Boeing's Suicides, The War on Citizenship, The USA as the Centre of the First World Government, Napoleon Bonaparte on the English, A Historical Panic in Zanzibar
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1. My democratically elected representatives are doing the best they can to help the body politic create a life of prosperity and dignity.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
2. My city government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
3. My county government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
4. My state government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
5. My national government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
6. I believe that the earth is being visited by extraterrestrial intelligence from either another star system or dimension not of our world.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
7. Presently, the Federal Government takes about four months of an American’s labor as TAX.
QUESTION: How much of their pay checks should the American workers be allowed to keep?
a. 100%
b.90%
c.80%
d.70%
e. 60%
f. 50%
g. 40%
8. In 1976 The United Nations conducted a study and found that four people could live comfortably in a 600 sq. ft. shelter with one bath and one toilette. As part of the UN's efforts to make things better for humanity, they plan to shelter hundreds of millions of deserving third world homeless people in the under utilized houses located in the industrialized world. For example, a retired American couple with an 1,800 sq. ft. house will be required to take in ten homeless people. The UN has publicly stated its plans to enforce this program as soon as possible....
QUESTION: So, how do you feel about getting some exotic new house guests?
a. this is a good thing, sharing
b. I shall pretend that it isn't happening
d. your lying, they would never do this to us
e. I will ignore your hatred
f. I will get active politically and fight this insanity
Congress and the Legislative Branch
9. Is the following statement true:
The voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
10. Is the following statement true:
Many of the laws they vote on are in excess of two thousand pages.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
11. Is the following statement true:
Since the Representative cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
12. Is the following statement true:
Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
13. Is the following statement true:
Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
14. Are you willing to read, comprehend and vote on ten pages per day of a 2000 page law in order to assist your democratically elected representative in the legislative operation that will determine the conditions of your future life? (making new laws?)
a. yes
b. no
1. c. undecided
15. Do you agree:
Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
a. yes
b. no
1. c. undecided
16. Do you agree:
Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
Think of the waning days of the USSR. The old slogans are still trotted out, but nobody, especially nobody of influence and authority, believes a word of it any more. Much of "management" consists of politically motivated box-checking and politics is increasingly performative and infighting is vicious.
Meanwhile, behind the spectacle, everyone with the means and opportunity to do so is looting everything not nailed down.
Currently i'm betting on Gavin Newsom as the Blue Caesar who will officially bring down the curtain on the Republic and be our first Emperor (in all but name) around 2029.
He will cross the Rubicon by turning the military on some Deplorables and give bread and circuses to the plebs in the form of Amazon gift cards (and green cards).
He is born royalty and that head was just made for a golden crown of laurel leaves.
either way, Gavin is coming, he will have a billion dollars in his campaign account and the MSM as his messaging staff and will arrive in 2029 to either exorcise the fumes of the Orange Beast or clean up the many messes of the Kamala Administration. The future is his!
Gavin is def not as brilliant as Divus Julius or as wise as Augustus, but also not as spicy as Caligula or Nero—he is more of an Antony, vain, greedy, horny and needy for worship. Maybe in our less blood-soaked times Antony is the one who gets the crown, he will just need to make the plebs feel like he loves them as much as he loves his reflection.
I wonder whether it's elites that drive change or whether they're just better positioned and resourced to adapt to and opportunistically leverage (societal, technological etc) changes arising naturally.
I'm not "material conditions" all the way, but like 90% of the way.
Historically (like Dell Computer and Maytag at around the same time) diversity fanatics gain control of the board. Seattle is/was a liberal-wack-job nexus. This whole thing has the strong odor of hysterical obsession with eradicating demonic white privilege. They exhibit this by attacking their own (white) engineers.
The cat-and-mouse MO: The board hires a new CEO with the specific intent to show the world how virtuous the board is; and make the CEO the fall-guy if the madness leads to failure, which of course it does.
What modern liberalism does is substitute the universal awareness that demons exist, but instead of dealing with supernatural demons they can only look for corporeal ones, in this case white supremacy, because they don't believe in supernatural demons. Modernist liberals are constantly assailed by corporeal demons; racism, sexism, homophobia, climate deniers, vax deniers, on and on. They are in a state of constant hysteria and spend trillions of dollars every year attempting to eradicate, punish or control the demons. They are experts in deflection and double talk.
