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I always post this but if anyone wants to know why this is remarkable news, Mr Thiel wrote his “manifesto” and made it public.

It’s short and to the point. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

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"The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics."

I wonder if he doesn't know or if he doesn't care how that might sound to people who were legally denied basic citizenship rights in the 1920s, or the descendants of those people. The 1920s were politically bleak for quite a few Americans.

"A member of the Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan, Jackson became involved in several political scandals...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_L._Jackson

It's understandable that people would like everything to be connotation managed so their sensibilities are never offended, but it's also a very valuable skill to be able to turn off the ability to be offended and just try to comprehend the intended meaning of something. It makes communication so much more viable.

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