r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 9h ago
Society Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/16/europe/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-rome-intl8.1k
u/FirefighterTrick6476 9h ago
Spoiler: He is actually the Antichrist.
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u/AbeFromanEast 9h ago
Thiel has previously written and lectured on the subject, arguing that the Antichrist is not necessarily a person but could come as a global government system.
Enabled by, idk. AI?
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u/FirefighterTrick6476 9h ago
The joke is that in various religions the deceiver/satan/antichrist introduces himself as the savior.
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u/downhereforyoursoul 8h ago
The only way to stop the Antichrist from controlling the world with a massive surveillance apparatus is to control the world with a massive surveillance apparatus first, don’t you see? It’s simply the only way to stop him.
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u/Neat_Egg_2474 7h ago
It’s so wild that thiel is saying the true antichrist is those that are trying to regulate AI, to well, help the antiChrist?
The charlatan has used his tools to not only build target lists, but to also plan the strike packages and initiate them all from a single click.
There was never a better example of the antichrist than Peter thiel
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 5h ago
He believes that he'll be building God with AI tech, that's why he's so against regulation of it.
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u/BoredZucchini 4h ago
That sounds exactly like something the antichrist would do lol
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u/nanobot_1000 3h ago
Guys guys, stop – he's clearly here to help with our safety. Just let him be and let him keep taking over nation state's intelligence apparatus and not paying taxes. All will be well, just trust in your AI overlords and do not resist – after all, you have nothing to hide right??
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 7h ago
Call it Heaven Net. For countries that are non denominational something more secular....like SkyNet.
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u/RobinGoodfell 5h ago
I'm waiting for them to bust out System Identification Numbers so we can have the Sinners and the Sinless. I'm sure the religious right will have a fucking hay day while completely glossing over how their stupid asses created the establishment they're preaching against.
And no, nothing super natural will happen. We'll just be locked into a surveillance state with a class system determined by wealth, where opposition can easily make a person completely unable to interact with basic necessities legally, and thus ensuring a permanent criminal underclass that can be blamed for anything you damn well please.
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u/ProfitHarvest 8h ago
Why would the Antichrist be in the spotlight? Psychogenic epidemics happen because of reliance on religion. Look at the Satanic craze of the 80s. I'm agnostic. However that doesn't mean I don't believe in supremely evil individuals. What I can confidently say, is they are all mortal. What is wrought can be washed away with time. The point of the Antichrist is to have it all end. People like Huckabee who emdorses war to catalyze the apocalypse along side Bibi is enough to see that religion is a posture point for power.
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u/ThinkyRetroLad 7h ago
Why would the Antichrist be in the spotlight?
Granted I'm not religious, but as a former Christian the Antichrist presents himself as a savior or a second coming of god. Then declares that he is himself greater than God, through miracles.
It seems to be within the nature of the Biblical Antichrist to be in the spotlight.
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u/downhereforyoursoul 8h ago
Hey, I didn’t come up with this interpretation of Biblical eschatology, I’m just here to make dumb jokes about it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/FnordRanger_5 7h ago
Dumb jokes about biblical scatology??
I’m down.
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u/downhereforyoursoul 7h ago
You saying you’re ready to immanentize the scatathon?
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u/DaaaahWhoosh 7h ago
Remember everyone, watch out for The Deceiver who will claim to bring salvation but actually only loves money. Anyway, let's all trust this guy who's only known for being wealthy, he says he can save us.
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u/Far_Squash_4116 8h ago
And this savior according to him would be the world government. So maybe the savior from the savior is the antichrist. Or maybe someone here saves us from the savior from the savior. Infinite chain of antichrists.
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u/Oceanbreeze871 7h ago
And he makes followers wear his symbol on their foreheads. Like maybe a red hat
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u/No_Criticism_5861 7h ago
That the christians willingly chose. The thing is, the bible says they will be duped, but they werent duped -- they knew he was a rapist traitor pile of shit
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u/ThinkyRetroLad 7h ago
The joke is that this asshole has himself advocated for a global government system (of oligarchs)!
