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Peter Thiel shows Trump how to sort spreadsheet of Americans by ethnicity (theonion.com)

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Stressing that it would be simplest to troubleshoot now during the onboarding process for his company’s surveillance technology, Palantir founder Peter Thiel reportedly spent Tuesday morning showing President Donald Trump how to sort a spreadsheet of Americans by ethnicity. “So what’s neat is that you can just do command-shift-E and rank every single resident from whitest to least,” said the billionaire libertarian, leaning over the commander-in-chief’s shoulder and demonstrating how simple it was to use a drop-down menu to search for undesirable ethnic characteristics among the more than 340 million names on display. [...]

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Peter Thiel is incredible. He's so behind the scenes. He's Musk without the social media and media focus.

We say a lot about how evil Rupert Murdock and his Fox News Empire is.

Thiel is even worse. He's a gay married man throwing money at Republicans who want to abolish gay marriage. He actively pushes an anti-diversity agenda and continues to give money to organizations that have done more harm than good.

He's a bond villain. The ones you go, "No way is this a real person. They have no soul."

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Pardon the link to x/twitter, but this clip of Thiel is amazing: https://x.com/jasonwblakely/status/1938639600907612610

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Watch Ross Douthat realize for a moment in real time that he's spent a decade making ideological bedfellows with a techno-futurist, fascist Right that wants to see the birth of a "machine god" & is in no way enthusiastic about the survival of the human race in universal terms.

The magical moment... Thiel hesitates for a significant amount of time when asked if he wants the human race to endure, then bullshits.

Thanks to this comment for bringing it to my attention.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

The only nit I have with this is that Musk and Thiel hate each other because Thiel correctly kicked him out of PayPal for being a useless blowhard grifting dumbass.

[–] Asafum 8 points 3 days ago

Goddamn it Trump you hit reply all...

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

from whitest to least

Damn, the Onion is killing it

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Does Peter Thiel wear a wig?