Comment by clanky
6 days ago
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?
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.
Absurdly naive post.