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Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More

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It’s not just Thiel. There’s a whole subculture attached to such notions, and to “superiority of the tech lords” (my phrase) Here is more on the antichrist matter (or non-matter) [3] And the ultra-libertarians around it. Curtis Yarvin is so well known now, especially in the bay area, that there are already jokes and comedy routines (cant find the references right now) about “parties with Yarvin” and people impersonat…

I have said this a few times and it goes somewhat against the grain but Peter Thiel is just another idiot with too much money and not enough people around him pushing back on his dumb ideas. We as the working class shouldn’t be afraid of him, that’s what he wants. I also did some rough napkin math on his net worth and he’s barely more successful than the S&P 500. His two big breaks were getting lucky with PayPal and…

It doesn't matter if Palantir products "kinda suck", they get bulk data from governments around the world. You are already in a Palantir database.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know but stories about him and the antichrist keep getting posted. A lot of them.

Mostly because he keeps talking about it. He recently put on a lecture series about it, and seems to think that Greta Thunberg is going to create a one world government.

I’ve yet to hear a cogent argument as to why a one world government is not the ideal.

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Thiel pretty obviously wants to rule the world but he’s just so uncharismatic that he’ll never get anyone onboard whatever vision he has. Ultimately I think he’ll be used by whoever thinks he can advance their vision and then he’ll be discarded

It's sort of funny. His historical Antichrist stories covered here are basically about technocrats becoming the Antichrist. His contemporary take is that it's obviously not the technocrats, it'll be Greta Thunberg or someone like her. Someone who opposes technological development (to any degree) will be the Antichrist. So we must develop technology unfettered because the old stories of the Antichrist are irrelevant n…

Thunberg is the poster-child for Globalist technocratic management of energy consumption.

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Thiel pretty obviously wants to rule the world but he’s just so uncharismatic that he’ll never get anyone onboard whatever vision he has. Ultimately I think he’ll be used by whoever thinks he can advance their vision and then he’ll be discarded

> but he’s just so uncharismatic that he’ll never get anyone onboard whatever vision he has

I miss the times where vision was determined by substance, not charisma or other irrelevant to final result traits.

Its probably the reason why we have so many charismatic people pushing the world to the edge by stupid agendas. People just buy it.

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I really have no interest in what this fascist has to say. He has said enough for any thinking person to know what he believes and wants.

While I am not a Thiel fan, calling someone a fascist is a pretty bold accusation. Hope you can substantiate your stance.
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