LeviF
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1 hour ago, B-Man said:
I disagree with a lot of what Vivek Ramaswamy says
here, though there’s some uncomfortable truth there, too.
But here’s the thing. I don’t want to throw Vivek out of the
America First movement. I’m not mad because he said
some things I don’t agree with. We’re building a new coalition
and we’re not all going to agree on everything all the time.
We need to act like adults and debate things, even uncomfortable things.
We’re not leftists. We’re not gonna cry when somebody says
something we don’t necessarily agree with. We’re gonna figure it out.
And that’s why we’re gonna win.
Working 80-100 hours per week for substandard wages is not "culture." It's the result of a sick society.
Eleventy billion Indian spreadsheet makers do not cure a sick society. Quite the opposite, in fact.
We have no problem developing STEM talent. Many STEM graduates from good schools are underemployed specifically because we insist on importing thousands upon thousands of Chinese spies and Vivek's streetshitting cousins to depress wages and maximize profit.
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Had an assistant professor who taught my required MATLAB course freshman year. She barely spoke English. She would start speaking in her native language when a student who was from her country asked a question. The week’s projects were due Monday nights. Insane stuff.
Calc III was hard enough, but the prof who taught it at my school was legitimately a genius and it seemed like he thought teaching was a waste. If you could grasp the concepts from the text you were fine. I remember the final was four problems. A full half of the class flipped through it, got up and left without so much as putting pen(cil) to paper. It was probably the only final I ever spent all the allotted time on.
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56 minutes ago, sherpa said:
The "pure BS" is you.
Nobody has ever taken a stand against the legal immigration of skilled talent to our nation....Ever.
Nobody is carping about the O-1 or whatever. The H-1B is a complete scam and serves only to squeeze Americans.
There are H-1Bs working in paid internships. Why do they need to do an internship if they're "skilled?"
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4 hours ago, Coffeesforclosers said:
The full essay he posted is just painfully stupid.
In a nutshell, Vivek said America sucks so we need tens of thousands more H1B visas, so Big Tech can hire more cheap engineering talent from India and China.
It was pointed out to him that there's plenty of home grown STEM talent looking for jobs. It's just not as cheap. Nobody really goes for the whole "import more cheap foreign labor to drive down wages" thing since globalism died.
Now everyone from Nikki Hailey to Catturd is dragging him for being a sellout and a dumbass.
The “tech right” basically pivoting to “replacement, but legally” is not terribly unpredictable but still disheartening. From Vivek it can be expected: everyone is tribal about some group, it might as well be your own. From Elon it’s incredibly disappointing but at the end of the day he at least has allowed himself to get ratio’d on his own platform for his take.
The average IQ on the subcontinent is 76. This means the number of “geniuses” coming from the 1.4 billion people in India has a hard cap somewhere in the range of 1,400 (and that’s with a pretty loose definition of “genius.”)
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20 hours ago, B-Man said:
Who were the 37 who received commutations?
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Marcivicci Barnette murdered his ex-girlfriend and then another man when he jacked his car.
Maier Brown stabbed a postal worker to death.
Len Davis was a police officer convicted of murder-for-hire of a witness to his misconduct in an internal affairs investigation.
Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks escaped from prison, kidnapped, raped, and murdered Alice Donovan and Samantha Burns. Samantha Burns' remains have yet to be found. Now they never will be because the government no longer can hold the needle over her killers' heads.
Thomas Sanders killed a 12 year old girl in the course of a kidnapping.
Kaboni Savage conspired to firebomb a house where a federal witness lived and as a result murdered six people (four of them children). Overall he was convicted of killing 12 people as RICO predicates.
Obviously not exhaustive.
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On 12/20/2024 at 10:41 AM, Roundybout said:
Not a denial of my point, I notice.
America First!!
Does this mean they can’t be ultra far right? Since when does that matter?
The AfD isn’t nearly as far right as they should be, and that’s only because the commies (similar to you) that run Germany made it illegal to tell the truth there.-
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Leftists crying about a billionaire exerting influence over politicians is hilariously rich.
AfD is headed by a lesbian whose partner is a Sri Lankan immigrant lmao
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1 hour ago, dgrochester55 said:
I am for some measures such as increase background checks, but no type of ban. There has to be a bipartisan way to look into these shootings and stop them from happening so much which looks at multiple factors and proposed more than "banning all guns". A ban is not that simple because it never factors in the criminals disobedience of the laws or the systems ability to universally enforce it.
The problem is that the same party that want to take the guns away from the responsible citizen also want to reduce and remove police forces and put through lax bail reform laws. If any new law comes out, it will be disobeyed by the criminals while less people can defend themselves. I do not trust the same systems that have lets thousands upon thousands of people come in an roam around the country unchecked to properly make sure that every single gun law is being enforced for every person.
The problem isn't the guns.
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11 minutes ago, Gugny said:
I don’t think Tim Allen is that good looking.This mustache would like a word
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Twice. Both were for actual spambots.
