Comments like this and your other one at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15925935 are so interesting to me because the opposing comments are so similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15752730, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307915, lots more at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=.... From my perspective it brings out how much the people at the poles have in common. (That's not an argument in favor of the ideological center btw; if you think that kind of averaging is dumb, I agree. The way out is not so easy.)

> Definitely couldn't be related to his relationship with Peter Thiel

You might have the arrow of causality reversed there. Also, please don't lash out personally. It's true that public figures are just cartoon characters in most people's minds, and you don't owe any better to cartoon characters, but you do owe better to this community if you're commenting here.