domain:alexepstein.substack.com
TIRM
28m ago
Supposedly Rubio was the other top pick for VP. Vance got that, Rubio is given the alternative prize of Secretary of State. Rubio wanted to quit the senate previously but other Republicans convinced him to stay. Here's his chance to bounce and do something else.
I think perhaps you overestimate Trump's animosity towards "Little Marco, thirstiest man you've ever seen". Trump crushed him in the 2016 primary and now wants his support at the highest level. I don't think there is a feeling of animosity or contradiction inside of Trump.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
33m ago
Can someone explain to me why is everyone freaking out about this guy? I pick up a fair amount of American politics by osmosis in places like this, and the name does sound familiar, but I have no idea why everybody is losing their damn mind.
Blueberry
34m ago
Wiki says this was the sect of her mother/parents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_Identity_Foundation
Butler's teachings included condemnation of homosexuality,[1][3] hostility towards Islam, and skepticism of science.[2][10][2][11][12][13]
TIRM
35m ago
Musk joked that either Trump wouldn't win or Musk would be imprisoned. It's a joke. But novel legal theories worked once to secure dozens of felony convictions. Why not a second pass?
DradisPing
42m ago
But they are so confident that she’s a Russian agent. What’s the deal with that?
There's a standard and very controlled foreign affairs education in the US (and the rest of the Anglosphere). All the top professors and think tanks interact with the State Department regularly. Papers like The Economist are approved reading. Atlantic Council galas are mandatory for the serious.
In that culture there's a disbelief in any sort of autodidactism. Not disapproval, they literally believe that you can't come up with any sort of informed opinion on your own. You need to go to the proper schools and read the proper papers.
When they see someone intelligent and charismatic on the popular stage with some views that differ they immediately ask "Where did she get that from?". Admitting that she developed different views from her experiences and encounters outside the continental US implies that their own education was insufficient.
It's easier to just claim she's a Russian agent.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
58m ago
I'm actually a big fan of Tulsi after seeing her several times on Rogan
Interesting, I kind of had the opposite experience. I liked her as along as I only saw her in clips or short interviews, but on Rogan she came off as pandering a lot.
Not enough to turn me off from her, but I have to say I grew cautious.
mrvanillasky
1hr ago
The other really visible change is that seemingly most low-skilled customer-facing jobs have been are now done by Indians. Almost every grocery store employee, Uber Eats driver, security guard, fast food restaurant worker, and call centre worker is Indian.
People get their cousins or friends to get to the West through any means necessary so that they can escape India. It will get worse over time, you simply don't have 10s of millions of super smart Indians, if you did, India would not be well India.
Much of this racism comes from Indians themselves though. They often don't like Indians from certain parts of India or from certain castes. Many think we're letting in too many or the wrong kinds. There seems to be a lot of conflict between different groups.
It's an open secret, people of the south and Punjab game the immigration game, especially Sikhs in Canada. I am hesitant to write anything on these topics because I dont want to get doxxed and be turned into an Ian Miles Cheong-style figure. There is a reason why people kept this place heterogeneous for thousands of years.
SubstackNecron
1hr ago
1000% agree. I would add the additional sub-lesson is that as long as the lie is phrased at least partially as something they really want to be true it really doesn't matter how obviously a lie what it said is.
mrvanillasky
1hr ago
You cant mass import 80 iq people who obviously are gaming the system like refugees or most migrants and expect to have a sane living situation. Demographic concerns are very real, my own people are a micro minority here despite having ruled since time immemorial, you dont wanna face that.
Indians can be genuinely very smart, a good number are but most game systems via incorrect means. Khalistan is a about as likely as earth splitting in half in the next 2 days.
K pop does make korean guys smewhat more appealing to some younger girls but it isnt that large an impact. Okcupid data was fairly accurate. I dont have issues because I learnt to cold approach, I cannot imagine what its like being a legit incel in some place like NY where you have the hottest women ever born whilst you can barely get a landwhale to match with you. Dating apps are a scam anyway though they represent reality in a world where you have nothing going for you. Most guys are that way, very few actually are attractive personality-wise. I would not want to be some fresh off the boat asian or south asian guy who is short and cant get any intimacy whilst his sister can go and realistically have short-term flings with male model-tier guys since dudes would hit anything.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1hr ago
From reading the wiki page, I'm having a hard time figuring out why anyone would mouth-froth over the idea of her having any position of power.
