His investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions.

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    apparently hes also behind CLAVICULAR suddenly being in the media. everyone said his rise in streaming/spotlight felt so unnatural, now we know why. thiel was funding him to be this way.

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    So when the food crisis hits from the straight of Hormuz fertilizer issue, maybe let’s eat this guy first.

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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      I’m fine with just euthanizing them the old fashioned way; cancerous growth can only be allowed for so long before the rest of the body fails.

      History has shown time and again that if you give the lower classes nothing to live for or buy into a society then violent revolution usually follows.

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    Putting aside the problems in the current system, let’s not call Thiel’s system a justice system until we can see some results and verify they are just, 'k?

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      It’ll NEVER be a “”“justice”“” system; it’ll just be a way for the Ultra-Wealthy to legitimize their oppression and handwave the consequences as a “decision by AI”. Mysteriously, oh-so-mysteriously, the verdicts will ALWAYS align with Thiel’s interests.

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    The state ceding the monopoly of violence to a surveillance corporation would be considered too on the face to be the plot of a cyberpunk dystopia and yet here we are living in the worlds dumbest dystopia.

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      That’s basically the start of the Shadowrun dystopia. There were a lot of other things that “went wrong”, but when the government removed the liability from private security that has been protecting a hazardous materials transport from workers attacking it in the belief that it contained foodstuffs, it legitimized the “megacorp”: a corporation sufficiently powerful to impose their own legal system on their private real estate.

      EDIT: In the previous histories the “Seretech Decision” was on 1999-10-26. Sources: 1 2 3 Looks like “6th edition” retconned the fictional history to start 2001-09-11 (Never Forget), so it’s unclear what and when the equivalent event is. Source: 4

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      wouldve been if gawker wasnt sued to the ground, apparently they were reporting on things like these decades ago, he was just using the gay excuse to obfuscate his role and bankrolling hot-dog skin hogans lawsuit.

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    I suggest building a parallel justice system for Peter Thiel. It will be powered by guillotines.

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    So he read that Frank Herbert quote about “permitted other men with machines to enslave them” and thought it was a great idea

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      lol, he publicly identifies as a Sauron cosplayer

      cf. $companyName

      …but he’s actually more like a sweaty Zorg, as a cartoon villain.