Calif. Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Somehow Sees Himself in 'Ragtag' Rebels From 'Star Wars'

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Posted on 11/20/2024 3:53:25 PM PST by nickcarraway

Someone should show Peter Thiel his bank account — and the results of the 2024 election.

The PayPal billionaire and longtime California resident is back in the news this week, joining media provocateur Bari Weiss’s “Honestly” podcast for its Nov. 14 episode. About 10 minutes into the two-hour conversation, Thiel, an early supporter of Donald Trump, let fly a truly bizarre metaphor.

He’d been talking about the “intellectual straightjacket” that he sees the Democratic Party forcing people into. He said there’s no room for “individual thought” on the left — not mentioning Trump’s sidelining of the critics within his party — before explaining his point with a “Star Wars” reference.

“The left, the Democratic Party, it’s like the Empire, they’re all Imperial Stormtroopers,” Thiel said. “And, you know, we’re the ragtag Rebel Alliance.”

Thiel continued his “Star Wars” explanation of America’s political right: “It’s an uncomfortably diverse, heterogeneous group. And you have … a teenage Chewbacca, and a Princess Leia-type character and then we have, you know, we have a autistic C-3PO policy wonk person. And it is a ragtag Rebel Alliance against the Empire.”

It isn’t clear whether Thiel was referring to specific people with the characters, though he did gesture vaguely toward Weiss when he brought up Leia. Thiel used this same metaphor to argue that the right was still figuring out big questions in a 2022 interview with the Hoover Institute, down to the phrase “ragtag Rebel Alliance.”

“Ragtag” is, of course, a strange way to describe the party that’s secured a six-Justice conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. Or that just won majorities in the Senate and House. Or that has the backing of Elon Musk, by far the world’s richest man. Thiel, per Forbes, is worth a staggering $13.1

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1 posted on 11/20/2024 3:53:25 PM PST by nickcarraway

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