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Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country

75 points · 46 comments · slater

api · 1789769936 · focus · HN ↗
I’m curious if someone can truthfully explain this. What’s the main motivation for all the money being thrown at R’s from these and other high up tech people?
What I want is specific reasons not the usual Reddit “they’re rich therefore evil blah blah” zero-insight answers. Okay, but why? Almost nobody wakes up and says “I’m going to be evil today!” People have motives and objectives and belief systems.
1. UncleMeat · 1789825115 · focus · HN ↗
  Garry Tan is an anti-liberal who doesn't believe that democratic input in the functioning of the state is a good thing and that we should instead be ruled by a class of technocrats making the "right" decisions for us via a system of enforced hierarchies. This sort of belief system didn't fit into previous era republican politics, but it absolutely fits into the modern republican party.
  Tan obviously does not just see this as evil. He thinks that it will genuinely produce a better society. I think that he is egregiously wrong.
  1. api · 1789827349 · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t know tons about him but those assertions would need at least a link to a not out of context quote to take seriously.
    BTW I apply the same standard to right wing slams. Stuff like “??? wants to let eight year olds get sex change operations!” Citation needed. Etc.
    Most of online discourse is a slug fest between straw men.

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