Peter Thiel’s Trump donation is costing Y Combinator

There's a ton of irony in this coming from a group that "works to improve diversity at tech companies." I am no Trump fan, but (at least) 40% of American voters seem to like the guy better than the alternative. Does Ellen Pao want to improve superficial diversity and ideological homogeneity at the same time?

Ellen Pao&#x27;s corporation breaks ties with YC. That&#x27;s the accurate headline for this piece.<p>The reason they didn&#x27;t go with the accurate headline is that nobody would care, because anything Pao touches has as much of an effect on YC&#x27;s bottom line as TCombinator[0] did.<p>People are losing friendships over this election. Does this not seem a little extreme to everyone else?<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3860183" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3860183</a>

I don&#x27;t think that crucifying someone because of their political beliefs is a very American thing to do. Thiel probably just wants lower taxes &#x2F; better laws for business &#x2F; more defense contracts for Palantir. It&#x27;s a legitimate difference of opinion and it doesn&#x27;t matter because it&#x27;s not up to Thiel to decide. He can try and convince people but ultimately the voters will decide who the next president should be. At this point, it looks like it will mostly likely be Clinton.