It’s like when a guy tweets that women don’t like sex, which he knows because no woman he’s slept with has had a good time. I’ve seen several versions of it and the dude always seems to think he’s making a point against women/feminism
It would be based if a union was the dictatorship of the proletariat, but unfortunately it's just Musk sensing a possible loss of dictatorial power as a kind of oppression
Who said he actually believes any of the stuff he says? His job is to hopefully convince the less-than-intelligent crowd of fanboys and other folk that he is justified in his quest for ever-growing wealth. He will say anything that accomplished that goal, and say the opposite thing a few minutes later if he believes it will work better.
@@muscularclassrepresentativ5663 even if a union was the dictatorship of the proletariat, that idea itself has been discredited by both the USSR and the CCP as the bestway to achieve socialism. turn's out that concentrating power into the hand's of a small minority of people, is bad regardless of who it is. that's probably why your seeing muttering's of rank and file committees, worker's cooperative's and other decentralizing method's popping up on the left.
I immediately came back, and am surprised it was JD Vance and not Blake Masters. Not that either of them are good for the country, just Masters is the perfect goon.
@@Asillyhobo it's JD vance because it was almost a symbolic move, they wanted to say "we can pick someone this useless and still win". But all that's looking like a bad choice now with the Harris nomination.
Hah. I'd love to see M2F trans people swarm that app, saying "At last! A dating app that just allows me to be a she/woman, no questions asked!". I wouldn't wish the same for F2M people because, hey, they'd have to pay, and fuck giving that guy even one dime of their money.
A billionaire complaining about a lack of freedom is so ridiculous. You have more freedom than almost anyone else on Earth. You don't want more freedom, you just want other people to have less.
No no. They want to CONTROL the rest of the world. Because the money is not the goal, just the tool to get POWER and Control to fill their dark void where they suppose to have hearts.
True but I dont think they even have any idea what normal people go through, they just get upset with a system that is somehow holding them back from becoming even more powerful and somehow think that the average person experiences these same type of fences that stop them from becoming supreme overlords and think they apply to the average human on Earth. These fences have been put in place over a long time to stop the ultra wealthy from ruling just because they are rich, maybe idk. These rich people more then often just need a swift kick to the balls and told to sit down.
Yes. Yet these guys actually believe their own spiel. That's the weird part. Gates, basically a monopolist who no doubt schooled and inspired the "libertarian" tech billionaires, did not hold these beliefs quite in the same way. He didn't extrapolate to individual freedom. So there's an evolution there. If you're some kid who finds Trump hard to look at or too clownish, too old, too obviously phony or weird, there'll be a Vance or Thiele or Musk or Zuckerburg running for president any time soon.
Fun fact about Peter. He intends to live over the age of 100 through blood transfusions from the young. Calling him a blood sucking vampire is no longer a joke, just straight up reality.
Lab trials have shown that young blood revitalizes older mice. They become more spry and their mental alacrity increases. It's not actually a terrible idea, but also just getting rid of blood regularly cleans up the blood, also noted in other recent research concerning the amount of "forever chemicals" in modern people's blood.
"I want the freedom to exploit as many people as possible without those pesky consumer rights protections. And since I've already won capitalism I view any policies that help others as being unnecessary and frankly, personally offensive to me. - Peter Thiel probably
Right? "Freedom" is never actually a consideration afforded to the exploited. It doesn't matter if said exploitation actually *limits* the freedom of the average person. They only want to dole total freedom out to the assholes who have already won in their zero-sum world.
@@Moondog66602 I wouldn't conflate any of this lot as having the same-same personality, drives and goals. They're like chalk and cheese. As for Thiel he's purely a psychopathic control freaking opportunist. Musk is an actual creative with ultra progressive altruism going on in the background. Bezos is an empire builder and Zuckerberg a scared kid wanting to disappear in his own world.
@@jeffp3999 gonna have to disagree with you pal. They're all the same, the details are trivial. There is plenty of information out there showing exactly who they all are, and quite a few are on this very channel. Do some research outside of your usual sources, get multiple view points, form your own opinion. They're all selfish, spoiled brats completely detached from the real world most people live in.
Right-wing libertarianism is such a great political philosophy it only took billionaires (like the Koch brothers) funding conservative think-tanks (like the John Birch Society) for decades to gain the sliver of popularity it has today. The book Dark Money by Jane Meyer talks about these billionaires and think-tanks in frustrating detail.
Pretty sure Germany has done worst than Peter Thiel. 1932-1945 era comes to mind. I don’t remember exactly what happened but i heard it made the world mad.
Fun fact: Thiel has recently hired the former Federal Chancellor of Austria, Sebastian Kurz, who had to resign because of very credible allegations of corruption and misuse of power and public funds just over a year ago. Kurz is a conservative and also an amoral careerist. They seem to be well-matched.
@@PawsOnTheBalcony lmao at calling your former head of state "Basti" Very fitting, always good to not hold those people in high esteem one way or another
Gotta love how if you have money you can influence absolutely everything. Key to a free society indeed. Funny that Peter still doesnt feel "free" even though he literally has unlimited power
I am reminded of Jubal Harshaw in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' when he was explaining how hindering true wealth actually is. When you have more money than God you can't trust anyone, can't spend your money without a team of accountants to manage every transaction, and need to hire a personal army to ensure none of your loved ones get kidnapped for ransom. Not saying we should give their shitty behaviour a pass, just that being wealthy is not as freeing as people think. It's just a different type of cage.
@@RHCole Naw. That's an excuse. Because the wealthy possess the tools to no longer be so obscenely wealthy, but the poor don't have the tools to just suddenly not be so poor. If you grab onto a burning hot chicken nugget and keep crying about how hot it is *while you keep holding it* I'm going to get frustrated with your whining very quickly.
I started writing a dystopian fantasy novel about tech CEOs becoming monarchs in 2017 and thought I was being super edgy and dystopian. This guy made it the main goal of his life.
