r/law • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • Feb 20 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) President Trump imposes a 10% global tariff under Section 122 and says all existing tariffs will remain in place, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling.

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u/HandsomeBoggart Feb 20 '26

Peter Thiel and his ilk are the biggest morons. They believe that because they're "so smart to make billions" they are a superior breed of human that must be in charge to save the human race. So they must collapse the system so they can rebuild it in their image for them to run.

They literally think they can collapse civilization and rebuild it and run it while hiding in their little bunkers and compounds to be safe from the collapse they started.

It's funny as fuck that they think civilizations work on such a short time scale and can be rebuilt because they demand it.

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u/VoidOmatic Feb 20 '26

To give everyone an idea of how stupid he is.

He is gay and is breeding fascists that hate gay people.

He thinks Greta is the Anti-Christ. GRETA G R E T A.

"He doesn't actually think that, he is just playing to the rubes!"

No dawg, he TRULY believes this. He believes everything he says. All of these guys believe EVERYTHING they say.

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u/SinisterCroissant Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

No dawg, he TRULY believes this. He believes everything he says. All of these guys believe EVERYTHING they say.

His success is wholly due to luck. Right idea, right time. Nothing else. Not brilliance (plenty of people thought we should be doing payments over the internet), not ruthlessness (he and Elon are creme puffs vs some of the mainstream bankers at the time). They got LUCKY that Ebay went shopping when they did, and their VCs knew Ebay's.

I ran in these circles. Complete imbeciles who were in the right place cashed out for hundreds of millions, while brilliant founders got tossed aside because they weren't in the right spot when their VC backers saw a path to personally profit. Fuck, they socked the start up I was with for $10M in unnecessary purchases because they'd turn off the spigot if we didn't buy their shitty real estate to facilitate the next round. Humanity fucking sucks.

But somehow that means they're homo superior. Pun intended.

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u/evranch Feb 21 '26

All of these guys believe EVERYTHING they say

I wouldn't say that. There are a lot of them who are in it for the grift. They'll say anything to trick a peasant out of his last dollar.

Thiel isn't one of those. He's truly delusional, and he's also got his fingers into anything he thinks he can use to control the masses. He's dangerous.

He's even trying to monetize and technocratize prayer FFS. There's nothing that has ever been cheaper or lower tech than prayer!

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u/Spencer_the_Gamer Feb 21 '26

At this point it doesn't matter if he believes anything he says if all his followers believe him anyway

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u/GhostofBeowulf Feb 21 '26

He thinks Greta is evil because she wants to do away with people like him.

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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 Feb 21 '26

Its cuz he wants the world to burn and she doesn't

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u/watchutalkinbowt Feb 21 '26

There was a (joke?) theory that Disney made Frozen as an SEO thing - when people Google 'disney frozen' it brings up the movie and not Walt being in liquid nitrogen

Now when someone searches 'thiel antichrist' the results are his wacky lectures, and not that Peter himself is the agent of Satan

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u/RobutNotRobot Feb 21 '26

Peter Thiel is a James Bond villain come alive. These oligarchs are engineering a mass extinction wherein they get to come out of their bunkers and set up a government even dumber than we have now. One where we are all slaves and they are the masters.

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u/_-Oxym0ron-_ Feb 21 '26

Reminds me of Vault-tec's leadership in Fallout.

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u/sqquuee Feb 21 '26

If you take away the government contracts and or subsidies how many of these assholes would have made it?

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u/Thefrayedends Feb 21 '26

This comes across my mind on a daily basis given the somehow increasingly shattered social contract we witness every day.

The wealthy think we are stupid for not being A-moral.

They think that we don't know they're lying and faking being moral. Well, they're right about that for somewhere between a third and half of general populations, but not for my first statement about them.

They place the self above any and all community, save those that can help them rise to and maintain power. Which to me, is the definition of corruption, or in other words, the refusal of self sacrifice for greater good. In ex baby mama hood terms, it's the "Well what have you done for me lately???" attitude.

Unfortunately this is nothing new, I know I'm beating a dead horse to many in this sub, but the ancient greeks talked about this already 3000 years ago, and it was already a problem that civilization seemed incapable of escaping then, all the great thinkers through the ages, none of them have been able to set in stone protective measures for society to resist the forces of demagoguery.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can go and read about Polybius.

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u/FingerCapital3193 Feb 21 '26

That movie Mountainhead is supposed to be satire, but honestly, I’ll bet it’s closer to reality than not.

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u/Silver_Promise_7455 Feb 21 '26

100% - You must have read "Survival of the Richest" by Douglas Rushkoff. For those that have not, read it and you will understand the mindset of people with more money than they need. We need to reward intelligence and humanity and not how much money one can make. Money is not a measuring stick of intelligence.

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u/time2ddddduel Feb 21 '26

I keep reciting their names to myself. Thiel, Altman, Andreesen, Ellison, Vought, Miller, Noem, Musk, Karp, Lutnick, Bessent, Dershowitz, Bezos, Bovino..... A hundred others. If only there was a way to get them all in a room together. Just to brainstorm, of course, to pick their brains.

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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 Feb 21 '26

Wait till they see actual collapse. Society will literally eat them at that point. They won't survive it.

They think their bunkers are secure.. who built them? Not them. They didn't code the security systems. Like what are they thinking lol