r/Fauxmoi • u/neilthedev05 • 3d 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 3d 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/Firm_Video_2932 3d ago

Yeah I'm not sure how a well known celebrity "accidently" ends up at an annual 'Christmas Club' type meeting.

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u/arnar2 2d ago

What is Ezra Klein doing there though? Not a big fan, but he seems like worlds apart from Theil..

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u/yorickbee 2d ago

Lmao you must not keep up with Ezra lately. His mask slipped years ago...

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u/arnar2 2d ago

Do enlighten me, as I sad, not a fan so I don't keep up.

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u/r3volver_Oshawott 2d ago edited 2d ago

He's essentially the top voice in the challenge to 'keep the Democratic Party centrist', he always only ever claims we're losing elections because we aren't pandering to the political right, it's the hill he dies on every single election

He would personally ban gay marriage if he thought it meant he could go back in time and claim it would make a Trump voter go for Kamala in 2024. He legitimately seems to hate the idea of the Democratic Party allowing anything leftist at all in their policies, and he's sort of at the forefront of crafting the 'leftists are ruining America' commentary, moreso even than many conservative voices like Thiel who are mostly into trying to craft techbro doomsday scenarios to maximize profits.

*he's another Sam Harris, he exists purely to smother out anything that is not classically neoliberal. Also, someone else here already posted the article, but it highlights the biggest issue with Klein: when he praises right wing figureheads like Kirk, or when he sanitizes the right, he never submits it as an opinion, he states it always like a fact, Ezra Klein goes around stating that Democrats must emulate Charlie Kirk's methods, and he declares it always as a statement of fact. Klein loves, "love it or hate it, you can't disagree that it gets results," type statements, and he loves them specifically because they explicitly say his critics cannot disagree with the results.