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Peter Thiel has publicly said he doesn't believe in democracy, and he heavily backed someone who tried to violently overthrow the US government.

"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron."

Maybe not around here? But technocratic nationalism is certainly an unusual strain nationally, come on. We don't get to know his inner mind obviously, but whatever ideology runs through "socially conservative gay man" is likely to be rare.

The whole parabiosis thing, for one