> We aren't currently "repressing" a vast number of Uyghur Muslims for the crime of existing / beliefs. The US has done no small number of utterly terrible thi

> We aren't currently "repressing" a vast number of Uyghur Muslims for the crime of existing / beliefs. The US has done no small number of utterly terrible things in its history (I was going to make a list, but do I really need to?) – and, arguably for some of them, it still hasn't stopped – despite being a "democracy" all that time. I am not saying the US regime is currently as bad as that of the Chinese Communist Party – but maybe that's not saying that much. It seems at least plausible that some dictatorships may have contributed less evil to human history than American democracy has. Other famous "democracies" – such as the "Mother of Parliaments" herself – also have a rather sullied historical record, and the same may well be true of them. (I'm also not saying Thiel, or anyone he might pick, would make a "good" dictator – I don't know how that would turn out, but I certainly don't recommend that anyone perform that experiment.)