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Re:Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Go... by ForHackernews on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:08AM (#15702461)
> $300,000 is a sizable donation

According to Forbes' estimates, Thiel is worth about $2.8 billion. Donating $300,000 for him is proportional to giving maybe $30 for a normal upper-middle class person.

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Re:Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Go... by flexie on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:38AM (#15702598)
The important question is what $300,000 is to the attorney general. For 99 percent of us it's more than we could hope to save up in many years.
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Re:Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Go... by ForHackernews on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @07:03AM (#15703162)
> For 99 percent of us it's more than we could hope to save up in many years.

This is true. It's also true that it's an utterly trivial amount of money to somebody like Peter Thiel.

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Re:Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Go... by Jyaif on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:48AM (#15703658)
trueness != relevance
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Re:Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Go... by tryingagainbro on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:18AM (#15702511)
Sure, sure. If Bill Gates gave $1 mil ist's nothing to him but what is it to ME? The average person would probably be tempted to murder someone in exchange for that
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Re:Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Go... by ForHackernews on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:21AM (#15702526)
Sure. It highlights the corrupting influence wealthy people have over politics.

I'm just saying, Thiel giving a small (for him) donation to some random AG doesn't necessarily mean he's particularly interested in that race.

I would guess he has given equal or larger donations to many other politicians and political action committees.

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Re:Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Go... by tryingagainbro on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:33AM (#15702564)
>> I'm just saying, Thiel giving a small (for him) donation to some random AG doesn't necessarily mean he's particularly interested in that race.

I agree, especially since he gave the same amount to every State AG in the country. He did, right?

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Re:Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Go... by ForHackernews on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @07:01AM (#15703149)
Do you have a list of Thiel's political donations? I'm genuinely curious.
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Re:Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Go... by tryingagainbro on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @10:04AM (#15704224)
I am willing to bet that he didn't give to all AGs in USA at least the same amount...
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Re:Peter Thiel Gave Money to Attorney General Going After Go... by trhway on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @06:33AM (#15703049)
>I'm just saying, Thiel giving a small (for him) donation to some random AG doesn't necessarily mean he's particularly interested in that race.

he gave all what he could - sounds different from "gave a small (for him) donation" :)

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