Re:Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart de...
by Florin_Andrei on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:44PM
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> 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
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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
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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
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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
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> 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.
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.