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Why Peter Thiel Searches for Reality-Bending ‘Secrets’

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Re: Why Peter Thiel Searches for Reality-Bending ‘Secrets’

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s1artibartfast wrote: post #90
JaimeThompson wrote: post #82

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He said this which shows he doesn't care for women having the right to vote. He funds anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-gay politicians regularly. "The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for l…

>He said this which shows he doesn't care for women having the right to vote. I think you are adding a statement to the quote that isn't there. He didn't say that women shouldn't be able to vote. He said the chance of a libertarian government died when they got the vote. >He funds anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-gay politicians regularly. Seems like you think that anyone who has other political priorities is…

He actively now pushes for a libertarian style government so it isn't much of a stretch to think he doesn't want women to vote. And yes I think someone who uses there power and political connections to exempt themselves from the things those they fund wish to do to others aren't decent people.

Re: Why Peter Thiel Searches for Reality-Bending ‘Secrets’

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Post by s1artibartfast »

JaimeThompson wrote: post #91
s1artibartfast wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>He said this which shows he doesn't care for women having the right to vote. I think you are adding a statement to the quote that isn't there. He didn't say that women shouldn't be able to vote. He said the chance of a libertarian government died when they got the vote. >He funds anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-gay politicians regularly. Seems like you think that anyone who has other political priorities is…

He actively now pushes for a libertarian style government so it isn't much of a stretch to think he doesn't want women to vote. And yes I think someone who uses there power and political connections to exempt themselves from the things those they fund wish to do to others aren't decent people.

I think that is a big dump to make. Just because someone is libertarian and recognizes that women and welfare recipients are the biggest challenge, does it mean that their proposed solution is to take their vote away.

I'm willing to agree that by the nature of his power and position, he is insulated from the negative externalities of those he politically funds. The jump that I make, is that he ultimately wants the government out of those areas too.

Re: Why Peter Thiel Searches for Reality-Bending ‘Secrets’

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Post by webdoodle »

prpl wrote: post #40
KerrAvon wrote: post #15

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He literally funded Trump. “Productive” sometimes isn’t desirable.

“funded trump” - he quit FB board to help fund more trump-aligned candidates. Not exactly in the past yet

Thiel funded Trump early in his first presidential bid: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/11/peter-thi...

His company Palantir also threw one of their employee's under the bus, when it was published that this employee helped Cambridge Analytica with database development work. The work was to sort and query there psychometric data (harvested from Facebook) for people who scored high on a personality trait for neuroticism. These people are often highly addictive, and easy to influence with basic memetic warfare. Twitter, Facebook and Reddit are highly susceptible to influence operations of this type, and were the target of the Trump campaign. Christopher Wylie's book: Mindf%ck, is a great read on this.

After the election, Trump appointed Thiel to his presidential intelligence advisory board as quid pro quo for his campaign funding, furthering his access to secrets.

Re: Why Peter Thiel Searches for Reality-Bending ‘Secrets’

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Post by quinnjh »

JaimeThompson wrote: post #91
s1artibartfast wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>He said this which shows he doesn't care for women having the right to vote. I think you are adding a statement to the quote that isn't there. He didn't say that women shouldn't be able to vote. He said the chance of a libertarian government died when they got the vote. >He funds anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-gay politicians regularly. Seems like you think that anyone who has other political priorities is…

He actively now pushes for a libertarian style government so it isn't much of a stretch to think he doesn't want women to vote. And yes I think someone who uses there power and political connections to exempt themselves from the things those they fund wish to do to others aren't decent people.

consider that there are women and non straights who have an economic agenda, and even the furthest left mrxist nutter would understand an economic agenda
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