If Trump wins, I'm joining the Resistance.
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Would David Duke be welcome as a YC partner if he had money to invest and a sympathetic vision for startups?
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Before I leave this thread I should clear up a few misconceptions you have seem to have.
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Peter is not a YC partner. He is a "part time partner," which means he does occasional office hours.
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And it is no longer my decision who's part of YC, which is why I have to talk about this in the subjunctive.
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If I were still running YC though, I'd be very leery of ditching people for their political views.
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Obviously there is a line, and I'd never want David Duke, but Peter is not David Duke.
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Peter seems to me more like American leftists who misguidedly idolized Stalin in the 1930s and 40s.
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There is a name for saying those people should be fired: it is called McCarthyism.
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Again, I'm cueing off the dire warnings, fatalistic language and similes you're using. Either Trump is a unique danger or not.
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Yes, he's a unique danger, but I would not want to descend to the sort of tactics he'd use.
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Does that line extend to any form of political support or ideas? Ducarté? SA apartheid? Eugenics? Is everything kosher?
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What’s Ducarté? Google has failed to answer that for me…
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Duarte. President of the Philippines.
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*Duterte
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Thanks for clarifying!
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Is there anything Trump could say or propose that would cause you to stop associating with those who are hard at work to elect him?
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Isn't no-platforming exactly the sort of thing that helps grow Trump supporter base?
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Trump is just a manifestation of a larger problem, which is radicalized discourse (on both sides).
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No. The GOP has been selecting their electorate for gullibility and authoritarianism for decades.
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Trump is the apotheosis, not an aberration, and certainly not mirrored by anything on the left.
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yes, Trump is an apotheosis, but the statement about lack of mirroring is absolutely incorrect.
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On issue after issue, the GOP has been abandoning empiricism for decades: taxes, climate change, pedagogy, you name it
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The worst thing about the Democrats you can say in that regard is that they're too deferential to big corporate preferences
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