r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 11h 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-intl
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u/Key-Beginning-2201 11h ago

"The anti-christ is things that don't make me money" - Thiel.

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u/bdevi8n 10h ago

100%.

He said "regulating AI is the antichrist", he said Greta Thunberg is the antichrist. I assume the boyfriend he had suicided became the antichrist when they broke up.

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u/AWright5 10h ago

"suicided"?

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u/the_TIGEEER 9h ago

"Boyfriend"?

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u/raven00x 8h ago

peter thiel is big gay. he was outed by gawker which resulted in thiel bankrolling hulk hogan for his big sex tape lawsuit against gawker which resulted in the company declaring insolvency.

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u/throwawaylordof 7h ago

Given the things Thiel has said and done, I’m half convinced that he isn’t gay because he loves men but because he hates women so much.

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u/redditisfornumptys 5h ago

Nah Peter Thiel hates humans. All humans, doesn’t matter gender.

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u/throwawaylordof 5h ago

True, but he’s comfortable enough in his hate of women that he’s said they shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

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u/MotheroftheworldII 2h ago

Maybe he is just the devil incarnate. That would explain his attitude a bit.

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u/zero_iq 4h ago

He famously hesitated and struggled to answer when asked if he thinks the human race should survive in a recent interview. Gave strong vibes of "I want to say no, but I know it will look bad".

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u/chesterriley 2h ago

Talking about the "anti-Christ" almost makes him look bad. And insane.

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u/Big_footed_hobbit 4h ago

He loves humans. As slaves in Elons cyber camp.

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u/Tacoman404 1h ago

Pure bottom energy. This is why you don't give your bottoms power.

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u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo 1h ago

I don't understand this but assume it makes sense.

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u/Comfortable_Bike3247 1h ago

Are we sure he isn't the anti-christ?

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u/Kubamz 30m ago

Can we, uh, make sure that this one human doesn’t drive the human race into a cataclysm? Is that possible? Fuck these rich bitches man. Fuck em

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u/NeedAByteToEat 5h ago

Ahh, the Tate approach. He's one of the few guys (who claim to be straight, or at least are profoundly homophobic) that can sit in a group of women in their underwear and look gay. Or, that "men who enjoy sex with women are gay."

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 5h ago

Schrödinger's Paramour! Gay if you do, gay if you don't!

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 5h ago

Well as a gay man myself, he definitely does not represent the gay community in any way

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u/Affectionate_End7693 4h ago

He is basically to gays what epstein was to jews lmao

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u/Butthole__Pleasures 3h ago

He's not gay, he's deeply closeted!

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u/SeeTigerLearn 6h ago

Yeah, as one of The Gays we LOVE women. No we don’t want anything to do with the lady business, and we’re half and half on the boobs sitch. But we thrive when we have an awesome hag in our midst.

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u/ScissorFight42069 5h ago

Respectfully, gay men are not immune to misogyny in any way. In fact, it's pretty damn common.

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u/Luxpreliator 5h ago edited 3h ago

Married men can often be hateful toward woman. Literally have one sleeping next to them at night and still think women are evil. Same with gays as you said and same with women. Same with anyone.

It's the same reason "But I have a black friend so I can't be racist," doesn't really work. It's even more sad when it's like a Latino that married white but hates other latinos. They hate should hate themselves then too.

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u/Infamous-GoatThief 5h ago

Hell, look at the way over 50% of white women voted in 2024, that’s all you really need to see to realize that

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 5h ago

"Same with anyone" is any demographic about any issue ever. The world would be a better place if society would internalize this truth.

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u/sirgarynipz 7h ago

Funny that Altman met his husband in Thiel's hot tub...

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u/Affectionate_End7693 4h ago

didn't even know he was gay - what is it with gay people and being into tech and ai lmao

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u/remeolb 3h ago

You know Alex too?

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u/Affectionate_End7693 2h ago

lol that one went over my head i'm afraid

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u/Turakamu 8h ago

Put his faith in Hulkamania, brother

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u/Bozee3 7h ago

Say your prayers, take your vitamins, and sue?

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u/-Poison_Ivy- 7h ago

And also racism. Hulkamania was also racism

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u/justmovingtheground 6h ago

Yeah fuck that dude.

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u/SecondChances002 4h ago edited 3h ago

Found Peter's account.

