Comments on: ‘Stupid,’ ‘shameful:’ Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s rant https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/ Local news for a global city Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:41:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: tomo https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-995973 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:41:20 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-995973

In reply to D Porter.

we really do need to see the MAGA leader face some consequence for inciting violence so everyone understands what they can be held responsible for even if they personally don’t do anything other than make threats that their followers might act on.

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By: tomo https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-995969 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:38:58 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-995969

In reply to Camera Obscura.

it sounded to me like they were looking for perspectives from those who were in the tech community, a little like the news reporters who ask friends, co-workers, and acquaintances of someone who does some crime to see if they can paint a fuller picture of the person. it wouldn’t make sense to ask a lot of people who didn’t know him.

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By: Camera Obscura https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-994577 Sat, 03 Feb 2024 10:23:41 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-994577

What are the underlying assumptions that would motivate the writer of this article to single out only the small sliver of the tech-worker demographic to conduct a survey? This is a story about the safety of those who represent the citizens of San Francisco, across the board. Besides, anyone and everyone who lives in San Francisco is subject to the whims of the tech industry’s venture-capitalist overlords. What makes the voices of non-tech-workers worth excluding?

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By: GrowSF https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-994190 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:12:30 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-994190

Will GrowSF keep Tan on their board? Quite a liability now, given their “fix SF from incompetent leadership” mission…

https://growsf.org/team/

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By: D Porter https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-994152 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:27:05 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-994152

Given the rise of violence and hate speech in the United States, Tan’s irresponsible remarks should be unequivocally condemned by his peers.

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By: Long time SF Resident https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-994093 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:29:15 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-994093

Gary Tan makes it so easy to hate him, just his habit of blocking anyone who he might not agree with shows the man has a problem. And he talks like Trump. To refer to him as a “moderate” is just wrong. I think he cares about himself, not San Francisco. I will not be voting for candidates he supports!

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By: Octopus https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-994055 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:02:57 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-994055

Raise their taxes.

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By: Douglas E. Welch https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-993929 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 05:21:19 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-993929

The “just kidding/it was a joke” defense is the lamest and most fake that ever was. People who say this were not joking. They said or did something repugnant and now want to avoid the consequences of their actions. Nothing more. Ask anyone who has ever been bullied. They’ll recognize this tactic and its falseness immediately. He is yet another male, millionaire who thinks he can do whatever he pleases — threaten whoever he wishes – without consequence. Save us all from their arrogance.

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By: Jarrod Valentine https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-993784 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:14:11 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-993784

i guess this is what happens when you block half of twitter and only have the echo chamber of your most loyal anti-poor lapdogs. i hope he sees consequences for this.

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By: B. https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-993775 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:30:49 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-993775

In reply to Mark.

If a random Canadian can walk into Pelosi’s home and smash a hammer into her husband’s skull, he sure can. And those threats got mailed to their homes.

“Upstanding” citizens fight with ideas, not explicit death threats.

The rest of your argument is nonsensical and excusing his behavior.

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By: tuba https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-993774 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:27:56 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-993774

“Do I think that it’s really dumb for the supervisors to be filing restraining orders or police reports against Garry Tan? I mean, come on, dude. Do they really expect that Garry Tan will hire some dudes to drive by and shoot them?” asked another tech founder. “No, of course not.”
Uh, that tech lunatic just stabbed the other tech guy to death in SF, after doing drugs all day. Obviously, an unhinged bunch….

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By: dukeofdugan https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-993755 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:40:25 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-993755

Need to look into how many years did PUC General Manager Harlan Kelly Jr. received yesterday January 31-2024 for he can meet up with Mohammed Nuru and make sure that there city pension was taken away. Thank you

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By: Chaz https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-993599 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:03:36 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-993599

“Despite the anger, many agree with Tan’s politics”

Well, we ALL want safer cities and an end to homelessness. But (and this goes for GrowSF, too) pushing failed War on Drugs policies, corrupting local politics with outside money and lies, and maliciously trolling (That’s Fentalife!) are not practices of good-faith democracy. He at his ilk should be roundly rejected and ejected from our civic discourse.

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By: Greeny https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-993410 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 06:35:40 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-993410

In reply to Mark.

You missed the point Mark. What if some random whacko mailed a post card with death and die threats and anti Semitic hate filled crap to your HOME ADDRESS? Pretty sure you wouldn’t like that….not at all. More frighteningly: are you Jewish/Asian/Muslim/LGBTQ/ black or brown/ female? Do you live with elderly parents, your children, your gay husband or wife or??? How can you defend or normalize these death threats and call to violence? What if you got a postcard? What would you do? What if your daughters were threatened? What would you do?

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By: Helmut https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-993224 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 02:14:57 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-993224

…the threats were the fault of whomever sent the anonymous mailer — not Tan. “If idiots grab onto that as some sort of rationale for threats or harassment, I think that’s on them not him.”

“As described by leading scholars, stochastic terrorism involves ‘the use of mass media to provoke random acts of ideologically motivated violence that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable”

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By: Gary https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-993222 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 02:06:09 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-993222

I remember in 2006, Mel Gibson was arrested for DUI and he ranted about “the Jews,” spewing antisemitic nonsense. He later blamed it on being drunk Back then I was thinking I had been drunk several times and I never spewed hate speech or said anything to hurt anyone. I may have regretted who I chose to bed with some of those nights, but that’s not the issue at hand.

Garry Tan is blaming this threatening Tweet on alcohol, which is either nonsense or evidence that he is not fit to be CEO of any company. I don’t believe it had anything to do with his choice of beverages. It is a reflection of what politics is in 2024. He has more in common with Trumpers than any civil human being. I don’t care about the testimonies that “jhe is a nice guy.”

He did what he did and he should be shunned by decent society.

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By: Mark https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/stupid-shameful-say-tech-workers-of-y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-rant/#comment-993220 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 01:59:58 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582067#comment-993220

Oh how ridiculous. Does anybody seriously believe Garry Tan would walk walk into a Supervisor’s office and shoot him or her or them? Is he going to hire a gang of hit men to storm City Hall? Haha. What a joke. Garry gets active in local politics because he’s an upstanding citizen. And this isn’t political violence like Trump talks about all the time. That’s unAmerican, and would never happen in a city like San Francisco. Oh snap. It did? The day Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk were gunned down in their offices by an upstanding Twinkie-crazed citizen. A former cop. A former Supervisor. Like Garry, an entrepreneur who believed the homeless mentally-ill progressive drug addicts who run San Francisco were out to get him. Garry’s not delusional, other than imbibing the standard delusions of grandeur of his profession. Maybe people in the community would feel safer if he voluntarily submits to a drug test to clear the air.

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