Obviously, we want more immigrants, it’s one of our founding principals, but we also don’t want things to happen that will set support for more immigration back in the long term

All that said, Twitter only allows editing in the 1st hour, so not easily done.

My reading of “thankfully”, both from knowing the chapter lead and my general view on this is that they are thankful the US isn’t in the situation described, as they are worried it would lead to mass backlash and prohibit future immigration.

What the fuck are you talking about. Dems just won elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and arguably even NYC (where we didn’t like Mamdani — or Cuomo to be clear) by basically following popularism.

It is bad to leave incorrect views totally unchallenged.

… programs that will lead to mass public acceptance of more immigration in the long term! Again, I’m on vacation right now, but if you remind me next Tuesday, I’ll send you a good piece that breaks this down

Again, this is just bluesky folks misreading. The average American believes that it’s better for folks to come through the normal legal system rather than asylum process, because they view the asylum process as broken and chaotic! Folks who want more immigrants should want to support the popular…

I mean sure yeah. But when you have the tech-adjacent racist weirdos like Wayne arguing about the metrics, it is good to have someone pointing out that they are wrong about the metrics! Maybe the chapter didn’t do it perfectly, but it’s always good to have someone pushing back from a different angle

I’m going to go back to enjoying drinks while on my vacation now. If you are still mad about this in a week, you can tag me against next Tuesday

Man I’m on vacation right now and dont want to deal with this, but taking a single tweet out of context is dumb. If you actually followed the bay area account, you’d know they spend half their time arguing against the tech-bro right wing nuts. Anyways here’s some more from the thread

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After her career as an engineer with NASA, Poppy became an attorney and turned her focus to the fight for women's rights. She's served on the national board of directors of the National Organization for Women, and worked with the Texas and Houston chapters of NOW.

Poppy was a member of the mission operations team that received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for rescuing Apollo 13, and has been featured in numerous documentaries about the space program.

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