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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz Will Donate to Trump

13 points by sseagull 2y ago

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h2odragon 2y ago
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- sseagull 2y ago
  This is pure whataboutism. Also, you seem to have forgotten about how George Soros was boogeyman for decades. Also, don’t forget to look at the Trump family and what they openly received without even a pretense of avoiding conflict of interest. At least with Biden there has yet to be any direct evidence of influence.
nostrademons 2y ago
Duh, they're investors in VP candidate JD Vance's VC fund. Plus part of the Trump/Vance platform is breaking up big tech, which will open up the startup ecosystem for investors like Andreessen, Horowitz, Thiel, et al to fund new fruitful startups in it. Trump is also pro-crypto, which is handy when a16z is a huge long-term investor in blockchain startups. Within Silicon Valley, the big political split is likely to be the employees of Big Tech on the Democratic side vs. the VCs, founders, and other participants in the startup ecosystem, who are lining up behind the Republican party. Both sides are talking their book: a Trump victory promises significant disruption for Big Tech companies and their employees, and that disruption is opportunity for people taking positions against the incumbents.
- tomjakubowski 2y ago
  Trump is also responsible for the tax code changes to Section 174 requiring R&D expenses be amortized, which is a big drag on early-stage startups. Seems like simple and ordinary upper-class support for upper-class tax cuts, to me.
jschveibinz 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity."
- activista 2y ago
  That's the unfortunate thing about unbridled corporate personhood and speech through PACs -- The folks who pull the strings are quite political and able to direct large stacks of cash to their politics and that drags politics front and center into the professional world. That makes it quite relevant for hackers everywhere, IMO, and blurs the lines one might otherwise be willing to draw on avoiding 'ideological battles'.

13 points by sseagull 2y ago

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h2odragon 2y ago

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sseagull 2y ago
This is pure whataboutism. Also, you seem to have forgotten about how George Soros was boogeyman for decades. Also, don’t forget to look at the Trump family and what they openly received without even a pretense of avoiding conflict of interest. At least with Biden there has yet to be any direct evidence of influence.

nostrademons 2y ago

Duh, they're investors in VP candidate JD Vance's VC fund. Plus part of the Trump/Vance platform is breaking up big tech, which will open up the startup ecosystem for investors like Andreessen, Horowitz, Thiel, et al to fund new fruitful startups in it. Trump is also pro-crypto, which is handy when a16z is a huge long-term investor in blockchain startups. Within Silicon Valley, the big political split is likely to be the employees of Big Tech on the Democratic side vs. the VCs, founders, and other participants in the startup ecosystem, who are lining up behind the Republican party. Both sides are talking their book: a Trump victory promises significant disruption for Big Tech companies and their employees, and that disruption is opportunity for people taking positions against the incumbents.

tomjakubowski 2y ago
Trump is also responsible for the tax code changes to Section 174 requiring R&D expenses be amortized, which is a big drag on early-stage startups. Seems like simple and ordinary upper-class support for upper-class tax cuts, to me.

jschveibinz 2y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity."

activista 2y ago
That's the unfortunate thing about unbridled corporate personhood and speech through PACs -- The folks who pull the strings are quite political and able to direct large stacks of cash to their politics and that drags politics front and center into the professional world. That makes it quite relevant for hackers everywhere, IMO, and blurs the lines one might otherwise be willing to draw on avoiding 'ideological battles'.