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Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump (theverge.com)
Peter Thiel's support for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has given Silicon Valley a headache. This past weekend, Thiel donated $1.25 million to his campaign, which is driving away partners from Thiel's Silicon Valley accelerator, Y Combinator. Today, Project Include, a community for building meaningful, enduring diversity and inclusion into tech companies, said that it would no longer work with Y Combinator startups. "Thiel's actions are in direct conflict with our values at Project Include," the group's co-founder, Ellen Pao, wrote in a Medium post. "Because of this continued connection to YC, we are compelled to break off our relationship with YC." The Verge reports: Founded in 2005, Y Combinator has incubated some of the biggest tech companies of the past decade, including Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe. It faced a barrage of criticism over the weekend for refusing to dissociate itself from Thiel, who took an advisory role with the organization in 2015. In a series of tweets, YC's president stood by Thiel. "Cutting off opposing viewpoints leads to extremism and will not get us the country we want," Sam Altman wrote. "Diversity of opinion is painful but critical to the health of a democratic society. We can't start purging people for political support." In her post, Pao rejected the idea that Thiel's donation could be dismissed as political speech. "We agree that people shouldn't be fired for their political views, but this isn't a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence," she wrote. "Giving more power to someone whose ascension and behavior strike fear into so many people is unacceptable. His attacks on black, Mexican, Asian, Muslim, and Jewish people, on women, and on others are more than just political speech; fueled by hate and encouraging violence, they make each of us feel unsafe."
I don't need to know the underlying issue. If Ellen Pao is involved, I'm rooting for the other side.
Also really the Clintonazis are getting less and less subtle nowadays.
lucm, indeed.
All this is is more virtue signaling; heaven forbid the other silicon valley lefties do not publicly show their disapproval. It's this public displays that lefties live for, after all.
I wasn't aware the "culture" of being gay meant you had to be a blind sheep and vote for every Democrat, no matter how much they hate gay culture...
The funny thing is if you really supported "gay culture" you would vote for Trump. Hillary will not do a thing for gay people because she already has their vote.
Trump meanwhile is fine with gay marriage, and if you voted for Trump it would mean one more Republican in power than there was before who supports people who are gay... Err I mean sleep with other men, since your litmus test would mean that "gay" people were only a subset of men who slept with men whereas Trump supports ALL men who have sex with men, not just a chosen few.
Vote Trump for more sex.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
He does have sex with men, but he isn't part of the culture. It's disingenuous to call him gay.
Since when does a sexual orientation require you becoming part of a particular culture?
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Really quite fucking simply, attack the policies and investigate and report on the politicians. The supporters you leave right the fuck alone because democracy and free choice, you leave the supporters right the fuck alone because otherwise you are anti-democratic, anti-freedom and pro-arsehole.
Don't care who they support as long as they are doing it legally and not seeking to buy elections. That liberal progressives are launching this kind of attack means they are complete and utterly fake Liberal Progressives and are actually corporate stooges, right wing arseholes (jeebus, WTF, I am having to defend right wing supporters from left wing attacks because the left wing attackers are not actually left wing attackers but just right wing fakers pretending to be left wing).
When a politician chooses to call voters deplorable, guess who the deplorable person really is and it ain't those voters being slandered (that politician is also far right and most definitely not a Liberal Progressives, stop fucking lying).
I will always strive to protect voters from corrupt politicians, regardless of whether or not I disagree with the political choices of those voters, I am not a fake left winger.
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Why did I never hear of it before seeing this story? Have I been living under a rock? Did I miss something important?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Is this the same Ellen Pao that sued for sexual harassment against a guy who she actually had sex with?
It's important to remember that even if you hate Trump, a lot of people really do support him, and their reasons aren't all irrational. I am willing to bet that the reason Peter Thiel supports Trump has nothing to do with homophobia, or even hate. Attacking his supporters like this does nothing but shut down communication, which is the only way we can ever overcome our differences.
That goes for Clinton supporters, too.
Irresponsible disclosure is responsible
Ellen Pao should cut ties with the American public, because a large portion of them support Trump and therefore she equates them with "advocating hatred and violence" and "Giving more power to someone whose ascension and behavior strike fear into so many people".
Incidentally, Hillary also strikes fear in the hearts of many people, and makes them feel unsafe.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
On that point, here are a couple of more examples.
Democrats hired protesters to get into fights at Trump rallys, to give the appearance that Trump supporters are violent thugs.
From that article, note that one of the hired protesters filed suit against a Trump supporter claiming that she was punched in the face. The first cited article has a secret recording of the person hired to orchestrate the fights, where he mentions that the protester was one of his group.
(And here she is after the incident, smiling, with no evidence of bruising or injury.)
Also of note, Scott Adams got shadowbanned from twitter, for no apparent reason, and has seen invitations for speaking go from several per month (for decades) to none. He estimates that blogging about the election has cost him $1 million in speaking fees alone.
And of course, after all that people started leaving fake bad reviews of his book.
