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Peter Thiel’s Bet on Donald Trump Pays Off

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Re: Peter Thiel’s Bet on Donald Trump Pays Off

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Post by ythl »

I remember the last Thiel thread was a holy war filled with people who thought outspoken Trump supporters should lose their careers on grounds of bigotry and hate speech propagation (citing https://xkcd.com/1357/ among other things).

Revisiting that thread with the knowledge that Trump would win and that Trump supporters were not some vocal minority is sobering.

Re: Peter Thiel’s Bet on Donald Trump Pays Off

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Post by M_Grey »

ythl wrote: post #2

I remember the last Thiel thread was a holy war filled with people who thought outspoken Trump supporters should lose their careers on grounds of bigotry and hate speech propagation (citing https://xkcd.com/1357/ among other things). Revisiting that thread with the knowledge that Trump would win and that Trump supporters were not some vocal minority is sobering.

Look at the numbers; they're still a vocal minority, they're just ones who vote as a bloc and have the geographic advantage. Trump got less than Romney after all.

The real story is that with more than half of the country sitting out the voting process, the winner is always going to be decided by a "vocal minority".

Re: Peter Thiel’s Bet on Donald Trump Pays Off

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Post by zecho »

ythl wrote: post #2

I remember the last Thiel thread was a holy war filled with people who thought outspoken Trump supporters should lose their careers on grounds of bigotry and hate speech propagation (citing https://xkcd.com/1357/ among other things). Revisiting that thread with the knowledge that Trump would win and that Trump supporters were not some vocal minority is sobering.

Psst. 59,704,886 If you can't do basic arithmetic, you should lose your career in this field, imo.

Re: Peter Thiel’s Bet on Donald Trump Pays Off

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Post by nickthemagicman »

zecho wrote: post #6
ythl wrote: post #2

I remember the last Thiel thread was a holy war filled with people who thought outspoken Trump supporters should lose their careers on grounds of bigotry and hate speech propagation (citing https://xkcd.com/1357/ among other things). Revisiting that thread with the knowledge that Trump would win and that Trump supporters were not some vocal minority is sobering.

Psst. 59,704,886 If you can't do basic arithmetic, you should lose your career in this field, imo.

Whats the 4,072.. an the1,218...numbers youre adding?

Re: Peter Thiel’s Bet on Donald Trump Pays Off

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Post by mrep »

M_Grey wrote: post #4
ythl wrote: post #2

I remember the last Thiel thread was a holy war filled with people who thought outspoken Trump supporters should lose their careers on grounds of bigotry and hate speech propagation (citing https://xkcd.com/1357/ among other things). Revisiting that thread with the knowledge that Trump would win and that Trump supporters were not some vocal minority is sobering.

Look at the numbers; they're still a vocal minority, they're just ones who vote as a bloc and have the geographic advantage. Trump got less than Romney after all. The real story is that with more than half of the country sitting out the voting process, the winner is always going to be decided by a "vocal minority".

> The real story is that with more than half of the country sitting out the voting process

Are you surprised by that? Properly voting costs a lot of money. I spent hours researching my options and another hour just walking to and from the voting dropoff location. When you add up all the time it takes to research an election and vote, multiply that by your personal time value of money, multiply that by the probability that it will change the election and then multiply it by the benefit of having 1 candidate over the other on your personal economic outlook, the individual voters cost/benefit is abysmal.

I'm amazed so many people actually do vote.

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