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How does Thiel get a pass for being gay WHILE promoting NAZI bullshit? I don't get why the christian nationalist give him a pass but any other LGBT person gets heavily persecuted
I'm reminded of one of Roy Cohn's monologues in Angels in America.
Your problem is that you are hung up on words, on labels: "gay", "homosexual", "lesbian." You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don't tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn't understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can't get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows.
Holy fuck that's profound.
Angels in America is a very good play that, I think, has only gotten better over time.
HBO produced it as a TV miniseries with Al Pacino playing Roy Cohn back in 2003. There's also a 2017 revival with Nathan Lane in the role. Either are 100% worth checking out.
its bad for everyone else but not for him basically. don't try to find logic - its a matter of privilege.
I've been wondering the same thing, and came to a conclusion that he's a white christian nationalist above all else. Christian nationalists love a nazi, identity politics only matter when it's not "one of us". Moreover, he doesn't promote gay or trans rights, because he's above all that could technically hinder him if he wasn't megarich. He doesn't care, because it doesn't affect him. He's already won.
My guess is because all these guys are on the down low anyway
Why would they not? It is tradition that the left wing is split by minor differences in ideology while the right wing are united by hate regardless how contradictory otherwise.
He is a useful idiot and ultra wealthy and ultra powerful and ultra influential and ultra useful on top of being an ultra idiot. They don't have to embrace him, only let him do his thing until he is no longer useful. Fascism must always have enemies and when they are without the external ones they will turn on each other.
Those kinds of rules aren't for the billionaire class
My guess is that the hate for trans people is giving people like Thiel an opportunity to "punch down" on a minority that is even more hated by the right.
I mean... it sounds like he lived under mysterious circumstances too.
he was defenestrated in florida, after he was voicng his concern about thiels anti-lgbtq+ inititive by helping the gop. the last thiel want his MODEL bf to publically denounce THiel, which hurts his image in helping the gop.
to a layperson it sounds like his gay conservative lover killed him for speaking out against injustice
You know I wonder if the elections in florida are rigged so none of the creepy billionaires who live there can be investigated/prosecuted. Somebody should run there on reopening suspicious death cases.
There's no statute of limitations on murder.
The US justice sucks shit.
Yeah I'm starting to think that MLK was wrong when he said the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice
"Son there is no justice there is just what and that just is." - It Don’t Come Easy, Jesse Wells
I love Welles music so much
Yarvin was married to Jennifer Kollmer, who died in 2021 in San Francisco of a rare hereditary
Ivana died in 2022 of blunt impact injuries to the torso after falling down stairs at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Thiel was in a long-term relationship with model Jeff Thomas until Thomas's suicide in March 2023.
Uh..
It’s almost comical. Kind of like the “Russian windows sure are hazardous for your health” thing.
Yet I’m sure there’s an army of online “Thiel Tankies” that have an elaborate explanation for it.
I haven't seen many people try to stand up for Thiel.