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    Janet Yellen also tweeted:

    "In its place, America will enter a competition that we can win; one judged on the skill of our workers & the strength of our infrastructure."

    Oh boy

    • Not that this isn't good news. Biden already doing more about China than Trump. Why are we sold the lie that Dems and Repubs are opposites?
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    • because of social and economic positions mostlymonospaced
    • I mean they really are trying to get to the same goals. They just have different ways of imagining the journey. But yeah, socially, that means opposites.
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    • socially and economically I don’t think there are shared goals thomonospaced
    • Funnily enough, as fucked as the US is, we are home to both the worst and the best people in many ways. We do have highly skilled strong workers.monospaced
    • They are often overshadowed by the majority of low skilled, lazy ignoramuses.monospaced
    • True. And a ton of hard-working, highly skilled Americans are recent immigrants, on H1-B or farm visas, etc.
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    • sure 100% true, but they ARE Americans, so ... kinda irrelevant, but great, point?monospaced
    • (2018) "55% Of America's Billion-Dollar Startups Have An Immigrant Founder"
      https://bit.ly/2V59z…
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    • Ppl come to the US to start shit because there's easy access to capital and easy growth with less regulation. Your infrastructure is shit, skills too.
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