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		deft on March 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook’s Surveillance Machine So Thiel is playing 5d chess too? How about this: He has shitty political opinions and enough money to put them into action. Your wishful thinking is just delusional.

thanatropism on March 20, 2018 [–]

It's not really 5D chess. Republicans have been saying "starve the lion" (e.g. taking huge deficits and then proposing budget cuts) since Reagan. I wouldn't be surprised if Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" (which I never read, I just know the blurb) proposes this meta-strategy en passant somewhere.

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