How Peter Thiel Mentored JD Vance and Turned Silicon Valley Towards Trumpism

[@justinlinnane8043]

One of America's most profound weaknesses is listening far too much to its richest people !! Always a bad idea if you want a sane , rational and civilised society !! let them be rich but never give them too much say !!

[@katl6426]

This!

[@gfkathyd]

The problem is money talks and people can be bought.

[@diannef315]

Money is power and lots of money is lots of power.

[@hudson2861]

Absolutely and tax them.

[@Tad-For-Global-Peace]

Right wing media lies and fear mongers the base. Propaganda works and right wing is the no 1 societal enemy. News max too. Epoch times too.

[@JSx145]

Great reason to pass laws to remove the money from politics.

[@hudson2861]

Oh but that would require a corrupt supreme court to repeal what is already law. Do they do that? Haha Just kidding they do.......except Citizens United of course.. How else would Thomas be able to purchase a quarter of a million dollar winnebego and how would Alieto ever be able to afford those flagpoles for his vacation homes. What pathetic miscreatents.

[@starshake8998]

Instead, money is being passed to remove our most important laws.

[@trucuriousity]

Thiel has been tricky about this though. He basically funded and mentored his puppet from the ground up. It's not just about campaign donations in this case. It's even more shady than that. And Silicon Valley can use it's massive influence via social media and big data to get what they want. They don't even need parties or donations.

[@jannichi6431]

All possible from Chief Justice Roberts with deciding Citizens United. Thiel was there too with Faith And Freedom PAC on KStreet.

[@dg-ov4cf]

it would still be controlled through the tech platforms. democracy has always been an illusion

[@tanxmo]

As a Assistant Professor of business teaching abroad when Zero to One was the talk of the town and everybody told me this book should be taught I was taken back it is everything I thought business as an evil force. I never taught it

[@elinstar6034]

Good on you! 😊

[@6155ipb]

Cope.

[@tiffanywatson8316]

Hearing them talk about Peter Thiel and the Tech Bros, brings to mind how many of the most fervent supporters of Nazi Germany were young, college educated intellectuals.

[@pettespizzaparlor3245]

Yeah. The "I'm smart and therfore won't fall for a cult" thinking is a great way to fall for a cult. Just because you went to school, retained information does not mean that you learned the number one thing college (& high-school) teaches. . . . HOW to think.

[@validatedclassified2564]

But what's most fascinating is they've successfully convinced half the population that the real problem is the more visible Hollywood millionaire elites and not them the billionaire oligarchs elites hording and owing all the wealth.

[@m.a.b.4104]

Yes, but there were also older very successful (largely from the advantages of generational wealth) elites, who had latched on to the ideas of nationalism and modern antisemitism in the later part of the 1800's that really helped to propel Hitler into power. Queen Victoria's grandson and ex-British Prince/German Duke Charles Edward might be the most famous but there were many others.

[@nettysisters]

@@tiffanywatson8316 that is so scary

[@NuiYabuko]

​@@pettespizzaparlor3245 In theory anyone can be booksmart, but that doesn't mean much. People with professor titles fall for conspiracy theories, even though one would assume they should know better.

[@lindascott3973]

I have black women friends who are tech professionals. The things that were said to them over the course of their careers absolutely shocked me. And were absolutely illegal. One of them was fired from a startup because she "didn't look like everybody else here."

[@lauramcdowell8438]

Shit. Not acceptable.

[@camark0819]

I'll take things that never happened for $1 million

[@titandarknight2698]

@@camark0819 I'll take things that happen ALL the F-ing time for $1 million. Are you this dumb?

[@victoriaboster1177]

@@camark0819tell me you aren’t from the bay without telling me

[@NuiYabuko]

​@@camark0819 You never know with people on the internet, but just seeing how Gamers act or what comes out about game studios, doesn't make it unlikely at all.

[@lauramcdowell8438]

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all - Aristotle

[@utxex97]

People like Thiel have no heart. Or morals. Or good character.

[@MsKatze]

I find Peter Thiels beliefs absolutely horrifying. I will say this, I also find it frightening how many voters in this country seem to be very uneducated and have no clue how government even works. I propose that instead of ending democracy we should invest in far better public education. We should have extensive and accurate history classes and in-depth education on politics and government in addition to improvements in all other fields of study. So yeah, maybe let's not take away the rights of our people to be ruled by silicon valley tech bros and uplift and better educate people instead.

[@narda1072]

Thats why project 2025 want to get rid of the department of education

[@elinstar6034]

​@@narda1072 They want to control it so that education becomes programming in alt right beliefs. It IS horrifying. Hitler Youth anyone?

[@babette217]

This is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the republican party and project 2025 wants.

[@JAGRAFX]

We find people like Peter frightening as well. "Better education" is interpreted as "woke philosophy" by Thiel and most of the post-Trump right. These Silicon Valley feelings about the World were found to have purchase and further validation in what has been a strident proponent of authoritarianism and patriarchicalism in society in a post-Confederate American South. Being ostensibly "anti-democratic" is nothing new for many of these people. Saying "No" to common sense is also something that is hardly novel. 😊

[@joweh4humanity]

👍👍👍 exactly! Education is the key if the voters are still way off on the basic, fundamentals, common sense political concepts this bipolar chaos will continue on. There will always be political differences but towards both extreme ends is indeed destructive. 😔

[@egx161]

The irony. People like Thiel hate democracy but made all of their money in America. These tech billionaires seem like grifters to me. Arrogant grifters.

