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I guarantee this will be the case, as it's been the case every election since forever including 2020 when liberals were fear-mongering (like they always do) when they were out of power.

> Nor any techie lose their minds when someone without a security clearance gets access to sensitive national networks.

There's something peculiar about how liberals are now so offended by "security" when the federal government has showed complete incompetence over the past decade or even more.

All the security clearance data was leaked from federal servers. What else do we have to lose. Never mind that countless federal employees see your social security info. It's regularly fraudulently submitted by illegal foreigners too.

None of the criticisms I've seen from you or others are alarming.

What was alarming was watching Biden for 4 years completely non compos mentis and a media filled with liberals who would censor and ridicule ANY mention of this obvious fact. That's the GRAVEST national security threat, everything else PALES in comparison, and not a peep from the people who lit their entire political capital on fire over the ridiculous patently-false charades to never admit fault.

So when 4 years pass and we’re still voting, are you going to admit you are hyperbolic and divorced from reality?

> Ruining H1B prospects for many deserving candidates

H1B shouldn't exist, there is no shortage of domestic talent for what amounts to standard office work. The sort of things I've seen done by H1B is nothing short of appallingly bad which makes this whole debate all the more infuriating.

Visas do exist for truly exceptional talent.

> I'm starting to wonder if Vitamin D and Omega 3s are indicators, not drivers

most cells have vitamin D receptors, so I would think it is actually a driver

I know you're trying to defend the indefensible but the Doctor of Law from Yale held a gun to a prostitute's head while smoking meth, and RECORDED IT.

He also sold his laptop full of incriminating evidence to a pawnshop.

Again, what does a depraved criminal drug addict have to offer to a Ukranian petroleum company? Well, he happens to be the vice president's son. Clear cut political corruption!

I think any intelligent person would rather hire Daniel Penny.

I was going to say this exactly.

I would also group in "mis/disinformation" because it's such a clumsy phrase and people will often say both making it an even larger often-repeated verbal monstrosity.

It's interesting because, for me at least, there's an aesthetic quality to these phrases that is unmistakable.

> He’s been hired because of who he is rather than the skills he brings.

Were you calling Hunter Biden to account for his skills when it was revealed he made millions of dollars from Burisma in a role he ostensibly had no qualification?

> If instead we have an inflation, and so you have a disincentive to leave the cash under your pillow, you invest it (give to that company to fund its factory). That’s good for society.

There's a lot of "ifs" here with little evidence they're true or necessary.

Without examining all of the "ifs" let me just characterize the argument as fundamentally pro-corporation. I think it's better for society that corporations justify the money invested in them rather than artificially structuring the money such that people are forced to hand their money over to corporations as a form of wealth preservation because Paul Krugman said we'd have a Great Depression otherwise.

There's a shortage of air traffic controllers, and DEI policies have bungled hiring in the effort to constrain as much hiring as possible into minorities across practically every corporation.

> an incentive to hoard money

That’s a funny phrase and one that I think deserves ridicule.

Society should value savings, in fact historically prosperity is the result of savings and every fall from prosperity is accompanied by artificially low interest rates and low saving rates.

I don’t see how people would differentiate savings from hoarding when infinite compound debasement is supposedly the “smart” policy.

To be clear, I think people that say "hoarding" is bad, really mean to say that they think "saving" is bad and that they should identify as champions of consumerism.

When does the cut-off happen?

Can I claim that I, because of my ancestors in Europe that were routinely bull-dozed by competing empires, deserve compensation?

Your argument for "crypto" applies to money. Money will lose 90% of its value over a century or so. In this case I don't have to "just hope someone else will pay more for it later" I know that money will be practically worthless if held.

Well Biden can't really give a speech due to being undeniably old to the point of incoherence (what led to him dropping his candidacy). Trump did Operation Warpspeed and created Space Force, and openly talked about that, he also openly supports Elon Musk running his own scientific enterprises. So I'm not sure what the argument is for America not talking about its own scientific achievements.

> large portions of america are anti-intellectual

Large portions of the world are anti-intellectual, at the same time intellectuals are often much worse than the average person and frequently do deserve scorn as a class of people in society.

This is the sort of condescending, simplistic reduction of America that only a foreigner could make (one that apparently lives here nonetheless!).

> Voting should never jeopardize your career...

Weird how, as a conservative, I've never felt even remotely supported (for lack of a better word) at any of the numerous jobs I've had.

In fact it's very clear that workplaces generally cater to liberals and it seems those people have no theory of mind regarding anyone but themselves.

CS Lewis once observed: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive"

> The fear is really unwarranted.

Here's the deal: you have no right to tell people how to feel.

Thanks I came across Walter Bagehot in the book Price of Time which looks at interest rates and money throughout history.

It turns out that interest rates are still manipulated by banks and governments whether it's gold or something else. The difference is that at least under gold there's constraints and a price to be paid for debasing.

The gold standard disincentivizes consumption, and incentivizes savings. Plain and simple. Of course corporations love consumerism, and that's what the central bank fiat regime has enabled: wanton consumption and dwindling away the wealth of society.

If you're wondering why everything in society outside of technology is getting worse and being replaced with cheap substitutes, you need to look at the money itself.

And of course the reason is that when fiat currency is institutionalized, interest rates drop because money is plentiful since it's being freely printed to fund anything and everything. Interest rates reflect the scarcity of money. Now money is funneled into the stock market by people seeking yields.

So the beneficiaries of the money printer and big government are corporations who are now able to spend everyone's savings that have been converted into equities.

I worked at JPM, practically the entire US office was Indians. It was a mess.

It's the largest bank in the world, "too big to fail" and apparently "too big to employ the people who are on the hook for their bailout".

I think this reinforces my argument that liberals view it as indisputable that there is no bias in their favor in media and all their opinions are "merely reality."

Maybe, just maybe, it's because most people in the media are Democrats, and therefore inherently self-biased in their concerns and worldviews, and they have a belief that prevents any critical self-examination easily summed up by the Stephen Colbert line that: "reality has a liberal bias."

You can't argue with someone who thinks their beliefs are merely "reality." At least the other side recognizes it as religion, etc.

best explanation I've seen, this describes the org I'm at

The US is not an open-borders free-for-all and even during the time period you're citing related to the random poem the immigration was relatively limited.

Everyone understood the necessity to properly assimilate foreigners, and therefore there were periods of moratoriums to preserve American culture.

> It’s because large business interests have captured government

On the other hand the 1965 Hart-Celler Act started the importation of asians under the guise of abolishing "racist" policies that restricted immigration and mostly let in people from the west. Frankly it should have never been passed and the country and labor market would be MUCH better off.

Bush Sr sealed the deal by bringing in the H1B. Between the Bushes, Clintons and Obamas we've been systematically screwed over and debased.

In retrospect, Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot were spot-on correct about practically everything.

> This issue is about capital vs labor

The issue is about how a nation serves its people, and whether it protects American people and their culture.

America is not an economic zone but a nation with a responsibility to its citizens not random foreigners handed visas.

H1-B and other visas outside exceptional talent (Einstein level) shouldn't exist. Repeal them.