r/LeopardsAteMyFace 1d ago

President Elon says the quiet part out loud.

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u/-Codiak- 1d ago

Dude spent 2 months around a bunch of conservatives and now realizes that "Oh, the American's I'm surrounding myself might be stupid, I'll need to import smart people and convince them it's a good thing"

Also, love the "Fraction of the cost" being the main selling point. Let me sell your job off for 1/3 of the price and thank me for it!

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u/sean0883 1d ago

hash tag this is capitalism

It's always been that way. Idiots just think that anyone with a billion dollars is a smart person, and not just a ruthlessly unfeeling person that would kill you for a nickel if it cost them nothing to do it and get away with it.

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u/HothMonster 1d ago

They would kill you for a nickel if it cost them four cents.

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u/sean0883 1d ago

Fucking right.

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u/whoisnotinmykitchen 1d ago

Then they'd up the price to 7 cents and blame "inflation" and "supply chain issues"

Then up the price another 3 cents next year, and the next, and the next...

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u/RallyPointAlpha 1d ago

They'll just make it up and volume!

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u/cptredbeard1995 1d ago

What a quote. Pure gold

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u/combsgd 1d ago

They would do it for a nickel, if they thought it would only cost them four cents to do it. That's a penny pocketed.

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u/splashist 1d ago

we're calling it...INsourcing...we bring the overseas to YOU!!

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u/BasvanS 1d ago

The anti immigrant crowd will love that. They’re getting even more than they’ve been asking for.

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u/splashist 1d ago

i really look forward to pissed-off MAGAs

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u/stone_magnet1 1d ago

They'll still blame Dems and Obama somehow

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u/splashist 1d ago

I'm more interested in the ones that come hard for Trump

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u/Paulpoleon 1d ago

I’m more interested in the ones that CUM hard for Trump.

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u/mykonoscactus 1d ago

BOTH of them!!

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u/foxontherox 1d ago

Pissing off magats is like shooting stupid fish in an empty barrel.

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u/splashist 1d ago

aiming them at Trump is much harder but he's trying his best

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u/waelgifru 1d ago

This only happens if dems and left-leaning folks ensure that this gets spread around conservative media.

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u/SasparillaTango 1d ago

"But they're here legally!"

Legit question, how does MAGA feel about H-1B Visas?

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u/BasvanS 1d ago

That’s a lot of nuance you’re asking from people who believed (legally immigrated) Haitians were eating pets.

But sure, ask them if you feel you can explain H1B visas to them.

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u/SasparillaTango 1d ago

I feel like this is a joke that has already been in made in some office space-esque comedy already.

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u/der_innkeeper 1d ago

MAGA: "They"re taking our jobs!"

MAGA Oligarchs: "well, yeah. You're dumb, expensive, and i can't hold a visa over your head to motivate you."

MAGA: "but, we did vote for this!"

MO: "i already said you're dumb. You don't have to repeat it."

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u/EvilTomServo 1d ago

hmmm wonder why averageredditors are so talmudic abour immigration laws

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 1d ago

God forbid this asshole pay American workers a bit better.

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u/teddybrr 1d ago

Well he wanted to pay himself $56 billion instead of raising workers wages :) or pay the correct amount of money for people to want to work at for you and don't disregard safety for the people in the factories. The workers are the ones doing the job. They stop everything falls apart. They have the power all they need to do is work together.

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u/MGiQue 1d ago

“Ohhhh, superstitious, amorphous thing in the great nothingness out there, somewhere… unto y’all the gooderest howdy! Maybe might could the dictator from day one consider someone not himself… for we are but truly stupid, emotional animals: forever reacting. Hy’men!”

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u/Cultural-Answer-321 1d ago

Why would they when American workers don't demand to be treated better?

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u/Kizik 1d ago

Short term net loss.

Which implies that it's a long term net gain.

But really, who gives a damn about tomorrow? Massive profit now!

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u/OnlyFreshBrine 1d ago

They took our jerbs!

