Thiel compared California liberalism to Saudi Arabian Wahabbism — but it was sort of a compliment

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    Why doesn’t he just get on one of his boy Elon’s rockets and fuckoff to Mars?

    Maybe a nice sub ride while he looks for a place to build Rapture?

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    Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who served as the sugar daddy for GOP vice presidential hopeful JD Vance’s Senate run, who helped kill Gawker, and who names his companies after bits of JRR Tolkein lore, said he’s considered leaving the US.

    Thiel appeared on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience and told the comic-turned-podcaster that he had recently moved from San Francisco to LA, and was also considering leaving California or the country altogether.

    So a nothing burger? Fucking baby billionaire psychopath is going to leave the US because the fascist dictator won’t be elected?

    The funny thing is he isn’t going to leave, it’s just because he wanted to get a buzz out of it. To magahats this is a clear sign the government is “weak” and hates successful people.

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    OHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOO.

    This shitbag will sell whatever IP he has to whichever country gives him a small amount of real power over people. $100 he goes to Russia or China.

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      Not china, they prosecute billionaire for tax evasion and their profile must be lower than Xi else he will get jealous.

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    “Eccentric” is a weird word for the man whose writing inspired both Nick Lang and Mencius Moldbug.

    I rarely use the word because it cheapens its impact but the man is a modern protofascist and should be identified as at least the forefather of the modern right wing anti-liberalism movement.

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      should be identified as at least the forefather of the modern right wing anti-liberalism movement

      Thiel is a cunt but he was 12 years old when Ronald Reagan was elected and not even born yet during Barry Goldwater’s acceptance speech. He is absolutely not the forefather of the modern rightwing anti-liberalism movement.

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          Cut taxes (for the wealthy and corporations - while quietly raising them for everybody else through a variety of tricks), erode the separation of church and state, ban abortion, gut environmental protections, pack the supreme court, demonize liberals, blow up the national debt, destroy public education, dogwhistle racists, bust unions, overspend on the military, hate on the gays, gerrymander and suppress voters, make fun of the French … this shit has all been around since before Reagan. If it’s changed, it’s only been to become more openly loathsome.

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        That’s not the modern far right, that’s just the current right until Trump.

        People like Lang and Moldbug are the fathers of the modern neoreactionary movement, the architects of the new fascist right, not the economically ultraliberal socially conservative right of Reagan.

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    Billionaires don’t live in nations. They don’t know what it means to actually live somewhere, their mental state is so warped. The whole world is their playground.

    He’s spouting propaganda, plain and simple.

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        National boundaries weren’t as strict for the working class until around WWII, though it obviously varies by region. It’s more attached to nationalism, the ability of nation states to influence “their people” who moved to other countries to engage in sabotage campaigns and the paranoia over this kind of activity that followed this.

        One of the requirements of a free market capitalist system is free mobility of labour. So it’s not really a class thing, it’s a nationalistic thing.

        I mean if I’m an evil businessman, why would I want to limit the number of people competing to get a job?