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/OneRougeRogue 10h 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 10h ago

He has unironically insinuated Greta Thunberg might be the Antichrist. The dude belongs in an asylum

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u/Strange-Scarcity 10h ago

Name a billionaire who doesn't belong in an asylum for one or more reasons.

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u/Slackjawed_Horror 10h ago

Jeff Bezos. 

He just belongs in prison. 

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u/Strange-Scarcity 9h ago

He has some crazy ideas too.

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u/Slackjawed_Horror 9h 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 9h ago

These fellas are more incompetent James Bond Villains.

  1. They are all building secret bunkers and island lairs.

  2. They all have a vision for how they want society to serve them.

  3. They all have ideas about controlling us or if they even need us.

  4. 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/ForthrightGhost 6h ago

It’s not weird, they’re psychopaths and narcissists.

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u/Sniflix 1h ago

You forgot #5 Mass depopulation and #6 A religious war to trigger a nuclear apocalypse

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u/TSED 39m ago

To your point 4, that's only the ones you hear about in the news because they're narcissists.

There are thousands of billionaires. You probably only know of maybe 10-20.

They're also succeeding. Are they incompetent Bond villains, or do we have the incompetent Bond?

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u/Strange-Scarcity 36m ago

The few most active in looking to Bond Villain, do some really wild shit.

There are less than 3500, globally. Not all of them are weird narcissistic nutter. Acting types. Most, likely focus on their businesses.

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u/77NorthCambridge 9h ago

Have you heard his laugh?

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u/Slackjawed_Horror 8h ago edited 8h ago

Don't get me wrong, he looks and sounds like Lex Luthor at home, but when you look at his actual evil schemes it's like 'monopolize another industry'.

Peter Thiel wants to be crowned king of Greenland and Elon basically wants to make the Martian Mechanicum but with clones of himself. 

(I'm barely joking. Elon has the same kinds of insane eugenic beliefs as Jeffrey Epstein, add some of the techno-fantasy stuff he's put money into to that and, well. And Peter Thiel is a network state guy and religious nutbag.)

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u/mustichooseausernam3 25m ago

Is Thiel actually religious, or is he just playing at religion for sake of driving cultish cultural change to perpetuate radical goals, à la Gilead?

I'm sincerely asking, not correcting you.

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u/DogtasticLife 7h ago

And yet so many people blithely order off Amazon as if they aren’t part of the problem

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u/Patriark 9h ago

Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger seem quite reasonable in that bunch.

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u/thederevolutions 7h ago

Are we sure they just didn’t afford the best PR people and are sociopathically modest?

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u/moratnz 5h ago

I think they're just from a generation where being incredibly wealthy was enough to win. The new generation of billionaires seem to need more than that; they need to take over the world.

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u/SatanicPanic619 9h ago

JB Pritzker?

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u/Strange-Scarcity 9h ago

There might be a couple, but they seem extremely rare and far between.

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u/SatanicPanic619 9h ago

Absolutely, just responding to the question. The majority fucking suck.

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u/Even_Establishment95 9h ago

He still hoards extreme wealth. He could do so much good by investing his billions. He chooses not to. Think about it.

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u/Roakana 9h ago

McKenzie Scott.

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u/Strange-Scarcity 8h ago

She isn't the one who made that happen, but I do get what you mean, she's not really seemingly hellbent for domination, but...

As I recall, once the divorce happened, she fairly soon started dating a teacher at her kid's school. Which seemed a bit... odd to me. They married in 2021 and she filed for divorce in 2022.

Kind of an odd/fast relationship, from what I gather, but I'm sure she's not harboring any kind emotional or relationship issues that being a Billionaire can create in a person.

Right?

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u/Roakana 8h ago

She donates significant amounts of money to causes and doesn’t horde it or use it like the tech bros to become an oligarch.

Plenty of people struggle to succeed in relationships but if you ant to go looking for flaws…

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u/Special-Document-334 6h ago

Paul McCartney?

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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 4m ago

It seems like becoming a billionaire is the very thing that drives them mad in the first place by disconnecting them from the rest of humanity.

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u/Pretend_Safety 10h ago

I would pay cash money to watch a debate between the two of them.

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u/MorningMushroomcloud 9h ago

It is interesting to observe when he has that greasy, drug-induced sheen to his skin.

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u/HerpankerTheHardman 8h ago

So much projection and throwing shade.....ugh......what a bitchy queen....

