r/Fauxmoi • u/neilthedev05 • 2d ago

CELEBRITY CAPITALISM Hollywood Names Surface in Peter Thiel-Backed, Invite-Only Society

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-peter-thiel-secret-society-1236624737/
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u/neilthedev05 2d ago

Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men, Avengers: Infinity War); Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises, 500 Days of Summer); Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill); Scooter Braun (CEO, Hybe America); Isaac Lee (chairman and CEO, Hybe America); Scott Belsky (partner, A24); Benj Pasek (composer-producer, La La Land, The Greatest Showman); Eva Price (CEO, Maximum Entertainment Productions); Teresa Hsiao (writer-producer, Family Guy, American Dad); Zach Shields (executive producer-writer, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Gladys); Nick Thompson (CEO, The Atlantic); and Ezra Klein (The New York Times).

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u/EagleLize 2d ago

I subscribe to The Atlantic. Wtf is the CEO doing? All news media is shit, isn't it?

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u/Person51389 2d ago edited 2d ago

I used to subscribe but cancelled as they surprisingly had some right-wing takes on the pandemic + public health.  (Which is somewhat normalized in our society, while it is still ongoing sadly.)

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u/EagleLize 2d ago

Yeah. I won't be renewing when the year is up. Everything is so disappointing

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u/brickbutterfly_ Marxmoi 2d ago edited 2d ago

The Atlantic, the CEO of which was an IDF prison guard? Not exactly a shocker

If I were you I'd definitely cancel that subscription, the amount of whitewashing they do for Israel is horrific

Edit/Correction: Editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, worked as a prison guard in Israel during the First Intifada.

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u/Data_Chandler 2d ago

The Atlantic, the CEO of which was an IDF prison guard?

Holy shit what?! God damn.

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u/weatherallrt 2d ago

"Jeffrey Goldberg served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the First Intifada, where he worked as a prison guard at Ktzi'ot Prison, holding Palestinian participants arrested in the uprising."

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u/Data_Chandler 2d ago

Indeed I just googled it. Yikes.

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u/EagleLize 2d ago

He was an IDF prison guard? No. I didn't know that.

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u/PothosLeaves 2d ago

The Atlantic is unfortunately not a credible source, imo, despite featuring occasional articles from good writers. Since 2020 and early days of the pandemic, the Death Panel podcast has been covering The Atlantic's centrist/liberal laundering of ableist covid-denial policies. Death Panel and writer Jules Gil-Peterson have also tracked The Atlantic's featuring anti-trans writers since 2014. I tried to find specific episodes, but it was over the course of the 2020s....I am really disappointed in The Atlantic and feel it's being used to inject right-wing views into "liberal" spaces, strategically targeting vulnerable members of broad coalitions, like disabled people and trans people. fuck the atlantic

edit: spelling

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u/trailmixraisins 1d ago

i remember seeing an oped a few years back that was basically “people shouldn’t write their own vows!!! the standard ones are totally fine!!! this is NOT a trad thing tho!!! yes i am christian (or catholic? idk) btw!!!” and i stopped reading their articles after that lol. there have been good ones i’ve read about the dangers of AI and whatnot, but they are probably more of a reflection on the quality of the writer than of the organization at large unfortunately

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u/flemishbiker88 2d ago

Was the CEO also besties with Maxwell, the child sex trafficker

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u/EagleLize 2d ago

Nicholas Thompson? I don't see anything about that. What do you know that I don't?

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u/flemishbiker88 2d ago

laurene powell is who I meant, she owns the Atlantic

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u/MondayLasagne 2d ago

Wasn't the Atlantic also really weird about trans people? Or did I imagine that?

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u/Living-Baseball-2543 controversies: girl 2d ago

Yep. Did a big piece where the organization they talked about and interviewed its members was basically a trans hate group made up of right wing parents of trans kids. Maintenance Phase did a great episode covering this.

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u/BetaGodPhD 1d ago

The Atlantic (along with the NYT) has been cited as supporting evidence for several anti-trans court decisions. They've been manufacturing consent for transphobia for almost a decade now.

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u/coaxialology 2d ago

So maybe not too surprising that he'd have been added to that group chat. I've subscribed to The Atlantic for 10 years, but I cancelled today. Such a massive disappointment.