Thiel is disturbed, and I think he means it when he says getting rid of CA would help Trump's re-election.
Thiel is disturbed, and I think he means it when he says getting rid of CA would help Trump's re-election. It's one of the states that has enough electoral votes to matter. Not that Thiel is worried, since he's apparently now a citizen of New Zealand (money can get you a lot of things, it seems).
Meanwhile, there's actual points about why it would be a problem if CA seceded in this article.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/01/12/peter-thiel-trump-calexit-california-succession/
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/01/12/peter-thiel-trump-calexit-california-succession/
Meanwhile, there's actual points about why it would be a problem if CA seceded in this article.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/01/12/peter-thiel-trump-calexit-california-succession/
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/01/12/peter-thiel-trump-calexit-california-succession/
There are a lot of bad actors in libertarianism.
ReplyDeleteThere are libertarians who generally love liberty; there are libertarians who hate the abstract idea of the state; and there are libertarians who hate their own states. (This typology is not exhaustive; there are other types of bad libertarians. But this covers a lot.)
The second two are a lot more prevalent than the first type would believe, and basically spoil the whole movement because it invariably leads them to ignore or bed down with some truly disgusting actors. (I have variously seen libertarians of the third type passionately defend the Confederate South and Imperial Japan from Union/American "aggression" and minimize or deny the Holocaust.)
I haven't figured out if Thiel is the second type or the third type, but I've really stopped giving a shit-- about Thiel's typology personally, or the distinction between the second two types in general. Leads to similar results, really.