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Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by skinnymuch on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:27PM (#29744185)
Thiel didn’t just vote for Trump. The OP stated he did more than that. And from what I’ve read he has done more than that too.
Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by alvah on Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:39PM (#29744616)
I'm not arguing "Thiel is a good guy", but if he didn't want Hillary elected (assumption), using his public profile to boost Trump pre-election != actual MAGA hat Trump true believer.
Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by skinnymuch on Friday December 31, 2021 @06:38AM (#29747080)
I’m not referring to Thiel’s morality. Only on actually being libertarian. Sure what you wrote is technically plausible.

However he continues to work with the Trumps. Recently he’s working with Trumps to oust Liz Cheney. His own PACs focuses include many non-libertarian focuses. Immigration control, strict border control, supporting the military as it is now, are some of the top issues of the PAC. These actions are of a conservative Republican, not a libertarian.

Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by throwawaylinux on Friday December 31, 2021 @07:14AM (#29747323)
Wanting to oust Liz Cheney does not make someone not a libertarian. And military and border control are among the few things that many libertarians believe to be a valid function of a national government.

None of those things prove he's not a libertarian.

Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by skinnymuch on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:25AM (#29777949)
Supporting huge military? Right immigration control?

The Liz Cheney stuff was about working with Don Jr. The reason why is unimportant.

The entire point of all this is for there not to be one smoking gun. It’s a collection of everything.

The entire way the right has obfuscated things is by getting by with “no one thing proves I am or am not X or Y”

Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by throwawaylinux on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:22AM (#29778871)
I don't know what your questions mean or how it addresses my comment so I'll just repeat.

Political maneuvering doesn't mean someone is not a libertarian, and military and border control are not incompatible with libertarianism either.

Thiel like anybody has pretty complex views that don't fit neatly in a box, you could argue where they put him in the spectrum, but the examples you used are poor. I know many libertarian purists obsess over their image and "principle" to the detriment of actually achieving anything politically, but that doesn't mean all of them act this way.