Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government
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Re: Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government
#2Is this terribly surprising? Public/Private partnerships usually do not pan out unless you have competent administrators ready to fight for the best deal on your orgs behalf.
I do wish we could eject people who actively want to destroy America from the country, but rather we seem to have endless tolerance for Peter Thiel (German) and Milo Yiannopoulos (British) to come here and spread hate speech, plot ways to recreate slavery, etc.
Re: Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government
#3Is this terribly surprising? Public/Private partnerships usually do not pan out unless you have competent administrators ready to fight for the best deal on your orgs behalf. I do wish we could eject people who actively want to destroy America from the country, but rather we seem to have endless tolerance for Peter Thiel (German) and Milo Yiannopoulos (British) to come here and spread hate speech, plot ways to recrea…
If we can't eject them we should, at minimum, not give them roles in our government.
Re: Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government
#4Is this terribly surprising? Public/Private partnerships usually do not pan out unless you have competent administrators ready to fight for the best deal on your orgs behalf. I do wish we could eject people who actively want to destroy America from the country, but rather we seem to have endless tolerance for Peter Thiel (German) and Milo Yiannopoulos (British) to come here and spread hate speech, plot ways to recrea…
Peter is much more complex but Milo is pretty transparently a professional troll. I'm sure he's overjoyed to get crazy protests at Berkeley and to get banned from Twitter. The more attention he gets the better it is for his brand. He intentionally picks targets that are the most likely to over-react and uses the most inflammatory language he can.
I mean this has to be the trolliest trollmobile that has ever trolled: http://media.breitbart.com/media/2016/09/img_4893_1024-640x4...
People need to learn to not feed the troll. The worst possible thing you can do to Milo is ignore him.
Re: Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government
#5Is this terribly surprising? Public/Private partnerships usually do not pan out unless you have competent administrators ready to fight for the best deal on your orgs behalf. I do wish we could eject people who actively want to destroy America from the country, but rather we seem to have endless tolerance for Peter Thiel (German) and Milo Yiannopoulos (British) to come here and spread hate speech, plot ways to recrea…
Peter is much more complex but Milo is pretty transparently a professional troll. I'm sure he's overjoyed to get crazy protests at Berkeley and to get banned from Twitter. The more attention he gets the better it is for his brand. He intentionally picks targets that are the most likely to over-react and uses the most inflammatory language he can. I mean this has to be the trolliest trollmobile that has ever trolled:…
> Peter is much more complex but Milo is pretty transparently a professional troll.
Peter is a slice of bread with honey on one side and some sort of putrid matter on the other.
Milo does not have the honey-tinged side.
Re: Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government
#6Is this terribly surprising? Public/Private partnerships usually do not pan out unless you have competent administrators ready to fight for the best deal on your orgs behalf. I do wish we could eject people who actively want to destroy America from the country, but rather we seem to have endless tolerance for Peter Thiel (German) and Milo Yiannopoulos (British) to come here and spread hate speech, plot ways to recrea…
Destroy America by advocating for diminishing the scope of the first amendment?
Re: Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government
#7Isn't this kind of the point? The NZ governments goal was to increase private investment, not make a return. They succeeded -- Thiel put $6.8m to work in NZ that he may not have otherwise.
Many countries do this. For example in the UK the British Business Bank will become an LP in a VC fund acting as a multiplier on capital raised.
You may not agree with the government's decision, but you can hardly blame Thiel for making use of it.
Re: Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government
#8Is this terribly surprising? Public/Private partnerships usually do not pan out unless you have competent administrators ready to fight for the best deal on your orgs behalf. I do wish we could eject people who actively want to destroy America from the country, but rather we seem to have endless tolerance for Peter Thiel (German) and Milo Yiannopoulos (British) to come here and spread hate speech, plot ways to recrea…
Talk about an echo chamber of left wing fascists. Do you left wing nut jobs even have any clue what conservatives like Thiel stand for or do you just knee jerk to "ban em, ban em all"? I mean after calling them names of course.
Re: Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government
#9It appears that was the point. It's not like he sailed in and viciously took advantage of everyone. I suspect this is on HN for a very specific reason.
Re: Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government
#10Is this terribly surprising? Public/Private partnerships usually do not pan out unless you have competent administrators ready to fight for the best deal on your orgs behalf. I do wish we could eject people who actively want to destroy America from the country, but rather we seem to have endless tolerance for Peter Thiel (German) and Milo Yiannopoulos (British) to come here and spread hate speech, plot ways to recrea…
Destroy America by advocating for diminishing the scope of the first amendment?
Nobody has diminished the scope of the first amendment, which has never been unlimited and whose exercise Milo Yiannopoulos and his affiliates actively seek to limit for others.