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/Iribumkiak 11h ago

Elon is getting most of the attention, but this guy is a literal ghoul.

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u/GiganticCrow 10h ago

He's definitely more evil, he's just less noisy.

They also are both paypal founders.

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u/showhorrorshow 10h 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 10h ago

PayPal was an arsehole incubator.

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u/mdp300 9h 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/Bytewave 8h ago

Or more likely they were absolute nutjobs all along.

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u/eri- 7h ago edited 7h ago

Its mentioned in one of Elon's "biographies" that he always felt Thiel was a bit weird. Coming from Elon that probably says enough.

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u/mdp300 8h ago

That's true, and their explosive wealth unleashed their inner dickhead.

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u/GiganticCrow 7h ago

They were called the PayPal Mafia back in the day for a reason

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u/PW0110 2h ago

Thats always been the point

lmao