[marcamillion]

Whenever Thiel talks about Palantir, I get a bit confused.

I wonder if he suffers from cognitive dissonance.

One of his most successful companies is a company that does big data analysis for the DOD (likely the Intelligence Community)...yet he is stridently libertarian - to the point where he is a Seasteader.

So I can't quite reconcile the two.

[gohrt]

1. Many Libertarians give defense spending a free pass, calling defense the only essential function of government.

2. Libertarians are opposed to giving money to govt, not taking money from govt.

[marcamillion]

Yes...but the core of a libertarian is that they value their LIBERTY over anything else.

It can't just be that Thiel wants to make money. Would he be involved in a company that is systematically eroding the very liberties that he publicly claims to cherish, all for a few more hundreds of millions of dollars?

I doubt it.

So there must be something else going on - and I am genuinely interested.