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Are you... genuinely this naive and ignorant to what's happening in USA?

• moomoo11 2mo ago
  didn't big tech co's layoff thousands of people here and then filed for thousands more h1b ?
  • delecti 2mo ago
    If it happened, there should be evidence (an article link). If it isn't supportable, then the implication is disingenuous to make.
    • MisterMower 2mo ago
      “Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?” But since you asked, here you go: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/microsoft-cut-4-800-jobs-130000440.html https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/microsoft-...
    • DaSHacka 2mo ago
      From elsewhere in this thread: > Recently[1] Microsoft laid off several thousand domestic employees while simultaneously hiring a couple thousand employer-sponsored-Visa workers. > > [1]https://www.newsweek.com/microsoft-layoffs-2026-xbox-h1b-visas-ai-jobs-12162205 https://www.newsweek.com/microsoft-layoffs-2026-xbox-h1b-vis... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457077
• JeremyNT 2mo ago
  Attempts to find plausibly deniable rationales for this administration's anti-immigrant policies other than "gutter racism" are ridiculous. Occam's razor. When somebody shows you who they are, believe them. Nativism is possibly the only stable and coherent political ideology this admin holds. Everything else is negotiable, but not this one.
  • nekusar 2mo ago
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    • copper-float 2mo ago
      Don't forget Nazism! (AKA, anyone who isn't left-wing.) There's nothing inherently wrong with pausing immigration visas. These commenters act like anything less than fully open borders and unlimited immigration quotas makes you Satan reincarnate. They intentionally over-dramatize everything he does to spread fear and alarmism cause that's all they can do. It's so tiring and nonsensical.
      • jetpks 2mo ago
        You're the one dramatizing here
        • copper-float 1mo ago
          I'm using hyperbole to showcase a point. Most of the alarmists here on HN genuinely believe that democracy is ending and Trump is the next Hitler. I'm not dramatizing, that's what they actually believe.
      • djeastm 2mo ago
        In a vacuum the immigration pause might be innocuous. But put into context the other actions and statements from this administration and it tells a deeper story. Just think of it as the return of the 19th-century Know Nothings or the 1920s nativists if the Nazi comparison makes you squeamish.
    • kj4211cash 2mo ago
      When you think the only group we should allow to immigrate is white South Africans, then, yea, it's racism. At least be honest about it.
    • schubidubiduba 2mo ago
      Do you really believe that there is no racism involved?