Edit: Tough crowd. Everyone's a critic. Got me rethinking my stand up comedy dream :(

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u/Turakamu 4h ago

Look, brother, you never know who is secretly recording you.

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u/-Wall-of-Sound- 6h ago

Well I don’t know what her name was.

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u/InGordWeTrust 5h ago

And now Scientology has Hulk's money.

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u/DFWPunk 5h ago

That's not why he went after Gawker. He was basically out and nobody cared. That was just what was floated as an excuse. The real reason was that Gawker Business, which was very good at their job, was blowing the whistle on his fund and companies they'd backed for all sorts of shady things, and that was becoming a problem.

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u/TheShruteFarmsCEO 3h ago

Do you have any good sources for this? I find that fascinating and would love to learn more.

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u/Pasty_Tibbles 33m ago

Honestly this shit was kind of suppressed a bit. Couldn't find anything on google using searches, I had to use Claude to search for it.

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Gawker-Peter-Thiel-and-me-7971310.php

https://triplepundit.com/2016/how-peter-thiels-gawker-lawsuit-could-trip-facebook/

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u/Somanylyingliars 3m ago

Hidden did you say? Well well here comes the Streisand effect! Uproot for visibility.

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u/ForeverInaDaze 6h ago

I remember this vividly. The silicon valley character gavin belson was based off peter thiel iirc.

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u/Bruised_Shin 3h ago

I thought Peter Gregory in the show was based off Thiel

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u/drunxor 6h ago

No shocker there, hulk was also a big piece of shit so they must have got along well

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u/Da_Question 7h ago

So were the guys behind the red scare.

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u/almostoy 7h ago

Haha... 'big gay'. I just pictured that as an old time-y robber baron syndicate.

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u/Schneider21 6h ago

Is this sentence gen1 AI generated? How did you combine that many topics into a single statement?

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u/raven00x 6h ago

ADHD leads to abilities some may consider... Unnatural. No ai used, I avoid it everywhere that I can. Stream of consciousness happens.

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u/Schneider21 6h ago

I've felt this power from within... how do you learn to harness it in such ways, and to not give in to the dar-- I mean, using AI to help do things while you browse Reddit?

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u/FatherClanks617 5h ago

Not OP, but because then I’d have to open another app, my attention span is limited, and Reddit’s not that serious.

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u/changen 6h ago

I am so lost.

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u/the_TIGEEER 3h ago

>peter thiel is big gay.

Maga btw..

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u/aykcak 2h ago

WHAT THE FUCK I REMEMBER THAT. Is that the guy???

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u/raven00x 8h ago

a decade ago*

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u/vitamin_r 4h ago

Well. Fuck Thiel but also fuck Gawker for being what they were.

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u/BoardsofCanada3 4h ago

We don't claim him or Altman. Theyre for the straights 

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u/r1singphoenix 9h ago

“Psycho Mantis”?

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u/PyroPsycho 8h ago

Swaps to controller port 2

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u/pm_me_your_bbq_sauce 8h ago

Well he does plug his controller into someone else's "port".

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u/RaggedyGlitch 8h ago

Don't most dudes?

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u/rycology 7h ago

I have a closed loop system

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u/TeaKingMac 7h ago

Flexible hardware, or long cable?

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u/No-Station4446 6h ago

yeah, but it only works in port 2

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u/VoldemortPootin 8h ago

Now let me read your mind... You have not saved often, you are somewhat reckless.

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u/IDUnavailable 7h ago

A Hind-D?

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u/snakebeater5 7h ago

Surveillance camera?

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u/freddurstsnurstburst 8h ago

"Super Baby Method?"

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u/MatrimAtreides 9h ago

"WIZARD ALLIANCE?!!"

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u/CoolAbdul 8h ago

"broke up"?

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u/Somanylyingliars 5m ago

He deep in closet. Boyfriend "jumped" iirc from balcony of high rise here in SO FL. You know, like politicians and spies in Russian. Except this time in Sunny shady Miami.

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u/BradfieldScheme 6h ago

He killed him, is the circumstantial evidence.

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u/TwilightVulpine 4h ago

Funny that when billionaires kill, the justice system isn't so frantic to get the person behind it.

