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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) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:39PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:39PM (#425386) Homepage Journal

    Oh, I apologize. Where are my manners? Do you need help packing or loading the truck?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:20PM (#425433)

    Its funny how you highlight how you're such a tool all the time, hiding behind a bunch of bravado like you're some tough guy. You imagine you're superior but you're seriously lacking in world perspective.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:27PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:27PM (#425440) Homepage Journal

      I'm not interested in the world much. I don't delude myself into thinking I know how best to run it. I don't aspire to that level of hubris. I leave that to those who've completed their college indoctrination^Weducation. My own little corner of it is enough to keep me busy.

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    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 11 2016, @02:09AM

      by Gaaark (41) on Friday November 11 2016, @02:09AM (#425527) Journal

      Yup... that sounds like Hillary!

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 11 2016, @02:05AM

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday November 11 2016, @02:05AM (#425525) Journal

    I don't have a truck, but I can bring pizza and beer: gluten free beer and pizza. No cheese on the pizza. Is that okay?

    Where'd everyone go?????

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 11 2016, @04:13AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday November 11 2016, @04:13AM (#425562) Journal

    Oh no, I've got one of several exit plans already in motion. I am now unfortunately waiting on someone in Canada, and it may be a 6+ month wait, but everything else is ready. I am going, with luck, to Canada. You are going (back?) to Hell.

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    • (Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 11 2016, @10:56AM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday November 11 2016, @10:56AM (#425630) Homepage Journal

      Happy trails. Hope you enjoy it up there. Might I recommend Vancouver. I hear the weather's quite nice there compared to the rest of the place.

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      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 11 2016, @05:45PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday November 11 2016, @05:45PM (#425743) Journal

        Uzzard, you don't seem to be able to read the atmosphere here. Let me put this in plainer terms: This isn't a fucking joke. The country just died under us. The worst of the nation has been not only validated but mainstreamed. I am not safe here, do you understand that? For the sake of my own survival, I must leave.

        And you voted for this. You cheered this on. You are drowning in the blood of innocents, some of which has ALREADY BEEN SHED NOT 3 FUCKING DAYS SINCE THE ELECTION. You will boil and writhe and flay and seethe in a sea of that blood in the next world.

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        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 11 2016, @09:15PM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday November 11 2016, @09:15PM (#425826) Homepage Journal

          Are you still here? You sure you don't want help packing?

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          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 11 2016, @09:47PM

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday November 11 2016, @09:47PM (#425834) Journal

            I'm all done, actually. Just got one open suitcase which I'm living out of. You seem to think I'm joking about this.

            Keep it up, Uzzard. You've signed your soul's death warrant, or at least its "long period of inescapable torture during which you can't faint, take organ damage, or lose sensation" warrant. I'm gonna visit you in Hell with a bag full of s'mores fixins and make dessert over your steaming, smoking soul.

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            • (Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 11 2016, @11:35PM

              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday November 11 2016, @11:35PM (#425858) Homepage Journal

              No, I don't think you're joking. I simply think it's the best possible thing you're capable of doing for this country and applaud you for it.

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              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday November 12 2016, @04:36AM

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday November 12 2016, @04:36AM (#425923) Journal

                You think you're really clever and funny, don't you? Gloat while you can; you and your kind have destroyed this nation from within, dealt it a mortal blow, and you will be trapped here as it chokes on its own vomit.

                Sorry to disappont you but I'm not feeling the kind of panic and anxiety you probably think (or hope) I am...since election night my mind has been very clear and bizarrely calm. I've even been sleeping better and making new friends at work. I now have a concrete, achievable goal in mind, and with any luck the means to accomplish it in a reasonable timeframe, likely 6 months or so while my contact on the other side of the border gets his stuff in order to pull this off.

                And as far as this site goes, I'm not leaving :) I'll continue to tweak you and point out when you are wrong, why you are wrong, how you are wrong, and that you're gonna fry in your own bile in the next world. Look for my WAN IP to change to something Canadian and you'll know when I've succeeded.

                Enjoy your dying country, Uzzard. It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

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                • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 12 2016, @11:47AM

                  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday November 12 2016, @11:47AM (#426015) Homepage Journal

                  Thanks, I will.