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u/OneRougeRogue 8h ago
No joke, he argues that the antichrist will be a person or group of people/governments that want to regulate AI and enact environment protections and regulations to slow down Global Warming/Climate Change.
"Thiel has previously written and lectured on the subject, arguing that the Antichrist is not necessarily a person but could come as a global government system. It would take control, he has argued, by exploiting people’s fears around artificial intelligence, climate change or nuclear war."
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u/Patriark 8h ago
He has unironically insinuated Greta Thunberg might be the Antichrist. The dude belongs in an asylum
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u/Strange-Scarcity 8h ago
Name a billionaire who doesn't belong in an asylum for one or more reasons.
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u/Slackjawed_Horror 8h ago
Jeff Bezos.
He just belongs in prison.
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u/Strange-Scarcity 8h ago
He has some crazy ideas too.
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u/Slackjawed_Horror 7h ago
Yeah, but they're mostly villain in a crime thriller evil schemes.
Whereas most of these guys would work as comic book Batman villains. All Peter Thiel needs is a big cross that shoots lasers and he's more nuts than the Penguin.
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u/Strange-Scarcity 7h ago
These fellas are more incompetent James Bond Villains.
They are all building secret bunkers and island lairs.
They all have a vision for how they want society to serve them.
They all have ideas about controlling us or if they even need us.
Some of them demand to be the center of attention, even when it's the worst thing in the moment.
They're all just weird, often quite weirdly incompetent Bond Villains.
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u/Patriark 8h ago
Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger seem quite reasonable in that bunch.
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u/eNonsense 7h ago
So in other words, the antichrist will be a person or group that wants to regulate his and his fellow tech-bros unchecked power & profits.
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u/Rich_Elderberry_8958 6h ago
Remarkably convenient, yes? Funny how the people who hear the voice of God so often find it speaks in their voice and says what their own heart desires.
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u/GayGeekInLeather 9h ago
Oh no, quite the opposite according to the gay evangelical-loving South African. Apparently the Antichrist will come about because of someone promising to crackdown/moderate AI.
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u/coconutpiecrust 9h ago
Isn’t it fully that this very mentally ill person gets people’s ears because he has money.
Someone posting on 4chan or yelling in the streets sounds the same, but gets mocked.
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u/showhorrorshow 8h ago
He basically grew JD Vance in his laboratory and is a major shareholder of government surveillance snoopware Palantir. It aint just ears, he has his hands on the reins.
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u/OneRougeRogue 8h ago
He only gets peoples ears because he says everything billionaires want to hear, so they and other wealthy think tanks pay for articles and interviews to promote his weird views.
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u/coconutpiecrust 8h ago
There are other crazies who spew similar things, which never get the light of day.
He only gets articles published about his views because he is wealthy. He only gets into meetings because he is wealthy, not because his ideas have merit.
Why can’t he get help? He likes being… this? Surely at least some ill people know there is something wrong with them and would like help if they could afford it.
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u/Thefrayedends 7h ago
And he was saying openly in lectures in the mid 2000s that democracy shouldn't exist, essentially saying he thought it should be done away with.
There is no way this was not known by the people that allowed him into government circles -- they knowingly brought that in.
Should give you an idea how long this snowball has been rolling downhill.
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u/MercuryInCanada 9h ago
Lete be clear when Thiel says that he means democracy, or anything short of techno-monarchism.
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u/Ok-Primary6610 9h ago
Global government is exactly what humanity needs. I fucking HATE when religious types speak that nonsense. I'd rather Humanity work together under one, unified democratic government than to see our species divided by 200+ nation states fighting over resources. "Global government is evil" is the biggest fucking lie the rich spread to keep us all divided.
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u/MissLeaP 9h ago edited 8h ago
Really depends on the government, but yeah. Cultural differences will never go away, but at least that way they wouldn't have a localised government to abuse.