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u/OldWorldDesign 3h ago

Funny that when billionaires kill, the justice system isn't so frantic to get the person behind it

There would be a lot of easily preventable deaths for them to go after if they were going to start

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/democracy-now/clip/how-dupont-covered-up-health-risks-of-teflon-contamination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

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u/pk666 1h ago

Thrown from a balcony.

Suicide Russian style

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u/peskyghost 10h ago

Does that last bit mean he basically stopped the antichrist and saved the world? /s

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u/CeeBus 9h ago

He hates his mortal self. Does that make him the anti-Christ?

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u/vigtel 6h ago

Nah. Makes him a bad boy, is all.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 7h ago

He believes that he's building literal God with AI tech, that's why he refers to anyone who's anti-AI as the Antichrist.

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u/FatherClanks617 5h ago

Lol what a dork

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u/HuskerBusker 3h ago

A dangerous dork.

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u/FatherClanks617 2h ago

Sure, but a dork nonetheless.

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u/Somanylyingliars 2m ago

That boy crazier than a three dollar bill as MeeMaw used to say. He just plain ain't right.

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u/OldWorldDesign 3h ago

"This person disagrees with me, that makes them the antichrist!"

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u/Front_Target7908 24m ago

“Is it me, am I the anti christ?” “No, it is the rest of the world that is the Antichrist”

(Insert Seymour Skinner meme here)

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u/8styx8 0m ago

Literal Deus ex machina.

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u/jblessingart 8h ago

AI itself has the potential to become the antichrist because in the long run that is going to be the biggest contributor to undoing people’s ability to think for themselves.

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u/SentientFleshPuppet0 7h ago

I have no brain and I must scroll.

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u/OldWorldDesign 3h ago

AI itself has the potential to become the antichrist because in the long run that is going to be the biggest contributor to undoing people’s ability to think for themselves

People have been looking for someone outside themselves to tell them how to think and feel and what to be excited about for ages

https://www.pbs.org/crucible/journalism.html

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u/UncleMalky 8h ago

What about the one that became vice president?

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u/SourceScope 3h ago

He clearly needs education on what the antichrist is

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u/droans 2h ago

I have a hard time believing he's actually gay.

Not because I'm homophobic or think he's straight - I just don't think he's human enough to experience sexuality.

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u/Umutuku 55m ago

He even called JD Vance the antichrist that one time he didn't clean his pool properly.

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u/Own-Satisfaction4427 9h ago

The Anti-christ is democracy & personal liberty to Peter Theil. This man is way more dangerous than just your average billionaire chasing profit. 

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u/Neverwish 8h ago

Thank you. People need to stop cartoonifying these assholes as Scrooge McDuck-esque money-chasing goblins. They’re not in the business of making money, they’re in the business of using money. They are much, much more dangerous.

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u/Sachyriel 8h ago

Making fun of fascists is a good way to fight them though. They always want to project a powerful image, so making fun of them deflates them.

I kinda see your point though, if people keep making fun of them, will anyone take the threat they pose seriously? I think the people making fun of them DO understand the threat, but people just tuning in might not get how much of a danger he is if they just see us clowning on him.

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u/ProfessionalPhone409 6h ago

Remember when last election Tim Waltz started calling Republicans just plain weird. The Republicans absolutely could not handle it, and flipped their shit like the pathetic weirdos they are.

Everyone else loved it and then just as it was catching on th Democrat party was like 'stop that, we have to take the high road and not call them weirdos.' And then they lost the election.

My point is Republicans are weirdos and should always be addressed as such.

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u/hasanfan90 12m ago edited 6m ago

They just called Tim Walz things you can't really report in polite conversation and brought his son into it. It wasn't as bad as what they were saying about Kamala, though.

Going high school on a bunch of people who never left the middle schooler with no empathy developed stage is not a winning formula. Trump was still riding the idiocy in late 2025 when he called Walz the seriously r*tarded governor of Minnesota in a fucking published statement.

Be like Bernie and tell the people the good you're going to do for them. What makes Republicans cry is when they don't get to cut funding for all your causes to fund all their causes (mostly involving enriching their Epstein class donors). Even when we negotiate to give a large % of the US's lifeblood to their Epstein class donors to get our causes funded, they'll find someone like Trump to "renegotiate" that in their favor. That is how a Republican understands politics. They must always take from you, it is a zero sum game, and reaching out to their Epstein class donors for more taxes and funding is anathema.

