cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35095129

Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Antics Continue

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, Peter Thiel has announced plans to deliver a four-part lecture series on the Antichrist. These unusual events will take place at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on four days in September and October.

Thiel, one of the most influential tech billionaires of our time, seems intent on forcing us to discuss the Antichrist. He is clearly trying to make a point. But what is that point?

Thiel’s lecture series won’t provide any clues to the public—it’s off the record. He’ll be delivering his lectures to an exclusive group of Antichrist-curious tech acolytes in a highly-controlled atmosphere.

Here’s the thing: this isn’t really about religion. It’s about power and politics, wrapped in theological language. Thiel has long been fascinated with political theorist Carl Schmitt’s ideas about “political theology”—the notion that all significant political concepts are secularized theological concepts.

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    Don does like it when people talk about him, but I doubt he could sit through four lectures

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        you give him far too much credit. he’s not the only one doing it, but he’s certainly one of the loudest.

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      The real life Gavin Belson. Silicon Valley writers used Theil for that character, based on actual events. Yes, he has a blood boy.

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      The next shinzo abe, probably; A sociopath billionaire whose long term project is destroying democracy and is the owner of Palantir a company that makes surveillance software for the US and Israeli government. The name “Palantir” comes from the device used to corrupt Saruman in lord of the rings.

      There’s a lot of speculation that he’s part of a silicon valley death cult that wants to purge the earth of most of its population.

      Edit: He’s also gay, not that it matters.

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        He’s the guy behind musk too right?

        They both have child labour mines (Elon has/had emeralds, Tile some nuclear horror).

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          Any day now you guns get those Thiel props. He totally sees your simping and will reward with a super special room in his bunker. Lol, y’all are pathetic.

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              Dude has claimed on camera that his goal is to destroy democracy and the United States, he owns a surveillance company name palantir ffs. This isn’t muddying the waters, this is me throwing the mud into your face while you simultaneously claim to be clean.

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          Its not that crazy.

          MAGA is absolutely doing death cult stuff (see RFK jr’s vaccine policies, ICE, medicare, etc)

          There’s also been articles on the group chats all the richest people on the planet are on.

          Quotes from Peter Theil show he is opposed to democracy, etc. Its less tin foil hat and more an assmption that “this is being done with his blessing”

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    I’m reasonably sure that Peter Thiel is the an antichrist. Seems exactly like the kind of people warned about in the Book, charlatans, fraudsters, those who worship the dollar over Jah.

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    He is desperate that people regard him as a deep and serious thinker. The trouble is, no interesting thought has ever crossed his mind. This is the reason for his pathetic hatred of academics. His university professors rightly saw a useless dweeb with an outrageous sense of self regard.

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      The only reason Trump went to the Wharton School of Business was to take advantage of his draft deferments, which kept him out of the Vietnam War. (Trump got 5 deferments, one medical and 4 educational).

      He apparently didn’t learn much while he was there, because his professor at Wharton (William T Kelly) has said, “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”

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    Imagine I give you $100,000 today, tomorrow and every day thereafter. How long until you get tired of getting $100,000 each day?

    After only a few days, most people’s financial problems would be solved. After ten days, you will have received 1 million dollars. After a few months, you will have been able to purchase anything you’ve ever dreamed of.

    How long, then, until money is meaningless to you?

    Do you know how long it takes to have received 1 billion dollars?

    27.4 years.

    27.4 years of receiving $100,000 every day. A billion dollars is 10,000 $100,000s.

    Some people have hundreds of billions of dollars. It is an astronomical number.

    You can’t imagine how much that amount of money changes a person. You will absolutely lose your mind and yourself.

    No one should ever even possess anywhere near that level of money. It’s way too much power.

    People conflate rich people with millionaires and casually lump billionaires in with that group.

    They are not the same. Billionaires are shells of humans, filled with the putrid sludge of a soul completely consumed by greed.

    Do not listen to them. Do not believe them. They only tell you things they want you to believe. They will take everything from you, including your life.

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      Do not listen to them. Do not believe them. They only tell you things they want you to believe. They will take everything from you, including your life.

      say crazy illogical thing

      do crazy illogical thing

      deliver instructions on what he wants you to do

      tells a logical truth

      you believe it

      it’s a brainwashing seminar.

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      They have left us with only one solution to the billionaire problem. And they’re trying to make that difficult too, with round-the-clock security. But everyone is vulnerable for a moment here or there.

      Last night I chatted with my politically moderate neighbor, who is now considering leaving the country, and cheered Luigi, and a bunch of other shit that would have been “far left” a while ago, but I think is now permeating into the middle too.

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      Yup, I don’t give a shit about the multi millionaire orthodontist who co-owns his practice, has a summer home and a boat and some sports cars. Heck a lot of small farmers are multi millionaires on paper.

      I do care about the people who have enough expendable cash that they can throw 10M at a political endeavor without batting an eye.

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        Sorry but an orthodontist or a dentist who is a multimillionaire is only normal in the USA. It’s one of the reasons why healthcare in your country is unaffordable.

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    Isn’t there a conflict of interest here? I mean, his boy-toy Vance is the antichrist’s VP and all.

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    If your president embodies every single one of the Seven Deadly Sins, he just might be The Antichrist.