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by jmyeet 416 days ago
Blue check reply guys are generally awful and almost always reactionary.

I found this reply noteworthy [1]. For context, Gerry actively blocks many, many people on Twitter using some bot. This came up he became the CEO of YC as mahy people discovered they had seemingly been blocked [2]. Their crimes? Seemingly being in any way pro-affordable housing in California in general or San Francisco in particular.

So this reply is definitely on brand but it's also reactionary in a way than many of the purveyors of such opinions don't think is reactionary. In fact, you'll often find they view themselves as "apolitical" or talk about "common sense" solutions to problems. The "common sense" here is just concentration camps and stripping both citizens and non-citizens of due process.

Migrants haven't caused the houselessness problems in San Francisco: unaffordable housing has..

[1]: https://x.com/garrytan/status/1913345684872548676

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32641557

2 comments

What is he saying in this reply? He wants ICE to use this to track drug dealers and send them to the concentration camp in El Salvador?
I’d rather have hundreds of drug dealers over one fascist. One is a threat to freedom, the other isn’t.

What a clown.