• John@lemmy.ml
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    Everything Thiel does makes sense when you learn he literally went to a nazi school in a white supremacist town in Africa.

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    Yarvin was married to Jennifer Kollmer, who died in 2021 in San Francisco of a rare hereditary cardiomyopathy and with whom he had two children.

    Ivana died in 2022 of blunt impact injuries to the torso after falling down stairs at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

    Thiel was in a long-term relationship with model Jeff Thomas until Thomas’s suicide in March 2023.

    Uh…

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    How does Thiel get a pass for being gay WHILE promoting NAZI bullshit? I don’t get why the christian nationalist give him a pass but any other LGBT person gets heavily persecuted

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      I’m reminded of one of Roy Cohn’s monologues in Angels in America.

      Your problem is that you are hung up on words, on labels: “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian.” You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows.

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        The real Roy Cohen didn’t consider himself gay, he just liked to sexually dominate young blond men. That was a sign of his masculinity.

        It should be noted that when he mentored Donald Trump and Roger Stone, they were both young blonde men.

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          Bastard simply asked boys to drop their pants, then let him ram through, before zipping back and walking away.

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          Angels in America is a very good play that, I think, has only gotten better over time.

          HBO produced it as a TV miniseries with Al Pacino playing Roy Cohn back in 2003. There’s also a 2017 revival with Nathan Lane in the role. Either are 100% worth checking out.

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            Thanks for the recommend, I’m looking forward to watching it. I don’t know how I missed this, it was back when I still assumed everything HBO produced was good.

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      The hypocrisy of Nazis is beyond me at this point.

      The leader of the German far right party is a lesbian woman living in Switzerland and is married to a woman who is of Sri Lankan ancestry (adopted as a child).

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      its bad for everyone else but not for him basically. don’t try to find logic - its a matter of privilege.

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      Why would they not? It is tradition that the left wing is split by minor differences in ideology while the right wing are united by hate regardless how contradictory otherwise.

      He is a useful idiot and ultra wealthy and ultra powerful and ultra influential and ultra useful on top of being an ultra idiot. They don’t have to embrace him, only let him do his thing until he is no longer useful. Fascism must always have enemies and when they are without the external ones they will turn on each other.

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      I’ve been wondering the same thing, and came to a conclusion that he’s a white christian nationalist above all else. Christian nationalists love a nazi, identity politics only matter when it’s not “one of us”. Moreover, he doesn’t promote gay or trans rights, because he’s above all that could technically hinder him if he wasn’t megarich. He doesn’t care, because it doesn’t affect him. He’s already won.

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      My guess is that the hate for trans people is giving people like Thiel an opportunity to “punch down” on a minority that is even more hated by the right.

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      Yes. Thiel was getting “young blood” infusions from this guy. No reason to suspect hasn’t continued with a new donor. Literal vampire shit.

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        Was Gavin Belson based on him?

        EDIT: Anyone who didn’t watch Silicon Valley, there is an episode where the character gets blood infusions from a younger, very athletically fit man.

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          As I recall, they blended a few of the silly valley moguls into that character. Zuckerberg and Jobs also made some appearances in that character.

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            Which one is responsible for the penis shaped signature?

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                No, but looking up an image, I see some resemblance to a phallic shape.

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                I guess it’s better than Jeff Bezo’s cock rocket. I guess the short answer to your question is “all of them” lol.

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        another rich guy brryan johnson is doing the same thing with his SON, hes even wierder than thiel. after leaving his gf because she was diagnosed with breast cancer(taryn southern), she tried to sue him for lost wages( a rabbit hole)_. and he acts like its a victory that he want the lawsuit.

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      Yes, exactly like that, with just a touch of Nazi vampirism thrown in. Thiel thinks he can harness the virility of healthy young men by routinely getting blood transfusions from them. Seriously.

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        what really set him off is that his previous gf, taryn southern was diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age, so it reminded him of his mortality where had a previous health scare. he went full in on the pseudosceince.

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    PayPal Thiel Moved to USA at age 1, so is forever called German-American. Ha!

    Oh wait the cunt is also a NZ citizen, so shouldn’t he be called German-Kiwi-American?

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    But he’s such a great guy. He’s even trying to warn us that Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist.

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    You know I wonder if the elections in florida are rigged so none of the creepy billionaires who live there can be investigated/prosecuted. Somebody should run there on reopening suspicious death cases.

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    To be fair, if I had a sudden moment of clarity where I realised that I was being used by one of the world’s most evil people, I might off myself

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      You say that, but if you were in their bed? And able to remove one of the world’s most evil people from the mortal coil with great ease?

      I dunno, man, if you’re gonna go, do the rest of us a favor on the way out.

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          Abusers in positions of power use this as a means of protecting themselves. By making their victims engage in acts of abuse against others they force them into a catch-22 if they try to expose them. They achieve ultimate victory over the victim by making them adopt the ideology of their abuser, trapping them in a hierarchy within which they will do anything to maintain their position. By drawing you into their system of abuse they not only make you afraid to expose them, but rob you of your desire to do so.

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      The billionaire that realized you are trying to air their secrets would beat you to the punch. This was no suicide anymore than the two boeing whistleblowers were suicides.

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    he was defenestrated in florida, after he was voicng his concern about thiels anti-lgbtq+ inititive by helping the gop. the last thiel want his MODEL bf to publically denounce THiel, which hurts his image in helping the gop. this was also immediately buried on most platforms that reported his death.

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    Elites fuck children, do gay stuff in secret because they’re ashamed, yet they push hard to monitor US and OUR CHILDREN. Why? Because they assume we’re like them.