Peter Thiel
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1,088 appearances
12 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
Peter Thiel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Fuck. They had to get rid of him.
What you've done, I think, ultimately is good for the town. You bring people into the town.
Yeah, I think a lot of people struggle with that, the idea of that, that they're losing control. I think that seems to be the most – the angriest I've seen people online since the election that have railed against podcasts and they've railed against – they seem to be angry that they no longer have a monopoly on what people can hear. Exactly.
One of the big things in America.
Yes. Listen, there are a lot of people questioning World War II for not good reasons, of course. It's like people that bring up the age of consent. You go, wait a minute. Hey. What's going on? What are you doing? There are people, I think, that do launder not great reasons for questioning World War II through whatever. No doubt. No doubt. There is a very interesting...
The teeth really come out, the gnashing of teeth come out in this country when you question at all the American war machine. Yes. And the pageantry of war and the – You know, iconography of the state and of war and of how important it is and how just it always is and how we're always on the right side of it and we're always doing the right thing. And World War Two, we 100 percent were.
But there are a lot of other times when we've made grave errors with our military.
And I feel like. It's not good enough for, you can't just point to World War II, which is, again, we were correct. Yes. But I think there is this idea that if you, it's not an accident there's a million movies made about World War II. It's not an accident that there is a lot of pageantry surrounding World War II. Well, also that the World War II movies have heroes.
So I think that inspires the idea that a military solution is always correct and that the use of force is always the right way to do it. And that coincidentally makes people lots and lots of money and their children never end up fighting those wars. Yeah. That seems to be a lot of it.
Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't people with bad motivations that are genuinely anti-Semitic or that genuinely have fascist inclinations or absolutely are. But I think there needs to be space to criticize the mythologizing of war in general. and the justification for endless wars all the time. Like Iran, I hope Trump does not go into Iran. That seems like a very bad idea.
It also seems like a very bad idea for Iran to get nuclear weapons. That seems bad too. Yes, but I think there's ways to prevent that without a regime change war. This is what we have to do. This is what Tulsi Gabbard I think was very attractive about a lot of what she said during her confirmation hearing.
She goes, I understand that there are terrorists out there that are dangerous, but we got to find a way to deal with them without committing troops to stand there in an Islamic country. We've done this. We saw this movie. It doesn't work out. And I think we have to stop thinking that it's going to be better this time.
If we decapitate the head of a foreign government and we have American soldiers in an Islamic country trying to set up a provisional government, the nightmare of that during Iraq, Paul Bremer, this weird British looking guy that they sent to stand on that rebel rubble with his boots. And, you know, the mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier.
Like it brings back like, you know, to me, it's like I get flashbacks from it.
Was it Ahmed Chalabi? Well, no, that was the guy that fed us all the bullshit to get us in.
Oh, interesting.
Well, that's hilarious. I don't remember that.
By the way, does anyone know what's going on in Iraq right now? Mostly flea markets. If there was a gun to my head, I could not tell you what the state of Iraq was. I know the Taliban are in Afghanistan. What's going on in Iraq?
That's a 20-year, you know, commitment. Or it was a very long time. Right. So that's like, I feel like that's the thing. That when you ever try to have a nuanced understanding of what we can and can't do. I don't think it's a great idea that Iran gets nuclear weapons. It seems like there are ways to prevent that.
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