Good point about how Canada and nonUS Anglo countries have underperformed the US. I would also consider that the other Anglo countries have worse land use than even the US’s blue states. For example, Vancouver has the most expensive housing relative to income, worse than New York. Housing is about a third of personal income and transportation, which depends on how far you live from where you work, is another sixth. So, it’s a big deal for limiting consumption and investment. Basically, in other Anglo countries, you can’t build anything unless a local committee approves it, and that committee usually can say no or delay for hardly any reason.
To me, Nietzsche is more a mood than a coherent philosophy. It’s a fun mood, like listening to AC/DC when you lift weights. But I’m not sure it says a lot about immigration policy.
>Elon Musk artificially boosted the Nietzschean Vitalists, along with the rest of the far right, to increase turnout for Trump. After Trump’s victory, he has dumped them on their signature issue: immigration. All they can do now is impotently vacillate between complaining and coping for the next four years.
That's not my read on the situation at all. It seems like Vivek/Elon and a few others spoke out too hard on the immigration question and exposed their conceptual blind-spots wrt other things as well. JD Vance/Trump made more professional/non-commital statements that could be walked back.
>As you can see, H1Bs were generally higher under Trump, around 200k per year, than under Obama. Obama usually awarded between 85k and 172k H1Bs. Trump did not reduce the number, but kept it the same. Even if Trump cuts H1Bs in half, he will still be worse than Obama.
Check the first derivative. H1Bs started increasing in 2014 (Obama) and stalled and reduced in 2017 (Trump). Then they picked up again in 2021 (Biden).
Regarding the derivative, yes, H1Bs slightly decreased under Trump first term, and I expect them to decrease in Trump's 2nd term. If I was a single issue voter on immigration, I agree Trump is better than Democrats. I just don't think it's as black-and-white as people make it out to be.
I don't see how Trump's statement was anything but submission to Musk:
“I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them. I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program."
Vivek did the country a tremendous service by insulting whites the same way Republicans typically insult blacks for social pathologies caused in recent decades by economic immiseration.
I'm sorry for the effortpost; I would like to try out an idea or two here and see if they hold up. One, are all conservatives vitalists/organicists? Consider the Christianists (Matt Walsh), the culture cons (Carl Benjamin, Jordan Peterson), the white nationalists (Keith Woods, Nick Fuentes), and the tech bros (Hanania). None believe the components of the world link together mechanically, but think people can succeed if we magically use the power of belief.
They all have to answer why whites are falling behind in America. The religionist says to get your heart right with Jesus with super willpower, and the culturalist says to believe in the right ideas and values with super willpower. The white nationalist says whites would flourish if outgroups on the bottom or top weren't holding them down, but this introduces questions that destabilize that outlook about whether life is a team sport or not, and whether we have responsibilities toward others. (Half of whites, by definition, have below-average intelligence.)
Hanania-style tech bro stuff is the most consistent and conservative of them all since it, having an Asiatic fetishization of status, worships the status quo as the status quo, even if those running institutions are without merit, corrupt, stupid, criminal, immature, unwise, nepotistic, or worse. They are supposedly justified since they had the will to succeed by any means necessary. It is also consistent with the economic opportunism of conservative practice when we strip away the dumb backlash marketing used during campaign season. But, when everyone is for sale, we eventually end up in a society like Russia or India where nothing works -- which is not what success holistically looks like, which means the tech bro idea of success is incomplete. Hanania is trying to square this circle with his Elite Human Capital idea. He will fail.
Vivek is particularly idiotic in that India was once the world's high-tech capital. (Textiles were the high-tech of its day.) It had 25% of the world's textile industry and did so with high-quality materials, excellent design, and top-tier craftsmanship. How did the English get the upper hand and destroy Indian textiles completely? Through spelling bees? Milton Friedman? We did it through mercantilism -- low or no taxes on raw materials like cotton, and for the high-tech stuff, bans, tariffs, regulated monopolies, military power, etc., the same way we destroyed the textile industry in the Spanish-dominated Low Countries. When we don't think of economics as a kind of warfare, those who do will eat our lunch.
Calling India the world's "high tech superpower" and saying it was destroyed through foreign interference is definitely a judo move. Don't buy it though. Military tech is the only tech that matters to me. If it can't be used to kill people, it's a luxury good.