[@inthehouse1960]

End corporate welfare.

[@sumpoosieguy]

What about the Sackler family?? Millions of lives DEAD DEAD and DEAD

[@sumpoosieguy]

@@egx161 Lookup Reid Hoffman

[@UntoldStories17394]

Same like Musk

[@GeistInTheMachine]

They're not grifters. They literally want to enslave you and everyone else.

[@pokefrosch617]

As a German I´d like to apologize for Thiel. And Trump.

[@ClaudeGhendrih-w4o]

Well being partially Scottish I should then apologize for Trump also. You'll be alone for Thiel though.

[@LeslieLarsen]

We'd like to return them now for a refund!

[@raincadeify]

I wish we could blame you guys.. He's all American unfortunately.

[@JWHealing]

Just pray for us so the US can lighten the f’ up

[@ClaudeGhendrih-w4o]

@@JWHealing We all need to ducking the lighten up irrespective of our nationalities or of the ducking Google's obscene prudishness. "Advanced" nations especially since the most privileged within them have come to behave as spoilt irresponsible brats .

[@FemFlorida]

Speaking as an American woman, I find Peter Thiel to be a failure of the naturalization process and is unworthy of our grant of citizenship.

[@KatrSayet]

Weird as Hell, and JDs couch buddy🛋️

[@diannakoish5110]

@FemFlorida,Elon Musk also, send them both back.

[@h.neubert8770]

Ouff, The dread of what Thiel could do to a small country like Germany. By comparison to the States. Ohje.....

[@sumpoosieguy]

@@FemFloridaLOL where is Obama's birth certificate???? He was not even a natural citizen and you still voted him in. Cluck's RIP Andrew Breitbart RIP Tom Clancy. In case you never learned who had REAL INFO ON SUBJECT AND WHERE KILLED FOR IT

[@briane596able]

A warped way of reengineering American freedom of free thought in order to enslave others

[@fatesrequiem]

Theil, like all Billionaires, has a god complex and believes rules don’t apply to him because he has such economic power. It’s why we shouldn’t allow Billionaires to exist.

[@HZ-fg9sf]

💯

[@kosmosyche]

Politics and politicians rely on money way too much. It's at the point of being unhealthy and detrimental to the interests of society. That's why folks like Thiel hold so much sway. Someone compared people like Thiel and Musk to Ayn Rand's ideological heroes. You know, Atlas Shrugged and shit. I absolutely agree and it's not good.

[@Reefiemon]

Yup these guys don’t merely think of themselves as “provocateurs”. Let’s not fall for that bullshit. When someone “tongue and cheek” names their Patriot Act-era metadata mining cybersecurity firm after Sauron’s dark magic intelligence-gathering orbs in LoTR, take them for their word. They are an evil person. When they are vocally anti-democratic. Take them for their word, they are an evil person. When he identifies as gay, yet under his economic/cultural conservative priorities, align ranks with a national Christian-extremist movement which would love to see people of their ilk burn in hellfire…believe him at face value, he is a selfish, evil person. There is no sugarcoating it…these fuckers do hold power…and they should be ridiculed everywhere they stand

[@Dee-x9f]

Consider how many billionaire tech bros funding our politics were given venture capital and seeing success in the marketplace before their brains finished developing around age 25.

[@LyndaWalker-e7c]

That’s why they should b taxed.

[@nguday2003]

Thiel has money and privilege. Let’s not act like he actually has a moral compass and is not racist and as a gay white man he is an anomaly just because he can. That in itself is a privilege. But basically also has created rumble and allowing for very extreme voices of young people to say and do what they want. He is as scary as Brannon because of his wealth and the ways he can essentially buy people.

[@armandomartinez2046]

Even being gay persons can be shitty and terrible human beings (if you can call him one).

[@LauraCollins-eq3ou]

The word that he is important is really sleeping overly generous and that's what drives these mutant malignant pernicious worms of our society 🤢

[@nettysisters]

@@nguday2003everything you’ve said is correct. He is a dangerous human being

[@6155ipb]

The cope🎉

[@briane596able]

Some rich have always got in their brain they should shape the under class… help correct societal thinking. God complex was used to describe it but we’re taught to defer to the affluent and rich, which is a problem onto itself. The rich aren’t perfect people by any means

[@TheGuinever]

Take Trump's pathological narcissism seriously.

[@sarahnicoleanastasia]

His pathology precedes him!!!

[@hudson2861]

Fortunately or unfortunately , however one wants to view it, trump is nothing but the puppet and it has been obvious since the escalator descent. The real danger is the billionaire tech bros and the Putin sympathizers. The old washed out billionaires who have been able to pull strings their whole life and now see more beige people entering the club, and the media moguls. Trump is literally an animated cardboard cut out. He said and did what they told him for money and now that he has lost his edge, is embarrassing them and giving them reason to panic at the potential of the disclosure and indictments of their decades old corruption.

[@bradmcewen]

Imo...he is a bump up to full Dark Tetrad.

[@LeaC-lw8xl]

Mayo Clinic defines Narcissistic Personality Disorder very well. Point by point that’s dt.

