Where do people who admire Peter Thiel and Ayn Rand actually hang out?

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Serious question — where do people who genuinely resonate with Peter Thiel’s or Ayn Rand’s worldview actually spend time, online or in real life?
I’m not talking about surface-level fans or edgy contrarians, but people who really believe in individual agency, long-term thinking, and building parallel systems outside broken institutions. I’ve found it incredibly hard to meet others who view ambition, power, and self-interest as virtues — not flaws to be “fixed” through collective guilt or endless activism.
Most of the people I meet socially are involved in NGOs, activism, or charity work — and while I respect that, I’m looking for the opposite mindset:
🔹 People who think voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution
🔹 Builders who want to create value rather than constantly “raise awareness”
🔹 People who think inequality isn’t inherently bad if it reflects differences in vision, effort, or output
If that resonates — where are you? Where do you meet others like this? Any events, groups, cities, or online communities I should explore?
Not looking to debate politics — just tired of pretending I belong in rooms where ambition gets side-eyed. I’m looking for my tribe.

Chicago

In the comments section on edgelord Youtube videos

In the Young Tories

Currently quite a lot on the Hill, try there

Rapture but the only way to get there is if your plane crashes in the Atlantic Ocean.

On a more realistic note, the problem is that hardcore Libertarian thinking is almost always a phase some people go through and then grow out of. So your question really should be "where can I find socially awkward 17 year old boys to hang out with?" And the answer to that is DON'T it would be a weird and creepy thing to do.

The people who don't grow out of it tend to be your billionaire tech bro types. And they probably don't want to hang out with you - why should they when it goes against their own self-interest. Unless you are either also a billionaire or a young fertile female willing to birth Elon Musk children. But then having children with someone whose virtues are ambition, power, and self-interest probably has drawbacks if you are ambitious yourself.

Basically you want a tribe with people who share an ideology that tribes hold you down.

There's a couple in my office. Real chumps who like to worship the Big Man. They also admire the big orange man.

Yes, and plenty on the East Coast too. Typically working in finance or tech. I wouldn’t say they hang out anywhere in particular, socially, as they seem to have similar interests to the rest of us: exercise, travel, music etc. Not sure how old you are, OP, but if you’re young, you could target certain universities and certain courses, then certain careers. Also consider moving to the US or Asia. Let us know how you get on.