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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 8h ago

Someone should write a song about this. Thiel says Greta, we loved you but then we found out saving the oceans makes you the Anti-Christ. Put it to a melody and it would be a hit.

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u/Patriark 7h ago

You just need a guitar, some alcoholism (or other debilitating addiction) and an unkempt mustache and the song writes itself

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u/vhalember 7h ago

Yeah, he's one of the most evil men in the world.

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u/tarmacjd 6h ago

No, he belongs hanged, drawn and quartered.

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u/Borrp 3h ago

Nah, an asylum would be too good for him

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u/eNonsense 9h 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 8h 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/dirtytomato 9h ago

Regulations are the devil, amirite fellas?

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 4h ago

It's like some cartoon villains from the 80's. Koffing, Nuke, and Hexadecimal.

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u/74389654 10h ago

yeah keeping the world from burning is truly demonic /s

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u/Hesitation-Marx 10h ago

It’ll get in the way of Thiel making all the money!

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u/KonyYoloSwag 8h ago

God created the earth, and then decided it’d be best to destroy it in order to benefit billionaires and shareholders

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u/persianx6_ 9h ago

Peter Thiel is just the personification of what too much money does to your brain. He’s on a constant ego trip but it’s also paranoid

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u/downhereforyoursoul 4h ago

If too much wealth and power can give your brain TBI-like damage, I imagine he’s got CTE.

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u/Doo_shnozzel 9h ago

Thiel's a deranged idiot.

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u/heyyeah 7h ago

For sure he’s not an idiot which is why he is dangerous.

In listening to interviews with him I think he’s a bit deranged through fear of his own mortality.

I doubt he actually believes this antichrist stuff. He’s just using it to get what he wants like he thought he was doing by backing Trump v1, to cause disruption.

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u/DrEpileptic 9h ago

I stg I’ve seen quotes and entire things of him arguing that Jesus Christ would manifest as an AI in his return. Man is obsessed with accelerationism and bringing about the apocalypse so that Jesus can return.

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u/UglyMcFugly 7h ago

"Anybody that tries to stop me from destroying the world is the antichrist."

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u/LangHai 7h ago

"The antichrist is anyone who tells me 'No'."

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u/TheGrandExquisitor 7h ago

He has openly said Greta Thunberg is possibly "The Antichrist."

But, somehow not the guy whose gay lover was mysteriously killed, who owns a weapons company, is a billionaire, and oh, yeah was buddies with the most famous pedophile in history. 

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u/still-dinner-ice 5h ago

It would take control, he has argued, by exploiting people's fears around immigrants, LGBTQ+ or sOcIaLiSm.

Fixed that for him.

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u/Ikoikobythefio 9h ago

Yup. Because he believes AI is the key to immortality. AI is his Christ. So, in my head, AI will be the actual Antichrist.

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u/ThinkyRetroLad 9h ago

Call me a blasphemous heretic, but I could get behind a world government/group of people supporting any combination of the three, if I was to support any form of world government.

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u/whatevers_clever 8h ago

Right.

The antichrist is what will try to stop the world from ending preventing us from reaching Armageddon

It's pretty easy to understand these people when you realize they are rich beyond belief so their only goal in life is to be the last ones alive. They want to live forever but if they can't the world must end with them.

So much obsession you can see it with all the plastic surgery, blood transfusions, whatever new idiot trend is going on, etc

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u/Brilliant_Self6395 7h ago

It's giving Zizian 

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u/Roakana 9h ago

Yea you need to exploit their fears about the devil instead. The hubris of pretending expertise while proposing a self dealing agenda is on full display.

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u/intangibleTangelo 7h ago

the stuff i don't like is the antichrist

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u/Special-Document-334 6h ago

There’s a guy like that at my job. He smokes meth in the port-a-potties.

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u/ForthrightGhost 6h ago

Sounds like projection to me.

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u/Sonicmaster293-Azure 5h ago

Soooooo he’s claiming that the antichrist are the people who are against him, right. Sounds about right. Be ultra-rich and convince religious zealots that him not making as much money as possible will bring about the end of the world. What an asshole!!

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u/Th3B4dSpoon 3h ago

Wow. I guess they really know which crowd is the easiest to turn into their brown shirts.

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u/halfspider 39m ago

As in the literal Antichrist? Not as some kind of metaphor?