It looks like H1bs went up during Obama years, and down during Trump years. Yes they were initially lower under Obama but increased throughout his presidency. I’m not sure how strong Elon’s grip on Trump is, the two are already starting to butt heads. Trump doesn’t like people thinking that Elon is the one in charge, and Elon is clingy and autistic. They’re also rivals in the private sector.
In my opinion, there are both whitepills and blackpills to this situation. The whitepill is that the right was United on this issue. 4 years ago half of conservative pundits would have staunchly defended the “based brown people”, while on Christmas and Boxing Day Elon fought a thermoplyaean struggle with a handful of former Democrat tech influencers. And in the end, he was forced to backpedal. The blackpill is that Elon’s dedication to “legal immigration” is worse than we thought it was during the election. He’s not just interested by profit motives, he’s emotionally invested and clearly took anti-H1B sentiment as a personal insult as an immigrant himself. Elon, despite growing up in the prime exhibit for White Nationalism being a good thing, views himself as an immigrant and not as one of many international Europeans. Furthermore, Trump obviously doesn’t care about the issue. He has been dead silent on it except for being
Indians beget more immigration than Mexicans due to their elite status and hyper-shitlib politics, but Mexicans pose a greater threat to racial hygiene. Indians are extremely endogamous for American standards and have very low birth rates, while Mexicans are very exogamous and have high birth rates (albeit this is changing fast). Indians threaten my line of work more than Mexicans, but Mexicans make life more miserable for everyone around them (until Indians start importing their 80 IQ cousins). It’s really a difficult and blackpilling choice. Indians seem to be more hateable based on the way they act online and they turn people into racists more often than Mexicans despite their mild manner in real life.
Yes, they went slightly down in terms of change over time, but not down in overall absolute headcount over the length of tenure. Trump's statement on H1Bs indicates that he agrees with Musk. I haven't seen him say anything anti-Musk. Throw me a link.
I don't believe in racial hygiene. Indian endogamy is dangerous because it indicates nepotism and ethnocentrism. The Mexican TFR is 1.80; it is slightly higher in the USA, but this is LOWER than the Indian TFR. You are comparing ELITE Indian TFR with WORKING-CLASS Mexican TFR, which is not indicative of how chain migration will play out.
Mexicans do not make life more miserable than Indians. Mexicans have no political power. I would rather have a job and avoid a bad neighborhood than have low crime and no job.
Trump's statement on H1Bs was a shoot-from-the-hip response in a late-night(?) phone call with infamously dishonest Jon Levine. It is still a blackpill though. If he was going to come out against H1B he would have done it by now, but he's decided to wait for it to blow over.
I say "everyone around them" in the case of Mexicans, so if you don't live around them then you don't really have to worry. We can run from Mexicans in a way we cannot for Indians, but Mexicans are still a welfare deficit in a welfare system that is moribund, and it is political suicide to seriously cut entitlements. Indians will, through their shitlibbery, vote and lobby for more welfare though. The best scenario would be to have a reliable Mexican satellite state to outsource this sort of labor to without having to deal with the consequences of demographic change, but it's never gonna happen. UAE immigration system is also obviously never gonna happen because of how demonized it is, but a war with Mexico would end with the absolute worst people making policy decisions and turning Mexico's problems into our problems instead of turning Mexico into our solution. All of this after an untold number of dead American soldiers, of course.
I don't have a passionate hatred of Trump over this. I think any logical person would do what Trump is doing. He's not an extreme ideologue. America First is a practical slogan to win elections. He cares about his family and his allies, not "the country" or "the white race." I find that people who hate Trump for being a fascist, or for betraying "the movement" generally have a clouded judgment of his motivations.
I agree that Mexicans use welfare, and in my opinion, the solution is to make welfare incompatible with family life. As in, anyone who wishes to get free money from the government should be shipping off to the middle of nowhere. But barring such reforms, welfare is a tax, and taxes are not as costly as scams, because they can be accounted for. Scams create volatility and decrease trust more than taxes, which hurts future investment far more and creates liquidity traps.
As you point out, politically, Hispanics are more likely to vote for welfare cuts than Indians.
A war with Mexico (not against, with) against the cartels would be easier and cheaper than what we are trying to do right now in Ukraine. You're overestimating the bravery of cartel boys. They are just looking to hurt weak people for money; they are like Iraqi forces in 2003. Paper tiger. Less than 1,000 American casualties, guaranteed. Put Erik Prince in charge of execution.
