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[–] 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Every time Peter Thiel talks about the antichrist it feels like this wonder-who-thats-for

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    stop that, that's how he wants you to think of him

    he's a dork who gave himself religious delusions from substance abuse, he's not the antichrist. There is no antichrist. Revelations is the dumbest part of the bible, its the ramblings of someone who did the early Roman equivalent of cooking their brain on local political memes.

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago

    Just because the biblical antichrist is total hogwash, doesn't mean some delusional fascist billionaire can't become their version of the antichrist. He's basically just made it clear that he wants a diffuse genocide while he locks himself in his bunker.

    He's not actually the religious antichrist, not he's gonna do everything he can to replicate the myth because he's absolutely nuts and has control over the largest military industrial state in history.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Calling Revelation “Revelations” is always a sign someone doesn’t know the first thing about it.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Whole post? Revelation is just some dude shitting on Rome but in code.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I don't see a substantial difference between

    the ramblings of someone who did the early Roman equivalent of cooking their brain on local political memes.

    and

    just some dude shitting on Rome but in code.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The later doesn’t imply any brain cooking beyond bog standard early Christianity.

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    He's not even the common sort of religious fanatic, he's very clearly a Nazi esotericist. He would have been one of those guys trying to dig up magic artifacts 80 years ago.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Straight up the bad guys in Raiders of the Lost Arc lol

    Also love that his book list included One Piece for some fucking reason, I can't believe people paid $200 to listen to him talk about manga in a religious context.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    this is the kind of media literacy that requires fundamentally being detached from material reality.

    just an actually wild read, my man had chatgpt read the wiki to him while he was in the k hole, i'd bet everything on that.

    like an almost perfect synthesis of wonder-who-thats-for and hitler-detector

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago

    When reached for comment, Thiel’s spokesperson, Jeremiah Hall, did not dispute the veracity of the material given to the Guardian. Hall did correct a piece of the Guardian’s transcription and clarified an argument made by Thiel about Jews and the antichrist.

    hitler-detector

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    porky-happy 'This is getting a lot of overly specific questions so I'll just give this sure-fire list of stances the anti-Christ will have:'

    "Blessed are you who are poor,
    for yours is the kingdom of God.
    Blessed are you who hunger now,
    for you will be satisfied.
    Blessed are you who weep now,
    for you will laugh.
    Blessed are you when people hate you,
    when they exclude you and insult you
    and reject your name as evil,
    because of the Son of Man.

    "But woe to you who are rich,
    for you have already received your comfort.
    Woe to you who are well fed now,
    for you will go hungry.
    Woe to you who laugh now,
    for you will mourn and weep.
    Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
    for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets."

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago
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    "Us communists are not extremists. We just want kids to be fed and housed. The real extremists are the people in power right now, and they're doing very extreme things." parenti-hands

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    jesse-wtf this guy just needs to have a heart attack and die already. Nobody should be that red and that mad and live to tell the tale

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    "I often like to say libertarianism and marijuana are both gateway drugs to alt-right, other ideas. The danger of the red pill is you move on the black pill. And somehow Benedict overdosed on red pills." LIB peterson-pill-dinner

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    It could be Greta Thunberg.

    jfc, I hope that link is mostly there to drive clicks

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