Trump supporters have been pretty polite throughout the election. We don't put naked statues of Hillary in cities, or have billboards of her kissing Huma Abedin, or make comparisons of her to Hitler, Stalin, Satan, or Cthulhu.
This is the 3-week mark where all civil discourse goes to hell, both IRL and on this blog.
Expect things to get much *much* worse.
Thought she got completely discredited, how in hell did she get another job making more than minimum wage?
Pao not messing with your startup sounds like a substantial benefit to me. Thiel got his money's worth right there.
Looking at Pao's staff, I'd also suggest that she work on diversity at her own company a bit before lecturing others.
Anyone who engenders hate against any group
And THAT is why I'm not voting for Clinton.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Well, with Hillary "marriage is between one man and one woman", she has already targeted us.
She only changed her tune when the majority of Americans started favoring gay marriage and her strategists worked out that it was now politically expedient for her to switch her position.
And that's what all her "public positions" are like: carefully crafted messages to voting blocs; once she's in power, she won't give a fuck about any of that.
I'm not sure Ellen Pao promising she won't have anything to do with your startups from now on is quite the punishment she seems to think it is.
Well, a few of decades ago, men who had sex with men and were found out really did suffer horrific oppression even in the US, and even more so abroad. Democrats, the social justice movement, and the American left were indeed quite helpful in ending that very real oppression. But now that discrimination against homosexuals is not much of a problem anymore, these people are going overboard and are starting to hurt the people they used to help.
Hillary Clinton, however, only changed her public position when it was politically beneficial to her and didn't make any difference to gay rights anymore. Given her history, any gay man or lesbian who votes for Hillary is a fool. Politicians won't stop taking advantage of us like that unless we make them pay a steep price.
Everything you just complained about is even worse at Breitbart since Andrew Breitbart died.
The website is now literally run by Trump's campaign staff. No, really, Steve Bannon is both executive chairman at Breitbart and CEO of Donald Trump presidential campaign.
I notice you didn't say that the claims made were false.
Was that on purpose?
Well, politicians change opinions often. Even Trump who is only marginally a politician. However most politicians change their opinions when public opinions change. Trump on the other hand changes his opinions every time he wakes up from a nap.
Not a Hillary fan, but you would at least hope that politicians are able to change their minds when the general public changes their minds as well. Do you really want a politician out there who say "I was in favor eugenics in 1936, and I'm not going to change my mind just because it's 2016!" Sometimes being incalcitrant is a bad personality trait, and sometimes flip-flopping is what smart people do. Of course this argument doesn't fly for the sorts of people who feel there is a cultural war going on, and that being gay is evil yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
You base that on your own biases, not on evidence. This is because evidence says that Hillary's team has been inciting violence here. I mean, we have videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And if you look up the woman in the video, well, you can see that she's on Hillary's payroll. I mean, unless you're going to say the FEC is lying now? Just look at how they paid her to be at the protests and what she did there:
https://beta.fec.gov/data/disb...
And here's the leak to tie it together: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-...
It's on video. We saw her in the Arizona protests, blocking the road. It was in the media. How, pray tell, are you going to make this one out to be a false flag?
You are aware, I hope, that Planned Parenthood and the Abortion Industry for the most part was founded by Eugenicists? The stats even show them following forward with their program. There are a HELL of a lot more black babies aborted than their percentage of the population would suggest.
Did I miss something? Y Combinator used to be Paul Graham's organization. I searched the Wikipedia article and couldn't even find Peter Thiel mentioned. I never heard him mentioned in conjunction with Y Combinator until just very recently. What exactly is his relation to it?
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
Hey in America you can become an "inventor" by taking your Wal Mart bought clock apart and putting it in a briefcase.
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Lets just have the democrats be the ruling party of the United States. They can take care of everyone for the greater good. The party leaders will determine what is in the interest of the community... We can call it "communism".
Seriously, this blacklisting of people for even daring to support anything but the democrats has grown grotesque.
And to make things sadder, we have evidence that the democrats rigged their primaries to get Hillary the nomination. Which means you're not merely a bastard for voting for something besides the democrats but you're also a bastard for voting for the democratic candidate that wasn't picked by the party bosses.
That's fucked up, gents. And if you keep buying into this shit, then the democracy is gone. We're all back to being peasants again as we will have proven ourselves to be unworthy of being anything more than that.
Cue the gaggle of retarded ACs that will either call me a literal nazi for suggesting that democracy requires freedom of speech, freedom of political thought, and freedom to express that in a politically effective way... and if they don't call me a Nazi they'll instead suggest I'm a brain washed sub human zombie because I don't do exactly what I'm told to do by our lords and masters.
People... I'm not saying you have to vote one way or the other on anything. Vote your own personal conscience. However, that very sentiment I issue there is predicated on the perpetuation of our republic. Should the republic be subverted to such an extent that the will of the people is truly meaningless... Your opinion about anything will at that point equal zero. Your feelings or interests or will or thoughts... of no value. So for the preservation of your own ability to even matter in the first place... I would ask you consider whether you should be voting for a political agenda that goes out of its way to silence any dissent. Today that opposition might be someone you disagree with... but tomorrow that might be you. And when that rolls through who will be there to save you? Because what we're seeing out of the modern DNC... is fascism. We're seeing orchestrated "brown shirt" type operations. Collisions between industry, government, law enforcement, foreign governments, the media.
