cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35095129
Peter Thiel's Antichrist Antics Continue
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, Peter Thiel has announced plans to deliver a four-part lecture series on the Antichrist. These unusual events will take place at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on four days in September and October.
Thiel, one of the most influential tech billionaires of our time, seems intent on forcing us to discuss the Antichrist. He is clearly trying to make a point. But what is that point?
Thiel’s lecture series won’t provide any clues to the public—it’s off the record. He’ll be delivering his lectures to an exclusive group of Antichrist-curious tech acolytes in a highly-controlled atmosphere.
Here’s the thing: this isn't really about religion. It’s about power and politics, wrapped in theological language. Thiel has long been fascinated with political theorist Carl Schmitt's ideas about “political theology”—the notion that all significant political concepts are secularized theological concepts.
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Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 98 pts · 349d
You would think that a gay billionaire who’s obsessed with making himself immortal and putting forward intense surveillance and ushering in AI gods fervently would be most Christian’s definition of the antichrist. I know it’s mine, and I’m not even Christian anymore.
Edit: I am fine with the gay part, I just want to make that extremely clear before everyone rips me to shreds for being homophobic. I just think Thiel is evil.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 57 pts · 349d
The gay part is what makes it crazy, he thinks his money will protect him? The homophobia in the christian world is insane. Just because they're nice to your face, that doesn't mean they wouldn't hang you from a tree if they could. Fake nice is their thing.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 348d
Save him? He is accelerating what they are doing. He is funding them and propagandizing to them. He is the main reason fascism is here.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 348d
Dude, they will turn on him. It's just a matter of time. As soon as he balks at any single thing they do, they'll turn on him.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 348d
This particular strain of Christian only care about something until they don't, they don't really have a lot of set in stone (heh) principles.
Thiels money and connections will protect him from the true believers who'd turn on him just like they protect him from the rest of the world right now.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
Same with Trump. He’s just a means to an end. They don’t care about his beliefs now, but once they have achieved what they want it’s going to become a problem for them. They want a true autocrat ruling over them, then a fascist religious leader is going to challenge Trump and his flock will hand Trump’s head on a platter.
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 348d
What they think doesn't matter. In his mind, he is above the plebs. Their wants and moralities are beneath his notice.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 349d
He useful till he ain't....
If the people he's financing ever really seizes control like he wants, the first thing they'd do is seize the wealth of private billionaires like him.
Why risk them staying supportive when you can just seize all their wealth for themselves?
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 349d
The elites always seem to have this “honour amongst thieves” thing between them. They see eachother as actual humans, just not the rest of the humans. At least that’s how it’s always seemed to me.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 349d
Until they don't...
This ain't a hypothetical, we have thousands of years of recorded history. When wealth because concentrated and the wealthy seize the government, it doesn't take long for the new government to start cannibalizing the very wealthy elites that put it in power.
That turns the remaining ones against the government.
They side with the poor, call it a revolution, and they end up as the biggest fish in a more equal pond.
This is literally how America became a country... And France funding us led to their revolution because they squeezed the poors to fund us.
This isn't a new scenario, it happens all the time
We just need to prolong the good part of the cycle if we live thru it. But eventually our grandkids or their kids won't remember and we'll do it again.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 348d
remember he defenestrated his BOYTOY from florida last year, probably sucked the life forced out of him to stay young, and then staged an "accident"
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 348d
K wait did he throw him out a window? I do not know this story
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 347d
not exactly defenestrated, but very similar his timing of his death after voicing his concern over thiels continuing support and attack on anti-lgbqt+ rhetoric and initiatives through the gop. he fell from a high rise after voicing his concern over this, and due to "personal issues, so suicide".
You ask why, he doesnt just Leave THiel? if your so depressed? something else he knows about thiel that thiel doesnt want revealed, let alone; probably doesnt want to be int he news " thiel being gay, supports homophobic laws" or something else. how do you leave someone that has much more power than you do, just like a woman who wants to leave an abuser but dont?
thiel could probably ruin the bf life if he had not suicided, and left, to prevent him from going to press to give a tell all article to the news. its pretty fishy.
the last thing thiel wants is press on him being gay, and doing something shady, like with gawker, thats why he funded HUlk hogans lawsuit, he had a vendetta.
because right wingers dont tolerate gays at all.
you can search an article, i think this happened in florida.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 347d
My one solace in the coming climate/water wars, is that Pete is going to likely be tortured and murdered by his private military. Once the government he wants to destroy is gone, what's to stop the people with weapons to just be like "lol,no!" to his orders?
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 347d
Crazy. Thanks for the info.
omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 348d
Nico_198X@europe.pub · 2 pts · 347d
and Trump always struck me as the "little horn." the one that won't shut up spewing blasphemous shit. XD
pigup@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 348d
Imagine I give you $100,000 today, tomorrow and every day thereafter. How long until you get tired of getting $100,000 each day?
After only a few days, most people's financial problems would be solved. After ten days, you will have received 1 million dollars. After a few months, you will have been able to purchase anything you've ever dreamed of.
How long, then, until money is meaningless to you?
Do you know how long it takes to have received 1 billion dollars?
