PayPal Cofounder and Former CEO Outs Himself As A Misogynist Nutbag
Facebook backer and former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel has dropped his pants and let his crazy flag fly, right in front of the entire internet. In an essay published on the website of the Libertarian think tank The Cato Institute, Thiel bemoans the day that women won the right to vote.
I should be outraged by this, or at least dismayed. But the truth is: I laughed. I couldn't help but laugh. Thiel's essay is so flamboyantly and earnestly insane that, were its author not worth $1.3 billion, it would be distributed via tattered Xerox copies stapled to light poles.
The meatiest bit is as follows:
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.