amazing to watch American right-wingers flounder at the incredibly obvious questions from UK media guys, even Piers fucking Morgan on a podcast

Morgan - as a fellow right winger - asks Thiel about Mangione quoting Thiel

watch Thiel melting in the excruciating video clip

  • @SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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    106 days ago

    Dude looks like he’s in full fight or flight mode if I’m being honest. Quite possibly induced by some pharmacological substance, but a base physiological response nonetheless. What could he be afraid of, I wonder?

    • luciole (he/him)
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      135 days ago

      It’s so weird, there’s all these photos on the internet of him looking like an authentic human jerk and then here we are. A financial entity in a patchy flesh suit. Motherfucker made it straight from Silicon Valley to uncanny valley.

      • @froztbyte
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        85 days ago

        same thing with felon, who has the airbrushed-to-fuck Rogue Boyish Charm press photo that usually goes around, and then Weirdo Creep Making Jumping Xs freak as the reality

    • sp3ctr4l
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      95 days ago

      Answered in the article, which refers to him as an ‘Antichrist Peter Thiel,’ rofl.

    • David GerardOPMA
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      136 days ago

      young blood, it’s a hell of a drug

    • @froztbyte
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      95 days ago

      every so often, gear techs involved with filming interviews can do silently heroic things

      I don’t know if this is a case of that, but given the skin shine from reflections, whoever set this up wasn’t trying overly hard to make him look good. good on 'em

      • @Amoeba_Girl
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        125 days ago

        my personal theory is he refused makeup because it’s an unnatural affectation that could have compromised his bioengineered skincare immortality routine

    • @swlabr
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      55 days ago

      One too many poop pills

  • @froztbyte
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    85 days ago

    holy fuck this is incredible

    reminds me: earlier today I saw a toot reflecting on “it’s not radical to have $x. the american right have just dragged it so far away that gov doing it’s job is now radical”. topical