Tweet of the Evening:

[applegrove]

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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.

[erronis]

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

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]

2. We're still the melting pot.

[applegrove]

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

international students away.

[dchill]

4. Pretty sure that's the intention.

[applegrove]

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

that they changed the abortion issue.

[TheBlackAdder]

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

[applegrove]

6. Koch Industries Kochs?

[TheBlackAdder]

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

[Hermit-The-Prog]

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

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]

10. Add Duolingo to that

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]

11. Trumps Mother?