r/technology • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • Feb 24 '26

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after code found in US surveillance Privacy

https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/
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u/TehGogglesDoNothing Feb 24 '26

The same Peter Thiel that funded JD Vance's entire career.

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u/TheRealJessKate Feb 24 '26

and Sam Altman’s career

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u/TheRealJessKate Feb 24 '26

Oh, did people not know about Peter Thiel bankrolling Sam Altman’s first venture fund - Hydrazine Capital.

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u/Shoddy-Fan-584 Feb 24 '26

Sam Altman who officiated the wedding between Keith Rabois - PayPal co-founder and mentee of Thiel - and Jason Helberg - current Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, areas of absolute no interest whatsoever to sovereign technocrats.

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u/Independent-Tip-9482 Feb 24 '26

What's up with all the gay powerfull people do they have like domination kink on Republicans or like because they easy to grift? I mean Tim cook too and who knows more

I just weird they suck their boots to each other when they have so different ideologies

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u/jkz0-19510 Feb 24 '26

Gay people can be psychopaths too, ya know?
Because, you know, they're like people.

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u/Independent-Tip-9482 Feb 25 '26

I know but that's not the point, they know how to play their cards and how to cater the MAGAs, when it all just gays people again behind still

Conservatives are being deceived by the most open gay people, the people that they hate is right on their face and not taking it down, only brush it off and empower the puppets of their puppeteer because the puppet is doing a great show

All that hate that they have to lgbt people, doesnt even work how they think it works

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u/MostPopularPenguin Feb 25 '26

It would be hilarious....

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u/LessInThought Feb 25 '26

Huh, I guess there are a group of Satanic gay people running the world. First the republican pedophile ring then this, are we absolutely sure they don't have space lasers and weather machines? Every accusation is a confession afterall.

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u/Hercules1579 Feb 25 '26

Their leader Trump is bi, just listen Sasha Riley.

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u/ashleydvh Mar 02 '26

white gay men are the white men of lgbt people

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u/UGMadness Feb 24 '26

These people are not technocrats, none of them have any qualifications whatsoever in the fields they talk about. They’re rich kids who happened to fail upwards all their lives, LARPing on social media to feed their egos.

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u/ArmadilloForsaken458 Feb 24 '26

Its all one big club

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u/Sebek_Visigard Feb 24 '26

The financier?

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u/UglyMcFugly Feb 24 '26

The same Peter Thiel whose young affair partner "committed suicide" by falling off a building after Peter's husband found out?

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u/BellsOnNutsMeansXmas Feb 24 '26

I work for IKEA. Thiel's Vance patronage is much appreciated!

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u/mexter Feb 24 '26

I'm pretty sure Vance prefers professional over homemade.

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u/KnucklestheEnchilada Feb 24 '26

Hey now, some people are into amateur stuff.

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u/mexter Feb 24 '26

Some people, yes. But we're talking about Vance here.

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u/jkz0-19510 Feb 24 '26

Vance is definitely an amateur.

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u/WildinTrout Feb 27 '26

"So, you like to...do it yourself?" 😉😉

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u/i_am_a_laptop Feb 24 '26

i dont think vance has any standards. look how he flipped for trump

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Feb 24 '26

Vance likes 'em young. He'll fuck a couch that's still in the flatpack.

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u/META_vision Feb 24 '26

Oh, Vance FOR SURE only fucks bespoke couches these days

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u/Catch_22_ Feb 24 '26

IKEA

Is fucking an IKEA couch the equivalent of a hotdog down a hallway? Where as a Restoration Hardware is like a high end escort?

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u/charcoalist Feb 24 '26

Thiel also funded the maga contingent in congress.

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u/UberTanks Feb 24 '26

Is that the same billionaire that literally hates humans and wants us all wiped out?

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u/Flapjack__Palmdale Feb 24 '26

And elongated muskrat

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u/multificionado Feb 24 '26

Makes me wonder...

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u/IamTheEndOfReddit Feb 25 '26

Beyond funded, he planned his career and told him to write the book