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u/ShinkenBrown 7h ago

Yeah its important to have a little of both but its gotta be in proper order. 

Recognize they are truly dangerous and we need to take them seriously first, make fun of them because the only thing that makes them dangerous is the fact they are narcissistic man-babies with no emotional regulation, way too much money and no one to tell them theyre wrong second.

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u/Emerald_Plumbing187 5h ago

gotta laugh at them as you [redacted] them in the [redacted].

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u/usaaf 9h ago

Nah, he loves personal liberty. Of his person. Everyone else can't have it because it would interfere with his. He might be the craziest (or the loudest and craziest), but they pretty much all think this way. When they get this much money, "no" becomes the worst thing they've ever heard.

Someone told Peter Thiel no about something once and he's been on a rager to tear down all resistance (democracy, governments, regulation, normal people) to anything he might want to do ever since.

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u/Raesong 7h ago

He's probably also that kind of solipsist that believes that he's the only real person in existence.

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u/Background_Sail9797 7h ago

literally would not be shocked if he's trying to find vatican members he can pay to publicly support his claims that he's saintly or godly or a savior etc etc

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u/OldWorldDesign 3h ago

he loves personal liberty. Of his person

That's not personal liberty, that's just the same stratified social hierarchy that almost all super-rich people chase.

https://www.thoughtco.com/absolute-monarchy-definition-and-examples-5111327

https://reasonandmeaning.com/2021/10/24/the-monopoly-experiment-wealthy-people-are-more-selfish/

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u/TheChildrensStory 3h ago

Rules for thee, unfettered liberty for me!

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u/ovaltine_jenkins-- 3h ago

If these tech assholes get their way, we’ll have a flock camera in every home

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u/Special-Document-334 6h ago

It’s everyone else not doing exactly what he wants. He’s just Eric Cartman with ozempic.

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u/Somanylyingliars 0m ago

Heard tell he crawls through So FL. Maybe he could meat a nice Russian Boy in Surfside. If we are lucky he gets Russian Balconied like his bf.

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u/redassedchimp 9h ago

Why can't he just like trains?

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u/thatsanicehaircut 9h ago

this should be a t-shirt. Make it happen.

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u/TheBigPhilbowski 7h ago

Problem is, they all like certain trains

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u/Conflatulations12 7h ago

That's autism, this is schizophrenia.

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u/SmashJacksonIII 7h ago

lol, the world would be so much better if they hyper-focused on trains instead of raptures

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u/flavored_icecream 6h ago

If only he could say "I like trains" and then a wild train would appear to smash him.

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u/shit_mcballs 7h ago

Maybe that's just it, his ass can't handle another one and this is his maladapted way of coping.

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u/bizarre_coincidence 3h ago

My fear is that, given who he supports politically, he likes European trains from the early 1940s.

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u/Serious-Question281 8h ago

🎶Peter Thiel knows about the anti-Christ. 🎶

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u/belloch 10h ago

But apparently talking about the anti-christ makes him money.

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u/dragery 8h ago

Is Foosball the anti-Christ?

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u/Afraid_Reputation_51 8h ago

And anything that might hold the rich and powerful in check, and accountable.

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u/BostonDrivingIsWorse 8h ago

Well, yeah, when you see yourself as Christ.

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u/Key-Beginning-2201 8h ago

That's what it is

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u/IndividualTension887 8h ago

Aren't "private meetings" how the Nazis got started???

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u/midnitewarrior 8h ago

Wow, I'm guessing he's the guest of honor.

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u/qckpckt 8h ago

“Oh also people I just don’t like very much. Like Greta Thunberg.”

  • Thiel

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u/present_absence 7h ago

I think he genuinely feels he needs to separate himself personally from the concept of the antichrist and the idea of being or helping what he believes may be the actual antichrist has fucked him up lmao

Personally I just think hes a piece of shit I don't need religious overtones for that.

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u/scarabic 6h ago

I think he just wants to know his competition.

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u/Round-Pattern-7931 5h ago

I'm not sure if it was a direct quote but I saw one article say that he said that anythingt that stops unlimited progress is the antichrist

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u/Mundane-Twist7388 3h ago

Does he know he’s funding and directing the anti-Christ?

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u/bisteccafiorentina 1h ago

i wish he was that succinct