amazing to watch American right-wingers flounder at the incredibly obvious questions from UK media guys, even Piers fucking Morgan on a podcast

Morgan - as a fellow right winger - asks Thiel about Mangione quoting Thiel

watch Thiel melting in the excruciating video clip

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      7 months ago

      It’s so weird, there’s all these photos on the internet of him looking like an authentic human jerk and then here we are. A financial entity in a patchy flesh suit. Motherfucker made it straight from Silicon Valley to uncanny valley.

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      every so often, gear techs involved with filming interviews can do silently heroic things

      I don’t know if this is a case of that, but given the skin shine from reflections, whoever set this up wasn’t trying overly hard to make him look good. good on 'em

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        7 months ago

        my personal theory is he refused makeup because it’s an unnatural affectation that could have compromised his bioengineered skincare immortality routine

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      7 months ago

      Answered in the article, which refers to him as an ‘Antichrist Peter Thiel,’ rofl.

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    7 months ago

    Dude looks like he’s in full fight or flight mode if I’m being honest. Quite possibly induced by some pharmacological substance, but a base physiological response nonetheless. What could he be afraid of, I wonder?

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    7 months ago

    holy fuck this is incredible

    reminds me: earlier today I saw a toot reflecting on “it’s not radical to have $x. the american right have just dragged it so far away that gov doing it’s job is now radical”. topical