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Well, if we're going full Godwin; it might be good for you and all those of us who are US Citizens to reflect on the fact that our country is currently the one
by olefoo 13y ago
Well, if we're going full Godwin; it might be good for you and all those of us who are US Citizens to reflect on the fact that our country is currently the one running the most notorious concentration camp on the planet and has admitted to running such camps in Iraq, Afghanistan and even Diego Garcia. When the histories of this era are written we probably won't be the good guys; if we ever were.
- glurgh 13y agoSure but then it's not a contest of moral turpitude. Gitmo is probably better than any camp in North Korea, it doesn't make it any less despicable. Calling VC 'human garbage' is, at the end of the day, just nerd message-board hyperventilating. And it's still completely repugnant and talking about other repugnant things doesn't make it any less so.
- michaelochurch 13y agoI actually never said that VCs were human garbage. Some of them are, some are not. I tend to think that most are not, but that many of the "cool kids" are. My direct experience (which is not with VCs) is that the VC-darling startups are mostly run by human garbage, which raises questions about who funds them. Does this mean there are probably some horrible VCs? Yes, absolutely. Does it mean that all VCs are that way? Of course not. There are plenty of good ones out there, too. My feelings about this suit are complicated. Look, Al Capone was nabbed on tax fraud, rather than the harder-to-prove but more vicious shit he did. If the Greenspan suit starts a process that puts an end to VC note-sharing and co-funding and social-proof calls-- against the spirit of the law, but hard to prove on an individual basis-- then I'm all for it.
- fearless 13y agoHow much VC funding has Gitmo raised? I must have missed the Techcrunch post about the evil VCs who finance concentration camps.