[dofm]

I am not really bothered by talking-shop nonsense like this; rich dullards with no discernible talent have always organised quiet little salons to try to seem impressive. If no young people are being sexually abused, let them talk.

For all the fuss about Bilderberg in the early 2000s, for example, it apparently was quite dull and blowhardish and achieved little; nobody who participated was particularly advantaged except for the opportunity to find out how dark-sided Henry Kissinger really was was in person. Beyond that it’s just networking; Twitter did the same job for a while, private invitation-only discussion forums online still do it.

And besides it has its own punishment built in, even I dare say for Thiel himself, who is a terrible person, but not so terrible that he should have Ted Cruz inflicted on him outside work hours.

Aside from that, aren’t people just going to come away with first-hand knowledge that Thiel is a sweaty weirdo?

[queenkjuul]

> not so terrible that he should have Ted Cruz inflicted on him outside work hours.

He made his bed.

(And he is that awful)