• NGC2346@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 hours

    Elites fuck children, do gay stuff in secret because they’re ashamed, yet they push hard to monitor US and OUR CHILDREN. Why? Because they assume we’re like them.

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    Billionaires get away with murder. Epstein didn’t kill himself either.

  • mangobanana@discuss.onlineEnglish
    6 hours

    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

    • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
      47 minutes

      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).

    • tmyakal@infosec.pubEnglish
      5 hours

      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.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2 hours

        The real Roy Cohen didn’t consider himself gay, he just liked to sexually dominate young blond men. That was a sign of his masculinity.

        It should be noted that when he mentored Donald Trump and Roger Stone, they were both young blonde men.

        • tmyakal@infosec.pubEnglish
          4 hours

          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.

          • square@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3 hours

            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.

    • BilSabab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

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

    • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      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.

    • lumettaria@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4 hours

      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.

    • OpenPassageways@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5 hours

      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.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    11 hours

    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.

    • WhyDoYouThinkThat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      to a layperson it sounds like his gay conservative lover killed him for speaking out against injustice

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16 hours

    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.

  • desra@slrpnk.netEnglish
    22 hours

    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…

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17 hours

      It’s almost comical. Kind of like the “Russian windows sure are hazardous for your health” thing.

      Yet I’m sure there’s an army of online “Thiel Tankies” that have an elaborate explanation for it.

  • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1 day

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

  • jobbies@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19 hours

    What, billionaires aren’t allowed to do what they want?

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    It’s such a tragedy when a young man who happens to be involved with a billionaire who is under investigation commits suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of the head.

    • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1 day

      I remember the Gary Webb murder and the coroner that ruled it a suicide was pressed about it for a long time after that that he finally did an interview and said there was

      “A distinct possibility”

      that someone could shoot themselves twice in the back of the head for a suicide.

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1 day

        People on reddit outshout anyone about how this is a suicide, and shooting yourself twice in the back of the head is totally a possible thing.

        Influence operations obviously, protected by reddit, while real users are punished by reddit for standing up for truth.

        • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          20 hours

          I will say, at least for Gary Webb, it was a suicide.

          Gary Webb shot himself in the head twice, not the back of the head, I don’t know why that lie keeps being added.

          The first shot ripped through from his right ear, through his face and out the left cheek, as you will note, the face is part of the head.

          He remained conscious long enough to reposition the gun to try again.

          The worst part of the stupid conspiracy theory is that it ignores what was actually done to Gary Webb, and who exactly did it. As a hint, it wasn’t the CIA.

          Gary Webb was a small town reporter who uncovered a story of international significance. He was working without the backing of a major publication, and those major publications destroyed him for it. The CIA never had to lift a fucking finger. Every newspaper in the country spent weeks tearing into the flaws in the story, the little places where Mr Webb didn’t know the “rules” of big league investigative journalism. None of them bothered to actually investigate the story itself.

          Also left out of the conspiracy is that Dark Alliance was published in 1996, and Gary Webb killed himself in 2004.

          He had been blacklisted by every major newspaper, had just been fired from the job he had held with the State of California earlier in the year due to a new asshole being elected and had just been forced to sell his house because he couldn’t afford the mortgage. His ex-wife had been worried about him as well in the weeks leading up to his death.

          Also yes yes, fuck Reddit, but also live in fucking reality. I know it’s worse than the conspiracy theories, but, yeah I can’t sell it any better than that.

          No one is in charge, there are a bunch of people who think they are, but they are just as dumb as you or me. Statistically dumber and more vicious with their own fantasies of how the world works. Which is why they keep getting caught.

          The problem is, no one does anything and no one ever faces consequences.

    • stickyprimer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21 hours

      To be fair, there probably is a lot of shame and self-loathing that comes after sleeping with Peter Thiel.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        11 hours

        not exactly, he was getting very anxious/depressed, anxiety over thiels public support of anti-lgbtq+ agenda with the republicans. thiel likely fears thomas would go public with thier relationship and thiels hate agenda. hence the “sudden defenestration”

    • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
      1 day

      And then it suddenly dawned on me: It was suicide with an electric bread knife, because no one would stab themselves that many times without intention.

    • ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      18 hours

      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.

      • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13 hours

        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?”

      • cmbabul@slrpnk.netEnglish
        19 hours

        He might actually be the most frightening individual that walks the earth in terms of insanity with influence and power, and I fully realize the gravity of that sentence

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          18 hours

          If it makes you feel any better he also strikes me as the panicky stupid type, y’know the type that thinks they’re super smart cool and collected but collapse like soaked cardboard when a car backfires. Wait no that actually probably makes it worse on a moment to moment basis, upside is whatever plans he does have probably would die pretty violently on first contact.

      • ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        18 hours

        That’s a very cruel way to explain what having a blood boy is. They don’t think that. They just think it will keep them young and hot long enough for them to see technology advance to a more sophisticated solution.

        • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9 hours

          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.

          • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
            9 hours

            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.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
      22 hours

      “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.”

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20 hours

      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.

  • justlemmyin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23 hours

    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?