"Peter Thiel, longtime Trump supporter and billionaire master of the universe, published an op-ed in Financial Times that perfectly replicates the experience of being cornered by a sweaty cokehead at an Austin, Texas house party."
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Man, I read that Thiel piece too, and it was like something I might imagine someone having a psychotic break would write. Except that is probably unfair to people who have experienced psychotic breaks. Certainly it was written by someone who cannot string multiple coherent thoughts together.
I see this as a prolog to shock and awe Maga conspiracy theorists. The same people that buy National Enquirer will be spoon-fed misinformation and ask for seconds. The elite will be able to spin anything, and maga will feel grateful the truth has finally been shared. 😒
Why did FT even print this drug-addled lunacy by a guy who has nothing to fear in the world except universal mocking and disdain from anyone with a brain.
I wish these tech elitists would get their narcissistic heads out of their sci-fi/fantasy fanboy wankfest universes and join the real world.
Peter Thiel is a freak's freak. My favorite part about him is that he's a gay married man who backs Dump & Maga. He thinks his money wd protect him & his marriage when Maga outlaw gay marriage & criminalize being gay. Call a lib when you get arrested! Oh wait, they won't be letting you call anybody.
Men like this are incapable of seeing a single fault of their own and they are rich enough to make sure nobody around them mentions those flaws either.
The billionaires won big this last election and their drug-fueled victory party is still ongoing. They bought the U.S. government for a song and crushed the Democrats who were threatening to tax their billions.
If these weirdos (e.g. Thiel, Musk) wind up creating any lasting value, it’ll be as an incontrovertible reminder to all of us that wealth is NOT an indicator of intelligence, competence or common sense.
Now that the billionaires are making their thoughts more public, all I can say is...what?
Does that much money cause a unique strain of bat shit crazy dementia?
These guys have broken their own brains. But the inability of media to say "WTF r u talking about?" doesn't help. No one tells the golden goose they're bonkers
And remember this turd whenever you hear Malcolm Gladwell promoting his new book, without apologizing for his fawning portrait of Thiel in The Tipping Point.
Completely nonsensical dribble from an out of touch and ridiculous self grandiose wanna be Joe Rogan. It’s time these piles of dog crap get scrapped off the collective souls of societies shoes.
In the pre-internet age millionaires were satisfied with being invisible, some even preferred it. But now in the social media fueled Holocene age, many billionaires want to be celebrities, and they demand the blind devotion given to popularists. They want to be worshipped just for existing.
Well, these billionaires are billionaires because of malignant narcissism and the need for constant ego boosting supply. They have no core and are empty... and they falsely hope money will bring the supply they need. It never does.
In a nutshell, Thiel is spewing out a toxic stew of nonsense, false narratives, and conspiracy theories as a pretext for fascism. That's "what he's trying to say".
If you're a RW believer, you're hearing Fash catachism -- an ad nauseum reiteration of myths, disinformation, & propaganda used over the last 40+ years to soften and then build the staunch, militant population ready to lap up Trump's comm campaign (aided by XoFash Pastors) & become his thralls.
Sure sounds like way too many drugs. I remember his kind from the early 70's (remember that the 60's actually happened in the early 70's). It put me off drugs from then on. Who wanted to listen to those guys--and they were always guys?
One more thing, re: Musk, Thiel's Buddy. Today in NYT there's a spread of Musk's circle (friends, backers, Trumpies, Lieutenants). 44 in all. Only 2 are women and they are or were lieutenants in his companies. 0.045%. weird, right?
These people would be better spending their time rolling around naked in their money than trying to contribute to the public discourse. They really have nothing coherent to say.
Thiel did an interview where he praised the work of Rene Girard, and the only connection he could make to his investing philosophy was that RG taught him to be 'contrarian'. Deep, bruh. This is a rich guy with a limited and weird cognitive map he uses to explain events 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘤.
Only evil people attempted to defend the in defensible. There was no way to defend, justify or explain away the evil depravity of American healthcare. Brian Thompson was not a murder victim, he was a casualty.
Peter Theil has read a copy of Plato’s “The Republic” with decent footnotes and now we’re all fucked. That text has been the “Catcher in the Rye” of petty-princes with dystopian aspirations for hundreds of years.
