Billionaire oligarchs are incompatible with democracy, he's just got it backwards like most anti-humanity fascists tend to do
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He is right. His freedom is not compatibel with Democracy.
I no longer believe that Peter Thiel and oxygen are compatible.
Not even trying to understand. He's just another bored billionaire trying to stir the pot.
Democracy only works when the people is at the wheel, not the oligarchs.
and people will still say more aggressive action against these people is unnecessary and that protests are working, they are clearly not given that trump is now trying to eject the georgia senators and they attacks on election infrastructure.
French style revolution is the only solution
Daily reminder that 80% of people beheaded were working class.
Yeah, mostly bootlickers like you.
Says the guy who wants to kill the peasants!?
Yeah, and the all the idealists within the Revolution were quick to crashout when they realised they had no answer on how to lead the nation let alone corral humans in a way THEY deem was best.
I'll do it. I know how best to lead the nation.
Based on your username, I imagine you'd lead us by sun bathing on warm rocks and dry branches while contemptuously pondering the state of existence.
I believe in you!
If your freedom depends on others not being free, you really just want the freedom to oppress.
We no longer believe that Democracy and Sociopathic Oligarchs can co-exist. We choose Democracy.
I mean no offense, but do you choose that?
What action are you taking towards that end? Because as far as I can tell only a small percentage of the population has rebelled in force, and while they're celebrated online, the vast majority of people have taken no meaningful action.
Barney plays the long game actually. He befriends the wealthy and becomes their trusted advisor. He slowly poisons them against everyone until they are all alone and then eventually take their own life.
Billy, you are such a joke...you know nothing of the suffering Barney can cause. Your unimaginative Luigi solutions just show you don't have the guts to do what it takes to destroy someone.
And by "freedom" he doesn't mean your freedom.
Yes. Kant’s positive vs negative liberty applies; small gov advocates like Thiel tend to mean the latter.
I no longer believe that MY freedom and YOUR democracy are compatible. So you can't have democracy anymore so I can have my freedom to not be regulated.
He doesn't mean freedom for the proles. He means his personal total and absolute freedom to exploit other people relentlessly and without consequences.
He's not entirely wrong. In a democracy we vote for people who (in an ideal world) would regulate assholes like him. In his fascist technocracy he'll be able to do whatever the fuck he wants to the rest of us. So in that sense, sure, democracy can put limits on ultimate freedom™©®
....but we kinda want that because fuckbags like thiel exist.
He is absolutely fucking wrong. This tech bro libertarian shit is like the textbook definition of bad philosophy where overconfident smooth brains think in broad strokes instead of reducing ideas to first principles.
His definition of freedom simply doesn't exist, and this is an incredibly common trope in right wingers. He believes he is entitled to benefit from society without understanding the process by which those benefits arise. He misunderstands the distinction between "is" and "ought." And even this is an incredibly gentle critique of a person who gives unhinges PowerPoint presentations about the antichrist which he seems to actually believe. The man is loony tunes. Idk what they had in the water at PayPal back in the day, but him and Musk seem to have unlocked an entirely new level of crazy.
Imagine the pure liquid wealth your company accumulates when it takes 2-3% of a large swath of financial transactions on the Internet. It’s like Visa/MasterCard obscene.
Then imagine someone tells you “no”.
I like that you had the TM C and R.
What democracies do is create freedoms for everyone, true freedoms.
The freedom to choose one’s path of life? Sure! Democracies create that freedom through good, cheap, universal education!
The freedom to be as healthy as possible? Sure! Democracies create that freedom through good, cheap, universal healthcare!
The freedom to have technology help us solve problems? Sure! Democracies create that freedom through effective investments in research and development!
These are just a tase of what democracies do to create true freedom.
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“I no longer want the restrictions on me that are punitive and serve to protect the masses at my expense.” -Thiel
Well isn't it obvious? Freedom is only compatible with wealthy elites pressing their boots (or the boots of their paid hirelings) against the necks of the people.
The sooner we eat this guy the better.
He knows that and fled to Argentina with his family. Ruined our country and know he going to ruin their's.
Don't eat this guy. He has used blood boys to try to keep himself young.
That's probably the kind of unregulated shit the gets you exposed to unknown pathogens and such. You don't want to eat that kind of meat.
Food waste the rich.
Force feed the rich to the rich like feeding fois gras to the next goose down the line.
I don't think Thiel is compatible with freedom, nor democracy. If he died we'd all be better off.
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Take a good look, folks. This is the face of Anarcho-capitalism. Peter Thiel wants to be your new overlord. Unregulated and unrestrained.
There’s nothing anarcho about it. This guy wants to be a king. A tyrant.
I hate having to use that term. It’s just feudalism without even the illusion of a binding social order.
It's really kind of sad that these people are surrounded by Yes men for so long that they think every thought they have and everything they say is correct and brilliant.
It's like they've built their own little personal echo chambers.
We humans really are a dumb fragile bag of meat and bones.
well neither is fascism, you damn fascist
Anyone should feel free to utilize the second amendment when this guy appears
These pieces of shit are especially egregious because they promised so much change and hope and opportunity for everyone but all their garbage companies just toed the old line instead of actually "disrupting" anything at all. The only thing they've disrupted is everyone's savings and futures
Well clearly Peter Thiel has never read Murray Bookchin!
Man, I remember a debate he had with David Graeber (Someone who knew and did read Murray Bookchin). Thiel got absolutely schooled by our late great anthropologist-anarchist. Like utterly trashed by him, in that Graeber wasn't even trying to trash him he was just responding to Thiel's horrid conceits with his casual and playful depth of understanding.
You've gotta look it up on youtube. Thiel had fucking daggers in his eyes. Graeber was just having a good time with it. You cannot completely convince me that Thiel did not have some sort of hand in Graeber's early death.
He's right. In his own twisted kind of way. Democracy is in the way of the overly rich to take complete control and become dictators. Being a dictator is their ultimate power fantasy of 'true freedom'.
I agree that Democracy is not compatible with his definition of giving the richest people on earth the freedom to have planar authority. So we must get rid of them to save democracy and our own freedom.
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