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"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

Wow. That is...troubling

Why? Welfare beneficiaries and women lean socialist, and vote socialist. They believe that's good. Thiel believes that's bad.

Tens of million of women just voted for a conservative billionaire populist.

Tens of millions of people are going out to the street and are not going to let these little goons take over America.

And that tension is called a democracy.

Not in the UK women tend to vote tory more than the male population did.

If Thiel explicitly said "hence, women shouldn't vote" it would be bad. As it stands, he didn't.

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