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Re:Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions by noobermin on Monday October 17, 2016 @02:34PM (#12727853)
To be fair, pg does seem quite against Trump personally, at least on twitter he doesn't quite shut up about it. For him to accept Thiel while greatly disliking Trump doesn't really give me the sense that he doesn't care either way. Instead, I feel that he's most likely actively trying to look past Thiel's support. I'm not making a judgement whether to look past it is the right thing, but I don't think pg either is ambivalent about or secretly sympathetic to Trump.
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Re:Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions by amyjess on Monday October 17, 2016 @03:20PM (#12728402)
pg left YC two years ago. He no longer has the authority to disinvite Thiel.
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Re:Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions by masklinn on Monday October 17, 2016 @03:45PM (#12728858)
> He no longer has the authority to disinvite Thiel.

He still has significant influence with YC, and has so far refused to personally distance himself from Thiel despite raging against Trump on twitter (a fact over which he's been taken to task by the likes of @pinboard and tptacek).

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