I'm not saying you have to change the way you feel about any particular issue. I rather draw your attention to the character of the modern DNC... to their morality and ethics. This is who apparently many of us wish to rule the United States. "these" people.
if anyone is at all curious, my own desire is to devolve powers to the states and out of the Federal Government. Let Oregon run Oregon. Let Maine run Maine. Concentrating all that power in Washington is going to lead to an Emperor, a civil war, a grand national collapse, some combination of the above, or various other unpleasant consequences I haven't enumerated.
This is not sustainable. It has to stop. The level of corruption on display is crying out for some response... and it will come. From the top or the bottom... from without or within. This is going to end one way or another. I believe the best solution is to reduce the value of the prize so that there are fewer assholes drawn to the power. Absent that... I think we're headed for bad times. And I don't think vilifying what remains of the democracy is helping.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
Given her history, any gay man or lesbian who votes for Hillary is a fool.
Ah! But the question is -- is that same gay man or lesbian a bigger or smaller fool if they vote for Trump?
That's where this election is at...
They gave it a bare minimum of coverage. As an example: most people don't know about wikileaks revelations, about immunity deals, about lying to the FBI, about destruction of evidence. Why is it that some dude gets prison time for merely taking a picture in the vicinity of something classified, yet HRC deliberately mishandles top secret info and gets off scot free?
Suppose there was a Democrat running for election who said that it was OK to shoot at cops sometime. They would be toast within four hours of that hitting the internet. Not only would they have to withdraw from the race they were in, they would be kicked out of the Democratic Party. (By the way, the same goes for the Republican Party. Only not really because Republican make excuses for the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation where there were real guns and threats to the lives of federal employies.)
At any rate, Trump has on many occasions implied that violence is justified against undocumented people, including women and children. He also said he want's kick "Mexicans" out of the US, without considering if they are citizens or not.
Beyond that, he has incited violence against his opponent, which is is illegal, and a whisker away from calling for political assassination.
So his appeal to violence during the elections is just like saying it's OK to shoot at a cop. In some ways it is worse, because he is slyly talking about political assassination. And Theil is supporting him to the tune of $1.5 million, which means that Theil is OK with this level of expressed violence.
So it doesn't make any difference who Ellen Pao is. If you stand with Trump, as does Thiel, you endorse political violence. It's not about political correctness, or stifling political speech, it's about supporting a democratic form of government. And you and Theil and Trump hate democracy and want to destroy it. You are an enemy of the United States just as much as the Islamic State or Al Qaeda.
I hope I didn't use too many big words for for you. To make it easy, I just called you a violent political thug who hates America. And I think you are really stupid.
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No one involved in Planned Parenthood or the democrat party is going to admit such today, but Margaret Sanger (Planned Parenthood Founder) was an adamant believer in eugenics.
Everything you read on the topic from supporters of abortion rights will seek to downplay her beliefs on this topic, but it cannot seriously be denied. She has extensive writings on the topic.
Actually, Obama's case is more interesting. In 1996, running for Illinois state Senate, he was pro gay marriage. Later, when he was running for US Senate and the presidency, he was anti. In 2012 he switched back to pro.
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"We agree that people shouldn't be fired for their political views, but this isn't a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence,"
Is it just me or is she actually saying "We shouldn't fire people for political beliefs, but let's fire people for their political beliefs" ? As head of a company focused on making money off diversity and inclusivity, Pao doesn't seem very inclusive of diverse views.
I think you're mischaracterising Trump. It's more fair to say he's the "candidate who says what I hate and will certainly try to do it". Unlike Clinton, he doesn't have the backing of the Washington machine and has managed to alienate both parties. Both Clinton and Trump are likely to push policies that are counter to the interests of the majority of the population, the difference is that Clinton is more likely to succeed.
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It's just that the connotations changed over time, making "marriage" somehow a religious thing, with "civil union" being the same thing in practice - minus the religious connotations.
Thus, he switched his support for what seemed like a viable option. A bird in hand now.
From TFA:
Later years offered greater clarity - and a shift from 1996. Civil unions? Yes. Gay marriage? No.
As Obama sought a U.S. Senate seat in 2004, he told the Windy City Times, "I am a fierce supporter of domestic-partnership and civil-union laws. ..."
I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been thrown about, primarily just as a strategic issue.
I think that marriage, in the minds of a lot of voters, has a religious connotation.
He described his hesitation to endorse same-sex marriage as strategic and political.
What I'm saying is that strategically, I think we can get civil unions passed. â¦
I think that to the extent that we can get the rights, I'm less concerned about the name. â¦
Republicans are going to use a particular language that has all sorts of connotations in the broader culture as a wedge issue, to prevent us moving forward, in securing those rights, then I don't want to play their game.
Guy is a politician and a government official.
It's his job to find a compromise and push a consensus in the best interest of the citizens.
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