UPDATE: My wife’s X account has been impacted by whatever change Elon ordered his Indian H-1Bs to make last night in his fit of rage. It is either that or the Indian employees are acting on their own.
I’m still not sure what started all of this.
The divide between MAGA and the Tech Right on X seemed to widen over Christmas Eve and Christmas until the the rift triggered a major earthquake yesterday afternoon. Like most people, I was trying to focus on my family and enjoy Christmas, but the debate kept growing and growing.
My vague impression is that Laura Loomer, who is still nursing a personal grudge after getting ejected from Trumpworld, started driving the wedge by drawing attention to Trump’s appointment of Sriram Krishnan as senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence. This kicked off an extremely divisive debate about legal immigration from India, the country caps on H-1B visas and green cards with our side obviously being completely against any attempt to increase legal immigration from India.
“President-elect Donald Trump’s backers in Silicon Valley are at odds with his MAGA loyalists over a key issue: immigration.
In recent days, Elon Musk and others in the tech sector have increasingly shared support for visas that allow companies to hire highly-skilled workers from overseas. The move has riled up Trump backers in favor of stricter immigration rules in the process.
The recent debate came after Trump offered Sriram Krishnan, a Chennai-born, Indian-American investor, a role as a senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence — a move that triggered heated criticisms online. …”
I have never seen such a spectacular political collapse.
Just last week, Elon Musk’s name was being thrown into the ring by some Republicans to make him Speaker of the House. He had singlehandedly killed the CR in the House with a few tweets. It took him less than 48 hours on Christmas to completely burn through all of his good will on the Right.
“A MAGA-world civil war erupted over Christmas when a social media post on American culture turned into a pitched battle over race, immigration and billionaires versus the working class.
Why it matters: The fight exposes one of the MAGA movement’s deepest contradictions: It came to prominence chiefly via the white, less-educated, working class but is now under the full control of billionaire technologists and industrialists, many of them immigrants. …”
It would be an understatement to say Elon Musk swallowed the bait.
When I logged off last night, Musk and the Tech Right had gone full mask off. Their position is that everyone who doesn’t support “high skilled,” legal immigration from India is a racist and a retard. The backlash was so enormous on X that Musk changed the algorithm to de-verify, demonetize and shadow ban his critics. CNN devoted a twenty minute segment last night to covering the divide.
A few years ago, the populist Right hated Big Tech and Silicon Valley, which really only changed after Musk bought Twitter in 2022. We seem to be on the cusp of returning to that.
Note: As I said on X, it wouldn’t be Gilded Age II without oligarchs and their unquenchable thirst for cheap labor becoming villains for the way they treat their workers.
Trump already long ago promised to bring in millions from India. There is no actual divide. All the Trump people are united on the Great Replacement. Just more pajeet and less MS-13 in the mix.
Everyone else, ordinary Americans that is, don’t matter. We are all nothing to Trump.
Trump’s supporters don’t care. About any of it. All they want is for Trump to President.
I read the Vivek comments, which I don’t think you included in this post so I know the debate was going on. I would say there are a few very talented engineers and programmers from India, however nepotism also plays a role in why big tech hires Indians over non-Indians.
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“I would say there are a few very talented engineers and programmers from India, however nepotism also plays a role in why big tech hires Indians over non-Indians.”
They cheat and lie to no end. Most programmers get jobs hat required credentials they cheated to earn. Then there are those who are kind in old pagan spiritual way. In the end India is a land of devils. Just read what the British thought of them.
Kipling said something along the lines of educating them without converting them would be like giving new advanced tools to cunning little devils. Well it happened. Without Christianity to protect us, the devils are entering our countries in armies.
By the way, one aspect which our side is failing to mention is that Musk and the “Tech-Bros” are lying when they make assumptions about their hiring practices being “meritocratic”. There is a very simple way to disprove this: Those hired under the H1B sacred cow are to be paid equally as the US citizens. Bet you’d see some serious excuse-making about their practices of using what amount to indentured servants. (Why, Wall Street made us do it…) At the end of the day, all these “Tech-Bros” are owned by the blob and folks like Larry Fink. Stop falling for gaslight media bullshit about them being latter-day John Galts. They are not. They are “made” men in every sense of the word.
This year Numbers USA gave separate scores to the presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
Trump himself got a B-, but JD Vance got an A+.
It is interesting to note that Vance, a protege of tech oligarch Peter Thiel and the husband of an Indian immigrant, got a higher score than Trump himself.
Thiel and Alex Karp are co-founders of Palantir, a tech company specializing in surveillance and weaponized AI. Karp is an absolutely terrifying enemy of free speech – look up the clip of a wild-eyed, deranged Karp vowing to use his technology to covertly torment the families of anyone who criticizes Israel.
Trump said he supported endless legal immigration. Musk bought Twitter because his child changed genders and he thought that this would be a way to fight back against the woke ideology.
Both of these individuals were never in fact pro white, their only racial loyalty was to jews. So those that thought supporting these traitors was a good tactic for white interests were predictably fooled again. If somebody is pro jew they are anti white, it is that simple.