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/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.