This seems to me a more realistic explanation for the types of destructive behavior we see in a multitude of instances such as Boeing.
"Modernist liberals are constantly assailed by corporeal demons; racism, sexism, homophobia, climate deniers, vax deniers, on and on. They are in a state of constant hysteria and spend trillions of dollars every year attempting to eradicate, punish or control the demons."
Love this.
There really is a Salem witch-hunt aspect here—everyone "evil" is denounced for being a witch and must be driven out of the community lest their moral pollution taint it, and things like "white supremacy" and "structural racism" are most present when most absent.
People always need a god, but in a pinch a Satan will do just as well.
True. CEOs are more calculating than real fanatics. They pretend to believe, like Kneeling Nancy, while they try to avoid the consequences. CEOs feel they have to play along to avoid a visit from the DoJ or IRS. Or EEOC. Or lawyers. They gotta have safe spaces. Enron was before all that.
Appalling to see Boeing so willingly subordinate people who design planes to beancounters and penny pinchers. Would love to root for their failure due to their leadership incompetence but unfortunately have to regularly use their products and know that their involvement with the defense dept will means they will basically never disappear
Even more terrifying. You can run a company and planes into the ground and there are few consequences, minus handwringing, some fines (paid by SHs and laid off employees) and some rube going before a Congressional commission.
Hungary had a similar scare to Zanzibar's a few years ago, multiple notorious phantoms haunted our cities and the districts of Budapest, some were "sucker phantoms" ("szopófantom") giving blowjobs to random homeless people, and "diarrhea phantoms" ("fosófantom") leaving their mark on public surfaces, both types capturing the headlines every time they struck and quickly rising to the top of contemporary public folklore.
> By now, most of you have heard of the increasingly popular concept known as “the competency crisis”.
There's a very interesting thinker out there, who's been doing his own blog thing for forever now, named David Chapman. One of his blogs, https://meaningness.com/, his big idea is roughly equivalent to "the competency crisis is real and threatens our entire civilization if we don't fix it".
He goes into a lot more specific details, and is approaching from a decidedly philosophical and not political perspective. But the gist of his idea is "the complex infrastructural systems that support our lives must be run by competent people, but the existence of the internet and social media has stunted peoples social and intellectual growth to the point that they are increasingly incapable of rising to that challenge. We need to reverse this, or it will be bad"
Worth checking out! I've met the guy in person before, super cool dude too.
Yes, funnily enough I remember reading an account of a missionary in India and he saw all the buildings devoted to merchandise and he said " We are truly a nation of shopkeepers"
> How is this not demoralizing for Americans, especially those recent arrivals who entered legally and worked hard to make something for themselves and their families?
Boots on the ground report: it is.
I am a Canadian citizen. I have lived in the US on a series of nonimmigrant work visas for 12 years now. At the current moment, my only path to legally staying in this country for the long term is marrying a US citizen, and if I lose my job, I have 60 days to find a new one (in Software Engineering, the only TN Visa orofession I have qualifications for) or I have to leave.
I have given the better part of half a million dollars in taxes to this country. I followed all the rules. I've built a life in this country since I was 21, and this country reserves the right to take it all away from me on two months' notice(*). Meanwhile, they give all of that tax money that I pay, to illegals who have done nothing to earn it and who will never, ever, in their entire lifetimes, become net economic contributors to society.
To say I am "demoralized" is an extreme understatement. At this point my border policy is "fuck a wall, you have to put machine gun nests with live ammo up there and shoot until everyone stops moving"
(*) When I originally came to this country, the law was different. It didn't give me 60 days. It actually gave me 24 hours to leave the country if I lost my job. Obama snuck in a change to this policy 3 days before Trump took office in 2016, as a fuck-you poison pill in expectation of an anti-immigrant president. So, for the only time in my life, I will say this unironically: Thanks, Obama
It’s grotesque. I’m an American citizen so I could pretend it doesn’t affect me but it’s still deeply offensive how badly our immigration system works and how harmful it is to good people. I know people who did marry Americans and it was still a long and painful process for them to get the right visas and permissions!
