| ▲ | pachorizons 16 hours ago |
| Remember as you read more and more news like this that many of the owners of Y Combinator supported this. |
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| ▲ | tomhow 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The only YC figure who espouses any position on U.S. federal politics is Paul Graham, who loudly campaigns against the current administration almost every day on Twitter. |
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| ▲ | frob 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Hi Tom. You're burning your credibility here fast as the new moderator. dang derived his respect as an admin from not getting into fights in the threads. It additonaly tarnishes your credibility as you're doing this in defense of your employer. You look like a rage-poster who has the same response copied and ready to go from thread to thread. Please take a moment to step back and examine if this is the image you want to be projecting as the official representative of YC and HN. | | |
| ▲ | 93po 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Alternatively, hi tom, you're a human being with opinions and you're allowed to discuss whatever you like on this site just like anyone else. i think dang is successful at moderation in part because he does have a reputation and track record of being fair and unbiased in his moderation, and i do agree showing bias in conversations can make people question moderation decisions more, but i'm not sure tom is showing bias by including information relevant to people he knows, and i think he can both discuss however he likes while also being transparent and genuine in unbiased moderation tom has and does stay out of debates and in-depth conversations around HN related stuff. he's simply dropping some information in to dispel disinformation, which i think is reasonable |
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| ▲ | lobotomizer 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's such a weirdly blatant lie. Jared Friedman endorsing DOGE https://x.com/snowmaker/status/1886672263216504853 Garry Tan hanging with a DOGE flunky https://x.com/jgebbia/status/1907181994695332295 |
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| ▲ | NelsonMinar 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Their silence now is cowardly. |
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| ▲ | addandsubtract 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | In before this thread is also flagged for being "political". | | |
| ▲ | tomhow 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The only moderator action taken on this submission was to prevent it from being downweighted by community flags – 5 hours ago. | |
| ▲ | Braxton1980 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There's a post that the FBI arrested a judge who helped an illegal immigrant avoid capture during a court proceeding. 900+ upvotes - it has nothing to do with tech - it's about a hot button political issue - it helps the Republican cause. Not flagged | | |
| ▲ | YZF 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm just curious why you think it helps the Republican cause? When I saw this reported in the media my feel was this is something Democrats are going to latch on to demonstrate the government is seeking to intimidate the judicial branch. I guess it can have different interpretation. Either way I'd really prefer not to see this stuff on Hacker News. We have enough things that push people buttons in other places. | | |
| ▲ | A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | HN has degraded a little since I joined some years ago. It is still better than most of the online fora out there, but you can feel the change in the posts. |
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| ▲ | concordDance 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This entire thread is worthless social media junk food. |
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| ▲ | hackyhacky 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Who, specifically, are you referring to; and what have they done or said to make you believe that they support this? |
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| ▲ | fzeroracer 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Well, the good news is that there's a very convenient link at the bottom of the page here on HN for the AI startup school [1] which is host to a bunch of people that you should recognize. [1] https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus | | | |
| ▲ | Spivak 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wealthy people who could be coined liberal-tarians or just your average tech bro political grab bag largely backed Trump out of financial interest and who, imo, deluded themselves that the administration would be unsuccessful at "the bad stuff" much like his 2016 run. No amount of shouting from the rooftops that this time was actually different convinced anyone. I can't really blame
us collectively, we resoundingly voted for this— it's as much of a mandate you're likely to ever get in the US and we're in the find out stage of fucking around. Looking back on old social media posts the theme is that everyone, supporters and not, were high on copium that Trump would do <list of things I like | aren't so bad> and the <list of truly terrible things> was just obviously crazy and wouldn't actually happen or were a joke. | | |
| ▲ | boxed 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Who specifically was the question. | | |
| ▲ | Spivak 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | This isn't really a hard list to compile. * Paul Graham * Mark Zuckerberg * The Ghost of Elon Musk before he fell down the alt right pipeline and now is no longer liberal-tarian. * Sundar Pichai * Jeff Bezos * Sam Altman * Jensen Huang * Tim Cook A who's who of people who felt their businesses were being threatened by the Biden administration with a starry-eyed view of how this next round might benefit them and being in denial of the crazy. | | |
| ▲ | sidibe 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Many of those probably wanted Biden to win but don't want to antagonize Trump after he won. If I had to guess there at least Sundar and Bezos didn't want Trump to win Elon and his loud hangers-on in the VC community have made SV look a lot more MAGA than it is | | |
| ▲ | hackyhacky 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Trying to psychoanalyze billionaires from afar is a losing game. If we're going to judge these folks, judge them by their words and actions. | | |
| ▲ | sidibe 15 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Most of them didn't have words one way or another during the campaign, the post I replied was suggesting they got what they want, I guess that was some psychoanalysis too |
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