Peter Thiel, eccentric billionaire, says he is thinking about leaving the US
Peter Thiel, eccentric billionaire, says he is thinking about leaving the US
Thiel compared California liberalism to Saudi Arabian Wahabbism — but it was sort of a compliment
Thiel compared California liberalism to Saudi Arabian Wahabbism — but it was sort of a compliment
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"Eccentric" is a weird word for the man whose writing inspired both Nick Lang and Mencius Moldbug.
I rarely use the word because it cheapens its impact but the man is a modern protofascist and should be identified as at least the forefather of the modern right wing anti-liberalism movement.
should be identified as at least the forefather of the modern right wing anti-liberalism movement
Thiel is a cunt but he was 12 years old when Ronald Reagan was elected and not even born yet during Barry Goldwater's acceptance speech. He is absolutely not the forefather of the modern rightwing anti-liberalism movement.
You don't think the modern conservative movement has changed at all since Reagan?
Cut taxes (for the wealthy and corporations - while quietly raising them for everybody else through a variety of tricks), erode the separation of church and state, ban abortion, gut environmental protections, pack the supreme court, demonize liberals, blow up the national debt, destroy public education, dogwhistle racists, bust unions, overspend on the military, hate on the gays, gerrymander and suppress voters, make fun of the French ... this shit has all been around since before Reagan. If it's changed, it's only been to become more openly loathsome.
That's not the modern far right, that's just the current right until Trump.
People like Lang and Moldbug are the fathers of the modern neoreactionary movement, the architects of the new fascist right, not the economically ultraliberal socially conservative right of Reagan.