• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I don’t have the context to process this, but I’m very much for civil rights as a minimum standard. Thiel should be banished to a small island off the shores of Antarctica, but not because he’s gay.

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      2 months ago

      The first time I heard about the guy it was because some online journalists for a tabloidish publication posted a story exposing him as being gay while he was in Saudi Arabia for some meetings.

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        2 months ago

        That’s pretty crappy, yeah. If it makes you feel better, he’s capitalist first and gay second. He’s funded various anti-LGBTQ politicians and supports things like Praxis that are working toward a new kind of plutocracy/feudalism.