My plan would be to sit down with the leaders of the cartels, offer them government positions, buy them off, and assassinate the rest, and then go Bukele mode. Bukele proved that this is easy, safe, effective. Nothing to be afraid of. If you actually travel to Mexico, you will realize there is nothing to fear here. Mexico's problems are easily solved. It's a really boring country.
Trump’s voters are mostly lower income working class Whites whose jobs are threatened more by Mexicans than Indians, and he has a penchant for punishing demographics who vote against him (ex: your average White tech worker) and that’s why I think he is looking the other way. I'm not sure exactly how much Indian-Americans benefit from scams and how much damage they do to the American economy, that would be hard to measure but I have a hard time imagining that it is comparable to the welfare deficit.
I don't doubt that we could end the cartel easily, and I agree with your propositions, but Mexico refuses U.S. Intervention and U.S. Politics demands that politicians make stupid performative gestures to avoid getting called a terrorist-negotiator or a war criminal or some other stupid term. The same issue arises with welfare.
The problem with scams is not direct damage, but indirect future losses from decreased investment. You can simply invade Mexico by pressuring them, and Trump demonstrated this. But you are right that there is no political will to do this and the bureaucracy makes it impossible. That's the problem with Asian bureaucrats: they make bold action impossible with Byzantine rule-following. It's already an out-of-control problem, but the invasion of the over-qualified makes the problem worse. Mexicans steal jobs from dumb people; over-educated bureaucrats castrate the system from the top down for their own nepotistic benefit. Apples and Oranges.
Most of the online Nietzschian anons are thinly veiled Zionists really. They will capitulate on every right wing issue when push comes to shove. BAP for example is a Romanian Jew that supports color blind meritocracy and wrote his PhD on Leo Strauss. He serves as a pied piper for gullible radical right wingers and steers them into a pro-Israel form of White supremacy.
@EternalPhilosophy: As a thinly veiled Zionist Jew, I'm glad that BAP, despite his abhorrent rhetoric, is secretly working for my team to deradicalize the right and safeguard Israel. This is a huge relief. Thank you for informing me, I was worried.
Yes, it’s an effective full spectrum approach. It’s why Ben Shapiro boosts BAPs books, they can disagree on surface level issues like eugenics, genocide, pederasty, and whether God is real. As long as they’re both loyal to Israel, they’re allies.
Wow I had no clue Ben Shapiro was openly hawking Bronze Age Mindset to his millions of fans. It seems to me like my people are much more intelligent and competent than I had previously understood. Godlike, even. Thank you for brightening up my day!
Yes, it’s one of many influence networks. Similar to Epstein’s network of prominent Israelis or Dennis Pragers network of Mossad assets like Marissa Streit.
I don’t know if I would describe it as “Godlike;” that’s a bit of a histrionic reaction to a neutral observation. Disappointing, but not surprising.
Leo Strauss is downplayed hard in mainstream circles. He was a right-wing radical anti-egalitarian and was mainly an anti-historicist, while neocons who succeeded him were strongly historicist in their worldview and causy.
BAP made one tweet encouraging meritocracy (within a state) as a temporary goal for white advocates, meanwhile he has made dozens of tweets critical of Israel and sometimes even glorifying Hezbollah. He “capitulates” on Israel far more than on race or immigration.
Not really. His ideology is only coherent when you realize his first priority is Israel. It explains his hyper fixation on people who attack Israel and why he does such base level shilling during elections.
Have you ever read BAP's books? Hell, do you even listen to his podcast? Where is this confidence coming from in calling his beliefs incoherent? BAP has never had a hyperfixation on people who attack Israel. A certain subset of people who attack Israel have a hyperfixation on BAP to the point where they encourage doxxing and mass reporting everyone who is even vaguely associated with him, and he responds to these people, but he has never had a hyperfixation on Israel attackers
If true, then at least you know what you're getting. I would rather be screwed from the front than from behind. But yeah, if I was a single-issue voter on immigration, maybe I would line up every four years to get back-ended by Elon and Vivek on the 1% chance that they will be better on that issue, or something.
Furthermore, the argument here is about H1Bs,not Mexicans. I clearly differentiate this; you are obfuscating, which is the mendacious Republican tactic I denounce.
