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Thiel has some extremish views, but I generally regard him as intelligent and thoughtful. "He seems intelligent and thoughtful, but has scarily extremist views" might be a better angle to take.
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I feel like there's a conflict of interest here...
There's a conflict of interest in each of his secretary picks, too. It's disgusting. I don't write often, or even blog, but I felt the need to vent on some of the issues of the picks here: https://medium.com/@joshbrody_36224/dear-president-elect-tru...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-14/most-important-wiki...
This was obvious from the RNC speech and further reinforced when Thiel donated $1M to Trump. A contrarian bet, sure, but $1M is a pretty small price to pay to have a 50/50 shot at CTO of the USA. I'm sure he'll see a very significant ROI on his $1M once the government starts awarding contracts very conveniently to companies of which he owns a portion. I had very negative feelings about Thiel, and those were magnified…
Shrewd seems unfair. Political views and ethics aside, it turns out he's a genius.
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Yes. He lied, as many on the left said he was. Here[0], there is talk Jamie Dimon was considered by his advisors for Treasury. To be fair, Dimon declined, but it shows that Trump at least surrounds himself with people who don't give two shits about his "helping the little man." [0] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/10/donald-trump-advisors-conside...
> He lied, as many on the left said he was. Please drop the partisan angle on this. This isn't a left/right difference. Obama campaigned with a similar promise and he still selected lobbyists for his administration: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/08/15/th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler
This was obvious from the RNC speech and further reinforced when Thiel donated $1M to Trump. A contrarian bet, sure, but $1M is a pretty small price to pay to have a 50/50 shot at CTO of the USA. I'm sure he'll see a very significant ROI on his $1M once the government starts awarding contracts very conveniently to companies of which he owns a portion. I had very negative feelings about Thiel, and those were magnified…
Shrewd seems unfair. Political views and ethics aside, it turns out he's a genius.
Great, another climate change denier https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-views-of-the-Thiel-Founda...
https://youtu.be/CoxxGhLFbw4?t=2m30s
As an aside, what's wrong with his cheek? Did he have an accident or some bad plastic surgery?
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In context his suggestion is that women being allowed to vote is incompatible with enacting his ideal philosophy of government. Which in turn implies that the only way to implement his ideal philosophy of government would be to deny women the right to vote.
His ideal form of government is minimal enough that voting is superfluous. That you infer nefarious motive speaks not at all to what was actually implied.
What about the vote to set it up in the first place?
Is there a kind of "political correctness" that refuses the acknowledgment of facts and likelihoods that sound similar to irrational dismissal? Does that kind prevent people from hearing the following things which I think most people would agree to be true? -Donald Trump says he wants to completely deregulate the banking industry, which will most likely, in the long term, lead to a crisis on par with or greater than…
The president does not appoint cabinet level officials, the president nominates them and they are approved by Congress.
And there hasn't been a formal nomination, just a floating of the name.
Anyway, the point is that everyone who votes to approve the various cabinet officials should be held responsible for the things that follow, not just the president.
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The quote explicitly names "women getting the vote" as one of the factors that has turned ".. democracy" into an "oxymoron". Picking and choosing in or out groups is not "democracy".
You left out "capitalist democracy", his point is that capitalism and democracy are mutually exclusive concepts when women are allowed to vote since they tend to vote for socialism.
But it's great you have realized the principal mistake here.
I don't understand how a gay man can support a political party who's platform wants to reverse marriage equality.