As a Canadian, the marriage green card path is relatively easier for me than it is for people from other countries. Unfortunately, have you met American women lately? The hard part is finding one who isn't terrible
I’ve got sons going off to college so sadly the current caliber of American women is a frequent topic. My deepest sympathies for any man attempting the dating market these days. I’d be more smug about finding an amazing woman 30 years ago if our kids didn’t have to deal with finding their own.
I will certainly not advocate for committing marriage fraud, but I will say that, uh, people do it and, uh, we're very committed to stopping it and, uh, especially here in New York.
Substack has DMs, right? DM me if you have any questions about immigration stuff here.
To be quite honest, I have seriously considered this and have even had some serious offers. I will not do that, for three reasons:
1) There is no practical way to do this without putting my personal assets and welfare at risk. Of the three people who have given me credible offers to do this, all three of them have since shown themselves to be untrustworthy, and I can't take the risk of someone I think is a friend deciding they'll torch a friendship to steal my money
2) I am scared of the government, scared of the government's ability to find out that I did this (if I did, which I will not), and scared of the government's propensity to make examples out of white people whenever they can.
3) The whole point of staying in America is to build a life here. If I'm in a fake marriage, I can't get into a real one. And then I can't build a life here. So then why am I even here?
But if you have serious knowledge about alternative _legal_ pathways to staying here, I'm all ears and happy to DM. I can't tell if you're making a joke or serious but, I'm serious. I don't have enough money to buy an EB-5 (you need like $2M for that now) but I am willing to put serious amounts of time and resources into this, as long as it will deliver virtually guaranteed results within a reasonable time frame. To put concrete numbers on it: I would drop $200,000 on this, and/or quit my job and spend the next 2 years doing whatever I need to do, as long as it was a guaranteed outcome and not a high risk endeavour)
(as a counter-example: I am not even bothering to pursue an H1B path anymore, because between the current state of the software engineering industry and the lottery step, there is no way it will be completed in a practical amount of time. My reasonable estimates show that if I tried that, I might get a green card by the time I'm 50. If I'm 50 and still in America, either I am married to a US citizen, in which case the H1B was irrelevant, or my life is a guaranteed forever-alone failure, in which case I don't want to be here)
Not picking on you but if you came to the US on a temporary guest worker visa, why would you expect to stay in America? The whole point of the visa is that is for a limited time only and offers no guarantee or path to LPR, much less citizenship.
Up until Covid happened, I had every expectation that I would leave and go back. Now, I'm only going back as a corpse. Nobody, NOBODY, is ever going to lock me up in my house ever again, like they did in Canada, and I don't really give a fuck about the locals here if they're going to stand in the way of that
Now imagine the life of a US citizen. I'm sick and tired of all these foreign workers coming to the US under the guise of being "exceptional" and competing with native labor.
The temporary guest worker visas are just that . . . temporary. It's astounding to me that people get temporary guest worker visas and expect them to turn into the right to permanent residency. The fact that guest workers have 3 months to find another job is outrageous and an insult to Americans. I expect this posh sounds harsh and it is, though I wish you no ill will. It is demoralizing to American citizens when our country is importing foreign labor (highly skilled and unskilled) to suppress wages and encourage unfair competition. The fact that highly paid labor contributed to taxes is good but so what?
My border policy is (1) build a wall, (2) deport all illegal aliens and (3) cut back ALL visas (0-1, EB-5, L-1, HB-1, HB-2, etc.). No more HB-1 to LPR. Maybe we can bring back some of these in 20-30 years when migration has been brought under control.
I don't disagree with you, but there literally are not qualified US citizens to do what I do.
This is trivially obvious. It was obvious ten years ago, when every company I've ever worked for in this country struggled to fill their open positions. It's obvious now, when they're filling them with diversity retards who get paid to fuck around while I do their jobs for them.
But I mean, if you'd rather work with DEI fs and ns instead of competent white people, it is your country, not mine, you can do with it what you want
Mind if I ask about what specific software specialization you do?
