• b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    We tried every form of peaceful protest. They make protest illegal. They wouldn’t listen. The fact of the matter is we’re in a fight for the very survival of humanity and these people want to drive us all off a cliff.

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    You know, it doesn’t even take 5 more CEOs being blue shelled to really scare them.

    It really only takes 1 more, but that person happens to be a member of the security firm they hire to protect them.

    At that point, the paranoia would eat them up way more than any future violence ever could, because it’d be impossible for them to feel safe with money.

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    Thiel has a bunker in NZ that he plans to retreat to if “shit hits the fan”.

    How hard would it be to convince him to bug out and seal himself up in that place, cutting off all communications? Obviously, I’d prefer if he were dead, but sealed up in a hole in the ground terrified about what’s happening in the outside world would be an acceptable compromise.

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      They’re absolute fools to think they can survive long in a bunker.

      The only solution to survival is building community - a sustainable socialist society where people work together to live good lives and take of each other and our planet.

      These absolute fools think they can turn the world to ash and go live in a concrete prison underground. Then emerge when? To what kind of existence?

      If shit really hits the fan the first thing we’ll do is go after the bunkers and space ships.

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      So, roll out, the fallout,

      The front rows are sold out.

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    “I still think you should try to make an argument, and I think this is—there may be things wrong with our healthcare system, but you have to make an argument, and you have to try to find a way to convince people and change it by that,” Thiel eventually said.

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    Jesus what the fuck. That guy’s eyes are abbout to roll back and turn red and he’s going to grow a hundred pointy fangs and start shrieking.

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    Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of July 2024, Thiel had an estimated net worth of US$11.2 billion and was ranked 212th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

    wikipedia

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      Imagine being worth 11 Billion (that we know of) and only being 212th on the billionaires list.

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      Huh I never knew anything about him except he supported stuff to make society worse and was a billionaire, yeah I repeat myself. I thought he’d be older like a Koch for some reason.

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      I say it every time, I am astounded the Tolkien estate allowed the use of the word Palantir…

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        If the Tolkien estate has a trademark on that word it doesn’t stop a company in an entirely different field to name their company that word. Owning a trademark doesn’t mean you own all the usage rights of that word. You only have the rights in a specific category.

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    “I don’t think…um…”

    yeah I get that about you Thiel… beginning to wonder if you wanted to win this election at all.

    also, this is the first time I’ve seen an anime-style head vein bulging IRL.

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      That’s really hard to watch. Def. not ok. If I was standing next to a person who was acting, talking like that I would be wondering what’s really going on here. If it was someone I knew, cared about, I’d be thinking of questions to draw out what got him to that state. And how to walk him back to normal. I’ve never heard Thiel speak before, is he always like that? Weird.

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        I don’t know much about Ketamine other than it is Elon’s drug of choice. But I know Elon and Thiel are in cahoots since forever. Is this a WAY too much Ketamine symptom? Bro couldn’t form a sentence.

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          Nah this isn’t ketamine. Ketamine disassociates you from everything. Maybe it’s a smallish dose, but he’s pretty sweaty, so probably uppers.

          This looks like a come down from a coke binge, maybe some meth thrown in. Hell, maybe he did ketamine and some coke after to try to balance it.

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            Yeah, okay thanks. He’s definitely whacked out on something here.

            Interesting choice to make yourself look like a stuttering melting Hitler before a mass disseminated interview.

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      Agreed!! Anyone who hasn’t watched it yet is def in for a treat. Dude is definitely not ok 🍳