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[–] [email protected] 116 points 11 months ago (36 children)

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman for those who don't want to click through.

And I have no idea which I would choose to face off from those four, let alone who would win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What did Thiel do to make the internet hate him as much as the other three?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

So, so, so many things.

Let's start with him saying women getting the vote was bad for democracy and we can continue on from there.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democracy_n_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a full time job to answer completely, but from what I know he finances escape fantasies for the rich which they call seasteading. He calls it a libertarian ideal to create these new colonial city states, but what he means is liberty for his ilk from taxes, regulation and societal rules. Meanwhile his brainchild Palantir erodes the rights of the poor people who are left behind through surveillance, military technology and ICE funding. But this is all in line with his ideology, because apartheid "works" in South Africa according to Thiel

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