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> Why are you attributing this action to VCs grandstanding on social media I'm not attributing it to that. I'm merely pointing out that the government is doin
by twblalock 4y ago
> Why are you attributing this action to VCs grandstanding on social media
I'm not attributing it to that.
I'm merely pointing out that the government is doing what the VCs were calling for, because it was clearly the correct move.
VCs ask the government to do a thing and people mock them and say it's a crazy thing to do. Then the government does that thing (whether or not they did it because VCs wanted it is entirely immaterial to my point) and you don't see the same people saying the government was doing a crazy thing.
- Apocryphon 4y agoPersonally, I don't even know if the VCs were asking for such a crazy thing, but the way VCs like Calacanis went about asking for it were certainly unhinged and histrionic, undignified and deeply revealing, which is what TFA is all about. It was a "mask off" moment.
- twblalock 4y agoAs far as I can tell Calacanis was just using all caps, and he was warning about a real risk that probably would have caused more banks to fail as early this morning, which is hardly insanity.
- Apocryphon 4y agoHe was going about it in a manic way, and certainly while this observation into social behavior is in the eye of the beholder, it is hardly uncontroversial to label tweeting in full caps as off-putting alarmist behavior.