I used to love coding, although I would never call myself a software engineer (my work interests are in applied physics & electrical engineering) mainly out of respect for great quality software. My (former) industry needs loads of warm bodies to do embedded software, which is "tinker toys" compared to what is available for good technical work. I don't think the US general public understands all the differences between types of software (database, web pages, scientific analysis, etc. etc.), which is how something like embedded software can get overrun by DEI candidates.
I don't buy the narrative that US companies are struggling to fill open positions. Part of the issue is they want cheap, pliable labor that doesn't cost much. These companies also want plug n play employees. No training, no ramp up period, nothing. I've seen this first hand in my field. Complaints about no one wanting to do the work and then hiring foreigners who went to graduate school in the US. Truth is companies didn't want to hire from lower ranked schools and preferred the "Ivy" league foreigners with their graduate degrees then take someone from a state school or lower ranked private school.
If your skills are in such high demand, then you could easily secure a great position in Canada. It's not like Canada is Uganda. It has a robust, advanced economy.
Agree. What you described is more obvious in technical workplaces with high merger & acquisition activity. There's debt leverage to pay, layoff costs when the more expensive (and experienced) staff are layed off. If the company is also publically traded and has an expected dividend payout, well, there's just not much leftover for shopping for new hires.
I agree with you but I think there is value is having a shorthand for "organizations which prioritize things other than merit and quality", and "DEI" serves that purpose
Maybe there's some confusion here: I am not saying that the term is wrong or using it is wrong, what I meant was that it is often used in cases where it simply isn't relevant to the matter at hand.
DEIs not relevant to the Boeing matter or other matters, such as ENRON. It’s relevant to general peace, elections in America (at least!) and for stirring up mischief for grift and a maelstrom of resentment in the masses and the young, especially with open borders.
Just to make it more fetching, we’ll throw in fiendish surgeries on your children and sexual grooming as well.
But it isn’t relevant to the maniacal greed of white Boeing CEOs.
I do think there's a new world order for quite a while.
A corporate world order.
WW2 cemented it with the neutered UN.
Look at the Ukraine war, what a sham. Russia still sells gas through Ukraine... They still sell oil to the west through India etc. Haha, they knew it was going to be for show.
Remember folks we were always at war with EastAsia. 😂
The last piece of evidence was how almost every nation followed the con-vid scam and still to this day won't say the shots are dangerous. Russia and China did the same shit as we did and had their own problematic shots.
Only fake opposition like senator Ron Johnson pretend to address it.
Oh and the Slovak PM... I'm not sure if he's actually pushing or pretending to push against big pharma.
If governments are still pussy footing around stopping the shots... Do you think they're controlled? I do!
Perhaps con-vid will be the time when people will no longer believe their leaders are "local". Trust falls.
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Citizen Voter general questions
1. My democratically elected representatives are doing the best they can to help the body politic create a life of prosperity and dignity.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
2. My city government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
3. My county government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
4. My state government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
5. My national government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
6. I believe that the earth is being visited by extraterrestrial intelligence from either another star system or dimension not of our world.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
7. Presently, the Federal Government takes about four months of an American’s labor as TAX.
QUESTION: How much of their pay checks should the American workers be allowed to keep?
a. 100%
b.90%
c.80%
d.70%
e. 60%
f. 50%
g. 40%
8. In 1976 The United Nations conducted a study and found that four people could live comfortably in a 600 sq. ft. shelter with one bath and one toilette. As part of the UN's efforts to make things better for humanity, they plan to shelter hundreds of millions of deserving third world homeless people in the under utilized houses located in the industrialized world. For example, a retired American couple with an 1,800 sq. ft. house will be required to take in ten homeless people. The UN has publicly stated its plans to enforce this program as soon as possible....
