• Who is Peter Thiel and why is he advising Donald Trump?
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38315682[/url]
i thought his was a technology news section
[QUOTE=EddieLTU;51528665]i thought his was a technology news section[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=the article]For Mr Thiel, politics is too mired in the present to do any good. Instead, he wrote, only technology can make a difference in the world. He has backed up these words through the Thiel Foundation, which has given cash to tech firms working on breakthroughs such as extending life, living on the sea and making machines truly intelligent.[/QUOTE] It's in the technology section because he's a tech guy who funds tech companies to do tech things with tech money I guess. I'm honestly pretty curious what he's advising to Trump and crew.
Peter Thiel doesn't think democracy gels with our modern times. He's genuinely a preacher of anti democracy
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;51530043]Peter Thiel doesn't think democracy gels with our modern times. He's genuinely a preacher of anti democracy[/QUOTE] I mean I can't name one developed country who's happy with their leader so maybe he's onto something :v:
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;51530043]Peter Thiel doesn't think democracy gels with our modern times. He's genuinely a preacher of anti democracy[/QUOTE] And he's right, in a lot of ways. Democracy is better than forms of government we've had in the past, like kings and dictators, but in the end of the day it's still "numbers make right" that relies its whole justification on some nebulous social contract that nobody after the first generation explicitly consented to. It's the notion that 51% of the populace should have absolute authority to tell the other 49% what to do.
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