Thiel: Shooting people in the street is wrong!

You (and the guy you linked apparently): OMG what a stupid idiot hahaahaha obviously shooting people in the street isn't wrong

He didn't say anything close to "Shooting people in the street is wrong!"

How did you get that from the linked videos?

The first video says that Thiel is answering the question "What do you make of people celebrating Luigi?" and his response was "There may be things wrong with our healthcare system, but you have to have an argument and find a way to convince people" and that shooting random CEOs "isn't going to work".

Somehow I'm supposed to be led to believe this makes Thiel come across as stupid. My only guess as to how is because the OP must think that shooting CEOs in the street is an obvious rational good and that opposing such is idiocy, or reactionary fascism (in leftist usage, a synonym for idiocy), or so on.

Talk about missing the point...

Watch the videos again and try again.

I will indulge you enough to explain it to you like a 5 year old, what they show. Just in case you miss it the second time... :-)

These videos are just a bunch of leftist smug moralizing for the attention-deficit age.

A five year old should not talk like that... :-))

Only a mental five year old would regularly consume tiktoks and YouTube shorts like those above. I'm sorry your brain is fried hard enough that you can only glean political substance from soyboys making short-form clip content.

He is a Nutter...As daft as they come...Mad as a box of frogs...Not the full shilling...

"Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example" - https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-...

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines and for using HN primarily for political and ideological battle, which is not allowed here regardless of what you're battling for or against.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines and for using HN primarily for political and ideological battle, which is not allowed here regardless of what you're battling for or against.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

No one told me to ban your account, I have no interest in and do not track your views on Peter Thiel, and karma is not a factor.

We've asked you repeatedly to stop breaking the site guidelines and explained to you more than once that using the site primarily for political or ideological battle is against the rules. You've continued to post lots of flamewar comments and even many of the non-political ones have been snarky or aggressive. That's a lot of poison added to the ecosystem. What made you think that was ok? We told you repeatedly that it wasn't:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755154 (April 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142554 (Feb 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35605974 (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397254 (June 2021)

When I saw you getting aggressive with that other user yesterday, for me it was the final straw and I banned your account. (The other user also, of course, but whether your account was breaking the rules has nothing to do with what someone else was doing.)

You've listed a lot of grievances here, which I suppose is natural at such a moment, but I don't know if it makes sense to go through them in detail. I do want to point out that this bit is wrong: "you are untruthful, to the community, in not disclosing the main page is manually curated": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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