No Jennifer, you were unfortunately being realistic and ahead of your time. Congrats on being a genius 👏 it's not hard to be one when the world is run by cartoon supervillains
If you want capitalist oligarchs ruling as god kings, try Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark. The mc is a the cyber enhanced daughter and enforce for the family that rules the world in a council of oligarchs who kept their power post the collapse of civilization with climate change. It's great.
I was just talking about Thiel with some friends after re-watching the Social Network. Guy's a creep and one of those 'quietly' dangerous people who have far too much power. Thanks Cody, you're a babe.
When you're so scared people will come after you that you strike first, making them actually Want to come after you... Rich people stripping the rights of the poor makes rich people enemies. (Living lavishly stupid lives is at worst annoying.)
There is a reason why german TV show host Jan Böhmermann made an entire Bond-Villain like song to mock Thiel. "Right time to Thiel" is the title. It can be found on RUclips.
I was on a career track to actually working at Palantir. I had my top secret and a lot of other clearances. Palantir worked on some of the equipment and solutions we had when I was in intelligence in the Air Force. Obviously I can't say a lot, but I could have easily submerged my conscience into a vat of oil and gone to work for Thiel for probably over $100k+ a year STARTING and an easy cushy desk job while knowing more than most of the news media about what was going on in the world. I can go through their employees list and see people I interacted with in my job. Unfortunately in my work in counterinsurgency I sadly humanized our enemies in my brain and realized what we were doing was wrong so now I struggle with mental health issues and am homeless. Those of us veterans who realized we weren't protecting people, we were protecting politicians and interests. Sort of a weird life direction, you can go, right? Palantir, wealthy, with no ethics, or homeless, broke, with some self-respect left? I would just never change my choice. Never.
I hope you find housing and get to feel better. For what it’s worth, I think it really speaks for your character that you changed your actions when you realized you didn’t believe they’re right anymore; not everyone would do that and it’s very admirable imo. 🧡
Been through similar circumstances and the only reason I a not on the street is because I own my apartment that I bought many years ago before before the property boom. I used to have money to burn and now I just manage to survive, because no one will give the time of day if you challenge power in anyway, you are on your own. Instead of challenging war criminals, people will screw their children first and continue to vote for the horrible slugs, and we have the government we deserve
Know what? You seem like a good person. As a mom and teacher that’s literally my number one goal, to be and help cultivate Goodness. God bless you and ❤ from a random soft lady from NY.
I mean, you were in the Air Force, so it's not like you had any self-respect or ethics to begin with. Don't pat yourself on the back so hard. You might dislocate your shoulder or something.
'Get rich'. Some people's motive to work? Is it a bonus for people who do really well? If we try to fix it in any way at all, for sure they kick back about it.
@@vapx0075 this is assuming that doing well at your work guarantees you get rich. That's not how it works. Believing that meritocracy is real is bad for your brain
How would very large expensive projects, like a vehicle manufacturing plant or a mine ever get done outside the government without someone having money to pay for them? You're not making any sense. The rich needed to be taxed and regulated, but not made illegal. They have their uses, and like any chemical, the dose makes the poison. We have far too much inequality right now but until we are post scarcity and everyone has a personal 3d printer that makes anything you could ever need from dirt and air, we're still going to need SOME people with large amounts of capital to complete large endeavors. Look to literally ANY communist country to see how well the government making everything goes.
Man literally named his private intelligence company Palantir. And you just know it was through self-identification with Saruman. I’d wager he does the ‘gentlemen, to evil’ toast as well. Edit: damnit of course Cody makes the same connection lol
@@RocLobo358 that's the upsetting dissonance, like you HAD TO read the books to make that references but you totally forgot (or decided to ignore) what Tolkien was denouncing...
39:00 as a longtime Hungarian fan, I really can't thank you enough that you'll be covering us! It is extremely bleak here! Thanks for all you do, Cody and everyone working on the show. Can't wait to be faced with what everyone outside Hungary thinks of us.
Glad to see he didn’t play the game and only read the history up to the part where rapture fell completely apart and no one could leave and Ryan is proven to be a hypocrite
51:35 "rich people, at least most of them, don't care how badly they destroy the world when they can just buy their way out of it." This should be a t-shirt
@@TheDanishGuyReviews if it’s a flat amount or set range, yes. Finland has made speeding fines proportional to the offender’s salary, leaving some wealthy drivers owing $100K for a single ticket! There’s basically zero chance the US plutocracy will ever implement something like that, of course 😾
@@alisaurus4224 Yeah, l guess there isn't. I found one of the better ways to describe USA through something l read recently: "Change the laws? We can't do that, it might upset a rich person!"
Being one of the unfortunate people to know who Peter Thiel was before this video feels like a curse. But hey at least there's a handy dandy reference for me to show people whenever he comes up from now on.
All of sudden, in the middle of an episode, I realized and remembered how good and simply outstanding the humor and overall writing on this show IS . So glad and grateful to Universe I found your channel guys! now probably like 3 years ago.. Sending my love and respects!
Vance taking a hard Right turn after criticism of his film reminds me of a certain Austrian painter who took a hard Right turn after his art got criticised.
Apologies if somebody already posted below but Thiel also bought his way into a New Zealand citizenship in 2011, which was rushed through in days, becoming NZ's third richest citizen at the same time. He's subsequently bought increasingly large swathes of land in the South Island and all of us here presume he's prepping for his own apocalypse. Because he doesn't live here. In fact he became made a citizen in a private ceremony in Santa Monica.
@@Grim_Beard Because she can't - he's a citizen and that's it. The local authority where he has huge plots of land have just rejected his plans to build what is essentially a compound but his citizenship isn't a visa - it can't be taken away apart from extreme circusmtances.
@@Grim_Beard Because you can't just remove citizenships for no reason. It's not as if he's done anything criminal, whether in NZ or elsewhere. And now the Nationals are in power, they'll more than welcome him with open arms.
The funniest thing about Thiel’s (and his acolytes’) understanding of structures is that what they push for necessarily REJECTS the descriptive reality that makes silicon valley/vc what it is. Their views on what makes the best structure can be rebutted by what made them relevant in the first place
Ah, but you're missing one important part of the equation: they got theirs and don't want anybody else able to kick them off their own perch. Basically they want to set fire to every ladder behind them after they finish climbing them.
