Does it matter

Being me

[The Great Unknown @joseph_woltz]

@unusual_whales $5 billion? You mean 5 billion US taxpayer dollars? If that’s the case then he can go fuck himself. How about this as a novel idea how about you just don’t bomb Middle Eastern countries or blow up their infrastructures and we won’t have to pay for all this shit. Wow.

[Does it matter @b_kind_b_human]

@chamath You billionaires have done nothing to elevate Society like billionaires in 19th century did .. we all should vote for a billionaire tax .. damn you greedy a..holes .. you won’t even fund the local Bayarea libraries so they remain open .. damn you

[Does it matter @b_kind_b_human]

@WhiteHouse What the f is this ? Not grounded in reality

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

American ‘citizens’ who got their papers recently and whose parents were not born in the USA are less American than someone who can trace his ancestry back to before the Civil War.

This is obvious and to deny it is just terrible manners. It takes time to be a part of something.

[Does it matter @b_kind_b_human]

@WhiteHouse So clueless

[Chandler Langevin @ChandlerForPB]

These men didn’t freeze through Valley Forge so we can hand our kids inheritance to foreigners.

You are not descended from weak men. Start acting like it.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

People are upset by the systemic displacement and replacement of Americans, specifically white men, with foreigners across every major institution in America. That it is happening in a state like Texas makes it even more stark.

In 2005, 28% of undergrads at the University of Texas were white men. As of year, that number was 12%.

In 2005, less than 4% of UT undergrads were international students. That number now exceeds 30%.

And it’s not just happening at universities. Entire Texas cities are being taken over. From Frisco, to Irving, to Coppell, entire school districts look more like New Delhi than they do New Braunfels. That this has happened over the same time period in which Americans, particularly white males, have been systemically replaced by H-1Bs and locked out of the workforce, is no coincidence.

You know this, of course, but for some reason your shtick is pretending to not know things in the douchiest way possible. But if Austin or Dallas were instead Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, and in just 20 years flagship universities and entire school districts there suddenly had more Gazans or Pakistanis or Egyptians than Israelis, I imagine you’d immediately see the problem.

[Harrison H. Smith ✞ @HarrisonHSmith]

When the University of Texas was being built, the outskirts of Austin was still being raided by Comanche tribes.

Our ancestors carved out a civilization out of wilderness, they weren’t building a fucking diploma mill for foreign colonists.

[Does it matter @b_kind_b_human]

@USEEOC Please go after Zscaler .. utter discrimination at all levels @zscaler @HarmeetKDhillon @SaraGonzalesTX

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

25 years ago, people loved this country. Even Democrats. There was a huge moment of unity. Now? AOC and imports like Mamdani laugh. Probably 50 million new people are here, they don’t care, we are at the last of the patriots.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Spending over a trillion dollars to randomly send everyone in the country a check for five grand, including people who are not even net taxpayers -- which makes this, yes, welfare -- is idiotic. Sorry. We did that during covid and it didn't help anything. Only made inflation worse. This is flagrant bribery. Which I could maybe stomach if the plan itself was at least sensible and coherent, but it isn't.

[Does it matter @b_kind_b_human]

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS F u .. lower the taxes, pay the deficit

[BowTiedKong | Criminal Defense & Family Law Atty @BowTiedKong]

Lawyer who knows things explains how illegals end up here for 10 years 👇

[Does it matter @b_kind_b_human]

@JDVance You have taken the side of Israel ..

[Does it matter @b_kind_b_human]

@tedcruz Tel Aviv Ted is sayin what..

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

You are demanding precise, exact definitions and answers for six strawman questions that I have already spent considerable time answering for you in public and private, along with pre-emptively calling me unhinged or evasive if I don't answer to your liking.

No, I don't have some careful theory of every way that someone might become a traitor, nor precise calculus for where exactly each line might be for every relevant factor. That isn't how normal people think, and I don't lose any sleep over it.

I am comfortable saying that someone who comes to America, makes billions of dollars in America, and then runs away to badmouth Americans from a foreign monarchy is a traitor. I still have no idea why you are acting like that is punishable by death, though!

[Does it matter @b_kind_b_human]

@RapidResponse47 You speak for who pays you .. this time it’s the big tech .. are you free from Israeli’s reign or not yet ?

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Watching all of this immigration/H1B discourse, it’s astonishing how many foreigners feel entitled to participate in the American market at the expense of Americans, and how many recent immigrants feel entitled to call the shots. I would never feel that way about another country.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Investors like Paul want the immigration debate to be strictly polar because it is the only way their traitorous ideas might seem reasonable.

They paint one side as racist, backwards, economically illiterate absolutists and the other as enlightened, growth-minded cosmopolitian realists. Support for laws that protect American citizens can be dismissed as uneducated, anyone who hires immigrants or foreigners in any capacity a hypocrite.

American law should, and does, advantage American citizens. We should not have to compete on an even playing field with billions of people who almost universally don't share our values or respect our institutions, even if they are "the most qualified" or willing to work double the hours for the same wages. The men running Operation Paperclip did not think Americans should have to compete with the entire Third World, they understood that a carefully controlled amount of highly-skilled expert immigration is net good for America even when allegience is in question.

It is worth noting that even on a purely economic level, ignoring all burdens of loyalty or allegiance to your countrymen and treating America as nothing but an economic activity zone, it still doesn't make sense to say without qualification that foreigners should get any job where they are more qualified than their American counterpart.

As just one easy example out of dozens, about 20% of immigrants return home after less than five years, taking all their savings and vested shares with them. Another 20% will leave within ten years, doing the same. All the while, they will wire, on average, ~15% of their wages out of the United States economy every month. Some occupations and origins average 30%! The idea that this should be completely ignored with regard to employment and immigration policy is rampant among the same people who tell you with a straight face that limits on immigrants will destroy the American economy, that the dumb rednecks need to be saved.

I lean very libertarian and have strongly supported immigration to America for many years with countless public examples. That doesn't put me on the same side as the men who want to sell out America, and no amount of long-past accomplishment obliges any of us to listen to their lectures from the other side of the Atlantic.