Originally published at: Peter Thiel an FBI informant | Boing Boing
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Fascists are always ready and willing to stab their comrades in the back if it means more power or mo ey for themselves. Looked at that way, the dolchstosslegende is yet another example of right-wing projection.
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Forever a classic.
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Rudimentary indications of a government informant: Be situated to interact with a lot of presumed enemies of the government and make a lot of noises like a presumed enemy of the government. (“so thiel is fbi and musk-atonic is cia or kgb?”)
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The only visible source in the article, and one of the two unnamed sources couldn’t confirm. 
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Sounds like they had something on him and he cut a deal to not be prosecuted.
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“The bigger the scumbag, the more likely they are to be a narc.”
We can call it Bulger’s Law, after Whitey Bulger, gang boss and FBI informant. But there are surely other candidates as well: Bulger certainly wasn’t the only organized crime figure who had a sideline as an informant.
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Yes, how incredibly surprising that the tech bro Roy Cohn who founded a company named after seeing stones that allow evil people to spy on you and take over your mind is spying on his asshole friends.
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That type of thing has to be a legal agreement between people, lawyers, and the government. Because you want to be able to legally hold the government to its word and the governments wants to hold you to yours.
If you become a CHS, you’re just doing it 1) for the money, and 2) maybe you like the government?
- To avoid prosecution.
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- To live a childhood dream…
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