He's plenty smart in terms of verbal fluency and debate. However he lacks introspective capacity or moral center or empathy, without which he is simply an ambitiously sharp tool being wielded by others (like Thiel)
How can I explain color to a blind man? You're either attuned to the suffering around you or you're contributing to it. Apparently you can't see that. You must be blind.
What contact in your personal or professional life have you had with trans folk? Are you speaking with experience of appreciating their pain or are you just speaking based on what you've heard?
"This is fine"
Just about any medical procedure will sometimes produce regrets in some portion of the population of people who undergo it, for instance vaccinations, amniocentesis, etc. It's not reasonable to suggest that because this is true that no one should have access to the treatments.
It's web-scale!
Honestly, web analytics are just stupid unless your business is selling ads. Its just vanity outside of that business case
Rupert Murdock is Australian and owns all the worldwide right wing news rags. Saying Fuck Murdock to the Australian pm seems like speaking a raw opinion to power with no fucks to give
Thanks for sharing.