Trump sides with Musk in H-1B fight

Its actually very worrying.

He's already killed a budget bill and defied a MAGA bread and butter policy issue, for his obvious benefit, back-to-back with zero real pushback. His bounds seem basically unlimited.

Trump didn’t even hesitate to kiss the ring. Immigration is his number one issue. He killed the bipartisan bill to run on it. Elon snaps his fingers, and Trump publicly supports his pro-immigration position, which legitimately devalues American workers to create indentured servitude for highly-skilled workers from abroad. The H1B guys were the ones working at Twitter until 2am, while their boss was on drug binges, and sleeping in cots in their offices.

I don’t think Trump even kissed Putin’s ass this much. I hate Trump, but I never thought of him as not having balls, especially against a fucking moron like Elon.

Followers aren't abandoning Trump over one issue. TBH Elon will probably tamp this down by manipulating Twitter.

But this is a preview of things to come, as Axios notes.

They'll forgive him as soon as the deportations start.

Also me, though. I was hoping H1B visa status would die a well deserved death. It's basically indistinguishable from indentured servitude and causes massive issues in having a free and equitable labor market.

I don't personally agree with any limits on immigration but if we're going to have limits then everyone we admit should be treated no different from a citizen in most ways - they shouldn't be tied to specific employers or anything else that will cause domestic wage deflation.

Fuck Trump with a rusty dildo - but I was hoping he, and not Elon, came out on top in this one.

Or trump just sides with the money. It's not always a conspiracy and it's a disservice to believe there is.

The man sent a literal mob to attack the capital, has been convicted of multiple crimes, and openly admitted to more. Teflon Don doesn't care about dirt.

Not necessarily. Trump can't pass legislation without Republican support in Congress, and those peope have their own values (and bribery goals). All of this before he takes power, and his power is only good for the next two years anyway.

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Musk does apparently have a spy network, too. There was a podcast series on it....Elon's Spies.

Sadly, it will not really register with most voters, not just because they're largly ignoring political news:

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/26/politics-cable-news-ratings-trump-ap-poll

But because everyone is stuck in their own little filter bubble of podcasts, algorithmic feeds, influencers and such that color everything.

H1B workers kept Twitter from imploding. They couldn’t quit unless they had a new job lined up. They couldn’t complain about having to sleep in the office or they might get deported.

Native US workers could just walk out.

This is why Muskrat loves visa workers

That's because this crop doesn't want to work for tree fiddy and on 4h of sleep every day. How is he gonna wipe his tears with money if he has to pay people?

And of course is has nothing to do with talent and training at all, the US (and many others) created the system where you put yourself into huge debts to get the education the companies need from you, and then they also don't want to pay you a wage that will allow you to live comfortably and crawl out of that debt.

So then they buy the government and arrange for people with similar education, who are more desperate, less informed of labour laws and unable to switch jobs when they get here.

Right?

Let there be no mistake, it's not about talent so much as it is about keeping wages low. Many tech companies do this explicitly, especially since interest rates rose and investing money stopped being free.

Anecdotally, I was at a company and was instructed not to hire in the US. I could choose Montréal, a few countries in Europe, or Isreal.

US was off limits, not enough budget.

Thanks for the follow up