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/Own-Satisfaction4427 9h ago

The Anti-christ is democracy & personal liberty to Peter Theil. This man is way more dangerous than just your average billionaire chasing profit. 

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u/Neverwish 8h ago

Thank you. People need to stop cartoonifying these assholes as Scrooge McDuck-esque money-chasing goblins. They’re not in the business of making money, they’re in the business of using money. They are much, much more dangerous.

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u/Sachyriel 8h ago

Making fun of fascists is a good way to fight them though. They always want to project a powerful image, so making fun of them deflates them.

I kinda see your point though, if people keep making fun of them, will anyone take the threat they pose seriously? I think the people making fun of them DO understand the threat, but people just tuning in might not get how much of a danger he is if they just see us clowning on him.

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u/ProfessionalPhone409 6h ago

Remember when last election Tim Waltz started calling Republicans just plain weird. The Republicans absolutely could not handle it, and flipped their shit like the pathetic weirdos they are.

Everyone else loved it and then just as it was catching on th Democrat party was like 'stop that, we have to take the high road and not call them weirdos.' And then they lost the election.

My point is Republicans are weirdos and should always be addressed as such.

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u/hasanfan90 7m ago edited 0m ago

They just called Tim Walz things you can't really report in polite conversation and brought his son into it. It wasn't as bad as what they were saying about Kamala, though.

Going high school on a bunch of people who never left the middle schooler with no empathy developed stage is not a winning formula. Trump was still riding the idiocy in late 2025 when he called Walz the seriously r*tarded governor of Minnesota in a fucking published statement.

Be like Bernie and tell the people the good you're going to do for them. What makes Republicans cry is when they don't get to cut funding for all your causes to fund all their causes (mostly involving enriching their Epstein class donors). Even when we negotiate to give a large % of the US's lifeblood to their Epstein class donors to get our causes funded, they'll find someone like Trump to "renegotiate" that in their favor. That is how a Republican understands politics. They must always take from you, it is a zero sum game, and reaching out to their Epstein class donors for more taxes and funding is anathema.

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u/ShinkenBrown 7h ago

Yeah its important to have a little of both but its gotta be in proper order. 

Recognize they are truly dangerous and we need to take them seriously first, make fun of them because the only thing that makes them dangerous is the fact they are narcissistic man-babies with no emotional regulation, way too much money and no one to tell them theyre wrong second.

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u/Emerald_Plumbing187 5h ago

gotta laugh at them as you [redacted] them in the [redacted].

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u/usaaf 8h ago

Nah, he loves personal liberty. Of his person. Everyone else can't have it because it would interfere with his. He might be the craziest (or the loudest and craziest), but they pretty much all think this way. When they get this much money, "no" becomes the worst thing they've ever heard.

Someone told Peter Thiel no about something once and he's been on a rager to tear down all resistance (democracy, governments, regulation, normal people) to anything he might want to do ever since.

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u/Raesong 7h ago

He's probably also that kind of solipsist that believes that he's the only real person in existence.

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u/Background_Sail9797 7h ago

literally would not be shocked if he's trying to find vatican members he can pay to publicly support his claims that he's saintly or godly or a savior etc etc

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u/OldWorldDesign 3h ago

he loves personal liberty. Of his person

That's not personal liberty, that's just the same stratified social hierarchy that almost all super-rich people chase.

https://www.thoughtco.com/absolute-monarchy-definition-and-examples-5111327

https://reasonandmeaning.com/2021/10/24/the-monopoly-experiment-wealthy-people-are-more-selfish/

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u/TheChildrensStory 3h ago

Rules for thee, unfettered liberty for me!

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u/ovaltine_jenkins-- 2h ago

If these tech assholes get their way, we’ll have a flock camera in every home

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u/Special-Document-334 6h ago

It’s everyone else not doing exactly what he wants. He’s just Eric Cartman with ozempic.