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15 points·sudohalt··5 comments

I'd support this open letter in principle, but they've gone overboard with their asks and the "anything short of these measures..." bravado

I don’t think the measures go far enough. He is probably the most insufferable pseudo-intellectual in the tech world. Constantly uses his “PhD in QUANTUM GRAVITY” to insert himself and demonstrate to the world how rotted his brain is. He is an absolute embarrassment, and embodies the arrogant/lives in a bubble Silicon Valley stereotype.

The requests - which fyi I was not involved in - are really smart. It allows Sequoia to take concrete steps to clear its name, via a transparent investigation into the racism in their firm, and to build solutions to it.

I suspect Sequoia is too evil to go for this, but let's see.

Maguire has been spreading absolutely vile genocide propaganda since Israel has started its assault on Gaza. It's about time it caught up to him and Sequoia.

I agree with the complaint.

I feel though, that the typical racist hyperbole of his rants are a side show to the ongoing condemnation of any person or policy that aims to send anything less than all economic output to ownership.

FDR is still being called a communist for the new deal, in spite of it's effects of raising a huge part of the US population out of poverty.

As we've fully entered the new guilded age, these attacks can only be expected to increase.

I'm still not convinced that the US population of today has caught up with the understanding that voted in FDR 100 years ago. Of course, we're also yet to see another such candidate made available to the people on a national level. Bernie tried, the DNC forbade it...

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