They're business types, not programmers, unlike Gates and some of the Silicon Valley elders who had some scientific flair (even if they created these new monsters). It seems the "disruptive" tech paradigm is hard to follow or bear for those with a real technical or scientific inclination.
@@grmpEqweer funny, given that there's nothing "conservative" about destroying establishments or traditions. I would argue that they're really just selfish pieces of s***.
I'm not even from the US but these videos are enlightening either way. I hope i to some extent help keep the lights on without you selling your actual soul mr news man.
Same about being an overseas viewer. I think that it's important because US politics has influence on the rest of the world; there are, were and will be similarities and copycats in the politics of other countries, plus the US' overseas policies have huge affects.
@@SnakeMan448 we have our fair share of these weirdos entering politics in Canada, and some of them are starting to win elections. It's kind of scary. They're following the U.S. neo right playbook word for word.
I've always said the most impressive thing about Peter Thiel was that he knew enough rich people that he could raise one million dollars in the 90s (which is around 2 million today) to gamble with.
@@rmo9808 Don't see how this changes my point. The most impressive thing about Peter Thiel was he had a bunch of rich friends that he was able to get money from.
So Thiel heard leftists say "capitalism and democracy are fundamentally incompatible" and while leftists say "so we need to get rid of capitalism", Thiel thought "so we need to get rid of democracy"
During college I saw the book Zero to One by Thiel in syllabus reading lists and had it recommended by professors in class. I’m glad I never wasted my time reading it.
Ironically, I'm glad I did read it when I was younger and part of a startup. A lot of Thiel's ideas about monopolies and competition are eerily similar to Marx's analysis of the falling rate of profit, merely set in a pro-monopoly light, so I had an easier time moving to the left than I would have without exposure to Peter Thiel's framework.
Maybe they seem similar because they both describe a common behaviour pattern of human beings. The problem which seems to happen is when people have a fridge brilliance moment and start thinking that just because it happens a lot it must be the only true way that things should be. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem [RIP Douglas Adams, you are sorely missed!]
@@deadmeme8011 Karl Marx was the world's foremost expert on capitalism. His economic assertions are just extrapolations of basic economic principles. In that sense, communism is just the natural conclusion of a perfectly functioning capitalist system. It's his philosophies on how we should behave knowing these conclusions that are questionable.
@@Backinblackbunny009 I dunno...if you have to go through a state of dictatorship (the proletarian one, in Marx's case) before getting to the "perfect society", I think there might be a DEEP flaw in your reasoning
We should change Thanksgiving Make it about Preparing a Meal around the most Destructive or Overly Populated Animal In the US at that time. So Now it would be in my opinion a Boar. And All of the US coming together to Eat the Most overpowered Animal of that Year sounds like one of the most MURICA! Things I have ever heard of.
The shame in a if you don’t know it’s his episode you just see PayPal based global threat #2, assume that’s not this weeks priority and then go watch Hillbilly Elegy? It’s not until Thiel and Trump start to discuss the future that people will find their way back here and say, I wish I had seen this earlier.
I was at a conference that Thiel spoke at, & I think the wildest thing he talked about was creating floating city of suspended in the ocean docks & houseboats. This was his example of his libertarian goal, since there would be no government in international waters
I dunno why libertarians be seasteading, but they must have a deep-seated urge to experience a miserable demise at sea. Like...every project either implodes due to extremely basic considerations like waste disposal, ignoring the sovereignty of nearby island nations, or just straight-up being a scam to raise funds.
I'm never sure whether to watch on Patreon or watch on RUclips because I want more of that JUICY content but also Wednesday releases make the week better
Thiel is a purely an opportunist, similar to Trump, don't make the mistake, like they do here, of lumping these psychopaths into the same boat as Nerds generally.
As a Chaotic Good Nerd I have to point out that the palantiri were initially meant to be a simple means of communication before they got stolen and corrupted by an evil god with near unlimited power. Life imitates Art and I Do Not Like It
somewhat unrelated but connected via thiel: he rented out bran castle (aka “dracula’s castle”) in romania a couple days ago for a halloween party. while he and his partygoers were in the country flying between towns in helicopters, romanian national media was reporting for days that elon musk had actually rented the castle and was throwing the party, not thiel. ultimately, this turned out to be a rumor spread and believed widely, despite no evidence that elon was ever involved. many romanian people were celebrating elon being in the country and gathered outside of restaurants and the castle, when they believed he was present. truly embarrassing stuff, specifically for all of the news media that reported matter-of-factly elon had rented the castle. interestingly, gay marriage is illegal in romania, and i guarantee all of the wannabe serfs celebrating what they believed was elon’s presence would be repulsed to find out the wealthy man they were hoping to see is actually gay. a lot of romanian news only referred to his husband as his partner. anyways, fuck thiel.
In "Neoreaction a Basilisk" Elisabeth Sandifer has a very good essay specifically about Peter Thiel, dissecting and deconstructing his business ventures and his ideology.
Thank you for covering him. A german mixture of comedy and investigative show also did a piece on him... and also a James Bond like song, look for "Right time to Thiel".
Truly whatever manscaped paid Cody for that ad read, they should at least double it. There is no way they expected a read that hilarious with ball ventriloquism
Takes some major cojones for someone to basically say "Between the party that wants to protect my money and the one that wants to protect my life, I choose the former."
Ignoring the fact that I watched this early on patreon, Oh wow! I can't believe you uploaded this on my birthday! Can't wait to watch it for the first time, right after I blow out my candles!
Who's back here after Trump picked Vance for VP?
Yup
Hello fellow travelers
And Hulk Hogan at the RNC
Aye
All the evil ducks in America is overwhelming. Had to back up learn about this scumbag.
Writing an article on how "there are no fun parties anymore" is a really funny way to announce that you don't get invited to parties
It’s like when a guy tweets that women don’t like sex, which he knows because no woman he’s slept with has had a good time. I’ve seen several versions of it and the dude always seems to think he’s making a point against women/feminism
Still love the time that Ben shapiro decided a wet pussy was a sign of a medical complaint.
