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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by sho on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:04PM (#16408073)
> On a moral level, Trump is literally one of the worst human beings on the planet

Oh come on. I am far from a Trump supporter but this is ludicrous. How many people has he killed?

Trump is a horny old silver-spoon doofus with a knack for telling people what they want to hear. I can't stand him but Stalin he ain't.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by wellboy on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:29PM (#16408313)
He mean public figure in the western world.
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by sho on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:38PM (#16408387)
He literally said "literally one of the worst human beings on the planet".

I am pretty unsympathetic to any argument that starts with "he meant to say...". I can see what he said, in black and white. I'm going to address that. He can post what "he meant to say" separately.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by mlazos on Sunday February 18, 2018 @04:22PM (#16408767)
Clearly he isn’t talking about murder, he is talking about the seven Christian virtues, and yes Trump pretty much embodies the opposite of all them. I feel like you’re conflating “taking something at face value” with ignoring context.
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by sho on Sunday February 18, 2018 @04:28PM (#16408816)
> he is talking about the seven Christian virtues

I had no idea he was talking about this. How could anyone guess that. If true then he has failed to communicate so completely that I am inclined to ignore everything else.

If you have a coherent argument which embodies what "he meant to say" then let's hear it. Shifting the goalposts on past arguments, however, is not allowed.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by mlazos on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:41PM (#16410148)
> The dude is a walking billboard for the 7 deadly sins.

Not sure how much clearer it can be. Sorry I substituted the word virtues for sins. I gave a cursory glance to a google search for 7 deadly sins and found [1] which led me to [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_virtues

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