[@susanngeorgia2024]

DSM-5, see characteristics of #NPD & Antisocial Personality Disorder (psychopathy). #Trump is seriously mentally ill. 🥼🧐

[@csplotkin]

The arrogance, greed, and opportunism of these people (Thiel, et al.) are astounding. Thank you for sharing this.

[@Baddestchik911]

These billionaires and the Heritage foundation acting like comic book villains

[@Jlr-vz8cc]

Not acting.

[@Anita-ts5ep]

When Trump is gone the Heritage Foundation and friends will still be here. This country is in serious trouble.

[@narda1072]

Exactly

[@Callimo]

Bankrupt the Heritage Foundation for 2025? :)

[@dilmeral]

They have been here for 200 years They only change names and styles but at its core they are all the same Just finished Ultra by Rachel Maddow. It is just eye opening to see there were millions of people in this country who wanted to support nazis and actually wanted that for this country This county has been always so close to lose the democracy and became an authoritarian country

[@sueprator9314]

Only awakening to the facts and going on the OFFENSE. Your statement is too damn hopeless.

[@sueprator9314]

@@narda1072 No not exactly. if WE DO NOTHING THEN YES...BUT YOUR LACK OF BELIEF IN CHANGE IS TYPICAL MALE PESSIMISM BULLSWH8T

[@TheGuinever]

Vance was for sale and PT purchased him.

[@DaPickle-l4w]

100% facts.

[@sarge5000]

Probably used him for other purposes too😂

[@phriedokra6158]

Theil funnels American tech bros to Deutchebanc for start up money....Putin's bank....Zuckerberg got money for Twitter from there.... did Vlad bully Zuckerberg...that scared little boy in front of Congress looked like hes owned by someone...

[@KaninaCC2183]

Mmhmm... yes, as a rent boy

[@sumpoosieguy]

VANCE went to WAR ZONE and WALZ avoided it and lied..

[@samuelweiner5382]

What you are describing is that Peter Thiel is a modern day Ayn Rand.

[@fitnesssoup7553]

Fascist

[@evederooy]

Exactly, Atlas shrugged all over again!😉

[@marylhere]

Hopefully ending his days broke and relying on public funds to wipe his pathetic butt…Ayn Rand style.

[@kosmosyche]

@@evederooy It's part 2 of Atlas shrugged. Atlas shat.

[@marylander3798]

Exactly

[@bdog4u2]

Could you imagine jd vance being president? Trump is one big mac away from a heart attack.

[@skyebarkschat]

The scary thing is that i totally can! But if Vance, perchance, DID end up in the all too white house, i have no doubt that the US would UNITE more than we ever did..

[@reneelibby4885]

why aren't more people coming out and saying that?? seems obvious but... Trump making it to 82 isn't likely.

[@CC-in1jy]

NO how horrible, he can't even work with people in donut shop

[@Lonewolf-i8p]

That's probably what Thiel is thinking in having JD as VP. JD would be the Thiel puppet.

[@priscillalopez9221]

That is my biggest fear. I think about this often....

[@ladym1991]

Thank you for this podcast subject!! Been trying to find out more on Yarvin, Thiel and Vance. Why are mainstream news programs NOT picking this up for voters?! 🤯 This ideology needs to be exposed about Trump’s campaign-Please keep on this for 🇺🇸! 🏆👏😎🙏🏻

[@ItsyBetsy365]

What I find fascinating is that people who have availed of the graciousness of the US like naturalization and education and opportunity don’t want to extend the same to others. Are we not supposed to lift people up and bring them along with us, if we have been fortunate enough to be doing well. Diversity that Thiel is not fond of, is the very reason why he is in the US. If our universities didn’t believe that race has nothing to do with smarts, then he wouldn’t be here and be with who he is with.

[@Sally-up8xe]

Greed. They got theirs, fuck everyine else.

[@KaninaCC2183]

He loves DIVERSITY DOLLARS but hates Diverse People.

[@davidbright6790]

A rising tide lifts all boats is what we hear, but those in the fancy yachts hate all other boats as it blocks their wind and makes tacking harder. Trickle down economics at its core.

[@progressiveGal73]

It should demonstrate for you the power of white+maleness. Bc him and people like him are not considered immigrants. Only brown and black folk. Oh, and black American slave progeny. Just as Thiel would like it to remain.

[@catthorn2973]

I love your post. It needs to be shared and read and re read.

[@djgroovy22]

After Sacks hosted a fundraising for Trump, Musk coming out in a big way to support him, and then JD Vance getting selected for VP, my suspicion was Thiel was playing the king maker behind the scenes. All of a sudden he was on Rogan too. This discussion kind of confirms it. Thanks for providing the details on the history and motives!!

[@carmelaguanciale6620]

If thiel doesn’t like democracy, let him move to Russia.

[@shep1948]

They don’t take kindly to gays in Russia.

[@Mabelinini]

That’s exactly the thought I had. Or Iran.

[@phriedokra6158]

He funneled tech bro Zuckerberg to Deutchebanc for Twitter start up money way back in the Day...

[@youtubewatcher2]

Iran and Russia fetishize religion which Thiel abhors. North Korea for him.

[@TobiasC-mg4zk]

Unfortunately for Thiel, he was “outed” as a gay man. Russia and Iran are harshly repressive towards gay people.

[@JustBeingAwesome]

I'm in European tech. A lot of European tech CEO's look at people like Peter Thiel as gurus that spread the gospel of success. This conversation helped me understand some of the very Un-European dynamics (very white, very young bros, etc.) that are at play in European tech.