QUESTION: So, how do you feel about getting some exotic new house guests?
a. this is a good thing, sharing
b. I shall pretend that it isn't happening
d. your lying, they would never do this to us
e. I will ignore your hatred
f. I will get active politically and fight this insanity
Congress and the Legislative Branch
9. Is the following statement true:
The voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
10. Is the following statement true:
Many of the laws they vote on are in excess of two thousand pages.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
11. Is the following statement true:
Since the Representative cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
12. Is the following statement true:
Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
13. Is the following statement true:
Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
14. Are you willing to read, comprehend and vote on ten pages per day of a 2000 page law in order to assist your democratically elected representative in the legislative operation that will determine the conditions of your future life? (making new laws?)
a. yes
b. no
1. c. undecided
15. Do you agree:
Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
a. yes
b. no
1. c. undecided
16. Do you agree:
Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
a. yes
b. no
c. undecided
Think of the waning days of the USSR. The old slogans are still trotted out, but nobody, especially nobody of influence and authority, believes a word of it any more. Much of "management" consists of politically motivated box-checking and politics is increasingly performative and infighting is vicious.
Meanwhile, behind the spectacle, everyone with the means and opportunity to do so is looting everything not nailed down.
This is the real comparable. From the phony stats to the decrepit, old heads of state. Loyalty to the party line valued over all other attributes.
i can't decide, is Soviet America about to collapse or has Soviet America just been born?
Collapse or morph?
A good question. Another potential analogy is the fall of the Roman Republic.
The eternal debate!
Currently i'm betting on Gavin Newsom as the Blue Caesar who will officially bring down the curtain on the Republic and be our first Emperor (in all but name) around 2029.
He will cross the Rubicon by turning the military on some Deplorables and give bread and circuses to the plebs in the form of Amazon gift cards (and green cards).
He is born royalty and that head was just made for a golden crown of laurel leaves.
I don't see Newsom as latter day Caesar, unless you buy into "first as tragedy then as farce".
i buy into "first as tragedy then as stupid".
either way, Gavin is coming, he will have a billion dollars in his campaign account and the MSM as his messaging staff and will arrive in 2029 to either exorcise the fumes of the Orange Beast or clean up the many messes of the Kamala Administration. The future is his!
Newsome certainly has the white bread Caligula thing going for him.
Gavin is def not as brilliant as Divus Julius or as wise as Augustus, but also not as spicy as Caligula or Nero—he is more of an Antony, vain, greedy, horny and needy for worship. Maybe in our less blood-soaked times Antony is the one who gets the crown, he will just need to make the plebs feel like he loves them as much as he loves his reflection.
The elite lack the style or gravitas for Julio-Claudian depravity but make up for this with self-obsession on an imperial scale.
75% correct; Soviet Democratic America is collapsing, something else is being born, let’s call it the Roughly Outlined Beast …
True
It’s what emerges after the fall of DC and wins here that the world should fear.
Perhaps the board of directors for Boeing should be convicted of mass murder and sentenced to death.
Oh laws how boring
White collar crime = no pudding for you
Laws are gone with the Enlightenment
Good Riddance
Great entry
If One World Government were feasible, simply erase all borders and border controls.
I wonder whether it's elites that drive change or whether they're just better positioned and resourced to adapt to and opportunistically leverage (societal, technological etc) changes arising naturally.
I'm not "material conditions" all the way, but like 90% of the way.
Historically (like Dell Computer and Maytag at around the same time) diversity fanatics gain control of the board. Seattle is/was a liberal-wack-job nexus. This whole thing has the strong odor of hysterical obsession with eradicating demonic white privilege. They exhibit this by attacking their own (white) engineers.
The cat-and-mouse MO: The board hires a new CEO with the specific intent to show the world how virtuous the board is; and make the CEO the fall-guy if the madness leads to failure, which of course it does.
What modern liberalism does is substitute the universal awareness that demons exist, but instead of dealing with supernatural demons they can only look for corporeal ones, in this case white supremacy, because they don't believe in supernatural demons. Modernist liberals are constantly assailed by corporeal demons; racism, sexism, homophobia, climate deniers, vax deniers, on and on. They are in a state of constant hysteria and spend trillions of dollars every year attempting to eradicate, punish or control the demons. They are experts in deflection and double talk.
This seems to me a more realistic explanation for the types of destructive behavior we see in a multitude of instances such as Boeing.
