Curb Your Authoritarianism? The 2016 Conventional Wisdom Thread (Elections, Part 6)

Thiel:

The Seasteading Institute (TSI), founded by Wayne Gramlich and Patri Friedman on April 15, 2008, is an organization formed to facilitate the establishment of autonomous, mobile communities on seaborne platforms operating in international waters.[5][8][9] Gramlich’s 1998 article "SeaSteading – Homesteading on the High Seas" outlined the notion of affordable steading, and attracted the attention of Friedman with his proposal for a small-scale project.[3] The two began working together and posted their first collaborative book online in 2001, which explored aspects of seasteading from waste disposal to flags of convenience.

The project picked up mainstream exposure in 2008 after having been brought to the attention of PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, who contributed $500,000 to fund the creation of The Seasteading Institute and has since spoken out on behalf of its viability, as seen in his essay "The Education of a Libertarian",[10] published online by Cato Unbound. The Seasteading Institute has received widespread media attention from sources such as CNN, Wired,[5] Prospect,[11] The Economist[9] Business Insider,[12] and BBC[13] American journalist John Stossel wrote an article about seasteading in February 2011 and hosted Friedman on his show on the Fox Business Network.[

to quote Harry Lime: "Free of income tax! Free of income tax!"

"blue-collar billionaire" imo means that basically he acts the way you imagine all billionaires act if you are from small town middle america where there are maybe a couple families in the county who make 1/100th of that

in other words could believably (and has) played the role of a billionaire on the WWE

"Befriends the bewildered"--weird!

Watching the PBS commentary, it's funny that David Brooks is supposed to be the token conservative on the panel, and yet his disdain for Trump is palpable.

this guy is killing everyone's energy right before Trump

uh.. i'm not really listening to the words but the vibe i'm getting is rich weird creepy guy hangin with other rich weird creepy guys behaving like gross jerks + oblivious about it

Is this a filibuster?

Michener reference is appropriate

The North Carolina delegates were pissed about Thiel bagging on the culture wars.

Wow, that footage of New York in the early '70s--should have snuck in a shot of Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo.

there were rumors going around that a bunch of cruz delegates etc were going to have a staged walkout during trump speech, i wonder if that will happen

xpost Joe Buck's narrating!

oh good Larry Kudlow

"Playing on the floor by my father's desk"--right from The Godfather! They're doing it again.

(MVB--hence the reference...)

does she have a fan in her face?

(she looks p good tbh)

MICHAEL: This used to be my father's old study -- it's changed. I remember there used to be a big desk, right here. I remember when I was a kid, Frankie, we had to be very quiet when we played near here.

a gender neutral canddiate

master builder, man of the fuckin people, donald j. wollstonecraft

xpost yeah, I should've known...

Sullivan channels k3vin: "Does Ivanka have a wind-blower keeping her blonde tresses lightly waving in the breeze? The content is so vacuous I keep looking at the hair."

these policy things she says he's going to do - re making childcare affordable, equal pay - this is the first anyone has heard of them coming from the trump campaign, ever

I had to google "Peter Thiel." I'm a low info voter.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

read about his involvement in GOProud. seriously, i know there are a lot of crazy tech entrepeneurs, but this guy wins.

she's talking real positive and isn't he about to come out and deliver a pat buchanan speech now

ALL THINGS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN

Is it me or is this kind of a low key way to introduce the candidate?

surprised he wasn't greeted by "Deutschland Uber Alles."

it still doesn't sound very loud in there

I may have missed earlier bells and whistles

Praying for rambling incoherence

it was a nice speech tbh, she's a good speaker. better than her dad

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jJQ62aFMyvw/UDf-ZPEAyOI/AAAAAAAAFUE/Lag4IjmVNF0/s1600/kane.png

"Is Pop President yet?"

it was a nice speech tbh, she's a good speaker. better than her dad

― k3vin k.,

same thought except "nice speech"

So Trump's on? Streaming?

i think she just winked at me

stayed on script for one sentence

oh man he's already doing unity by reminding Democrats of how they lost

Yay! Put us in jail!

it was a nice speech tbh, she's a good speaker. better than her dad

― k3vin k.,

same thought except "nice speech"

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:20 PM (1 minute ago)

i mean if you judge it on its own bizarro world terms

Ivanka was great, though lol at her pushing a message that literally no other speaker had

No political correctness! Fuckups everyone!

Errr, android is weird...

this is going to be a loooong angry speech

Just what everyone wants to hear

Ha I just turned this on
White people really hate political correctness

the oooooos from the crowd, sounds like the scenes where people tell stories to the children in mad max 3

I was not aware that immigrants are all superpredators

on the order and on the altar