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Re:Facebook’s Surveillance Machine by deft on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:30PM (#16630073)
So Thiel is playing 5d chess too? How about this: He has shitty political opinions and enough money to put them into action.

Your wishful thinking is just delusional.

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Re:Facebook’s Surveillance Machine by thanatropism on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @03:08PM (#16631575)
It's not really 5D chess. Republicans have been saying "starve the lion" (e.g. taking huge deficits and then proposing budget cuts) since Reagan. I wouldn't be surprised if Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" (which I never read, I just know the blurb) proposes this meta-strategy en passant somewhere.
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