Maybe, but there’s also ethnic nepotism, DEI incentives, and credential scamming. I’m sure some of them are competent, but I also think that once a tiny group of them get through the door and in positions that give them any hiring or firing influence, they will start treating other Indians preferentially. And I don’t think that first handful always needs to be competent either, because of the DEI incentives.
Maybe that doesn't even matter, because the cream of the crop could be excellent and still result in an issue where they change the culture of the nation. Maybe that also doesn't matter because it's very, very clear that the H1B program as it exists is not restricted to the cream of the crop and is instead being used to drive down wages and leave qualified American citizens unemployed, and that's before expanding it even more. Seriously—you can look at Canada or Britain. They're further along this path than we are. Does it look like they're getting the cream of the crop, without damaging the fabric of their nation?
But, even if we were getting the cream of the crop, which we aren't, even if we weren't changing our nation's culture, which we are, America (and you can substitute any nation in here; the argument is true for all) is not an economic zone. It is a nation. Built by generations of our ancestors, for their children. American citizens have a right to the fruits of their nation before the rest of the world. The average man needs to be employed as well; we can't sell out his prosperity to the world on the basis that when he's up against billions of people you can find someone who's an ever-so-slightly more optimized combination of cost + speed + accuracy in their work.
For truly one of a kind talent that truly is essential, we have the O1 Visa program. But that level of talent is incredibly rare, and limited to tiny little handfuls of people. The H1B program is not. Anyone who presents the H1B program as the only method for recruitment of "essential, irreplaceable skills" without mentioning the O1 program is either poorly informed or lying.
He wants skilled immigrants so he can enlist their talents in building his cybertopia.
The issue is that he says this—and he may even believe it—but the way that’s manifesting right now is in going to bat for not just keeping, but expanding the H1B Visa program, and specifically going to bat for an Indian who explicitly wants the H1B program to allow in even more Indians. Which is about as far from “high skill” immigration, and as destructive to the social and economic fabric of the nation, as one can get.
Maybe that’s when the levee broke, sure, but the flood had been building for decades before that moment. In an alternate timeline where we don’t get Obama, the timing is possibly different, but we do still get woke stuff, I’m almost sure of it.
houses of lawmakers against granting vote rights to foreigners
Foreigners voting seems obviously insane. Can you explain a little more? Does this mean something like “non-natives could never, ever get full citizenship,” or is it really as crazy as “temporary residents should vote”? If it’s the former, and the question is over whether the person married to a Japanese citizen, who’s been living in Japan for years and such should be allowed to vote… I still think the answer is probably no, but I get why it’s at least a debate. Arson would, of course, be an extreme bit of leftist terrorism, but I understand why the issue could be on the table.
If it’s the latter, and there’re groups applying pressure to let anyone living in Japan vote, that’s the kind of crazy shit that even deep blue cities in the US have only started doing on a municipal level relatively recently. I’m stunned things are so bad in Japan that there are houses being burned down over it.
Maybe it could perch on top. Would look funny.
In this case, the actress is black so it might be less “I see green as black” and more “I’m too narcissistic to detach myself from the character.” Of course, it could be a healthy bit of both.
So, one of the things that happened while the character was in hell was that they were magically converted into the opposite sex? I feel like the subtext here isn't exactly pro-trans, although I'm sure they don't see it.
Also, I believe Slatzism is on good terms with RFH and the editor of a radfem-leaning news site (reduxx), so the potential for conflict of interest is obviously there.
Sure, maybe, but even if you rewrite his comment to be something like "women don't understand self-defense strategies or the tactics for implementing them," then you still end up at the point where whether they understand any of that or not doesn't impact the fact that black men are—on average—correct to identify as the largest threat.
Women don't really understand fighting IQ, actual strength, tempered aggression, strategy,
If they did, would it make a difference? No amount of “fighting IQ” and “strategy” (unless we’re counting being adequately armed) would make them able to stand up to a black man or white man who was really willing to attack them, and in terms of likelihood of using untempered aggression unpredictably or for relatively small reasons, I think they’d be correct to be more worried about black men, on average, than whites.
Sure, but is their behavior not a largely inherent trait? Or at least (without debating nature vs. nurture and genetics), the tweet is saying it is. It just says “black people and immigrants do X.” Not “when they behave badly,” not “at a disproportionate rate,” not “obnoxious black people and immigrants do.” Literally just “black people and immigrants.”
Now, I don’t have a problem with people saying that. I think it being removed for rule 16 id retarded because I largely think that rule 16 itself is retarded. But, I don’t think Dom is incorrect in saying that it does violate that rule even though I think he’s wrong for having that be a rule.
Even if we don’t need to be extremely worried about China, I think it’s probably good to act as though we do. Competition spurs innovation, but security breeds complacency.
I take the position that if you have a story to tell and you feel it needs a specific kind of character—and most stories do—you should go ahead and design that character however you see fit in order to suit your story. But you also should be aware that the character design you choose sends signals to people about you and your story, so make sure you can live with the consequences.
Naughty Dog is sending a signal that this story is yet another anti-white, anti-male, ant-beauty DEI story. They’ll get the audience they’re courting, but it may not be as large as they’d like. On some level, I have to thank them for signaling so blatantly that they haven’t changed and that I should continue to root for their collapse.
It's not as if they can blend in with the Chinese.
Even in the most benevolent reading, where there’s no conniving or conscious malice or inherent traits that make this group difficult to coexist with, even if we say it’s just an organized group of people that could be almost any ethnic group naturally acting to defend their own culture and interests… you still have to reckon with the fact that this organized minority is wielding influence in such a way as to dismantle and push aside the culture of the majority. At best, this “multicultural” system is the people least willing to suck it up and let other people have things getting catered to for eternity, at the expense of everyone else.
If you do not enforce norms, someone else will.
Oh, yeah, I was in group two as well. I think it was a bit naive, but what can you do? Sometimes you're wrong, and I've definitely learned at least some since then.
TFA reaction was basically split into three groups:
Group one basically hated it flat out. Correctly diagnosed all the problems. I think this was probably the smallest group at the time. In retrospect, they were also completely correct.
Group two was lukewarm on it. Acknowledged problems, but also held out some hope that the second part would retroactively fix problems with the first by explaining certain things—Rey’s power, the backstory for basically everything—etc.
Group three just uncritically enjoyed it, either because they were lefty feminists, enjoy pacing and spectacle over consistency, were blinded by love for the brand, or a bit of all of the above.
Then TLJ happened. It not only dashed every hope group two had, it also did other stuff that was even worse than failing to fill in the gaps of the first movie. It was so bad it pushed some people from group three into admitting group one was right. It still had fans, of course, but not enough. However, had TLJ been awesome, I think it could have gone the other way and converted people from group one and group two into being complete fans. TFA may have put a couple cracks in the foundation, but the franchise wasn’t doomed until TLJ chose to take a hammer and chisel to those cracks rather than fixing them.
But is it Jew^fag or fag^Jew?
I doubt it was AI, but I’m pretty sure “Rev. Racist Man” is a satire account.
I'm currently 13 seconds into the video, and I have to ask: is this guy gay? He sounds gay.
And? Yeah, it's funny that you can arrange four of the fag flags like that, but it's utterly retarded to use it as an actual argument. Much less evidence of "hypocrisy," which has always been the right's weakest, most irrelevant "gotcha" even when it's at least vaguely true.
On the interior features? I think he means the motors that are making the screens and door move.
I think that issue is more of a mongoloid problem than a Dodge Charger problem, though.