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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.

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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?
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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

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