[@reneelibby4885]

they are also misogynists and racists.

[@elinstar6034]

Interesting, in a 'not sure I wanted to know that' way. Probably time I she'd my hazy picture of left-leaning, nerdy brainiacs and boffins like some I knew. Shedloads of money makes a difference I guess 😢

[@romulus_]

@@elinstar6034 san francisco resident and former tech employee here. it used to be that way, went sideways during web 2.0 and is in full thrall now. far too many techno-libertarian bros who are willing to break the system to make a fortune, consequences be damned.

[@starshake8998]

Eek. That is my biggest concern: That America's ideological illnesses will successfully spread and destroy even better countries than our own.

[@jl-vk8kd]

A lot of ppl confused luck for talent. Especially venture capitalists

[@susanfrancis5471]

I commented on you tube not long ago “Peter Thiel bought himself a Senator, and now he wants to buy himself a Vice President”. You tube hammered me, and gave a 15 hour time out.

[@macareuxmoine]

Really? For that comment?

[@susanfrancis5471]

@@macareuxmoine Immediately rafter.. They told to comment about “ideas” not people. I thought it was an idea, of Peter’s.

[@KaninaCC2183]

​@@susanfrancis5471 Makes sense they did that considering YT was founded by folks who once worked with and for Thiel at PayPal. This is why there's a lot of pro-democracy censorship on these platforms owned by these tech bros.

[@jacqueresch6534]

I've gotten those a number of times as well. I just keep posting and if nobody reports your comment it stays up usually.​@@macareuxmoine

[@sumpoosieguy]

Who is buying TRUMP.. NOBODY Who bought KAMILA a bench warmer with no talent???

[@MonkeyHill1955]

Oligarchs love Fascism.

[@drhxa]

Exactly. Very dangerous

[@TobiasC-mg4zk]

Damn right they do! This needs to be repeated often.

[@dilmeral]

There is no oligarch in democratic countries but in a neo capitalist country like US they act like they’re oligarchs

[@fity_4696]

Simple economics - capitalists make more money under autocratics than democracies.

[@sumpoosieguy]

@@MonkeyHill1955 lookup Reid Hoffman

[@jds0981]

I find the reluctance to believe that these guys "really mean" what they say and write is fascinating. The way these guys (Theil and company) get the continuous benefit of the doubt is dangerous. We need to believe them and act accordingly.

[@progressiveGal73]

It’s tiring and frustrating. They show us their hand and continue to receive the benefit of the doubt.

[@MichelleJones-dh1ry]

I Wholeheartedly agree and it's more than frustrating. Even with Trump openly admitting that he wants to be a dictator smh. It's not a coincidence that JD Vance was selected or handpicked actually for his VP and mainly so he can carry P2025 into the future. Thiel and the rest of this evil cabal is only a hair away from occupying our Oval Office 😢

[@reneelibby4885]

Sociopaths do succeed. No denying that.

[@davidbright6790]

It's easier to do bad things to make big money when you don't have the capacity to care about the impacts of your actions.

[@Mikesniezek]

Separation between money and the government needs work

[@lizryan513]

30:00 - Nobody blinked at Thiel's nonchalant entitled misogyny? It's no laughing matter

[@CarmellaCake11]

Misogyny is at the root of fascism

[@tiffanywatson8316]

@@lizryan513 They don't because the attitude is so pervasive in most male dominated environments. The casual misogyny is the norm, not the exception.

[@jon9428]

@@tiffanywatson8316 and thats why you lost the election and lost us (young males), good job.

[@SherryJohnson-q7v]

Vote Blue 💙 Justice matters 💙 Service matters 💙 Harris for President 💙

[@hudson2861]

And how about using a little common sense when it comes to supporting the businesses and corporations of these megalomaniacs and stop making them richer. Oh and how about taxing them at a reasonable rate, like 70%.Just voting blue and not using your purchasing power to show these megalomaniacs that the People are in charge is not going to change anything. And you should be questioningwhy it takes billions of dollars to win a campaign and where is that money coming from and stop the flow. There is no way they are raking in millions and millions of dollars from the voters' $5 donation. It is not enough to just vote blue. That is how we got trump and his cohorts.

[@Raptorman0909]

If you need anything to understand where Thiel is coming from all you need to know is that he's stated, publicly, that companies should strive for a monopoly. A monopoly, as you may remember, is a situation where a company has complete control of an industry and can thus set whatever price they want. Also baked into this is an effort to prevent other companies from having a chance to compete using every means available to prevent a competitor from being viable. Being able to lower the price to undercut a competitor knowing they will not have the money to cover the losses. Being able to pay a visit to important politicians in DC and at the state level to ensure that the government doesn't step in or that they do step in to undermine the competitor. Being able to limit wage and benefits for the employees by denying them an alternative place of work. Thiel knows what he's doing and he knows that what he's doing is harming the middle class and our Constitutional Republic, but it is profitable and that's all that matters.

[@cherryhughes2141]

No excuses can cover what this man Peter is and stands for

[@Candyliz2003]

*GREED* The only word needed to describe these people. And, it's *NOT* good.

[@martiwaterman1437]

Sociopathic.

[@mollymclean-xj3qd]

Makes me think of the mega rich family capsizing in their yacht. All the money couldn’t save them.

