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posted by martyb on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the revenge-of-the-nerds? dept.

President-elect Donald Trump realized early in his campaign that U.S. IT workers were angry over training foreign visa-holding replacements. He knew this anger was volcanic.

Trump is the first major U.S. presidential candidate in this race -- or any previous presidential race -- to focus on the use of the H-1B visa to displace IT workers. He asked former Disney IT employees, upset over having to train foreign replacements, to speak at his rallies.

"The fact is that Americans are losing their jobs to foreigners," said Dena Moore, a former Disney IT worker at a Trump rally in Alabama in February. "I believe Mr. Trump is for Americans first."

Yes, US nerds were angry about training H-1B replacements, but how much could they have helped put him over the top?


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:20PM (#425368)

    Yup, I'm a dirty coastal liberal and I agree that the vast majority of the US is made up of decent people. Even the blatant minor prejudices are usually a hold over, and the people themselves would swear they don't have such prejudices. I can work with a prejudiced person that swears they aren't, but one who has no shame about their bigotry is the one to watch out for.

    I think the US has improved in a lot of ways to the point where a lot of people don't even know what real racism is all about. We just need to keep cruising along and the whole country will come up to speed with tolerance and acceptance. Trying to force it along is what helped give us Trump.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:25PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:25PM (#425373) Homepage Journal

    Precisely. When you call someone a cocksucker, they're not going to be pleasantly disposed to your ideas going forward.

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  • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Friday November 11 2016, @12:57PM

    by mojo chan (266) on Friday November 11 2016, @12:57PM (#425653)

    The problem is that people are too easily lead. Trump used the same tactic as the Nazis did - tell people they are being attacked, in this case by immigrants taking their jobs and raping/murdering them. And of course, only Trump can save them.

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    • (Score: 1) by oakgrove on Saturday November 12 2016, @12:13AM

      by oakgrove (5864) on Saturday November 12 2016, @12:13AM (#425874)

      Here's the thing, AmiMoJo, between the party promising to bring back "Muh jerbs" and the party asserting I'm a racist/bigot/homophobe/xenophobe for the mere fact of my existing on this earth as a "fucking white male", I think I'll vote for the jerbs. That's why Trump won. And if the left keeps up the rhetoric, in 2018, there'll be a super-majority of Republicans and in 2020 we'll be bathing in liberal tears all over again as Trump celebrates his second victory. Two can play the identity politics game.

      • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Saturday November 12 2016, @10:49AM

        by mojo chan (266) on Saturday November 12 2016, @10:49AM (#426007)

        Well, I'm a white male and not a racist or bigot, so your premise seems to be faulty.

        Anyway, the push back is going to be even harder now. People won't give up their freedoms and rights easily. It's like Brexit, people won't just accept that bigots won, they will fight it.

        By the way, not everyone who voted for Trump is a bigot, but all bigots voted for Trump. You lie with them, you accept the consequences.

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        • (Score: 1) by oakgrove on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:52PM

          by oakgrove (5864) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:52PM (#427187)

          Well, I'm a white male and not a racist or bigot

          You're delusional.

          all bigots voted for Trump

          Yeah, I'm sure the BLM bigots that call for "killing all white people" voted for Trump.

          It's like Brexit, people won't just accept that bigots won, they will fight it.

          When did you quit beating your wife? Like most of the left, you argue with fallacies and ad hominems. The good guys finally won this time. Deal with it.