Desperately looking for any actually useful facts or reporting in Conspiracy by Ryan Holliday amid the weirdly flowery, self-important verbiage Does anyone have recommendations for better books on the Thiel-led destruction of #Gawker?
#SelfLoathing #Closet #Eyeliner #Signaling #Fem #JDVance Has A #Horrendous #AntiLGBT #Record Of #Heritage #Hate And #Discrimination Against #LGBT #Trans!
It's So Important To Call #Out #Vance And #PeterTheil For The Obvious #Fact That The Two #Hypocrites Have Been #Lovers For Years While Pretending To #Christian #Christians.
Eccentric #Theil Is Much More Than Just Some Random Campaign Contributer.
#Outed By #Gawker...
Peter Theil Has Been JD Vance's #Benefactor And #Mentor And #Lover And...
Wait For It...
#CockSucker...
For Years!
Y'all Know That!
You Think #Effeminate #Miss #Mascara #JDVance Ain't Flippin' His M'ussy And Tossin' Theil Salad For Some #Beaucoup #Billions Just Because He Kisses His Wife In Front Of A Camera And Uses His Small Children As Campaign #Props?
#Pfft...
Those Two #Homophobic #Homosexuals Fund And Speak At A Furtherance Of The "#Kill A #Queer For #Christ" Movement And Then They #Fuck And #Suck Each Other Off!
You Better Ask Somebody!
I used to write for Gawker Media, working under AJ Daulerio. AJ and Nick Denton (founder of GM) lost in court to Hulk Hogan* who was funded by Peter Thiel, so I'm basically four degrees of separation from the GOP's VP Ghoul #Gawker #PeterThiel #JDVance #uspol
*AJ published Hogan's affair with the wife of DJ "Bubba the Love Sponge," noting Hogan's steroid-shrunken wang and his use of the N-word. Thiel was outed years before by Denton's Defamer blog. He took down Gawker as a result.
@mishi @stevesilberman @shansterable
Gawker lost only because they ignored repeated requests to remove a #sextape of #HulkHogan and one of the most #disgusting #radio “personalities” of all time #BubbatheLoveSponge ‘s wife. This gave that piece of shit #PeterThiel the opening he was looking for. #Gawker had reported on his #homosexuality in #Valleywag which greatly upset him.
The payoff from Thiel’s early gamble in Trump is a lesson that has not passed others by.
As with their other obsession, #crypto, the best time to have invested in Trump was 2016,
and the second best time is today.
We already have a word for what we’re watching now:
it’s #oligarchy.
And we’ve already seen how this plays out.
In Putin’s Russia, political and commercial interests are one and the same.
Thiel is betting
– again
– on the same phenomenon in America.
Betting that he will be first among a new breed of tech bro oligarchs
– a new super-class of #broligarchs.
In Trump’s America, there will be hard choices for everyone, including the billionaires. --
Though it may be less hard for them.
Vance has said he wants to #deregulate crypto and
unshackle AI.
He’s said he’d #dismantle Biden’s attempts to place safeguards around AI development.
And while he has it in for the #legacy #monopolies of Google and Facebook
– the platforms that his ideological bedfellows in the “new right” see as part of the “censorship industrial complex” suffocating rightwing speech
– Silicon Valley is betting on a gloves-off, regulation-free, pro-business #goldrush.
Another Peter Thiel acolyte was on stage at the Republican National Convention last week,
electrifying the crowd:
#Hulk #Hogan.
Hogan is less well known as one of Thiel’s longterm bets, though in some ways he’s even more instructive than Vance.
In 2007, the online magazine #Gawker outed Thiel and ran a series of unflattering articles about him.
It took him years, but he ultimately got his revenge, covertly funding Hulk Hogan to the tune of $10m to sue the publication for invasion of privacy and forcing it into #bankruptcy.
On stage at the RNC, the wrestler, a permatanned orange, ripped off his shirt for the man who increasingly looks like he’ll be America’s next president.
Or, if JD Vance, is correct, the man who will prove to be the #Caesar he says America needs.
A man who he has already urged to fire the nation’s civil servants to
“replace them with our people”,
to defy the courts and rule his own way.
Or, to put this in simple terms:
to foment a #coup.
