do all parts of the compromise at once. Enforcement is so hard to do, and restrictionists have been double… https://t.co/QTP0ConBnZ
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Dec 25, 2024
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December 24, 2024 at 10:19PM
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Never thought I’d say this, but @LauraLoomer just thumped @DavidSacks in an argument over importing the foreign labor Silicon Valey wants. Correctly perceives that Sacks is beating a tactical retreat. https://t.co/KUuREEuzP0
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Dec 25, 2024
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