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Y Combinator Cuts Ties With Peter Thiel After Ending Part-Time Partner Program (buzzfeed.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Billionaire venture capitalist and Facebook board member Peter Thiel is no longer affiliated with startup accelerator Y Combinator, according to an edited company blog post. Thiel was formerly a part-time partner with the accelerator. BuzzFeed News confirmed his departure with a source familiar with Y Combinator's management structure. Thiel's departure from Y Combinator was not previously announced. It comes long after Y Combinator president Sam Altman defended Thiel's role at the accelerator, following criticism of Thiel's support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. A source close to Y Combinator said that the company ended its part-time partners program, which Thiel was a part of, some time last year. While some other part-time partners moved over to a program called "experts," which provides advice to Y Combinator entrepreneurs, Thiel did not join.
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They all blame Thiel's departure on politics, too, even though TFS makes it clear that he chose not to continue participating when YC ended its "part-time partners" program - Thiel's participation in which was his only affiliation with the company - back in 2016.
Not everything that happens in Silly Valley has to do with politics. In fact, very little does - and any given VCs' participation a particular incubator venture can end for a host of reasons.
The fact that neither YC nor Thiel will comment on the split tends to augur in favor of a purely business-based motive for his departure, from what I can see ...
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Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I think it would be best to summarize it as "People are often wildly intolerant of opposing views over matters they feel strongly about."
None of this has anything to do with liberalism or conservatism. You can find the same kind of disdain among sports fans of opposing teams, especially if they have a historic rivalry and are close competitors.
You're confusing Trump with Peter Thie--FUCK! I fucked it up.
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A conservative who complains about liberals censoring free speech, then turns around and wants to ban flag burning, is a hypocrite.
That would apply to the Bible thumper kind, not the Thiel variety.
Actually no, Franken apologized for groping a WOMAN, whereas Roy Moore is Trump's hand-picked child molester that never admitted he's a predatory GOP hypocrite Cuckservative despite it being common knowledge even among retards in Alabama. FTFY.
What is progressive about the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela? They have no relation to progressive policies in the USA. If you want to look at where American invented progressive ideas have been applied you need to look at modern socialized democracies like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc. I can list off several ideas invented in the USA applied in other countries which have worked out smashingly. How about drug policy in Portugal? Numerous education programs in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Singapore. They are beating us at the things we invented. How about the Marshall Plan? Or the post-WW2 economic plan for Japan. These were wildly progress and successful idea. We could go on with example after example of both popular and successful progressive ideas changing the world into a better place.
Social Security needs to be pried from most red state conservatives hands over their own dead bodies yet DOWN WITH SOCIALISM!!! Propaganda is how you confuse the USSR with Denmark. In fact Social Democracy was invented as a term for transitioning away from Marxism, Totalitarianism and unrestricted capitalism. (You do realize pure unrestricted laissez faire capitalism has painfully and repeatedly proven to be a bad economic solution right?)
Now let's talk about supply side economics, the Laffer curve, trickle down economics, Chicago/Austrian economics...long history of failure there going back to ancient times. It failed in ancient Rome. There is scant evidence to suggest giving tax breaks to wealthy people while cutting benefits to the general populace ever lead to progress unless the balance was far from fair to begin with.
The best part of all of this is that a wealthy US Republican banker destroyed trickle down theories 80 years ago which brought about the American Century as a result, do some long hard reading on Marriner Stoddard Eccles please! We all owe him our lives and livelihoods, he should be revered as the hero he was. I recommend statues of him replace Robert E Lee and the racist gang so we never forget his lessons ever again as they are our most important American progressive idea...maybe the most important idea from any human ever.
General discontent with conservatives is somewhat deserved
Feeling discontent does not justify censorship. You can disagree with someone without trying to silence them.
Please provide an actual recent example of liberal views being silenced. It is easy to find dozens of examples of conservative speakers prevented from speaking on college campuses and other venues.
When you say "prevented from speaking", do you mean that they haven't been paid to speak there or allowed to use auditoriums as a venue, etc.?
Do not feed the troll.