Re:‘The Contrarian’ Goes Searching for Peter Thiel’s Elusive...
by Chris2048 on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:23AM
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> Thiel had developed a reputation for being both “brilliant” and “vindictive,”
> he had used his enormous fortune to bankroll Hulk Hogan’s relentless lawsuit against the website Gawker, driving the site and its owner to bankruptcy
> “I mean, aren’t you worried he’ll, like, come after you?”
oh fuck off. Thiel may have bankrolled that "relentless" lawsuit for personal reasons, but they lost because they were in the wrong - exhibiting the same hubris and disregard of harm to their subjects that they arguably treated Thiel to when they outed him.
Gawker ignored a court order that got them sued, but no, it's Thiels fault they got punished. This is simply a case of two victims with a perpetrator in common. To suggest this makes Thiel "vindictive" is to conveniently ignore Gawkers malice.
> he had used his enormous fortune to bankroll Hulk Hogan’s relentless lawsuit against the website Gawker, driving the site and its owner to bankruptcy
> “I mean, aren’t you worried he’ll, like, come after you?”
oh fuck off. Thiel may have bankrolled that "relentless" lawsuit for personal reasons, but they lost because they were in the wrong - exhibiting the same hubris and disregard of harm to their subjects that they arguably treated Thiel to when they outed him.
Gawker ignored a court order that got them sued, but no, it's Thiels fault they got punished. This is simply a case of two victims with a perpetrator in common. To suggest this makes Thiel "vindictive" is to conveniently ignore Gawkers malice.