[@hudson2861]

So true but they would not have amassed this much power if the People were not buying their stuff and suffering from greed themselves. There needs to be a complete reset of priorities by all of us. For instance how much social media is actually useful or needed and how much of the constant mind numbing bullshit is affecting our collective mental and physical health. Each one of us has got to start taking personal responsibility for what has happened.

[@anthonyburee650]

POWER

[@Here4TheHeckOfIt]

​@@hudson2861 Very sensible comment. Not sure how many people understand this though.

[@sle81]

I wish people would stop wondering whether someone’s words are just hyperbole or their belief. Believe what people say they want.

[@davidbright6790]

More importantly believe what they do. Last week I read a BBC fact check of Harris. One of the checks was her claiming trump wants to cut social security and Medicare. BBC said that this was false because he's claimed he won't cut it. Then they add some more context that actually he did try to cut it multiple times when power. I was tearing my hair out. The compulsive liar said he wouldn't do it but LITERALLY TRIED REPEATEDLY (and failed) to do it. It's INSANE!

[@yadavsharma188]

Save America from Trump!!!

[@LyndaWalker-e7c]

And big tec

[@rex-c6v]

Where does George Soros destroyer of countries fit into this ven diagram. Oh yeah he funds PodSaveAmerica

[@sumpoosieguy]

Hate instead of facts.. That's how morons are lead..

[@sumpoosieguy]

@@yadavsharma188 That literally makes no sense.. Keep drinking your Fluoride Everyone had more money under Trump.

[@NG-cx1mm]

Have we been so naïve overlooking the danger coming from silicon valley?

[@fighterck6241]

It seemed apparent to me all the way, back in 2012, when Google changed some of KZbin's functionality ostensibly to combat racism on the platform, yet the changes they ended up making had the opposite effect.

[@sumpoosieguy]

You mean how they kicked Trump off A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE for speaking??? ELON IS A HERO

[@GuerillaBunny]

Not really. Researchers have been trying to warn people for years, but "billionaires are bad, actually" is not a money-making story in the US. Or elsewhere, for that matter.

[@fighterck6241]

@@sumpoosieguy Okay, your employers should know that if you're going to troll here, then you really should learn to speak the language first.

[@fighterck6241]

@@sumpoosieguy That, or you're just dumb. "Elon is a hero" is a dead giveaway.

[@justinriley]

Did he also mentor Vance to have zero charisma?

[@garrettgrainger3940]

😄

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

Zero is a bit harsh he has that creepy charisma.

[@garrettgrainger3940]

@@Kodakcompactdisc ...and he has the reputation for seducing sofas.

[@jennydiver100]

Have you SEEN Peter? 😆

[@ClaudeGhendrih-w4o]

His personal charisma is woefully lacking, so he's not really qualified to recognizing in others. Not dumb but just incapable in real life situations, very capable in controlled environments, absolute shit in spontaneously generated ones. He'll soon enough be blown to cinders by events he's had no chance to rigg before they actually happen . Just like his neurodivergent buddy he doesn't understand he's just a lucky poorly adjusted guy rather than a predestined genius.

[@anthill1510]

He is a supramicist in every way: I am a tech bro, so tech bro`s are superior to others and shouldn`t be made to follow the rules. I am a man, so women are inferior since they are different from me. I am yt and my bros are also, so that must be sth. superior because it`s how we look. It`s a god complex: "Everything should be made in my image!"

[@shyamdevadas6099]

The problem with this analysis is that it doesn't go back far enough. When it comes to considering how both Peter Thiel (56) and his old business partner Elon Musk (53) are both increasingly anti-democratic and hostile to social justice concerns, you need to go back to their younger years. Thiel was born in West Germany in 1967. His father was a chemical engineer who moved the family between Germany, South Africa, Namibia, and finally the U.S.. Musk grew up in South Africa and was educated there until he was 18. It is simply impossible to say that both Thiel and Musk were not shaped by their exposure to pro-Apartheid ideas during their time on the African continent. Musk's father was actually an anti-Apartheid politician, the father-son relationship was acrimonious and supposedly abusive. Elon himself was said to be quite nasty, as well. While this is all psycho-history, it is hard to separate a person's upbringing from the way they actually turn out. Like a lot of whites that lived through Africa's colonial era, these guys certainly see things nostalgically. Like many such people, the experience probably left them with negative feelings toward liberalism and any sort of social justice movements.

[@danskhansen]

Just look at Donald's upbringing, with his father's ideologies shaping his worldview.

[@macareuxmoine]

I don’t think the psycho invalidates your history. Cutting the fact of humans (or the masses) psyche out of the picture is folly.

[@vvvvxxxx9999]

Thank you for that background.

[@krissimms4775]

Exactly 👍🏼👍🏼💪💪

[@Woahwhatreally]

Is it just me or do more people need to listen to this? Holy cow. I had no idea.

[@SeattleSun2013]

“Breaking the rules” is such a quaint way to put “breaking the law.”

[@MarshaHunt99]

Best wishes from Germany protect your democracy! 💙💙💙❤️🗽 ⭐🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 One question: do you have hidden a cat in the plants?😜😂

[@flyingdutchess4625]

😎

[@karinwallace3031]

Thank you .

[@mattosborne1366]

lol, looks like a feather maybe..

