Re:How Silicon Valley Treats a Trump Backer: Peter Thiel
by jacquesm on Friday October 21, 2016 @06:37AM
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> So an application of "if you have to argue, you've already lost"?
No, arguing is fine. But strong-arm tactics are not, that just leads to people digging in (and in a way rightly so, their reaction will have to do more with the tactics than with the subject at hand and that's why I feel this is totally unproductive and even if it was productive I'd still disagree with it, think of blackmail: extremely effective but morally wrong.)
> Gore didn't immediately concede in the 2000 election and many were early that he threw in the towel so early given all of the documented irregularities of that election.
Yes, I still wonder what wisdom would have been there. But history seems to show that particular hump was taken without too much trouble.
> As well armed as Trump's followers may be, I don't think they want to come to blows with the U.S. military.
There are a lot of idiots out there, and just like they would not want to come to blows with the US military I'd hope that the US military would not want to have a direct confrontation with the citizen either. To make things a little bit worse, you can probably expect a roughly proportional number of those military people to be Trump supporters...
> I don't expect ties need be severed over the matter, though I don't think it unreasonable to expect organizations in which he participates, especially those of differing values, to make their own values known.
I don't expect that either, but I do think Thiel is going to be open to reasonable debate, he's anything but stupid.
> In any case, thanks for elaborating on your perspective.
No, arguing is fine. But strong-arm tactics are not, that just leads to people digging in (and in a way rightly so, their reaction will have to do more with the tactics than with the subject at hand and that's why I feel this is totally unproductive and even if it was productive I'd still disagree with it, think of blackmail: extremely effective but morally wrong.)
> Gore didn't immediately concede in the 2000 election and many were early that he threw in the towel so early given all of the documented irregularities of that election.
Yes, I still wonder what wisdom would have been there. But history seems to show that particular hump was taken without too much trouble.
> As well armed as Trump's followers may be, I don't think they want to come to blows with the U.S. military.
There are a lot of idiots out there, and just like they would not want to come to blows with the US military I'd hope that the US military would not want to have a direct confrontation with the citizen either. To make things a little bit worse, you can probably expect a roughly proportional number of those military people to be Trump supporters...
> I don't expect ties need be severed over the matter, though I don't think it unreasonable to expect organizations in which he participates, especially those of differing values, to make their own values known.
I don't expect that either, but I do think Thiel is going to be open to reasonable debate, he's anything but stupid.
> In any case, thanks for elaborating on your perspective.
> Regards!
Thank you as well!