Wicklow hotel cancels ‘secretive’ Peter Thiel group conference

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/03/wicklow-hotel-cancels-secretive-peter-thiel-conference/

Thiel was a cofounder of payments group PayPal and Palantir, a defence contractor known for mass surveillance and criticised heavily for its “strategic partnership” with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in its assault on Gaza.

A leaked schedule for the “retreat” hosted by Dialog, an invitation-only group cofounded 20 years ago by Thiel and entrepreneur Auren Hoffman, featured discussions on topics including preparations for a third world war, battlefield technologies, nuclear energy and cult-building.

Totally normal, nothing to see here. Just a business meeting!

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Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 31 pts · 28d (2 replies)

nuclear energy and cult-building.

These two that make every child's birthday party a success!

/s

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 28d

I've seen that in the old Planet of Apes!

kurcatovium@piefed.social · 1 pts · 28d

Same as Thiel himself along with his buddies like Donnie or Epstein /s

AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 28d

Peter Thiel = The Reptile (anagram)

20cello@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 28d (3 replies)

Just throw them on the streets and let the people take care of them, bare hands

1984@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 28d (2 replies)

Honestly I'm starting to feel like that. They are driving humanity into hell.

QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 28d (1 reply)

I don’t want violence to be the answer to anything. But I also see that people with power have ironically endangered their physical wellbeing by dismantling proper democratic avenues for change and removal

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 25d

The tree of Liberty...

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 28d

One of the luxury-bunker preppers, that answered the question "how to make bodyguards/private army and service people not rebel you (not by treating them humanely, rolleyes)" with "make a cult with you at the center"?

This would track.

ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 20 pts · 28d

Avicenna@programming.dev · 10 pts · 28d

There are enough sub billionaires (almost a billionaire not quite) now that you can build a cult out of them, that is what is happening here.

And Politicians see this and they are like "we should get Palantir all over our country". Guess why...