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» Vivek - "My parents came to America with $0 in their pocket"
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post 1687914993 08-07-2023, 12:07 AM
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Vivek - "My parents came to America with $0 in their pocket"

(as head engineer at Boeing and specialist physician)



Seems unhinged. He only looks at fair weather.
post 1687922323 08-07-2023, 06:01 AM
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hmm...
post 1687923333 08-07-2023, 06:35 AM
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Yeah, a lot of these “I started from nothing” entrepreneurs are full of chit.

Many of them started from a solidly middle or upper middle class upbringing and deluded themselves into thinking it was nothing because they’re so rich now by comparison. In reality, anyone who actually grew up in poverty would’ve considered their middle class lifestyle rich.

I’ve heard Mark Cuban make similar claims even though he grew up in an affluent suburb of Pittsburgh. His struggle stories are almost always related to being broke in college. Except, you’re not really broke when your parents are paying for your dorm and whatever else you need you can just ask. If he was truly broke he wouldn’t have even been attending college.
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Maybe what he meant was they literally had rupees and they needed to exchange them for dollars
post 1687923883 08-07-2023, 06:53 AM
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Ramaswamy was born on August 9, 1985, in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, to Indian Hindu immigrant parents,[3] and was raised in Ohio.[5] His family are Tamil-speaking Brahmins from Kerala[3][7][8] His father, V. G. Ramaswamy, a graduate of the National Institute of Technology Calicut, worked as an engineer and patent attorney for General Electric, while his mother, Geetha Ramaswamy, a graduate of the Mysore Medical College & Research Institute worked as a geriatric psychiatrist.[
post 1687924003 08-07-2023, 06:58 AM
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Cuckservatives always have to play the bootstrap role.

All part of the play.
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post 1687924013 08-07-2023, 06:58 AM
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My parents came to America to pop some tags. Only had 20 dollars in their pocket.

It was ****in awesome
FL > PA
post 1687924443 08-07-2023, 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted By OPGenesis
Cuckservatives always have to play the bootstrap role.

All part of the play.
He, like many in the GOP, is an open borders libertarian masquerading as a "conservative" cause muh cultural wars.
post 1687931273 08-07-2023, 09:39 AM
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Seems mathematically impossible to arrive with no money at all.

If you were that broke, why travel half way around the world with your wife and kids? Seems foolish.

You always hear these stories about migrants on the southern border too where they had to pay some coyote like 5k to help get across the border. Like what impoverished person in guatemala has that kind of money? If they did they would just stay there and live a decent life.
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****** is frauding hard as fuk.

His dad is a Brahmin, which is the top of the Indian caste system. Those guys are usually wealthy.

On top of that, he graduated from NIT Calcutta. It's not the Stanford of Indian engineering schools, but it's about like the Georgia Tech. Quality undergrad program.

Then Dad came to the US for grad school, where he was probably paid a (small) research stipend. And once he finished his graduate degree, he pretty much had a middle class job set up.

It wasn't like Dad was some fukking wetback coming to the US with nothing. He was a well-bred, well-educated kid invited to the country for a mogger STEM education.
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