"Modernist liberals are constantly assailed by corporeal demons; racism, sexism, homophobia, climate deniers, vax deniers, on and on. They are in a state of constant hysteria and spend trillions of dollars every year attempting to eradicate, punish or control the demons."
Love this.
There really is a Salem witch-hunt aspect here—everyone "evil" is denounced for being a witch and must be driven out of the community lest their moral pollution taint it, and things like "white supremacy" and "structural racism" are most present when most absent.
People always need a god, but in a pinch a Satan will do just as well.
But the CEOs of Boeing are greedy white guys.
So was ENRON.
Diversity is the Diversion from the bank robbery.
True. CEOs are more calculating than real fanatics. They pretend to believe, like Kneeling Nancy, while they try to avoid the consequences. CEOs feel they have to play along to avoid a visit from the DoJ or IRS. Or EEOC. Or lawyers. They gotta have safe spaces. Enron was before all that.
Appalling to see Boeing so willingly subordinate people who design planes to beancounters and penny pinchers. Would love to root for their failure due to their leadership incompetence but unfortunately have to regularly use their products and know that their involvement with the defense dept will means they will basically never disappear
Even more terrifying. You can run a company and planes into the ground and there are few consequences, minus handwringing, some fines (paid by SHs and laid off employees) and some rube going before a Congressional commission.
Some of Boeing's customers might have enough clout to pressure Boeing into repairing itself: https://www.ft.com/content/fcacc767-5f05-414e-bebc-61c737764e7b
Hungary had a similar scare to Zanzibar's a few years ago, multiple notorious phantoms haunted our cities and the districts of Budapest, some were "sucker phantoms" ("szopófantom") giving blowjobs to random homeless people, and "diarrhea phantoms" ("fosófantom") leaving their mark on public surfaces, both types capturing the headlines every time they struck and quickly rising to the top of contemporary public folklore.
"diarrhea phantoms" ("fosófantom")
just figured out this year's Halloween costume!
It’s a culture, not a costume 😡
lololol
diarrhea is universal and i'm willing to die for this sacred belief!
(but i will leave the blowing of the homeless to indigenous Magyars)
Giving surprise blowjobs to the homeless is a sign of our universal hospitality.
Budapest won’t disappoint any tourist, even if you’re a penniless backpacker.
Unlike the Croatian who frowns even if you give him a 20 euro tip. Choose your next destination accordingly!
hey, i've been there and had a lovely time, though if i had known then, i would have slept in a bus shelter with my zipper slightly down...
🧐
> By now, most of you have heard of the increasingly popular concept known as “the competency crisis”.
There's a very interesting thinker out there, who's been doing his own blog thing for forever now, named David Chapman. One of his blogs, https://meaningness.com/, his big idea is roughly equivalent to "the competency crisis is real and threatens our entire civilization if we don't fix it".
He goes into a lot more specific details, and is approaching from a decidedly philosophical and not political perspective. But the gist of his idea is "the complex infrastructural systems that support our lives must be run by competent people, but the existence of the internet and social media has stunted peoples social and intellectual growth to the point that they are increasingly incapable of rising to that challenge. We need to reverse this, or it will be bad"
Worth checking out! I've met the guy in person before, super cool dude too.
Fun fact, napoleon is the one who coined the term "nation of shopkeepers" to describe the English.
Wait, that describes the _English_? 🤣
Yes, funnily enough I remember reading an account of a missionary in India and he saw all the buildings devoted to merchandise and he said " We are truly a nation of shopkeepers"
> How is this not demoralizing for Americans, especially those recent arrivals who entered legally and worked hard to make something for themselves and their families?
Boots on the ground report: it is.
I am a Canadian citizen. I have lived in the US on a series of nonimmigrant work visas for 12 years now. At the current moment, my only path to legally staying in this country for the long term is marrying a US citizen, and if I lose my job, I have 60 days to find a new one (in Software Engineering, the only TN Visa orofession I have qualifications for) or I have to leave.
I have given the better part of half a million dollars in taxes to this country. I followed all the rules. I've built a life in this country since I was 21, and this country reserves the right to take it all away from me on two months' notice(*). Meanwhile, they give all of that tax money that I pay, to illegals who have done nothing to earn it and who will never, ever, in their entire lifetimes, become net economic contributors to society.
