"It's not that complicated": Pete Buttigieg on why a gay billionaire is backing JD Vance
"It's not that complicated": Pete Buttigieg on why a gay billionaire is backing JD Vance
When asked to weigh in on Peter Thiel's reasons for supporting Vance, Buttigieg broke it down plainly . . . money.
Makes sense to me. While it's probably implied in Buttigieg's point, I'd like to add there's a level of contempt for the poor, and by poor I mean folks who are not wealthy.
Gay billionaire knows his people are the billionaires, not the gays.
Only the poors think about cultural conflict, the rich know we’ve got a class-based war a-raging, and the score’s not even close. The rich are the one’s stoking the cultural conflicts as a ruse to keep the onslaught on the poors out of sight.
Simple. "Fuck you, got mine"
Because being gay when you have enough money and power stops being a factor. You’re insulated from the overwhelming majority of any social problems that affect normal lgbtq people.
So your decisions are going to be the same as most any others in the Uber-wealthy: you look to enhance your power and finances. Nothing else is your problem.
Peter Thiel is also a neo-Nazi. Don't let his suit and tie and fancy degrees fool you.
Nazis, neo or otherwise, think of being gay as a mental illness. Being a billionaire might insulate Thiel from the face eating leopards, but only in so far as the leopards have other targets. Neo Nazis are going to clean up house of minorities and gays once they have sufficient legal foothold.
As for conservatives, they don’t care about how much money someone else has, but rather how much they can use someone else’s money.
Being a billionaire might insulate Thiel from the face eating leopards, but only in so far as the leopards have other targets.
The Catholics might think they can preach against homosexuality, but eventually they're going to discover that their congregants won't put up with all the homosexuality in the priesthood. Maybe not today, but possibly within the next 1500 years. And then won't they fell bad about what they've done.
Its a shame for Thiel, that insulation via wealth only goes so far. Once oppression has been codified into law, and most of the streets have been sterilized of "undesirables", the machine will drink its own juice and come for him, too.
Its a shame for Thiel, that insulation via wealth only goes so far.
"You'll get yours in the end" is a prophecy liberals make endless, while plutocrats continue to ignore it without real consequence.
Once oppression has been codified into law
Laws Are For Little People. My man Elon Musk should be serving a thousand year consecutive life sentence for the endless string of SEC violations, financial frauds, drug abuses, and sexual assaults he's committed in the last five years alone. Donald Trump should be on death row. None of these assholes actually get prosecuted for any of this shit, precisely because they're insulated through their wealth and social connections.
JD Vance isn't going to try and throw his sugar daddy under the bus, particularly when Thiel's fortune is based around his enormous government contracts for mass surveillance via Palantir. It would be just shy of trying to pick a fight with Eric Prince (America's premiere international warlord for hire) or Gregory Hayes (CEO of Raytheon, the company that makes all the high performance missiles, rockets, and smart bombs).
Elites do fall they are often just replaced with new ones but its absolutely plausible the snake eats him
This is real life, anything could happen. The rich get fucked just as much as they get away. There will be no warning. Even for those like Thiel if Project 2025 was fully implemented. He would automatically be branded a pedophile and receive the death penalty. Don't think they wouldn't be quick to consume each other. The vacuum of power would be ripe for anyone remaining. We're getting to the point where the greedy must devour each other to grow.
Wealth allows mobility. He can flee to the EU or Canada easily.
He's got a huge bug out property in New Zealand I think ?
or at the very least he will be spending so much on bribes to keep himself out of a prison that he'll eventually run out of cash.
When being gay is criminalized, I will be at the forefront of calling for Thiel's prosecution because I am that petty.
Priorities. Billionaire 1st, gay 2nd.
I found a lot of people like him who would say whatever they needed to, to get ahead
Including one in the mirror. And he said this on Real Smugness With Bill Maher.
Not that he's at all wrong about Vance. He isn't. He's just also an enormous hypocrite.
A lot of gay people are financially kind to people they have had sex with. I am not saying that's relevant in this situation.
There's another person who Theil "randomly" put a lot of money and clout behind too.
I guess it's possible it's not related to sex both times? But it seems really random if it's not related to sex.
Pete gave the kind safe answer.
Looks like both the big political parties offer people opprtunities to fuck their way up to the top.
He's steering away from the real connections between JD Vance, Peter Thiel and his connections to government infiltration, which includes democrats.
There's plenty of Dems caught up in it, but the worst of the Silicon Valley scene supports the GOP.
Bilaji Srinivasan's Gray Pride pipe dream is based on using street paramilitaries to remove the (quite pro-capital) Democrats from power in the Bay area.
Now thankfully, he's too much of a fuckin' weirdo to bring a movement like that together, but the right wing already has groups like the Proud Boys and Patriot Front working on a similar political project.
Mr. Bean-egg-egg...