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Re:Peter Thiel won’t be involved in YC’s work with the ACLU by geofft on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:43PM (#13554986)
I'm tired of this. I'm intolerant. I'm intolerant towards certain political views that are bad ideas for our country and our society and our world. Just because someone else called my views "left," do I stop being able to be intolerant of these other views?

I'll gladly join the right, then. I want common-sense economic policies that inspire growth, not identity politics that keeps people out of my country depending on where they were born. I want limited government that doesn't regulate which bathroom you're in or what medical advice your doctor can give you. I want laissez-faire capitalism, not artificial tariffs on guacamole because big government wants money for a public works project that no business would find profitable to build. I want my city's mayor to be able to say that policing is better when we apply local policy to handling undocumented immigrants, without the federal government overruling us. I go to a church every Sunday where my male pastor is married to another male pastor of another congregation, and I want the state not to tell them that their marriage is invalid. I want a country with law and order, where police officers listen to the courts, not to the president. I want Russia to stop occupying Crimea and invading other former USSR land, because I want America to have won the cold war. And yes, I want the surveillance state that Obama set up to be shut down.

Now can I be intolerant of the destruction of our country at the hands of social justice warrior Steve Bannon and identity politician Peter Thiel?

Re:Peter Thiel won’t be involved in YC’s work with the ACLU by User23 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:58PM (#13555158)
"I want a country with law and order, where police officers listen to the courts, not to the president."

You should learn a bit more about how our legal system works. Separation of powers means the Judicial branch can't have control over an executive power like policing.

Re:Peter Thiel won’t be involved in YC’s work with the ACLU by geofft on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:42PM (#13555634)
Control, no, respect, yes. Law enforcement has to listen to the courts, even though they are directed by their superiors. When the president makes an executive order, a court places a stay on it, and law enforcement officers respond, "I don't care, I'm carrying out the order because I answer to the president," then the executive branch has taken on the roles of both the legislative and judicial as well.