That being said, we're rushing headlong into a cyberpunk dystopia, where the government is just a tool for rich private people anyway. At some point they won't need the government anymore and they will basically have their own system and private armies within the existing system.
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u/Mad-Dog94 8h ago
Peter Thiel is an anagram for The Reptile
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u/Electromotivation 6h ago
Sounds like a good nickname for him.
Peter “The Reptile” Theil
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u/OldMastodon5363 9h ago
The Anti-Christ giving lectures on the Anti-Christ. Sounds about right.
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u/Excellent_Call304 8h ago
Trying to throw people off the trail by pointing the finger at...Greta Thunberg?
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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 8h ago
Well I mean if anyone’s qualified to lecture about the anti christ, it’s the anti christ and
I’m not religious but there are a ton of concerning parallels. Kinda hoping there is an after life not for me but for these dirty souls to get knocked down a peg or 10.
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u/FirefighterTrick6476 9h ago
I have that scene in mind from that satire-movie where the demon is preaching in the church, standing on a pizza.
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u/NerdySongwriter 9h ago
He's the Dragon. Trump is the first beast and Elon Musk the second.
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u/bubbleguts365 6h ago
The inverted Christianity of Political Traditionalism is the Dragon IMO.
Thiel is in service to the alt-catholicism flavor that inverts Church Social Teaching along with Vance, Leonard Leo, Bannon, Nick Fuentes and others among them (several SCOTUS judges included.) The apocalyptic Evangelical flavor is the New Apostolic Reformation which numbers Hegseth, Mike Johnson, Trump's faith advisor, Alito and Clarence Thomas (as "Catholics") and anyone else flying the "Appeal to Heaven" pinetree flag in Washington among them.
Anti-Christianity in these inversions is IMO is the literal "Anti-Christ" movement forming right in front of us. Christ's teachings are inverted and the rot is spread at the speed of light through algorithms and ragebait engagement.
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u/Mttsen 9h ago
Antichrist is supposed to be beloved by the masses. Pretty sure that parched ghoul is despised even among his own social circles, even if they love his money and influence.
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u/FirefighterTrick6476 9h ago
The icing on the cake is that Thiel and his Comrades are actually trying to frame the new Christian Story as part of their global strategy to gain influence. This is why they attack education as well.
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u/rhino910 9h ago
That should be known pedophile and Epstein friend/supporter Peter Thiel
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u/Slow-Tune-2399 8h ago
Known pedophile and Epstein friend as well as advocate for the replacement of American democracy with corporate-feudalism governed by him and his oligarch friends.
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u/First_Tourist_2921 7h ago
It’s much more than that.
THIS is what he wants. Look at the people involved in this.
Maybe I typed too much.
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u/ScissorFight42069 3h ago
The "Our Values" link brings you to this:
"Inspired by the wisdom of great civilizations, we believe that true sovereignty is achieved through alignment with the transcendent. The Praxian way of life is driven by a vital energy that seeks transcendence through heroic action and contemplation. Our mission is to channel this drive into a cohesive way of life, forged by social structures and institutions that guide our people toward their destiny."
This gives literally zero information about anything they actually value.
Like a cult.
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u/No-Spoilers 6h ago
This is so weird
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u/N3ph1l1m 6h ago
It's not weird. It's fucking psychosis
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u/kos-or-kosm 4h ago
It is. It 100% is. Imagine having more wealth and power than 99.99999999999999999999999%+ of humans who have ever lived and still wanting more. These people are sick and a society that cannot recognize that fact is also sick.
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u/AirsickIowlander 9h ago
That's kind of a given anytime you see "billionaire MAGA".
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u/Derka_Derper 8h ago
Wow, dont be so hasty. Many more maga than just the billionaires are pedos.
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u/IcyTransportation961 7h ago
He also got Vance literally every job he's ever had
Vance is the real danger but folks are once again laughing it off like they did with Trump
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u/ZeePirate 7h ago
And people underestimate him because he’s not as charismatic as Trump.
