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@eigenrobot
Dec 29, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
this is pretty brutal but im not familiar with the dataset and i imagine i might be missing some context

what i'm most curious about is, something like 10x as many applications are approved as visas can be granted by statute

so do most of these just go unfilled?
or is the limit just ignored (i assume not but who knows) or what
asstd comments from the boys and also response from OP, thanks all 🙏

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natch

i think the actual optimal policy is "reform this" but i also understand the willingness of people to throw out the baby with the bathwater because they dont trust any reform to actually be implemented as intended

im not sure theyre wrong to doubt
this is one reason why you

Don't
Fucking
Lie

for short term political gain

if you fuck people with a policy after lying about it they're not gonna trust you again and you may be unable to get a sensible compromise position during the backlash
further discussion re: h1b and reported entry level jobs shortages

good grief

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Apr 6
ok i have a theory of what happened during the awokening

it came to me while i was discussing the religious character of the prohibition on sucker punching ("what's intolerable is not that the punch lands, but that it refuses to acknowledge the altar" spoiler) Image
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male homosocial societies are bound by a number of precepts and principles that guide honorable behavior in a given context. these are separate from "general" religious commandments and from philosophical ethics
these notions of honor do not bind women because women aren't participating in the male status hierarchy competition whose operation the conventions function to govern
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Apr 4
look i think the tariffs are retarded but to the extent this is actually evidence of anything its probably evidence *against* SH causing global trade to collapse
who cares nothing matters everyone is mad

enjoy arbys
dear anon shako's thread on this is great tho and i endorse it. modulo BGG financial accelerator stuff and whatever else people cooked up since the 90s

whereas OP above is a professor at Mason?

annals of institutional collapse ig
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Mar 31
publicly registering that i was wrong in my speculation about this. and i'm delighted to eat crow here

i didn't think parliament had it in them.

what's the intuition for why this happened?
lol they seem to be throwing the black guy under the bus

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i deeply resent this though

yeah man everyone practiced slavery

anglos are only different because they determined that it was an abomination and forcibly ended it everywhere they found it
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Mar 27
grateful to cyan for writing this out

want to add that this also fails because it doesn't actually match the Ghibli style. in fact, the character design is repellent; this is separate from the subject matter

did they even know they were posting slop?
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i can actually prove scientifically the white post is shit. watch this
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Mar 22
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its actually fairly good as a commitment device binding on future administrations because this decreases the value of illegal immigrants for all subsequent administrations and it removes the "they pay taxes argument"

obviously it is also rather unsavory
on the other hand backdooring illegal immigration was also unsavory so who can say who sucks most here
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Mar 10
i think its reasonable to call this a revolution in the sense that trump doesnt adhere to elite norms nor even middle class norms. and its not clodius pretending to be a plebe, its a pleb not even pretending to be a patrician

throw the mandate of heaven in the trash etc
until the first trump term a surprising amount of the president's ability to influence the country was derived less from his potestas--that is, his formal powers--than from his auctoritas, which was closely tied to his dignitas

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im not sure we actually have anyone, anymore, with sufficient dignitas to actually possess or wield the historical presidential auctoritas. we are all lesser men now and all our high institutions have debased themselves
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