@@alisaurus4224 FD Signifier did a video on exactly this. They constantly self report their lack of game.
@@nathanpetrich7309 yep, FD is 🔥
No. You don't say.
"Unions are another form of monopoly"
People honestly believe that Musk is intelligent. Good God.
It would be based if a union was the dictatorship of the proletariat, but unfortunately it's just Musk sensing a possible loss of dictatorial power as a kind of oppression
Who said he actually believes any of the stuff he says? His job is to hopefully convince the less-than-intelligent crowd of fanboys and other folk that he is justified in his quest for ever-growing wealth. He will say anything that accomplished that goal, and say the opposite thing a few minutes later if he believes it will work better.
@@muscularclassrepresentativ5663 even if a union was the dictatorship of the proletariat, that idea itself has been discredited by both the USSR and the CCP as the bestway to achieve socialism. turn's out that concentrating power into the hand's of a small minority of people, is bad regardless of who it is.
that's probably why your seeing muttering's of rank and file committees, worker's cooperative's and other decentralizing method's popping up on the left.
Intelligence and evil are not mutually exclusive
Thiel stabbing Musk-ovite in the back to oust him from paypal was (arguably) a good deed. There may be more(?)
Anyone here after Thiel bought himself a VP ticket in the form of JD Vance?
I immediately came back, and am surprised it was JD Vance and not Blake Masters. Not that either of them are good for the country, just Masters is the perfect goon.
@@Asillyhobo it's JD vance because it was almost a symbolic move, they wanted to say "we can pick someone this useless and still win". But all that's looking like a bad choice now with the Harris nomination.
@@drohit1207 Sarah Palin all over again
That JD Vance interveiw with Jack Murphy is from Sept 2021. Wonder how many Project 2025 authors Thiel paid for?
Hello lol
“No pronouns necessary”
I must say that’s a very broad minded attitude for a conservative dating app.
Hah. I'd love to see M2F trans people swarm that app, saying "At last! A dating app that just allows me to be a she/woman, no questions asked!". I wouldn't wish the same for F2M people because, hey, they'd have to pay, and fuck giving that guy even one dime of their money.
A billionaire complaining about a lack of freedom is so ridiculous. You have more freedom than almost anyone else on Earth. You don't want more freedom, you just want other people to have less.
No no. They want to CONTROL the rest of the world. Because the money is not the goal, just the tool to get POWER and Control to fill their dark void where they suppose to have hearts.
@wendighoul exactly
True but I dont think they even have any idea what normal people go through, they just get upset with a system that is somehow holding them back from becoming even more powerful and somehow think that the average person experiences these same type of fences that stop them from becoming supreme overlords and think they apply to the average human on Earth. These fences have been put in place over a long time to stop the ultra wealthy from ruling just because they are rich, maybe idk. These rich people more then often just need a swift kick to the balls and told to sit down.
Yes. Yet these guys actually believe their own spiel. That's the weird part. Gates, basically a monopolist who no doubt schooled and inspired the "libertarian" tech billionaires, did not hold these beliefs quite in the same way. He didn't extrapolate to individual freedom. So there's an evolution there. If you're some kid who finds Trump hard to look at or too clownish, too old, too obviously phony or weird, there'll be a Vance or Thiele or Musk or Zuckerburg running for president any time soon.
Freedom to repress everyone else!
Fun fact about Peter. He intends to live over the age of 100 through blood transfusions from the young. Calling him a blood sucking vampire is no longer a joke, just straight up reality.
Would that even work? And if it does why stop at 100? Healthy living can get you to 100, why not aim for at least 200?
Thanks for the full head to toes shiver you just gave me
But its democrats that drink the blood of children... smh
What?
Lab trials have shown that young blood revitalizes older mice. They become more spry and their mental alacrity increases. It's not actually a terrible idea, but also just getting rid of blood regularly cleans up the blood, also noted in other recent research concerning the amount of "forever chemicals" in modern people's blood.
"I want the freedom to exploit as many people as possible without those pesky consumer rights protections. And since I've already won capitalism I view any policies that help others as being unnecessary and frankly, personally offensive to me. - Peter Thiel probably
Right? "Freedom" is never actually a consideration afforded to the exploited. It doesn't matter if said exploitation actually *limits* the freedom of the average person. They only want to dole total freedom out to the assholes who have already won in their zero-sum world.
And musk, and Zuckerberg, and Bezos, and...
"Call to revitalize fun." ?
"Bring back Christmas." ? - Peter Thiel probably
Edit: or underside of snicker doodle?
@@Moondog66602 I wouldn't conflate any of this lot as having the same-same personality, drives and goals.
They're like chalk and cheese.
As for Thiel he's purely a psychopathic control freaking opportunist.
Musk is an actual creative with ultra progressive altruism going on in the background.
Bezos is an empire builder and Zuckerberg a scared kid wanting to disappear in his own world.
@@jeffp3999 gonna have to disagree with you pal. They're all the same, the details are trivial. There is plenty of information out there showing exactly who they all are, and quite a few are on this very channel. Do some research outside of your usual sources, get multiple view points, form your own opinion. They're all selfish, spoiled brats completely detached from the real world most people live in.
Right-wing libertarianism is such a great political philosophy it only took billionaires (like the Koch brothers) funding conservative think-tanks (like the John Birch Society) for decades to gain the sliver of popularity it has today. The book Dark Money by Jane Meyer talks about these billionaires and think-tanks in frustrating detail.
Oh hey, JD Vance. What are the odds I'd watch this video again this week?
Please have Warmbo punch Cody two and a half times. Pour guy deserves it.
I think it would be cool to see Warmbo take a man's life :-)
I want to see Warmbo eating an orphanage and all of its inhabitants.
Nice try but everyone knows CA$ is pretend currency from a make believe country.
Warmbo doesn't have any bones so I can picture him being a pour guy
@@TheReddaredevil223 Warmbo has plenty of bones. He regurgitates them like owl pellets.
In the name of Germany we would like to apologize for Peter Thiel.
