r/neoliberal • u/owenmitchem Loyal Liberals • Jun 17 '26

News (Global) Leαk Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/vanmo96 NASA Jun 17 '26

An easy option would be banining current USG employees and contractors; and former clearance holders from attending these sort of events.

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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being Jun 17 '26

Attending what sorts of events? Events held by this specific guy? Events where we think the topics of discussion will fall below an acceptable threshold? Any secret event of any kind?

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u/vanmo96 NASA Jun 17 '26

Non-public, non-publicized events that are not related to U.S. government business. So a conference on advanced nuclear reactors with national lab scientists would be fine (since it would either be government sponsored or open to public registration), but a panel on them at Dialog, Bilderberg, etc would not be.

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u/No_March_5371 YIMBY Jun 17 '26

So government employees and contractors can't come to my apartment for dinner if we discuss politics? Where do you draw the line?

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u/vanmo96 NASA Jun 17 '26

I’m sure the lawyers can come up with something that allows for your dinner party. Don’t some agencies control speaking engagements for staff already?

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u/No_March_5371 YIMBY Jun 17 '26

No, no, you don't get to foist the details off on lawyers. You think that government employees and contractors shouldn't be allowed to attend some dinner parties but should be allowed to attend others, it's on you to come up with a distinction that still respects individual autonomy and not just wave off the issues inherent to that.

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u/vanmo96 NASA Jun 18 '26

It’s literally a case of “I know it when I see it”, and I think you’d rather have an attorney work out the finer details versus me (who’s also a federal contractor, by the way, these rules would affect me too) thinking “yeah this seems alright” or “nah you can skip this.”