[tartoran]

Was surprised by that too and am wondering what he could have gained out of that. Thiel is an intelligent guy but something about him seems dubious but can’t really point my finger at it.

[squarefoot]

Stupid people can do bad things without thinking, but when intelligent ones do it's always because there is an agenda.

[mmastrac]

Perhaps to tear down the society we have now to replace it with a Libertarian paradise.

[kcplate]

Sounds good to me…

[jrm4]

This is a really easy question if you pay attention to his whole "maybe people don't know what's best for themselves" schtick.

[s1artibartfast]

A lot of libertarians were attracted to Trumps anti-regulation and anti-bureaucracy policy positions.

At a minimum, they got 3 originalist supreme court justices out of it.