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He left Palantir in 2009 according to Wikipedia.","comments":[{"id":46515610,"user":"clanky","time":1767721265,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

He's discussing motivations at the time of its founding. I suppose one could argue that perhaps Peter Thiel's heart has grown two sizes since that day?","comments":[{"id":46515627,"user":"nailer","time":1767721316,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

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Sentence construction?","comments":[{"id":46519981,"user":"yencabulator","time":1767739940,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

s/know/nor/, plausible phone typo.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":4,"url":"item?id=46519981"}],"comments_count":1,"level":3,"url":"item?id=46517598"},{"id":46519091,"user":"nailer","time":1767735027,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

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Nobody here is saying that. Are you?","comments":[{"id":46515880,"user":"kalkin","time":1767722157,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Who is Lonsdale referring to as the "good guys"?

(It's one thing to ask people to be fair in responding to your actual comment and not a strawman. It's another to ask us to pretend we were born yesterday. We do in fact have external sources of information about Lonsdale's political allegiences.)","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":4,"url":"item?id=46515880"},{"id":46515751,"user":"clanky","time":1767721701,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

What good being defended from evil were you alluding to, and who is mounting that defense?","comments":[{"id":46519106,"user":"nailer","time":1767735089,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

This information is in the article.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":5,"url":"item?id=46519106"}],"comments_count":1,"level":4,"url":"item?id=46515751"}],"comments_count":3,"level":3,"url":"item?id=46515653"},{"id":46520074,"user":"landl0rd","time":1767740474,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Is there any documented link whatsoever between Lonsdale and Epstein?","comments":[{"id":46520673,"user":"clanky","time":1767743849,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

There are many documented links with Peter Thiel, the much more influential founder of Palantir. Epstein and Maxwell had their hands all over the Silicon Valley spooktech sector of which Palantir is an integral part.","comments":[{"id":46521879,"user":"landl0rd","time":1767753619,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

But when you talk about "the Jeffrey Epstein Friends Club that runs SV" in a discussion starting with Lonsdale you are implicitly and probably intentionally tarring him by association. It's a serious enough charge to lay against someone that one shouldn't do it, even by allusion, without evidence.","comments":[{"id":46522708,"user":"clanky","time":1767761497,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

This is also a discussion about Palantir more broadly, but of course Lonsdale is tarred by that association, that's not my doing.

If he finds Epstein association distasteful then as someone with ample means and no need to fear retaliation against his employment, he certainly should have publicly repudiated his close associates with Epstein ties. Has he done that?","comments":[{"id":46527113,"user":"landl0rd","time":1767798023,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

That depends if he was involved in or aware of Epstein's trafficking. Given Thiel is rather well-known to be gay, I sincerely doubt he had anything to do with underage girls. We aren't yet sure if Thiel was aware of Epstein's other activities either; the only thing we do know is that they did visit at least once and Epstein extended an invite to visit him on his island. Whether Thiel accepted either, we cannot yet say.

If you're Lonsdale, you don't speak against a longtime close friend on the basis of bad optics when you have no way to know whether he actually did anything wrong. There are a whole stack of other, more-powerful people we can and should look at hard over their presence in the files. If further evidence is released against Thiel, Lonsdale, et al. we should reconsider their behavior. Until that point, it's wrong to tar them over this.","comments":[{"id":46538347,"user":"clanky","time":1767857777,"time_ago":"2 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Absurdly naive post.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":8,"url":"item?id=46538347"}],"comments_count":1,"level":7,"url":"item?id=46527113"}],"comments_count":2,"level":6,"url":"item?id=46522708"}],"comments_count":3,"level":5,"url":"item?id=46521879"}],"comments_count":4,"level":4,"url":"item?id=46520673"}],"comments_count":5,"level":3,"url":"item?id=46520074"}],"comments_count":10,"level":2,"url":"item?id=46515640"}],"comments_count":18,"level":1,"url":"item?id=46515627"}],"comments_count":19,"level":0,"url":"item?id=46515610"}],"comments_count":20,"url":"item?id=46515559"}

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