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You and I are not having the same conversation. My perspective, which I think is, uh, quite well supported by the evidence, is that this was a drunken hip-hop dad joke where the "killing" reference is literally the lyrics to one of the more famous Tupac songs. Your perspective suggests that, had I made an image meme of Homer strangling Bart and labeled it the wrong way, I'd be "even jok[ing] about killing elected representatives".

Yes, I think you hold your point of view because it makes for a good story. Sorry that's patronizing.

Mostly this whole story is just very stupid and I'm embarrassed to be commenting on this thread at all, but I made the mistake of sticking my toes in it and now I can't resist well-actuallying.

>>tptace+(OP)
You're going a little overboard with the snark. It must be nice to exist on a higher plane than the other participants in the discussion. But if you freely choose to descend to our level, it's bad form to complain about it.

I cannot recall the Simpsons episode where Homer kills Bart. I suppose you could use the image to make a joke about cartoonishly strangling someone.

If Tan wasn't joking about wishing death on the people he listed then I have to wonder what exactly he was joking about. He wasn't the original author of the words in the tweet (a point that I think you're overly fixated on), but he chose them and knew what they meant. However, to me, the interesting question here isn't exactly what Garry Tan was thinking (I'm guessing the answer is "not much" – he was clearly off his head). It's how the CEO of YC is someone who could apparently take lessons in effective communication and good judgment from 14 year olds on TikTok.

>>foldr+47
Do you remember that time Tupac killed Chino XL?