She says she was put under surveillance in the airport for some reason, agents follow her on planes:
https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-tsa-terrorist-watchlist-1985527
So there's clearly not much love lost between her and intelligence goons.
mrvanillasky
1hr ago
Later when she was venting to her father about the incident, he asked which company, and recognized the name. Said they were notorious for just blatantly lying on every contract bid they made, and basically doing no competent work what so ever.
Classic lol, it happens here too, I just dont say stuff like this out loud as I dont know how others here would percieve it, dont wanna get doxxed
didn't follow any traffic laws what so ever
I saw people not interweaving between lanes for the first time in my life when I travelled outside the country, you cannot drive here at all, zero laws are followed.
Every single one I worked with was an H1B that almost certainly lied to get the job. In fact, I have never had a satisfactory experience working with an Indian in any position. I keep running into the same failure pattern where it's like they simply don't understand language, they just make convincing mouth sounds to get people to leave them alone. I've never successfully communicated a technical problem to an Indian in a way they've understood, no matter how hard I try. Other colleagues understand what I'm trying to communicate immediately.
Elaborate on this, you think they dont get english or the language you work in, btw indian scams for migration primarily happen in like 4 states, so 3 in the south and then sikhs from punjab, they make up 90 percent plus of all h1b and it aint because they are smart. Nepotism runs deep.
She was told point blank that they weren't going to hire her because she was white and they only hire other Indians. To this day she carries a grudge against Indians for being so nakedly discriminated against.
Shit like this is why I can't defend them anywhere, in my own home nation you get nationalised bioleninism and in the US you get ethnic nepotism where people call the host nation, its people and its culture names but refuse to ever return back to their homeland. Mass migration in any capacity is morally wrong. Brampton, the place where you see the highest density of subcon people is unlivable.
You have an industry where people buy h1bs by paying another firm to get it from them, its a pretty fucked thing. The quintessential Indian firms that have offices in the US are basically pajeet outsourcing operations, they cant be good hackers. There are great Indian hackers but most people who write code for a living are not it. Programming jobs are seen as a goldmine here so people make milking them thier lifes objective.
phailyoor
1hr ago
Demographics is destiny to a degree so it's been over for the racists for a long time. They can join the tent and extract some concessions, but not at the expense of the rest of the coalition.
I always thought that support for legal, skilled immigration was the best litmus test for this divide
Why? Importing high gdp people will make number go up, but it won't provide any support for your values of "meritocracy, free speech, self-governance, etc." If you import a million high iq gay race communists, that will actually destroy your American values faster than importing a million freeloaders will.
sun_the_second
1hr ago
"Misunderstanding of your faith" implies they have the wrong understanding of why you believe. Having the view on what your religion is that you don't agree with is not misunderstanding.
sun_the_second
1hr ago
try to argue openly that Romeo and Juliet are evil for engaging in a wholly destructive act of lust that shirks all their duties, and see people jump to defend vehemently characters whose ostensible fate is death.
You've baited me here. Romeo and Juliet have, even in death, done a great deal towards mending a wholly destructive blood feud between their families; if Shakespeare wasn't writing a tragedy of errors they would have been successful. What good would their duties have done?
raakaa
1hr ago
Yeah, telling the bleating sheep what they want to hear would probably work out better for them than telling the bleating sheep that they hate them and look forward to them being replaced by wolves.
ResoluteRaven
1hr ago
Anti-Indian sentiment within the Anglosphere seems mostly confined to Canada and the UK, increasing in the former noticeably in the last few years because of the enormous ongoing immigration wave and diplomatic disputes over the relict Khalistan movement-in-exile. Indian-Americans are a cut above most other immigrant groups as far as education, income, and general "merit" go, even compared to Indians in other countries, so they don't tend to draw a lot of flak. Perhaps if India achieves a similar global status as China, Indians here will go from being ignored all the time to occasionally being harassed due to geopolitical events before being ignored again.
Is the whole race and dating thing really that fucked?
In the last few years the gender imbalances in interracial relationships seem to have evened out a bit in the US, at least with respect to Asians. I assume the increased prominence of Korean music and pop culture around the world had something to do with this. It will probably take popular perceptions a while to catch up and the stereotypes that were validated by the old OkCupid data are still alive and well, usually played for laughs but sometimes tinged with real resentment, particularly from the groups at the bottom of the totem pole i.e. Asian men and Black women.
phailyoor
1hr ago
I have never had a satisfactory experience working with an Indian in any position.
Fwiw pajeets at faang earn their keep. Probably because they need to actually pass a technical interviews to get in rather than just being able to con their way through informal interviews. But the blatant visa fraud mills give them all a bad name.
