Posted on 08/01/2024 1:09:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai
David Marcus, former president of PayPal and VP of Messaging Products at Facebook, announced his transition from the Democratic Party to backing the Republican Party and former President Donald Trump.
David Marcus, a former Democrat known for his leadership roles at PayPal and Facebook Messenger and for co-founding the cryptocurrency startup Lightspark, has made a significant political shift, declaring his support for the Republican Party and Trump.
Marcus explained his reasoning in a Wednesday post on X, “Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it.”
Consequently, he said, “I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.”
The turning point came in 2019, during his tenure at Meta, where he engaged with lawmakers and regulators about the Libra project.
Marcus revealed, “I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control.” …
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Xoom it baby
This is interesting in that the switch is grounded in personal experience and insights about the different nature of the two parties.
Thanks, I hope more people see the light.
Apparently, David Marcus didn’t get the memo that the attempted murder of President Trump by the Democrats never happened...
Please read about Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and owner of JD Vance. He introduced JD Vance to Trump. Funded Vance’s Ohio Senate race and owned Vance’s companies.
Thee worst part is that the CIA funded Thiel’s company Palantir, a worldwide internet spy agency that monitors activity on the internet for the CIA and FBI.
How am I supposed to be pleased when someone so THICK finally gets it??
Don’t know what you’re getting at.
It’s bad enough that Thiel backed Ron Paul and McCain.
Here's a video posted 3 days ago in which he discusses that subject ("The Real Risk is Totalitarian World Government" - Peter Thiel).
How does that reconcile with your statement that he is somehow owned by the CIA?
I always want to also put into the hopper, if we were to have a comprehensive discussion of these risks, the risk of a totalitarian One World Government. I think the answer, the implicit answer to so many of these existential risks, is a totalitarian One World Government. Greta [Thunberg] thinks climate change is the biggest problem and everybody should ride a bicycle. I would submit that the way you'd actually do this would be going from the frying pan into the fire.In a similar way, if we were to really regulate and stop AI from a precautionary principle, you would need something like global compute governance, or something like this, which would have to be pretty heavy-handed because anyone can program a computer and it can be done on a very local level. It has to be much more heavy-handed than the international regulatory bodies that regulate, let's say, nuclear weapons proliferation, where it's hard to build a nuclear weapon. So, you don't need necessarily a super heavy-handed One World Government to stop it. You would for AI.
A lot of it has the character, I think, that the risk is much greater than the risks people want to talk about. If I had to do the contrarian take, or if you held a gun to my head and asked which I think we're going to get: Are we going to get this dangerous AI that disrupts our society and maybe becomes this dangerous weapon, or are we likely to get the One World Nanny state that stops it from being built?
Thiel is deep state and works with the CIA and just about every alphabet agency.
I guess the new philosophy with Trump is, if you can’t beat him or kill him, join him.
Thiel and Blackrock are the two largest shareholders in Palantir.
That is true in part. But it does not imply or mean that any subcontractors to the CIA and DOD are necessarily being used for nefarious purposes.
Palantir Technologies (one of Thiel's companies) works with both the CIA and the Department of Defense (DoD). Palantir was initially funded by In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, and has developed technology that is widely used by various intelligence and defense agencies.
Palantir's software is used for data integration, analysis, and visualization, which is crucial for intelligence and defense operations.
And BTW Thiel doesn't own Vance any more than Musk owns the people who he hires.
If the CIA, DOD, or Deep State controlled Thiel (and by extension Vance), they would demand that they (Thiel and Vance) stop supporting Trump and his agenda to reduce and significantly enhance the productivity of the Deep State.
It's a complicated world out there. This is nothing new. We must not be naive about drawing spurious connections based on superficial appearances.
Palantir should have the ability to detect and disclose Dominion voter fraud.
In that manner, Blackrock is a stockholder of almost every public company to some degree. That's because they develop ETFs and mutual funds.
That's doesn't mean that Blackrock actually owns and controls the stock.
The stock is actually owned by the people who own the shares of the ETFs and mutual funds Blackrock sells.
Through its ETFs and mutual funds, BlackRock still owns only a minority stake in Palantir, as it does in many publicly traded companies
As to Palantir, approximately 80% of Palantir Technologies' shares are publicly owned. This includes shares held by institutional investors such as mutual funds, pension funds, and other large investment entities, as well as individual retail investors who have bought shares on the public market.
The remaining 20% is typically owned by original investors, company founders, executives, and employees. These original investors include early venture capital firms like In-Q-Tel, individuals like Peter Thiel, and company insiders who received shares as part of their compensation.
Possibly. But they are a publicly-owned company. They aren’t going to take it upon themselves to dig into such things unless they are hired to do so.
David Marcus, like many we know, had an epiphany: Dems are literally evil fascists ... period ... you may not love their opposition (i personally do), but supporting the evil fascists is unthinkable ...
I agree. This is but one person. I think a lot of people have realized the same thing. I’m voting for a third time for my preference for President. This is based on thought and knowledge. Unfortunately there are those who are never to see the light because they’re buried too deeply in the sand.
Totally agree. Years ago I worked with large corporate takeovers and minority shareholder rights.
It’s a complex topic.
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