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The ‘Enhanced Games’ Is the Ultimate MAGA Athletic Competition
A sports startup that allows performance-enhancing drugs is brash, confrontational, and perhaps the perfect competition for the era of Trump.
The first thing Peter Thiel said to Aron D’Souza — according to D’Souza — was, “I’m going to live forever.” That was in 2009, a few years before D’Souza, an Australian lawyer, helped Thiel, a PayPal co-founder and one of Silicon Valley’s most influential men, bankrupt the gossip website Gawker via a lawsuit that hinged on a leaked sex tape of the wrestler Hulk Hogan.
“Is he correct?” D’Souza said of Thiel’s confidence in his longevity. “He’s still alive, but I don’t know, right? It’s gonna take another 100 years to prove it.”