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Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by achileas » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 2:51 PM UTC

wahnfrieden wrote: post #130

12_throw_away wrote: post #105

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Besides the "block anyone remotely progressive" approach to social media (including industry folks like Anil Dash [1]) - he seems extremely uncivil and rude [2]. And Sam Altman has explicitly referenced his politics as a reason for this decision [3]. This gives me the impression that there's a specific political agenda being advanced at YC ... [1] https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1564285359755874304?s=20... [2] ht…

so YC is celebrating having political influence that is explicitly pro-cop, hard on crime via punishment, etc., that's lovely

VC people have always been rightwing. They're not your friend.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by achileas » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 2:54 PM UTC

wpietri wrote: post #255

preommr wrote: post #69

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> The extreme left in SF politics (which in SF = the Establishment). ??? kind off topic, but I am curious what other people in SF think about this statement. I don't live there, but I find it surprising and dubious that the extreme anything is also "the establishment", not saying it's not possible but seems unlikely to me.

20 years in SF, and I can promise you that the extreme left is not the establishment here. As an example, we had a relatively progressive prosecutor who tried occasionally to hold cops to account. After an acrimonious campaign, he was just recalled with extensive support from a chunk of the establishment. His replacement, selected by the mayor, volunteered as an active proponent in the recall. Except that it came out…

And Tan was a major backer of that recall

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by shuckles » Tue, Sep 06, 2022, 8:53 PM UTC

achileas wrote: post #290

shuckles wrote: post #195

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Hamasaki takes sides and works with prolific accounts over any salient prog vs. mod local political issue. The fact that the topic in the screenshot had to do with the BOE recall specifically is pretty irrelevant. He had probably been harassing Garry for any local political position for months. Unfortunately, Hamasaki also recently deleted months of tweets to clean up his image for a local election run, so it’s hard…

> He had probably been harassing Garry for any local political position for months. This is your red flag for motivated reasoning

I’ve seen other people harassed by Hamasaki and been at the receiving end of it myself, so no, not really.