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We need to weaponize the name Peter Thiel the way they've weaponized G. Soros (Original Post) New Breed Leader Sep 2022 OP
K&Fuckin'R! nt Carlitos Brigante Sep 2022 #1
Peter Thiel is a vampire! DBoon Sep 2022 #2
This is where Dorian Gray Sep 2022 #4
Won't work DavidDvorkin Sep 2022 #3
He's openly gay yet started a rightwing anti-woke straights-only dating app lostnfound Sep 2022 #9
Peter Thiel is gay? New Breed Leader Sep 2022 #13
Stated so from podium at RNC convention in 2016 lostnfound Sep 2022 #15
I heard that Peter Thiel leads a cult of... LudwigPastorius Sep 2022 #5
That makes sense. Pass it on. rickford66 Sep 2022 #11
An interesting thing is that Turbineguy Sep 2022 #6
Classical femininity? Sounds like a buzz phrase for subservient women. patphil Sep 2022 #7
that's exactly what it is. New Breed Leader Sep 2022 #14
I'd also like to nominate soldierant Sep 2022 #8
I'd throw in Phil Anschutz in the mix! Initech Sep 2022 #12
Oh man, I knew he was a Randroid type douchebag -- I didn't know he was a wannabe biblical patriach. paulkienitz Sep 2022 #10

DBoon

(22,356 posts)
2. Peter Thiel is a vampire!
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 01:50 PM
Sep 2022
More than anything, Peter Thiel, the billionaire technology investor and Donald Trump supporter, wants to find a way to escape death. He's channeled millions of dollars into startups working on anti-aging medicine, spends considerable time and money researching therapies for his personal use, and believes society ought to open its mind to life-extension methods that sound weird or unsavory.

Speaking of weird and unsavory, if there's one thing that really excites Thiel, it's the prospect of having younger people's blood transfused into his own veins.

That practice is known as parabiosis, and, according to Thiel, it's a potential biological Fountain of Youth--the closest thing science has discovered to an anti-aging panacea. Research into parabiosis began in the 1950s with crude experiments that involved cutting rats open and stitching their circulatory systems together. After decades languishing on the fringes, it's recently started getting attention from mainstream researchers, with multiple clinical trials underway in humans in the U.S. and even more advanced studies in China and Korea.


https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.html

my bolding

Dorian Gray

(13,493 posts)
4. This is where
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 03:14 PM
Sep 2022

Qanon derived it's idea of frazzledripping. Scaring a child/ripping it's face off/drinking it's adrenaline to stay young.

They take something with a grain of truth and spread it to their enemies.

Qanon should be wary of Thiel, but he supports magazines like this which have a huge Q crossover appeal.

DavidDvorkin

(19,473 posts)
3. Won't work
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 02:21 PM
Sep 2022

Soros works as a bogeyman for the right because he's foreign, a Jew, and rich. He pushes their hatred buttons even without anyone trying to build him up as a hate object.

lostnfound

(16,176 posts)
9. He's openly gay yet started a rightwing anti-woke straights-only dating app
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 04:30 PM
Sep 2022

Thinks women are only useful for reproducing?

lostnfound

(16,176 posts)
15. Stated so from podium at RNC convention in 2016
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 08:33 PM
Sep 2022
https://www.npr.org/2016/07/21/486966882/i-am-proud-to-be-gay-tech-investor-peter-thiel-tells-gop-convention
In an apparent first, a Republican convention speaker on Thursday took the stage during the final, most high-profile night, just minutes before the nominee himself, and uttered these words: "I am proud to be gay."

Peter Thiel (pronounced "teel&quot is an eccentric character in Silicon Valley: a legendary financier and co-founder of PayPal; an early investor and current board member of Facebook; a Stanford-educated billionaire who pays students to drop out of college and do entrepreneurial work; a staunch libertarian who poured millions into Ron Paul's 2012 presidential bid.

Earlier this year, he made headlines as the sponsor of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against news and gossip site Gawker, which outed Thiel as gay in 2007.

This campaign season, as the New York Times puts it, Thiel is also "the most prominent public face of a species so endangered it might as well be called extinct: the Silicon Valley Trump supporter" — and at that, an openly gay one.

LudwigPastorius

(9,137 posts)
5. I heard that Peter Thiel leads a cult of...
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 03:41 PM
Sep 2022

dedicated tech bros who kidnap kindergarteners and harvest their pineal glands.

Turbineguy

(37,319 posts)
6. An interesting thing is that
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 03:59 PM
Sep 2022

if you consider GNP and the growth of wealth at the top, how does that work when the GNP drops?

patphil

(6,169 posts)
7. Classical femininity? Sounds like a buzz phrase for subservient women.
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 04:22 PM
Sep 2022

It strongly asserts a class of women who lack the right to make choices for themselves; that need a man to decide what they can say or do.
In this case the phrase, "take America back" means to revert to the time before women could vote; a time when someone else controlled a woman's choices; a time when women were dependent on a man to run their life; a time when a woman had very few rights at all.

Classical femininity me ass. There is nothing feminine about a woman who only exists to cook, clean, and service her husband...who pops babies out every year and works herself to an early grave.

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