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The only work Christmas parties I ever went to were the ones my unit in children's services had. Eight of us, plus any spouses that wanted to subject themselves to the particular brand of humor CPS investigators tend to exhibit among themselves when inebriated. Supervisor paid for everything. I drank a lot more back then so any chance at free booze I jumped at. We pooled our money and bought the supervisor scratchers for Christmas and we'd make a game of trying to pay the tab with them. 2/3 years he was successful in covering the whole tab - typically low four figures - with the scratch-off winnings.
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If it’s true that he committed a fatal OPSEC error because he wanted to flirt with some chick, it would be the least surprising thing to happen to an Italian since Andrew Cuomo’s downfall.
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lol the number of "RW-adjacent" people bolstering the "who cares it was a CEO" communist narrative is almost as sad as it is not surprising.
You either have a society in which people are moved towards retributive justice when witnessing a premeditated murder on camera or you don't have a functioning society.
It's that simple.
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On 12/3/2024 at 5:15 PM, colin said:
these women are skilled professionals (i define that as a person who shows a high level of ability to do something that gets them paid) at roping these guys in. I get why and how they do it. what makes me chortle is how the guys keep falling for it.
it's like seeing a guy with a fold out card table on the street playing 3 card monte. if you've ever played it or have seen a video on someone who's good at it, they will absolutely take your money and you will lose. at best you have a 1/3 shot, but they are skilled at tricking your eye, and they can move the card where they want tricking you into thinking it is in another place, or they can use slight of hand and just basically cheat you and you'll never see it.
the way to not lose is to not play.
I know of a surefire way to win money at 3 card monte.
Pic unrelated
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It’s a pro job.
Makes 3 the least likely scenario. With some insider trading rumors floating around that could add another scenario.
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From what I understand blaming the opposition citing their supposed North Korean sympathies is rather popular among S Korean politicians.
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5 minutes ago, JohnBonhamRocks said:
Voice of the Bills?!No, the balled fist of the music industry.
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He must have found out she's about to turn 40.
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Yeah, must have been the economy. Nothing else. Nope. Can’t think of anything.
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49 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
The threat of tariffs may/may not work over time, especially with the tendency for our government to change direction in dizzying fashion. However, programs like this, with a substantial amount of money gifted over time, don’t seem to be the answer either. Precious little oversight according to the GAO.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-335
Under the Mérida Initiative, the U.S. has spent about $3 billion since 2007 assisting security forces with fighting corruption and criminal organizations—like drug cartels—in Mexico.
For programs under the Initiative, there's a risk of funds going to individuals or groups involved in contract fraud, human rights abuses, or other crimes. Yet, the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development haven't fully assessed such potential fraud risk. And although State screens Mexican security personnel for human rights violations, it has cut back on vetting other personnel, such as judges.
That's really the rub here. Mexico is incredibly corrupt and mendacious, which is unbecoming of its true status as a client state of the USA. Its entire ruling class, including Sheinbaum (interesting name for a Mexican), is parasitic and enriches themselves off cartel bribes or siphoning funds provided by the United States, like the example in the quote above. As a result, Mexico is teetering on failed state status and in some areas within its borders almost certainly has no governing power.
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8 hours ago, JFKjr said:
I was listening to an interview with a Kamala adviser this evening. The adviser/campaign person was VERY disgruntled. Said she talked to Kamala as recently as "today" (Tues) and there was "no self-reflection," no thoughts on "what went wrong."
ALSO she commented that Kamala went through not "one," but TWO billion dollars in her abbreviated campaign. The other billion came from some Super Pac. They were spending on things like $2 million for the Oprah interview, $500K to Al Sharpton's group in return for his interview of her. $450K to "PAINT HER FACE ON A SPHERE." (think, like, Epcot golfball?) Anyway, no accountability, no thought as to how to wisely spend their funds.
Her (former) staff is UPSET.
I was listening to one of the post-mortem interviews and a couple of the former Kamala staffers indicated that they knew that they needed to move to center on several issues, particularly social ones, but thought it wouldn't be credible given how far left her actual policy commitments had been.
In particular, they spent hours attempting to strategize a way to respond to the "they/them" ad but ultimately couldn't come up with anything that stuck. Also while the media was saying how terrible team Trump's strategy to get out the vote was apparently the Kamala campaign staffers were completely clueless as to how to slow it down.
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My first drum set blew everything else away. I was 9.
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7 minutes ago, FireChans said:
Down for what??
Congrats on the house closing, Roundy. Keep coming here but delete your reddit account and never go back. There is help for terminal reddit brain.
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17 hours ago, Thrivefourfive said:
Mara was sold a bag of beans. Copying Buffalo’s front office arrangement, with two inexperienced characters. Wow. I blame Mara for that, and the GM and HC for not making it work.
Mara needs a president to make those decisions. He’s too close to the fire. His opinions should filter through the president, to the GM and HC.
There's an article this week, I think in The Athletic, that essentially asks the question "aside from reputation, what's the actual difference between the Jets and the Giants since Tom Coughlin left?"
What, indeed.
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Vivek Tries Really Hard to Sound Smart and Edgy and Fails Miserably
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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