Can someone tell me who Peter Theil and what the IDW is?

I legit don't know

Posted Jan 10, 2022, 3:09 PM UTC

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I don't know what IDW is but Peter Theil is a rich old gay vampire who owns paypal or something and harvests the blood of young twinks to stay youthful. It's believed he's a secret backer of the pod.

PissingInTheNameOf•4 yr. ago

IDW is kind of a fake or porous category. Barry Weiss thinks Steven Pinker and Joe Rogan are IDW. You could say it's a group of Internet personalities who attack woke politics from the right. Thiel is a billionaire, chess prodigy, sinister homosexual, early investor in Facebook, founder of PayPal and Palantir, a data analytics company that develops products for the military, national security state and law enforcement. His politics are associated with NRX/""""the dark Enlightenment,""" which is kind of a different thing than the IDW.

His politics were influenced by a blogger called Curtis Yarvin who rejects liberal democracy altogether and endorses a political system called neocameralism, which is kind of like a fusion (I guess -- this may not be accurate) of corporate governance systems with monarchism, where a board of directors elects a CEO who is then vested with total sovereignty. Thiel makes a lot of political contributions and is rumored to fund IDW-type media like you know what

brdndtrthdoomed from the start•4 yr. ago

the idw stands for the intellectual dark web aka a group of largely obnoxious individuals with semi-hot takes that went against the largely prevailing opinions of their time. the term was coined by Bari Weiss in an opinion piece she oh so boldly wrote in the NY times (lol) wherein she hailed them as "an alliance of heretics"

sam Harris has since dissociated from the idw probably bc he knows that it just sounds gay and lame now that the brief and initial allure of the movement has died