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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.
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.
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.
Blood bag! Witness me!! - Peter Thiel
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.
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.
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.
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.
The whole country was laid low.
Then built back up again with the same ownership. Just a different flag.
Yup, a lot of Nazis were "washed clean" and kept their positions of power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persilschein
Japan played the same game with the Reverse Course
I don't know IBM really seems to be hurting these days. Not for any punishment from their involvement with the nazis. But you know.
He's banking on it being a net benefit to him and people who are like him.