As Canada, and I am sure Cuba as well, would like to apologize for Tedward Cruise.
Solidarity, my friend
Not the first thing Germans have to apologize for, but I'll accept it.
Pretty sure Germany has done worst than Peter Thiel. 1932-1945 era comes to mind. I don’t remember exactly what happened but i heard it made the world mad.
And what about all the Jews?
He's gay?
Now I have to apologize on behalf of the gays, too.
FML.
Fun fact: Thiel has recently hired the former Federal Chancellor of Austria, Sebastian Kurz, who had to resign because of very credible allegations of corruption and misuse of power and public funds just over a year ago. Kurz is a conservative and also an amoral careerist. They seem to be well-matched.
Yeah, a would-be king and a would-be kingmaker go great together.
Good riddance to Basti, we don't want him back.
Almost makes you wonder who the instigator in his misuses of funds and corruption was 🧐
Kurz was the worst thing that happened to Austria since the dark days of austrofascism and the nazis.
May he only come back for jail. You know, in a world where ******* Sobotka isn't the head of the Untersuchungsausschuss. We can dream
@@PawsOnTheBalcony lmao at calling your former head of state "Basti"
Very fitting, always good to not hold those people in high esteem one way or another
When he was saying "Tiel has called human happiness", I was sure the sentence was going to end not with "his end goal" but "his ultimate enemy".
Gotta love how if you have money you can influence absolutely everything. Key to a free society indeed. Funny that Peter still doesnt feel "free" even though he literally has unlimited power
That’s the hedonic treadmill, when enough is not enough.
I am reminded of Jubal Harshaw in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' when he was explaining how hindering true wealth actually is. When you have more money than God you can't trust anyone, can't spend your money without a team of accountants to manage every transaction, and need to hire a personal army to ensure none of your loved ones get kidnapped for ransom. Not saying we should give their shitty behaviour a pass, just that being wealthy is not as freeing as people think. It's just a different type of cage.
@@RHCole Naw. That's an excuse.
Because the wealthy possess the tools to no longer be so obscenely wealthy, but the poor don't have the tools to just suddenly not be so poor.
If you grab onto a burning hot chicken nugget and keep crying about how hot it is *while you keep holding it* I'm going to get frustrated with your whining very quickly.
I started writing a dystopian fantasy novel about tech CEOs becoming monarchs in 2017 and thought I was being super edgy and dystopian. This guy made it the main goal of his life.
hope you finish it.
No Jennifer, you were unfortunately being realistic and ahead of your time. Congrats on being a genius 👏 it's not hard to be one when the world is run by cartoon supervillains
If you want capitalist oligarchs ruling as god kings, try Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark. The mc is a the cyber enhanced daughter and enforce for the family that rules the world in a council of oligarchs who kept their power post the collapse of civilization with climate change. It's great.
Have you ever heard of Cyberpunk?
@@ichsagnix4127 Cyberpunk is cool but I was going for science fantasy/epic fantasy.
I was just talking about Thiel with some friends after re-watching the Social Network. Guy's a creep and one of those 'quietly' dangerous people who have far too much power. Thanks Cody, you're a babe.
exactly! so happy to see this.
Just here to confirm: Cody is a babe
@@mayoai197 and Katie too!
@@rodanone4895 Not Warmbo, though.
@@ErwinPommel Warmbo is the shrill of the dying lamb.
Can't imagine why all these billionaires want only people with money and power to have rights
When you're so scared people will come after you that you strike first, making them actually Want to come after you...
Rich people stripping the rights of the poor makes rich people enemies. (Living lavishly stupid lives is at worst annoying.)
@@TragoudistrosMPH couldnt agree more
I suggest you read about longermism
Those damned neofeudalists
Can't wait for the inevitable 90min deep dive into Goon #1. Thanks Shody for keeping us informed!
There is a reason why german TV show host Jan Böhmermann made an entire Bond-Villain like song to mock Thiel.
"Right time to Thiel" is the title. It can be found on RUclips.
ruclips.net/video/S-Jo-djilvo/видео.html Here's the link!
@@horaspeher3368 thank you, I forgot that ZDF existed since I stopped my german classes lol
@@bootykingnadal We all wish we could forget. (Except for Böhmermann.)
I was on a career track to actually working at Palantir. I had my top secret and a lot of other clearances. Palantir worked on some of the equipment and solutions we had when I was in intelligence in the Air Force. Obviously I can't say a lot, but I could have easily submerged my conscience into a vat of oil and gone to work for Thiel for probably over $100k+ a year STARTING and an easy cushy desk job while knowing more than most of the news media about what was going on in the world.
I can go through their employees list and see people I interacted with in my job.
Unfortunately in my work in counterinsurgency I sadly humanized our enemies in my brain and realized what we were doing was wrong so now I struggle with mental health issues and am homeless. Those of us veterans who realized we weren't protecting people, we were protecting politicians and interests.
Sort of a weird life direction, you can go, right? Palantir, wealthy, with no ethics, or homeless, broke, with some self-respect left?
I would just never change my choice. Never.
I hope you are able to find housing soon and find some relief with the mental health stuff. Sounds like you are carrying a lot❤
I hope you find housing and get to feel better. For what it’s worth, I think it really speaks for your character that you changed your actions when you realized you didn’t believe they’re right anymore; not everyone would do that and it’s very admirable imo. 🧡
Been through similar circumstances and the only reason I a not on the street is because I own my apartment that I bought many years ago before before the property boom. I used to have money to burn and now I just manage to survive, because no one will give the time of day if you challenge power in anyway, you are on your own. Instead of challenging war criminals, people will screw their children first and continue to vote for the horrible slugs, and we have the government we deserve
Know what?
You seem like a good person.
As a mom and teacher that’s literally my number one goal, to be and help cultivate Goodness.
God bless you and ❤ from a random soft lady from NY.
I mean, you were in the Air Force, so it's not like you had any self-respect or ethics to begin with. Don't pat yourself on the back so hard. You might dislocate your shoulder or something.
Cody is my favorite disheveled-day-trader-turned-news-man and Katie is my favorite person-subjecting-Cody-to-MK-Ultra-style-torture.
