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Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

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Re: Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

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ratrace wrote: post #110
mindslight wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm very much talking about talibanized socialists/communists/whatever they want to particularly call themselves. So you're just bashing a strawman that you've pigeonholed all opposition into? Okay then... We had a previous exchange that I ended up dropping. I was a bit sorry about that because I thought it would have been interesting to critique "universalism" on its own merits, rather than the term generally only…

> So you're just bashing a strawman that you've pigeonholed all opposition into? If you think radicalized left-wingers are a strawman, you live in a separate universe from mine. Unfortunately, I live in the one where I have to wake up and see flyers around my town unironically claiming Trump ate kids. Can we swap?

Oh no, flyers? That changes things. Flyers are the worst. How do you even manage?

Re: Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

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Post by belter »

iancmceachern wrote: post #92

It's so weird to me that these folks don't just retire with a bag of money to a nice beach house and enjoy life. They're always seeming to meddle. And in doing so they take away our, and their peace. It's like they're troubled deeply and they need us to be also? Why can't they just not do demonstrably evil, deeply wrong things?

You are getting closer to realizing that becoming a billionaire demands a psychological detachment most people would find disturbing...

It is not always brilliance that drives the relentless accumulation of wealth, but a deep, unresolved hole...an inner void shaped by trauma, by the need for validation never received from a parent, a world, or a past self.

That constant dissatisfaction fuels an endless pursuit of wealth they imagine will finally provide meaning or peace, yet never does. The accumulation becomes the self justification. The proof of worth in a game that can never truly be won. And from that height grows the contempt... Not for ignorance, but for poverty itself. Not because the poor are seen as incapable, but because they serve as a reminder of everything these individuals fear becoming.

Re: Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

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Post by ifwinterco »

Schmerika wrote: post #99
ifwinterco wrote: post #83

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I'd argue that's not really stupidity, it's more of a moral and spiritual failing. IMO those are really two separate axes, you can be very smart and also completely evil or quite dumb but a genuinely good person

It's not very smart to fail morally and spiritually, over and over, without ever looking into why or trying to correct the issues. It does take intelligence of a particular kind to examine yourself and what makes you happy, fulfilled. And it takes a certain kind of stupidity to become greedy for more and more and more, neverending. I don't believe that intelligence is a single axis. You can even have different levels…

True yes, I do get what you're saying

Re: Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

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Post by belter »

ratrace wrote: post #90
Betelbuddy wrote: post #73

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No. He is stupid... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4ZjhdkOf0_E https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-BQhXdCs8Y https://www.tiktok.com/@eddiethemediatrainer/video/752115237...

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Re: Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

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Post by ratrace »

mindslight wrote: post #111
ratrace wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So you're just bashing a strawman that you've pigeonholed all opposition into? If you think radicalized left-wingers are a strawman, you live in a separate universe from mine. Unfortunately, I live in the one where I have to wake up and see flyers around my town unironically claiming Trump ate kids. Can we swap?

Oh no, flyers? That changes things. Flyers are the worst. How do you even manage?

I get by by resenting democracy and the political process. It ain't much but it's honest work.

Re: Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

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Post by red-iron-pine »

a-french-anon wrote: post #38
netsharc wrote: post #13

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On the topic of projection, I wonder where the "Pizzagate!" frothing-at-the-mouth QAnon geniuses are, now that the actual sex-child-trafficking conspiracy has been revealed, just that it involves their champion fascists. Hah at one point they were saying an online furniture shop is a website for trafficking children hiding in plain sight, using coded messages to describe said children (something like "leather sofa" m…

Always cute to see people speak with such confidence about stuff they know nothing about. QAnon was always controlled opposition, unlike the website that was monitored then closed by the feds (CF) via false flag attack.

qanon was almost certainly foreign agit-prop. it may have started with a real human but if you think they're running false-flags out of 4chan you're literally insane.

the US Gov doesn't need to go to 4chan, they can get headlines in the Washington Post and NBC.

why would Q-anon continue to advocate for Jan 7th and overthrowing the gubmnt even after Biden won?

Re: Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

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Post by red-iron-pine »

jacquesm wrote: post #71
awesomeusername wrote: post #5

Bummer. I Don't want him to lose his Kiwi status. Can't wait for him to escape the apocalypse to NZ, that's gonna be hilarious. Not for him though...

Why do you hate NZ that much?

people too nice, country too majestic

Re: Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

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Post by red-iron-pine »

deepsun wrote: post #36
SilverElfin wrote: post #8

Somehow there is a lot less discussion online about Thiel and Musk, both of whom are in the Epstein files. These are the most powerful people on the planet, steering elections at every level in America through their spending and connections. They need to be outed. Thiel appears to be a Russian asset since he meets with Russians at Epstein’s properties per the files. Musk is different. He simply begs Epstein to let Mu…

Well, I can accept that Musk didn't know about criminal stuff and just thought it's like a Burning Man and had a big FOMO. Even though I cannot stand buffone Musk, it looks like it to me. Thiel and especially Trump though are very different story. Trump happily dived in all the crime he could get.

elon musk, a guy touted for being a literal genius, didn't know what happened on the epstein island?
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