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Thiel’s Tentacles & Long-Term Plan
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More than even Musk, no private individual has his tentacles in more aspects of American government and data than Peter Thiel
And if you look back at what he once said he wanted to do to government and politics w technology
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Thiel’s Tentacles & Long-Term Plan
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More than even Musk, no private individual has his tentacles in more aspects of American government and data than Peter Thiel
And if you look back at what he once said he wanted to do to government and politics w technology
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that should scare the hell out of all of us.
It’s no secret that Thiel is responsible for placing people in positions of enormous influence over American government and life.
Including JD Vance.
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It’s no secret that Thiel is responsible for placing people in positions of enormous influence over American government and life.
Including JD Vance.
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And his network of companies and investments has tentacles enmeshed deep in American government, including its operations and reams of data.
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Now, intertwining any company with government this broadly, at this many levels—granting it control over government operations, decisionmaking and reams of our private data—would present massive risks if such an arrangement wasn’t managed and overseen carefully….
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…but making it far worse is that Thiel isn’t just any other businessperson.
In fact, there are few people in America we should be less comfortable granting this level of control over to than Peter Thiel.
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In fact, there are few people in America we should be less comfortable granting this level of control over to than Peter Thiel.
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A source recently sent me an old Thiel speech (2010) that makes this more clear to me than ever.
In it, Thiel lays out a vision of how to use technology to escape the “evil” of government and politics.
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In it, Thiel lays out a vision of how to use technology to escape the “evil” of government and politics.
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He explains that only “dumb people” believe politics can lead to good things, that voting is “bad,” that govt is as evil as the devil, and to get what he wants done in the world, he planned to use technology to escape that evil and avoid having to “compromise” w “the base.”
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This mission, he said, was doing the work of God: “you get to be God or you get to be as close to God as is possible for anybody on this planet to be.”
Sound too over-the-top to be real?
Well, here are some clips from that 2010 speech:
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Sound too over-the-top to be real?
Well, here are some clips from that 2010 speech:
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“[Y]ou could basically measure people’s IQ…by how optimistic they were about politics…[T]he dumb people tend[] to think should really all vote….the smarter people thought it was probably a bad thing but you still had to maintain appearances…”
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“W]e could never win an election on getting certain things because we were in such a small minority. But maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world without having to possibly convince people…
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and beg people and plead with people who are never going to agree with you through a technological need….Technology is this incredible alternative to politics….The task…is to find a way to escape [from politics.] It’s not a way to fix it, it is a way to escape…”
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“Technology is the vehicle for how we should be looking to escape and move beyond politics as we find it today.”
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Thiel sees it as a battle between politics and technology: “we should not underestimate the degree to which there is a race in our society between politics and technology, and it’s a very open question whether technology is going to succeed….”
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“[p]olitics is bad and voting is bad.” He considers it a “close race” between technology and politics.
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“[w]e have to in a small measure engage in politics…We should never forget how evil and distasteful and bad it really is.”
He calls “the government” “so fundamentally evil” that denying it is the equivalent of “denying the existence of the devil.”
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He calls “the government” “so fundamentally evil” that denying it is the equivalent of “denying the existence of the devil.”
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He equates his work to do so as being “like God” — “you get to be God or you get to be as close to God as is possible for anybody on this planet to be…It is better to try to be God or be like God than to be making a pact with the devil…
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it is better to try to do something noble than to spend the rest of our lives trying to make compromises with the base.”
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So let’s add all this up—here we have a man who thinks:
1) government and politics—having to gain consensus among people and “the base”—are equivalent to the devil
2) that voting is “bad”
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1) government and politics—having to gain consensus among people and “the base”—are equivalent to the devil
2) that voting is “bad”
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3) that technology is the way to escape the need for politics, but that it is a “close race” as to who prevails
4) and that while one must “engage in politics,” the end goal is to use technology to escape the need for politics, and government, entirely
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4) and that while one must “engage in politics,” the end goal is to use technology to escape the need for politics, and government, entirely
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And now this same man has “engage[d] in politics” as he said he had to, and he has managed to embed his “tech” at the center of the government he considers to be the equivalent of the devil.
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Folks, they aren’t hiding their plan. They are years into implementing it.
And they are handpicking political leaders like Vance to go along.
Without a massive pushback for democracy in the near future, Thiel is dangerously close to achieving his goal.
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And they are handpicking political leaders like Vance to go along.
Without a massive pushback for democracy in the near future, Thiel is dangerously close to achieving his goal.
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