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Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by throwawaylinux on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:56AM (#29745396)
No try to keep up, we moved on from the other poster's pedantic distraction about voting vs "active support" back to the original topic which is that Thiel is a libertarian and the fact he supports Republicans is not evidence he isn't one.
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Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by Talanes on Friday December 31, 2021 @01:49AM (#29745660)
>No try to keep up, we moved on from the other poster's pedantic distraction about voting

Other poster? You brought it up the first time and have brought it up in every post since.

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Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by throwawaylinux on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:07AM (#29745719)
Bringing it back on topic yet again: if you agree Thiel is a libertarian and the fact he supports Republicans is not evidence he isn't one then we don't need to say any more here.
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Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by skinnymuch on Friday December 31, 2021 @07:02AM (#29747246)
This is the main topic I cared about the entire time. Thiel isn’t libertarian except as he says he is one.

The other poster has made a good reply. I posted about Thiel being a conservative Republican [now] in another nested thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29747080

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Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by Talanes on Friday December 31, 2021 @05:27AM (#29746624)
He supported a dude whose platform was mostly right-leaning populism. If he was just supporting Republicans because they were the closest to Libertarian ideals, why would support the dude driving the party away from Libertarian ideals?
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Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by skinnymuch on Friday December 31, 2021 @07:05AM (#29747257)
And continue supporting the person. I checked Thiel headlines. He’s working with Don Jr now against Liz Cheney for a Trump approved replacement. This is just recent headlines too.

Thanks for your insightful comments

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Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by throwawaylinux on Friday December 31, 2021 @07:16AM (#29747343)
Why? Presumably because he preferred that to the alternatives, none of which were obviously more libertarian -- pathetic old neoliberal dinosaur warmongers Clinton and Bush!
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