Peter Thiel changed his relationship with the Military-Spook-Industrial Complex to It’s complicated.
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But seriously, under capitalism, the oligarchs, the state, and organized crime (including fascist gangs) always have symbiotic relationships.
Also, the FBI are cops, and all cops are bastards. They’re not going to save us from Trumpism or fascism. Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.
I mean yeah but Thiel pretends he has street cred and doesn't trust no feds. What a god damn chump.
What I think Thiel and his sycophants want is for him or someone in his circle to be made fascist god-emperor and so be commander-in-chief of the feds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
Remember when Bush Jr was one of the worst things going. Not looking forward to the mess after Trump and his time is looked at as not as s bad based on whatever level of crazy is going on then.
I wonder if there will be a Spanish like Miracle (no one fought for the Fascism after Franco died, everyone fought against it) when people that currently support this shit show say they never did support it.
Fuck you I won't what you tell me.
Nailed it.
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May be an obvious thing to everybody else, but what do you mean by spook? Where I'm from we're careful using that word.
It means the same as "spy", in my experience.
I was thinking less "spy" and more "fingermen" like in V for Vendetta but more secretive.
A spook is a CIA officer or maybe NSA (or at least some sort of spy if you're using the term more loosely).
Covert government agent. Usually FBI, CIA, or spec ops
What’s the implication/meaning where you’re from? And where is that (if you’re comfortable sharing) so we all don’t put our foot in it when travelling there?
Not OP, but in the U.S. it's an older racial slur for a black person.
Wow TIL thank you so much. I’ve literally only ever known it to mean “spy” so this is immensely valuable knowledge.
I've only ever heard it used in very rural areas and only by old people, so I'm not sure how relevant it is anymore. But, probably best to read the crowd before talking about spies or ghosts I guess.
That’s very sensible and measured advice, DickFiasco. Thank you.
(Is there a Lemmy /rimjobsteve yet?)
Am I going fucking nuts or is there another Peter Thiel who makes fucking hi-fi speakers
The guy with a surveillance company? Who would've thought!?
The guy with the surveillance company that's making a war AI.
lol lmao
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In the summer of 2021, Insider has learned, Thiel began providing information as a "confidential human source," or CHS, to Johnathan Buma, a Los Angeles-based FBI agent who specializes in investigating political corruption and foreign-influence campaigns.
Vance accused the bureau of "harassing faithful Christians" and pledged to block all of President Joe Biden's Department of Justice nominees in retaliation for the Trump prosecutions.
He retains a 10% stake in Palantir, a data company that has sold more than a billion dollars of software and related services to the federal government, including the Pentagon, the CIA, the National Security Agency, and the FBI.
Johnson told Insider that he believes that the relationship has been severed but declined to offer details; Buma wrote in his statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was ordered to cease contact with all his sources in late 2022.
Buma came forward in August as a whistleblower, alleging that the FBI under Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr shut down his efforts to determine whether Rudy Giuliani had been compromised by a Russian asset.
In a statement prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee, Buma said that FBI headquarters had closed his most valuable human sources, including one code-named "Genius," who had reported on far-right figures involved with planning the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Too much chopped out, sorry bot, not this time.