Peter Thiel is Taking a Break from Democracy: New Article From The Atlantic
I don't even know where to start with this.
First of all, Thiel says he's not funding presidential candidates in 2024. Apparently Trump called him up, begging for cash (gee, I thought Trump was a billionaire and didn't need the money?!!) but Thiel turned him down, prompting Trump to call him a "fucking scumbag" which is the only honest thing Trump ever said.
He admits the Trump administration was pretty much a shitshow.
Then he pretty much admits he's a fascist and doesn't deny saying that America was worse off because women got the vote
I don't even believe that he's not donating because he's disenchanted with politics, I think he's just scared of the dirt Dem activists might dig up on him. He has a LOT to hide, the Jeff Thomas stuff was the tip of the iceberg
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 75 | November 18, 2023 11:58 PM
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I still want to know if he fucked the Zuck back in the day.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 9, 2023 10:35 PM
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He may not be donating to candidates but if he has given up on Democracy and admits to being a fascist, then maybe he's putting his money where his beliefs a re. He's dangerous scum..
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 9, 2023 11:12 PM
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I wouldn't mind if he also took a breath from breathing.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 9, 2023 11:14 PM
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I'm not taking a break from banging rentboys, though!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 9, 2023 11:18 PM
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Billionaires get all the firm young guys they want.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 10, 2023 12:08 AM
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Please honey, I’m taking a break from HIM.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 10, 2023 12:12 AM
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How can he take a break from democracy when he was never involved with democracy.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 10, 2023 12:13 AM
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Democracy is the name of the 19-year-old twink he just threw off a building
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 10, 2023 12:14 AM
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Such a gross, despicable, reprehensible asshat.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 10, 2023 12:34 AM
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Just use them until their ass starts to sag, then give then a few bucks for an NDA and throw them out for a new one!
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 10, 2023 12:37 AM
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Lovely how our society is completely owned by these psychopaths
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 10, 2023 1:01 AM
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He's not mad at us. He's just ... disappointed.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 10, 2023 1:07 AM
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Why don’t he just “take a break” from living? Help us ALL out.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 10, 2023 2:30 AM
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r13, please, the man has a small army of twinks, male models, instagays, and C-list actors to support. Won't someone think of the twinks?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 10, 2023 2:35 AM
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Read the article. He basically admits he's been wrong about a lot of things. He seems crazier than a shithouse rat.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 10, 2023 2:37 AM
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There is a thing called "too much money".
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 10, 2023 2:45 AM
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He wants to cryogenically freeze himself after death....but never even considered if his husband would freeze with him....
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 10, 2023 3:52 AM
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R14 Don't forget the Bulls he has to service the twinks when his dick gets tired.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 10, 2023 9:47 AM
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Better headline: Peter Thiel is pushing democracy off a fourth floor balcony
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 10, 2023 11:14 AM
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*Peter Thiel is taking a break from fascism
FTFY
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 10, 2023 11:16 AM
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Oh Mary please please not those Dem activists. The horror of a billionaire having bad things said against them by Dem Activists. Who could stand up to that billionaire or not?
My advice is to be more concerned about the DOJ than Dem Activists but then I am old school
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 10, 2023 11:21 AM
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Where’s the fucking free version of the article?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 10, 2023 11:25 AM
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He's fucking batshit crazy, just like Mike Johnson.
What is it with these neo-fascist, right wing fags that makes them so damn unlikable?
Is it Ernst Roehm syndrome?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 10, 2023 11:41 AM
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You people do realize that almost all people in the oligarch class feel this way? At least he’s honest about it.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 10, 2023 11:57 AM
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“All pumpkins are racist! The difference is I admit it!”
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 10, 2023 11:59 AM
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I hope one of his tricks throws him off a terrace.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 10, 2023 12:00 PM
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Billionaire Republican donor Peter Thiel regrets supporting Trump for president:
"Voting for Trump was like a not very articulate scream for help. There are a lot of things I got wrong.", he told The Atlantic.
