Peter Thiel Defends His Most Contrarian Move Yet: Supporting Trump
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> On Monday, Mr. Thiel plans to defend his position in a speech and then a question-and-answer session with reporters at the National Press Club in Washington.
What an awful argument by the critics; I'm not sure that it should even be called an argument. Zuckerburg did the right thing.
How is it a bad argument? At least in the U.S., the places that consider themselves the most tolerant tend to be the most segregated. E.g. the majority of the most segregated cities in the U.S. are in the northeast, the midwest, and the west coast.[1]
It's been especially noticeable this election, where many Clinton supporters have been attacking Bernie for being racist because he lives in a state where minorities aren't kept in special ghettos to be used as de facto slave labor. (E.g. if you go to any gas station or restaurant in Vermont then you're likely to be served by a white person, as opposed to in NYC where these places are almost entirely staffed by minorities who are payed less than a living wage and live in segregated neighborhoods.)
[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2015/12/08/census-...
This ideology is exactly why I'm voting for Trump.
That's funny, I'm also white and currently live a few blocks from there. The point though is that you'd need a ton of hispanic people from the Bronx to move to SoHo in order to make it reflect the overall demographics of the city.
> I certainly never spoke to anybody who felt like we were defacto enslaved.
I mean there are tens of thousands of homeless people in NYC, many of whom have jobs. Many folks forced to live in apartments with stachybotrys, the subways are littered with folks whose skin is literally rotting off from a combination of never showering and heroin-related infections, etc.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/100-bronx-gang...
87 people got arrested in a single bust about 12 blocks from where I live, for a combination of selling crack and murder. They're all from the same housing projects.
Yet despite being right around the corner, my neighborhood has one of the lowest violent crime rates in NYC. If that's not an example of ghettoization, I don't know what is.
If Thiel is rooting for Tech in the race vs Politics, why is he investing his resources in a company that converts Tech advances to personal freedom limiting Political power?
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
It's almost as if you didn't even read his essay before commenting on it. Thiel explicitly states "Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."
How could you possibly interpret that as demagogic? He's specifically against tyranny by the masses.
i did stop reading at around 60%... you are correct on that.
Nowhere in that paragraph does he mention anything about mortality.
"But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. By tracing out the development of my thinking, I hope to frame some of the challenges faced by all classical liberals today."