Comment by vrganj
4 hours ago
Garry just comes across as a deeply unsavory figure deeply stuck in the far right radicalization pipeline.
He regularly calls out "Marxists" on Twitter and rails against leftists, all while supporting mass surveillance and building a dystopia.
What a yucky person.
And Paul G has defended him on X as a centrist. Weird blind spot.
"Centrist" in America is just "far-right but doesn't talk about it very loudly"
> "Centrist" in America is just "far-right but doesn't talk about it very loudly"
Centrist in America means institutionalist, i.e. gunning for the status quo. That's going to piss off lefist and right-wing fanatics because both want to blow up the status quo. (They tend to be seen as a spoiler for progressives and conservatives. Think: Joe Manchin or Susan Collins.)
But this particular one does?..
Dude there is nothing "far right" about him.
Way too broad a brush to paint with. If we want to retain any sort of liberal democracy we need to stop with the rhetoric that "if you're not as far in X direction as I am, you must be on the other side". Its destroying the democratic party.
I'm a staunch democrat, and this is just sad to see. Progressive and centrist should both be able to coexist. We should be able to call out ineffective policies within our own movement without being called far right radicals.
Dude he's decrying "Marxists" online. The dog whistle can't be any louder, it's hurting my ears already.
The cult of Thiel - is he also the shitty vibe coder ?.
He's also a non-white immigrant. The amount of brown skinned nutjobs try to cosplay as white so they'll be accepted as "one of the good ones" is too high.
Hey brown or yellow immigrants - the conservatives will gladly accept your vote, but the second you walk away they won't even refer to you by name in conversation, they'll refer you to with every slur in the book. I grew up with some very far-right types who had money...nice to "the help" in person, but soon as earshot is out of range, you hear the n-word like it's as common as the word "the". And just because you're not black, doesn't mean they don't hate you too. I've heard some horrid things said to Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Pakistanis, etc.
Anyone remember the young republicans club at Florida International University scandal? Lots of young male Cuban immigrants (or kids of immigrants) desperate to be seen as white. Problem is, you pull any one of those kids out of Dade county, they'll be called a Mexican and told to go make tacos.
Garry's actions on social media remind me of those kids, albeit someone with a bit more money, and a little less perspective on things.
He's so far right that he endorsed Scott Weiner! That's pretty far, all right!
the far right will collaborate with people more left on the political spectrum if it benefits them. Think the molotov-ribbentrop pact. The nazis benefited from stalling any soviet aggression and the soviets got poland before going to war with germany
Ah yes, Garry Tan and Scott Wiener are much like Molotov-Ribbentrop. Truly penetrating perspective.
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