5 ms·

This is some kind of creepy Randian thinking. The idea that playing developer-type leverage games make you "free" is a laughable fiction. Trump always called h

by billiam 10y ago

This is some kind of creepy Randian thinking. The idea that playing developer-type leverage games make you "free" is a laughable fiction. Trump always called himself the King of Debt, and he owes many people, bigly. The banks were betting on Hillary because familiarity breeds contempt--they had already lost billions lending to him since the 80s. Just like the Trump Foundation, he hasn't put anything except his gold-painted name into s business for many years. Who does he owe: Putin, Russian oligarchs, Thiel, Mnuchin, 2nd and 3rd rate hucksters that bankroll his schemes (and pay him through his Foundation), and...who knows? He won't release his taxes. We just elected President the world's poorest billionaire, so you can bet everything will be for sale.

ethbro 10y ago
Isn't the first rule of a startup "Don't invest your own money when someone else is willing to invest theirs?"
mschuster91 10y ago
> We just elected President the world's poorest billionaire, so you can bet everything will be for sale. I have the feeling that Trump will be a worse copy of Berlusconi. Both have a fetish for young girls (Trump even said he 'd date his daughter, if she weren't related to him), both are extremely focused on PR, both do not really like politics based on facts, Berlusconi abused and manipulated the Italian court system in his years as president to avoid punishments - and I bet my ... that Trump will do the same.
- tomp 10y ago
  > Both have a fetish for young girls What's wrong with being attracted to young women (his daughter is no longer a "girl" in any sense of the word)?
  - peterclary 10y ago
    Do you not see that there's something inherently creepy about talking about your own daughter as a sexual object?
    - tomp 10y ago
      Saying someone is good looking enough for sex isn't "sexual objectification". He just chose a bit awkward way of pointing out she's beautiful. Not creepy, although probably crude and/or primitive. Personally, I applaude him for that, I favor freedom of expression to political correctness. But I do understand how others would be appalled.
  - chillwaves 10y ago
    Because modern moral values finds pedophilia reprehensible? Because viewing children as sexual objects is disgusting?

by billiam 10y ago

ethbro 10y ago

Isn't the first rule of a startup "Don't invest your own money when someone else is willing to invest theirs?"

mschuster91 10y ago

> We just elected President the world's poorest billionaire, so you can bet everything will be for sale. I have the feeling that Trump will be a worse copy of Berlusconi. Both have a fetish for young girls (Trump even said he 'd date his daughter, if she weren't related to him), both are extremely focused on PR, both do not really like politics based on facts, Berlusconi abused and manipulated the Italian court system in his years as president to avoid punishments - and I bet my ... that Trump will do the same.

tomp 10y ago
> Both have a fetish for young girls What's wrong with being attracted to young women (his daughter is no longer a "girl" in any sense of the word)?
- peterclary 10y ago
  Do you not see that there's something inherently creepy about talking about your own daughter as a sexual object?
  - tomp 10y ago
    Saying someone is good looking enough for sex isn't "sexual objectification". He just chose a bit awkward way of pointing out she's beautiful. Not creepy, although probably crude and/or primitive. Personally, I applaude him for that, I favor freedom of expression to political correctness. But I do understand how others would be appalled.
- chillwaves 10y ago
  Because modern moral values finds pedophilia reprehensible? Because viewing children as sexual objects is disgusting?