as a current normal person, I quite dislike the attempt to launder the useless if not dangerous perspective of an unwell man simply because he is tremendously wealthy
Logic is already wrong by the 2nd paragraph. "The internet" didn't liberate people from the "official narrative" post Epstien's sucide: even in the "primitive" MSM days an even vaster majority distrusted the official story round JFK.
Peter Thiel is a person of influence and very knowledgeable on business.
This piece is fucking drivel, unfounded conspiracy, will 'expose' as much as the vapidness of the "Twitter Files" at most and possibly the weakest thing the otherwise excellent FT has published in a long time
Why is everyone freaked out FT published Thiel's op-ed?
Op-ed literally means Opposition Editorial. FT isn't endorsing him.
He was going to publish it somewhere. Personally, I want to read what he is writing because of his immense influence over politics and his immense silence about his beliefs.
I think we will eventually find that the rapid accumulation of excessive wealth causes mental illness
Does this clown not comprehend that Donald Trumps DOJ controlled the prison Epstein died in? Wouldn’t Epstein’s former best friend be a prime suspect in his murder?
Nice one. Cutting out tech bro whisperers like Kara Swisher and letting folk like Thiel speak for themselves lets the world know how uninformed, pretentious, conspiracy-minded, self-serving and bonkers they truly are.
All of Mr Thiel's 'just asking questions' conspiracy theories are already freely available all over the more demented sections of the internet. Not much need to waste valuable FT space on them here.
Did you guys realize how much money InfoWars made and now want to copy them? I sure hope you get bought by The Onion some day. You're already beyond satire with this.
Stakeholder in SPACEX WHOS OWNER CURRENTLY IS TRYING TO GET OUR ELECTED PM OF 6 MONTHS OUT OF OFFICE & WHO HAS PUT AN ELECTED WOMAN MP IN JEOPARDY WITH HIS HYPOCRITICAL LIES BUT YEAH GIVE HIM A COLUMN IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES 🤮
MYSOGINY IS EVERYWHERE!
Trump and his followers are famously known to be supporters of “Truth and Reconciliation”. His new buddy Musk is the most recent prominent example of the opposite.
Of course the plan might be to create the distraction of T&R with one hand while quietly siphoning off from the state with the other.
The Great Oz Speaks. Oh and surprise it's to boost cooperation with a compulsively criminally driven seditionist sparking less than 50% of the electorate winning proponent of the Great Oz's white man being replaced world view.
What is wrong with the FT, to give this fascist bully the oxygen of publicity? Surely as a serious newspaper the FT should be investigating & exposing Palantir's destructive influence on the NHS, not providing platforms for the worst people on earth. You don't have to bow down to the powerful.
Jesus Christ. Until today, the FT was the only UK paper I took seriously. Are you too succumbing to the brain worms? Peter. Fucking. Thiel. Have you lost your goddamned minds???
Thank the gods for Trump! Thank you for releasing the Billionaires from their repression under the Castro and Fauci protecting deep state…or something Ancient Greek internet something middle earth blah wank
"truth and reconciliation" aren't compatible with Trump or the Tech-Bros behind a divided America. One doesn't start believing liars and manipulators even if they attempt anything resembling the truth. Humanity is at a crossroads now. Either you're a good person or you're not. There's no both sides.
I think the FT is the best newspaper in the UK and it’s not even close. I learn something pretty much every time I read it, which is why I’m especially cross when they include this kind of fascistic trolling. I’d genuinely hate to have to unsubscribe.
Jesus Christ. Thiel fuelling stupid and inflammatory conspiracy theories, and "just asking questions" in the most trolling way. It'll certainly get you clicks ...
They should have published it alongside the mad rantings of a pub bore and asked people to guess who wrote what. One of the more incoherent and stupid things I've read in quite a long time.
Looking forward to seeing the next piece, Bashar al-Assad on bringing war criminals to justice.
What the absolute fuck do you think you're doing having this weasel drag your newspaper into the cesspool with him? Why would you stain your pages with his name?
Unlike most replies here I'm glad the ft published this, as a key power broker, it's interesting to have an insight into his thinking... which appears to be rambling nonsense. No one is going to read this and think 'great points'
GTFOH. I love the “unbiased journalism” pop up. I’m begging a single news org to not roll over to the fascist technocrats ending democracy and… all of you are. Good god
He writes just absolute shit - and you're happy to print it as "opinion".
He talks about "sins" but there is no mention of the fact that Trump is a 34-time convicted felon and a rapist.
God, your paper is quickly becoming a shit rag
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JFK and Epstein aside, isn’t Thiel himself responsible for any “slowdown in tech innovation” that he decries for funding crypto slop?
If COVID is a Democrat conspiracy, seems odd that it started under Trump. Why didn’t his strong man do anything?
Bit disappointed though that you didn't go full Alisdair MacIntyre (obviously the vibe Thiel aspires to) with ἀποκάλυψις, and not just _apokálypsis_?
This piece is fucking drivel, unfounded conspiracy, will 'expose' as much as the vapidness of the "Twitter Files" at most and possibly the weakest thing the otherwise excellent FT has published in a long time
Op-ed literally means Opposition Editorial. FT isn't endorsing him.
He was going to publish it somewhere. Personally, I want to read what he is writing because of his immense influence over politics and his immense silence about his beliefs.
#robberbarons
Does this clown not comprehend that Donald Trumps DOJ controlled the prison Epstein died in? Wouldn’t Epstein’s former best friend be a prime suspect in his murder?
How embarrassing for you and FT!
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/peter-thiel-women-democracy_n_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5
MYSOGINY IS EVERYWHERE!
@financialtimes1.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/stilldelvingh.bsky.social/post/3lffo3zoo3c2z
Of course the plan might be to create the distraction of T&R with one hand while quietly siphoning off from the state with the other.
Unwell.
And that's the problem. The decision *is* the problem.
Wealth hoarding is an illness we must purge, people like Thiel gamble with the lives of others.
Next, you’ll be telling me that the 25th Earl of Bumbleford isn’t really the saint that the Archbishop makes him out to be.
What the absolute fuck do you think you're doing having this weasel drag your newspaper into the cesspool with him? Why would you stain your pages with his name?
So why are you giving him any exposure?
Oh. You're a journo. So you helped create the problem. Guess it pays well.
2. Imagine publishing this worthless drivel
#BootLickers
Also his made up words make me think of The Glass Onion & the revelation that this billionaire bro isn’t a genius, he’s an idiot!
Oh, wait, am I part of the ancien regime now?
#buffoonery
Hahahahahahha
Oh well. On the substantial point that the internet has caused a social revolution akin to the French one, arguably true.
But we are now analogously in the mad years of wild experiment, and Thiel etc should beware the Ides of Thermidor.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/03/18/white-nationalist-who-met-peter-thiel-admired-terroristic-literature
He talks about "sins" but there is no mention of the fact that Trump is a 34-time convicted felon and a rapist.
God, your paper is quickly becoming a shit rag
Peter Thiel can go fuck himself with a red hot poker.