Billionaire Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel will be a California Trump delegate

Typical alt-right transhumanist pseudo-libertarian. While having compartmentalized and unexamined beliefs is a common tendency among authoritarians, I’ve seen some truly bizarre ideologies in adjacent compartments.

My ‘favorite’ (in terms of actually having had some extended interactions with him and getting a thorough look inside his head) was a twenty-something anarcho-capitalist over on the EP forum who managed to pack his mental compartments with:

  • transhumanism (mind uploading, serial immortality, etc)
  • devout Catholicism
  • Constitutional ‘originalism’ (i.e. "I just want to live as the (mythologized) Founding Fathers intended’)
  • anti-choice attitudes
  • Anarcho-capitalism (which he imagines as being essentially a meritocracy)
  • Objectivism
  • MLP fandom

And then he would get all huffy when people pointed out his (many, many) hypocrisies, double-standards and general debate lightweightness.

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