• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    Musk is a narcissist who got very lucky in life. But still he is a human, bad human but relatable in the sense you understand his flaws.

    Thiel is something else. Sociopath I guess. Dude is not human and doesn’t function according to any understandable human psychology

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      Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia). Peter changed elementary schools seven times. He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students’ hands with a ruler. He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism.[20][21] The German community in Swakopmund that Thiel grew up in was known at the time for its continued glorification of Nazism.[22][23]

      Thiel and Muskrat cut from the same cloth of trustfund babies and apartheid benefactors, m8