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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Lots of people will be happier the day Peter Thiel dies... He's disliked in the same range as Musk, without having anywhere near the public presence.

[–] mp3@piefed.ca 70 points 1 day ago

Which makes him more dangerous than Musk IMO, as he's wise enough to operate in the shadow.

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 52 points 1 day ago

That dude is pure evil.

A narcissist who somehow made it trough and still have a relevamce.

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Peter Thiel is one of the many money men that want to privatize everything, dismantle federal government, hand keys to "network states" (company towns but somehow worse).

Goal is none or self regulation. Maximize profits. They want to shape the world into this hyper capitalistic society and surveillance state. Palantir is just one of those companies in a massive portfolio to fulfill this stupid dream shared by many industrialists.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Musk is a narcissist who got very lucky in life. But still he is a human, bad human but relatable in the sense you understand his flaws.

Thiel is something else. Sociopath I guess. Dude is not human and doesn't function according to any understandable human psychology

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia). Peter changed elementary schools seven times. He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students' hands with a ruler. He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism.[20][21] The German community in Swakopmund that Thiel grew up in was known at the time for its continued glorification of Nazism.[22][23]

Thiel and Muskrat cut from the same cloth of trustfund babies and apartheid benefactors, m8

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

thiel dint like his boytoy last year voicing his concern for his anti-lgbtq+stance, so he got "Defenestrated", there was a chance his bf(not hubby) was going to press sooner or later, and thiel does not like being outed as full on gay in the media(look at what happened gawker)

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Waiting for them to die is the best you can do since you all keep voting for 1 of the 2 parties that serve these oligarchs.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I tend to vote for the Australian Greens party. They never seem to win the US elections though.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Oh sorry, had mistaken you for American.
I'm sure they have at least the same odds of winning the US elections as the American Greens.