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[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 41 minutes ago

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

[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 1 points 35 minutes ago

Never trust a billionaire, but he's a special sort of evil. He just wants his own power.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours 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?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago (1 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 2 points 2 hours 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 5 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 hours 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.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh my god holy shit first time I see a photo of him and he really looks like Frankenstein's monster

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

This sounds like something Grok would say.

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

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

We'd certainly all be better off if we had governments like China's.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

What A24 movie is he speedrunning?

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours 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.

[–] Seldon@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours 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.

[–] Seldon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

That is in no way what I mean. These rage-bait corpo articles are not the method to be conscientious of them. If anything they further societal rot by spreading moronic and dangerous ideology. I'm so sick of seeing these fucking assholes as "tech leaders" or people we should expect any kind of reasonability from. Every rich fucker CEO is destined to deepen their own pockets at the expense of a dying planet, install a fascism regime, or most likely do both. And these articles don't do anything to educate about why these dumb shit brain people are dangerous, instead they just say "this is what "successful" CEO says".

[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 9 hours ago (1 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 8 hours ago

He really is a weird creature.

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

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours 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.”

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Excellent reference.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

One can be as dumb as Peter Thiel when one is Peter Thiel

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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day 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...

[–] RobMyBot@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

The thing about lies is, if you tell them enough, you begin to genuinely believe them yourself.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Guy is just unhinged. He did a lecture series about the antichrist.

[–] M137@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

"I don't know which of the two possibilities is worse..."

The theme of the 21st century.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

He is the devil though.

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[–] ishartdoritos@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

You say that, but Thiel just got his guy elected, and had his tool (musk) export all government agency data to his data banks.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

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

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