Why does the tech world still embrace Peter Thiel?
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So here's a guy actually moving our society forward in transportation and the environment, and these smug writers try to cast him as a clown.
Does anyone actually defend on substance any of the activities Gawker was engaging in? These people pushed wrong narratives and destroyed lives over reasons that were most often proven false and always self serving to the interests of gawker.
I think peter is a smart guy, but I really feel a sense of gratitude to him for ridding the world of that awful organization.
Everyone sensationalistically shouts he's an evil billionaire damaging free speech and journalism, but gawker was engaged in voyeurism and bullying. And a court of law agreed with it. We make exceptions to pure free speech all the time, such as not being allowed to shout fire in a movie theater, etc.
I don't care to comment about his support of trump, but I also find it curious most of his vocal critics are themselves journalists, and are in my opinion resentful of the fact he set a precedent that the power "journalists" have is also something that can be held accountable.
Assuming our opinion is like above, but against Trump, do we have justification to attack Trump and Thiel based on their political opinion?
When you start bragging about sexually assaulting women, advocating violence against your opponents, and feeding the flames of racial tension you've moved well beyond mere opinion.
It's bewildering that Thiel would support such a character now given how Thiel won't "suffer" from Trump not being in the White House.
It was under Bill Clinton that this entire tech party got started: The commercialization of the Internet. Laws favorable to the start-up investment scene. Freeing up investment banks to allocate capital more freely.
I just don't get Thiel's motivation here. You don't want a total lunatic in power, you want someone you can talk to and persuade.
Trump doesn’t bring race to anything. He’s just called “racist” by people who don’t understand the term “illegal alien”, or that Islam is not a race.
Trump said these terrible things a decade ago. A decade ago Clinton and Obama were strongly, and publicly, against gay marriage. A decade ago Clinton praised sen. Robert Byrd as her “mentor”, a former KKK member, and noted racist. Go back further, and you have tapes of her laughing at the victims of her husband and destroying their lives. The thing with Hillary though, is that you don’t have to go that far with her, if you stop ignoring the fact she should be in jail right now, and not running for office.
I have no idea where you get your news from but the wild assumptions you're making are absurd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryweuBVJMEA&ab_channel=U.S.D...
You really need to stop listening to people like Alex Jones.
The dirt on Clinton is well known: Her hawkish attitude to war, her enthusiastic use of drones, her embrace of free-trade policies like TPP, and so on.
The dirt on Trump is way, way worse, and more keeps coming to light: What has he paid in taxes? What is he hiding? Why do his businesses keep failing in a spectacular way? Why is he constantly being sued by thousands of people? Why does he flip out at the slightest provocation?
Trump isn't the worst human being in history, but he's the worst major party candidate for president in the last hundred years.
If Thiel was supporting Romney, Cruz, hell, any of the last round candidates in the last twenty years, nobody would be upset. Why he chose to get in bed with this particular turd, I don't know.
"Collapsing on a warm day" from pneumonia? Seriously? You've got some issues if you're busting on someone for making every effort to show up to an event relating to September 11th.
Speaking of purging email servers: http://www.salon.com/2015/03/12/the_george_w_bush_email_scan...
Trump is a train-wreck in progress. If you're tied to that wagon you're in for some disappointment, win or lose.
Why would you even talk about Trump’s health records as a Clinton supporter. First it’s not pneumonia, then it’s pneumonia. She collapses from it, then hugs a child after it miraculously gets through the Secret Service, even though the disease can be contagious. Pneumonia can cause serious complications, Clinton doesn’t tell you about it, and now you praise her for how strong she is? Why would you do that?
Who cares what Bush did. He’s not running for president, why would that be even remotely relevant to the discussion.
The only bad thing you managed to say about Trump is that he’s a wild card, while completely ignoring, or trying to awkwardly justify, that Clinton committed crimes, and showed utter incompetence while in office.
The FBI, however, has concluded that there was no crime. So hey, take it up with them.
If you think Trump's the candidate to vote for that says a lot about your judgement. Many people are voting for Hillary simply because there's no reasonable alternative.
Trump is an exceptionally flawed candidate, but I encourage everyone to consider that perhaps their perception of him is to some debatable degree (a big degree in my opinion) due to people out there trying very hard and spending a lot of money to portay him as "literally hitler"
Just remember: You might be the victim getting your livelihood taken away someday..all because of your differing political views.
It would be unethical to team publicly against average person, based on his opinions, but Thiel is not a average person.
Large amounts of money change the status of a person. Money and political power are largely interchangeable. Thiel is billionaire and his status and influence is closer to major politician, large company or small state than average joe.
Thiel has demonstrated that he is willing to use his money to attack against others he don't like, so I think he should be able to take some blowback. Hie livelihood is not in a stake.
You have money? You can be treated as less than a human.
This is accepted principle in liberal democracies. Public Officials and figures get less protection than common man.
This is an accepted principle in evil authoritarian countries, not liberal democracies.
Everyone should have the same rights, regardless of wealth or status. This is just an excuse, so you can make yourself feel better at night for treating someone as less than human.
The Clinton's have attacked more women than Trump. I also don't see how Trump has attacked 'minorities'. Wikileaks has shown us just how corrupt our government has become...and the media continues to cover it up and deflect.
Illegal immigrants violating our current laws by being here. This is nothing new. You always have a chance of getting deported if you don't go through the proper channels to become a citizen. Most of the 'foreign-born' as you call it came to this country legally and through the proper channels.
Trump has said this from the beginning. He wants to make it easier for people to come here legally. I remember his first speech about Mexico and 'the wall'. He only mentioned illegal immigration and the press ran with it and left out the illegal part. The people that didn't see the speech believed it.
The tech industry loves all of immigration because they can hire engineers and other employees at a much lower salary than Americans. The employees get stuck into an essential slave contract because it's very difficult to move to another company while on an H1B visa.
Hillary is more of the same corruption, wasted tax dollars, and making back-room deals with billionaires and Wallstreet.
The government system needs to be attacked, because it's not doing anything in the best interest of its citizens.
The Clinton campaign is run by a bunch of Fascists and she is friends with the likes of Bill Ayers (someone who actually used explosives to harm innocent people). If the company you keep represents the person, both Obama and Hillary are pretty terrible people.
I've never seen Trump re-tweet anything remotely related to neo-nazis...only fake bullshit copied by dummies on Social media.
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We regret the confusion.
No confusion here. Multiple groups are colluding against him (and so is the media) because they don't like his political views.