I don't understand the medias obsession with Thiel since Trumps election.
He's a republican. K
He's gay. K
He's critical of the Silicon Valley echo chamber. K
He's a great businessman. K
There's not really a great boogieman story to make from. this.
He's a republican. K
He's gay. K
He's critical of the Silicon Valley echo chamber. K
He's a great businessman. K
There's not really a great boogieman story to make from. this.
I agree the obsession with the guy is weird, but then the entire cult of celebrity thing never really made a lot of sense, imho.
This seems to be one of the big issues that separates the Trump supporters from everyone else. Everyone else seems to think the government was run perfectly under Obama's presidency and Hillary's state department and Trump threw the whole world into chaos.
The sooner we realize this, the sooner we can develop empathy for the other 50% of people. They're not so different from you. They don't feel represented properly either. But by virtue of the team 1 vs team 2 dynamic they still identify strongly with their candidate. We as a whole need to stop denigrating the other 50%; The idiots, the people that want to ruin your country. We need to see that they have the same wants and needs, and slightly different preferences, and just want to live a good life. We need to stop dividing. That's the game they want us to play. We shall not play it.
That's not at all clear. His appointments were full of people with horrifying conflicts of interest, to the point that his own party didn't support some of them.
I see leftists posting articles about how normal Bush was. Do you remember Bush being Hitler just 15 years ago? I remember. It's all about comparison.
Obama was a scandal free presidency! Do you remember Obama getting a Nobel Peace Prize and then proceed to bomb 7 countries? Whatever happened to closing Guantanamo? Enabling the greatest surveillance state ever conceived? That's scandalous.
It's all normal now.
He and Mark Cuban should have their own reality TV show.
A website published a story about him being gay and he spent an 8 figure sum to shut down that whole company and ruin everyone involved.
and:
He controls a company which builds mass surveillance technology for the government and selected private companies.