By Antichrist he means “a little girl asking us to please not ruin the world for future generations.” Really.
[dead]
Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
21–30 of 52 posts
Re: Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ross Douthat is author of ''The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success'', which, when read along with ''Amusing Ourselves To Death'' by Neil Postman, might put a lump in your throat in the face of today's rampantly compulsive tech broligarchs and their enshittification of society.
Palantir turning into a movie villain caricature on the internet through breathless journalism is a great example of "Amusing Ourselves To Death". Journalists turned it into a great story that sounds straight out of a thriller TV show. But trying to spin unchecked growth in government power, a lack of accountability, and mindless consumerism as some sort of side effect of the new cabal of tech-bro elites rather than…
unchecked growth in government power
Like what we saw in Minneapolis, amirite?
Re: Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
#23We need to stop listening to this guy and tax him. He is not smart. Most of his fortune is directly tied to extremely lucky bets on Facebook and PayPal. Palantir is a boring government contractor that makes glorified ERP software. And he has really, really dumb opinions.
Just like the rest of the other "thought-leaders" everyone else listens to on this orange site as they do not care if they are wrong.
Re: Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
#24"We're all trying to find the guy who did this!!"
If you're worried about someone coming to your party, perhaps start with not sending them a gold-leafed invitation.
I presume all of Thiel's noise about the antichrist is a play at trying to maintain some support for techno-fascism from the religious fundamentalists after they're done satiating themselves with the recent Crusades. The reality is of course that the closest thing we have to an antichrist figure is sitting in the White House, having charmed millions with his blatantly false promises.
Re: Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
#25Behind the Bastards did a few episodes on this: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... and they were quite entertaining.
Re: Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
#26Behind the Bastards did a few episodes on this: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... and they were quite entertaining.
[dead]
Re: Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
#27"We're all trying to find the guy who did this!!" If you're worried about someone coming to your party, perhaps start with not sending them a gold-leafed invitation. I presume all of Thiel's noise about the antichrist is a play at trying to maintain some support for techno-fascism from the religious fundamentalists after they're done satiating themselves with the recent Crusades. The reality is of course that the clo…
I'm an atheist, and I don't believe in the antichrist, but it's hard not to see how closely he fits the bill. Only lies come out when he opens his mouth. Even if he says something true, he basically qualifies it with another untruth, and people lap it up. Even the media, even the cynical media, seem to report the things he says at face value. It boggles the mind sometimes.
Last week someone challenged him on his claim that Iran had tomahawks and they bombed their own school. First time I've heard anyone directly challenge him. His response was "I don't know enough about it" classic bs packpedal, like any kid caught in a lie. Next day CNN stories were "trump doesn't know what's happening in the war, others are running it and he's unaware", completely missing the obvious truth, he lied to misdirect people on the school bombing, one person challenged it, he lied again to backpedal.
Some days it's like he has a supernatural ability to get away with lies
Re: Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
#28Behind the Bastards did a few episodes on this: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... and they were quite entertaining.
The topic is interesting to me so I gave it a go, but by God this podcast (quite popular I hear) is insufferable. Why is everyone trying to be a comedian? Why does one of the guest sound like they’re on Valium? And I cannot stand the air of basic anti-intellectualism I keep getting from American presenters, where any piece of information is met with a groan and a joke.
I reckon not every podcast can be as excellent as The Rest Is History, for example.
I’m waiting for some coverage on the pillock from this side of the pond.
Re: Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
#29Are you guys just about done advertising his world tour? I’ve been hearing about it for weeks at this point.
Re: Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
#30His subconsious is getting to him, a simple fix for everybody would be if he had all his mirrors removed