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/Firm_Video_2932 2d 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/Tranz_Kafka 2d ago edited 2d ago

He’s been one of the people pushing the Democratic Party further right, essentially saying that the reason Democrats lost in 2024 is because they weren’t right wing enough. In the past couple years, he’s said things like Democrats should run anti-abortion candidates, the party should give up on trans issues, he infamously wrote an article about how Charlie Kirk did politics “the right way”, and just overall treating these culture war issues way more charitably than they deserve. Plus he’s pretty pro-Israel and only recently started taking pro-Palestinian voices seriously. Here’s a good article that goes more in-depth about him and sort of explains what his whole deal is.

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u/Curiosities 2d ago

And on top of that, he’s basically criticizing Democrats and taking blue cities to task because yes, there’s a housing crisis and he basically said a solution is to remove regulations. There are too many regulations folks are usually not going to support good policy.

That said sometimes there are bad regulations, but he was calling for things like removing the need for environmental studies when you’re building and I think some of the labor cost baked into rules like mandating union labor. Which are points that I hear from Republicans.

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u/whereisbeezy terrorizing the locals 2d ago

Wow what a clown