Elsewhere in the article you suggest Musk would stand athwart mass deportations, suggesting that the Trumpist con extends to inaction with respect to low skilled immigration as well. I refuted this by posting the linked article and accompanying report. This is consistent with H1B increase. Thanks
COVID played a big role but much of the reduction predates the pandemic
The National Foundation for American Policy projects that the number of legal immigrants will decline by 49% (or 581,845) between FY 2016 and FY 2021 due to Trump administration policies. (From the FY 2016 total of 1,183,505 down to 601,660 in FY 2021.) How did the Trump administration reduce legal immigration by 49% without changing U.S. immigration law? The answer is by using executive and administrative authorities, some of which are being challenged in court.
BAP’s doctoral thesis is partially an attempt to conflate Nietzsche and Plato, and I think he follows in Strauss’s footsteps in this regard as Strauss tried to make the point that Plato’s later writings like Laws were partially an opticscuck and Plato was more like Critias than is admitted. Idk I never read him but that’s what I have been told
>Nietzsche’s primary contribution was to free us from metaphysics
Many people say this, but early modern philosophers influenced by skepticism, such as Montaigne, Gassendi, and Bayle, already did this. (Hume had eight volumes of Bayle in his trunk while writing the Treatise.) Speculative philosophy flourished during Romanticism, but neo-Kantian critical philosophy returned to dominate Germany at the end of the 1800s.
I'd say Nietzsche is more influential in promoting Lebensphilosophie, but he is not unique in this, either. (Simmel, Dilthey, James, and others moved in a similar direction.)
Good point about how Canada and nonUS Anglo countries have underperformed the US. I would also consider that the other Anglo countries have worse land use than even the US’s blue states. For example, Vancouver has the most expensive housing relative to income, worse than New York. Housing is about a third of personal income and transportation, which depends on how far you live from where you work, is another sixth. So, it’s a big deal for limiting consumption and investment. Basically, in other Anglo countries, you can’t build anything unless a local committee approves it, and that committee usually can say no or delay for hardly any reason.
To me, Nietzsche is more a mood than a coherent philosophy. It’s a fun mood, like listening to AC/DC when you lift weights. But I’m not sure it says a lot about immigration policy.
Agreed, there's nothing in Nietzsche about immigration restriction, but these people have appropriated the term.
>Elon Musk artificially boosted the Nietzschean Vitalists, along with the rest of the far right, to increase turnout for Trump. After Trump’s victory, he has dumped them on their signature issue: immigration. All they can do now is impotently vacillate between complaining and coping for the next four years.
That's not my read on the situation at all. It seems like Vivek/Elon and a few others spoke out too hard on the immigration question and exposed their conceptual blind-spots wrt other things as well. JD Vance/Trump made more professional/non-commital statements that could be walked back.
>As you can see, H1Bs were generally higher under Trump, around 200k per year, than under Obama. Obama usually awarded between 85k and 172k H1Bs. Trump did not reduce the number, but kept it the same. Even if Trump cuts H1Bs in half, he will still be worse than Obama.
Check the first derivative. H1Bs started increasing in 2014 (Obama) and stalled and reduced in 2017 (Trump). Then they picked up again in 2021 (Biden).
Regarding the derivative, yes, H1Bs slightly decreased under Trump first term, and I expect them to decrease in Trump's 2nd term. If I was a single issue voter on immigration, I agree Trump is better than Democrats. I just don't think it's as black-and-white as people make it out to be.
I don't see how Trump's statement was anything but submission to Musk:
“I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them. I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program."
Vivek did the country a tremendous service by insulting whites the same way Republicans typically insult blacks for social pathologies caused in recent decades by economic immiseration.
I'm sorry for the effortpost; I would like to try out an idea or two here and see if they hold up. One, are all conservatives vitalists/organicists? Consider the Christianists (Matt Walsh), the culture cons (Carl Benjamin, Jordan Peterson), the white nationalists (Keith Woods, Nick Fuentes), and the tech bros (Hanania). None believe the components of the world link together mechanically, but think people can succeed if we magically use the power of belief.
They all have to answer why whites are falling behind in America. The religionist says to get your heart right with Jesus with super willpower, and the culturalist says to believe in the right ideas and values with super willpower. The white nationalist says whites would flourish if outgroups on the bottom or top weren't holding them down, but this introduces questions that destabilize that outlook about whether life is a team sport or not, and whether we have responsibilities toward others. (Half of whites, by definition, have below-average intelligence.)
