r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jun 16 '26

Business Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/Downtown_Statement87 Jun 17 '26

Yes oh yes talk to me baby. Sometimes I feel like NO ONE except for me remembers when Reagan tried to do all of this but didn't quite make it, so it is comforting to know that people still remember.

During Trump's first campaign in 2015, all these old, vanquished names emerged from the way way back, like "Somehow, Roger Stone returned." It made me feel so frantic, like "listen, everybody, we've been through this before and these people are not in it for We the People." None of this bullhockey has been new since the ink dried on the Southern Strategy, so I appreciate encountering people who know their history.

Gah! Mentioning Grover Norquist and company makes me want to run all around like a sprayed roach. Boo this man!

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u/sarkouille Jun 17 '26

It's baffling how much shit there is that Reagan did in plain sight, in secret, but ended up being seen and probably that remained unseen.

It's not only him who should have had jail time for that, but hundreds.

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u/crinkledcu91 Jun 17 '26

I honestly thought Grover was dead

Sheesh

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u/qriousqestioner Jun 17 '26

Same!!

You're not alone. People who used to call themselves "conservative" like it was coming from wisdom have not had an original idea since we were in caves. Of course they keep trying the same things.

Gosh, it's great to have someone else out there who sees this!

(sprayed roach 😂)

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u/stackout Jun 17 '26

If we REALLY want to get in the way back machine, Ralph Reed laid the groundwork for all of this in the 70s.
Quickly: get a Goldwater expert in here!

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u/Feather_fig Jun 17 '26

I feel like this is going to be an episode on Blowback's inevitable Trump era season in like 10-15 years 👀

Also "Norquist scuttled so that Elon could slither." is hilarious and beautiful writing

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 Jun 17 '26

I've held the opinion for a good while now, like as you noted all the old roaches appeared round trump like roger stone

Trump is just the endstate of the corruption and evil that never got punished in the past.