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Comment by niij | Hacker News Reader

This is extremely disappointing. Absolutely turned off applying for or working for any YC companies now.

It's also interesting Garry Tan (YC Partner) has a lot of comments for the masses when it's on a one sided platform like X. But, will never engage here. Oh the irony.

He seems to enjoy spreading factually misguided "statistics" [0] about how Flock is "solving crime". OK buddy.

I mean, just look at how he enagages with those replies. If that's at the helm of YC? WTF.

[0] https://x.com/garrytan/status/1963256544524640456

He and the entire tech ecosystem is in a bubble where being as right wing as possible is currency. Literally middle of the road liberal pg is basically a communist compared to this ecosystem now. It’s extremely short sighted on their part as the dialectic is guaranteed to flip back the other way. Much better to hold your own genuine beliefs than to kowtow to whatever is popular at the time

When did the US even “flip the other way”

The “left” view points of the US currently seem to be similar to Reagan. The furthest left I’ve seen the US go in my lifetime is about David Cameron or Boris Johnson levels of “left”.

Bernie Sanders was nearly the Democratic candidate for president and is still the most popular politician in American politics. However, this countries politics is completely and totally captured by moneyed interests. Our political leadership is openly corrupt and has been for decades. And of course about every decade the US commits another atrocity against some sovereign nation or the other. It does feel a bit hopeless at times

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