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Agreed. Thiel wasn't playing realpolitik at all. He is adamantly anti-democratic in his political views and appreciated Trump precisely because he lined up neat
by ordinaryradical 7y ago
Agreed. Thiel wasn't playing realpolitik at all. He is adamantly anti-democratic in his political views and appreciated Trump precisely because he lined up neatly with his corporatist-authoritarian views.
Thiel has unusual politics that don't fit neatly along the right-left spectrum and lucked into a candidate that matched them more closely than anyone who had come before.
- Finnucane 7y ago>corporatist-authoritarian views Well, we have a word for that. An Italian word.
- Gibbon1 7y agoIt's 'interesting' that posts using that word get deleted.
- dang 7y agoUsers flagged the comment, no doubt because it was unsubstantive and written in the flamewar style. Even when a topic is as politicized and divisive as the current one, users are expected not to post like that. Would you (both) mind reviewing the site guideline and sticking to them when posting here? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- moate 7y ago>>don't fit neatly along the right-left spectrum That's because it's more of a grid. You have 2 axis: Authoritarian/Libertarian, Economic Left/Economic Right. If you're looking at it as a line, all sorts of things "don't fit neatly".