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Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump
- cageface 10y agoPG doesn't get to publicly disavow Trump AND keep this guy on the YC board. Which is it going to be?
- falsestprophet 10y ago"PG doesn't get to publicly disavow Trump AND keep this guy on the YC board." Why not? People who disagree can do business and even be friends.
- postcarnival 10y ago> even be friends. Unless you're voting for Trump. In that case get out of here you deplorable racist bigot!
- x0x0 10y agoPG appears to be pulling a Paul Ryan =P But to pick just one pain point, I'm curious how he's going to square having a partner support the grab 'em in the pussy candidate with about a Crosby's worth of sexual assault victims and support for female founders.
- sawthat 10y agoTime for YC to take a stand and cut this guy loose.
- atom-morgan 10y agoOver...politics.
- yohui 10y agoFor context, Peter Thiel is a part-time partner at Y Combinator. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Y_Combinator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Y_Combinator Source: http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter
- DougN7 10y agoOr maybe he just can't stand Clinton - a reasonable stance. But Trump...?
- banhfun 10y agoHe's putting his Gawker money to good use.
- CalChris 10y agoThiel spent money on the Gawker suit. He receives nothing. Moreover, the plaintiffs have received nada yet and will probably receive nada after losing the appeal. Thiel will then be out a chunk of change but the Gawker flagship is out of business. Meanwhile Thiel is definitely out. Stealthily bankrolling the Gawker suit seems like a pointless waste of money on his part. The Trump thing makes him look even more foolish.
- FireBeyond 10y agoAnd Bollea, who was the aggrieved party, is likely to receive nothing, either. That whole affair left a dirty taste in my mouth. Denton and Gawker were textbook tabloid trash, but so many events pointed to Thiel being a puppet master pulling the strings (and Denton, however scummy, has a right to face his 'accuser'): - after securing a win, withdrawing the cause that would have allowed Gawker's insurance to cover the damages (partially), thereby largely removing both Gawker and Denton's ability to pay damages, and; - after Denton offered Bollea a share of Gawker, to be used so Bollea would get a share of the proceeds of the sale of Gawker (in light of the above), AND Bollea accepted this, a few words from Thiel-funded lawyers, and this, too, was withdrawn. - Bollea settled with the person who actually leaked the tape to Gawker for FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. And instead got THIRTY THOUSAND TIMES that as an award from Gawker. Who wants to guess if his (or Thiel's, one and the same) lawyers didn't want a settlement?
- infinotize 10y agoWhat is the point? He must know that Trump won't win.
- raldi 10y agoEven Nate Silver says Trump has about a 10% chance of winning. This could be as simple as Thiel expecting to get more than $12.5M worth of value out of the investment if that happens.
- proc0 10y agoHe might as well burn that money. Talk about bad investing.
- raldi 10y agoPeople said the same thing about Brexit just days before it happened.
- knodi123 10y agoAmazing. Trump has stated that he wants to appoint supreme court justices who can reverse the legalization of gay marriage, and that he personally opposes it... Guess Thiel is a single-issue voter?
- rtx 10y agoGood to see Thiel standing against corruption. As an Indian I am scared of Clinton.
- eyeareque 10y agoMaybe he just needed another write off?
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- roshan_arhsim 10y agoI don't see the problem with trump comments as per a recent reddit post, it was more of comments on what women, in general, will do to be with someone famous. It was a criticism of the mordern day women and nothing more.
- rpiguy 10y agoNothing like groupthink and a little dismissive condescension to make for discourse.
- pesenti 10y agoI upvoted the story and then it got removed. Then I submitted it myself and it got flagged and killed despite getting many points. Then it was submitted again, made the front page, but just got removed from the front page... What's going on?
- myth_buster 10y agoFlagged again. Oh boy!
- randycupertino 10y agoHackernews hates politics posts on the front page. They don't want to be seen as partisan.
- sctb 10y agoThese stories have been flagged by users as not belonging on HN and haven't had any intervention from moderators.
- myth_buster 10y agoKudos for putting the money where the mouth is but I think he is living in a capitalistic illusion or perhaps being stuck between devil and the high sea.
- muglug 10y agoThat sounds like a lot, but it's still $23.75M less than he donated to Clinkle.
- randycupertino 10y agoWhatever happened to clinkle? Is it still around?