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JD Vance responded to a lawsuit about the new $100,000 H1B visa fee imposed by the Trump administration with a condescending, aggressive reply on Twitter. It’s

JD Vance responded to a lawsuit about the new $100,000 H1B visa fee imposed by the Trump administration with a condescending, aggressive reply on Twitter. It’s surprising to see this because JD Vance has been positioned as the tech industry / tech billionaire’s candidate. With immigrants founding half the Fortune 500 and leading many large companies and innovating in AI (like the attention paper), it seems like a huge mistake to encourage isolationist America First ideology. Worse, anti immigrant rhetoric is now encouraging racism and supremacist ideology in the mainstream. I wonder if JD Vance will regret this movement given he has a mixed race family.

brazukadev 11mo ago
I don't have a dog in this fight but one can definitely be pro tech and favor the local workforce.
jmlavwh 11mo ago
America First is not isolationist ("America Only" would be isolationist).
- collingreen 11mo ago
  This reads about as good faith as "all lives matter" being shouted in the faces of people at "black lives matter" protests. I'd love to be wrong on this but so far there has been a lot of egregious isolationist behavior that doesn't match up with something I would personally support as "America First". A truly good faith policy of non-isolationist, non-hate-based "America First" would come down hard on falsely imprisoning us citizens, destroying us soft power, abusing us allies, manic tarrifs (even without the billions in insider trading happening around them), blatant corruption, selling pardons, and the massive waste and diversion of us tax money. These things hurt America; honest shepherds don't cover up for wolves in the flock. I think most us folks would support the idea that our government should help our country as the number one priority. It would be nice if all we debated was which policies to use and on which timescales to focus. Ironically, the current "America first" approach you're trying to gaslight about is actually putting a bad taste in folks' mouths and hurting any honest cause wanting to push this forward.
tsoukase 11mo ago
I imagine blocking new immigrant talent favors existing mega corps, because it avoids founding any new Google or a similar competitive startup. While the corp is able to sacrifice a 20-day salary for a dedicated new bright employee. Or subtract the sum from his future salary.
deadlinermusic 11mo ago
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brazukadev 11mo ago

I don't have a dog in this fight but one can definitely be pro tech and favor the local workforce.

jmlavwh 11mo ago

America First is not isolationist ("America Only" would be isolationist).

collingreen 11mo ago
This reads about as good faith as "all lives matter" being shouted in the faces of people at "black lives matter" protests. I'd love to be wrong on this but so far there has been a lot of egregious isolationist behavior that doesn't match up with something I would personally support as "America First". A truly good faith policy of non-isolationist, non-hate-based "America First" would come down hard on falsely imprisoning us citizens, destroying us soft power, abusing us allies, manic tarrifs (even without the billions in insider trading happening around them), blatant corruption, selling pardons, and the massive waste and diversion of us tax money. These things hurt America; honest shepherds don't cover up for wolves in the flock. I think most us folks would support the idea that our government should help our country as the number one priority. It would be nice if all we debated was which policies to use and on which timescales to focus. Ironically, the current "America first" approach you're trying to gaslight about is actually putting a bad taste in folks' mouths and hurting any honest cause wanting to push this forward.

tsoukase 11mo ago

I imagine blocking new immigrant talent favors existing mega corps, because it avoids founding any new Google or a similar competitive startup. While the corp is able to sacrifice a 20-day salary for a dedicated new bright employee. Or subtract the sum from his future salary.

deadlinermusic 11mo ago

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