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Peter Thiel claims Zuck agreed to support State-sanctioned Conservatism
- eaenki 5y agoIn high school, the San Francisco native was targeted for his “inscrutable and haughty” personality, the book says. “It’s obvious in retrospect that what we were doing was bullying,” one classmate said.“I’ve always thought he might have a list of people he’s going to kill somewhere and that I’m on it.” I think so
- eigengrau5150 5y agoI suspect Thiel wasn't bullied enough. Neither was Schmuckerberg.
- swman 5y agoI’m sure he invested in something
- eaenki 5y agoBeing very involved with the defense dept, spy tools and drones, I’d be scared too hahah. Not gonna lie I’m all for karma tbh.
- remarkEon 5y agoLink to the actual NYMag article and not the daily beast’s listicle: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-contrarian-max-chafkin.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peter-thiel-silicon-... > Thiel (who did not comment for this article, which is adapted from my new biography, The Contrarian) is perhaps the most important influence in the world’s most influential industry. Other Silicon Valley personas may be better known to the general public, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and even a few who don’t regularly launch rockets into space. But Thiel is the Valley’s true idol — the single person whom tech’s young aspirants and millennial moguls most seek to flatter and to emulate, the cult leader of the cult of disruption. Okay come on, is this really true? Whenever Thiel comes up there’s a pretty heavy consensus that his influence is bad and Palantir is a particularly evil company. I don’t think it’s true at all that tech folks idolize him as described here.
- ksec 5y agoThiel and Zuckerberg are the two most hated Silicon Valley personnel on HN.
- throwawaymanbot 5y agoFor good reason!
- amadeuspagel 5y agoSupporting state-sanctioned conservatism here means not censoring Trump's Facebook posts. Pity the headline editor that had to come up with this.
- BongoMcCat 5y agoOr read the nymag article, and find out that it is a quote from peter thiel, not something an editor made up....
- amadeuspagel 5y agoIt's not a quote from Peter Thiel, but from some unnamed confidante, but you're right, it's not something the headline editor made up.