27.4 years.
27.4 years of receiving $100,000 every day. A billion dollars is 10,000 $100,000s.
Some people have hundreds of billions of dollars. It is an astronomical number.
You can't imagine how much that amount of money changes a person. You will absolutely lose your mind and yourself.
No one should ever even possess anywhere near that level of money. It's way too much power.
People conflate rich people with millionaires and casually lump billionaires in with that group.
They are not the same. Billionaires are shells of humans, filled with the putrid sludge of a soul completely consumed by greed.
Do not listen to them. Do not believe them. They only tell you things they want you to believe. They will take everything from you, including your life.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 348d
Yup, I don't give a shit about the multi millionaire orthodontist who co-owns his practice, has a summer home and a boat and some sports cars. Heck a lot of small farmers are multi millionaires on paper.
I do care about the people who have enough expendable cash that they can throw 10M at a political endeavor without batting an eye.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
Sorry but an orthodontist or a dentist who is a multimillionaire is only normal in the USA. It’s one of the reasons why healthcare in your country is unaffordable.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 347d
I just looked this up and they make big bucks almost everywhere, including Europe.
turtlesareneat@discuss.online · 21 pts · 348d
They have left us with only one solution to the billionaire problem. And they're trying to make that difficult too, with round-the-clock security. But everyone is vulnerable for a moment here or there.
Last night I chatted with my politically moderate neighbor, who is now considering leaving the country, and cheered Luigi, and a bunch of other shit that would have been "far left" a while ago, but I think is now permeating into the middle too.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 348d
polarization of the populace works in both directions, the left only lags a bit behind because they actually like stuff like due process and human rights.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 348d
it's a brainwashing seminar.
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 7 pts · 347d
A hard upper limit would solve a lot of problems in the world. Like once you reach a billion dollars you die immediately.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
I like you pigup! You're 100% on the spot here.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 72 pts · 349d
bizzle@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 349d
I'm reasonably sure that Peter Thiel is
thean antichrist. Seems exactly like the kind of people warned about in the Book, charlatans, fraudsters, those who worship the dollar over Jah.paraphrand@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 349d
So this lecture is like a Disney villain singing about their plans.
josefo@leminal.space · 15 pts · 349d
Scar comes to mind
5too@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
He wishes he was as cool as Scar!
josefo@leminal.space · 3 pts · 347d
Yeah, these nazis are also lame
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 347d
Also his surveillance company is literally named palantir(the orbs from Lord of the rings that saurrumon has laying around, that have him a direct line to the bbeg
Feyd@programming.dev · 27 pts · 349d
He should be cowering in his bunker
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 349d
The event is sponsored by a non-profit that promotes “Christ in science and technology” or something.
h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 349d
LMAO
danc4498@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 349d
Like saying 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything. Maybe we need to figure out what the question is, cause this answer doesn’t make any sense.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 348d
They feel empty and like something os missing no matter what they achieve. Religion is good for that, but having seen this type, religion won't help them. What they need is community and some hands on volunteering.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
I get it. But saying Jesus is the snare doesn’t really make sense. Community is the answer, and that’s what they provide.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 348d
They should give all they have to the poor and follow him.
Not to the church. Not to preaching. To the poor. End world hunger. Eliminate a neglected disease. Speak with poor people in Africa and south America and ask them what would make their lives better and easier and buy them that. Feed Palestinians. Go to Jesus's home and feed the starving people there with every last dollar lest you find yourself trying to fit a large animal in an infamously small hole at peril of your soul.
Klear@quokk.au · 4 pts · 347d
Or, hear me out, spend billions on research of a machine that would shove camels through needles.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
"What we thought since you were Jewish we could try to find a loophole, isn't that a thing you do in your religion"
Klear@quokk.au · 2 pts · 347d
Christianity as a whole is one giant loophole in Judaism if you think about it.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 348d
I agree with the part of Jesus message where he whipped the charlatans making money in the name of religion. Howe about they start with Peter Thiel?
Nico_198X@europe.pub · 3 pts · 347d
they "promote Christ" by spending a ton of time obsessing and talk about his antithesis.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
"He's the answer to the longings we try to fill with ...[snip]... or self-discovery.
Oh yeah, don't try to figure out things yourself especially about yourself, gotta go to the approved pastor to know what you should think and feel!
Wigners_friend@piefed.social · 24 pts · 348d
He is desperate that people regard him as a deep and serious thinker. The trouble is, no interesting thought has ever crossed his mind. This is the reason for his pathetic hatred of academics. His university professors rightly saw a useless dweeb with an outrageous sense of self regard.
NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 347d
The only reason Trump went to the Wharton School of Business was to take advantage of his draft deferments, which kept him out of the Vietnam War. (Trump got 5 deferments, one medical and 4 educational).
He apparently didn't learn much while he was there, because his professor at Wharton (William T Kelly) has said, "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."
Jakule17@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 348d
I think we should allow everyone to introduce themselves
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 348d
He's a man of wealth, and taste
bampop@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Definitely wealth. I haven't tasted him yet
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
Well if you do, I'm sure he'd be pleased to meet you regardless.
migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 347d
And has been around for a long long year
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 349d
A four part lecture on Trump? But why?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 348d
himself, how he "posesses" trump do his bidding.