To say I am "demoralized" is an extreme understatement. At this point my border policy is "fuck a wall, you have to put machine gun nests with live ammo up there and shoot until everyone stops moving"
(*) When I originally came to this country, the law was different. It didn't give me 60 days. It actually gave me 24 hours to leave the country if I lost my job. Obama snuck in a change to this policy 3 days before Trump took office in 2016, as a fuck-you poison pill in expectation of an anti-immigrant president. So, for the only time in my life, I will say this unironically: Thanks, Obama
It’s grotesque. I’m an American citizen so I could pretend it doesn’t affect me but it’s still deeply offensive how badly our immigration system works and how harmful it is to good people. I know people who did marry Americans and it was still a long and painful process for them to get the right visas and permissions!
As a Canadian, the marriage green card path is relatively easier for me than it is for people from other countries. Unfortunately, have you met American women lately? The hard part is finding one who isn't terrible
I’ve got sons going off to college so sadly the current caliber of American women is a frequent topic. My deepest sympathies for any man attempting the dating market these days. I’d be more smug about finding an amazing woman 30 years ago if our kids didn’t have to deal with finding their own.
I will certainly not advocate for committing marriage fraud, but I will say that, uh, people do it and, uh, we're very committed to stopping it and, uh, especially here in New York.
Substack has DMs, right? DM me if you have any questions about immigration stuff here.
To be quite honest, I have seriously considered this and have even had some serious offers. I will not do that, for three reasons:
1) There is no practical way to do this without putting my personal assets and welfare at risk. Of the three people who have given me credible offers to do this, all three of them have since shown themselves to be untrustworthy, and I can't take the risk of someone I think is a friend deciding they'll torch a friendship to steal my money
2) I am scared of the government, scared of the government's ability to find out that I did this (if I did, which I will not), and scared of the government's propensity to make examples out of white people whenever they can.
3) The whole point of staying in America is to build a life here. If I'm in a fake marriage, I can't get into a real one. And then I can't build a life here. So then why am I even here?
But if you have serious knowledge about alternative _legal_ pathways to staying here, I'm all ears and happy to DM. I can't tell if you're making a joke or serious but, I'm serious. I don't have enough money to buy an EB-5 (you need like $2M for that now) but I am willing to put serious amounts of time and resources into this, as long as it will deliver virtually guaranteed results within a reasonable time frame. To put concrete numbers on it: I would drop $200,000 on this, and/or quit my job and spend the next 2 years doing whatever I need to do, as long as it was a guaranteed outcome and not a high risk endeavour)
(as a counter-example: I am not even bothering to pursue an H1B path anymore, because between the current state of the software engineering industry and the lottery step, there is no way it will be completed in a practical amount of time. My reasonable estimates show that if I tried that, I might get a green card by the time I'm 50. If I'm 50 and still in America, either I am married to a US citizen, in which case the H1B was irrelevant, or my life is a guaranteed forever-alone failure, in which case I don't want to be here)
I’m definitely serious about alternatives, man. No bullshit. Hit me up. Christ knows we need to keep people like you!
Not picking on you but if you came to the US on a temporary guest worker visa, why would you expect to stay in America? The whole point of the visa is that is for a limited time only and offers no guarantee or path to LPR, much less citizenship.
You want the honest answer?
Up until Covid happened, I had every expectation that I would leave and go back. Now, I'm only going back as a corpse. Nobody, NOBODY, is ever going to lock me up in my house ever again, like they did in Canada, and I don't really give a fuck about the locals here if they're going to stand in the way of that
It’s working as designed
Now imagine the life of a US citizen. I'm sick and tired of all these foreign workers coming to the US under the guise of being "exceptional" and competing with native labor.
The temporary guest worker visas are just that . . . temporary. It's astounding to me that people get temporary guest worker visas and expect them to turn into the right to permanent residency. The fact that guest workers have 3 months to find another job is outrageous and an insult to Americans. I expect this posh sounds harsh and it is, though I wish you no ill will. It is demoralizing to American citizens when our country is importing foreign labor (highly skilled and unskilled) to suppress wages and encourage unfair competition. The fact that highly paid labor contributed to taxes is good but so what?
