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He didn't call them "fake news", he called them leftist media sources and that's a factual statement. The Guardian especially is anything but a neutral source.



Exactly. There is still hope...


The Guardian isn't leftist. It's a centrist/liberal publication. Those are very different things.

(They also publish opinion pieces from other positions/ideologies, but that's a part of the whole liberal free market of ideas thing.)


  The newspaper's reputation as a platform for liberal and 
  left-wing editorial has led to the use of the "Guardian 
  reader" and "Guardianista" as often (but not always) 
  pejorative epithets for those of left-leaning or 
  politically correct tendencies.
Literally taken straight from Wikipedia..


Are those links editorials? No, they're not. They're straight reporting.

Are you disputing the quotations attributed to Thiel in the reporting? No, you don't seem to be.

You asked for examples of toxic viewpoints held by Thiel, someone delivered, and you plugged your fingers in your ears and said "lol facts don't matter". Don't be that guy.


It would have helped if somebody actually posted examples of toxic viewpoints held (as in present tense)by Thiel. Nothing like that has been produced so far here.


Quotes from the man's mouth aren't good enough?


30 years old misinterpreted quotes? Not really.

Now, he may well be a white supremacist (although I haven't heard any complaints from his Jewish cofounders, FWIW), but these do not prove it at all.




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