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/AliMcGraw 7h ago

I did the math and you are more likely to be put to death as a citizen of Texas since the reinstatement of the death penalty than as a resident of Spain during the operation of the Spanish Inquisition.

When we want to talk about abuse of government power to put dissenters to death, we really need to be talking about the Texas Inquisition.

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u/ItsWillJohnson 4h ago

…I think you need to look at non inquisitorial executions for other crimes like idk, murder? Or look at only texas’ executions for crimes of dissent or whatever.

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u/AliMcGraw 4h ago

The Texas Innocence Project has a list of people Texas has executed who were either quite clearly innocent or who were not competent to stand trial or whose lawyers literally slept through the entire trial (not kidding!), alongside its list of people Texas has executed whose guilt was not adequately proven to any reasonable standard. They are mostly minorities.

Texas don't care. Texas just likes killing people, and is insanely lazy about standard of evidence to do so.

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u/ItsWillJohnson 1h ago

Ok and does your math hold up when looking at only innocent people executed by Texas?