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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by samastur on Sunday October 16, 2016 @09:36AM (#12718524)
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by justin66 on Sunday October 16, 2016 @11:43AM (#12719097)
Is he kidding? I can't tell if I'm reading satire there, but I don't follow his blog.

Edit: I'm flipping through his blog and the extent to which politics, for him, is about the meta stuff is honestly kind of surreal

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by hilop on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:58PM (#12720306)
He has said himself -- he says whatever pops into his head, and he's "clearly joking" about anything that is offensive or ridiculous.
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by justin66 on Sunday October 16, 2016 @04:54PM (#12720884)
Saying whatever pops into his head is hardly unique among bloggers.

The thing that appears to set him apart is a complete indifference to the issues, in favor of a focus on his pet topic, the art of persuasion. He dismisses the correct answers to policy questions that come up as unknowable (wow). Except, amusingly, the question of what his own estate taxes ought to be. He somehow managed to cobble together an opinion on that.

> he's "clearly joking" about anything that is offensive or ridiculous.

We should all go through life with such a disclaimer in place.

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by samastur on Sunday October 16, 2016 @03:35PM (#12720502)
I hate to respond to myself, but it is interesting how you can get down-voted simply for providing a reference to man's own words.