• John@lemmy.ml
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    Everything Thiel does makes sense when you learn he literally went to a nazi school in a white supremacist town in Africa.

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    Yarvin was married to Jennifer Kollmer, who died in 2021 in San Francisco of a rare hereditary cardiomyopathy and with whom he had two children.

    Ivana died in 2022 of blunt impact injuries to the torso after falling down stairs at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

    Thiel was in a long-term relationship with model Jeff Thomas until Thomas’s suicide in March 2023.

    Uh…

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      “Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the blood boy in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the blood boy.”

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      It’s not as bad as you think. Its just the young man a rich older man pays to live a cloistered life and occasionally give blood to the older man in the belief that it will slow or reverse aging.

      They don’t bathe in it or anything.

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        occasionally

        Yeah gonna doubt that one. Was probably at least once a day.

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        I mean, they do bathe in it, it’s just not a key part of the blood boy process. More a, “why not, we have all this poor people blood already?”

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          I liked the story, but I can’t stand these movies that are 100% green screened and seem to take place in a perpetual dust storm.

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            You think Fury Road was primarily green screened?

            The majority of what was done was compositing. The stunts, props, etc. were real. The crashing war rig was real, for example.

            It’s one of the things I thinks makes Furiosa worse - much less practical.

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      I hear you, but the best way to learn about this is by watching Silicone Valley. While depressing facts like the existence of blood boys are revealed, the show is net worth it.

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    How does Thiel get a pass for being gay WHILE promoting NAZI bullshit? I don’t get why the christian nationalist give him a pass but any other LGBT person gets heavily persecuted

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      I’m reminded of one of Roy Cohn’s monologues in Angels in America.

      Your problem is that you are hung up on words, on labels: “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian.” You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows.

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          Angels in America is a very good play that, I think, has only gotten better over time.

          HBO produced it as a TV miniseries with Al Pacino playing Roy Cohn back in 2003. There’s also a 2017 revival with Nathan Lane in the role. Either are 100% worth checking out.

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            Thanks for the recommend, I’m looking forward to watching it. I don’t know how I missed this, it was back when I still assumed everything HBO produced was good.

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      The hypocrisy of Nazis is beyond me at this point.

      The leader of the German far right party is a lesbian woman living in Switzerland and is married to a woman who is of Sri Lankan ancestry (adopted as a child).

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      its bad for everyone else but not for him basically. don’t try to find logic - its a matter of privilege.

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      Why would they not? It is tradition that the left wing is split by minor differences in ideology while the right wing are united by hate regardless how contradictory otherwise.

      He is a useful idiot and ultra wealthy and ultra powerful and ultra influential and ultra useful on top of being an ultra idiot. They don’t have to embrace him, only let him do his thing until he is no longer useful. Fascism must always have enemies and when they are without the external ones they will turn on each other.

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      Those kinds of rules aren’t for the billionaire class

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      My guess is that the hate for trans people is giving people like Thiel an opportunity to “punch down” on a minority that is even more hated by the right.

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      I’ve been wondering the same thing, and came to a conclusion that he’s a white christian nationalist above all else. Christian nationalists love a nazi, identity politics only matter when it’s not “one of us”. Moreover, he doesn’t promote gay or trans rights, because he’s above all that could technically hinder him if he wasn’t megarich. He doesn’t care, because it doesn’t affect him. He’s already won.

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    PayPal Thiel Moved to USA at age 1, so is forever called German-American. Ha!

    Oh wait the cunt is also a NZ citizen, so shouldn’t he be called German-Kiwi-American?

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    To be fair, if I had a sudden moment of clarity where I realised that I was being used by one of the world’s most evil people, I might off myself

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      You say that, but if you were in their bed? And able to remove one of the world’s most evil people from the mortal coil with great ease?

      I dunno, man, if you’re gonna go, do the rest of us a favor on the way out.

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          Abusers in positions of power use this as a means of protecting themselves. By making their victims engage in acts of abuse against others they force them into a catch-22 if they try to expose them. They achieve ultimate victory over the victim by making them adopt the ideology of their abuser, trapping them in a hierarchy within which they will do anything to maintain their position. By drawing you into their system of abuse they not only make you afraid to expose them, but rob you of your desire to do so.

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      The billionaire that realized you are trying to air their secrets would beat you to the punch. This was no suicide anymore than the two boeing whistleblowers were suicides.

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    But he’s such a great guy. He’s even trying to warn us that Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist.

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    You know I wonder if the elections in florida are rigged so none of the creepy billionaires who live there can be investigated/prosecuted. Somebody should run there on reopening suspicious death cases.

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    he was defenestrated in florida, after he was voicng his concern about thiels anti-lgbtq+ inititive by helping the gop. the last thiel want his MODEL bf to publically denounce THiel, which hurts his image in helping the gop. this was also immediately buried on most platforms that reported his death.