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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by m_ke on Sunday October 16, 2016 @01:29AM (#12717131)
Senate races? Enthusiasm for Trump is falling and if republicans don't show up to vote then it's very likely that democrats will get control of the senate.

Then there's Palantir. Even if Trump doesn't win, the "law and order" rhetoric is resonating with a lot of americans. Trump wants to ban muslims, put together a deportation force, bring back stop and frisk, more border control, nukes for everyone, boots on the ground to fight ISIS, more surveillance, more military spending. All of these would lead to more government contracts for Palantir.

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by morgante on Sunday October 16, 2016 @01:33AM (#12717144)
> Then there's Palantir.

That's a fair point. Palantir is very well-positioned to be the IBM of Trumpism.

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by rodgerd on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:15AM (#12717251)
Am I meant to infer "do for Trump what IBM did for Hitler" from that?
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by morgante on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:41AM (#12717328)
Yes, though Trump is obviously not a carbon copy clone of Hitler.
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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by jacquesm on Sunday October 16, 2016 @04:06AM (#12717569)
That wouldn't have stopped him either. Given that nuclear weapons did not exist it would have been highly surprising if he had.

Oh, and the Nazis did try to make them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapon_project