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Then again, if all the blue states left, the remaining country would no longer be the most powerful country.

> Also, more practically, would California even afford to maintain its current existence without the many subsidies it presumably receives as part of its membership of the US?

Yes, because it sends more to the federal government than it receives in subsidies.

Oh, this pile of lulz. Mr. Torba deservedly got banned from the YC alum network for calling everyone else cucks and flaming them.

That "disruption" means killing off capital flow in Silicon Valley. People follow the money. Why would it be desirable at all to do that unless you're a racist ideologue?

According to people who have worked with him, Bannon is "legitimately sinister." http://www.dailywire.com/news/8441/i-know-trumps-new-campaig...

Of course he will gravitate towards radical "solutions." He wants to do a lot more than force hiring practices on companies.

In all democracies, policies that you're running on have to have effects before the next presidential election to assist in the reelection campaign. Ending visa programs will not significantly change demographics until 5-20 years down the line. Unless you think that Stephen Bannon will end democracy before the next election, ending visa programs will not be enough for him.

Also, according to former associates, Bannon is "sinister", "vindictive", and willing to "kill everyone else." Naturally he gravitates to radical solutions over moderate ones. http://www.dailywire.com/news/8441/i-know-trumps-new-campaig...

The effects would take too long (longer than the next election) to show up.

If you look at the facts, white people are not underrepresented at C-level.

Of course, Bannon and the facts do not have a good relationship at all.

> corrected

Your choice of vocabulary says something about your opinions, as well.

Enlighten me. How else would he go about changing the demographic makeup of anything besides ethnic cleansing?

Trump is saying that we have to keep the talented people in the country.

Bannon disagrees that we should keep the talented people in the country, but he doesn't want to say it to Trump's face, so he says a bunch of code words for "whites only society."

There's only one way to make a whites only society. It's ethnic cleansing. Trump happens to have already brought discussions of mass deportation to the mainstream.

Mass deportation is a type of ethnic cleansing, by the way. It's right in the definition. There is no leap of logic there.

As an aside, Bannon is significantly overstating the percent of CEOs who are Asian.

> “We have to be careful of that, Steve. You know, we have to keep our talented people in this country,” Trump said. He paused. Bannon said, “Um.”

> “I think you agree with that,” Trump said. “Do you agree with that?”

> Bannon was hesitant.

> “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” Bannon said, not finishing the sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

What could Bannon possibly have meant by this besides wanting to deport them en masse?

Mass deportation is ethnic cleansing, in case you didn't know.

While you preach about listening to both sides, Trump's Chief Strategist Steve Bannon wants to ethnically cleanse Silicon Valley.

https://i.redd.it/3tx94qwvixxx.jpg

Full Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered...

Free trade lowers prices for everyone. The poors won't be able to buy food if Trump follows through with protectionism.

Because at the current interest rate, the government actually makes money from taking out loans after inflation is accounted for.

Behind every regulation is a body. Or 3 of them.

Cupertino is the worst of these, as there isn't any mass transit there besides VTA buses.

A noncompete typically bars you from holding any type of related position within a specific radius of your employer.

It also happens that the Irish (local) and Italian governments were a lot more corrupt than America was in 1916. Italy is much more corrupt than America to this day. You're clearly a crackpot who doesn't know what he's talking about.

They are very real. Check out the Daily Stormer if you don't believe me.

> That is far too deep a rabbit hole to get into in an HN comment, but for starters, he is both one of Hillary's largest donors, and he owns the companies that make our voting machines. The very same voting machines that have already in early voting experienced a high frequency of "glitches" flipping votes from straight-ticket conservative ballots to Hillary.

Citation needed. No right wing conspiracy sites/blogs or other unreliable sources, please.

As for the Clinton/Trump stuff, I'm not even going to engage with you on it because I've already made my decision based on the fact that I want to keep the KKK Nazis as far away from power as possible, independent of any of the candidates' personal scandals.

notoothpaste is a Trump supporter. He's accusing you of cognitive dissonance.

There are issues where being unable to take a strong stance is indicative of a weak mind, such as Nazism and genocide. If you can't stand strongly against things like those, you're simply a bad person.

You can't hire the people working for megacorps if your company is in Virginia because they are more likely than not bound by noncompete clauses. Only California throws them out as a matter of public policy, which is one of the main reasons why Silicon Valley is where it's at.

You are obviously a white male. You have no credibility when it comes to denying discrimination. You have never been in danger of being fired or lynched for some intrinsic characteristic.

Read a Dickens novel and tell me about how great the social safety nets in Victorian England were.

Tell me more about Polish government corruption in 1916. I'd be interested in what you have to say about it.

At this point, isn't a site without CSS only suitable for tenured academics who don't care about their personal websites?

But then you have to use PHP.

The only ridiculous false allegations in your comment are the ones against George Soros. The allegations against Trump are neither (provably) false nor ridiculous.

Donald Trump is just as involved with Epstein as Bill Clinton is.

You do realize that the alt-right, the KKK, and the Nazis stand for genocide, right?