What about Warmbo?
@@AndyMcKeeFanForLife What *about* Warmbo?
I always thought of Cody as a very clean dumpster hobo but I see what you mean.
Cody is my favorite long-form news channel
Aren't all day traders basically that
Man, it's almost as if we maybe shouldn't have rich people in a society.
'Get rich'. Some people's motive to work? Is it a bonus for people who do really well?
If we try to fix it in any way at all, for sure they kick back about it.
@@vapx0075 this is assuming that doing well at your work guarantees you get rich. That's not how it works. Believing that meritocracy is real is bad for your brain
@@vapx0075 that's called a carrot on a stick.
How would very large expensive projects, like a vehicle manufacturing plant or a mine ever get done outside the government without someone having money to pay for them? You're not making any sense. The rich needed to be taxed and regulated, but not made illegal. They have their uses, and like any chemical, the dose makes the poison. We have far too much inequality right now but until we are post scarcity and everyone has a personal 3d printer that makes anything you could ever need from dirt and air, we're still going to need SOME people with large amounts of capital to complete large endeavors. Look to literally ANY communist country to see how well the government making everything goes.
@@vapx0075 The motivation for most people to work is 'don't end up poor' which is not the same thing.
Well, he's not wrong about capitalism and democracy being incompatible. He's just very wrong about which one to keep.
Anti capitalism? You're talking mad treason for someone in ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ range.
@@chuni5942 ok, I have to ask or it'll drive me crazy: what character, what move, what game?
@@mirrorXshard I read it as 'plane goes up, plane goes across, things drop down from plane'.
@@mirrorXshard It's from Helldivers 2. It is the code to call in a 500kg explodey boy.
@@tanuiglor1568 thanks!
Revisiting this now that JD Vance is Trump’s running mate. Thiel seems to be really invested in a second Trump presidency...
almost as invested as JD vance is in upholstery
Watching Cody cracking during a Manscaped ad has been the best sales pitch for anything ever.
That ad nearly broke me 🤣
He's trying so hard to keep a straight face
@@cattibingo I dare you to convince someone to shave their balls while keeping a straight face...
Balls!
@@politicaltroll8920 Oooo, so smoooooooooooooooooooth
Man literally named his private intelligence company Palantir. And you just know it was through self-identification with Saruman. I’d wager he does the ‘gentlemen, to evil’ toast as well.
Edit: damnit of course Cody makes the same connection lol
And his capital company is Mithril
Would think more Denethor with his steadfast defense of the homeland.
Self-identification with Sauron you mean, a true single leader. This guy is so full of himself, he would not consider himself anything below that.
The issue I have with the name is that palantirs were famously unreliable and insecure. Might as well call your company the party line
@@RocLobo358 that's the upsetting dissonance, like you HAD TO read the books to make that references but you totally forgot (or decided to ignore) what Tolkien was denouncing...
"what happened to your boot straps fellas" may be the best line I've heard all year
Calling Thiel a ghoul is not pejorative, it is simply descriptive.
39:00 as a longtime Hungarian fan, I really can't thank you enough that you'll be covering us! It is extremely bleak here! Thanks for all you do, Cody and everyone working on the show. Can't wait to be faced with what everyone outside Hungary thinks of us.
Stay strong, brother! good luck.
Today I learned that after Bioshock came out Peter Thiel thought an IRL Rapture would be pretty dope actually.
So he's literally a cartoon villian
Libertarians are very stupid 🤷♂️
Hey, I'm alright with giving him experimental gene therapies and sticking him on the ocean floor
Glad to see he didn’t play the game and only read the history up to the part where rapture fell completely apart and no one could leave and Ryan is proven to be a hypocrite
No gods or kings only....capitalism?
The fact that we didn't wander into a Bioshock joke is staggering
We demand bioshock jokes
Cody, would you kindly edit this video to include a Bioshock joke?
no gods, no masters, only bioshock jokes
i haven't even played bioshock but all i could think off is the parallels to andrew ryan
@@arisrayden Because Andrew Ryan is based on libertarian ideology specifically Ayn Rand's objectivism.
51:35 "rich people, at least most of them, don't care how badly they destroy the world when they can just buy their way out of it."
This should be a t-shirt
It should be a billboard in every town in America
If the only punishment is a fine, it's no longer a law for rich people.
@@TheDanishGuyReviews if it’s a flat amount or set range, yes. Finland has made speeding fines proportional to the offender’s salary, leaving some wealthy drivers owing $100K for a single ticket! There’s basically zero chance the US plutocracy will ever implement something like that, of course 😾
@@alisaurus4224 Yeah, l guess there isn't. I found one of the better ways to describe USA through something l read recently: "Change the laws? We can't do that, it might upset a rich person!"
It's unsettling that an immobile puppet can still feel like it has sentience.
Why don't they just call themselves the PayPals?
Because THEY don't want to pay, they want US to pay.
The Palantir ad playing at the beginning of this video for me was very relevant. Thanks for funding Cody’s Showdy, Pete.
Being one of the unfortunate people to know who Peter Thiel was before this video feels like a curse. But hey at least there's a handy dandy reference for me to show people whenever he comes up from now on.
Same hat.
Yup.
All of sudden, in the middle of an episode, I realized and remembered how good and simply outstanding the humor and overall writing on this show IS .
So glad and grateful to Universe I found your channel guys! now probably like 3 years ago..
Sending my love and respects!
Thiel: "Liberty but just for me and my friends. All others aren't people."
Also, thank you for saying neo-feudal
Vance taking a hard Right turn after criticism of his film reminds me of a certain Austrian painter who took a hard Right turn after his art got criticised.
I hate thinking about Peter Thiel, but love watching Cody.
This is confusing
Thiel is Mr House.
I went with Andrew Ryan
He wishes! Mr House was way better of a guy, and that is saying something.
How very dare you.
House may have been a libertarian.
But he was also a far better written character than Thiel.
I thought House was based on Howard Hughes...or is Thiel also based on Howard Hughes 🤔
Objection; House heals people, is witty and usually comes to the correct answer to a problem.
