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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244726: Jun 7th 2018 at 8:17:21 PM

You might be wondering what the deal was with that crack at Peter Thiel. Well, Thiel's someone who seems to believe that it's possible to extend your lifespan by getting blood transfusions from young people.

So it's not enough that he's a metaphorical vampire like so many Silicon Valley technocrat bros. He wants to be a literal one.

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KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#244727: Jun 7th 2018 at 8:19:37 PM

Humans are truly fascinating creatures

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244728: Jun 7th 2018 at 8:21:35 PM

Thiel's a rather notable example of a Gay Conservative. He's homosexual and openly supports prominent Republicans...including Mike Pence.

This is on top of him being a stereotypical lolbertarian who fervently believes in the Austrian school of economics.

And he's a misogynist who has actually claimed that women gaining the right to vote was bad for the USA.

edited 7th Jun '18 8:24:25 PM by M84

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KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#244729: Jun 7th 2018 at 8:25:10 PM

[up] I dont see anything weird with that combo honestly.

I mean, is bad, but nothing special. Gay Conservative is a interesting mix, but his case looks pretty standard.

edited 7th Jun '18 8:26:53 PM by KazuyaProta

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244730: Jun 7th 2018 at 8:26:20 PM

[up] You don't see anything just a bit messed up about a homosexual man openly supporting a homophobe who advocates gay conversion therapy (ie torture)?

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KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#244731: Jun 7th 2018 at 8:27:14 PM

[up] He is rich, so he know he is gonna be safe.

Lets be honest. Right Wingers always are about the money, some can take it to Enlightened Self-Interest, but most of them arent. Right Wing views are basically a worship of selfishness.

The Bigotry just got stuck there because there nothing more selfish than being a bigot.

I hate agreeing with the edgy teens that blame Right Wingers for all the evils in the world, but it seems that they are right for once.

edited 7th Jun '18 8:31:34 PM by KazuyaProta

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244732: Jun 7th 2018 at 8:50:28 PM

All the evils in the world? I'd think someone who lives in Peru, a country that has had to deal with more than one leftist terrorist group, would see why that's an exaggeration.

There's also, you know, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.

And the Venezuelans we've got certainly don't have kind words to say about socialism these days.

edited 7th Jun '18 8:51:15 PM by M84

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KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#244733: Jun 7th 2018 at 8:58:49 PM

[up] Oh, I mean that I hate agreeing with their not-so-irrational hate of Conservatives. Obviously Right Wingers arent behind ALL evils on the world. Just most of them.

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#244734: Jun 8th 2018 at 4:54:09 AM

Man killed in Mexico after being deported back there despite living in the USA since he was 3.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/391275-iowa-student-killed-after-being-deported-to-mexico

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CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#244735: Jun 8th 2018 at 4:59:31 AM

Re: Peter Thiel, Gay Conservative

That's that intersectional bigotry.

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#244736: Jun 8th 2018 at 5:01:02 AM

A sad tasteless joke:

"How can you be a Gay Conservative?"

"Because it's important that people understand I am not JUST gay. I'm also white."

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244737: Jun 8th 2018 at 5:03:26 AM

Peter Thiel, along with the aforementioned Musk, Zuckerberg, Kalanick...they're all symptoms of serious issues of the soul within Silicon Valley. Techbro culture is messed up.

edited 8th Jun '18 5:04:10 AM by M84

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#244738: Jun 8th 2018 at 5:05:19 AM

That's an odd collection of people as some are genuine criminals and monsters and others are just kind of dicks.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244739: Jun 8th 2018 at 5:13:16 AM

"Kind of dicks" is an understatement. I've listed all of the problems with Thiel already. I've brought up why Musk is problematic. Zuckerberg should be obvious given all of the problems with Facebook that have cropped up. And Kalanick? Well, one needs only study Uber's history to know the problems with him.

And these people are just a few examples. I haven't even talked about Google's issues.

edited 8th Jun '18 5:14:26 AM by M84

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Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#244740: Jun 8th 2018 at 5:13:40 AM
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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244741: Jun 8th 2018 at 5:16:08 AM

That said, most of SV's biggest names support Net Neutrality...because their business models rely heavily on it.

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Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#244742: Jun 8th 2018 at 5:23:45 AM

[up]A couple of them also support things like UBI, because they think it will stave off desires for government regulation of their industries, and that they hope it will benefit their automation strategies (or at least make it more palatable when millions of jobs go away).

edited 8th Jun '18 5:24:31 AM by Mio

KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#244743: Jun 8th 2018 at 6:16:24 AM

I've heard that the USA Right Wing was always bad in levels that are quite weird in Europe (Parties as bad as USA Right Wingers exist, but they appear time to time, not as half of the whole political spectrum). How true is that?

Also Sillicon Valley being Right Wing is expected and it shows that ultimately, they're just for money and bigotry

edited 8th Jun '18 6:17:27 AM by KazuyaProta

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TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#244744: Jun 8th 2018 at 6:35:28 AM

So the first thing Trump does at the G7 is call for Russia to be let back in. They had been kicked out over the invasion and annexation of Crimea.

No collusion, of course. *eye roll*

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-calls-for-russia-to-be-reinstated-to-g7-threatens-allies-on-trade/2018/06/08/6a13d876-6b15-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?utm_term=.a00c08922f2c

(Sorry for the quick and dirty post, doing a quickie on my phone at work.)

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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#244745: Jun 8th 2018 at 6:37:39 AM

[up] It's behind a paywall.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#244746: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:05:01 AM

I don't find GayConservatives any weirder than Black Republicans, really. Which is to say, yeah, I get why most aren't, but at the same time you can't expect ever single member of a demographic to sit in the same mold.

People can have individual reasons for doing things, even if looking as an outside observer those reasons just look delusional and/or vile.

edited 8th Jun '18 11:18:04 AM by LSBK

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#244747: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:06:03 AM

Black Republicans make me sad.

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#244748: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:07:56 AM

There's an allure to the GOP platform for people who feel that they are independently successful and resent other people for "taking" their hard-earned money. This transcends race.

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TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#244749: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:22:04 AM

[up][up][up][up]

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-wants-russia-back-at-g7/amp/

Here’s the first article from another source that wasn’t a 3 sentence stub. Apparently Italy’s new right wing is echoing Trump. Surprise, surprise.

Naturally, he said it right after blasting Canada and getting into verbal jousting with Macron. Doing a Game of Thrones style walk of shame just before being hung in public and having his bloated carcass left there as a warning is too good for the son of a bitch.

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KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#244750: Jun 8th 2018 at 7:25:17 AM

So Trump means that All Right wingers are open about being awful?

Ha. Politics being morally complex? A good meme from fiction

edited 8th Jun '18 7:25:39 AM by KazuyaProta

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