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Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Trump’s executive order provides resettlement for Afrikaners ‘who are victims of unjust racial discrimination’. LOL.</p><p>‘No thanks’: White South Africans turn down Trump’s US immigration offer<br><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/no-thanks-white-south-africans-turn-down-trumps-us-immigration-offer?traffic_source=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/no</span><span class="invisible">-thanks-white-south-africans-turn-down-trumps-us-immigration-offer?traffic_source=rss</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apartheid</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PeterTheil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterTheil</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StopTrumpNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopTrumpNow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpDidThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpDidThis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansDidThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicansDidThis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansOwnThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicansOwnThis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPKakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPKakistocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPWeirdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPWeirdos</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NoRepublicansEverAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoRepublicansEverAgain</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Magpieblog<p>Saying that this Financial Times op-ed by fascist billionaire Peter Thiel is incoherent lends it way too much credibility. Even AI could have done better.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/PeterTheil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterTheil</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4</span><span class="invisible">621-ab0b-242a76583105</span></a></p>
DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic<p>🚨The Guardrails Are Already Crumpling 🚨</p><p>“These guys can hear the music. They’ve seen the sides being chosen: <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> and <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/PeterTheil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterTheil</span></a> assembling with Trump’s gangster government in waiting. They see Mark <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuckerberg</span></a> praising <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> as a “badass.” And now they see <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a> getting in line, too.</p><p>What’s remarkable is that Trump didn’t have to arrest Bezos to secure his compliance. Trump didn’t even have to win the election. Just the fact that he has an even-money chance to become president was threat enough.”</p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a><br><a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bezos-kills-washington-post-endorsement-guardrails-falling" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thebulwark.com/p/bezos-kills-w</span><span class="invisible">ashington-post-endorsement-guardrails-falling</span></a></p>
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin<p>This <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> guy is a chucklehead fuckup of such titanic proportions that it's hard to believe he doesn't have velcro-closing shoes due to not being able to ever learn to tie a Knot.<br>But I can absolutely believe he convinced <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeterTheil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterTheil</span></a> to give him millions by using reptile brain repetition of weird conspiracies he was told at an LA on-ramp</p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>By all means dose away but be aware your 'achievements' will impress fewer and fewer people the more money you spend. It's like getting an LLM to write your novel, when it's done, who cares?</p><p>Also....Peter Thiel 😬 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnhancedGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnhancedGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeterTheil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterTheil</span></a></p>
Matt Ferrel<p>A person who has talked to each man about the other put it more succinctly: “Musk thinks Peter is a sociopath, and Peter thinks Musk is a fraud and a braggart.”</p><p><a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-contrarian-max-chafkin.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nymag.com/intelligencer/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-contrarian-max-chafkin.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/petertheil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petertheil</span></a></p>
openDemocracy<p>US spy-tech firm Palantir was a shoo-in for a multi-million-pound NHS contract months before the deal was signed, emails obtained by openDemocracy appear to show.</p><p>The email exchange from 2020, in which senior <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> executives discussed the budget for a new national data platform, sees more than one person referring to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palantir</span></a> as the recipient of the funding.</p><p><a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-palantir-contract-emails-reveal-plan-win-multi-million-pound/?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=newsie_social&amp;utm_content=palantir_shoe_in" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-palan</span><span class="invisible">tir-contract-emails-reveal-plan-win-multi-million-pound/?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=newsie_social&amp;utm_content=palantir_shoe_in</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UKGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKGov</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DavidDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidDavis</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PeterTheil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterTheil</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CoriCrider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoriCrider</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Foxglove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Foxglove</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RachaelMaskell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachaelMaskell</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UKpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpol</span></a></p>
Meredith Brasher<p>New episode of the Insurance vs History Podcast is out TODAY! How can insurance save a company from bankruptcy? How does litigation funding work? Why did a lawsuit about a famous wrestler’s sex tape become a warning to journalists everywhere about the power of Silicon Valley? Join me for a discussion of the court case funded by Peter Theil that bankrupted an online news organization: Hulk Hogan vs Gawker! <a href="https://historians.social/tags/insurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>insurance</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/insurancevshistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>insurancevshistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/insurancehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>insurancehistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HulkHogan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HulkHogan</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Gawker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gawker</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/PeterTheil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeterTheil</span></a></p>