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> He is personally facing the backlash from openly supporting Trump and being a speaker at his rallies

Thiel is moving to Los Angeles, not Louisiana. The amount of PR he’s gotten over his branding decision surrounding this move is mind blowing.

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Unless he’s paying a PR firm to make it so, which wouldn’t shock many here I suspect. Clearly he’s not concerned about negative press, and this kind of negative press will attract a certain kind of ideologue. It’s all a win for him, as we lose by bickering over the parting words of someone who seems to utterly lack a conscience.

Pretty sure the PR is a play to politicize his move and paint SV as a brick wall of intolerant liberalism and give the "conservatives" more fuel for their fire just like his speech at the RNC. Still have no idea why he's trying so hard to burn the community that generated his wealth though. Makes one wonder who he's really in bed with now.

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