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Posted by computerliker 4 hours ago

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics(missionlocal.org)
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0gs 3 hours ago|
shouldn't we call this bright money
brianbest101 2 hours ago|
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ChicagoDave 2 hours ago||
This is one of the guys that thinks we should eliminate voting because he thinks him, Thiel, Zuckerberg, Bezos all know "better" than the people.
johnsmith1840 2 hours ago|
I don't think the elite think all voters are dumb more like they think they're easy to manipulate to vote for something (which is largely true). Anecdotally I easily get manipulated by the type of information I consume. I occassionally catch it after the fact or a conversation with others but there's no telling how much I've just accepted that's manipulated.

From that angle it's a game of who has the money, power, and diatribution to enact this manipulation.

Twitter being a prime example. Is Elon "right"? Maybe but the main point is it doesn't matter as he has the distribution.

If you have money but low to no distribution -> you do what gary is doing. Maybe he'd be interested in removing rights to vote but someone like Zuck would NOT because he has outsized ability to influence as he sees fit.

davidw 3 hours ago||
Setting aside the merits of this, complaining about big money in politics while your site proudly displays a Twitter link is a bit of a face-palm.
rasengan 3 hours ago||
I don't know if I agree or not with his views, but the fact that he's moving from complaining about something, to doing something about his beliefs, has convinced me to move from a negative to a significantly positive view of him, as a person; to reiterate, regardless of whether I agree with said views.

The will to fight for what one believes in - I think we can all agree that is an admirable human trait that would result, for those who do follow his views, in him being labeled as a hero and defender of people's rights.

Bravo, Garry.

elliotto 3 hours ago||
Bravo Garry, net worth $x00m, having the integrity to go after public school teachers.
amarcheschi 3 hours ago||
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mhitza 3 hours ago||
You know it just polarizes, and nothing more, when bringing up fascists as a counter argument when it is not punctually relevant.
amarcheschi 3 hours ago||
I'm not making a comparison, the opposite. Saying that "somebody doing something for its beliefs is good period" means nothing
text0404 3 hours ago||
"Garry's List" is just straight up AI slop. This is a window into the coming AI-enabled era of astroturfing from wealthy individuals for their pet causes.
piker 3 hours ago|
Guess we know where those 15KLOCs/day went.
rvz 3 hours ago||
This looks concerning but I'm withholding judgement for now so that he can clarify this first on his side instead of jumping into conclusions.
johnea 4 hours ago||
Well, this is helpful.

Now I can refer to this list to let me know who, and what, to vote against...

seattle_spring 3 hours ago||
He's been posting extremely stilted political content lately, in addition to unchecked AI evangelism.

I really, really hate that our future has ended up in the hands of people like him, Andreessen, Thiel, Musk, etc.

drcongo 3 hours ago||
Cool.
nektro 3 hours ago|
> “I want to work to ensure Californians know the importance of investment and entrepreneurship to our state’s current and future economy,” Tan wrote.

I know a dog whistle when i see one, didn't have to read much further but did anyway.

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