Thiel knows what every investor knows. That a crisis is an opportunity.
And that if Trump succeeds in tearing up the federal administration,
there is not only billions to be made in the ensuing market #turmoil but that a new breed of oligarchs,
close to Caesar’s throne, will be the first to share the spoils.
And chief among them will be Thiel.
It’s not a stretch to see how #Palantir, his data-mining company
– that under the Conservatives got its teeth into the NHS
– will profile and surveil and target Caesar’s enemies.
And Thiel’s track record in winning, in successfully betting on the longest of odds, on biding his time, is maybe the most chilling of all the factors in a fortnight that has started to feel like the start of a run on the bank.
Biden’s debate disaster,
Trump’s victorious assassination survival,
and now Silicon Valley’s ascension to the presidential ticket.
The broligarchs have made their move
– and the rest of us need to understand exactly what that means.
Because #vengeful people like #PeterThiel have hulking elephantine memories, as the above #HulkHogan story shows, the #Gawker Media bankruptcy offers one explanation for #mainstreamMedia paying obeisance to #Trump and the #oligarchs.
They are doing this to insure against #retribution in case #GOP wins.
What they don't understand is that once they submit to pressure and blackmail, they can NEVER recover, and that reporting truthfully about Trump and #Project2025 is for their best
Second #Trump term will be pure #Retribution as this retribution story involving #PeterThiel shows.
It used #HulkHogan in a #sexTape to bankrupt #Gawker Media in 2016 after one of their rags outed #Thiel in 2007 as #gay.
Gawker’s tech blog #Valleywag published a post under the headline “Peter Thiel is totally gay, people,” ending with the sentence, “I think it's important to say this: Peter Thiel, the smartest #VC in the world, is gay."
Sordid details at https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/hogan-thiel-gawker-trial/554132/
The #HulkHogan intro to #Trump's #RNC speech is 100% a Peter Thiel production. #Gawker #kayfabe
I'm as scared of people underestimating #Trump (AGAIN) as anyone, but that doesn't mean I won't call him dumb. If anything, it reminds me that we frequently underestimate dumb people to our detriment.
As #DietrichBonhoeffer said; "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
A dumb person will do or say things a smarter person would never think of, because a smart person would know better. Dumb people don't, or care.
https://www.theroot.com/y-all-need-to-stop-calling-trump-dumb-he-s-dangerous-1851452415
#Queenmaker: #MakingOfAModernItGirl, #Hulu, is uneven and unfocused but offers a good review of the too often toxic nature of the #blogosphere of the 2000's many on #Mastodon tout uncritically, which seeded the toxicity of #Twitter, et. al in the 10's and 20's.
The myth of #whiteInnocence (especially #women) is also (unintentionally) highlighted with the inclusion of a once key writer for #Gawker who, in an ironic, fair, and just way, became subject to the harms she helped make "acceptable".
The same end when #PeterThiel bankrolled #HulkHogan's lawsuit to bankrupt #Gawker.
People used #Twitter to accomplish a lot of good. It made #MeToo possible, it helped activists contact and work together with each other.
At the very least it may have helped get #HBO's planned show #Confederate canned.
Currently reminiscing fondly of that time in 2012 when #Gawker described #donaldtrump as a “vibrating bologna loaf”.
Gawker Owner Bryan Goldberg Barred Staff From Writing About His Famous Pals
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-owner-bryan-goldberg-barred-staff-from-writing-about-his-famous-pals?ref=home
Reading Elie Mystal's Allow Me To Retort, we continue repeating the past and learning nothing:
"Gawker was canceled. Even though the death certificate reads that it was pinned by Hulk Hogan in 2016, Gawker was killed because it wrote a story a conservative man didn't like in 2007."
Für persönliche "Rache" ein Unternehmen platt machen, ist im US-Raubtierkapitalismus nichts Neues. #Musk's Buddy Peter #Thiel ist das beste Beispiel - der sorgte über Bande dafür, dass das Medienportal #Gawker 2016 dichtmachen musste. /MS https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Nach-Insolvenz-Peter-Thiel-will-Reste-von-Gawker-kaufen-3940254.html
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Shitty Men In Media by Moira Donegan; crowdsourced
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