Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by chrischen on Sunday October 16, 2016 @07:03AM (#12718070)

As a libertarian he believes in survival of the fittest, so a lot of his strategy involves "fuck shit up" and see what survives. Or just letting things sort themselves out.

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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by datashovel on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:21PM (#12719331)

I wonder what a world full of people who proactively "fuck shit up" would look like.

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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by Nydhal on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:34PM (#12719415)

Antifragile.

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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by notthemessiah on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:15PM (#12720016)

Babies need to survive the pits before being part of society. Only the fittest survive in ruthless competition we impose. Let god sort them out.

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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by datashovel on Sunday October 16, 2016 @01:04PM (#12719603)

I believe we're thinking about this at different orders of magnitude.

My initial reaction was that it would very likely lead to a nuclear holocaust.

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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by sitkack on Sunday October 16, 2016 @06:53PM (#12721538)

And the surviving organisms would be ... Antifragile!

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