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WHAT RADICAL LEFT
If the left in the US was only a tenth as "radical" as they claim, people like Musk and his billionaire friends would have to dodge bullets wherever they go.
"Radical leftists like Bernie Sanders"
IRA be like, "Wait, you're joking right?"
He means people who oppose shooting immigrants on sight
I don't think he specifically means that. Plenty of other people who use the same term do. But he actually likes immigration because it brings salaries down and his businesses depend on a lot of workers.
I'm fairly sure what he means is people who want to raise the minimum wage and oppose abolishing workers protections of different sorts.
Economists don't all agree that immigration brings wages down. Unemployment is actually up right now and a lack of immigrants is to blame, because they propped the whole system up. Less immigrants = weaker economy.
What brings wages down is the employer concentration, lack of collective bargaining power, and trickle-down economics. Our policies are designed to keep earnings down for the lower classes, so the wealthy ruling class can hoard ever more.
H1B workers, the kind Musk loves, are pretty much stuck with their jobs and get paid less than their more permanently residing counterparts even though they technically shouldn't. It's still a huuuuge increase over what they'd get paid back home, of course.
If you let your immigrants freely pick their jobs, they'll have bargaining power too and thus don't have to ruin the job market for others by accepting low wages.
The ones that "killed" what he very mistakenly thought was his son
Oh, you expect reasonable discussion and general logic from the billionaires that only want to give themselves more money at any expense?
He'll just harp on with any current buzzwords to get the base riled up over nothing and continuing to vote and act against their best interests.