The FBI’s recruitment of Thiel as a CHS puts him among the bureau’s most prominent assets, but he is not alone among right-wing figures who have collaborated with the bureau. Trump himself offered to help the FBI fight organized crime in Atlantic City in the early 1980s. Truth Social, the Trump-owned social-media company, has quietly tipped the FBI off to users who threaten violence, even as it seeks to cash in on their anger. At least two of the rioters who showed up to storm the Capitol on January 6 were also FBI informants, as was Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader who was sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other felonies stemming from the Capitol breach. Tarrio reportedly served as a source for federal and local law enforcement, assisting with the prosecution of more than a dozen people.

  • davel [he/him]
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    521 year ago

    Peter Thiel changed his relationship with the Military-Spook-Industrial Complex to It’s complicated.

      • Franzia
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        111 year ago

        I mean yeah but Thiel pretends he has street cred and doesn’t trust no feds. What a god damn chump.

      • WashedOver
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        51 year ago

        Remember when Bush Jr was one of the worst things going. Not looking forward to the mess after Trump and his time is looked at as not as s bad based on whatever level of crazy is going on then.

        I wonder if there will be a Spanish like Miracle (no one fought for the Fascism after Franco died, everyone fought against it) when people that currently support this shit show say they never did support it.

    • ElleChaise
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      31 year ago

      May be an obvious thing to everybody else, but what do you mean by spook? Where I’m from we’re careful using that word.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I was thinking less “spy” and more “fingermen” like in V for Vendetta but more secretive.

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        A spook is a CIA officer or maybe NSA (or at least some sort of spy if you’re using the term more loosely).

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        What’s the implication/meaning where you’re from? And where is that (if you’re comfortable sharing) so we all don’t put our foot in it when travelling there?

          • @[email protected]
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            101 year ago

            Wow TIL thank you so much. I’ve literally only ever known it to mean “spy” so this is immensely valuable knowledge.

            • @[email protected]
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              71 year ago

              I’ve only ever heard it used in very rural areas and only by old people, so I’m not sure how relevant it is anymore. But, probably best to read the crowd before talking about spies or ghosts I guess.

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        Stirner gives some examples:

        "Here would be the place to let the haunting spirits drift past, if they didn’t have to come out again further on in order to vanish before egoism. Therefore, let’s give only a few more notable examples of them, in order to immediately lead into our attitude toward them. For example, above all, the ‘Holy Spirit’ is sacred, the truth is sa­cred; right, law, the good cause, majesty, marriage, the common good, order, the fatherland, etc., etc., are sacred.

        Man, your head is haunted; you have bats in your belfry! You’re imagining big things and painting for yourself a whole world of gods that is there for you, a haunted realm to which you are called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!

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        It’s a slur, similar to gl**ie has a racist origin but people think calling themselves a lefty means they can’t be racist so use it anyway.