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 349d
So, what, is this just going to be his autobiography?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 348d
how he stayed young, by consuming the lifeforce of his side pieces.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
But died trying.
Right? !
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 349d
Nougat@fedia.io · 12 pts · 349d
Definitely not a technocult.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 349d
'Sold Out'. Fuck me this world is stupid.
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 349d
And once it ends up online, it’s gonna get a lot of views. From all different people too. I’ll be part of the group who’s curious what the fuck is going on.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 349d
No doubt. I'll be happy to wait for Some More News or someone to analyse it/rip it to shreds. I can't imagine he'll have anything good to say.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 349d
At the Commonwealth Club? LMAO
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 349d
My guess is; the anti-christ is progressives who want gay people like him to just say they're gay. He's on record as not wanting that. He likely sees government regulations as some sort of anti-christ as he's on record as having said he doesn't believe democracy and freedom are compatible.
It's the usual boring thing: The anti-christ is everything Thiel doesn't like.
All hail the anti-christ is all I can say.
tinman@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 347d
Personally I'm surprised to see the Commonwealth Club signing off on such a presentation, I had some respect for them. Maybe I didn't know what they were about in the first place, but I do know they have hosted some really good speakers and, genuinely, some really good debates in the past.
Although, my memory of the institution dates back to pre-2016, so what do I know.
I'm really hoping someone at least takes notes that they share about the amount of crazy that's going to be on exhibit here. This is off the charts. 4 lectures? He could say what he has to say in 10 minutes, I guarantee it.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
I assume the Commonwealth Club just really really likes money.
NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 347d
If your president embodies every single one of the Seven Deadly Sins, he just might be The Antichrist.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 347d
Thanks Jeff Foxworthy
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 348d
considering it's Peter Thiel doing this, nothing good can come from this.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 348d
hes the real anti-christ, that controls his puppet vance and trump
Photuris@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 349d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 348d
Photuris@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 348d
nomy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 348d
I don't believe a word of it but I like your style.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 349d
Phew, for a moment I thought he'd give a lecture on the anarchist.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 348d
4 hours on how he,(thiel) the anti-christ warps reality(one of the antichrists powers)
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 347d
Of course I know him. He's me.
M1ch431@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 349d
I look forward to hearing recordings or reading the transcripts if they surface. Hopefully something does, this is relevant to pretty much anybody on earth right now. /s
I wonder how many times he'll mention Greta Thunberg, the presumptive Antichrist?
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 348d
I'm not antichrist, I'm just antichrist curious
Raxiel@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 347d
Don does like it when people talk about him, but I doubt he could sit through four lectures
Ougie@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 348d
The 9th gate vibes anyone?
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 349d
This makes perfect sense, since it takes one to know one.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 349d
Fer er aginnit?
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 349d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 348d
vance is an empty puppet controlled by the antichrist.
Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 347d
So he’s just gonna be there showing PowerPoint slideshows of him and his buddies? Lol.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 348d
What a Jerxes!
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 348d
Who is this man
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 348d
The next shinzo abe, probably; A sociopath billionaire whose long term project is destroying democracy and is the owner of Palantir a company that makes surveillance software for the US and Israeli government. The name "Palantir" comes from the device used to corrupt Saruman in lord of the rings.
There's a lot of speculation that he's part of a silicon valley death cult that wants to purge the earth of most of its population.
Edit: He's also gay, not that it matters.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 348d
Oooh exciting
Valmond@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
He's the guy behind musk too right?
They both have child labour mines (Elon has/had emeralds, Tile some nuclear horror).
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · -4 pts · 348d
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 348d
Its not that crazy.
MAGA is absolutely doing death cult stuff (see RFK jr's vaccine policies, ICE, medicare, etc)
There's also been articles on the group chats all the richest people on the planet are on.
Quotes from Peter Theil show he is opposed to democracy, etc. Its less tin foil hat and more an assmption that "this is being done with his blessing"
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 347d
Any day now you guns get those Thiel props. He totally sees your simping and will reward with a super special room in his bunker. Lol, y'all are pathetic.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 347d
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 347d
Dude has claimed on camera that his goal is to destroy democracy and the United States, he owns a surveillance company name palantir ffs. This isn't muddying the waters, this is me throwing the mud into your face while you simultaneously claim to be clean.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 347d
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 347d
Not an conspiracy theory when dude literally said it, and work on being so damn sensitive cause it wasn't an insult it was anology.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 348d
The living embodiment of the idea that billionaires shouldn't exist.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 348d
The real life Gavin Belson. Silicon Valley writers used Theil for that character, based on actual events. Yes, he has a blood boy.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 348d
He is the one causing all the fascism in the world right now.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
you give him far too much credit. he's not the only one doing it, but he's certainly one of the loudest.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · -7 pts · 348d
I like it that people from America have so much difficulty descerning 'ie' and 'ei' that op just used both.
See also Einstein ( 'ain' correct) Weinstein ( 'steen' <- only if it were written 'stien')
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 348d