This almost as bonkers as Thiel. Just the other way around.

Truths are always somewhere in the middle.

I don’t have a strong opinion on Thunberg herself, but no, truths aren’t always in the middle. Thiel is clearly a complete fruitcake, so it does not make sense to triangulate based on any position that he holds.

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dgxyz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh completely. I think you missed my point. Divisive narratives are almost entirely always wrong. The truth generally sits way away from the fruitcakes somewhere in the middle.

The problem these days is we give fruitcakes a stage. Or they buy one.

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foldr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Right, but if you are using Thiel as a point of reference, you’re going to find a midpoint between sanity and insanity, which isn’t the truth. Say what you will about Thunberg, but she is not insane in the way that Thiel is.

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dgxyz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

She's not exactly what or who she purports to be. Definitely not the antichrist however. But if we want to fix this shithole of a planet we should stop listening to both of them.

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foldr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Again, you're suggesting an equivalence between someone who has strong views and someone who's simply disconnected from reality. Thunberg is right to be concerned about the environment. You could argue that she's too concerned (maybe). Thiel is not right to be worried about the antichrist and Armageddon.

We don't need to find some kind of mythical middle ground between people who are too worried about the antichrist and people who aren't sufficiently worried about the antichrist. Rather, we should just set eschatological eccentrics aside when it comes to orienting our political outlook.

	▲	dgxyz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s not the environmental campaigning that’s the issue. I am very much aligned with that. In fact I’ve done a fair bit of that myself and you’ll occasionally find me at demonstrations. I think most people are well aligned with that. It’s the deep dive into geopolitics which is now being used to discredit her that is the problem. There’s things you don’t touch with a pole and she’s been all over them. That’s why the media have shut up about her. There isn’t universal support or consensus there. She did a lot of damage to the environmental cause getting involved. That makes her a pariah on all causes. The mid ground is a rational scientific approach and consistent pressure and staying within the rails that are your primary cause.

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cindyllm 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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