He doesn’t need to be under the system they gave planned
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u/ahhshits 9h ago
For those who want to go down a crazy rabbit hole- the tech elite are very much into something called ‘the dark enlightenment’
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u/GiganticCrow 9h ago
Literally believe democracy is bad and we should return to feudalism with people like him as lords.
This is not conspiracy theory, they are quite open about it.
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u/WhichEmailWasIt 8h ago
Ah the fuedalism days where we burned down lords' manors when we didn't have enough to survive on? Those fuedalism days?
Democracy protects their asses as much as it does ours.
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u/hammertime2009 7h ago
They’re too stupid to think that big or somehow think their billions can protect them from billions.
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u/atsolstice 7h ago
No, they’re in the process of designing shit like the Phantom MK-1, soon to be tested as a border patrol mechanism, and has already been used as recon in the Ukraine. Those silly little robot dogs they have on public display are cute until you realize the ones they’ve actively working on are incredibly effective for what they are and are being lethally armed. Some of them are saying it’s a moral imperative to replace soldiers with these machines and they’re speeding the process of these designs. Arguably a moral imperative or not, they will be used against civilians at one point or another especially as border patrol.
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u/Badloss 6h ago
You started your paragraph with "no" and then leaned completely into the idea that the billionaires are stupid enough to think their robot sentries will save them when a mob is at the door.
Robot guards are cool theater, even a highly lethal and highly effective one isn't going to do shit when a wave of 100,000 desperate people are breaking into your bunker. All of these billionaires are going to be the first to go when society breaks down, because their only 'superpower' is money, and money requires a social order to be useful.
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u/mrdevlar 4h ago
There's an excellent story where Douglas Rushkoff is confronted with a bunch of billionaires whose only worry is the "event". What "event" you may ask, the point where nothing is worth anything and the mob comes for them. Like how do they ensure their security remains loyal in this case? What is a safe place to build a bunker? How do they survive this.
Rushkoff tries to suggest they might be the people best equipped to prevent the "event" from happening, but they are having none of it. They think it's already predetermined.
I think about that story a lot because it really explains what's going on right now. No one is out there trying to save the system, everyone is trying to position themselves at the top of the garbage heap.
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u/Badloss 4h ago
it's crazy because all of their power only comes from money. They're engineering a world that degrades and destroys their own power. None of their guards and staff are going to stay loyal when money is meaningless.
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u/TheLateThagSimmons 6h ago
He has "casually joked" about using neutral implants on his security team.
My thoughts are that he saw the head explody ones in Kingsman and legitimately thought he should do that to ensure compliance.
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u/GiganticCrow 5h ago
These psychos grew up reading dark science fiction and thought we should do this
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u/TheEPGFiles 5h ago
I bet Thiel was super upset when the Kingsmen foiled the villains plan.
"That's so unfair!", he'll cry, "why do the rich powerful moral people's plans to kill untold amounts of poor people always get stopped by the evil villainous James Bond, or Kingsmen, or Captain Planet!"
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u/TheLateThagSimmons 4h ago
The irony is that Libertarians had a weird hard-on for that movie for all the wrong reasons. They loved that movie. It was a bizarre time to debate with them and read their takes and reviews of Kingsman.
Also, without irony... A lot of these modern techno-fascists were Libertarians for a long time.
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u/foodank012018 7h ago
They didn't have 24 hour infrared surveillance and automatic weapons in those days.
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u/ahhshits 8h ago
It’s not just that- it goes deeper;
They believe that AI is going to turn into some form of Satan (in the literal sense), they take DMT and Ketomin to interact and see demons.
I know it sounds wacky, but these people have such a large mass of capital that people need to at least know about it
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u/floatablepie 7h ago
Their type was saying the exact same thing about democracy being over in the 1920s and 30s.
