Gil Duran: Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings

[AStern]

Joe Lonsdale, a billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia” who is also a co-founder of Palantir, wants a return to draconian punishment and public executions in the United States.

Wrote Lonsdale on X yesterday:

If I'm in charge later, we won't just have a three strikes law. We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes.

And yes, we will do it in public to deter others.

Our society needs balance. It’s time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable.

The venture capitalist was responding to a writer who had criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s enthusiastic tweets about murdering people on boats in the Caribbean.

On December 4, Andrew Kolvet—a spokesman for Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA—praised Hegseth for his bombing campaign against fishing boats, which he accuses of drug smuggling. Critics say the bombings, which have killed scores of people without due process, may constitute murder or war crimes.

“Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean,” wrote Kolvet.

“Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat,” replied Hegseth.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public-hangings/

[Bayard]

1. Good gawd!

How about draw and quarter. Disemboweling is so much more fun.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Oh, my. He sounds so masculine. My heart is all a-flutter.

Pro tip: Men who obsess over masculinity are not confident in their own masculinity.

If you have to go around demonstrating how manly you are, then you don't know what manly really means.

[DET]

8. Apparently...

The guy has six kids under seven. How masculine.

[Takket]

3. "Marie Antionette calls for public guillotinings"

be careful what you wish for.

[GiqueCee]

4. Yo, Lonsdale...

... you fucking idiot, howzabout you address the underlying societal problems that create an environment in which crime thrives? Do some GOOD with your wealth, instead of gratifying your malignant bloodlust with irredeemable savagery, and applauding lowlife scum like Pete Hogsbreath and his boss.

[Initech]

5. These idiots are truly, deeply beyond fucked in the head.

[LR3]

6. Oh boy, Joe sure is going to be surprised

when he is the one at the end of the rope.

[madinmaryland]

7. Only if we make being a billionaire a crime punishable by death first.

[The Madcap]

9. Was thinking the same.

But hanging isn't severe enough for that. How about a swim in a certain Yellowstone pond?

[Gaugamela]

10. Why do these Tech Bros all have the emotional maturity of a 14-year old?

[moniss]

11. Lonsdale is sounding like he's a part of the

"testosterone boosting" club that works out at the gym and wears t-shirts that are way too tight. You see this kind of "Bro" neo-masculinity garbage and the things they spring up. Taken to it's most ludicrous it comes up with things like "Powerslap" competitions where people stand across a small podium from each other and take turns seeing who can slap the other in the face the hardest with their bare hand. All anybody needs to know is that it is the darling of Dana White. They will kill someone it is only a matter of time.

But to ghouls like Lonsdale and White it will be on to the next "event" or "deal" where they can screw people and enrich themselves and at the end of the day claim they are better than the rest of us.

[mjvpi]

12. Saudi Arabia. The Philippines under Duarte. I've heard ths shit before.

[Red Mountain]

13. Piss test him NOW!

or shut the fuck up.

[BOSSHOG]

14. Oooooh! Masculine leadership!

Like exhibited by John Thune and Mike Johnson and Lindsay Graham. Centerfolds all.

[Efilroft Sul]

15. I think we're overlooking one aspect of Lonsdale's pathetic post.

This corporate pig thinks he's going to be in charge one day. Forget his speculative language; if he's posting it, he's thinking it. And if he's thinking it, he's already exploring ways to grasp at (more) power.

[valleyrogue]

18. Through J.D. Vance, of course.

Lonsdale is another sociopathic whacko we have to worry about. Another Peter Thiel.

[KS Toronado]

19. They are all Fascists just like Tariffman

[bluestarone]

16. Man, it's like America has been turned upside down, and

All the SCUM has floated to the top. Jesus Christ.

[pecosbob]

17. State withhold the right to limit corporations ability to make political contributions.

A corporation only exists on the sufferance of the state in which it is registered. States are fully within their rights to eliminate political spending by corporations. Billionaires cannot exist without incorporation.