My border policy is (1) build a wall, (2) deport all illegal aliens and (3) cut back ALL visas (0-1, EB-5, L-1, HB-1, HB-2, etc.). No more HB-1 to LPR. Maybe we can bring back some of these in 20-30 years when migration has been brought under control.
I don't disagree with you, but there literally are not qualified US citizens to do what I do.
This is trivially obvious. It was obvious ten years ago, when every company I've ever worked for in this country struggled to fill their open positions. It's obvious now, when they're filling them with diversity retards who get paid to fuck around while I do their jobs for them.
But I mean, if you'd rather work with DEI fs and ns instead of competent white people, it is your country, not mine, you can do with it what you want
Mind if I ask about what specific software specialization you do?
I used to love coding, although I would never call myself a software engineer (my work interests are in applied physics & electrical engineering) mainly out of respect for great quality software. My (former) industry needs loads of warm bodies to do embedded software, which is "tinker toys" compared to what is available for good technical work. I don't think the US general public understands all the differences between types of software (database, web pages, scientific analysis, etc. etc.), which is how something like embedded software can get overrun by DEI candidates.
I don't buy the narrative that US companies are struggling to fill open positions. Part of the issue is they want cheap, pliable labor that doesn't cost much. These companies also want plug n play employees. No training, no ramp up period, nothing. I've seen this first hand in my field. Complaints about no one wanting to do the work and then hiring foreigners who went to graduate school in the US. Truth is companies didn't want to hire from lower ranked schools and preferred the "Ivy" league foreigners with their graduate degrees then take someone from a state school or lower ranked private school.
If your skills are in such high demand, then you could easily secure a great position in Canada. It's not like Canada is Uganda. It has a robust, advanced economy.
Agree. What you described is more obvious in technical workplaces with high merger & acquisition activity. There's debt leverage to pay, layoff costs when the more expensive (and experienced) staff are layed off. If the company is also publically traded and has an expected dividend payout, well, there's just not much leftover for shopping for new hires.
Oh well, when you retire you can become a Snowbird. But in that case, the US may not be your first choice.
"There is a new trend that blames many fumbles on DEI."
I've also noticed that. What are your thoughts on this trend?
I think it's fearmongering, and counterproductive.
It's far too reductive, and often completely off of the mark. It dumbs down the discourse.
I agree with you but I think there is value is having a shorthand for "organizations which prioritize things other than merit and quality", and "DEI" serves that purpose
Maybe there's some confusion here: I am not saying that the term is wrong or using it is wrong, what I meant was that it is often used in cases where it simply isn't relevant to the matter at hand.
That's the part I'm agreeing with!
DEIs not relevant to the Boeing matter or other matters, such as ENRON. It’s relevant to general peace, elections in America (at least!) and for stirring up mischief for grift and a maelstrom of resentment in the masses and the young, especially with open borders.
Just to make it more fetching, we’ll throw in fiendish surgeries on your children and sexual grooming as well.
But it isn’t relevant to the maniacal greed of white Boeing CEOs.
I do think there's a new world order for quite a while.
A corporate world order.
WW2 cemented it with the neutered UN.
Look at the Ukraine war, what a sham. Russia still sells gas through Ukraine... They still sell oil to the west through India etc. Haha, they knew it was going to be for show.
Remember folks we were always at war with EastAsia. 😂
The last piece of evidence was how almost every nation followed the con-vid scam and still to this day won't say the shots are dangerous. Russia and China did the same shit as we did and had their own problematic shots.
Only fake opposition like senator Ron Johnson pretend to address it.
Oh and the Slovak PM... I'm not sure if he's actually pushing or pretending to push against big pharma.
If governments are still pussy footing around stopping the shots... Do you think they're controlled? I do!
Perhaps con-vid will be the time when people will no longer believe their leaders are "local". Trust falls.
https://robc137.substack.com/p/looking-behind-the-curtain-of-oz