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When/If Trump fixes our Agencies, perhaps he can have the Industry Consensus come up with proper handling and disposal and other regulatory issues, create the rules. They would have to stand up to testing and scrutiny of course.
But at least you wont have lawyers and legislators and aides hired in a job that never existed before making regulations based on their feels and Social Justice.

I still kinda like both guys. I think they mean well, but are a bit blinded by their own wealth to the harm that the H1B program and similar ones cause to non-billionaires.

Patrick says

"Stalin by the river" meme with Elon and Vivek would be better.

Patrick says

I still kinda like both guys. I think they mean well, but are a bit blinded by their own wealth to the harm that the H1B program and similar ones cause to non-billionaires.

I think Musk is more balanced. Vivek looks at it as an attack on his heritage and it causes emotions. I've only met one South African white person in 41 years, but have met hundreds of India Indians.

Fact is both like the cheap labor and mostly skilled. Look at a Space X launch and it's mostly white people in the control room. Laborers are likely mostly white. I have no issue with either group, but just saying Indians are more prominent here as migrants.

I also do think Vivek is a bit of a blowhard and ego driven guy. Fast talker. I'm sure most have seen the video, but when Musk is being interviewed and asked a question, he's basically like shit, I didn't think of that, I'll look into that. I don't think Vivek has that. He's the boss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY73exaVpyw

Patrick says

I still kinda like both guys. I think they mean well, but are a bit blinded by their own wealth to the harm that the H1B program and similar ones cause to non-billionaires.

When one is a billionaire, you forget how life is for ordinary and future American job seekers.

Patrick says

Yeah. Vivek politically castrated himself for sure.

Vivek is a Globalist trojan horse, anyway. Manufactured from stem to stern as a legend, points of origin murky.

Vivek fucks up again:

Vivek is an asshole, would not vote for man who looks down upon us Americans.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

Vivek is an asshole, would not vote for man who looks down upon us Americans.

Anyone ever actually take this guy seriously? His bull shit was obvious out the gate.

My last name actually is in that database:

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm#q=killelea

https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/love-of-a-nation

What angered people about the two CEOs’ comments was that – like so many of today’s elites – they displayed no sense of loyalty or obligation to Americans as a nation. A nation is not a corporation. A nation is a particular people, with a distinct culture, permanently bound together by shared relationship with place, past, and each other. A house becomes a home through relationship with the family that lives in it, a connection forged out of time and memory between concrete particularity of place and the lives of a specific group of people present, past, and yet unborn. We can say this house is home because it is our home. In much the same way, a country becomes our homeland because it is ours – and the we of that “ours” is the nation, which transcends geography, government, and GDP.

Unlike a corporation, a nation really is much like a family. And, like a family, it is characterized by strong relational bonds that are covenantal, not contractual. It establishes moral obligations of solidarity and subsidiarity that cannot be simply abandoned. Much as we naturally would, and should, put our own children’s lives and wellbeing ahead of others’, a nation is obligated to distinguish its own from others and to put the wellbeing of its own first. ...

Yet, at least among our ruling classes, this natural reciprocal love between citizen and nation, which sustains our countries and our societies, seems to have long since frayed. This is no great shock, given that in our age the very idea of nationhood is itself decried, or outright denied, the nation-state stripped of the nation, the world reduced to a network of special economic zones. A man cannot love a special economic zone. Nor can its administrators possess any special feeling for its temporary inhabitants.

This grim status quo is no accident, however. It is the result of a deliberate, 80 year conspiracy against love, conducted out of fear. As I’ve argued before, after WWII, with the trauma of war and totalitarianism haunting the world, the American and European leadership class resolved that these evils should never again threaten society. And they concluded that the emotional power of nationalism had been the central cause of the 20th century’s catastrophes, leading them to make anti-nationalism the cornerstone of the liberal establishment consensus that came to dominate culture and politics after the war.

They both fucked up, but both did more for this nation than most bitching about them.