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The political spectrum of Silicon Valley is long and weird.

On one end, you have the Hillary Clinton-loving, do-gooder capitalist enthusiasts like Sheryl Sandberg and Marc Benioff. On the other, you have Peter Thiel, who once wrote that democracy and capitalism are not “compatible.”

Thiel is an openly gay evangelical Christian who has expressed affinity for hardcore libertarianism, as well as anti-democratic capitalism. He is also a delegate for Donald Trump (to the horror of much of Trump-hating Silicon Valley), and tonight he has a primetime speaking slot during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Thiel probably won’t talk about his ongoing efforts to sue Gawker Media into oblivion, or whether he thinks we should join the Thiel-funded seasteading movement to establish a floating capitalist utopia in the ocean.

The point is, Thiel believes in a lot of really weird things, though he almost surely won’t talk about them onstage tonight. But as a multibillionaire with a willingness to put his money where his right-wing ideology lies, he’s one of Silicon Valley’s most influential figures — even if Facebook, whose board he sits on, wants to pretend he isn’t.

For a more detailed look at Thiel, Recode Executive Editor Kara Swisher today published a story on how his politics depart from the Silicon Valley norm. Also, this 2011 New Yorker profile of him by George Packer and this new Bloomberg Businessweek piece are both pretty great.

Here’s a more straightforward rundown of a bunch of the kookier stuff Thiel is into:

Opinions on Peter Thiel at Code Conference in June