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1. cj+r8[view] [source] 2024-02-02 02:37:40
>>Strato+(OP)
As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd.

Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly.

His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed?

I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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2. jdietr+7m[view] [source] 2024-02-02 04:45:22
>>cj+r8
I'm not sure what Tan's specific beef is, I could never endorse violent rhetoric in politics, but the level of avoidable human misery caused by the dysfunction of politics in San Francisco is sickening. If you can walk through the Tenderloin without becoming utterly enraged at the people responsible, there's a piece of your soul missing.
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3. ajross+2s[view] [source] 2024-02-02 05:45:45
>>jdietr+7m
> I could never endorse violent rhetoric in politics

In literally the next sentence:

> the level of avoidable human misery caused by the dysfunction of politics [...] sickening [...] utterly enraged [...] there's a piece of your soul missing

So you'll deploy extreme emotional hyperbole, but not "violent rhetoric"? Seems like those are two rather nearby points on the same spectrum, no? Tan just slipped a bit off the edge. If you're going to deny someone's soul, it's not that big a leap to wish them dead.

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4. JohnFe+zL1[view] [source] 2024-02-02 16:27:51
>>ajross+2s
> Seems like those are two rather nearby points on the same spectrum, no?

I don't think so, no. Those two things are miles apart.

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