Hanania-style tech bro stuff is the most consistent and conservative of them all since it, having an Asiatic fetishization of status, worships the status quo as the status quo, even if those running institutions are without merit, corrupt, stupid, criminal, immature, unwise, nepotistic, or worse. They are supposedly justified since they had the will to succeed by any means necessary. It is also consistent with the economic opportunism of conservative practice when we strip away the dumb backlash marketing used during campaign season. But, when everyone is for sale, we eventually end up in a society like Russia or India where nothing works -- which is not what success holistically looks like, which means the tech bro idea of success is incomplete. Hanania is trying to square this circle with his Elite Human Capital idea. He will fail.
Vivek is particularly idiotic in that India was once the world's high-tech capital. (Textiles were the high-tech of its day.) It had 25% of the world's textile industry and did so with high-quality materials, excellent design, and top-tier craftsmanship. How did the English get the upper hand and destroy Indian textiles completely? Through spelling bees? Milton Friedman? We did it through mercantilism -- low or no taxes on raw materials like cotton, and for the high-tech stuff, bans, tariffs, regulated monopolies, military power, etc., the same way we destroyed the textile industry in the Spanish-dominated Low Countries. When we don't think of economics as a kind of warfare, those who do will eat our lunch.
Calling India the world's "high tech superpower" and saying it was destroyed through foreign interference is definitely a judo move. Don't buy it though. Military tech is the only tech that matters to me. If it can't be used to kill people, it's a luxury good.
Absolutely correct
Well, also political control. India’s ability to adapt to technological change was hampered by British Imperialism.
It looks like H1bs went up during Obama years, and down during Trump years. Yes they were initially lower under Obama but increased throughout his presidency. I’m not sure how strong Elon’s grip on Trump is, the two are already starting to butt heads. Trump doesn’t like people thinking that Elon is the one in charge, and Elon is clingy and autistic. They’re also rivals in the private sector.
In my opinion, there are both whitepills and blackpills to this situation. The whitepill is that the right was United on this issue. 4 years ago half of conservative pundits would have staunchly defended the “based brown people”, while on Christmas and Boxing Day Elon fought a thermoplyaean struggle with a handful of former Democrat tech influencers. And in the end, he was forced to backpedal. The blackpill is that Elon’s dedication to “legal immigration” is worse than we thought it was during the election. He’s not just interested by profit motives, he’s emotionally invested and clearly took anti-H1B sentiment as a personal insult as an immigrant himself. Elon, despite growing up in the prime exhibit for White Nationalism being a good thing, views himself as an immigrant and not as one of many international Europeans. Furthermore, Trump obviously doesn’t care about the issue. He has been dead silent on it except for being
Indians beget more immigration than Mexicans due to their elite status and hyper-shitlib politics, but Mexicans pose a greater threat to racial hygiene. Indians are extremely endogamous for American standards and have very low birth rates, while Mexicans are very exogamous and have high birth rates (albeit this is changing fast). Indians threaten my line of work more than Mexicans, but Mexicans make life more miserable for everyone around them (until Indians start importing their 80 IQ cousins). It’s really a difficult and blackpilling choice. Indians seem to be more hateable based on the way they act online and they turn people into racists more often than Mexicans despite their mild manner in real life.
Yes, they went slightly down in terms of change over time, but not down in overall absolute headcount over the length of tenure. Trump's statement on H1Bs indicates that he agrees with Musk. I haven't seen him say anything anti-Musk. Throw me a link.
I don't believe in racial hygiene. Indian endogamy is dangerous because it indicates nepotism and ethnocentrism. The Mexican TFR is 1.80; it is slightly higher in the USA, but this is LOWER than the Indian TFR. You are comparing ELITE Indian TFR with WORKING-CLASS Mexican TFR, which is not indicative of how chain migration will play out.
Mexicans do not make life more miserable than Indians. Mexicans have no political power. I would rather have a job and avoid a bad neighborhood than have low crime and no job.
Nvm, the thing I saw about Trump and Musk butting heads was fake https://www.yahoo.com/news/supposed-trump-post-telling-elon-181603248.html
Trump's statement on H1Bs was a shoot-from-the-hip response in a late-night(?) phone call with infamously dishonest Jon Levine. It is still a blackpill though. If he was going to come out against H1B he would have done it by now, but he's decided to wait for it to blow over.