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u/ratfacechirpybird 1d ago

I was going to say that! You took mer jeeerb!

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u/Bigfamei 1d ago

He had a company full of talented hard workers. But fired 90% but kept the immigrant labor.

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u/2wedfgdfgfgfg 1d ago

Smart/stupid has nothing to do with this. American workers will always cost more than offshoring/outsourcing.

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u/NonGNonM 1d ago

Morons. On the other hand in the end it's a scratch in terms of immigrant labor. Not much different from what was already happening. They're just taking the long way around to reach the same conclusion and a basket full of other problems that come with it. The MAGA morons might be surprised to hear they're losing their jobs anyway and idk what sector Elmo is talking about.

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u/Late_Cow_1008 1d ago

The fuck are you smoking? He is saying this because he wants to import people for cheaper labor lol.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 1d ago

This reminds me that episode of the Handmaid's Tale where the 2 old men discuss how to make their wives love the idea of having an inhouse concubine slave

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u/Links_Wrong_Wiki 1d ago

It's also literally illegal to hire immigrants for high skilled jobs like engineers for less than you would pay to their American counterparts. The company sponsoring their visa must prove that they are paying them a commensurate rate, or that there are literally no US candidates available for the position.

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u/The_Schwartz_ 1d ago

Can we call it the cuckening?

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u/SasparillaTango 1d ago

Also, love the "Fraction of the cost" being the main selling point.

It unironically is for a billionaire. He doesn't have to care about anything but increasing shareholder (his) value.

He doesn't care about society, he doesn't care about 'free speech', he doesn't care about bias, he doesn't care about you or me or anyone but himself. He would strangle each and every one of us in our sleep if it meant a 1% increase in stock value and he'd sleep like a baby.

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u/ATTORNEY_FOR_CATS 1d ago

Boggles my mind that he actually thinks he's not yet rich enough.

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u/WisePotatoChip 1d ago

A friend in Cupertino worked the same job at Apple for 15 years. Suddenly some guy from India appears under an H1B visa and they tell my friend to train him. As soon as he does, he gets laid off.

Mr. H1B will work for 50%. The way they got around the H1B “Americans first” provisions is they just retitled the same exact job. I told him to file a complaint anyway.

I think that’s one way we can approach the coming storm is just file complaints and litigate, litigate, litigate - even if you have to go pro se.

What are they gonna do? - Call us “woke liberals?”

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u/rikashiku 1d ago

After promoting anti-immigration sentiments and tweets.

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u/Qubeye 1d ago

Elon worships at the altar of capitalism, and his sacrifice is the American people.

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u/Lopsided-Hour4838 1d ago

Isn't the whole stereotype that Americans are angry at immigrants for taking their jobs...and then...this?

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u/TaupMauve 1d ago

If you import them, they have to live in America, though. So you're not gonna realize as much savings as you think, plus they expect to be able to remit.

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u/JeffCraig 1d ago

The funniest part is that he said immigrants don't do as good if a job, but anyone that's worked with American contractors know that they do an absolute shit job at everything

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u/speedy_delivery 1d ago

President Elmo is right that it's expensive to educate folks... Which is why we try to fucking socialize the goddamned cost, you dildo!

I love how all of these uber-capitalist economic geniuses refuse to acknowledge the principle of inelastic demand.

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u/Tallyranch 1d ago

It's not that, importing working age skilled labour is much cheaper than doing it inhouse, you have to supply healthcare, education and housing for 18-22 years before they even enter the job market, then needs training and work experience before becoming profitable.
This is what running the country like a business looks like, importing labour is a good business decision.

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u/-Codiak- 1d ago

When all the businesses make a product for a consumer that can't afford to use it. Your business fails.

So no exporting all of America's jobs to save money isn't a good decision. Anyone that can see longterm could see that. It's a short term solution to make the CEO money

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u/Tallyranch 23h ago

I said nothing about exporting jobs, I'm not sure where you got that idea from.
I will repeat, importing working aged skilled labour is very good for the economy and very good for business.