{"id":81181,"date":"2024-12-31T06:41:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=81181"},"modified":"2024-12-31T06:41:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:41:49","slug":"this-indian-american-thing-is-not-going-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/this-indian-american-thing-is-not-going-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"This “Indian American” Thing is NOT Going to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This \u201cIndian American\u201d Thing is Not Going to Work. Neither is the \u201cBig Tech Overlord\u201d Thing<\/a><\/h1>\n

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I had a long article about the whole Elon Musk H-1b fiasco planned for today, but I\u2019m tired, so I\u2019m writing a much shittier version instead. I\u2019ll write the better version later this week. Maybe. No promises.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\u2019m sure some of the superficial \u201cculture war\u201d bullshit (which literally does not matter), tech billionaires don\u2019t 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.<\/span><\/h2>\n

America is either a geographic area with a series of vague \u201cideas\u201d that define a \u201cproposition<\/a>,\u201d or it\u2019s a group of people, defined by a shared history and genetic identity, who live on this land. It can\u2019t 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\u2019t matter, because people are not ideas and this doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/span><\/h2>\n

RTWT @ Unz<\/a><\/h2>\n

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This \u201cIndian American\u201d Thing is Not Going to Work. Neither is the \u201cBig Tech Overlord\u201d Thing   I had a long article about the whole Elon Musk H-1b fiasco planned for today, but I\u2019m tired, so I\u2019m writing a much shittier version instead. I\u2019ll write the better version later this week. Maybe. No promises. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16280,5067,15696,15169,16545,13,74,2086,5653,1317,4912,4126,883,14643,14588,5594,4892,18411,3176,5176,5971,17107,3553,7372,3986,14111,5729,5770,481,482,483,484,65,16173,15639,10173],"tags":[9569,8490,15178,474,7806,18399,18413,9797,18414,7064,18412,9366,9527,488],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81184,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81181\/revisions\/81184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}