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>This pardon is strongly supported by James Ramsey, Peter Thiel, Miles Ehrlich, Amy Craig, Michael Ovitz, Palmer Luckey, Ryan Petersen, Ken Goldberg, Mike Jense
by slg 6y ago
>This pardon is strongly supported by James Ramsey, Peter Thiel, Miles Ehrlich, Amy Craig, Michael Ovitz, Palmer Luckey, Ryan Petersen, Ken Goldberg, Mike Jensen, Nate Schimmel, Trae Stephens, Blake Masters, and James Proud, among others.
I guess it pays to have rich friends.
- rijoja 6y ago... or maybe they are competent and knows how to advance the public good.
- chandra381 6y agoHow does Anthony Lewandowski being pardoned advance any public good? I would argue it does the exact opposite.
- jrockway 6y agoI guess it kind of "sticks it" to Google, who Trump thinks is "so biased toward the Dems it is ridiculous!" I have no idea if there is such a thing as a "revenge pardon", but I guess it's a thing now. (Incidentally, I wanted to use an exact Trump quote in that first paragraph, and I found it here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/19/upshot/trump-complete-insult-list.html#google https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/19/upshot/trump-...)
- rijoja 6y agoHe co-founded three major self-driving car programs. How is it not obvious that having a well functioning car industry would be beneficial to USA?
- tomp 6y agoHis conviction is based on being a fall guy for Uber’s corporate espionage. His pardon could be interpreted as a strike against “piracy is theft” mindset and the idea of “intellectual property” in general that HN often rallies against. I’m quite disappointed by Trump’s pardons but this one is actually a good one.
- 0goel0 6y ago> His conviction is based on being a fall guy for Uber’s corporate espionage Do you have any evidence that he didn't commit the crimes he is convicted of? Because his lawyers would've loved to talk to you last year.
- rijoja 6y agoyeah it struck me as odd. Got downvoted like crazy for this, which is weird since I'd expect people to be leaning towards intellectual freedom here. It's not as if I said he was not guilty, but rather saying that he would have a lot of information on self driving cars. Which is what he was charged with in the first place.
- olliej 6y agoah yes, so much public good comes from rich people being allowed to commit crime.
- rijoja 6y agomm sure do you think the USA would have beat the Soviets to the moon had it not been for this guy: Wernher von Braun?
- hulitu 6y ago> ... or maybe they are competent and knows how to advance the public good. I think corrupt is the right word.
- rijoja 6y agohow can you be so sure that he wasn't put there because of corruption in the first place If highly positioned people in the industry asks to have his competence back on the market, maybe it's the best if the president just listens He was sentenced to 18 months and served 6. Wouldn't he be out on good behaviour after 9 months anyways? Are you sure you are not just knee-jerking here?
- bobsil1 6y agoOr powerful ones: https://twitter.com/rsingel/status/1351783622362030082 https://twitter.com/rsingel/status/1351783622362030082
- slg 6y agoI'm confused by this comment. It isn't an "or" situation. Thiel is a billionaire and Luckey is pretty close. Those two are powerful primarily because they are rich and they aren't the only two on that list with at least 9 digit fortunes. EDIT: Or did I completely miss that this was a joke and "powerful" was playing off "white power".
- kenneth 6y agoThe "ok" hand sign isn't a white power sign just because some people have decided it to be. It's meant ok since as long as anyone can remember. I'm not willing to accept I can't say okay now because some liberal thinkers have decided that that's now become racist. People need to lighten up a bit and not make everything an affront.
- spacemanmatt 6y agoThe white supremacy sign is a white power sign because white supremacists use it to signal each other. It is called a "dog whistle" because people like you cannot hear it accurately.
- kazinator 6y agoWhoa there, Roofus; have a Milk-Bone of information: "In 2017, users on the message-board site 4chan[40][41][42] aimed to convince the media and other people that the OK gesture was being used as a white power symbol. According to The Boston Globe, users on 4chan's /pol/ ("Politically Incorrect") board were instructed in February 2017 to "flood Twitter and other social media websites...claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy," as part of a campaign dubbed "Operation O-KKK".[37] Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture O-KKK? ... mmmmkay, whatever. You've been taken for a ride ... a wild-eyed ride with your head sticking out of a rolled-down passenger window.
- gowld 6y agoWill anyone powerful in the tech industry have the strength of character to stop doing business with these corrupt cronies?
- hehehaha 6y ago[Removed]
- befeltingu 6y agoPeter Thiel is a white nationalist? Interesting.
- NDizzle 6y agoAt least 75 million people are now white nationalists according to lefties. They're even coming up with new terms. Terms like "multiracial whiteness" to fit the new narrative. Who knows how many lists I'm on now.
- jl2718 6y agoI’m confused by the term “nationalist”. Does it imply violence? I’ve heard also “separatist”. Is that more benign?
- toiletfuneral 6y agoCry some more
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoBuzzfeed claims there are links. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/peter-thiel-donald-trump-white-nationalist-support https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/peter-thiel-d...
- befeltingu 6y agoOh well as long as buzzfeed claims there are links it’s ok to call someone a white nationalist
- eplanit 6y agoAccusations of racism are the first tool used to respond to anyone they disagree with, it seems.
- getpost 6y agoWhich Ken Goldberg? The UC Berkeley professor? https://goldberg.berkeley.edu/ https://goldberg.berkeley.edu/