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Fashy tech billionaires: I'm in control!
Legions of fashy people: Do you feel in control?
This conflict was inevitable. 
Everyone always thinks that they can control face-eating leopards with money. You can't. Leopards don't want money. Leopards want faces.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfTwS7dGz0
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.ioIt never made sense for any Indian person in the US to support a movement whose self-stated purpose is to ethnically cleanse the US of Indian people.
I mean, it never made sense for anyone to join an ethnic cleansing movement. But to sign up to ethnically cleanse yourself? That's extra special.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112049655825788142
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The US far-right has never been shy about what their plans for Indian immigration are, or what they think about Indian people. They speak about it publicly.
If you don't know the term "turd eater," then you don't understand why *legal* immigration was cut in half in Trump's 1st term. Legal immigration! Half!
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113374624735074792
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Every college and university in the US (except the uncountably rich Ivies), was put under severe financial duress due to the anti-Asian immigration policies. Some went bankrupt.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113374574320032456
The USCIS (part of the government that processes visas) also almost went bankrupt.
They. Don't. Care.
They don't want Asian people to own stuff. They don't want Asian people to be in the USA.
They wrote papers about how the temporary pain of economic ruin, is worth it for ethnic purity.
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@mekkaokereke While the entire reason the USA is so rich is that it allowed talented people from all over the world to gather.
If the xenophobes get their wish, those people will be elsewhere, and the wealth they generate, too.
This means the racist fools will end up permanently poorer themselves.
There's no magical point at which being all white will make them rich.
Billionaires like Musk are going for a global system where they end up on top: a new global aristocracy.
"If the xenophobes get their wish, those [creative] people will be elsewhere, and the wealth they generate, too.
"This means the racist fools will end up permanently poorer themselves."
@justafrog @mekkaokereke For the record, #Indian immigration to #Germany is still low, but is slowly gathering steam.
I suspect the situation is similar in many other #EuropeanUnion countries.
@justafrog @mekkaokereke to be fair, whatever wealth is being generated by immigrants and the native-born hasn't been trickling down, due to other Reaganite policies favored by the right; it's a layered issue. The racists probably don't appreciate the existence of wealthy immigrants, they reflexively think it ought to be them, a stolen birthright of the superior race.
@mekkaokereke one small quibble: I think actually they care quite a bit. Vance has been on the record that _reducing_ college enrollment and driving many of them out of business is an explicit goal here.
@mekkaokereke the demographic cliff was going to nuke a lot of colleges no matter what policy comes out of DC (my own alma mater just succumbed) but choking off Asian immigration will be an extremely successful force multiplier.
@mekkaokereke Huh, USCIS is apparently one of the handful of self-sustaining federal offices. It takes a special kind of stupid for it to lose money.
@mekkaokereke I missed this thread and TIL about those terms. :(
@mekkaokereke I was today years old before I heard the term "turd eater",¹ but I think I can pretty easily understand why legal immigration was cut in half under Trump:
Because he and his MAGA supporters are raging, racist xenophobes. That part always seemed pretty obvious to me. Of *course* they'd slash immigration any way they could.
1. If not for the context, I'd have assumed it was just a general-purpose insult. But given the context, I now regret ever having heard it. I'm sorry.
@mekkaokereke With all the conversations I overheard and saw in the Indian community that I'm involved with, I failed to be surprised about the number of people who sowed the seeds of their own elimination. Trump seming to be like Modi is all they appear to want to believe. And then there are the Indian business owners who want to perpetuate minimum wage (or less than minimum wage labor in most cases) who failed to realize how bad things could be.