Do you think he's referring to a Muslim registry or drones?
Please don't create accounts to break the HN guidelines with.
Whatever political disagreements we might have with the author, that's no reason to cheat ourselves out of learning from his expertise as one of the most successful entrepreneurs and investors of our age.
The human tendency toward partisanship is holding all of us back.
Sorry, not constructive at all...I just had to.
Also with the canonisation of Mr Thiel around this place it's handy to put his statements in a proper context.
If you think as I do there isn't much to admire about him TBH.
Because he backed a candidate who sometimes says dumb things in order to get votes from certain groups doesn't mean he himself supports the full rhetoric.
Parties are coalitions. Not everyone who is a Democrat can be accused of supporting every dumb statement or bad position from Clinton or Pelosi.
Which is the problem with the original post that unnecessarily politicized an inherently non political article, eliminating value of any surrounding discussion.
It was not witty, not sharp, and contributed nothing while taking a great deal away.
That is a highly inaccurate description of "this place".
Please don't make up generalizations about HN to score rhetorical points. That's reliably a marker of a bad comment.