For a diffuse view of some details... Thiel was an early partner. Milner, who has Putin connections, was an early member of the YC fund. The current YC CEO was an early Palantir employee, has been involved in SF politics, organizes efforts toward adopting the Yarvin concept of "patchwork"/"network states" (a dismantling of democracy to be replaced with corporate-owned sovereign territories populated by a hierarchy of immobilized underclasses; their plan is to begin with national park land), has led a boycott in protest of a claim that Israel committed war crimes, has tweeted a death threat at 12 elected officials in SF. YC also invested in Flock.
That’s the easiest one because it made national news and he made a public statement apologizing for it saying there’s “no place, no excuse and no reason for this type of speech and charged language in the discourse.” I had the number of targets wrong it looks like it was only 7 officials. Several of them filed police reports against him for it. His public threat also prompted others to deliver physical notes of death threats toward the same officials.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/y-combinators-police-surve...
For a diffuse view of some details... Thiel was an early partner. Milner, who has Putin connections, was an early member of the YC fund. The current YC CEO was an early Palantir employee, has been involved in SF politics, organizes efforts toward adopting the Yarvin concept of "patchwork"/"network states" (a dismantling of democracy to be replaced with corporate-owned sovereign territories populated by a hierarchy of immobilized underclasses; their plan is to begin with national park land), has led a boycott in protest of a claim that Israel committed war crimes, has tweeted a death threat at 12 elected officials in SF. YC also invested in Flock.
You’re going to need at least a single reference, maybe for the death threats claim.
That’s the easiest one because it made national news and he made a public statement apologizing for it saying there’s “no place, no excuse and no reason for this type of speech and charged language in the discourse.” I had the number of targets wrong it looks like it was only 7 officials. Several of them filed police reports against him for it. His public threat also prompted others to deliver physical notes of death threats toward the same officials.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/30/garry-tan-vulgar-tweet-pro...
You could have found that with less typing than it took to ask me for it. There’s an NYT article too.
Which other one are you suspicious of? These are all public knowledge and well documented.
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Tech corporatism and fascism go hand in hand!
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