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applegrove

(133,085 posts) Mon Sep 26, 2022, 06:22 PM Sep 2022

Tweet of the Evening:

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Vala Afshar

@ValaAfshar

U.S. technology companies founded by 1st and 2nd generation immigrants:
Apple
Google
Amazon
Facebook
Oracle
IBM
Uber
Airbnb
Yahoo
Intel
EMC
eBay
SpaceX
VMWare
AT&T
Tesla
NVIDIA
Qualcomm
Paypal
ADP
Reddit
Slack
WeWork
Stripe
Cognizant
Intuit
3M
Zoom

43% of Fortune 500 companies.

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Tweet of the Evening: (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2022 OP

I doubt many of the magats or their children will start successful companies. erronis Sep 2022 #1

We're still the melting pot. dchill Sep 2022 #2

Absolutely. Plus you have to update your immigration laws. That could be keeping applegrove Sep 2022 #3

Pretty sure that's the intention. dchill Sep 2022 #4

And to have immigration as an unsolved wedge issue that they can call up every election now applegrove Sep 2022 #8

Fred C. Koch born in Quanah, Texas. Son of Mattie B. (ne Mixson) and Harry Koch, a Dutch immigrant TheBlackAdder Sep 2022 #5

Koch Industries Kochs? applegrove Sep 2022 #6

Yep. The same guy who worked with Joseph Stalin in Communist Russia. TheBlackAdder Sep 2022 #7

DeSatan and the GOP would deport every one of them, just for spite. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #9

Add Duolingo to that cannabis_flower Sep 2022 #10

Trumps Mother? Oppaloopa Sep 2022 #11

erronis

(24,526 posts)

1. I doubt many of the magats or their children will start successful companies.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 08:41 PM

Sep 2022

Probably wouldn't even want to be involved with a company that needed brains and new ways at looking at problems.

Thank dog for immigrants. All the way back to the first settlers - the people that crossed over 10,000+ years ago via boats or the Bering land bridge. (Guess the mastodons aren't happy about that, tho.)

dchill

(42,660 posts)

2. We're still the melting pot.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 09:11 PM

Sep 2022

applegrove

(133,085 posts)

3. Absolutely. Plus you have to update your immigration laws. That could be keeping

Reply to dchill (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 09:29 PM

Sep 2022

international students away.

dchill

(42,660 posts)

4. Pretty sure that's the intention.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 10:00 PM

Sep 2022

applegrove

(133,085 posts)

8. And to have immigration as an unsolved wedge issue that they can call up every election now

Reply to dchill (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 11:40 PM

Sep 2022

that they changed the abortion issue.

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)

5. Fred C. Koch born in Quanah, Texas. Son of Mattie B. (ne Mixson) and Harry Koch, a Dutch immigrant

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 10:13 PM

Sep 2022

applegrove

(133,085 posts)

6. Koch Industries Kochs?

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 10:16 PM

Sep 2022

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)

7. Yep. The same guy who worked with Joseph Stalin in Communist Russia.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 10:34 PM

Sep 2022

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)

9. DeSatan and the GOP would deport every one of them, just for spite.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 12:22 AM

Sep 2022

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

THESE are the races that will determine control of the House of Representatives:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217192221

Stick 'em up for a blue wave: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217078977

cannabis_flower

(3,937 posts)

10. Add Duolingo to that

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 04:06 PM

Sep 2022

The guy who developed the app is from Guatemala. He also invented Capcha

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

Luis von Ahn

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn

Oppaloopa

(965 posts)

11. Trumps Mother?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 04:27 PM

Sep 2022

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