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chocolatpi

(7,888 posts)
Sun Aug 7, 2022, 01:46 PM Aug 2022

Peter Thiel's plan to buy elections

He is starting in Arizona as was reported by another DU poster on Wednesday. After reading her post, I made a small donation to Katie Hobbs for Governor. I have also made donations to Senator Kelly. Campaigns, short of an angel investor, will need to manage advertising dollars while investing in GOTV efforts, imo.

Peter Thiel's carpetbagger support for flakey masters and flakey lake was reported in another thread earlier this week. Theil (paypal billionaire) is a CPAC, tRump loving opportunist. Peter holds both US and German citizenship.

https://news.yahoo.com/peter-thiel-candidates-more-unabomber-020152975.html

Peter Thiel's candidates in Arizona

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Ted Kaczynski was not a hippie who broke bad, as some assume, and his manifesto wasn’t some extremist interpretation of 1960s whole earth environmentalism. Anyone who has bothered to read even just the first few pages of his manifesto will know that Kaczynski was a fanatical culture warrior and reactionary conservative, both socially and technologically.

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