it's genuinely hilarious that what finally ended the era of Buy The World A Coke-ism was technological globalization providing Westerners with unmediated and often unwanted information about how Third Worlders actually behave

Corrupt Indian offshoring companies have been doing this for 30 years....sad it took this long to see the light of day. I worked for one in 2000 - corrupt to the core.

Tips, we get tips. was terminated by my Indian boss when I raised concerns that we were not in compliance with a gov data security framework called CMMC used to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and Export Controlled Arms info. Our IT team was 90% Indian from Tata

🇨🇦halogen Apu was single handedly holding back every (true) stereotype about Indians from reaching the west. But then they cancelled him and now our reference points for Indians are the Indians themselves. I consider this karma, personally.

JD Vance just stopped the UK government from spying on your iPhone. The UK gave Apple 2 brutal options: "Give us worldwide access to every user's data, or pay us $10M a day." Legal experts said Apple couldn't win. So Vance went head-to-head with the UK himself:

First, some context. In early 2025, the UK government invoked its "Snooper's Charter." This gave them power to force tech companies to break their own encryption. Apple was their first target:

The demand was simple but devastating. Create a backdoor into iCloud that would let the UK government access any user's data. Not just UK citizens. All 1.5 billion Apple users worldwide. The penalties for refusing were brutal:

WhatsApp, Google, Microsoft, Signal, and Telegram all opposed the order. They knew the truth about backdoors. Once created, they can't be controlled. History had already proven this:

The NSA's Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor from 2013 was meant for government use only. Hackers exploited it to spy on encrypted communications for years. Every backdoor becomes a vulnerability. 20 million UK users lost encryption features when Apple pulled out:

Vance saw what most politicians missed. This wasn't just about Apple or the UK. If one democracy could force backdoors, others would follow. American data would be exposed globally. He took personal charge:

"Vance was in charge and was personally involved in negotiating a deal," US officials confirmed. He coordinated with Trump and DNI Tulsi Gabbard. For months, he worked behind the scenes. His message to Britain was direct:

Manic Brainbow There are lots of Apus out there. Former generations of Indian immigration were more selected, both on IQ/class, but also on unusual personal characteristics and willingness to go against what's expected. Today it seems much more to be importing "average" people and communities

Virgil Bierschwale There should be zero reason for any non US citizen to work on anything government related especially in IT. Plenty of Americans available to do those jobs...

Any government that refuses to protect its daughters is illegitimate. The crown is in the gutter, just waiting for someone to come pick it up.

He was fucking arrested for rape and they let him out on the street. Euros need to start chimping out.

🇨🇦halogen Manic Brainbow Yeah, there are still plenty of e.g. convenience store owners that specifically moved to places like the American south *because* they wanted to be part of culture where one participates in pleasantries & ritual trust. But a "mostly open" border invites more opportunistic types.

I heard an alarming statistic today. I knew it was bad but didn’t think it was this bad. Today, 75% of white men over 50 who lose their job will never work again because no one will hire them. A tsunami of much younger jobless people who will fill those jobs for 50% less pay.

Birds of a feather flock together. Even the fat ones.

Surprised it wasn't Gold Ship.