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> Thiel, a billionaire libertarian Which thing made him a libertarian: the idea of using a government agency to break up a company, or the stump speech he did

• vidarh 9y ago
  Right wing libertarianism is ultimately founded not on a belief in liberty, but on a belief on maximum protection of your own property. The push for deregulation etc. is about minimizing government intrusion into what people do with their own property. As such you'll often find right-libertarians holding weird views when harming liberty protects their own property rights.
• _fizz_buzz_ 9y ago
  Thiel calls himself a libertarian: "I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom as a precondition for the highest good. I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. For all these reasons, I still call myself “libertarian.” " [1]: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
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  • kyledrake 9y ago
    > the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual Ah yes, that core libertarian tenant they all believe in. Can't truly be a libertarian without refusing to accept your own mortality.