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Thiel is a hugely rich person. Lots of less wealthy people move in and out of Florida every day. This seems like an excuse.
by bediger4000 4y ago
Thiel is a hugely rich person. Lots of less wealthy people move in and out of Florida every day. This seems like an excuse.
- anigbrowl 4y agoThiel is very gay and Florida is frankly not a safe place for him, despite being fascist (I mean this in the technical sense rather than as a pejorative; Thiel advocates to private audiences for a combination resembling autocracy and industrial policy). He's in that situation of the person who caught a tiger by the tail; wealthy and well-connected enough to be a serious political player, but also intelligent and well-educated enough to know that if the wrong version of his political ambitions came about his life expectancy could shrink considerably. This probably means he's not willing to finance DeSantis int he upcoming gOP primaries and will instead back bland technocrats that can get on with Trumpworld.
- NickC25 4y agoFlorida is fine for him. Miami Beach is practically a retirement home for the wealthiest of the gay community, and they're pretty proud of that. That's not gonna change no matter what DeSantis does. The gay community is here to stay. There are plenty of absurdly wealthy gay people here, and nobody is going to fuck with them. Thiel is just a weasel, someone who thought moving would be easy - turns out that you can't really just up and move an entire ecosystem (built up through decades of academic work and successful companies) from a city whose metro area includes some of the best academic institutions on the planet....to Miami, a city known for fraud and false promises.