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[–] busted_Anoose@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

This week in : "Cooked billionaires"

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week 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...

He says whatever he believes will gain him the most money.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

He's gay, talking about the antichrist and trying to discredit the pope.

I think it's propaganda.

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[–] ishartdoritos@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 week 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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[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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."

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 11 points 1 week ago

Prometheus

... but instead of stealing the secret of fire from the gods to gift to humanity, he stole their garbage to sell to idiots.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

mri scan would reveal the anti-christ as a non-human.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

And he's starting to look more and more like a Gollum.

[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] wackyheartfluid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

AI is the lead pipes of our time. Got it.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 10 points 1 week 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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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Seldon@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

To show Capitalism keeps its promises: Any idiot can become filthy rich.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, I think his underlings know he's high but they probably know better than to point it out

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

I meant more in the "denigrating the bullshit that just came out of your mouth" way

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

or chinese.

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He looks like something phrenologists would obsess over

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He looks like he's missing bolts in his neck.

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

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 1 week ago

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

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“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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[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week 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.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week 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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week 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.

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week 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?

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This sounds like something Grok would say.

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

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

theil is working for the russian government to destroy the us

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] matthurtme@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

He really is a weird creature.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yes the Chinese big fans of religion.

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