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I didn't say it's ethically indefensible. I said it's counterproductive.
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
I didn't say it's ethically indefensible. I said it's counterproductive.
- tptacek 10y agoYou seem to believe Thiel is an important mover in the Trump administration. But there's very little evidence that's the case; it's the sort of thing it seems to me one could only come to believe if their only source of political news was places like Hacker News. Reality's Trump administration is governed by Priebus and the GOP establishment on the one hand, and Bannon's clownshow on the other. I haven't read a story about Thiel's influence other than the fact that Trump made a fool out of him by enacting exactly the policy on immigration restriction that Thiel said wouldn't happen when he said people should Trump "seriously but not literally". It seems to turn out that Thiel wasn't anywhere nearly as influential as he thought he was.