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Joe Lonsdale Calls for Public Hangings

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by mrlonglong

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These people are sick in the head. I hope at midterms the Americans will oust enough Republicans to stall things until the next election and remove the current administration.

by steve1977

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by rtpg

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It’s pretty disgusting how much the SV zeitgeist had spent years talking about liberty from tyranny and less than a year into this admin so many people are totally in line.
This just feels so downstream of “the people I dislike are against this so I will be for it” logic. At least the libertarians had some form of principled reasoning … sometimes.

by mindslight

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Sorry brah. Call me old fashioned, but masculine leadership means standing up to anti-American fascist fucks - not falling over yourself to service them. The main reason these guys have such hardons for draconian punishments is to distract from their own wanton corruption and criminality.

by SilverElfin

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Joe Lonsdale has also been retweeting supremacist extremists like Connor Tomlinson - this guy:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25673425.gb-news-spewing-r...
I think the entire ecosystem of people connected to Peter Thiel and Lonsdale are radicalizing towards the far right, and I don’t mean this as hyperbole. It’s not just the Palantir crew, but also the All In crew, and all their other VC buddies like Brad Gerstner. Every one of them is giving the current direction power. It’s hard to trust that companies in Lonsdale’s portfolio like Anduril - or these other VC’s portfolios - will be a force for good.