                  And I don't want you feeling pain. I just want you to go. I will dance a few steps of a jig that one less person whose primary fuel is hate is in the nation.

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                  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday November 13 2016, @05:15AM

                    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday November 13 2016, @05:15AM (#426202) Journal

                    You poor fool, you have no idea what kind of hell you and your kind have condemned yourselves to. This isn't hate. It's pity and disgust and the cold, nauseous sadness of a modern-day Cassandra. I've felt this coming since that day in 2001 when I saw the smoke, close enough to smell it, rising from those buildings. That day, I knew with certainty that the country had suffered a fatal breach of its memetic immune system; I just didn't think we'd get to this point so quickly.

                    I'm not even surprised you think you have the moral high ground; I've known you were that broken from the moment we met :( One way or another, you will get what's coming to you...and I'm sorry for you.

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                    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 13 2016, @11:32AM

                      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday November 13 2016, @11:32AM (#426229) Homepage Journal

                      Nah, I'm not buying it. You've left entirely too long a trail of bile and venom on these pages for anyone to believe that nonsense. You even drop into IRC when I've been mocking you too hard with the hopes that you can annoy me. Only to find out I don't sit around refreshing the comments because I don't really care about your reply but have gone fishing and am having quite a nice day wherein you are not even a remote factor.

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                      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday November 13 2016, @10:15PM

                        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday November 13 2016, @10:15PM (#426364) Journal

                        Sometimes venom and bile are well-deserved, Uzzard. Believe me, if I actually *hated* you, you would be dead now.

                        If I've hurt you, I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were so incredibly weak and thin-skinned, especially not with the amount of blustering and shit-slinging you do around here. Silly me, taking you at your word and thinking you might have been half as tough as you pretend to be. Tell you what, I've got some extra Midol if you need it. And here's a tube of Preparation H, and a box of tissues. You can't have any of my tampons though; those are expensive as hell.

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                        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 14 2016, @01:16AM

                          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday November 14 2016, @01:16AM (#426401) Homepage Journal

                          It's flattering that you'd basically take what I said to you and try to pretty it up and say it back to me. Unfortunately you don't have the style to pull off what I say. Keep practicing and one day you may find some style of your own.

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                          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday November 14 2016, @03:31AM

                            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday November 14 2016, @03:31AM (#426426) Journal

                            Like I said, if I actually hated you you'd be dead by now. You're not as careful about infosec and PII as you think you are :)

                            Besides which, you don't fool anyone (except maybe yourself). For one thing, if you were actually that tough, you wouldn't keep replying to my messages. I'm being serious with them, buuuuuut I've also discovered you're fun to troll. Easy to troll, too, as basically whatever I say will get you squawking and flapping at me, even if it doesn't mention you at all.

                            So I think I'm going to keep ruffling your filthy feathers, Uzzard, just for what the kiddies refer to as "the lulz."

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                            • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 14 2016, @01:33PM

                              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday November 14 2016, @01:33PM (#426519) Homepage Journal

                              Sweety, I'm a veteran. A whiny little libtard couldn't scare me if they had an AT4 pointed at me from ten feet away.

                              And you don't ruffle my feathers. Nobody online does. The reason I keep replying is it's quite fun to abuse your clueless little self. You're like a pair of tits; fun to play with but anyone over thirty knows there are far more important things in the world.

                              Five seconds after I post this, I'll have forgotten all about this conversation in favor of coding something or looking up the solunar chart for the day to see when the fish are supposed to be biting best. Not that those charts are good at telling you if they'll be biting but they're usually damned good at telling you when they won't.

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                              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday November 14 2016, @05:53PM

                                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday November 14 2016, @05:53PM (#426597) Journal

                                Keep trying Uzzard :) Your reactions to my posts, especially the ones that don't even mention you by name, give you away. Maybe someday you'll be able to fool someone besides yourself, though on the day THAT happens Satan's gonna get his tongue stuck to a ski-lift pole...

                                Yeah, that settles it, I'm gonna have fun with you until you figure out just what it is you've condemned yourself to.

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