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Investors like Paul want the immigration debate to be strictly polar because it is the only way their traitorous ideas might seem reasonable. They paint one side as racist, backwards, economically illiterate absolutists and the other as enlightened, growth-minded cosmopolitian realists. Support for laws that protect American citizens can be dismissed as uneducated, anyone who hires immigrants or foreigners in any capacity a hypocrite. American law should, and does, advantage American citizens. We should not have to compete on an even playing field with billions of people who almost universally don't share our values or respect our institutions, even if they are "the most qualified" or willing to work double the hours for the same wages. The men running Operation Paperclip did not think Americans should have to compete with the entire Third World, they understood that a carefully controlled amount of highly-skilled expert immigration is net good for America even when allegience is in question. It is worth noting that even on a purely economic level, ignoring all burdens of loyalty or allegiance to your countrymen and treating America as nothing but an economic activity zone, it still doesn't make sense to say without qualification that foreigners should get any job where they are more qualified than their American counterpart. As just one easy example out of dozens, about 20% of immigrants return home after less than five years, taking all their savings and vested shares with them. Another 20% will leave within ten years, doing the same. All the while, they will wire, on average, ~15% of their wages out of the United States economy every month. Some occupations and origins average 30%! The idea that this should be completely ignored with regard to employment and immigration policy is rampant among the same people who tell you with a straight face that limits on immigrants will destroy the American economy, that the dumb rednecks need to be saved. I lean very libertarian and have strongly supported immigration to America for many years with countless public examples. That doesn't put me on the same side as the men who want to sell out America, and no amount of long-past accomplishment obliges any of us to listen to their lectures from the other side of the Atlantic.

Paul Graham @paulg

2 months ago

@PalmerLuckey Why did you give these jobs to foreigners instead of Americans?

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(1) It’s not happening (2) It’s a conspiracy theory (3) It’s happening, but it’s rare <— (4) It’s happening, here’s why it’s a good thing AP confirms we are on step 3

The Associated Press @AP

2 months ago

Voting by noncitizens is extremely rare. But President Trump and his allies are raising the alarm to fuel attempts to overhaul elections. apnews.com/article/trump-…

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I grew up in "flyover country," which historically cultivated American genius in many forms. My own family included a long line of pilots, poets, and doctors who loved land but also tech, words but also machines. This. multidimensional spirit is now treated as nearly extinct (see essay below). But there is no "talent shortage." The country bumpkin caricature of Americans as people without history, intelligence, curiosity or technical capacity is an anti-intellectual operation against Americans themselves, a degradation of their self-conception that teaches them to mistake themselves for a worthless people and to accept that nothing else is possible beyond Panda Express, warehouse shifts, and football on a flatscreen tv

stephanie wakefield @stephwakefield_

8 months ago

Here's a weird new essay I wrote about the American spirit in moments of technological inflection and linguistic confusion (link in reply)

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-Bill Hewlett, born in Michigan -David Packard, born in Colorado -Robert Noyce, born in Iowa -Thomas Watson Jr., born in Ohio Not only was Silicon Valley built by Americans, but it was built by “flyover country” Americans.

Virgil Davis Hunt @vrgldh

2 months ago

Make Silicon Valley American Again

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Far-left terrorism poses a profound threat to the United States and the broader West. Today, the United States sanctioned several transnational far-left terrorist networks, including Autistici/Inventati – a major far-left tech collective whose services are used by the most active and violent Antifa cells in the United States and across the world. There will be no refuge for violent extremists who wage war on our civilization and plot to undermine law and order, destroy critical infrastructure, assault political opponents, or conspire to conceal their crimes from authorities. We will use all the tools and authorities at our disposal to fight terrorism and protect our way of life from terrorist coercion.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Private Equity finding a Fortune 1000 company that has been regularly voted as a top place to work

putting a B2 on a cake felt right this year

I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern. My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won't think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives. They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong or even gross. I made mistakes as a kid, and thank God I grew up in a culture that encouraged me to grow and learn and feel remorse when I screwed up and offer grace when others did.

🚨 JUST IN: Trump invites all the girls to gather around him for the banning men in women's sports executive order signing. They will never forget this moment. "Secret Service is worried about THEM? If we have to worry about them, we have big problems."

@brian_a_burns Indeed

waking up early, having a coffee and appreciating the gift of life for 30 seconds before spending the next 12 hours looking at a screen

President of the University of Chicago with the best statement yet on the protests: “I believe the protesters should also consider that an encampment, with all the etymological connections of the word to military origins, is a way of using force of a kind rather than reason to persuade others… those violating university policy should expect to face disciplinary consequences.” Yes. Occupying space and disrupting the lives of others is a form of coercion, milder than other uses of force but a use of force nonetheless. Ideally, we would have a culture that rejects such tactics as inherently thuggish and anti-liberal. Proud to be an alumnus.

@BoringBiz_ A lot easier to audit when you’re F2 + Esc-ing someone’s model too. Another classic one is totals being off by 2,022 or 2,017 because someone picked up the year using autosum as well 😂 although the protip there is to always add a row between the date & first line item

@BoringBiz_ Ha no meant the opposite! =SUM(B1,B2,B3) infinitely better than summing a range through the autosum. The amount of times I’ve caught a biff b/c someone inserted a growth rate between B1:Bx is too high to count ;)

@coltybrah ah yes men totally want to get rich, get big and buy exotic cars just to show off to other men makes sense

@itsmarkmoran Frette!

Some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten in my career: Ask yourself, “What are the five questions someone might ask that could fuck me? Add slides answering those questions to the appendix. That’s your body armor.”