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This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.

In a four-part series of religious lectures in San Francisco, Peter Thiel — yes, that Peter Thiel — has argued that the End Times are nigh and that a biblical Antichrist — yes, that Antichrist — will come to Earth in the form of onerous government regulations placed on science, technology, and AI.

These are, incidentally, areas where the tech billionaire, venture capitalist, and cofounder of Palantir has a vested financial interest. [...]


Note: source uses a two-headline system; the submission uses the shorter of the two

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20250925211248/https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/785407/peter-thiel-antichrist-tech-regulation

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[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is like the kid who eats things he finds on the ground warning you that Santa Clause is watching when you make him mad.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm willing to risk it.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't that when the rapture happens tho?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This prompts me to create a playlist titled "Anti-Peter Thiel Playlist", full with songs with "Antichrist" in the title

[–] DegenerationIP@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I believe he is trying to Rally people behind him. That Guy is dangerous

[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Lol. They have no idea what's coming to them.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wasn't this guy raptured yesterday? Hm, maybe he's not righteous enough.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Have to wonder was he that stupid before, during, or after accumulating his wealth.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The main problem here is that Thiel is only talking to people who understand what he means by "antichrist".

Not anything Jesus ever mentioned.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Peter Thiel is actively pushing anti-Jesus/anti-Christ, if this yt-short is anywhere near accurate ( & it is, unfortunately .. I've read that Thiel holds that granting women the right to vote has been degrading civilization ever since )

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-BQhXdCs8Y

Aannndddd..... here's a former-fundamentalist's showing how Trump is fulfilling the biblical description of the antichrist.. ( I think he's mis-matching some things, that the "miracle-cure" predicted in Rev has nothing to do with the rifle-bullet's miss of his head, e.g. but who cares: he's published, & I haven't, so his page gets the link. : )

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Balance in reporting, right?

( what a sick cartoon-of-reality we're now living-in, that this pair of links needs to even exist ) :

https://justplainkris.substack.com/p/the-tech-oligarchs-playbook-how-musk

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/owned-book-peter-thiel-trump-tech-silicon-valley-1235276868/

https://sites.psu.edu/mka6418/2025/04/10/civic-issues-5-accelerationism/

https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2025-04-27/tech-oligarchs-impose-their-prophetic-visions.html


IOW, this isn't an "isolated" thing, which can safely be ignored:

this is part of a concerted highjacking of our world, by those who've got the resources to successfully-enforce it.

That yt-short video, up top, gives the proper frame-of-reference: tech can now BYPASS civil-rights & election-by-people process, & is doing-so progressively-more-completely, until it has supplanted civil-rights, permanently.

IOW, we're all going to be living in big-tech's East Germany utopia-for-the-oligarchs panopticon, where they rule, & NOTHING can threaten authority's kingdom, forever, soon, if they continue winning.

I only glanced at those links I added, to make certain that they were on-topic, & none of them was the link I was trying to find, but they do provide better-context for this act of his.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

And Denmark, yes, the country that many believe to be a liberal socialist paradise, but indeed very white, harsh immigration rules-supporting and ChatControl-proposing Denmark, is in a 7-year contract for this guy's "Analytics AI solution" for its police, POL-INTEL, a custom implementation of their Gotham solution.

[–] SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, the revelation of John the Theologian is happening before our eyes...

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