> elon wants to import the top 0.1% of talent from other countries via the h1-b program, but communicates it very poorly > twitterites assume the worst and interpret this as him wanting to massively expand h1b immigration, and start attacking elon > elon again fails to adequately communicate what he meant and instead just argues > at one point this results in a reply that makes it look like he's attacking all of maga when really he just meant racists, but it took so long for him to figure out he needed to clarify that that the damage was already done by the time he got around to it > indians have already entered the conversation and make themselves look bad > white leftists virtue signal about immigration and accuse the right of being racist again > vivek makes a tweet attacking american culture as not promoting merit. it doesn't go well. > twitter starts showing evidence of h1b abuse via hiring of low-skill workers/low-skill positions > elon eventually tries a little harder to communicate what he initially meant but now it's too late and the damage is done > also he gave in to the twitter doomscrolling spiral and got all pissed off publicly > by now the entire thing is a poo in the loo show and everyone is pushing their narratives as usual, but since elon is directly involved and engaging with it, the poo storm is more visible than normal > meanwhile people are realizing they are not alone in their criticism of indians and/or indian culture tl;dr elon trying (poorly) to make a nuanced point on the platform that killed nuance in modern politics backfired spectacularly
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