[@almazlarsen215]

Divorce drumpf and jd mandell on November 5th Vote 💙🌊🇺🇸🗳💙🌊🇺🇸🗳

[@phriedokra6158]

JP Mandel....lol....

[@mkunes2502]

I thought it was jimmy bowman?

[@sumpoosieguy]

You have to be an IDIOT to believe any lies from this SOROS paid CHANNEL to HATE.. NOT LOGIC

[@sumpoosieguy]

@@almazlarsen215 I'm a gay idiot.. shit up

[@lawrencetchen]

It comes down to the fact that no one should be able to amass enough wealth (taken from working people through monopoly, gouging, etc) to be able to have such an outsized political influence. There's a diversity of political thought in every society, but such extremism only gets a disproportionate amount of power when they have as much money as many small countries' GDP

[@theoccasionalvideo]

I am convinced that Thiel and Musk do not see some of us as human beings.

[@narda1072]

No

[@GoogleLover-r9e]

I think the problem may be that they don’t see themselves as humans.

[@carlahafeman6461]

They don’t, since they are pathological narcissists. Other people do not exist, they are merely introject objects that may or may not have a use. For awhile.

[@LeaC-lw8xl]

Very good info. Thank you. But! Why would you even think Thiel was saying these things just to be provocative? He’s Not a comedian. When he says something he means it. It’s like thinking dt would eventually get presidential - Not happening. Very unfortunately the Dems did not realize how really evil the repubs could be.

[@jnagasak5279]

Nice to see how utterly fascinated these independent journalists are with their “contrarian” subjects, to the point of apologizing for their most inhumane, disconnected ideas. I’d prefer people who are both knowledgeable and skeptical, like Kara Swisher. Thiel deserves to be examined as hostile to the sort of ethically informed, collectively beneficial, and above all balanced society that defines progressivism. The comments about women alone point to Thiel’s singular and isolated orientation. Why do we hold these people up?

[@hollandanish5557]

This was a great discussion. Terrifying and informative.

[@cmorillo2865]

Seriously, I see similar attitudes (me,me,me) in my 6 year old son. His excuse for immaturity is that he’s 6. What’s their excuse?

[@davidbright6790]

Money.

[@BuildingRenaissanceLeaders]

A great podcast. Information everyone should know. I will definetrly share this podcast.

[@baldalicious]

The politics of selfishness.

[@rupashah3418]

Why aren’t people questioning the amounts donated to these guys by teal?

[@sunnymoondog]

It’s as if Thiel used Trump as their “Useful Idiot.”

[@davidr2802]

you mean like Ernst Rohm thought?

[@sunnymoondog]

@@davidr2802 I don't understand what you mean.

[@NoNameToYou]

that's exactly it and they may have vance potentially a frail heartbeat away from president

[@Gothlore]

Can Thiel share Trump with Putin? They both need their useful idiot.

[@shishkabobby]

He sees himself as a Nietzschian Übermensch. The rest of us folks are inferior. What could possibly go wrong?

[@anthonyburee650]

Nietze biggest fan was Hitler and you saw where that led

[@havcola6983]

​@@anthonyburee650 Nietzsche gets a bad rap. Hitler's Übermensch is all about race and nationality and codified rights and wrongs, none of which hold any inherent value within Nietzsche's Nihilist framework. I kind of doubt he really read Nietzsche's writing, tbh, since it seems he just mined it for intellectually-sounding words to give his racist genocide a veneer of intellectualism. Nietzsche's Übermensch, meanwhile, is a hypothetical goal about becoming the author of your values, instead of just having them handed to you from god, authority or what have you. It's the version of you that is able to overcome your own base humanity, your weaknesses, emotions and unshackle yourself from dogma. Now. The problem there is that... well, it's nihilism. Nihilism doesn't make you into an asshole, but an asshole that only engages with the surface level won't find anything that explicitly tells them why it's wrong to be an asshole.

[@paulrudling906]

Got it in one!

[@russellmason4722]

@@havcola6983 You're right to distinguish Nietzsche from Hitler. Nietzsche was misappropriated by the nazis. However, Nietzsche was not a nihilist. He is warning against the dangers of nihilism. He argues for new values (a "transvaluation of values" ) in the face of a general collapse of meaning in the west, which he called the Death of God. Because all meaning was anchored in the belief in God, the western world is undergoing a collapse of meaning or an inevitable descent into nihilism. This is Nietzsche's concern with nihilism.

[@NicolasJimenezBarea]

​@@havcola6983Didn't fascism misinterpret Nietzsche?

[@BenjaminWagner-eg8ef]

Recall that the "demos" in democracy didn't refer to "the people" as we generally translate it, but specifically to non-elite ordinary citizens -- craftsman, farmers, workers -- giving them, rather than the aristocrats, the "kratos," i.e. power, to rule.

[@CarmellaCake11]

But that meant white men at the time and these men feel slighted to face competition from any other demographic

[@rozisaac8239]

Thank you from Canada 🇨🇦💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@Susankerchner125]

Vance is not my idea of a rising star. He is unqualified to be a VP candidate, let alone, a possible President. I feel like we are living in the Twilight Zone. I enjoyed your insightful conversation. Thank you.

