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by DeathArrow 892 days ago
He thinks democracy and freedom are not compatible.

>Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

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Which is, I suppose, literally true. Any government exists to mediate conflicting rights, and that means limiting freedom.

For many self described libertarians, that conflict is to be decided entirely in favor of their liberties and everyone else's liberties don't matter. Democracy is inherently about everyone trying to have some freedom, which comes at a cost to Peter Thiel's, and apparently that's the only one that counts.