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Andreessen Horowitz co-founders explain why they're supporting Trump

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Because they care very little for the society and just care for their shareholders? This is the same VC firm that supported the massive digital coin speculation because they figured out they can steal money from the common people in a legal way.

Because all the Crytpo/NFT bros are working together and they will have a super Crypto/NFT friendly President and administration.

And the politicians can now get paid very easily, just a transfer to a wallet, nobody knows. Even if it ever comes out, it is not a problem as long as they time it correctly. Just take the 'gift' later, not before: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-06-26/suprem...

And I thought my opinion of those two couldn't fall any lower.

There’s this old fivethirtyeight article that says that people love their political parties until they actually do anything, that once you start turning ideas into policy, people have something tangible to evaluate you on, and they do so harshly.

I’ve had this observation/theory lately that the culture moves opposite to the government (in a free society) so I wonder if publicly associating yourself with the potential next administration is good for PR. Will people turn against tech once tech is actually in power? People are already sort of innately distrustful of big tech. And what is bigger than tech so closely aligned with the federal government.

Pathetic. Why are we still throwing any weight behind the two main political parties? They are both stagnant and weak. The opportunity to combat a broken system like this is now, yet everyone seems to be sitting on their hands.

> Why are we still throwing any weight behind the two main political parties?

Because they have the capillarity. You can push change locally with other players, but, if we are talking about federal elections, there's little other option.

So, if you don't support one candidate, the only choice you have is to vote for the other one. Not voting is a no-no.

> So, if you don't support one candidate, the only choice you have is to vote for the other one.

That is the old way of thinking that got us in this situation in the first place.

There has never been a better time than now to carve a new path. The two parties are dying.

One of the two dying parties will elect a president later this year. There's no viable new path that fits the timeline, so it's either old thinking or risking the more popular of two evils getting the White House (now, with Extra Powers!™ granted by the SCOTUS) and the not too far fetched possibility of a lot of civil unrest because of it.

The US is a nice country. It'd be a shame if it fell prey to itself.

> The opportunity to combat a broken system like this is now, yet everyone seems to be sitting on their hands.

Well, as the Beatles said, "You say you got a real solution/Well, you know/We'd all love to see the plan".

I mean frankly because if you have billions of dollars and want power now / in your lifetime, grassroots efforts to change the political system is not an efficient way.

Also, isn’t. Marc Andreesen one of the Silicon Valley folks in favor of a monarchy? you need something that’s very powerful/big to do that.

Absolutely disgusting. Money above of any form or morality.

>Additionally, Andreessen said that, unlike the Biden administration, Trump’s crypto regulation plan is “a flat-out blanket endorsement of the entire space.”

Eh.. I can agree that we shouldn't over regulate tech and AI. But crypto needs to be banned and/or heavily regulated.

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