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As I said in my post, I'm not comparing him in the sense that "Thiel is Stalin". You added your parenthesis after I responded (or perhaps while I was respondin

As I said in my post, I'm not comparing him in the sense that "Thiel is Stalin". You added your parenthesis after I responded (or perhaps while I was responding). But nevertheless, I can't come close to relating the two. Nothing I am aware of with Thiel would make a reasonable person consider him to be a "monster". This will be my last response to this, since I apparently forgot how many ultra-liberals that hate Thiel and everyone like him would be brought out by such a seemingly simple, non-controversial, genuine question that I posed to OP (not necessarily referring to you, but there seem to be alot of people backing up this opinion based upon nothing other than politics, which makes me sad both for HN and the state of political discourse in the US).

untog 10y ago
Yes, I added the parenthesis after posting because I was concerned that someone might do exactly what you did - focus on the most controversial possible interpretation of my statement rather than address it at face value. I'll follow your lead and say that this will be my last response too, because your post has shown to me that we're talking past each other entirely. > there seem to be alot of people backing up this opinion based upon nothing other than politics The point I've been making this whole time is that you simply cannot separate politics from "other" in the way you wish to. Politics is intertwined in every decision we make and every opinion we hold. The fact that you choose (without evidence) to label those you disagree with as "ultra-liberals" underlines this. You paint yourself as politically neutral yet you are clearly evaluating others in political terms. We can't have "politically neutral" political discourse, it makes no sense. There is no "non-political Peter Thiel".
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- omonra 10y ago
  So do you call every one of the 60 odd million people who voted for Trump a monster?

untog 10y ago

Yes, I added the parenthesis after posting because I was concerned that someone might do exactly what you did - focus on the most controversial possible interpretation of my statement rather than address it at face value. I'll follow your lead and say that this will be my last response too, because your post has shown to me that we're talking past each other entirely. > there seem to be alot of people backing up this opinion based upon nothing other than politics The point I've been making this whole time is that you simply cannot separate politics from "other" in the way you wish to. Politics is intertwined in every decision we make and every opinion we hold. The fact that you choose (without evidence) to label those you disagree with as "ultra-liberals" underlines this. You paint yourself as politically neutral yet you are clearly evaluating others in political terms. We can't have "politically neutral" political discourse, it makes no sense. There is no "non-political Peter Thiel".

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omonra 10y ago
So do you call every one of the 60 odd million people who voted for Trump a monster?