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usonian

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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.

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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
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