• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    I’m at a loss for words. This idiot surely knows exactly how far right nationalism worked out, but is eager to try again.

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      The crazy part is that Thiel has somehow deluded himself that he, a homosexual man, won’t be put up against the wall himself if the fascists and theocrats take over and his usefulness runs its course.

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        It would be so sweet to see Peter Thiel before a firing squad with his assets seized and nationalized by the same brutal and incompetent hate-machine that he helped birth. I wonder if his last request would be one last hit from his blood boy.

        It would be sweeter still if none of that comes to pass, of course.

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        He’s rich. He knows he can just hop his private jet and be gone to, like, Portugal or something within a couple hours if things get too spicy here.

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          He bought New Zealand citizenship, along with a bunch of these other billionare weirdos.

          Undoubtedly he has a fully stocked bunker out there for when he rips the US apart.

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        It’s been proven time and time again that if you’re wealthy and powerful, or at least close to power, you don’t face the same judgments the common people face in authoritarian governments. Look at Lindsay Graham, almost definitely gay but the republicans leave him alone despite their public campaign against LGBTQ people’s rights.

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      But it did work out for the people who bankrolled the NAZI party. Sure the party came to a horrible end but the richest men in germany secured their power and legacy.

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    “I don’t think we’re ever in a cyclical world but there are certainly certain parallels in the U.S. in the 2020s to Germany in the 1920s,” Thiel said. “Liberalism is exhausted, one suspects that democracy, whatever that means, is exhausted, and that we have to ask some questions very far outside the Overton window.”

    The Overton window means the range of views or opinions considered politically acceptable at a given time.

    Fascist. Billionaire fascist, so he’s actually all of our (in USA) problem.

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    If we can say that wearing black to a protest, and then just walking on the sidewalk, means a felony because we all know what is implied in it

    Then can we start to say also that “one suspects that democracy, whatever that means, is exhausted, and that we have to ask some questions very far outside the Overton window” means you need to be investigated for seditious conspiracy? I am not completely joking about that.

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    If you ever wondered what you’d do if you were around in the early 1930s, now you can make a pretty good guess. Lots of people talk a big game about shooting Hitler or Goebbels or whoever before they got to power, but murder is hard. Thiel will probably never get anything approaching what he deserves.

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    This guy is so miserable and disappointed in himself. Why can’t he take it out on himself like a normal person.