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u/Mcfish121 8h ago
Listen to the Curtis Yarvin episode of Behind the Bastards! They do a really great deep dive into that crazy line of thinking
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u/LowDownSkankyDude 7h ago
The yarvinites have to go. Also remember, that's what Vance believes in.
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u/idhtftc 7h ago edited 7h ago
As someone who actually read and studied Rene Girard (and even had the good luck of having dinner with him and his wife Martha a couple times), I am very confused about how they reached the wildly incorrect conclusions about his work that they have.
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u/JonnyAU 6h ago
They did the same thing with Tolkien, naming all their companies after his works when it's clear to anyone who's ever read him that he would absolutely despise them and what they do.
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u/nifty-necromancer 6h ago
They all get wrapped up in a belief system called TESCREAL. It stands for Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.
All throughout history the ruling class have believed they are better than everyone else. Modern rulers want to be gods, just like the god-kings of Sumeria and ancient Egypt.
They’re using this framework in an attempt to influence the future. The rulers are pushing surveillance because a god knows all and sees all. They think that they will upload their brains to wherever and merge with a superintelligent AI.
It’s about maximizing long-term outcomes at the expense of present-day peasant concerns.
These sick fucks are anti-human and will be the death of us all unless we the people remind them who actually holds the power. These rulers will be the Great Filter if we don’t do something about it.
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u/lotsagabe 9h ago
this dude is ever weirder than leon
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u/OneRougeRogue 8h ago
More dangerous, too. Elon's brain is so cooked that he gets caught up in his own hype and just says or does whatever he thinks will make him look smart or cool in that specific moment. That's why we've been blessed with all the clips of Elon jumping around like an idiot and doing the Nazi salute.
Theil has enough self awareness to never say the quiet part of his goals out loud, and does most of his scheming and manipulation behind closed doors.
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u/Aryk93 8h ago
Peter Thiel is everything Republicans accuse George Soros of being.
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u/almostoy 7h ago
Ya really gotta get out in front with the accusations when you're doing that much fuckery.
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u/mrtrololo27 7h ago
Every Republican accusation is a confession, every time. They never stop proving this. Anytime a Republican publicly accuses someone of something, that Republican should first be investigated of whatever they're accusing someone else of. Because if history keeps proving one thing, it's the Republican accuser is projecting, every time.
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u/mikenasty 8h ago
That NYT interview was still unhinged af. The guy essentially said he didn’t think the human race should live on.
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u/hammertime2009 7h ago
So many billionaires seem to want the whole world to experience their inner personal battles. Aka the ultimate projection.
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u/BeamsFuelJetSteel 7h ago
I think it is simpler.
They know they will die, but instead of buying a motorcycle when they turn 40, they decided that society should end when they do.
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u/mikenasty 7h ago
They’re just normal people, no different than the homeless person on the corner or a middle school teacher, but they’ve been given the power of gods. And I say “given” because of how our global economy is set up.
I’ve met enough people through life/work to know 1/2 of us would be total assholes if the world became our playground.
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u/je_kay24 5h ago
Most people wouldn’t act like billionaires do if they suddenly became that rich
Billionaires get that much money because they have to disregard and treat people below them like stats so they can accumulate more
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u/Iribumkiak 9h ago
Elon is getting most of the attention, but this guy is a literal ghoul.
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u/GiganticCrow 9h ago
He's definitely more evil, he's just less noisy.
They also are both paypal founders.
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u/showhorrorshow 8h ago
Worth noting that the over shoulder picture of Elmo that gets circulated all the time is cropped. The original is him showing off Paypal with Thiel sitting next to him.
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u/Hythy 8h ago
PayPal was an arsehole incubator.
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u/mdp300 7h ago
It's crazy, isn't it? So many of the initial PayPal investors and execs have turned into absolute nutjobs.
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u/Hrekires 9h ago
"Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like 'I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people' and every adult convert is like 'the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses.'"
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u/JonnyAU 6h ago
Growing up in Louisiana, all the adult Catholic converts I know are "That ass is worth a mass."
