Vivek Ramaswamy Says America Doesn’t Have Enough Engineers Because We Mocked Steve Urkel

The unholy alliance between the Trump-loyal MAGA right and the opportunistic grifters of the Tech Right has found its first conflict: H-1B visa policies. As the two teams try to fix themselves, they stumble new forms of racism and xenophobia by the way, Department of Public Works Co-grifter-in-Chief Vivek Ramaswamy is He blessed us with a new teaching the reason America is said to have fallen behind in being able to produce great engineers: we worshiped Stefan instead Steve Urkel.

According to Ramaswamy, “Our American culture values ​​poverty more than excellence,” and it all started in 1990s sitcoms and America’s love of the jock and prom queen over the “math olympiad champion” or valedictorian.

“A culture that honors Cory from ‘Boy Meets World,’ or Zach & Slater on Screech in ‘Saved by the Bell,’ or ‘Stefan’ on Steve Urkel in ‘Family Matters,’ will not produce the best engineers,” Ramaswamy. tweeted publicly in a message that can be read by other people and everything.

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born and first-generation American “born” professionals is not because of a lack of American IQ (lazy & incorrect explanation). A big part of it comes down to the word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers and if…

– Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 26, 2024

All of this is so vague that it’s hard to know where to start, but I think it would be best to start with the fact that this is not an accurate review. Family Matters. Steve Urkel was so popular with audiences that the show was rewritten to center the character. It went from a fast-paced family sitcom to a sci-fi drama centered around America’s favorite character. Even Stefan’s character was a product of Urkel’s nerd shtick. (If you haven’t done it yet Family Matters lore, Steve alters his DNA to be a version of cool alone and woo his love interest Laura, and then creates a simulation that can be a cool boy Stefan always instead of wanting Steve to change between the two. (Laura ends up choosing Steve over Stefan.)

To be fair, this isn’t even the worst example of Ramaswamy’s poor journalism education on display in this tweet. He says “More movies like Whiplash, less reruns of ‘Friends,'” probably because he falls into the camp of people who think JK Simmons’ brutality is directed at his young students. Whip it makes sense because it makes them look like an adult rather than a cruel lunatic.

Also, look, I know I’m controlling the media’s take but I swear this is the last one – how Cory went. Boy Meets World. She has to put in a lot of effort to look good and it just doesn’t work for her. He is finally a quintessentially ordinary person who figures out how to be alone. He is not a joke or a prom king treasure.

However. What prompted Ramaswamy to take action was the ongoing battle over H-1B visas, which allow American companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs and have become a tool used by tech companies to attract international talent. The top providers of H-1B visas are all technology companies, and visas without a doubt. bringing skilled workers into the organization and achieving greater economic benefitsBig Tech companies have also become built to use work equipment to work outside by dismissing domestic workers.

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– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2024

Trumpet He banned H1-B visas during his first term-the policy that the Biden administration changed with edited for simplicity hiring immigrants. But, as Trump prepares to take office again, the program appear on the cutting chart.

The divide between Trump loyalists and Tech players reared its head last week a16z Sriram Krishnan he was name a senior policy advisor for Artificial Intelligence in the Trump White House. The nomination angered the racist Laura Loomer herself they believe Krishnan wants to “remove all restrictions on green cups.” This could lead to more foreign students coming to the US, which is a bad thing in Loomer’s eyes. He too the accused Krishnan by donating to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, but it was discovered they confused him for someone with the same namewhich seems to be appropriate for all his actions.

Now Ramaswamy and his Trump-allied tech colleagues have stepped in to defend immigration programs for skilled workers and students while facing opposition from the MAGA movement. This should happen, it’s a little surprising that the war started before Trump took office – and on Christmas Day, no less. I guess if your family hates you, you have more time to argue about immigration policy on Twitter during the holidays.

If there’s one thing Ramaswamy identifies accurately, albeit accidentally, it’s the jock-nerd divide. Author John Ganz gave his “Jock/Creep” doctrine of fascism in 2023, and it makes perfect sense here. This theory posits that Americans gravitate toward the jock/bully archetypes of their dominant leaders, while the walker/loser types conspire in the background. “Idiots want their actions to seem like history, while singers look for someone with powers they don’t have,” he writes.

Trump is undoubtedly a joke on this trend, so there is no question that his supporters are drawn to that kind of power—the kind that Ramaswamy argues should not fit into American culture. Before establishing himself above the ground beneath him, Ramaswamy served as a go-between for geeks and nerds: he could draw MAGA ideas better than any of Trump’s reforms, yet it resonates more with people pushing to the right of the tech world. Now it seems he has cast his lot with the lunatics in MAGA’s eyes.