Thiel compared California liberalism to Saudi Arabian Wahabbism — but it was sort of a compliment

Thiel compared California liberalism to Saudi Arabian Wahabbism — but it was sort of a compliment

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Billionaires and homeless people act 100% the same.

    The only difference is billionaires have access to force.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    OHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOO.

    This shitbag will sell whatever IP he has to whichever country gives him a small amount of real power over people. $100 he goes to Russia or China.

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    There’s been a few of these stories lately, about billionaires “thinking about” leaving the US. Just shut up and do it already. Nobody cares. Good riddance.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Movies/culture are the best things about the US. As long as you’re rich enough to afford them. So they’re really just punishing themselves… Bye, bitch.

    • scarabine@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Right. Like what are we supposed to miss? The taxes they don’t pay? The money they’ve stolen? Who cares?

      I mean “job creators” is such bunk. They harvest worker’s lives for personal gain. There’d be a rough transition period if they vanished but well… we’re used to it.

      They have this vain idea that the world would grind to a halt without them, but they’re parasites. I’m sure we’d flourish.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        It’s funny because if every billionaire disappeared, there would be no meaningful consequences beyond an initial confusion and disruption…

        If every worker decided to not work for a week? The entire economy, the stock market, supply chains… Everything would collapse!

        Without billionaires the world will carry on, barely skipping a beat. Without workers the world grinds to a halt.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        These articles talk like we all aren’t already suffering day in and out. Like we’re all just say slap happy to be sharing a nation with 65 billionaires psychopaths and should be grateful for their presence. Fuck off, and take your election tampering and social engineering with you.

    • shaun@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      You’re wrong. As a New Zealander (where our conservative government bent the rules to make him a citizen), I can only emphasize how strongly I will care if that giant piece of shit moves to reside in my nation. I’m not negating your point (I upvoted you) and I don’t blame you for wanting to lose him, but just because you shovel your shit elsewhere doesn’t mean it don’t stink.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Why would a totalitarian psychopath choose to go to a more progressive country?
        I can think of a reason, New Zealand is smaller, and he may think he can gain bigger political influence there.
        He paid to position JD Vance where he wanted him, imagine the damage he could do in New Zealand with the kind of money he has.

      • boydster@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        This is how the world can finally come together. We can create a New Old Australia, using the island-building techniques the Chinese government have been trying to develop but instead using it for the benefit of all. Literally no one wants these assholes. Let’s make them their own giant sand island and send them there. No Aborigines or any other nativelanders need be displaced like in the past. We just… Eject them to Billionaire Island and tell them they’ve entered the final level of capitalism, they are allowed no outside resources and must establish for themselves (brilliant and enterprising and egotistical as we reassure them they are) how to become the Ultimate Capitalist. Tell them it’s even televised. Then if they ever get too noisy we obviously need a way to forcibly erode the island etc. Engineers can figure out the details.

        • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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          10 months ago

          It’ll never get to island erosion status… just make it a gradual slope so they get to reap the rewards of their environmental abuse as the sea level rises.

          And then make it real life Fortnite.

  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who served as the sugar daddy for GOP vice presidential hopeful JD Vance’s Senate run, who helped kill Gawker, and who names his companies after bits of JRR Tolkein lore, said he’s considered leaving the US.

    Thiel appeared on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience and told the comic-turned-podcaster that he had recently moved from San Francisco to LA, and was also considering leaving California or the country altogether.

    So a nothing burger? Fucking baby billionaire psychopath is going to leave the US because the fascist dictator won’t be elected?

    The funny thing is he isn’t going to leave, it’s just because he wanted to get a buzz out of it. To magahats this is a clear sign the government is “weak” and hates successful people.