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Honestly it might be best to flag this thread until Sam's post comes. Otherwise we're going to have people arguing about whatever side with an incomplete contex
by BinaryIdiot 10y ago
Honestly it might be best to flag this thread until Sam's post comes. Otherwise we're going to have people arguing about whatever side with an incomplete context.
Edit: I see I'm being down voted but this tweet stream has about 4 different, intersecting contexts to deal with especially regarding people trying to pressure YC to drop their partnership with Peter and DHH saying he'd fire an employee for being a political surrogate for Trump.
But fine. Let's argue about one specific, tiny piece here and then we can do this all over again when Sam's post comes out.
- Kadin 10y agoI would appreciate some context and background as to what's going on, certainly. Twitter makes it pretty hard to backtrack through multiple conversations to figure out what started a particular thread.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoBasically DHH (guy who basically created Ruby on Rails and Basecamp) complained to Sam about their partnership with Peter Thiel since he just donated over a $1 million to the Trump campaign. DHH, in his argument with Paul G, said that he would have fired an employee who was a Trump surrogate. Lots of people supporting each person and it's basically a political shit show after that with some people saying you can't fire someone just for their political beliefs and others say Trump is an edge cased monster that should be handled differently. That was my understanding of it but I missed some of the beginning. There were also big names that I can't find now that seemed to be retweeting each one in support. Seems messy.
- pyb 10y agoI think we pretty much have all the context we need on Trump, Thiel's views towards Trump, pg and sama's views of the Trump situation, Thiel's role at YC. It's all public information. Everybody should be able to express judgment on YC's way forward at this point.