[@sumpoosieguy]

How many times has WALZ been to CHINA?? answer many times.. How many for VANCE 0

[@Susankerchner125]

@@sumpoosieguy you have been misinformed. Have you been fortunate, to travel outside your state or to other countries? I was fortunate to do so as a teenager in 1972. This opens the mind to see how other people live. Teachers go to other countries as part of various programs. This would appeal to social studies teacher to be able to talk about world issues with his students. Walz was part of Harvard University's WorldTech program right after he graduated from college. His experience, provided opportunities to be exposed to other cultures. His students were very fortunate, to have a teacher who was able to connect them with the rest of the world.

[@sumpoosieguy]

@@Susankerchner125 Do you understand that THIS form if education is a Prussian model used to eliminate FREE THINKING

[@sumpoosieguy]

@@Susankerchner125 How many of CHINA IDEALS are instilled in him. He's nothing more than a Traitor who avoided service like most intellectuals acting like arm chair quarterbacks spreading communist ideals. Which led to to book burning in 1930

[@sumpoosieguy]

@@Susankerchner125 And all I do is travel 13 countries and Midwest from PA to KS regularly and it's a shit storm in Louisville Downtown Chicago St Louis Minneapolis ST CLOUD MN especially

[@Seawithinyou]

Shockingly Thiel is a New Zealand citizen and proberly Bribed our Immigration Minister to get this 🧐

[@starshake8998]

NZ retirement is probably his escape plan after he triggers the hot civil war in America that will enable him to loot and pillage us.

[@ejanb999]

For sure! And he promises to move to NZ. No doubt in order to influence the current government Prime minister.

[@burntorangehorn]

Ugh. New Zealand was one of my contingency plans for if I ever have to leave the USA due to a fascist takeover that I can't fight. But if Thiel already has his foot in the door there, perhaps I'd better look elsewhere.

[@pettespizzaparlor3245]

​@burntorangehorn I have confidence in NZ. They won't put up with his shit for long. Kiwi's are wicked nice, but very self aware and stubborn. He won't get far.

[@KaninaCC2183]

Thiel has stated he'll move to NZ if DJT loses. I thought it was weird because NZ is NOT an autocracy and believes in voting. It literally is the ANTITHESIS of the kind of country he's trying to turn America into.

[@JW77]

People in the U.S. have a really strange admiration for billionaires.

[@Jlr-vz8cc]

Totally

[@Here4TheHeckOfIt]

Too much - to the point of ignoring their very real flaws.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Well, in America, only money matters.

[@MugRuith]

How is it possible that Thiel's name was not mentioned once at the DNC? Thiel should be spoken about just as much as the right brings up Soros.

[@cassandratq9301]

Much more, since Soro's influence on the Dems is much less.

[@uyd]

SAVE AMERICA FROM THE TECH BROS!!!😮

[@sunnyvalentino]

I know people who worked w Thiel back in Palantir. Thiel did not elevate JD straight out of law school, with no resume or anything because of the goodness of his heart. He has thrown serious money and effort for Vance. This is a lot more "behind the covers" going on here.

[@TimeSkip-Chapters]

⏱️ CHAPTERS by TimeSkip ⏱️ 00:00:00 - Thiel's Influence on Republican Politics 00:01:25 - Overview of Peter Thiel's Role 00:02:52 - Thiel's Ideological Origins at Stanford 00:08:10 - The Diversity Myth Book Discussion 00:10:30 - Thiel's Rise in Silicon Valley 00:19:02 - Thiel's Ideological Shift and Impact 00:20:29 - Thiel's Libertarian Ideology 00:22:59 - Opposition to Democracy Explained 00:26:49 - Thiel's Influence in Politics 00:32:42 - Curtis Yarvin's Impact on Thiel 00:37:22 - Thiel Shift to Trump Politics 00:40:12 - Thiel's Reactionary Ideology 00:41:59 - Thiel's Role in Trump's Transition 00:43:51 - Thiel's Falling Out with Trump 00:45:11 - Thiel's Shift in Political Support 00:47:32 - Thiel's Coalition Building 00:52:41 - Thiel's Critique of Big Tech 00:56:55 - Thiel's Current Relationship with Trump 01:00:11 - Trump's Alt-Right Connections 01:01:29 - Conclusion and Final Thoughts

[@easypimpin123]

You misspelled Peter Thiel’s last name.

[@JohnDoe-jh5yr]

AI: Can summarize a video but can't spell last names.

[@phriedokra6158]

Ai?

[@JohnDoe-jh5yr]

@@phriedokra6158 It's using something like chatGPT to generate the timestamps

[@MonkeyHill1955]

So Trump and Vance are tools of Thiel?

[@theresecallaghan]

Super interesting. Learned so much

[@tracevicente]

This explains the JD Vance plant

[@corlissscott7563]

I like a President that isn’t a felon,or a rapist,or a TREASONIST!!!

[@sueprator9314]

UBER RICH becomes Greedy no matter what industry. I am a native Nor Cal who worked in Silicon Valley in RE. Saw the change. GREED, ARROGANCE AND ANGRY LOSERS getting power.

[@CarmellaCake11]

They’re living out their revenge of the nerds fantasy

[@KathyMcNamara-w9w]

It's not hard to figure it out. Left/progressive = regulations, right wing = unrestricted capitalism. Tech does not want to be regulated or restrained in any way that will interfere with making money.

[@macareuxmoine]

No. It’s regulations for the demos but not us aristocrats.

[@pamelabarclay1126]

Take these people at their word and treat them accordingly.

