Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

This comparison seems off, though. Hoffman may deserve more blowback, but he apologized and is publicizing his adjustments. Thiel is mostly criticized for a category of things he either doesn't refute or explicitly participates in.

So if you apologize and publicize your thinking, all is forgiven? What if you are more of a private person and you were participating in the most mainstream thing you could possibly do. Literally A vs B, not vote manipulation, but lawful participation in American democracy?

Your 1M dollar donation becomes the *cause* of all that ills the world, but for Reid it is just pocket change. I don’t think Reid meant to do wrong here, but the same courtesy isn’t paid to Peter because people don’t agree with or like his choices.

Because he has a track record with choices like criticizing extending the democratic franchise to women for expanding the welfare state or willfully financing a presidential candidate after that candidate has repeatedly said some racial groups are criminals or racists?

Also you can care about things like Supreme Court justices and other wedge issues, just like people overlooked the ills of Hilllary and wanted her. She isn’t a saint.

We’re not playing whataboutism right now.

I personally wouldn’t be caught dead financing either one of them, fwiw. The people I want don’t (and may never) win. However, I’m not going to judge people by how they vote or which political candidates they give money to, because I can’t know all of the reasons.

I do know Reid is historically an honest person and most likely made a mistake here. I doubt he’d ever do this on purpose. I just don’t like the hypocrisy. Had this been Peter, the coverage and hate would have been felt around the world. It’s very politically motivated.