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Re:Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart de... by api on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:39PM (#13563556)
Peter is much more complex but Milo is pretty transparently a professional troll. I'm sure he's overjoyed to get crazy protests at Berkeley and to get banned from Twitter. The more attention he gets the better it is for his brand. He intentionally picks targets that are the most likely to over-react and uses the most inflammatory language he can.

I mean this has to be the trolliest trollmobile that has ever trolled: http://media.breitbart.com/media/2016/09/img_4893_1024-640x4...

People need to learn to not feed the troll. The worst possible thing you can do to Milo is ignore him.

Re:Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart de... by Florin_Andrei on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:44PM (#13563595)
> Peter is much more complex but Milo is pretty transparently a professional troll.

Peter is a slice of bread with honey on one side and some sort of putrid matter on the other.

Milo does not have the honey-tinged side.

Re:Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart de... by anigbrowl on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:01PM (#13563730)
I think he's a bit more complex than that and we should avoid overly simplistic metaphors. I am not a fan of Thiel but I have listened to him explain his worldview at length in person and while I dispute many of his assumptions I feel he holds them in good faith and is persuadable.

Milo, on the other hand, acts as if he aspires to be the Ernst Roehm of the internet age and I have little tolerance for him.

Re:Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart de... by Florin_Andrei on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:55PM (#13564072)
When things go from bad to worse, the time for complexity is gone.
Re:Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart de... by anigbrowl on Friday February 03, 2017 @06:32PM (#13564319)
Agreed. I just didn't form the impression that he was actively malicious so much as callously indifferent.
Re:Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart de... by Florin_Andrei on Friday February 03, 2017 @06:49PM (#13564436)
> callously indifferent

I actually agree on that one. But he has tremendous amounts of money and power.

In the current small, interdependent world, callous indifference can do a heck of a lot of damage.

Re:Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart de... by metaphorm on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:39PM (#13563969)
Thiel is possibly an actual vampire, or at least aspires to be one.