Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a threat to America

As Thiel has written: "The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women – two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians – have rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron." 

Hello? 

If "capitalist democracy" is becoming an oxymoron, it's not because of public assistance or because women got the right to vote. It's because billionaire capitalists like Musk and Thiel are intent on killing democracy…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/30/peter-thiel-palantir-threat-to-americans


 

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