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

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?

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

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

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I2quAOKQyj0

Antipope again?

That trick never works!

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

[https://youtu.be/KtR7ny9TuCY]

Yeah, white supremacists dont consider catholics white

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.

And they should be dismissed for advocating nonsense

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

Behind the Bastards Thiel playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27Jfjys2o58Hucr2HLMttS?pi=RfZXPX6HQMK8g

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.

Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

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

https://youtu.be/FxxhAS16vB0