Post #163648

2026-01-28 19:01 UTC

#PeterThiel is an #entrepreneur. That's all that I care to know about him for the moment. Chara knows a bit more about this fellow and all the information is grotesque of course, but I wanted to watch a clip of Peter Thiel to satisfy myself on one point only: did this guy sound smart when he talked, I wanted to know? And he doesn't. He sounds much like #ElonMusk in fact: he sounds hesitant and uncertain in a peculiar stammery way that's clearly not about having an actual speech impediment. (cont'd)

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@alyx_woodward@universeodon.com 2026-01-28 19:05

https://youtu.be/UKA4wU9a9pE If you want to stomach fifteen minutes of him and Jordan B. Peterson having a confab, there you go. You'll find that (like Musk) Thiel seems a bit like he knows he's on the very edge of saying something stupid or deceitful or otherwise shaky, and therefore his voice isn't quite keeping up with the flow of his talk. He needs a lot of pauses and his sentences tend to break apart. I haven't actually watched the whole thing. I don't like being clonked in the face with one stupidity after another, especially when it's all dressed up like sober academic debate. (cont'd)

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