[@bobbinorman4061]

Peter Thiel is a huge shareholder in Facebook so there's that

[@phriedokra6158]

Petey Boy got Zuckerberg over to Deutchebanc to get his start up money for Facebook launch from Vladimir Putin's bank dear....who really owns it? Lol

[@ryanlazarus3381]

Not any more. He dumped that vast majority of his shares years ago.

[@dilmeral]

Saddest thing is how they exploit people who they never want to spend a minute and those people still support them and believe them Just sad and pathetic

[@KnialPiper]

VOTE blue

[@russellpowers86]

I've been talking about this connection recently. Thiel said that a guy like him ought to be running things. Thiel owns Vance. Vance is potentially one heartbeat away from being president.

[@sumpoosieguy]

Who owns Kamila REID HOFFMAN communist to beat hell BILLIONS DONATED TO HER CAMPAIGN Weird??

[@_surreal99]

is it the money? were they like this before the money? what makes these ghouls this way? and they're so driven to see their villain ideologies and vision come to fruition. it's so garish.

[@anthill1510]

It`s not the money. They like power, control, priviledge and want they are yt supremacicists, mysoginists, etc. The money just gives them the power to enforce their views on others.

[@JustBeingAwesome]

You have to be this way to be able to get this rich...

[@anthill1510]

It`s not the money. They like power, control, priviledge and want they are yt suprem., mysoginists, etc. The money just gives them the power to enforce their views on others.

[@anthill1510]

It`s not the money. The money just gives them the power to enforce their views on others. They are supramicist in every way: I am a tech bro, so tech bro`s are superior to others and shouldn`t be made to follow the rules. I am a man, so women are inferior since they are different from me. I am yt and my bros are also, so that must be sth. superior because it`s how we look. It`s a god complex: "Everything should be made in my image!"

[@phriedokra6158]

Handmaids tale level cuh rap....

[@LaurenM-ny5ne]

Thank you for this podcast.

[@iamthepremire3028]

We're all counting on the voters, and we're counting on you Kamala and Walz 💙

[@liesvdl]

Considering he selected Vance, I have some questions about his judgement, especially since Vance seems to have been mostly successful when he was propped up by Thiel.

[@gleebranham5091]

Trump has been saying in his gibberish rants and lies that " we have to take care of our smart people "

[@michaelmeroyers5487]

of which he isn’t one

[@jamesrobertson2361]

Voting should be like taxes, required.

[@davidbright6790]

Voting in Australia, where I currently reside, is compulsory. Still, plenty don't and I don't know anyone that's actually been fined for not voting; but voting rates are much higher if I recall the stats correctly. There's still clearly a LOT of people who don't give a shit and whose vote is easily swayed, but I think it's a great thing.

[@krishmarg5376]

Thanks for the inside scoop. Let’s save democracy 💙 voting blue 💙

[@Gigislaps]

This is insightful

[@Baddestchik911]

Billionaires are so weird. Peter Thiel looks so sweaty, clamy and slimy.

[@Cutieyum4]

He has spent millions for decades on anti-aging research for himself, and uses the unproven therapies his scientists have developed. The cost is chump change for him.

[@joehopfield]

When I first met libertarians in the early 80s, that fact that individual wealth and power were incompatible with democracy was obvious. At the time it seemed naive... :'(

[@davidbright6790]

You were right.

[@SuperRhondalynn]

How will the tech guys merge with the evangelicals? Both groups make me nervous.

[@marcellacruser951]

Money. Tech guys have it. Charismatics that fall into religion as a business make a fairly good start-up investment. .

[@lesasmart6043]

I think they look to a place like Russia for an example. Where the religious zealots control the lowly proles and plebs while the oligarchs silently rule.

[@lauramcdowell8438]

I am TOTALLY freaked out... how do I help burst that balloon?

[@lauramcdowell8438]

I grew up in Amherst, MA. These assholes have taken all the Keysisn philosophies and turned them on their heads.

[@theinternetistrash666]

Thiel is the poster boy for "needs therapy."

[@mariemills-ff8qy]

Thiel trying to walk back disenfranchising women … and using JD as his puppet as VP and possibly P is scary

[@CatskillsGrrl]

This has been a complete eye opener. 😳

[@haznation1]

YES. Thank you for covering this. Curtis Yarvin ideology - nutso.

[@lettepatti64]

Vote solid Blue down the ballot 💙

[@m.a.b.4104]

"Great, terrifying and fascinating chat". 💯 This is information everyone needs to know.

[@Mlmv266]

And Bill Maher kept saying Peter Thiel just love JD Vance….GOP 😂

[@cherylgibson7038]

Interesting conversation - thank you! 💙🇺🇸⭐️

[@lauramcdowell8438]

Isn't Theil gay? Not that it matters, but it gives insight into his likely misogyny

[@we3andtherv570]

Yes he is, and Vance thought he was gay too, probably still is.

[@davidpenn1123]

Just ordered the book from Audible. Looking forward to it!

[@MrRichDavid]

ANOTHER REASON TO VOTE HARRIS-WALZ. VOTE BLUE ALL THE WAY 2024

[@iamyoda66]

Great conversation!

[@sandraspidle5972]

I'm so glad you explained Peter Theil. This also explains the knife placed in the Republican's back.

[@blafonovision4342]

Ever wonder why libertarians are in favor of inherited wealth?