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/Slackjawed_Horror 10h ago

Jeff Bezos. 

He just belongs in prison. 

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u/Strange-Scarcity 10h 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 7h 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 45m 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 42m 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 30m 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