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defen on Oct 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Shame on Y Combinator

Maybe YC is worried that if they boot Thiel, and Trump wins, he'll be vindictive enough and powerful enough to crush YC. Like, it would be a real shame if the Attorney General started looking into Fair Housing violations by AirBnB, or if Dropbox suddenly lost the government connections it's been cultivating by putting Condi Rice on their board.

walshemj on Oct 18, 2016 [–]

If Trump wins I suspect that the H1B program would be an obvious target for him.

And from experience in the UK referendum some recent immigrants are going to get killed as a result of the way Trump is poisoning the political arena.

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