• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Mutherfucker, she just proposed legislation to BAN H1-b visas, because she doesn’t think Trump is going hard enough on getting rid of immigrants. Her problems with Trump DO NOT align with yours. At all.

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      2 days ago

      I do feel like the H1-B visa system is completely broken though. You’re telling me you “can’t find” a cloud engineer in the US, so you just have to import one from India or wherever? It’s all just fraud to let companies undercut the American labor market.

      • very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Exactly. The H1-B program has been so abused by the tech industry that it’s basically just indentured servitude.

        Bring in low-cost labor from India, including their families, then tie their visa status to their employment so that if they’re ever fired, they immediately get deported. Those workers are going to be too scared to demand better wages/benefits for fear of being fired, which drives down the cost of labor for US citizens in the same industry who now have to compete for jobs against these workers.

        And all the while, companies get to “sane wash” what is essentially the same thing as the “outsourcing” that they were all so maligned for in the 2000s.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    I like to think MTG is over-theatrical but less dumb and crazy than she sounds. Maybe I’m wrong but one can hope.

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      3 days ago

      She has been consistently dumb and crazy (and don’t forget racist, she literally just can’t stop doing racism)

      • TheFogan@programming.dev
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        3 days ago

        That’s kind of the thing with republicans though… it’s really hard to seperate dumb and crazy, or smart and manipulative. Acting like an idiot, is a good way to get support of racist idiots.

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        3 days ago

        Aha, I don’t pay close attention. I remember hearing something about space lasers and thinking “hey, I want some of those”. Oh well.

  • finitebanjo@piefed.world
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    3 days ago

    Honestly if she had to run in her same district but against a different Republican, might be a net positive. The next Republican will still be a piece of shit but at least the crazy bitch who chases people down the hall will be out.