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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
By what metrics? Life expectancy rose during communism and fell afterwords. Are you seriously going to try and argue it was better during the Czarist times?
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
The Russian empire tried communism. It was better than what they had before or since. The Chinese tried communism. It worked far better for them than what they had before.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Sergey Brin recently said having to pay taxes on his 280 billion to the state took him in and where he built his business was akin to the horrors of boleshivsm that his family fled from. That is your “good” immigrant. He is the right winger
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Why would the average us citizen want to import a smarter foreign competitor. There are far more workers than there are ceos.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
It was always easy to get a job working at chipotle. We are talking real jobs here.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
The context was China, not generic non citizen. I could have said Chinese citizens but that sounds wordy and awkward. Meh you can’t win. If you can’t train a 1500+ SAT and instead need to import non citizens to fill your jobs you have faile
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
There are already far too many US college grads who can’t get jobs. I have friends who had 1500+ SAT scores with stem degrees who never found meaningful work. Give these people jobs before you give it to the Chinese.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
What if they took the bus across?
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Why would I want an immigrant smarter than me? If I have a 120 iq and he has a 130 iq then he is going to take my job. You really aren’t convincing me here.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Why would an American smart enough to become a stem phd toil away for a decade in poverty under an abusive university system instead of becoming rich in tech?
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Presumably the people saying that mean they like immigrants that meet the current requirements not a different set. Otherwise we could just get rid of immigration law and then everyone would be a legal immigrant.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
I mean the entire point is that there isn’t oversight, the system is being gamed. And as a practical matter oversight is virtually impossible. The immigration system is in no position to evaluate whether a candidate is qualified or not. The
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
You could take the unemployed workers you have and train them instead.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Canada let an absurd level of unqualified immigrants from India who either can’t find jobs (or work min wage) aren’t happy and don’t assimilate. Are we talking about the same Canada here?
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
The first three we would be better off without, don’t recognize the last three. Not sure you are really selling your point.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
It was for billionaires to suppress white collar workers’ wages.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
There never will be trials. Assuming things actually swing back the new admin will talk about healing and looking forward.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Do we really want a bunch of immigrants that are susceptible to strongman political manipulations?
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
56% of college grads are still looking for their first job 2 years later up from 25% for millennials. If you want to “grow the workforce” why not just hire the people already here?
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
He has upper management potential.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
This is not true. People are not ev maximizing bots.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Ah a shakedown. He will make the required donation and this will go away.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
This is the guy who tried to make the metaverse a thing. He has been out of touch for decades now.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
You originally asked if there was any technology that had a net negative impact on quality of life. Now you are arguing that is inevitable. Which may be true but it is a different argument. That being said I am not convinced a society who d
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Yes? Life was almost certainly better before the internet.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Agriculture for starters. The internet. The automobile.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
They may they may not. The nobility has learned a lot in the past 200+ years. Powerful propaganda machines, powerful weaponry, and a small group of loyalists have proven extremely effective at controlling large populations.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
And you can extend that to the history of the world. Change via non violent means is a historical aberration. We hold those examples up because they are so rare.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
When the checks had trumps name on them during the pandemic they loved it. They don’t hate welfare on principle, they hate it when the propaganda tells them to hate it.
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by bluecheese452 5mo ago
Agreed.

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