Wow.Thiel is almost as #Wierd as Creepy Stephen Miller. I swear some of these self-styled right-wing prophets, eg, Shield, Vance + Steve Bannon, are throwbacks to Mideaval.times. They want a world where they, the elites, rule and the rest of us struggle
in the mud.
It'pathetic that main stream media never mentions that Thiel is gay and married to a Wall Street man with a surrogate child who purchased JD Vance's seat dumping $140 million on midterms.
At the same time Peter loves to stick his knife in the gay/ trans community just like Caitlyn Jenner.
Every marginalized person who votes Republican does so because they hate some other marginalized group, and think that will magically protect them when their group comes up on the leopards' face menu. Noope.
And the wealthy ones, like this asshole, also think their money will be a shield. They should look up civil forfeiture. They just have to bring back sodomy laws, arrest him, and seize all his assets. Done deal.
The over botoxed baby filler Opus Dei, Knights of federalist society Malta is as greater threat to USA as Musk and all PayPal mafia ..
Forget that that Slovenian hooker loves going to "log cabin" events and taking their money.
But once again she will knife you in the back as we are threatened..
I think he is crazy. I think the kind of wealth these guys have has driven them nuts or maybe they were deviant to begin with and that's what allowed them to screw everyone over to get rich. I imagine they only ever talk to each other. What could they possibly have in common with the rest of us?
Thiel impressed me now and then over the years with essays I didn’t agree with but which included interesting stuff I didn’t quite understand, such as on real estate & housing. I thought “huh, I should learn more about this.” But this piece is, well, a mess. I guess he was always this way. My bad.
Is there any reason to believe that JD, the man he embraced, enable, funded & promoted to being next in line, will remain sold to him rather than be a newly purchased vehicle for EM? Is Thiel already being eclipsed because JD sure is quiet
Thiel and the new right have been bypassing liberals' stupid guy radar by peppering what they say with references to the Classics and semi-obscure history.
But simply ask any of these guys a unique followup question about any one of their references, and they instantly reveal themselves as LARPers.
Thiel always reminds me of this. It's kind of a German version of the John Oliver. It's worth watching the whole thing but I have it cued up to the satirical song.
Don't you just love it when these ultra-rich boneheads who lack even the slightest smidgeon of self-awareness spew out a load of bollocks to justify their desire to rule over our world like a coterie of alien occupiers.
How much snow you gotta plow to get those two permanently visible forehead veins Thiel is sporting these days? It's either a testament to the volume or an indictment of Don Jr's circulatory system/quality of product that Thiel seems to be outperforming him on this front.
Holy shit, that's the guy who kicked in my door and snorted everything I had while ranting about how the SEC is killing Gamestop to hide how rotten the system is
Guys it’s obvious that he’s trying to say internet detectives would have identified “the real shooter” from the JFK assassination, which is accurate but not for the reason he thinks
I still don't understand whether those guys actually believe the things they say or they're being cynical & opportunist about it. I think the perspective of the former frightens me more.
Everyone really should go read it, it’s truly indescribably bad. And not only the ideas—which are just recycled, long-debunked conspiracy theories—but also the writing. Like a child’s idea of how a smart person writes.
They can’t accept the fact that having billions doesn’t make you intelligent, attractive, or immoral. They’re condemned to spending the rest of their lives bitterly raging against this fundamental reality.
Yes, he's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Check out Rachel Maddow's report on him and his little submarine. He's also the emotional support billionaire of JD "down with 🐈 ladies" Vance and by extension TFG (that felon guy).
"We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters," is a Thiel line that his fans quote as if it cleverly summed up "technological stagnation." But a modicum of reflection shows that there's nothing wise or deep in it at all.
Tossing word salad in every interview. Same on Bari Weiss' pod, where he even managed to compare conservatives to the rebels in Star Wars. The man lives in the Upside Down.
I had to check on this self made man and found this in Wikipedia: "With financial support from friends and family, he raised $1 million toward the establishment of Thiel Capital Management and embarked on his venture capital career."
Turns out the "techbros" billionaries aren't here to make the world a better place, just ot hoard wealth, shitpost America, the only place they could have accumulated their wealth, take a wrecking ball to democracy and create an oligarchy.
