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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Peter Thiel is the Antichrist.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Coming from a person who would most likely send his followers personally to have Jesus killed if he ever came back, that's rich.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Just the grandiose, and God syndrome contained within these rattle heads, astounds me. Thinking you can just name something, a thing that it isn't, and bam everyone believes you and just all of a sudden the people who believe in and listen to the pope, bam they support me now. Just because I said to. Holy fk. It's so delusional it's terrifying.

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    [–] 90 points 4 months ago (9 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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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Idk about that, he's in a group that includes this Yarvin douchebag that is a thought leader amongst them.

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

    Mostly, I think he’s just so egotistical and so far up his own ass that he has completely conflated his own self-interest, instincts, hobbies, and ego with literally saving the world. Legitimately held beliefs are not necessarily legitimate beliefs.

    I do have to admit I enjoy his big-ackshully energy that reveals itself when people call him out on the Palantir name.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 49 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Oh nah, he doesn't wanna be the world's boss - that's work, and exposes him to way too much criticism and publicity. He'd much rather be the Wormtongue or Saruman than be Sauron. He wants the benefits of access to power, not necessarily the power itself (and the vulnerability that comes with it).

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

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

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    They had a lot of lead pipes in rome, so maybe.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (3 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 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Wait, does Thiel not realize that the Chinese made Qwen and other models? How dumb does one have to be to miss that?

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

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

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 11 points 4 months 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 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months 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 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 19 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Fascists don’t just go away if you stop mentioning them; if anything, cancer works best undetected. You have to cut them out at the roots, systemically or otherwise, and that requires being conscious of them.

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

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

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 16 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    theil is working for the russian government to destroy the us

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 5 points 4 months 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 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Yes the Chinese big fans of religion.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Hey, Peter Thiel, I hope you enjoy God’s sick burn bitch.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Aren't they also chasing AI?
    Don't our AI guys say we need beat the Chinese to AGI?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    They are saying China wants AI all to itself.

    Its been just as destructive to peoples brains in China.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Its been just as destructive to peoples brains in China.

    Surprisingly enough, not really. Chinese citizens that use AI, on average, are significantly better educated than Americans. Internal Chinese AI models also aren't sycophantic and are significantly less focused on 'personality' versus actual facts. Don't get me wrong it's still just LLMs so all of what it produces are hallucinations that might correspond with reality, but the training data for most models have been exclusively scientific and non fiction literature, instead of reddit threads.

    I mean the Falun Gong types are probably in full psychosis, but they were like that before.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I never realized how much thiel resembles Sloth from the Goonies...

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Hoo boy, we're going to be hearing a lot about the Godless Red Communist Chinese for the next few years. It's going to be like going back to 60s, except with shitty music.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    What A24 movie is he speedrunning?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I'm wondering what the audience reaction to this claim was cause I would've started laughing like a maniac.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    That weird lil’ Chicken shit fled from the United States.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Should've worked for the Vietnamese Communists instead, then there wouldn't be a problem. /j

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Says the antichrist according to his own teaching of the Antichrist.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago*

    Imagine the commies and crusaders storming the ai data centers. Should be the name of a strain of weed. phhhhuck china haters are now in this dudes camp. The gay dude who hates gay dudes.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    Well, I don't know the context, but the Chinese are running propaganda on social media to point out that Ai is bad, so they can win. So, by the pope being rightfully against AI, in Peter theil's mind I assume he thinks the pope is working in China's interest.

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