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Bob Churchill's avatar

The madness of figures like Thiel is staggering - do they REALLY want to live in underground "survival" bunkers when THIER vision of the world and "market forces" have turned the planet into a wasteland? I was a builder for many years - naturally, many of my clients had LOTS of money. In the course of my work I learned just because you have a ton of money doesn't mean you have a lick of sense; none of these bunker builders - and there are many, evidently - seem to have thought their "survival" scenarios through. I can tell you this - I'm the guy these weirdos would have hired to build their bunkers - for the simple reason they don't know how to do it themselves - and couldn't do it alone if they did. Their multi-million dollar heating, cooling, water purification, storage, solar and grow room systems are ALL eventually gonna need servicing and repairs. Who's gonna do that? They're gonna need staff - period. Indefinitely. Suddenly, there's a community in the bunker. I promise you - one day soon after the bomb-proof vault door closes, the staff is gonna look around and realize the ONE person they don't need is the guy who hired them - and they'll kill him. So much for "survival"...

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VQN's avatar

Yup, good luck to Mr. Thiel. He can grow his own food, prepare his own meals, maintain his own bunker, treat his own maladies, etc. All the peons will be busy looking after themselves. You are right, he'd be the first to go.

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Bob Churchill's avatar

The grandiose self-delusion of these FREAKS is jaw-dropping...

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Ravi Bellur's avatar

My punk rock band rehearsed across the way from the Stanford review back when he was editor. We used to play very bad covers of like Tracy chapman and sinead o Connor songs whenever they had staff meetings XD

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Steve Wax's avatar

Terrific piece. How to stop him - asking for a friendly nation.

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Debra L.'s avatar

This man is corrupting many of our young men, I know several, with his books and promises of wealth when they invest in bitcoin. They are becoming a new voting class. Deranged? I think so but they certainly don't see it that way...just that its a new thing to get in on early.

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Bob Churchill's avatar

The monumental energy suck that is required to create bitcoin will hasten environmental collapse. Where will these geniuses spend their fortunes THEN?

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Debra L.'s avatar

I'm with you...I'm related to some of these young men and it absolutely breaks my heart. I feel like they have been brainwashed. I know that they weren't raised to be so selfish.

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Dee Joy's avatar

Mars

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Ellen Lende's avatar

Thanks for writing about Mr. Thiel. I've been reading about these guys - the Peter Thiel, Musk, Vance and Curtis Yarvin connection. Yesterday I read a Vanity Fair article about Yarvin and the "new right" (technofascists) who refer to Curtis Yarvin as "Lord Yarvin" or "Our Prophet." (Gross). I read an article last week with Youtube links to Vance and Yarvin discussing their "new right" plans such as "RAGE," which is currently happening right before our very eyes - Release All Government Employees. Here is the article with links: Democracy is Done: The Rise of Corporate Monarchy, by Shane Almgren: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=614595951289374&id=100082169235554&rdid=NUSYzI1Gfv64mEur# (if you scroll to the bottom of the article, its shows a picture of Thiel with the so-called "PayPal Mafia" in Fortune Magazine, 2007).

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Harry Barker's avatar

Greed is not a form of intelligence. It's an expression of selfishness.

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Tommy McGuire's avatar

The destruction of the economy and our institutions is 100% intentional. No one is this stupid or incompetent, not even the incomparably stupid and incompetent trump. It's the evil game plan of the centibillionaires who are actively gunning for their anti-humanist anarcho-capitalist broligarchy to replace the existing order with a King/CEO instead of a president and co-equal branches of Democratic governance. It's the open playbook of Project 2025, or the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. Think Heritage Foundation, Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and other nefarious architects and instigators. Thiel is on record saying Freedom and Democracy are incompatible. They want to run the country like it's some kind of entrepreneurial startup - move fast, break things, fail often and fast, pivot, destroy or buy out the competition, get richer, privatize, become trillionaires. Dig deeper and read Mike Brock's "The Plot Against America" and then ask yourself, what the fuck are we going to do about it?

https://open.substack.com/pub/mikebrock/p/the-plot-against-america?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=b023b

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Ellen Lende's avatar

Thank you for this article. I was writing about this here just about the time that you were, but I have not read the article you provided. Heading there now....

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

This seems to be the age of mentally ill people gaining immense power.

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Frederick John Polsky's avatar

What if Peter Thiel *is* Satoshi Nakamoto.

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Sharlene McLean's avatar

He sounds like the evil ruler(s) in every early '70s post-apocolyptic move out there.

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Patr's avatar

Hope his armpits are infested with rabid fleas. Oh, and his privates, too.

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Jan Andrew Bloxham's avatar

Thiel is a monster, but this reads oddly like a charbot output..

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NE Garden Guru's avatar

Oh yeah....you may want to research Palantine corp. Sorry if I misspelled the name...

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NE Garden Guru's avatar

I have read that he donated to the Harris campaign. Reminds me of WW11 when people like Henry Ford played both sides via bankrolling the nazi party.

People like this dont really care who wins. True narcissism. True evil.

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Linda Smith's avatar

Seems the honeymoon with Aotearoa eNZed is over. Tschuss and ciao mi "amigo". https://b2bnews.co.nz/news/peter-thiels-exit-from-new-zealand-a-decade-of-investments-controversy-and-unmet-expectations/

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NiaSky's avatar

This is a very dark and dangerous man.He's also behind the dismantling of our government, the closing of all federal agencies.He's trying to turn America in his fantasy virtual reality qhere he is king. He's also behind the dismantling of our government, the closing of all federal agencies, and firing civil service workers. merging with project25 who wants turn this country into a far right neo nazi evangelical country, where only the rich white men rule and women, minorities, and the middle class, and poor has no human, civil, or constitutional rights.

https://theplotagainstamerica.com/

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