On the Trump administration: "It was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought. They couldn't get the most basic pieces of the government to work. So that was-I think that part was maybe worse than even my low expectations."
Thiel also said he won't support the corrupt former president in the next year's election.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 10, 2023 12:28 PM
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Anybody with half a fucking functioning brain knows Donald Trump was and is and always will be a fucking moron, who only got to where he is today buy theft, deception and grifting. I've said this before, if it wasn't for Trump's father Fred, Trump would be selling used cars on Staten Island.
Why Peter Thiel thought differently only shows how fucking stupid he is.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 10, 2023 12:37 PM
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Was he not of the “blow it all up” mindset à la Bannon?
He’s lying.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 10, 2023 12:38 PM
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Does he still drink the blood of virgins to maintain his youth?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 10, 2023 12:44 PM
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[quote] Was he not of the “blow it all up” mindset à la Bannon?
Post-1945 the Germans have veered toward dispassion and moderation in public affairs.
And if there’s one thing Germans hate, it’s a mess.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 10, 2023 1:05 PM
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[quote] Was he not of the “blow it all up” mindset à la Bannon?
Yes. He harbored no illusions that Trump could be a leader. He knew Trump was an agent of chaos and he got exactly what he paid for. Now that he (Thiel) understands that he is, and will be, universally reviled he is trying to burnish his image with falsehoods. He is noteworthy only for his money, made from the ingenuity, innovation and creativity of others. He's just an empty, self-loathing suit.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | November 10, 2023 2:48 PM
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A lot of his investing involved luck. He's poured money into countless failures, but had big paydays from PayPal and Facebook.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 10, 2023 2:59 PM
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He's been friendless for much of his life and was regarded in terms like weird and sinister by people who knew him when he was younger. He's probably seeking a sort of redemption and recognizing he screw-ups as people often do as they age, but he's the same horrible, crazy guy who happens to have money that he's always been.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 10, 2023 3:02 PM
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If only...
How Elon Musk and Peter Thiel almost died in a 2000 car crash
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 36 | November 10, 2023 3:32 PM
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"Elon Musk and Peter Thiel almost died in a 2000 car crash "
Two truly horrible human beings. Damn, missed it by that much.....
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 37 | November 10, 2023 3:48 PM
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[quote]Is it Ernst Roehm syndrome?
I hope so, because of how it ends.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | November 10, 2023 4:30 PM
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[quote] He's been friendless for much of his life
He was friends at Stanford with that guy who got into an early and much discussed "cancel culture" situation when he yelled at a gay student, "Hope you die of AIDS, faggot!" to provoke a reaction from the university.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | November 10, 2023 4:36 PM
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R39, the guy who screamed about faggots dying from AIDS is Keith Rabois, Thiel's best friend and partner at Founders Fund. Rabois is married to a man and was bounced from Square for sexually harassing a male underling. Oh, and he funds anti-gay candidates like Marco Rubio and Chuck Grassley. He has also praised Ron DeSantis and calls him the best governor in the nation. Really.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | November 10, 2023 6:12 PM
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Link to non-paywalled version of the article
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 41 | November 10, 2023 6:36 PM
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Injects himself with HGH and Ozempic to stay young. MARY!
by Anonymous | reply 42 | November 10, 2023 6:39 PM
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May the injection sites become cancerous.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | November 10, 2023 7:46 PM
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Putin was trying to recruit him?!!!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 44 | November 10, 2023 8:15 PM
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^ We had a thread recently about Thiel being an FBI informant .
