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It's embarrassing to watch a CEO of anything fire off what they think are 'pithy' and 'clever' tweets. It's pathetic when Musk does it and it's no better here.

Doesn't he have something better to do with his time as the CEO of YCombinator?

Edit: To be clear, I don't care about the content of the tweets, I'm not taking a position on Tan's politics. I just can't fathom him spending time on this stuff.

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It may be that the biggest problem YC has is the perception of SF as a sick city. One way to change that would be to change people's perception of the city by improving the material conditions.

I guess YC has a vested interest in SF being a liveable and safe city which seems reasonable.

If they have a vested interest in anything, how is a pithy tweet the mechanism for achieving it?

I would submit that it’s influencing the public discourse, since it’s being reported in the Standard and now we are contesting the issues in these comments. Public discourse affects politics, and politics affect our lives. Some people think SF can do better!

Why assume a pithy tweet is the only mechanism they’re using?

As opposed to what, only allowing hot takes from pseudo-anonymous boutique political accounts?

Politics is important, and personally I think everyone up and down the significance spectrum should be allowed to participate without the kind of shaming you’ve just partaken in.

The entire industry of 'hot takes' is a waste of time and participating in it cheapens and does a disservice to pretty much all of the participants.

But I'm not saying ban it. I'm saying I expect people to exercise judgment about whether it's worth their time. Virtue in this case would be having the ability to do this, and choosing not to, in favor of more substantive contributions to the world.

"Hot takes" politics actively makes things worse for EVERYONE. Real life is full of nuance and grey areas and none of that can be managed by something described in 160 characters.

I can’t even see what he tweets because he blocked me, even though we never interacted. I think he just blocked an entire graph of YIMBY accounts or something. Petty, yes. Important, no. I don’t really care which form is taken by the destructor of SF’s political class. Dean Preston and his whole coterie of trust-fund socialists should be posted back to Connecticut where they came from. Peskin and the other do-nothing landlords can retire finally. The heir class should just be disqualified from office on the basis of a lack of life experience. If Tan can get rid of these guys then I am not overly concerned by Tan’s own behavior.

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