The Y Combinator CEO announced "Garry's List," a new big-money group spending and operating in races across the state.
  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    But the operation is also a media venture: Garry’s List started with a blog pillorying public-sector unions as “special interests,” attacking the ongoing teachers’ strike, and denouncing the proposed billionaire tax.

    That’s all I need to know this guy is a piece of shit.

    For years, Tan has called on tech executives to create “parallel” media and “replace the unelected parts of the system,” like unions and nonprofits. “We need our own machine,” he said in 2023.

    Sorry, I meant a really really really really really BIG big piece of shit.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      Unions and non-profits are as much “unelected part of our system” as private companies are, is he proposing to regulate those too? Of course not, what a piece of shit.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      He also talks about the current Twitter being parallel media. And how that’s a good thing for furthering his agenda of tech ceos taking control of society.