• hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Honestly in some fucked up way I’m impressed with Thiel. He lives up to the “evil billionaire” stereotype. Genuinely smart, probably planning this for a decade plus, hidden in the shadows,set to make insane money, and has a scapegoat ready to go in case things go south.

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      8 days ago

      You’re already elevating him to “genius” based on a bit of media and some good luck in the dotcom era .

      If you read his thoughts, watch him debate, you’d know he just talks crap. Here he is trying debate Professor David graeber:

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eF0cz9OmCGw&pp=ygUScGV0ZXIgdGhpZWwgZGViYXRl

      It’s just incoherent verbiage

      This is exactly how you created Musk and Trump

      Why do you keep falling for it ?

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        8 days ago

        There’s no way you cultivate this kind of power off pure luck. This kind of “oh all billionaires that I don’t like are just lucky” is a mentality that basement dwellers use to justify their continuously awful life choices.