Thiel does not agree with every plan in the Republican Party's platform.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
This claim is about Thiel's own views, judged as of 2016-07-21 against the 2016 Republican Party platform adopted that month. True: Thiel's documented public positions or conduct (statements, writings, his life as a married gay man, stated policy views) clearly conflict with at least one plank of the 2016 GOP platform, for example on same-sex marriage, culture-war issues or trade. Mostly true: the conflict rests on inference rather than an explicit statement but is still clearly documented. Mixed: the evidence on any disagreement is ambiguous. Mostly false: the only claimed differences are trivial or doubtful. False: credible evidence shows Thiel publicly endorsed every plank of the platform without reservation.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Peter Thiel's presence highlights Republican tension over LGBT voters The Christian Science Monitor · 21 July 2016
“The Silicon Valley billionaire supports gay marriage, putting him at odds with the party’s official platform”
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E2 Peter Thiel declares "I am proud to be gay" at GOP convention CBS News · 21 July 2016
“The openly gay 48-year-old PayPal cofounder admitted that his views differ from those of many Republicans, who adopted a platform with no concessions to LGBT issues during this convention.”
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E3 Read Peter Thiel’s Speech at the Republican National Convention Fortune · 22 July 2016 Own record
“I don’t pretend to agree with every plank in our party’s platform; but fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline”
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E4 Thiel defends Trump, says he'll be 'expansive' on LGBT rights Washington Blade · 31 October 2016
““Free trade has not worked out well for all of America,” Thiel said.”
Reasoning
The Christian Science Monitor reported on the day of the speech that Thiel supports gay marriage, which puts him at odds with the party's official platform (E1). CBS News reported that the platform adopted at that convention made no concessions on LGBT issues, and that Thiel acknowledged his views differ from those of many Republicans (E2). These independent reports document a clear conflict between Thiel's position and at least one plank of the 2016 platform. That meets the "true" criterion. His speech text (E3) restates the claim but is not needed to resolve it.
Cite this claim
Peter Thiel, “Thiel does not agree with every plan in the Republican Party's platform.” (said 21 July 2016). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_2326cfb6853c, method 0.1.0+3e03e2df, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_2326cfb6853c
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
Reply to this claim
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“My stagnation thesis was that progress had slowed since the 1970s.”
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“I was not arguing that people would lose their votes or that democracy would disappear.”
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“I was arguing for a certain depoliticization, a reduction in the intensity of politics.”
Thiel's 2009 article argued for depoliticization, a reduction in the intensity of politics.
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“I encouraged him to write his book, and I supported him financially when he ran for the Senate in 2022.”
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“I liked him. I watched the first season. My character died. I think eccentric is always better than evil.”
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