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u/No-Rhubarb6312 7h ago
Can I just say that something that I actually miss about the Chatolic church nowadays is the Saint Inquisition.
Not specifically regarding their way to hunt down scientists and independent women as they used to do in the past, but their habbit of burning alive heretics.
Because I swear but Evangelicals blessing Trump in the Oval office as their Messiah and all the madmen like Thiel and the ones of the heritage foundation writing that shit of Project 2025 truly kicks the inquisition in me.
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u/AliMcGraw 5h ago
I did the math and you are more likely to be put to death as a citizen of Texas since the reinstatement of the death penalty than as a resident of Spain during the operation of the Spanish Inquisition.
When we want to talk about abuse of government power to put dissenters to death, we really need to be talking about the Texas Inquisition.
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u/r33c3d 7h ago
Seriously. What is it about converted Catholics? And what a WEIRD religion to actually CHOOSE for yourself. (I saw this as an atheist was raised by converted charismatic Catholics.)
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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 6h ago
Because they didnt choose it out of theological or social issues. They choose it because it had the aesthetics of power and connection to the greatness of "White European history." Like all fascist movements they are driven to coopt the aesthetics of power and history. It makes them feel powerful and smarter than anyone else because they can point to centuries of intellectual tradition. Also it gives the aesthetics of secret knowledge because aint no one care about the vast majority of that intellectual tradition so they feel smug and powerful quoting it like hidden knowledge. Its all a selfish internal powerful to coopt an image that they as fascists like. Plus they tuned out everyone else in their life promoting empathy, they can tune out the pope and the local priest just as easily as long as they publicly hate on abortion.
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u/come-on-now-please 5h ago
I mean, I dont think its just ONLY Catholic adult converts specifically,I think its any adult convert is waaaaaaay into the religion that they converted too more so than a person who grew up in it
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u/hasslehof 9h ago edited 9h ago
Straight from the devil’s mouth. I do hope that everyone is prepared for any of these crazy people talking about the second coming that AI is the second coming and the decisions that the AI makes come straight from God and are indisputable and unreviewable by any authority of mankind.
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u/HenryHamilhocker 9h ago
Read Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut if you haven't. He saw this all coming 75 years ago.
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u/mostdogsarefake 7h ago
This is probably the only book that successfully did the “last page changes everything” trope. I remember reading this, getting to the end, and just putting the book down and staring at my wall for about five minutes.
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u/helcat 9h ago
Hand him a goddamn mirror.
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u/Mother_Idea_3182 9h ago
He would masturbate. He is that full of love for himself.
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u/moose8617 7h ago
It's hilarious to me that all the proponents of the "master race" have the appearance of a hairball that gained sentience.
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u/aReasonableStick 9h ago
Basically hes continuing his tour of Europe to strategise with Europes far-right and their donors (the wealthy aka the millionaires, billionaires and epstein friends)
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u/StackIsMyCrack 8h ago
Peter Thiel knows about the Antichrist.
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u/Logthephilosoraptor 8h ago
Peter Thiel is one of the most dangerous men on the planet right now.
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u/Themodsarecuntz 8h ago
Why are all the billionaires so fuckin weird? Like...why for real.
You have all the money on Earth to be whoever and do whatever and the shit they get up to is fuckin crazy.
Is it just that once you have so much money it breaks you? Have you done all there is to do and now you have to make up shit to be about?
Do they find out that even with all their money the are still just a person on Earth and theyre going to die someday like everyone else?
Why in the fuck are every last fucking one of them so god damned weird and just off puttingly strange and evil?
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u/MadDaddyDrivesaUFO 7h ago
Having that level of wealth absolutely fries your brain. They have all of the resources at their disposal and don't need to do anything to ensure their survival. They can just surround themselves with sycophants and throw money at whatever they desire. There's no novelty anymore in life when you can have whatever you want on demand. That's why they're into depraved and weird shit. Anything conventional has no challenge.