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 45 | November 10, 2023 11:55 PM
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The Putin associate in the r44 link was kinda cute...wonder if Putin was trying to use him as a "honeypot" to entrap Thiel
by Anonymous | reply 46 | November 11, 2023 12:03 AM
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Peter Thiel sleeps with the most beautiful male prostitutes in the world… I don’t think he would be tempted by Jeremy Renner from Shein.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 47 | November 11, 2023 12:40 AM
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I think he's cute but I did chuckle at the "Jeremy Renner from Shein" comment
by Anonymous | reply 48 | November 11, 2023 12:49 AM
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I also question his supposed motives in becoming an FBI Informant. Not sure I buy that he really cared about rooting out Russians. I think he did something bad.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 11, 2023 1:36 AM
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One thing I noticed is that the guy who introduced him to the Putin shill is Christian Angermayer.....he was mentioned in one of the Julian Morris threads because he hangs out with Julian and his husband.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 50 | November 11, 2023 2:36 AM
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Big shout out to my dearest friends Julian Morris and Landon Ross who introduced me to psychedelics and thus to a world of wonders beyond imagination. Thank you so much!!! We had a blast on atai‘s first day of trading...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 51 | November 11, 2023 6:45 AM
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Thanks, R40; I'd forgotten Keith Rabois's name but now it's all coming back to me. Didn't know that he himself eventually came out. What a miserable nest of ugliness those Stanford "libertarians" were.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | November 11, 2023 12:41 PM
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Wealthy people have access opportunities that mere mortals don't and are able to entertain grandiose views of themselves as world figures. He's hardly the first or last Bond villain type rich guy who has been recruited by the KGB or the FBI or CIA.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 11, 2023 12:50 PM
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R52, Rabois met Thiel when they worked on The Stanford Review, the right-wing newspaper Thiel founded as a Stanford student. In The Contrarian, the book Max Chafkin wrote about Thiel, he says that a lot of the guys (it was originally an all-male staff) who wrote for The Review were gay. Despite the fact that they printed tons of anti-gay articles. Go figure.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 11, 2023 6:53 PM
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Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois at Stanford is a slash fiction no one wants to read. Add in a chance locker-room encounter with underclassman football player Cory Booker, though, and you might have something.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | November 11, 2023 7:44 PM
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Didn't know Cory Booker was at Stanford with them. What was in the water at Stanford?!!!
by Anonymous | reply 56 | November 12, 2023 1:52 AM
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A Modern Era Leopold & Loeb. Except they hate Jews.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | November 12, 2023 3:19 AM
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Thiel is a repulsive man. Enough said. He’s right up there with Caitlyn Jenner who at least gets a pass for being dumb as a rock. Thiel is deranged.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | November 12, 2023 12:13 PM
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R56 unbridled ambition—no ethics required.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | November 12, 2023 12:47 PM
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Who's playing him in the Elon Musk movie?
by Anonymous | reply 64 | November 12, 2023 4:35 PM
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Poor Petie sad he gonna croak just like everyone else some day.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | November 12, 2023 5:44 PM
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R65, no, I will spend the afterlife as popsicle!
by Anonymous | reply 66 | November 12, 2023 5:48 PM
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Is Peter Thiel a blackmailer?!!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 67 | November 12, 2023 8:17 PM
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New article. Apparently some of his (unnamed) gay friends warned him not to support antigay candidates, but I guess he didn't listen
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 68 | November 13, 2023 2:16 AM
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That’s a fascinating article namely because it cites the frustration on the ruling class to simply find a shape an electable leader
The article also articulated something I have said before, that if DeSantis had just acted normal and done as little as possible he would easily have been elected President against a weak Biden.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | November 13, 2023 2:38 AM
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Thiel is no part of "the ruling class"
by Anonymous | reply 70 | November 13, 2023 2:50 AM
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Oh honey anyone with that much money is
by Anonymous | reply 71 | November 13, 2023 2:59 AM
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R34 So basically he's a venture capitalist.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | November 14, 2023 11:45 AM
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Just think, he could have spent all those billions building shelters for homeless LGBT youth instead of using it to try to elect fascists
by Anonymous | reply 73 | November 14, 2023 4:46 PM
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Peter Thiel IS Elf on the Shelf
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 74 | November 14, 2023 5:52 PM
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Liar! He was still supporting Trump to the end and supported ousting Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over Jan. 6
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 75 | November 18, 2023 11:58 PM
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