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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by sgc on Sunday October 16, 2016 @09:29AM (#12718504)
Yeah, I had pretty major family problems for saying that I thought he was a lot of hot air and not actually that dangerous--with a disclaimer that I would never vote for him. Although my perspective on him has changed, it seems to me that the American left has turned into the authoritarian controlling power they so often claim to fight against.
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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by hilop on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:57PM (#12720296)
In your view, individual people exercising their personal social power is authoritatian?
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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by ZoF on Sunday October 16, 2016 @03:26PM (#12720456)
>authoritatian?[sic]

Yep, that's what xe said.

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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by eli_gottlieb on Sunday October 16, 2016 @09:51AM (#12718572)
>Although my perspective on him has changed, it seems to me that the American left has turned into the authoritarian controlling power they so often claim to fight against.

Only if you consider Clinton to be leftist, which really doesn't make much sense.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by Ar-Curunir on Sunday October 16, 2016 @11:40AM (#12719081)
American left != Clinton.
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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by eli_gottlieb on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:00PM (#12719196)
I quite realize, but I don't see much authoritarian tendency in the parts leftward of Clinton. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders just aren't that authoritarian, let alone the Green Party.
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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by sgc on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:10PM (#12719251)
I was talking about the people adhering to the left--the social movement--more than the politicians themselves. The example I used was my own family, who are not politicians.
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