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KP Stoller's avatar

I think I feel asleep and missed a class.. what did Musk say or do?

I know he needs to walk in both worlds because anyone with that much money and all those enterprises has to walk in both worlds, but you can still be a good guy even tho you have to do that.

So what did I miss?

I think Musk has done more damage to the Deep State that anyone single individual so I am not ready to throw the baby out with the bath water... what did he say?

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Tori's avatar

It is likely that Trump would not be president had Musk not opened up and revamped Twitter. The *hate Musk* trope is way too highly coordinated, and it's tiresome and stupidly helping drive a wedge into Trump's MAGA.

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Hubert Geelen's avatar

Musk and Bannon have different points of view about migration, about the H-1B-visa ('The H-1B is a temporary (nonimmigrant) visa category that allows employers to petition for highly educated foreign professionals to work in “specialty occupations” that require at least a bachelor's degree or the equivalent.ii Jobs in fields such as mathematics, engineering, technology, and medical sciences often ...'). Musk needs these foreign workers for his companies in America, but Bannon wants American workers to do these lucrative jobs. In general, Bannon thinks that the only aim of Musk is to become very very rich and that Musk (from South Africa) does not really care for MAGA and the American workers.

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Tori's avatar

Bannon needs to recognize that American tech workers are deficient in skills that Asians excel in, through education and cultural emphasis on excellence and trading long hours for a rise up the ladder. Importing these guys is a temporary necessity until Americans are educated and trained to the level of the imports. That is a reality.

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AJoy's avatar

Agree

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AwakeNotWoke's avatar

What you say is true Tori but Asians are not only better educated but in many Asian countries the people are also more intelligent than Americans which gives them a superior aptitude to benefit from training. Jewish people, like Asians, have far higher IQs than Americans and this American inferiority reflected in the American IQ deficit is substantially genetically determined. Educating and training Americans to try to bring them up to speed with their betters is all very well and good but is unlikely to completely solve the American deficiency in skills. You can't put a pint of milk in a half pint bottle.

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