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Canada is even worse I'd expect. We have a horrible healthcare system that explicitly disallows any other options, and people rave about the concept of it. This sounds like the same thing.
Peter Thiel, and Palantir for that matter, can fuck right off. I believe, in fact, that [1] represents the general opinion of those in the UK for Peter Thiel and everything he stands for. Apart from the current UK government, of course, who'd love to find one last remnant of public assets to sell off and make themselves a quick gain at the expense of everyone else. But given their absolute historic [2: sorry for the…
If they had kept their hands off it it would be great. Like the public system in Spain still is, even after the budget cuts during the credit crisis.
Peter Thiel's opinion of actual citizen's feelings on the NHS is gaslighting.
An ultra-capitalist billionaire doing PR and saying bollocks to a journo is not gaslighting. It's just bollocks. Stop misusing that word.
[ ] emotional abuse [x] false narrative [x] make people question their own judgement or perception
It's clearly a case of someone in power using their reach to manipulate public opinion. Anyway, I find the term of Stockholm Syndrome equally misused here. I was responding in-kind.