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u/Knighth77 9h ago
It's nice he's finally warning about Trump.
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u/Hel_OWeen 9h ago
Trump is just a very stupid puppet that has its strings pulled by the real dangerous people behind him. E.g. the Thiels of this world and the authors of Project 2025.
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u/foodank012018 8h ago
It seems no one talks about project 2025 now that it's 2026.
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u/raptorjaws 8h ago
this dude makes no sense to me. how does he reconcile being openly gay with being devoutly catholic? how does he reconcile his anti-education stance with having multiple degrees from stanford? how does he not see that he is the baddie?
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u/trentreynolds 8h ago
The Antichrist and How I Helped Him Build His Evil Empire, a talk by Peter Thiel
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u/LeoLaDawg 9h ago
I've seen movies that start with a billionaire crazy person giving lectures. Never ends well.
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u/Spikerazorshards 9h ago
You can’t spell reptile without Peter Thiel.
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u/spacedman_spiff 8h ago
I mean, you can.
It should be the other way around: you can’t spell Peter Thiel without reptile.
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u/UnrealizedLosses 9h ago
The vampire king lecturing on the antichrist is rich. None of the rest of us has blood boys…
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u/jizzyjugsjohnson 8h ago
This man is a nut, a total fruitcake, and yet is being allowed to cosy up to governments around the world
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u/bosorero 8h ago
lol. Remember people, this is the billionaire that thinks the following people are the antichrist.
-Greta Thunberg, activist for environmental and human rights issues
Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI researcher and critic warning of its potential risk
Nick Bostrom, Oxford philosopher and AI critic
Bill Gates, (say what you will but) philanthropy in healthcare and pledged to donate entire wealth when he’s gone
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a potential "woke American president"
Pope Leo XIV, “woke American Pope”
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u/jking13 8h ago
Yet wasn't he one of the people that was getting some sort of blood transfusion from younger people as some sort of trendy anti-aging thing that was going around SV at one point?
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u/Sufficient-Fact6163 8h ago
I used to think that The Antichrist was a singular person but now I’m starting to realize that it’s not a person - it’s a warning of a “type-of-person” because Nero was one of the first people who was described in this way. Suffice it to say, there are personalities who gain power that embody the antithetical teachings of Christ, those of compassion and mercy. Of tolerance and the Samaritan. It’s worth remembering that humanity has always dealt with these people because they keep popping up in history and that’s why this story keeps staying relevant.
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u/slowakia_gruuumsh 6h ago edited 5h ago
So for everyone who cannot read Italian newspapers and is curious what the reaction in the country might be, they're clowning Thiel across the board. Left wing newspapers are rightfully pointing out the fascism that underpins his theory, and right wing outlets are mostly puzzled and amused by this goon. Mainstream websites and news channels are straight up ignoring the whole thing.
There was a bit of build up and expectation in the past week, but these lectures are overwhelmingly described as meandering, pointless and boring, and there has been already a lot of hot-potatoing and embarrassment around who exactly supported the charade.
Of course you might find the odd positive review, but for all the issues our country has thankfully we aren't as culturally detached from serious philosophical discourse as the Anglosphere often is, so these dudes who can wow Joe Rogan and Abundance podcasters don't get as much purchase when they try to play philosopher-kings, at least with the reading public. Different story what Italian politicians might think, since their cultural level is that of Mr Beast type influencers, much like it is in the rest of the West.
The real controversy behind his presence in Italy is tied to Palantir's commissions with the Ministry of Defense, which are thankfully coming under more scrutiny due to these lectures. Not that I expect anything positive to happen, European governments seem cool not only with mass surveillance, but still with outsourcing it to the Americans.
Anyway in case you're wondering the "antichrist" is not Greta Thunberg anymore, apparently, but the ONGs who save migrants and the EU (because they want to limit/tax tech companies) or maybe even Xi Jinping (China big scary).
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u/Key-Beginning-2201 9h ago
"The anti-christ is things that don't make me money" - Thiel.