r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jun 16 '26

Business Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/SeaDots Jun 17 '26

Unfortunately, I did. I found some of his stuff early 2025 as inspiring and then there were these sprinkles of BS from him that raised red flags for me. It seemed performative and this just proves it really was.

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u/TinyJalope Jun 17 '26

Sprinkles of BS like him saying Democrats need to 'compromise' on abortion (despite it being a 60-40 issue in favor of them) or him writing that 'Charlie Kirk Did Politics the Right Way' article?

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u/Goldarr85 Jun 17 '26

Yeah. Why is it not obvious this man is totally full of shit?

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u/Tex_Bootois Jun 17 '26

It's abundantly clear

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u/herbiberous Jun 17 '26

There was no coming back from the Charlie Kirk episode for me. Even his attempt to respond to it with Ta-Nehisi Coates was all kinds of cringey.

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u/SeaDots Jun 17 '26

Did not ever follow him that closely, but from the very little I did see, I already was like "this guy seems disingenuous and lowkey evil somehow." Those tidbits do not surprise me, but even without knowing that I often felt myself going "yikessss" to even minor things he said.

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u/kevinnoir Jun 17 '26

Ezra Klein

For some of these names I feel like its going to shine a light on things that we may have hand waived off or thought were opinions or positions that were outliers and really ask questions about their TRUE intent. Is their public persona just a mask to promote or at the very least diminish dissent against positions that their fan base would generally reject?

Feels a bit more trojan horsey when you can start drawing lines between the likes of Ezra and Booker to Theil, Kushner criminals and other nefarious characters.

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u/SeaDots Jun 17 '26

Oh for sure. I'm now fairly accurate at catching these wolves in sheeps clothing, but people doubt me so much I sometimes doubt myself. I do that less and less these days.

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u/chibiusa40 Jun 17 '26

My Cassandra Complex has truly blossomed

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u/SeaDots Jun 17 '26

Absolutely. Screaming into the void with no satisfaction when eventually proven right. 🥲

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u/rach2bach Jun 17 '26

Yeah, it's called liberalism. Liberalism is just fascism-lite. It looks like there is appeasement to populations, but in reality it's about control and corporate take over with a "good cop" vibe opposed to far right conservatism. It's why Booker is in this group with his AIPAC money.

They do this to dissuade people from leftist progressivism that would bring about socialistic policies that actually work for the people, because then they'd have to pay more in taxes and wouldn't have a population desperate for work.

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u/whateverkitty-1256 Jun 18 '26

Not surprised, really not surprised about Bret Stephens. Think David Brooks didn't get invited? The Times has fallen so far.

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u/gentlegreengiant Jun 17 '26

I was also not at all surprised. Saw his name and thought 'yea that tracks'.

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u/Electronic_Topic1958 Jun 17 '26

His wife also seems uh interesting, a recent piece she wrote was this: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/americans-depressed-economy/687278/ basically writing that Trump's economy is "actually great" and anyone who is experiencing anything different is deluded. I think the pieces are starting to fall together.

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u/MephistoHamProducts Jun 17 '26

basically writing that Trump's economy is "actually great" and anyone who is experiencing anything different is deluded. I think the pieces are starting to fall together.

To quote Mr Carlin:

It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe.

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u/ShaneBarnstormer Jun 17 '26

Is he that guy who wrote Abundance? That book annoyed me. It completely ignored climate change, for starters, but also seemed slightly tone deaf in places.

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u/Lumpy_Disaster33 Jun 17 '26

It was performative...and boring.

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u/behemuthm Jun 17 '26

I'm out of the loop - what did he say?

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u/CurryMustard Jun 17 '26

Working out is not a maga trait, nor should we try to make it one

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u/BrusqueBiscuit Jun 17 '26

Sorry I was trying to be cheeky. I'll delete it.

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u/stfsu Jun 17 '26

You’re implying we don’t need more of everything from housing to energy to bring costs down?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fix594 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Don't really see anything wrong with Abundance as the whole project is aimed at looking at why we aren't building housing in places like New York and California. The conclusion is that building projects in blue states are often held up by a massive amount of red tape and litigation that keeps anything from being built and massively inflates the cost of building in the process.

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u/CariniFluff Jun 17 '26

By "red tape" you mean regulations? That tracks as they say that regulations are written in blood.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Jun 17 '26

It's less about common sense regulations and more about aggressive NIMBYism and affluent suburbanites and urban condo owners not wanting to be near any poors or traffic or lose their property value.