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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 23, 2024

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Things continue to escalate, with Musk now Tweeting:

The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B.

Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.

Truly at a crossroads. Not sure how Musk comes back from just valuing America as a repository for importing foreigners. Bridge is burned.

This makes me wonder why Musk even backed Trump in the first place. Surely he must have realized that the Democrats are the much more immigration-friendly party.

Did he think he'd be able to control Trump and the Republicans? if so, he's going to realize the limits of how much power money can buy you.

The Democrat administration is/was super hostile to Tech. Making MAGA more libertarian on Tech to get their support wasn't a bad idea. But in exchange the Tech Bros had to not try to flood the country with immigrants but they are going to insist on doing that so this Alliance is breaking before inauguration even begins.

but they are going to insist on doing that so this Alliance is breaking before inauguration even begins.

Ejecting Musk is not necessarily the same thing as breaking the alliance with Big Tech, Bezos or Zuckerberg have sent some signals they'd be willing to work with Trump. The question is if they can accept the "no mass-migration" position, or actually hold the same beliefs as Elon, except they'd work towards them via backroom deals instead of sperging out on Twitter.

how were the Democrats unfriendly to Tech? especially the American big tech sector. They wanted to ban TikTok (foreign competition) while giving big subsidies to Tesla and lots of nasa dollars to SpaceX. They allowed the Twitter buyout to go through and basically let Musk do whatever he wanted.

Besides what SS raised, there's been a few more government movements against Big Tech than was typical during Biden's admin. There's probably more examples.

The Biden Administration has been very hostile to Musk, with even MSM onlookers admitting there's political motivation behind the regulatory scrutiny. This was even before Musk went Republican.

California is hostile to tech/business in general, so Musk pulled out a lot of stuff from California.

Harris was proposing some tech unfriendly stuff as well like taxing unrealized capital gains.

It was a good opportunity for Republicans to gain support by opposing the tech unfriendly Democrat policies, but if Musk is going to draw a line in the sand at H1B then the alliance is not going to last long.

As an Indian I would want migration to exist given I want to git gud and not be in little leagues, as an american I would not.

I should write an essay on this

I am confused about the entire H1B debate.

Are there reasons Musk cannot just pursue cheap Indian labor on Indian soil? Software can be sent from India to USA without restriction, so what is the benefit of increasing H1B for him or any other tech company located in the US?

so what is the benefit of increasing H1B for him or any other tech company located in the US?

Musk genuinely believes in making America great, unlike the nativists who merely treat it as a slogan (see how they are trying to twist it into "make Americans great" and trying to elide the fact that there is a large contingent of Americans who are the main culprit holding America back- and yes there are lots of whites in this group). Cheap Indian labour on Indian soil doesn't propel America (and by extension, Humanity, since America is the current global hegemon) further. Plus you have networking effects from the best of the best being close to other best of the best.

I struggle to believe that bringing those into America is necessary to moving humanity forward, but I am an American who still believes in nativist superiority.

No because India has runs on n caste envy and very few are actually smart even within the smart groups, the rest just hate them.

As an Indian I like the h1b but if I were a citizen with schemes like h1b I'd have them shut down. I'll write in long form about this.

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