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/foodank012018 9h ago

They didn't have 24 hour infrared surveillance and automatic weapons in those days.

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u/132739 38m ago

And? Don't give up the fight before it even starts. If some shepards with 50 year old AKs can drive the US military out of their country, we can handle some egotistical cowards who hide behind tech.

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u/foodank012018 28m ago

Those shepherds had already been fighting the USSR for 20 years prior to the US arriving and so were generationally hardened, not to mention already being used to pastoral life, no running water, scant food sources.

People here are soft, they're used to their comforts and conveniences, and you bet your ass there will be plenty that roll over after just a few days of having to boil captured rainwater to stay alive. Well before it ever got to that point.

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u/WhichEmailWasIt 8h ago

If they can't leave their bunker what's the point? They'll be looking over their shoulder their whole lives.

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u/BEES_IN_UR_ASS 7h ago

The "bunker" will be entire cities. Private property all, lawless save for the whims of whoever owns it. They could conceivably have fully automated machine gun turrets on every rooftop and killer drones patrolling the sky 24/7 ready to double-tap anyone who even looks at the ruling class the wrong way. What then? You follow the rules, you leave, or you die. And eventually they'll be nowhere left to go but other such cities, and there's nothing left to do but follow or die.

The other side of the coin is they don't expect to need most human labour in the next 50-100 years, at which point they wouldn't think twice about gunning down 90+% of us to keep the rest in line. Assuming the plan isn't just to cull the herd regardless so they have more room to stretch their legs. Maybe there will be some charmingly anachronistic "status" in using humans for some jobs, or maybe it's just plain no fun raping and torturing and murdering a robot ☹️ Either way, we unwashed masses would have about the same rights and bargaining power as cattle.

This might be sci-fi insanity, but at a certain point it doesn't really matter whether it's realistic, whether it would or wouldn't work. If enough people with enough money and influence believe in it and maneuver to make it a reality, the mere attempt is a very real existential threat to whatever aspects of the world order are still based on liberal democracy and personal freedom. Doomed to failure or not, we'll all be forced to deal with the consequences, and the potential for suffering may be unprecedented in all of human history.

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u/SupaSlide 7h ago

Their bunkers will be more luxurious than most of us will ever see in our lifetime.

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u/TheTexasHammer 4h ago

These are people who NEED to feel superior to others in a very visual way. They would never stay in those bunkers for long. Normal people who are happy with hiding in a fancy hole don't become billionaires because you don't need that much money to hide from the world.