Thiel compared California liberalism to Saudi Arabian Wahabbism — but it was sort of a compliment

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Peter Thiel needs to get more public acknowledgement for being a slimy, miserable, financier of evil who should accident himself out a 45th story window.

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    Oh man, with the baby leash he has on Vance, no way he can stay behind in US… looks like trump needs a new second place idiot now.

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    6 months ago

    The mental gymnastics this guy does to justify his ideology. “California is prosperous despite not following my dumb pet economic theories and so is Saudi Arabia. They must be the same thing.”

    Like that’s an aggressive form of terminal stupidity. Keep this up and he’ll be eating glue before the years out.

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        They don’t have to. They just take the money and don’t talk about it.

        Ask Ayn Rand. That cunt is directly responsible for creating many of these morons, and she collected Social Security and Medicare when she got old (look forward to hearing about how she still deserves it even if she disagrees, yeah no shit. I think you know that wasn’t my point).

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    Little sobbing baby bribed Donald to pick the absolute most hated person possible for VP. Now it’s time to whine since the fascism isn’t going great. Fuck off to New Zealand, then, bye, Peter.

    He is one of the worst people on the planet. The world would be better if he left existence instead of just America.

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      6 months ago

      Sorry but as an Australian who spends a lot of time in the US that’s a really, really, really retarded statement.

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    “Eccentric” is a weird word for the man whose writing inspired both Nick Lang and Mencius Moldbug.

    I rarely use the word because it cheapens its impact but the man is a modern protofascist and should be identified as at least the forefather of the modern right wing anti-liberalism movement.

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      should be identified as at least the forefather of the modern right wing anti-liberalism movement

      Thiel is a cunt but he was 12 years old when Ronald Reagan was elected and not even born yet during Barry Goldwater’s acceptance speech. He is absolutely not the forefather of the modern rightwing anti-liberalism movement.

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        6 months ago

        That’s not the modern far right, that’s just the current right until Trump.

        People like Lang and Moldbug are the fathers of the modern neoreactionary movement, the architects of the new fascist right, not the economically ultraliberal socially conservative right of Reagan.

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          Cut taxes, erode the separation of church and state, ban abortion, gut environmental protections, pack the supreme court, demonize liberals, blow up the national debt, destroy public education, dogwhistle racists, bust unions, overspend on the military, hate on the gays, gerrymander and suppress voters, make fun of the French … this shit has all been around since before Reagan. If it’s changed, it’s only been to become more openly loathsome.