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I get it, the author was very irritated that Thiel spoke for trump, so he wrote a really bad article full of personal attacks, misinformation, belittling comparisons etc. Why did the NYtimes publish this garbage ?

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My thoughts exactly.

>Why did the NYtimes publish this garbage ?

Probably because the rest of the staff shares the author's personal resentment for Thiel, which isn't surprising considering their liberal bias.

>he wrote a really bad article full of personal attacks, misinformation, belittling comparisons

Calm your sensibilities, it's nothing of the sort. It's an op-ed piece that has a negative bias against Thiel (who has also said dumb things). Why does this site criticize any piece that speculates are conveys opinion?

I'm generally one who ignores bias in the Opinion section of the paper, but one thing that made an impression on me was that this was published in the "Magazine", not the Opinion section. It reads more like a hit piece against someone for having the "wrong" politics than a thoughtful essay, IMO. (This, coming from someone who dislikes Thiel, Trump, and the GOP)

It's about the bad and false arguments in the article, such as painting him as a nostalgic warmonger. I don't like Thiel either, but not for these reasons.

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