I had a long article about the whole Elon Musk H-1B fiasco planned for today, but I’m tired, so I’m writing a much shittier version instead. I’ll write the better version later this week. Maybe. No promises.
The thesis statement is that the relationship with Big Tech and American right-wing politics is not really viable, and in fact while some of the pro-business and government mismanagement ideas overlap, as well as I’m sure some of the superficial “culture war” bullshit (which literally does not matter), tech billionaires don’t care about Americans, or even believe in nation-states at all, while caring about Americans is the core premise of American right-wing politics. The H-1B debate is just this fundamental conflict boiling up for the first time.
America is either a geographic area with a series of vague “ideas” that define a “proposition,” or it’s a group of people, defined by a shared history and genetic identity, who live on this land. It can’t be both. People cannot be ideas. And if people were ideas, you would be able to rigidly define those ideas, because people are physical entities that cannot be morphed into abstractions. The ideas would have to be highly particular. But it doesn’t matter, because people are not ideas and this doesn’t make sense.
Firstly, no one cares about the “ideas.” It is farcical, to talk about “we’re a nation based on freedom.” Who is against freedom? What nation’s government condemns freedom? I remember when Matt Walsh, an “America is an idea” conservative who claims to be Catholic, said that the “idea” is human rights. Where is the nation where the government is actively against “human rights” (whatever the term even means)?
It’s also not “democracy.” No one thinks that if Trump had declared himself dictator in 2020, that America would have stopped existing, or that the American people would become less American because they don’t vote anymore. No one cares about voting. If you’re going to define a nation by some kind of “idea,” it would have to be something like communism or Islam, and any such all-consuming idea is almost necessarily going to bring along a strong sense of ethnic nationalism.
Every other historic nation in the world, aside from those in the white, Western world, is defined by its people. What the US is attempting to create is a internationalist system, where there is no real difference between nations, and it doesn’t matter if the people they are replacing you with are Mexicans or Indians (but Indians are much worse).
This is all about India.
Virtually all of these H-1B people are Indians.
Vivek is an Indian, and one would hope that him going up there and taking the mask off, condemning Americans as useless and lazy scum who have to be replaced with his superior kinsfolk, would completely end his career.
I think we’ve all seen useless, lazy American scum. But is that the reason we are being told we have to be replaced with Indians? I mean, even if it were true that Americans are too useless to work at Google, saying that the solution is to replace them with Indians would totally undermine the entire concept of the Trump movement. “Make America Great Again by Replacing Lazy Useless Whites with Subcontinentals” would not have worked as a campaign slogan.
But again: is there some other reason for this push by the tech people to replace Americans?
Yeah.
That chart might be relevant here, huh?
Remember that these companies have repeatedly, continually replaced American workers with H-1B Indians, not because the white workers were lazy slobs, but because the Indians are cheaper.
This is what Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are demanding more of, what Trump has agreed to.
I don’t know why this is shocking to anyone. During the campaign, Trump was on the All-In podcast, which is basically the official media outlet of the tech world, saying he wanted millions upon millions of Indians to replace white people in American jobs.
The fact that Vivek is spearheading this movement indicates that there really isn’t a place for “Indian Americans,” which, by the way, is not a real thing. Indians who come to America to feed off the body of this dying nation clearly don’t care much about their own country, and they sure as hell don’t care about ours. They are a threat.
Here is an Indian saying that the real problem is Mexicans.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the claims that H-1B or Indian immigrants are taking jobs of laid-off American tech workers are not data-driven and that illegal immigration is the real problem pic.twitter.com/kNtyeq6qvr
— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) December 30, 2024
If that were true, that would be very convenient for Indians, wouldn’t it? When an Indian is making this argument, you have to wonder if he has a dog in this fight.
Mexicans do disrupt the labor system in this country by driving down wages for the lowest wage jobs. They drive down all wages. But they don’t have the same effect as H-1B Indians, who have decimated white collar wages. More importantly, at least to me, Indians have a much more deleterious effect on our culture. Few people ever had their life directly interfered with by a Mexican. (With Biden’s full open-borders, there were problems with various Latin American countries emptying their prisons and mental hospitals to dump those people into our country, but that is new and those people are not from Mexico.) Everyone who works in a middle class job has been forced to engage with Indians in a way that made them uncomfortable. These people are freakish and disgusting and they behave badly. They are incapable of grasping anything about white culture, but they are obsessed with interfering with it, with dominating it.
The fact that Elon Musk is going balls-to-the-wall for his right to replace the American people with Indians shows that the core ethos of tech people is more aligned with the interests of Indian contracting firms than it is with the interests of Americans.
The biggest H-1B visa winners are largely Indian IT outsourcing firms — Cognizant, Tata, Infosys, HCL — that specialize not in innovation or new tech, but in labor arbitrage: lower paid IT workers as contractors. These firms generate billions then lobby for more lax visa rules.
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) December 29, 2024
If it was just about money, these people could go after taxes, try to get rid of these wars, cut the size of the US government massively. But the tech people don’t even understand why they would need to avoid the issue of race-replacement, because they do not have any particular interest in America in the first place. The ideology of these tech people is about putting computer chips in people’s brains, living forever and colonizing outer space. They view humans as economic units. Why would they care about blood and soil? Why would you even expect them to understand why you don’t want to be replaced with Indians?
The only “other” that they recognize is the Chinese, because they’ve witnessed how the Chinese view themselves as a competitor. Chinese are now being heavily ethnically cleansed from Silicon Valley, with the government claiming they are a security risk and the tech people very eager to agree.
They claim that the Chinese are stealing technology. But anyone can steal technology, and everyone does that, and the only reason it would matter is if the Chinese were an organized, competitive threat to some larger ideal.
While some of these notions about a glorious technological utopia exist in China (though many Chinese are also critical of these ideas, as you’d expect), the actual conflict between Silicon Valley and the Chinese is that the Chinese believe in nationalism, something that is incompatible with the Silicon Valley view of the man in the universe.
If Trump had any spine, he’d tell these tech people if they want to hire Indians, they can move their companies to India and pay his tariffs for products imported to the US. But he won’t do that, because as I’ve said, he’s not going to do anything.
Over the weekend, Trump openly sided with Musk/Ramaswamy.
Trump sides with Musk on H-1B visas:
“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.” pic.twitter.com/5GzVLLBVm9
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) December 28, 2024
Now, what do you think is going to happen when the Jews tell him it’s time for war with Iran?