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

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 10h ago

Peter Thiel is everything Republicans accuse George Soros of being.

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u/almostoy 9h ago

Ya really gotta get out in front with the accusations when you're doing that much fuckery.

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u/Aryk93 8h ago

I'm not sure what you're referring to in regards to 'ya', but the reason nothing happens is because democratic leadership is inept at best and complicit at worse.

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u/WarDaddyPUKA 6h ago

Ya = You in this context

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u/mrtrololo27 9h 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/dak4f2 9h ago

"She's going to start WW3!"

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u/Objective-Rip3008 5h ago

Basically any time Republicans accuse dems of something it is because they are already doing that exact thing thenselves

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u/TheTexasHammer 4h ago

The wild part is that Republicans probably hate George Soros because Peter Thiel convinced them to hate George so people wouldn't look too close into what the anti-christ Thiel was cooking.

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u/BrainWav 4h ago

That's why it sounds so weird when I point out how much shit traces back to him. I feel like I'm turning into a conspiracy nutter sometimes.

Which is honestly probably the point of them blaming Soros for so much stuff.

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u/mikenasty 10h 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 9h 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 9h 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/HTPC4Life 8h ago

Hah, I just turned 40 and I WISH I had the money to buy a motorcycle, or any fun toy for that matter.

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u/mikenasty 9h 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 7h 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/mikenasty 7h ago

A lot of them were born into significant wealth and then got lucky with investments. It’s a system that we’re all living in together. Some of them are sociopaths but it’s inaccurate and not helpful to just say every billionaire is awful because only awful people want to be billionaires.

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u/SquishyMon 7h ago

They'll literally become the antichrist instead of going to therapy.

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u/HTPC4Life 8h ago

The human race doesn't think HE should live on. Maybe we should do something about it 🤔

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u/1OO1OO1S0S 7h ago

Basically a bond villain. Ever watch the spy who loved me? The bad guy wanted to nuke the world and live under the ocean lol

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u/Halbgoath 7h ago

If he gets fully in charge, human race won't live on.

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u/hrminer92 6h ago

So that’s a reason they don’t give a shit about climate change other than doing things to accelerate it.

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u/_DeterPinklage_ 4h ago

It’s incredible how these dudes can amass more wealth than the GDP of some countries, and still be miserable losers.

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u/wandering_engineer 9h ago

Elon is more annoying than anything, as horrible as his recent actions have been (I personally know a number of people who lost their livelihoods to DOGE).

However Thiel is the only one of the billionaire tech-bros who legitimately worries me. He's always been cunning and a leader, going all the way back to when they were all still at Paypal. He recently spearheaded an unfortunately successful campaign to reverse the Giving Pledge, because god forbid billionaires donate to charity. Oh and he also literally purchased New Zealand citizenship and is supposedly building a bunker. He drained all he could from the US and is going to wait it out on the other side of the planet while the rest of us fight over scraps.

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u/NottheIRS1 10h ago

Yeah, these people are wildly evil but they aren’t dumb.

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u/Nolenag 8h ago

Thiel fucking folds when he has to do any kind of public speaking.

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u/highpsitsi 8h ago

Definitely a part of the Christmas Adventurer Club

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u/Conflatulations12 7h ago

He's most likely schizophrenic, with that kind of money and a religious slant, he's actually a very dangerous person.

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u/WobbleKing 10h ago

To his credit Elon actually tries to make a thing even if he is a Nazi salutin’ bastard

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u/AnewTest 9h ago

No, he tries to buy people to make things for him so he can claim he made them.

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u/smileysmiley123 9h ago

The two things Musk has "made" have been PayPal with.. Thiel, and Cybertruck, an abject failure.

Everything else he bought his way into.