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Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: As Donald Trump's shock election victory reverberated around Silicon Valley late on Tuesday night, some high-profile technologists were already calling for California to secede from the United States. The broader west coast is a stronghold for the Democrats, and significantly more politically progressive and racially diverse than large swathes of central U.S. California is also the biggest economy in the U.S. and the sixth largest in the world with a gross state product of $2.496 trillion for 2015, according to the IMF. The campaign for independence -- variously dubbed Calexit, Califrexit and Caleavefornia -- has been regarded as a fringe movement. But support was revitalized by influential Uber investor and Hyperloop co-founder Shervin Pishevar, in a series of tweets announcing his plans to fund a "legitimate campaign for California to become its own nation" -- posted even before the full results were in. A few hours later, Hillary Clinton conceded the election to Trump, and Pishevar told CNBC that he was serious about Calexit. "It's the most patriotic thing I can do," he said, adding that the resulting nation would be called New California. "We can re-enter the union after California becomes a nation. As the sixth largest economy in the world, the economic engine of the nation and provider of a large percentage of the federal budget, California carries a lot of weight," he said. Pishevar was supported by others in Silicon Valley. Angel investor Jason Calacanis said that California succession would be simple in the wake of both Brexit and a Trump win. Evan Low, a Democrat serving in the California state assembly, said that he'd support the introduction of a bill to start the independence process. The proposal illustrates the technology industry's frustration with Trump over his repeated criticisms of Silicon Valley companies. Trump has said in the past that he would make Apple build computers in the U.S. He also thinks Amazon CEO "Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post to exert political power and avoid paying taxes, and claimed that Mark Zuckerberg's push for specialist immigration would actually decrease opportunities for American women and minorities." In July, 145 technology leaders wrote in an open letter about how "Trump would be a disaster for innovation."
Self promotion, but I published this a bit ago.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Anyone in California who wants to leave is more than welcome to move to Mexico.
Hell, that's where half of them are from anyhow.
Yes, because cheating is a-ok as long as it enables your preferred outcome, right?
>Back when Obama came president those liberals laughed at those crazy republicans who got all panicky because the democrat party took over.
That's because all the reasons for that panic were made up. He was not a Muslim, he was not born in another country, he was not a communist, he was not a socialist, he didn't take anybody's guns away.
Where-as all the reasons for THIS panic is based on what the candidate ACTUALLY SAID - not what one particular news channel claimed he thinks, even though he doesn't say it.
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Being told you have to register in a special database and carry special ID is calling for harm to you. Even so, regardless - that is what (a lot of) his supporters think he said - that's why they are going around harassing people. Telling black people to "go back to Africa" etc.
Trump may not have said those things outright, but you bet your fucking ass it's what most of his voters heard.
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2. In the Trump University case, He didn't believe the judge would be fair, because he is of Mexican decent. That is blatantly racist.
3. His "look at my African American over there" comment while at a rally....is simply racist.
Since when is 'Mexican' a race? Who is the racist now?