I say "everyone around them" in the case of Mexicans, so if you don't live around them then you don't really have to worry. We can run from Mexicans in a way we cannot for Indians, but Mexicans are still a welfare deficit in a welfare system that is moribund, and it is political suicide to seriously cut entitlements. Indians will, through their shitlibbery, vote and lobby for more welfare though. The best scenario would be to have a reliable Mexican satellite state to outsource this sort of labor to without having to deal with the consequences of demographic change, but it's never gonna happen. UAE immigration system is also obviously never gonna happen because of how demonized it is, but a war with Mexico would end with the absolute worst people making policy decisions and turning Mexico's problems into our problems instead of turning Mexico into our solution. All of this after an untold number of dead American soldiers, of course.
I don't have a passionate hatred of Trump over this. I think any logical person would do what Trump is doing. He's not an extreme ideologue. America First is a practical slogan to win elections. He cares about his family and his allies, not "the country" or "the white race." I find that people who hate Trump for being a fascist, or for betraying "the movement" generally have a clouded judgment of his motivations.
I agree that Mexicans use welfare, and in my opinion, the solution is to make welfare incompatible with family life. As in, anyone who wishes to get free money from the government should be shipping off to the middle of nowhere. But barring such reforms, welfare is a tax, and taxes are not as costly as scams, because they can be accounted for. Scams create volatility and decrease trust more than taxes, which hurts future investment far more and creates liquidity traps.
As you point out, politically, Hispanics are more likely to vote for welfare cuts than Indians.
A war with Mexico (not against, with) against the cartels would be easier and cheaper than what we are trying to do right now in Ukraine. You're overestimating the bravery of cartel boys. They are just looking to hurt weak people for money; they are like Iraqi forces in 2003. Paper tiger. Less than 1,000 American casualties, guaranteed. Put Erik Prince in charge of execution.
My plan would be to sit down with the leaders of the cartels, offer them government positions, buy them off, and assassinate the rest, and then go Bukele mode. Bukele proved that this is easy, safe, effective. Nothing to be afraid of. If you actually travel to Mexico, you will realize there is nothing to fear here. Mexico's problems are easily solved. It's a really boring country.
Trump’s voters are mostly lower income working class Whites whose jobs are threatened more by Mexicans than Indians, and he has a penchant for punishing demographics who vote against him (ex: your average White tech worker) and that’s why I think he is looking the other way. I'm not sure exactly how much Indian-Americans benefit from scams and how much damage they do to the American economy, that would be hard to measure but I have a hard time imagining that it is comparable to the welfare deficit.
I don't doubt that we could end the cartel easily, and I agree with your propositions, but Mexico refuses U.S. Intervention and U.S. Politics demands that politicians make stupid performative gestures to avoid getting called a terrorist-negotiator or a war criminal or some other stupid term. The same issue arises with welfare.
The problem with scams is not direct damage, but indirect future losses from decreased investment. You can simply invade Mexico by pressuring them, and Trump demonstrated this. But you are right that there is no political will to do this and the bureaucracy makes it impossible. That's the problem with Asian bureaucrats: they make bold action impossible with Byzantine rule-following. It's already an out-of-control problem, but the invasion of the over-qualified makes the problem worse. Mexicans steal jobs from dumb people; over-educated bureaucrats castrate the system from the top down for their own nepotistic benefit. Apples and Oranges.
You can ally with one cartel to crush the other. This isn't hard.
Most of the online Nietzschian anons are thinly veiled Zionists really. They will capitulate on every right wing issue when push comes to shove. BAP for example is a Romanian Jew that supports color blind meritocracy and wrote his PhD on Leo Strauss. He serves as a pied piper for gullible radical right wingers and steers them into a pro-Israel form of White supremacy.
@EternalPhilosophy: As a thinly veiled Zionist Jew, I'm glad that BAP, despite his abhorrent rhetoric, is secretly working for my team to deradicalize the right and safeguard Israel. This is a huge relief. Thank you for informing me, I was worried.
Yes, it’s an effective full spectrum approach. It’s why Ben Shapiro boosts BAPs books, they can disagree on surface level issues like eugenics, genocide, pederasty, and whether God is real. As long as they’re both loyal to Israel, they’re allies.
