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Re: Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML

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Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. Also Kaja Kallas. Not quite sure what to make of that.

It's influential people talking to each other. If they don't go, they're missing out.

Re: Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML

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Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. Also Kaja Kallas. Not quite sure what to make of that.

> Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance.

" " <— I think you dropped these — not certain where they go, though

Re: Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML

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Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. Also Kaja Kallas. Not quite sure what to make of that.

It's influential people talking to each other. If they don't go, they're missing out.

Having thought about it, I wonder if Klein, Ferris and maybe some of the others were there to give talks.

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Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. Also Kaja Kallas. Not quite sure what to make of that.

Journalists will often try to attend these things to get a scoop, the other attendees will be trying to influence that scoop. That may not definitely be the case here, but it's also not given they're plants or anything.

Re: Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML

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Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. Also Kaja Kallas. Not quite sure what to make of that.

Because he's a controlled opposition nepobaby with little actual intellectual merit, like many in the sector. Similar to Sam Harris, who's also on the list, with new atheism. Sometimes you just need some people to propagandize and all that's important is that they're loyal.

He's there just to make a certain group of people slightly more okay with some questionable views.

Re: Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML

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I am not really bothered by talking-shop nonsense like this; rich dullards with no discernible talent have always organised quiet little salons to try to seem impressive. If no young people are being sexually abused, let them talk. For all the fuss about Bilderberg in the early 2000s, for example, it apparently was quite dull and blowhardish and achieved little; nobody who participated was particularly advantaged exc…

> not so terrible that he should have Ted Cruz inflicted on him outside work hours.

He made his bed.

(And he is that awful)

Re: Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML

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Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. Also Kaja Kallas. Not quite sure what to make of that.

It's influential people talking to each other. If they don't go, they're missing out.

What exactly are they missing out on?
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