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Wicklow hotel cancels ‘secretive’ Peter Thiel group conference
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These creeps will just buy a protected island in Albania to retreat to instead. If the hotel wanted to do the right thing, they would have held the conference.
20celloJust throw them on the streets and let the people take care of them, bare hands
1984Honestly I’m starting to feel like that. They are driving humanity into hell.
One of the luxury-bunker preppers, that answered the question "how to make bodyguards/private army and service people not rebel you (not by treating them humanely, rolleyes)" with "make a cult with you at the center"?
This would track.
nuclear energy and cult-building.
These two that make every child’s birthday party a success!
/s
kurcatoviumSame as Thiel himself along with his buddies like Donnie or Epstein /s
There are enough sub billionaires (almost a billionaire not quite) now that you can build a cult out of them, that is what is happening here.
And Politicians see this and they are like “we should get Palantir all over our country”. Guess why…
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The list of attendees to this secret society was leaked last month, and a few names raise eyebrows.
Cory Booker in particular. The Democratic Senator from New Jersey who goes around pretending to champion the American people and the Constitution, fight Trump and his cronies, and pulls stunts on the Senate floor to convince you he’s one of the good guy, seems pretty happy to rub shoulders with fascists, Nazis, MAGAt and disgusting billionaires.
Remember that next time you see Cory Booker run his mouth on TV.
Fucker…
Kaja Kallas too.
That’s.. surprising. Not what I would’ve expected from her tbh.
Yep. This thing you’re feeling is called cognitive dissonance.
Perhaps this is not the kind of conference you think it is.
I don’t see how it is cognitive dissonance. I’ve always found her rational and humane in the past, as opposed to almost everyone on that list.
I live in a neighbouring country, and we share a language, so her views are not exactly unknown to me. Her being anywhere close to Thiel & co makes little sense to me.
Do you care to explain further?
This is just my take and in parts a guess since obviously I didn’t go there.
Peter Thiel is not Dr. Evil. He’s just a guy with a lot of resources and name recognizition, so he can invite people to a conference. People get together to talk. Somebody attending does not mean they agree with whoever organized the thing.
And specifically: Kaja Kallas attending does not change who Kaja Kallas is. Her party is the Estonian Reform Party, a conservative liberal party, so it kind of tracks that she hangs out with business leaders. Most importantly (I think), it doesn’t change her awesome work and results in EU against Russian belligerence.
So the dissonance: you (seem to) think that everyone who goes to a Thiel conference is some sort of a crook. But here’s a person who is obviously not a crook. Perhaps the first assumption was wrong?
Fair enough, but having kept an eye on what Thiel does (and says), I do find him to be a pretty problematic person in general for many reasons.
On the other hand, I agree with you about Kallas and specifically her views on Russia, etc. It is a pretty conservative country in many ways, so that part also makes sense.
Maybe it’s because of her role in the EU now, but I still can’t see a lot of overlap between her and many of the others on that list, Thiel notwithstanding. He’s just weird and not in a good way.
He was always about posing in public and grifting in private.
When he was mayor of Newark, he would shovel snow for the cameras and then when people weren’t looking go have dinner with Mark Zuckerberg in Idaho.
Not surprising to me about Booker. Always came across as a slimy piece of shit to me.
Am I the only one disappointed this was cancelled? I was hoping to log in here in August and see some extremists took care of business at the hotel. Now how will these people be reigned in?
I’d imagine that’s exactly why the Hotel cancelled.
They would not want their brand associated with an extremist if they happened to kill one of the other guests.
i’ll be honest, if shit goes down i expect more than one casualty.
“It’s a big club, and you aren’t in it.”
Shit club
Those meetings should be held be held behind closed doors. In a prison.
We shouldn’t have told them we knew.
It feels like kingsman all those people in the background acting normal.
Sam Harris’s take: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zipxkIP98v4
Seems far less grandiose than what everyone is suggesting.
It doesn’t matter whether the conference is innocuous or useless. Here’s what’s important: people who should know better are perfectly happy to share space and time with fascists. That alone is the damning indictment of these people, and the hard truth about them: left or right, they’re all the same clique - the Epstein class.