And by "freedom" he doesn't mean your freedom.

He's not entirely wrong. In a democracy we vote for people who (in an ideal world) would regulate assholes like him. In his fascist technocracy he'll be able to do whatever the fuck he wants to the rest of us. So in that sense, sure, democracy can put limits on ultimate freedom™©®

....but we kinda want that because fuckbags like thiel exist.

I don't think Thiel is compatible with freedom, nor democracy. If he died we'd all be better off.

We no longer believe that Democracy and Sociopathic Oligarchs can co-exist. We choose Democracy.

We need to stop using PayPal!

Take a good look, folks. This is the face of Anarcho-capitalism. Peter Thiel wants to be your new overlord. Unregulated and unrestrained.

He doesn't mean freedom for the proles. He means his personal total and absolute freedom to exploit other people relentlessly and without consequences.

French style revolution is the only solution

Anyone should feel free to utilize the second amendment when this guy appears

If your freedom depends on others not being free, you really just want the freedom to oppress.

These pieces of shit are especially egregious because they promised so much change and hope and opportunity for everyone but all their garbage companies just toed the old line instead of actually "disrupting" anything at all. The only thing they've disrupted is everyone's savings and futures

Well clearly Peter Thiel has never read Murray Bookchin!

Man, I remember a debate he had with David Graeber (Someone who knew and did read Murray Bookchin). Thiel got absolutely schooled by our late great anthropologist-anarchist. Like utterly trashed by him, in that Graeber wasn't even trying to trash him he was just responding to Thiel's horrid conceits with his casual and playful depth of understanding.

You've gotta look it up on youtube. Thiel had fucking daggers in his eyes. Graeber was just having a good time with it. You cannot completely convince me that Thiel did not have some sort of hand in Graeber's early death.

Billionaire oligarchs are incompatible with democracy, he's just got it backwards like most anti-humanity fascists tend to do

freedom and democracy are compatible
Hmm, I might agree Peter

I no longer believe that MY freedom and YOUR democracy are compatible. So you can't have democracy anymore so I can have my freedom to not be regulated.

It's really kind of sad that these people are surrounded by Yes men for so long that they think every thought they have and everything they say is correct and brilliant.

It's like they've built their own little personal echo chambers.

We humans really are a dumb fragile bag of meat and bones.

It's funny how he calls it a lack of freedoms and we call it laws and human rights.

That's what he has an issue with: human rights and laws.

He's right. In his own twisted kind of way. Democracy is in the way of the overly rich to take complete control and become dictators. Being a dictator is their ultimate power fantasy of 'true freedom'.

I agree that Democracy is not compatible with his definition of giving the richest people on earth the freedom to have planar authority. So we must get rid of them to save democracy and our own freedom.

The sooner we eat this guy the better.

This Peter Thiel piece of shit doesn’t understand human development. He says freedom and democracy are not compatible, and yet we have decades (and in some cases centuries) of data showing that democracies make people freer.

If I could kindly suggest to that asshole to read one book, I’d suggest he reads Christian Welzel’s Freedom Rising. The book is packed with data that shows how democracies create freedom.

For example, democracies invest in their own people.

• Democracies invest in education, so that people can choose what kind of life to live.
• Democracies invest in healthcare, so that people can live without freedom-limiting disease.
• Democracies invest in research, so that people can solve technical problems with ease and spend more time doing things they can choose to do.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. In many, many ways, democracy leads to freedom, true actual freedom.

“I no longer want the restrictions on me that are punitive and serve to protect the masses at my expense.” -Thiel

Not even trying to understand. He's just another bored billionaire trying to stir the pot.

I no longer believe that Peter Thiel and oxygen are compatible.

Remember kids, look around you. Too much money will fuck you up big time.

He is right. HIS freedom is not compatible with Democracy.

He thinks he should be free to rule over everyone poorer than hin

Democracy only works when the people is at the wheel, not the oligarchs.

Well isn't it obvious? Freedom is only compatible with wealthy elites pressing their boots (or the boots of their paid hirelings) against the necks of the people.

Ah it seems like the didn't say the entirety of what he believes, he really means:

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible with my need to have more control over everyone else

Remember it's his vision of freedom and democracy. Which doesn't have freedom and democracy for you and I.

well neither is fascism, you damn fascist

Is that why I keep seeing so much pro-China shit on corporate social media like Reddit and Youtube lately?

The capitalists finally realized they weren't actually communist, they just created a hypercapitalist paradise with zero democracy, and they want in on the deal.

Tbh this guys method is ‘the boy who cries wolf’ in the most random ways.. anyone who gives this guy a seconds worth of your attention just needs to reevaluate their why they are trying to rationalize or give chance to ppl with greed as their best interest

Why is the headline and article about a quote that's almost 2 decades old?

Just so everybody knows, he said this almost 20 years ago

and people will still say more aggressive action against these people is unnecessary and that protests are working, they are clearly not given that trump is now trying to eject the georgia senators and their general attacks on election infrastructure.

I have similar suspicions. "Democracy" tends to mean, "governed by corporations and foreign oligarchs" over time. It is extremely vulnerable to outside influence and depends on its constituents' conscientiousness to protect it from that influence. The study of human psychology and manipulation (or just call it mind control) keeps leaping forward, but democratic structures aren't benefiting from the advances and the gap is widening. Democratic methods work great when everyone knows each other and respects the process, and they don't really work in the presence of bad actors.

Why does he think his opinion on this matters?

What a coincidence, me neither!

He's only saying what many philosophers have said forever.