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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jan 5

    Two unpopular opinions: Who is President matters way less than we think it does; it’s mostly emotional. Protesting is one of the worst things you can do politically, because it’s an incredible amount of effort for practically no result other than showing n people feel some way.

    8:44 PM - 5 Jan 2018
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      2. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jan 5

        Getting people to stand on the street, yell at nobody, and think they’re making a difference is the best example I can think of for “opiate for the masses”

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jan 5

        Actually I take that back. Dunking on Trump all day on Twitter to a crowd that already agrees with while making yourself seem crazier to the other side you qualifies as well.

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      2. Joshua Howland‏ @jkhowland Jan 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        One book that changed the way I saw the president and civil rights was one of LBJ’s biographies. I think you may be mostly right about the president and mostly wrong about the protests.

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jan 5
        Replying to @jkhowland

        Which one? Would love to be wrong

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      4. Joshua Howland‏ @jkhowland Jan 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Awesome book: “The Passage of Power” https://www.amazon.com/Passage-Power-Years-Lyndon-Johnson/dp/0375713255 … I listened to it on Audible. Trevor liked that Tweet because he recommended it.

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      5. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jan 5
        Replying to @jkhowland

        Do you think the lessons about protesting are still true today? In the past that was the only way to gather sentiment

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      6. Jade Q Wang‏ @qiqing Jan 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred @jkhowland

        During the May Fourth movement (1919), Chinese students gathered in Tiananmen Square demanding that the Chinese gov not sign the Treaty of Versaille because it gave Shandong province to Japan. Arguably the day Chiang Kai-shek really started losing power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement …

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      7. It's Wilson!‏ @sophists_choice Jan 6
        Replying to @qiqing @AustenAllred @jkhowland

        Yuan Shikai, you mean?

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      8. It's Wilson!‏ @sophists_choice Jan 6
        Replying to @sophists_choice @qiqing and

        Never mind, I think I see what you mean... But of a stretch though given Chiang wouldn't come to power for almost 10 more years

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      9. Jade Q Wang‏ @qiqing Jan 7
        Replying to @sophists_choice @AustenAllred @jkhowland

        Actually, Chiang Kai-shek was a founding member of the KMT after the success of the 1911 Revolution.

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      1. Joram Clervius‏ @clervius Jan 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Rebuttal, Opinion 1: I used to always agree with this until 45. He is VERY consequential, forces people who want good to be done to put some real sweat behind it = net good. Opinion 2: True when it's about money (Occupy movement), less true when it's for civil right.

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      1. Neil Devani‏ @neildevani Jan 6
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        The first opinion is the definition of privilege. Because we talk and deal in abstractions re: politics doesn't mean real people aren't being blocked from free movement, detained, deported, victimized by hate crimes, denied healthcare, denied justice, killed. Shit is real.

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      1. Timothy Roy‏ @coyotespike Jan 6
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Used to agree about protesting, now am agnostic. Consider: many people producing a costly signal can unite future political action, as future participants can be more assured of serious/credible support.

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      1. alex n‏ @gigatexal Jan 6
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Tell that protesting part to MLK or the women’s suffrage movement

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      1. Petar Lalović‏ @PetarLalovic Jan 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I must strongly disagree: 1) It matters to the hundreds of thousands of casualties that happened in Iraq since 04. 2) It mattered to the people marching in Selma in the 1960ies and many others

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      2. Alex Baranosky‏ @Baranosky Jan 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Maybe in 1780 this was true? Today the president has a lot of power to do executive orders essentially legislating from the executive branch.

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      2. Joel Gobble Gobble Jenkins‏ @unculturedswine Jan 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I unpopularly agree completely.

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      3. StephAnn‏ @stephkdesign Jan 5
        Replying to @unculturedswine @AustenAllred

        Completely agree to the first point... a little less on the second, but I CAN see why it’s a valid point. I think solidarity is important and a group coming together to march (or protest) can strengthen resolve and start change.

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      4. Joel Gobble Gobble Jenkins‏ @unculturedswine Jan 5
        Replying to @stephkdesign @AustenAllred

        Strengthening the group makes sense, personally I feel that with the multitude of ways we yell at politicians nowadays a protest just gets lost in the noise.

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