Comment by cletus
9 years ago
I assume you mean Thiel funding the downing of Gawker after their scurrilous behavior and attempts to justify anything under the First Amemdment, then that one actually has my full support.
As for the rest, to quote Dennis Hopper (IIRC) "I'm not crazy. I'm rich. Rich people are eccentric".
I'm criticizing his means more than his ends in that particular example.
If I were on my game, I would have brought up Palantir and how they're helping roll out the infrastructure of our present and future police state.
Fosh. Dude is a scumbag. You know that meeting he just put together for/with Trump, with all the tech. leaders, centered around tech. employment? You know, the one with people like Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Ginni Rometty, Brian Krzanich...and Alex Karp.
Hmm, let's see.
Amazon employs 250k+ people; Alphabet employs 60k+; Facebook employs 15k+; Musk's companies employ 30k+; IBM employs 350k+; Intel employs 100k+; ... Palantir employs around 2000, but Alex Karp got to go to that meeting. I wonder who Palantir's biggest shareholder is...hmm?
P.S. The meeting also had Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Chuck Robbins (Cisco), and Safra Catz (Oracle)..and all three of Trump's children - who took seats from companies like HP, Dell, all telecomms, Xerox, and more. Seriously: fuck Peter Thiel.