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Peter Thiel comes out finally and reveals his plans. (Original Post) Bread and Circuses Jan 2025 OP
Better link? Pachamama Jan 2025 #1
Here's the link - no paywall at TNR - and the link to my OP last Friday about what Thiel said. highplainsdem Jan 2025 #3
Thanks and Bread and Circuses Jan 2025 #4
Could be this usonian Jan 2025 #2
These two TechBros are bad Bread and Circuses Jan 2025 #5

highplainsdem

(61,647 posts)
3. Here's the link - no paywall at TNR - and the link to my OP last Friday about what Thiel said.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 12:12 AM
Jan 2025
https://newrepublic.com/article/190129/peter-thiel-truth-reconciliation-trump-internet


My thread about Thiel:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219893424

I'm not interested in an academic analysis of Thiel's crazy ramblings. The one bit that struck me as most important was Thiel's attempt to justify Trump doing piecemeal declassifications, which would feed rightwing narratives and conspiracy theories on the internet.

Bread and Circuses

(1,934 posts)
4. Thanks and
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 02:03 AM
Jan 2025

I think Thiel is throwing some treats to the conspiracy spreaders.

We need to watch him, closely.

usonian

(24,864 posts)
2. Could be this
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 12:06 AM
Jan 2025
https://www.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-twisted-vision-trump-205931959.html

Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and prominent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, is also something of a political theorist. His latest work is an essay in the Financial Times titled “A time for truth and reconciliation,” a nod to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

FT: https://archive.ph/fp0cH

Oh THAT'S A GEM!!

Our deepest questions — the causes of the 50-year slowdown in scientific and technological progress in the US


A 50 year "slowdown" that made extreme scientific and technological progress (and I can name most of them that I lived through -- think Hubble and Webb, AND extreme computer progress that made BILLIONS for Thiel and Musk and Bezos and Gates and Ellison and so on_)

WHAT BULLSHIT!!



Here's what you need to know:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219696928#post11
The shadow of apartheid South Africa in America.

Thiel and Musk. Apartheid immigrant tech bros from South Africa.

Bread and Circuses

(1,934 posts)
5. These two TechBros are bad
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 02:06 AM
Jan 2025

Bad , bad, bad.
They will make billions by buying US assets for Pennies

Just like what happened in Russia. Putin stole USSR assets and sold to his buddies!

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