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760 points coloneltcb | 10 comments | 25 Apr 25 23:03 UTC | HN request time: 1.768s | source | bottom
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pachorizons ◴[26 Apr 25 01:22 UTC] No.43800084[source]▶
Remember as you read more and more news like this that many of the owners of Y Combinator supported this.
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1. hackyhacky ◴[26 Apr 25 04:06 UTC] No.43800858[source]▶
Who, specifically, are you referring to; and what have they done or said to make you believe that they support this?
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2. fzeroracer ◴[26 Apr 25 04:37 UTC] No.43800982[source]▶
Well, the good news is that there's a very convenient link at the bottom of the page here on HN for the AI startup school [1] which is host to a bunch of people that you should recognize.

[1] https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus

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3. Spivak ◴[26 Apr 25 05:43 UTC] No.43801215[source]▶
Wealthy people who could be coined liberal-tarians or just your average tech bro political grab bag largely backed Trump out of financial interest and who, imo, deluded themselves that the administration would be unsuccessful at "the bad stuff" much like his 2016 run.

No amount of shouting from the rooftops that this time was actually different convinced anyone. I can't really blame us collectively, we resoundingly voted for this— it's as much of a mandate you're likely to ever get in the US and we're in the find out stage of fucking around.

Looking back on old social media posts the theme is that everyone, supporters and not, were high on copium that Trump would do <list of things I like | aren't so bad> and the <list of truly terrible things> was just obviously crazy and wouldn't actually happen or were a joke.

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4. boxed ◴[26 Apr 25 10:04 UTC] No.43802290[source]▶
Who specifically was the question.
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5. hackyhacky ◴[26 Apr 25 10:18 UTC] No.43802352[source]▶
Not an answer to my question.
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6. intermerda ◴[26 Apr 25 11:06 UTC] No.43802571{3}[source]▶
It is actually, unless you are unable to parse information without being spoon fed to you.
7. Spivak ◴[26 Apr 25 13:23 UTC] No.43803406{3}[source]▶
This isn't really a hard list to compile.

* Paul Graham

* Mark Zuckerberg

* The Ghost of Elon Musk before he fell down the alt right pipeline and now is no longer liberal-tarian.

* Sundar Pichai

* Jeff Bezos

* Sam Altman

* Jensen Huang

* Tim Cook

A who's who of people who felt their businesses were being threatened by the Biden administration with a starry-eyed view of how this next round might benefit them and being in denial of the crazy.

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8. sidibe ◴[26 Apr 25 13:49 UTC] No.43803597{4}[source]▶
Many of those probably wanted Biden to win but don't want to antagonize Trump after he won. If I had to guess there at least Sundar and Bezos didn't want Trump to win

Elon and his loud hangers-on in the VC community have made SV look a lot more MAGA than it is

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9. hackyhacky ◴[26 Apr 25 15:24 UTC] No.43804420{5}[source]▶
Trying to psychoanalyze billionaires from afar is a losing game.

If we're going to judge these folks, judge them by their words and actions.

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10. sidibe ◴[26 Apr 25 17:32 UTC] No.43805511{6}[source]▶
Most of them didn't have words one way or another during the campaign, the post I replied was suggesting they got what they want, I guess that was some psychoanalysis too