Posted on 12/27/2024 10:05:09 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Six months ago, I was asked my opinion of the Silicon Valley alignment with MAGA. I said at the time I thought it would last around 18 months and finally climax with a large fracture in the political movement around 2026. I had no idea at the time, the group of technocrats would begin publicly advocating for replacing American workers before Trump took office.
For the past several days I have watched Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks, Elon Musk and his big tech influencers debating with their followers about the importance for them to continue expanding H-1b visas for foreign tech workers. It is stunning to see this crew double, triple and quadruple down on advocacy, while defining American workers as inadequate for their Silicon Valley needs.
Alas, it is what it is. Within the argument Musk, Ramaswamy, Sacks and group have presented multiple justifications for their foreign worker assistance programs, while advocating for expanded immigration support therein.
Within the tone of their argument, they essentially say the American worker is (1) not intellectual enough; (2) doesn’t have the right work ethic; and the latest point of justification is that (3) American culture is to blame for their need to import foreign workers.
As Vivek Ramaswamy recently said, “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.” Thus, as the narrative is sold, American workers need to be replaced with more culturally appropriate Indian tech workers.
When the Indian-American starts saying Indian culture is more adequate at creating workers for the American tech industry, he loses me completely.
If the Indian culture is the holy grail breeding ground for software engineers, then why isn’t New Delhi replacing Silicon Valley?
Considering that factually the Indian culture is entirely based on a caste system, the argument is even more absurd.
What we need are training and recruitment centers for American students. However, the larger issue within the billionaire tech team advocacy is an issue of self-interest.
What we see in the justifications and arguments of the Ramaswamy, Musk and Sacks group is a very specific point of immigration policy for their subset within a singular sector of the American economy. Perhaps this would not be such a big issue, if these points of advocacy were coming from outside government interest groups. However, with this tech team going into the administration, the influence becomes something a little bigger.
The part the Tech Group do not understand is the core of the American DNA, “Liberty“…
It is only from the position of liberty, intellectualism actualized in freedom form, that the working culture of America, the ingenuity part, can be understood.
If you attempt to quantify Americanism with math and algorithms, the translated outcome always fails.
Dear Vivek Ramaswamy, my counter take…
Several years ago, Florida Power and Light won the prestigious international Edward Demming Award for excellence in multi-platform engineering, efficiency superiority and total quality in the process of energy management.
However, the scruffy rednecks did not blow every PhD intellectual out of the water with slide rules, CAD programs, articulated and quantified quality improvement processes and engineering acumen. They did it with hard hats and dirty fingernails.
Because they lost the award, the jaw-agape Japanese spent 6 months visiting and reviewing FPL and later published a 1,000-page study essentially saying FPL “wasn’t really good, they were just lucky.”
You see, the reviewers couldn’t actually quantify the reason why the Florida-based energy company was so successful. In response the FPL field leadership laughed, took out magic markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY.”
A few years later, every single Kuwaiti oil field was blown up by Saddam Hussein. Global analysts and think-tanks proclaimed it would take 5 years to cap them all off and restart the Kuwait oil pumping industry. Well, the Kuwaiti’s and Saudi’s called Texans, who had them all capped and back in working order in 6 months.
We are a nation that knows how to get shit done.
A few more years pass, and the Northern Chile mine workers were trapped two miles underground. The eyes of the world began to tear as the word spread. Most began to whisper no one could save them. Who did they call for help? A bunch of hick miners from USA coal country who went down there, worked on the fly, engineered the rescue equipment on site, and saved every one of them.
Yup, that’s our America. Ingenuity born from freedom.
Across the pond a half-breed Islamic whack job, armed with an AK-47 and a goal to meet his virgins, began opening fire on a train in France. The scruffneck Americans on board didn’t run to the nearest safe room and hide themselves amid baguettes and brie. They said, “let’s go”, and beat the stuffing out of that little nut with a death wish.
Legion d’Honneur or not, that’s us. WE ARE AMERICANS! That’s just how we roll.
In fact, Lady Liberty can stroll along the Champs-Elysées with a swagger befitting Mae West because without her arrival, they’d be speaking German in the Louvre. Yet, for the better part of the past decade, a group of intellectual leftists have been teaching our children that it’s better to be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other; because ‘save the planet’, or something similarly minded. It would appear, they hate the outcomes and inequities from freedom.
Warmest regards,
Americans First!
My BEST advice to @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @DavidSacks and the Silicon Valley tech elites, is to keep talking. Just keep telling Americans how terrible they are and how they need to be replaced. Great Job.
Every time you guys open your typeset in public, @LauraLoomer grows a…
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 26, 2024
Tesla has been the number 1 car company in market cap for at least 4 years, so unless you are telling us you are much wiser than Wall Street and the hundreds of thousands of Tesla stock holders, you are blowing smoke.
Oh wait, you ARE blowing smoke.
That's what you do as a profession.
The problem is that every time they explain, they only make it worse. I've been reading the posts all day. Not two hours ago, Elon Musk used the phrase "Dunning-Kruger Effect" to describe his opposition. Condescending brat. And naturally, he's got fans who are calling us racist, nativist, all the things they should already know DON'T work on us anymore. Last post I saw was Elon saying that certain types should be "ripped root and branch" from the Republican party. If he was NOT referring to people like me, he needs to stop being coy about exactly who he meant. He also needs to apologize, which he won't do, and he needs to quit thinking he can tell lifelong Republicans who should stay or go and on what basis. Since he just got here and all. If he and Vivek don't watch it, Trump's going to boot them out before their job starts.
NO ONE should automatically get a green card for anything. You’d be giving green cards to Chinese spies.
“Don’t forget, Vivek’s family made their millions through medical fraud.”
It was an investment scam, using a medical company that they created.
They purchased the rights to a drug that had failed testing at a major pharm and then created a company around it. They sold stock in their new company, based on this wonder drug that couldn’t pass testing.
Vivek cashed out long before the bag holding retail investors learned that, surprise surprise, the drug didnt work. The company went out of business but the only losers were the investors. Vivek made something like $300 million from this scheme.
Re: 128 - Uh, okay?
I was writing about this on FR almost 20 years ago:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1463179/posts
Stop trolling.
The replacement of white men by dots started 25 years ago.
Well ViVek is a fraud and always has been.
Wonder if this is a rope a dope… say things to stir up the anti H1B so Trump can play counter and restrict the program…
I don’t know.. but H1B is a complete fraud and scam and has been for decades
You are correct about hype.
And execitives manage by being the first to embrace the coming new fad.
Excellent post and I agree.
Musk wants H1-Bs: or at the least he is giving cover to those who *do*.
That’s irrelevant.
We are concerned with what is best for the country as a whole, not with further extending the wealth of the richest individual in the history of the human race.
What a lifetime crock, troll.
The white replacement by dots started a generation ago, where whites already
on place were forced to tdain their replacements — the literal opposite of your rationale — and then fired.
Sod off, swampy.
“ViVek is a fraud and always has been”
A con man. He’s a slick talker like Hussein (used to be).
Stop trolling.
You could hire back the white men laid off 20 years ago in favor of dots, give tgem six months training, and you’d stll come out ahead.
Stop trolling.
I don’t think that means what you think it means
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