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[–] 95 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I seriously wonder if this guy actually believes what he's saying or if he's just saying it to fool the most gullible and naive investors.

I don't know which of the two possibilities is worse...

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    It doesn't get a lot of play, because it's kind of obtuse, but he has extremely strong beliefs; they're just ones that don't preclude him saying this stuff to fool investors. There were a few pieces that have been written about it, and they flared up again after his weird antichrist lectures last year.

    The article hints at it it, but basically, he subscribes/contributes to an extreme variant of an obscure religion-adjacent philosophy that posits that the social stability benefits of an authoritarian Christian monoculture, preferably over the whole world due to some quirks of Christian theology, but certainly at least in the parts of the world where Christianity is a majority religion, are so amazing that they're worth pretending that it's all actually factually true, and that a surveillance state to preserve harmony (and, surprise side effect, it also locks in the power of the elites who establish it all!) is completely acceptable. Theoretically the Christianity part is optional, but there is a lot of risk inherent in not relying on the historical social glue.

    To him, seeking this is for the good of humankind. Anything that opposes any of it with any sort of sway, and especially from a Christian context, can be fairly called an antichrist. It's some serious Leto II God Emperor of Dune shit.

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    [–] 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This guy's really not great at veiling his dream of being world boss man.

    He's so fuckin' stupid that the fact that he's insanely rich is really the problem.

    This guy could have a stroke tomorrow and talk only about my little pony and he'd still have influence.

    Musk could have a lobotomy and switch to painting public urinals with his own shit and he would still have influence.

    Both of these south African Nazi fuckbois are the best example of what's wrong with the world.

    Oh and Alex Karp can suck a giant dick and get fucked too.

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    [–] 30 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It makes sense for a posthuman moron like Thiel to look more and more like a caricature of Frankenstein's monster with every picture. We need to update our classic to the "clankerstein; the dumbass Prometheus."

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The Catholic Church is working with the Communists? Yeah okay.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    We need to do some MRI scans or something so see if the brain damage is detectable once you pass one billion dollars.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Of all the crazy billionaires out there, Peter Thiel certainly is one

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I always wonder whether the fall of the Roman Empire also was this stupid and deranged...

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That sounds like high praise. He normally calls everyone the antichrist

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    Please stop give giving pieces of shit people like this any attention. Please do not spread their bullshit. Negative attention is also attention.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    No one's laughed in this man's face and asked him if he was high for a long time, huh.

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    [–] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    In this day and age, why do we keep sharing these fucking articles? Stop giving fascists a voice.

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    [–] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    He looks like something phrenologists would obsess over

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    [–] 16 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Everything I don't like is [communism/woke/dei/liberal/etc.] and generally also projection.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    Peter looks and sounds like he's on that crystal methamphetamine

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    This is Peter Thiel's monster. Peter Thiel is the brain tumor in its head.

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    [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    “I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”

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    [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    If only China actually was as communist as critics say it is.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Some experimental anti aging drug must have fucked up this man's brain.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    I rarely find myself aligned with the churches backwards ways but...

    I feel like a good burning at the stake might do us all a bit of good here.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Would you like to know more about this monster?

    Behind the Bastards did a four-parter (the Gravedigger of Democracy series, on YouTube)
    Part One
    Part Two
    Part Three
    Part Four

    BTB did another two-parter series Peter Thiel and the Antichrist which I haven't listened to yet, but I assume is about Thiel's recent speaking tour talking about how we're now in the end of days.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Now they're just spewing bullshit. It's really the Kremlin (and maybe others) playbook. Overwhelm everyone with crap and we just don't have the energy to figure out the correct parts. Donald trump is a master of this too.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    What a fucking idiot. He looks like Frankenstein's monster before he died.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I think organised religion is terrible. But fuck Peter Thiel.

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    [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Are the Chinese Communist working for the Antichrist?

    Is this guy literally running around just telling absolutely anyone that will listen absolutely whatever they want to hear?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Yeah cause this gargoyle who lives off of government subsidies knows that the influence of communism looks like.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago*

    This sounds like something Grok would say.

    Is this guy maybe just a meat puppet for an LLM? Has it begun?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I am now working for the Chinese communists too, prefer them.

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    theil is working for the russian government to destroy the us

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I think this is the first time I've ever seen a picture of this guy and God damn is he goofy looking.

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I identify as a Catholic China loving Communist that hates a.i. then.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Yes the Chinese big fans of religion.

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