Said they were notorious for just blatantly lying on every contract bid they made, and basically doing no competent work what so ever.
Yes absolutely. Avoid them like the plague.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1hr ago
if I believed the ideals side was going to win, I would immediately become a die-hard Trump supporter.
That's interesting. So what are the things you love about Trump so much that would make you a die-hard supporter, if his (or the Republicans') stance on immigration wasn't an issue?
I believe that if you actually hold the ideals-based notion of identity, then the Matt Yglesias/Noah Smith-wing of the Democratic party is the right political home for you.
A single tweet / substack in the wake of a lost election doesn't make for a good argument that an ideals-based identity person belongs in that wing. Particularly when one these is written by mr. "I want wrong right-wing ideas to be discredited, while wrong left-wing ideas gain power".
I also don't understand why Trump(ist)'s stance on immigration is enough to turn you off from otherwise die-hard support, but you are apparently able to tolerate the Democrat's constant abuse of the very notion of meritocracy.
I always thought that support for legal, skilled immigration was the best litmus test for this divide---if you are on the ideals side, then it is a no-brainer win-win and if you're on the blood-and-soil side, then it is very dangerous.
I don't think it's dangerous (let alone very), I even agree it's a clear win, given the benefits and the small schale of that particular form of immigration, but if you can't think of literally any risk or downside, I'd say you lack imagination.
That aside, I'd say most people are skeptical of skilled immigration, because they see it as a foot-in-the door for mass immigration (no one said how high the skills have to be to count as "skilled").
SubstackNecron
1hr ago
And treating peasants like peasants is fairly common
It just happened. What do people think Trump just did? If the Democrats take anything away from this election other than "run the most charismatic person you can" and "just tell the bleating sheep what they want to hear" then they are miscalculating
ABigGuy4U
1hr ago
I think a lot of those anti-Indian posts on 4Chan are astroturfed. Both those and the interracial pornography posts all mysteriously go away every time Israel starts getting bombed. I have no idea how any of that stuff would be in Israel’s geopolitical interest, but it’s a known phenomenon.
Glassnoser
2hr ago
Honda Odysseys? The mini-van? Here, they're known for driving Honda Civics.
ResoluteRaven
2hr ago
At the end of the day, the number of Americans with deep (white) nationalist convictions is much smaller than the number that will gravitate towards arguments couched in blood and soil because they are angry about something else, usually crime, and can be placated by increased policing and a reduction in public disorder, regardless of the actual demographics of their community. Even if Trump succeeds at deporting 15 million illegal immigrants and ending birthright citizenship, which is unlikely to say the least, that still leaves tens of millions of legal immigrants, many of whom have just started voting for Republican candidates because of the Democrats' mishandling of identity politics and will be key to winning future elections.
I haven't really noticed it online, but I have noticed it in person. I live in a city that has received an enormous number of immigrants in a very short period of time, and they seem to be overwhelmingly from India, although some are from Africa and the Ukraine. This is a Canadian city that has not had much immigration since confederation. It used to be very white, with a small black population, a small indigenous population, and a very small population from elsewhere. The few Indian people we had tended to be very highly educated.
Very little changed here for a long time but it's now undergoing a rapid transformation. The population is booming, high rises are going up everywhere, rents are rapidly outgrowing incomes, and traffic congestion is getting really bad. People are blaming the immigrants, and Indians, with their dark complexions and jet black hair, really stand out. It seems like half the population dowtown is Indian now.
The other really visible change is that seemingly most low-skilled customer-facing jobs have been are now done by Indians. Almost every grocery store employee, Uber Eats driver, security guard, fast food restaurant worker, and call centre worker is Indian.
They're not really causing any serious problems, but there's beginning to be a bit of a backlash. People blame them for the high rents, and there is a belief that they're taking jobs better suited for teenagers when what we really need are doctors and tradesmen. This a very left-wing city with a strong norm against racism and I personally never witnessed much racism until recently, but a minority of people are starting to feel comfortable saying negative things about them and saying they should go back to India.
Much of this racism comes from Indians themselves though. They often don't like Indians from certain parts of India or from certain castes. Many think we're letting in too many or the wrong kinds. There seems to be a lot of conflict between different groups.
Lol, I got downvoted to oblivion today when I criticised public denial of holocaust. I am not a rabid zionist, publicly being anti-semitic is terrible optics.
yeah, /pol, /b and /hc in particular are impossible to watch, they just became trash overnight and have not reverted back since. Also is your name a sam hyde reference or a dark knight rises reference?
Peter Hegseth seems more patriotic than residents of jerusalem. No comments lol.
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