Bet you never thought you'd read that combination of words anywhere other than on the back of a Dan Brown book, did you.

(article is paywalled, unfortunately, but there's enough there to get the gist)

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[–] [B] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

More projection... Given that Trump fits the definition almost perfectly

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    Intresting! If anyone has unpaywalled version I'd like to read more.

    I do think it's odd that a billionaire has basically payed to have his own vice-president (I don't think many people would argue that Vance was an obvious choice apart from as a puppet of Thiel) and that billionaire is overtly apocalyptically bonkers, but the press barely cover it.

    I've seen mention that Thiel had been discussing the antichrist in lectures. Butt with all this talk of AI bubbles and the insane amounts of money being funneled into the industry, here's a extremely rich and powerful man, who has basically groomed the VP (alongside all the other influence his wealth gives him) who is making wild messianic claims about AI and accusing any opposition to it as the work of Satan! That's insane!

    Imagine that when Bush was trying to get support for the invasion of Iraq, Rumsfeld was going around giving lectures on the Crusades and the role of Isreal in the Apocalypse. Sure, there was and is support for stuff like that in fundamentalist evangelical churches, but it wasn't the avowed belief of the inner circle of the US government. And if it was, I don't think Britain would have gone along with a literal holy war. Is that really the stage we're at? I use to read about the 3rd Reich and finding it implausible that they were actually making policy decisions based on a invented hodgepodge of occult nonsense, but now it's starting to be believable.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Cool zone media covered it and ain't charging $8 a month 🤣

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago
    42 comments in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 70 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    The only thing I can appreciate Elon Musk and Peter Thiel for is their tireless work proving that being too rich causes mental illness.

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Does it cause mental illness, or do you need some level of mental illness to pursue that level of wealth?

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

    Next up on Hoarders... Elon Musk. This person has hoarded billions of dollars, let's watch his road to recovery.

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

    He’d be like one of those hoarders that even breaks the psychologist. I read he was living in his x office with the assistant he was having kids with in a room that had all kinds of live wires hanging from the ceiling. He was doing this because he’s too cheap to buy or rent a house. The wires were hanging from the ceiling because he didn’t want to pay a contractor to fix them so he told an engineer to do it or he was fired. So I am a contractor and I know that you don’t touch another trades work for safety reasons and god knows what was going on with that. So yeah dude is seriously mentally ill

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  • [–] 52 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    In these lectures, Thiel doesn’t just flirt with the apocalyptic. He goes all in — openly discussing the Antichrist, naming Pope Leo XIV as a potential manifestation of that figure, and, most disturbingly, advising JD Vance to ignore the pope on moral matters altogether.

    So Pope Leo XIV is the antichrist, Trump is a good guy and JD Vance is our savior who like couches and widows?

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    This is exactly what the Bible says the antichrist would do.

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

    They’re christians why would they read the bible?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    JD Vance is our savior who like [...] widows?

    It's a bit like one of the sleazy houses on Game Of Thrones, right?

    ... Although I kinda get it (you do not, under any circumstances have to hand it to him, though): There are not many women ok with dating fascists.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I always thought the Antichrist would know he was the Antichrist, so maybe Thiel is just pretending it's the Pope to take the heat off of himself. 

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Isn't the antichrist supposed to be a charismatic leader?

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Behind the bastards did an episode on this where they read a supposed transcript from the first day and it's quite interesting. Also notes on the other days. In short Peter Thiel believes that the Antichrist is anyone who threatens in any way the business and financial interest of Peter Thiel. Also weirdly for a Christian he seems to think we should stop the Antichrist, which I guess will also stop Jesus from coming back but I don't think he's thought it through I don't know.

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

    Like most Christians, his only information about the anti-christ is from pop culture. Can't expect him to read the WHOLE bible! Have you seen how thick that thing is!?

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

    The fact that everything he's describing as "the Antichrist" also perfectly describes himself, should be obvious to anyone with a shred of self-awareness. It blows my mind how many of these so-called "tech geniuses" are actually just really stupid people with a lot of money to burn.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    I'm 1000% convinced this guy has been smoking his own custom llm.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

    Wow how very original.

    The Pope is the AntiChrist?

    Really?

    I'm fairly sure that for at least the past 150 years, at least one either fairly prominent or at least fairly loud Protestant sect or denomination has been claiming the current Pope is the AntiChrist.

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

    It's a little older than that, friend. Martin Luther himself proclaimed that the pop was the antichrist, and the Vatican was the whore of Babylon.

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    What's weird isn't someone calling [insert current Pope here] the Antichrist, but the fact that this time it's Peter Thiel saying it.

    That's just something I expect from Christian conservatives, not... whatever kind of conservative Thiel is.

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  • [+] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    I guess that’s why he sent Vance to kill the last pope

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    Antipope again?

    That trick never works!

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    Just gonna leave this here, it's a solid episode(part 2 as well)

    [https://youtu.be/KtR7ny9TuCY]

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Yeah, white supremacists dont consider catholics white

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I thought he said it was Greta tumberg? Well I guess we all know why he sent jd Vance to kill the pope. Is every pope an Antichrist? I mean I thought he’d be into the pope considering they’re both part of a pedofile cabal.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    And they should be dismissed for advocating nonsense

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