And it looks like he dyed his hair to go all goth. How can anyone take him seriously after this?

Second one is on the Austin Beacon which from first glance is some kind of conservative student newspaper. Link in comments. Thoughts?

I'm just curious when everyone started learning about all of this. I know it has been a thing for a long time but I was unaware of it until right around inauguration. I can't even remember what first pushed me to start looking into it. The last two months have been a haze.

I've just read this NYPost puff piece about Thiel-funded Praxis wanting to build in Greenland (but mentions they haven't decided on the location for sure yet): https://nypost.com/2025/04/06/world-news/robo-cops-ai-schooling-food-from-3-d-printers-and-post-work-future-are-anticipated-for-praxians/

Combined with the Trump administration seemingly wanting to crash the economy with the tariffs, I wonder, how do they profit from this? Well, my idea is they plan to collapse the USA's and world's economy and infrastructure so that no one will be able to fight against Praxis. Everyone else will collapse—we can't respond to disease in the country, we can't feed our people, our milatary is weakened (Trump fired many people in it), the government is getting gutted. etc. etc. The religious faction of the administration gets to rule over the ashes of the country (maybe an agreement, more likely they are being used). Thoughts? Who's promised a spot in Praxis, any Congress people who aren't opposing the tariffs and destruction?

ETA: Only $500 million invested... is the plan to use slave labor when everyone is starving during the great depression like how Dubai was built with false promises to the laborers?

ETA2: Is this why DOGE has sped up a plan to bring in Palantir for a 30 day hackathon of the IRS to extract the sensitive data of US citizens? https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/ They know they don't have a year to do this anymore after all the protests and some Republicans defecting on the tariffs?

ETA3: is this why Thiel fellows were advised not to buy houses?