Peter Thiel is gonna be Trumps advisor. The real decision maker.
Is he connected to the deep state and intelligence agencies? Yes.
Does it make him bad? No.
I quite like his take on stagnation.
Starlink or mesh stuff have a horrible side effect of ruining the primacy of direct experience. I understand that it's necessary for the psyche of most modern humans who cannot comprehend entertaining themselves by looking at rocks and tossing things into a fire. Sure it's boring, but it's real. The realer it is, the more truth about reality will be revealed to you. In it, there is a power beyond money or social acceptance. Life as the primary force in all matter.