Wow I had no clue Ben Shapiro was openly hawking Bronze Age Mindset to his millions of fans. It seems to me like my people are much more intelligent and competent than I had previously understood. Godlike, even. Thank you for brightening up my day!
Yes, it’s one of many influence networks. Similar to Epstein’s network of prominent Israelis or Dennis Pragers network of Mossad assets like Marissa Streit.
I don’t know if I would describe it as “Godlike;” that’s a bit of a histrionic reaction to a neutral observation. Disappointing, but not surprising.
Leo Strauss is downplayed hard in mainstream circles. He was a right-wing radical anti-egalitarian and was mainly an anti-historicist, while neocons who succeeded him were strongly historicist in their worldview and causy.
BAP made one tweet encouraging meritocracy (within a state) as a temporary goal for white advocates, meanwhile he has made dozens of tweets critical of Israel and sometimes even glorifying Hezbollah. He “capitulates” on Israel far more than on race or immigration.
Not really. His ideology is only coherent when you realize his first priority is Israel. It explains his hyper fixation on people who attack Israel and why he does such base level shilling during elections.
Have you ever read BAP's books? Hell, do you even listen to his podcast? Where is this confidence coming from in calling his beliefs incoherent? BAP has never had a hyperfixation on people who attack Israel. A certain subset of people who attack Israel have a hyperfixation on BAP to the point where they encourage doxxing and mass reporting everyone who is even vaguely associated with him, and he responds to these people, but he has never had a hyperfixation on Israel attackers
The Democrats are equally captured by Asian and Indian interests, if not more. Many of Biden’s appointees were Asians.
If true, then at least you know what you're getting. I would rather be screwed from the front than from behind. But yeah, if I was a single-issue voter on immigration, maybe I would line up every four years to get back-ended by Elon and Vivek on the 1% chance that they will be better on that issue, or something.
Not done reading but Trump did indeed reduce net migration first term https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/07/21/trump-cuts-legal-immigrants-by-half-and-hes-not-done-yet/?sh=4bf3e506168e
Furthermore, the argument here is about H1Bs,not Mexicans. I clearly differentiate this; you are obfuscating, which is the mendacious Republican tactic I denounce.
Elsewhere in the article you suggest Musk would stand athwart mass deportations, suggesting that the Trumpist con extends to inaction with respect to low skilled immigration as well. I refuted this by posting the linked article and accompanying report. This is consistent with H1B increase. Thanks
That was due to COVID. Unless you expect COVID to happen again, that is not relevant.
COVID played a big role but much of the reduction predates the pandemic
The National Foundation for American Policy projects that the number of legal immigrants will decline by 49% (or 581,845) between FY 2016 and FY 2021 due to Trump administration policies. (From the FY 2016 total of 1,183,505 down to 601,660 in FY 2021.) How did the Trump administration reduce legal immigration by 49% without changing U.S. immigration law? The answer is by using executive and administrative authorities, some of which are being challenged in court.
@BLANK: I never thought I would be accused of being "quiet"! LET ME TRY WRITING LIKE THIS, MAYBE THROWING IN SOME SWASTIKAS TO GET ATTENTON?
I distinguish between moralism and metaphysics, but from a Nietzschean view it's understandable to conflate these.
BAP’s doctoral thesis is partially an attempt to conflate Nietzsche and Plato, and I think he follows in Strauss’s footsteps in this regard as Strauss tried to make the point that Plato’s later writings like Laws were partially an opticscuck and Plato was more like Critias than is admitted. Idk I never read him but that’s what I have been told
If you don't want to read his book you can read my commentary here:
https://deepleft.substack.com/p/costin-alamarius-philosophy-mob-left
https://deepleft.substack.com/p/lawgiving-and-philosophy
>Nietzsche’s primary contribution was to free us from metaphysics
Many people say this, but early modern philosophers influenced by skepticism, such as Montaigne, Gassendi, and Bayle, already did this. (Hume had eight volumes of Bayle in his trunk while writing the Treatise.) Speculative philosophy flourished during Romanticism, but neo-Kantian critical philosophy returned to dominate Germany at the end of the 1800s.
I'd say Nietzsche is more influential in promoting Lebensphilosophie, but he is not unique in this, either. (Simmel, Dilthey, James, and others moved in a similar direction.)