Apologies if somebody already posted below but Thiel also bought his way into a New Zealand citizenship in 2011, which was rushed through in days, becoming NZ's third richest citizen at the same time. He's subsequently bought increasingly large swathes of land in the South Island and all of us here presume he's prepping for his own apocalypse. Because he doesn't live here. In fact he became made a citizen in a private ceremony in Santa Monica.
How has Jacinda Ardern not revoked that?
@@Grim_Beard Because she can't - he's a citizen and that's it. The local authority where he has huge plots of land have just rejected his plans to build what is essentially a compound but his citizenship isn't a visa - it can't be taken away apart from extreme circusmtances.
@@Grim_Beard Because you can't just remove citizenships for no reason. It's not as if he's done anything criminal, whether in NZ or elsewhere. And now the Nationals are in power, they'll more than welcome him with open arms.
You're like my favorite news anchor reporting live from my undiagnosed brain aneurysm. Thanks for the news.
What a convenient time for this to show up on my feed
An episode about a massive taint being sponsored by a manscaping company was just
The funniest thing about Thiel’s (and his acolytes’) understanding of structures is that what they push for necessarily REJECTS the descriptive reality that makes silicon valley/vc what it is. Their views on what makes the best structure can be rebutted by what made them relevant in the first place
Ah, but you're missing one important part of the equation: they got theirs and don't want anybody else able to kick them off their own perch.
Basically they want to set fire to every ladder behind them after they finish climbing them.
They're just pulling the ladder up on their way out. Nothing concerning about that.
@@anthonytwohill9726
Yes, you see that a lot with conservative types.
They're business types, not programmers, unlike Gates and some of the Silicon Valley elders who had some scientific flair (even if they created these new monsters). It seems the "disruptive" tech paradigm is hard to follow or bear for those with a real technical or scientific inclination.
@@grmpEqweer funny, given that there's nothing "conservative" about destroying establishments or traditions. I would argue that they're really just selfish pieces of s***.
I snort laughed a noodle out of my nose at the idea of Warmbo gacked out singing a Silversun Pickups song
Can we thank Cody for briefly breaking character during the Manscape ad?
That's the comment I was looking for.
I certainly will.
Wow. Called this one. Watching this again August 2024
I'll be honest, I barely recall this episode when it put back up in my suggestions. Smart move putting Vance in the thumbnail.
Good to hear that the former Austrian chancellor has found a new likeable boss, after he had to quit politics because of corruption.
I'm not even from the US but these videos are enlightening either way. I hope i to some extent help keep the lights on without you selling your actual soul mr news man.
Same about being an overseas viewer. I think that it's important because US politics has influence on the rest of the world; there are, were and will be similarities and copycats in the politics of other countries, plus the US' overseas policies have huge affects.
@@SnakeMan448 we have our fair share of these weirdos entering politics in Canada, and some of them are starting to win elections. It's kind of scary. They're following the U.S. neo right playbook word for word.
"Won't someone think of the poor CEOs?!"
-Thiel
Re-watching in mid-2024, I've got good news and bad news about those goons.
What’s the good news?
I know this shouldn't be my main takeaway from this video, but I can't get over how great that ad read about balls was.
I bounced on my boys Weed Wacker for hours watching this episode.
It made me want to shave some balls...
...Now I have to find a guy who's into that...
I knew most of what was said about Thiele, Musk and Vance. But I did learn a lot about balls.
@@JohnRay1969 a man of culture and etiquette I see. A howdy doo to you and watch out for the cloud people
If I pay Cody $5 to snort a $5 bill do I have to give him a second $5 bill or will he just snort the first one?
He will need the second $5 bill to roll up and snort the first $5 bill through.
See, these are the philosophical questions of the day that actually need discussing!
I've always said the most impressive thing about Peter Thiel was that he knew enough rich people that he could raise one million dollars in the 90s (which is around 2 million today) to gamble with.
He was a 30 something white guy that worked in finance before moving to California in the late 90s.
@@rmo9808 Don't see how this changes my point. The most impressive thing about Peter Thiel was he had a bunch of rich friends that he was able to get money from.
@@internetcontrarian It just makes what he did even less impressive.
@@rmo9808 I agree, that was the intent of my original post.
@@internetcontrarian I figured. I was just tacking on a few extra details
I'm in accident and emergency with a cracked spine, thanks for this. Honestly needed the dissecting of some twats to keep me going
That's rough, hope you're doing ok
Hope you’re doing better now!!!
Bring it back 🎉🎉 the world needs to know
This is unironically one of the more terrifying episodes of smn. Thank you Cody, very cool!1!!!!
This video is officially certified by the Recommending Ones & Zeros.
Cody breaking character talking about balls is my new spirit animal
that part gave me strength to watch video till the end
So many deranged ads without Breaking, but the balls finally did it.
The badass synth dude is watching the badass news dude. As it should be lol.
Same, brightened by day a little bit
So Thiel heard leftists say "capitalism and democracy are fundamentally incompatible" and while leftists say "so we need to get rid of capitalism", Thiel thought "so we need to get rid of democracy"
Re-watching this video in horror in July of 2024 as JD Vance is actually Trump’s running mate.
During college I saw the book Zero to One by Thiel in syllabus reading lists and had it recommended by professors in class. I’m glad I never wasted my time reading it.
Ironically, I'm glad I did read it when I was younger and part of a startup. A lot of Thiel's ideas about monopolies and competition are eerily similar to Marx's analysis of the falling rate of profit, merely set in a pro-monopoly light, so I had an easier time moving to the left than I would have without exposure to Peter Thiel's framework.
Maybe they seem similar because they both describe a common behaviour pattern of human beings. The problem which seems to happen is when people have a fridge brilliance moment and start thinking that just because it happens a lot it must be the only true way that things should be. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem [RIP Douglas Adams, you are sorely missed!]
