It’s no secret Peter Thiel’s grandparents were Nazis who sent their family fortunes after losing WWII into South African apartheid, then somehow endied up with him meddling in the “business” of promoting American fascism.
In 2016, Peter Thiel, the contrarian billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, had been the only prominent Valley figure to support Trump, which merely confirmed…as the historian Adam Tooze put it in his landmark book on the period, …that German industrialists [like Thiel] were “willing partners in the destruction of political pluralism…”. In return for their [1933 end of democracy] donations, Tooze wrote, owners and managers of German businesses were granted unprecedented powers to control their workforce, collective bargaining was abolished and wages were frozen at a relatively low level. Corporate profits also rose very rapidly, as did corporate investment. Fascism turned out to be good for business – until it wasn’t.
Who can forget?
…Thiel’s high profile role in the Trump transition is ripe with conflict of interest issues… Thiel’s reported proclivity for fascism and white nationalism adds another layer of concern to the red flag reported…
Many in the Thiel family apparently have been known for making headlines because of things like being caught as Nazi spies in America, trying to sabotage democracy, and for denying the Holocaust. (Notably, Thiel family members who dared to disagree with Nazism were killed).
As if the 2016 Trump disaster for America wasn’t enough of a red flag, Peter now has been caught, yet again, elevating himself even higher on the ignoble pile of generations peddling hate, disinformation and vile theory.
…the podcast was reposted on… Twitter, by user @jimstewartson… who said that Thiel’s comments about liberalism and democracy being exhausted were the same rhetoric Nazis used in Germany.
“This was precisely what the Nazis tried to sell to Germans, that Weimar was ‘too liberal’ and needed ‘strong leadership’ to save it from degeneracy,” Stewartson wrote. “I cannot emphasize enough that this psychopath will be running the country if we don’t protect this election.” The reposted clip was viewed over 1.4 million times by Monday morning.
It reminds me of this clip.
