I'm totally with you, but to pull the tent up even further: you don't even need to be scared of billionaires to be scared of Thiel -- I would trade a thousand Buffets for a single Thiel.
It starts with typical SV hype, but by the end he espouses Samuel Huntington's theory that the world will soon fall into a vicious race war, and that the White ("western") World--the US, the white-majority Commonwealth states, and Western & Central Europe--should strike first to assure its dominance. Our enemies in this war will supposedly be primarily 2) team Every-Muslim-Country ("civilizational conflicts are particularly prevalent between Muslims and non-Muslims") and 3) team China+Korea, but there's also six other races ("civilizations") in the mix: 4) Latin America, 5) Sub-Saharan Africa (minus South Africa), 6) Russia+West Asia+Eastern Europe, 7) Southeast Asia, 8) Japan, and 9) India.
I know it sounds like I'm being absurdly hyperbolic, but... well, lets just say I'm afraid of Peter Thiel:
As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible “by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion . . . but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.” He continued: “Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
First of all, that letter is from Karp, not Thiel.
And your reading of this letter, and Huntington's theory of the clash of civilizations, is absurdly alarmist and misleading. I'm not saying Huntington was correct but he's not some fringe far-right nutjob hoping for a "vicious race war".
In case anyone hasn't read it yet, I highly recommend you read his (short) Q42024 letter to the Palantir shareholders: https://www.palantir.com/q4-2024-letter/en/
It starts with typical SV hype, but by the end he espouses Samuel Huntington's theory that the world will soon fall into a vicious race war, and that the White ("western") World--the US, the white-majority Commonwealth states, and Western & Central Europe--should strike first to assure its dominance. Our enemies in this war will supposedly be primarily 2) team Every-Muslim-Country ("civilizational conflicts are particularly prevalent between Muslims and non-Muslims") and 3) team China+Korea, but there's also six other races ("civilizations") in the mix: 4) Latin America, 5) Sub-Saharan Africa (minus South Africa), 6) Russia+West Asia+Eastern Europe, 7) Southeast Asia, 8) Japan, and 9) India.
I know it sounds like I'm being absurdly hyperbolic, but... well, lets just say I'm afraid of Peter Thiel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizationshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington