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Conversely, he could from a family like mine - my Omi is Austrian, along with a slew of cousins. Dinner table conversation still turns to how things would have been better had herr Hitler won. My uncle has to leave the room he so vociferously objects to his mother and his children.

So, that collective memory swings both ways. Maybe Thiel lacks education in history and pines for a glorious fictitious past, which is a core tenet of the trump campaign. And fascism.

He may be a decent technologist and business person, but that doesn't make him wise.

parent madaxe_again 10 years ago

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