I prefer ‘hot take’ tbh. you know what else is hot? capitalism and economic growth
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Replying to @rivatez
a hot take is a "piece of deliberately provocative commentary that is based almost entirely on shallow moralizing" but ok
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Big fan of capitalism, too. Just can't forget my roots and how many helping hands my family and I got on the way up.
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I don’t trust investors that once seemed like genuinely interesting, unconventional people but then increasingly came to predictably behave like radicalized trolls online.
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I’m not sure if that’s directed at me or Mike, presume it’s both... but just because we have a differing economic (and fairly conventional!) opinion and are light-hearted about it, doesn’t make us ‘radicalized trolls’
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It’s mostly the increasingly repetitive anti-PC complaining and sense of grievance.
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Also, some people support others promoting socialist ideas because it creates a wedge that widens the Overton window of acceptable political discourse about what kind of social safety net we should have going forward even they aren’t actually socialist themselves.
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Same goes for those that support Gab for supporting Free Speech and you’ll definitely get flamed for that, too..
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ah my favorite logical fallacy, false equivalence
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Why do you consider it a false equivalence? (Genuine question)
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not typically high on the "list of things to distrust VCs about" but it's a fresh take!