• ryokimball@infosec.pub
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    8 days ago

    He’s concerned about his future in the United States, he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the nation itself.

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    The future that he helped steer towards? Typical. Ruins everything for everyone else then leaves so they don’t suffer the consequences of their doing.

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      The future that he helped steer towards?

      probably not. probably the future for him if enough progressives win to actually start fixing some of this shit.

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        7 days ago

        In the eyes of progressives, I know they would accuse elon of election interference but what would they accuse Thiel of exactly?

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            Okay but what law would they point to that he violated? National surveillance hasn’t been a crime since the Patrio act, so like what law would he being trying to flee from? Or are the progressive now pro-guillotine?

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              He still should have plenty of time as trump is in control of the government, so why flee now?

              My worry is that perhaps he knows Trump is planning something radical soon, maybe July 4th?

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    concerned about the future of the US

    Considering his business is in surveillance, he must be catching on that billionaires are rapidly approaching 18th-century french aristocracy-levels of popularity.

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    Trump’s bailout of the Argentinian government was him buying a hiding place for his new American Nazis.

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    This bodes well.

    I see a lot of doomerism on the left, but I’m happy to hear that Thiel and I agree on this one thing: his project is not going as well as he had hoped.

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    Argentina may be an unlikely place for a billionaire looking for stability. The country has careened through nearly a century of instability, marred by military coups and spectacular financial collapses epitomized by triple-digit inflation.

    My thoughts exactly, NYT.

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      Inflation doesn’t matter if your wealth is in a (relatively) stable currency.

      Even the relatively fast currency crashes are tracked in Forex quite closely, and nowadays even pedestrian banks us mere wage slaves can use offer near real-time exchange on e.g. card purchases. Billionaire’s banks offer even better rates and closer tracking… so it doesn’t matter if the local currency loses half its value overnight, and prices double - since the US dollar would remain relatively stable, a loaf of bread would still be $1, regardless if it cost 3000 coins in local currency or 6000 the next day.

      Plus he can afford to pay 2-3-10x price for stuff. Thiel could spend as much a day as my annual salary every day for a year and still come out richer than he was…

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        I mean, hyper-inflation kinda still matters if all the people around you are subject to it…

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          That’s what I don’t understand.

          The US proletariat has been fully domesticated, they elected Trump twice and the only mass organised push back are people holding signs on weekends.

          I would assume that it would be more comfortable to stay in the US.