I would just like to say a big thank you to all those protest voters and all those that just couldn’t be bothered to vote. By thank you I mean on behalf of my 4 beautiful granddaughters, Fuck You! U deserve men like this running the country, my granddaughters do not!
Reposting my theory on Thiel's delusional incoherence from his last round of sweaty, vacuous rambling press appearances in December. Turns out it's hard to think straight when your brain is full of literal poop. https://bsky.app/profile/giantwhispers.bsky.social/post/3ldbzh6g4xk2t
Maybe he's trying to tell us, Dump is getting ready to reveal some of our family secrets. We know he wants to embarrass and shame the FBI, and CIA, this may be a way to get more Americans in his camp by revealing some ugly truths the government has been lying to us about.
When I read manifestos by 1of the tech bros they always have the same personality markers.Regardless of their age they're incredibly naive & stuck in a male teenage mindset, with a dose of anger.Yet these ppl have invented cool stuff&made a sh*tload of money.Why the lost in the world mentality?
Thiel hasn't even invented anything; he's a finance guy, he has always been a finance guy. I mean, you're not wrong about the tech bro manifesto dudes, but it drives me crazy that we're all now required to pretend that people who just invest piles of money in businesses are inventors.
Literally every billionaire is like this, and what's worse is the legion of fanboys that agree with them, thinking maybe they can be billionaires too, not realizing that they just as used and exploited by these guys as everyone else
Gault is confused here: perhaps he has only heard ideas at Austin house parties because it's the only place that he goes to talk to anyone who isn't the media or the deep state.
That pair aren't interested in Covid origins or who funded Epstein, but the rest of are.
Must be a different generation from the Austin, Texas house parties I attended. Mostly it was marijuana and psychedelics in my day. Ah how times change. 🤣
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https://www.advocate.com/peter-thiel/peter-thiel-model-jeff-thomas
I wish these tech elitists would get their narcissistic heads out of their sci-fi/fantasy fanboy wankfest universes and join the real world.
Mental illness issue on the streets, and in the halls of power.
Does that much money cause a unique strain of bat shit crazy dementia?
Who has billions in government surveillance contracts.
https://bsky.app/profile/justinhendrix.bsky.social/post/3lfgsnqvjkk23
These people are freaks.
https://youtu.be/89voMRFp9uM?si=7Hn03WTG1TJc_X5d
Billionaires Rat Family
https://bsky.app/profile/politicalcartoon.bsky.social/post/3lfg7oqi34c2d
in the mud.
At the same time Peter loves to stick his knife in the gay/ trans community just like Caitlyn Jenner.
Forget that that Slovenian hooker loves going to "log cabin" events and taking their money.
But once again she will knife you in the back as we are threatened..
Non of those wankers write an op-ed without any intention or message..
And I doubt, Thiel did..
Especially, when it makes him look just flat out crazy.
Imo, of course
This guy is, sadly, sharp in mind (not to compare to the wanna be genius apartheid boy)
This is a damn fucking dangerous develooemnt..
I remember from history..
It's the "Herrenrasse", the worst outcome from superiority ..
And they think, they really are ..
I'm pretty sure, he has ...
I would even go that far to say, triple the amount from a Potus ...
Maybe, like ancient kings, people who need to taste the food first...
He's such a dark person.
You can even feel the evil, and I'm megaparsecs away from being religious
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-davos-hannity-interview-jan-6-pardons-live-updates-rcna188606
(What Musk allegedly wrote as comment in the #Weld is assumed to be 70% KI.)
But simply ask any of these guys a unique followup question about any one of their references, and they instantly reveal themselves as LARPers.
https://youtu.be/SKY5pOcEn4U?t=1220
Oh, wait, I think I know…
https://bsky.app/profile/jim-stewartson.bsky.social/post/3ld5gyrdguk2t
The disordered thinking, the paranoia...
Like we all do, I guess!
https://bsky.app/profile/giantwhispers.bsky.social/post/3ldbzh6g4xk2t
That pair aren't interested in Covid origins or who funded Epstein, but the rest of are.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets?srsltid=AfmBOoqZWJdni4sLJFxaCZyA3hQyhnPXEa72Wbnr54bUa8SV5IqVrscv
Their cat's out of the bag at this point.
It's beyond fascism.
Thiel is a heel from that stale loaf of Musk Bread™.