I hate urban noise-scapes.

Trump nuked the expedited H-1B option for now.

Good.

The H-1B visa is a scam that allow firms to shortchange American workers, is nearly indentured servitude* for the workers involved, and lowers wages in general. The CNN article is full of lies, by the way.

While the visas are used to fill the US skills gap….

There is no US skills gap. There is a gap between the wage that firms wish to pay and what highly skilled workers will accept. That is the gap. Again, I repeat: no matter what you read in the press, there is no skills gap in IT, period.

What happens is the going rate for an SAP principal (if you don’t know what this is, don’t worry about it) salary is about $150,000 a year (as it should be). However, firms only want to pay $80,000 a year for this role — so they bring in a barely-capable H-1B visa-holder in to do the job.

You get the picture. Trump should eliminate the H-1B program altogether, in my opinion. It’s anti-labor and exploitative in two different respects.

*An H-1B visa holder is not a regular worker; they cannot leave their present firm unless another firm sponsors them, and their contract might not permit this anyway. They are basically stuck where hired.

Economics: using garbage math to promote destructive policy to the ignorant and clueless.

Surely a path to a good future.

The claim is that there is no such thing as right-wing feminists. But they do exist. Amanda Marcotte is one of them.

Today after seeing more craven stupidity from her, I tried to figure her and those like her out — ideologically, anyway.

Marcotte believes in equality for white women. Oh, sure, she claims that she believes in equality for all women, but nothing in her actions or tendencies confirm this attestation. Much exists to contest the idea that she is concerned with anyone not as pale as a narcissus at all.

De facto white nationalism? Check.

She also attacks the real left mercilessly, and treats anyone who actually advocates for programs such as single payer health care or free college as a psychotic evil bedlamite.

De facto supporter of right wing narratives, framing, and worldview? Check.

In every instance where she’s given an opportunity, she demonstrates that she’s on the side of the powerful and the rich rather than the downtrodden and the exploited. Sound like anyone you know? A bit like a right winger?

De facto supporter of policies and approaches that benefit the already-advantaged? Check.

Marcotte and those like her are in reality right-wing feminists. They are real. Sure, they might not give themselves that appellation but that doesn’t change anything. Names are not relevant here; actions and beliefs, however, matter.