@@deadmeme8011 Karl Marx was the world's foremost expert on capitalism. His economic assertions are just extrapolations of basic economic principles. In that sense, communism is just the natural conclusion of a perfectly functioning capitalist system. It's his philosophies on how we should behave knowing these conclusions that are questionable.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 m arx was proven right about everything. Including what to do with Robb er barons
@@Backinblackbunny009 I dunno...if you have to go through a state of dictatorship (the proletarian one, in Marx's case) before getting to the "perfect society", I think there might be a DEEP flaw in your reasoning
A grade a villain. thank you Cody. I've been telling people to fear thiel for a long time...
a little late for October but I'm always down to dunk on the actual blood goblin we have walking among us
What a horrifying episode to rewatch in August of 2024
This video aged like pokemon cards with that jd vance segment
By which i mean the value exploded 1000fold
Love you guys ❤ thanks for all the hard work. And Warmbo too.
Strung out Warmbo *chef's kiss*
I laughed WAY too hard.
Interesting how they are the things that they warn us about.
Wow, look at yall getting consistent with the Wednesday releases!
Someone is taking their AG1 =oD
This both aged too well and horribly at the same time.
Coming back to this to remind myself want a freak JD Vance is
Hope to see a video about the 20+lb turkey shortage for thankgiving and how thanksgiving itself is a hoax propped up by Big Boar
T H I S.
Please yes.
We should change Thanksgiving
Make it about Preparing a Meal around the most Destructive or Overly Populated Animal In the US at that time.
So Now it would be in my opinion a Boar.
And All of the US coming together to Eat the Most overpowered Animal of that Year sounds like one of the most MURICA! Things I have ever heard of.
@@zaczane PIG ROAST FOR ALL!
That ad is the first time I've seen Cody break character before
I love that The Right Stuff ad showed a "match" that was over 2000 miles away
Fun fact, in Silicon Valley, ol' Peter is known as a fella who likes his boys very young. Jussayin'.
Great news, I bet this episode is gonna get a bump in views this week! Unfortunately... Its because of JD Vance. Oh boy.
That's why I'm here again, I needed to remind myself why his name immediately made me gag
The shame in a if you don’t know it’s his episode you just see PayPal based global threat #2, assume that’s not this weeks priority and then go watch Hillbilly Elegy?
It’s not until Thiel and Trump start to discuss the future that people will find their way back here and say, I wish I had seen this earlier.
I was at a conference that Thiel spoke at, & I think the wildest thing he talked about was creating floating city of suspended in the ocean docks & houseboats. This was his example of his libertarian goal, since there would be no government in international waters
So his plan to get away from government is make a government, brilliant
@@Gloomdrake but it’s *his* government , with blackjack, & hookers
I dunno why libertarians be seasteading, but they must have a deep-seated urge to experience a miserable demise at sea. Like...every project either implodes due to extremely basic considerations like waste disposal, ignoring the sovereignty of nearby island nations, or just straight-up being a scam to raise funds.
You can drain all the teenagers of blood you want in international water
In "Love, Death and Robots" there is a bit about this.
I'm never sure whether to watch on Patreon or watch on RUclips because I want more of that JUICY content but also Wednesday releases make the week better
the fact he named his big data company after Middle Earth Spyware lets you know he's a Lawful Evil Nerd
Thiel is a purely an opportunist, similar to Trump, don't make the mistake, like they do here, of lumping these psychopaths into the same boat as Nerds generally.
As a Chaotic Good Nerd I have to point out that the palantiri were initially meant to be a simple means of communication before they got stolen and corrupted by an evil god with near unlimited power. Life imitates Art and I Do Not Like It
somewhat unrelated but connected via thiel: he rented out bran castle (aka “dracula’s castle”) in romania a couple days ago for a halloween party.
while he and his partygoers were in the country flying between towns in helicopters, romanian national media was reporting for days that elon musk had actually rented the castle and was throwing the party, not thiel. ultimately, this turned out to be a rumor spread and believed widely, despite no evidence that elon was ever involved. many romanian people were celebrating elon being in the country and gathered outside of restaurants and the castle, when they believed he was present. truly embarrassing stuff, specifically for all of the news media that reported matter-of-factly elon had rented the castle.
interestingly, gay marriage is illegal in romania, and i guarantee all of the wannabe serfs celebrating what they believed was elon’s presence would be repulsed to find out the wealthy man they were hoping to see is actually gay. a lot of romanian news only referred to his husband as his partner.
anyways, fuck thiel.
Having made the mistake of dating a Romanian musk Stan.... yeah I can see that happening 🙈
This is super relevant info now
Damn, you sure this wasn't supposed to come out october 31st? This episode had such a chilling tale.
In "Neoreaction a Basilisk" Elisabeth Sandifer has a very good essay specifically about Peter Thiel, dissecting and deconstructing his business ventures and his ideology.
And about existential angst at the "stupidity" of it all.
When the man may be an inspiration for the villain from Bioshock, it says something.
Thank you for covering him. A german mixture of comedy and investigative show also did a piece on him... and also a James Bond like song, look for "Right time to Thiel".
And now Peter Thiel installed Vance as the DT VP pic
Truly whatever manscaped paid Cody for that ad read, they should at least double it. There is no way they expected a read that hilarious with ball ventriloquism
I like the break from Evil Boss! Katie. It makes me anxious 😂
Thiel running a dating app that wouldn't have him as a member feels like the bad version of a good Marx Brothers joke.
Or a good version
Straight up technofeudalism
Great word. Will be using this. Soooooo descriptive.
Can’t wait for the Orban episode. My Hungarian husband and I will most definitely tune in👌🏾
Love catching episodes less than a half hour after they drop
Every Wednesday at Noon
Thank you for this. I shared it on Facebook because I got thrown off Twitter after the takeover by Musk. Oh, and I subscribed
The headline on that Stanford paper should have been, "No one tells me where all the cool parties are"
I just can't stop looking at the one gray stress hair from all the past couple of renovation videos on his right cheek hanging off...
Takes some major cojones for someone to basically say "Between the party that wants to protect my money and the one that wants to protect my life, I choose the former."
Ignoring the fact that I watched this early on patreon,
Oh wow! I can't believe you uploaded this on my birthday! Can't wait to watch it for the first time, right after I blow out my candles!
Happy birthday bro!!
Happy B-Day