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Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

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Re: Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

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Post by sifar »

tootie wrote: post #45

Some reporting on the contents of the speech from last year: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-... It's suitably insane rambling nonsense. It actually seems to dovetail pretty well with Andreesen's manifesto in that evil is portrayed as anyone who opposed relentless technological progress at any cost. If you worry about the economic or human effects of tech oligarchs (Grete Thunberg is named…

Ironic that for someone so steeped in tech, his views on technology seem to be simplistic.

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

expedition32 wrote: post #107
NalNezumi wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference to robber Baron this time is that those companies have gone global , so a new Teddy Roosevelt being elected in USA wouldn't help, because these multinationals can just extend outside jurisdiction. Which is very similar to the actual dynamic of states/federal that Teddy tackled [1] Unfortunately the political rhetoric have smeared "the globalists" and equated people that want global coordination to limi…

The penchant for Christ clown insanity is distinctly American though. Secularism never truly touched the hearts of Americans.

Not sure your country but the internet isn't the USA. Secularism very much touched the hearts of Americans. Talarico's words are pretty good at embodying actual American Christian belief on it.

The dixiecrats mascarading as Christian Republicans who HN treats as all American Christians don't even believe in the larger USA/Constitution/Human rights so yeah they ignore/are anti a lot of basic American beliefs. They are from a long line of loser traitors to our beliefs.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kjah99E1fIo

Re: Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

jackmott42 wrote: post #111
camillomiller wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuine questions: what can be done in a democratic setting to stop him? Who should take into their hands the job to stop him, and to what lengths should they push themselves?

We are not in a democratic setting in America any more, the people in power are willing to start wars to protect pedophiles, they are willing to hire Nazi thugs to shoot your wives in the face. They are willing to bribe supreme court justices and dismantle democracy, and they will if not stopped by force. Thiel has been obviously and evil sack of shit for decades but more than half of HN viewers revere him. I fear we…

We defeated the incredibly rich southern slave owners. We can defeat these shitty traitors.

If voting didn't work, they wouldn't poor money into it. If voting didn't work, they wouldn't be trying to force their horrible new ID poll tax laws.

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Post by nemo44x »

dgxyz wrote: post #123
nemo44x wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct. We call that “credibility”. People can earn credibility in this world through their accomplishments. If your life accomplishment is sitting in your own piss you lack credibility.

All arguments should be considered on merit of the argument not on credibility of the person.

We need filters. I’m not agreeing with Thiel but pointing out to parent why he is listened to but a guy sitting in his own piss is not.

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Post by matt343 »

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #143
jackmott42 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are not in a democratic setting in America any more, the people in power are willing to start wars to protect pedophiles, they are willing to hire Nazi thugs to shoot your wives in the face. They are willing to bribe supreme court justices and dismantle democracy, and they will if not stopped by force. Thiel has been obviously and evil sack of shit for decades but more than half of HN viewers revere him. I fear we…

We defeated the incredibly rich southern slave owners. We can defeat these shitty traitors. If voting didn't work, they wouldn't poor money into it. If voting didn't work, they wouldn't be trying to force their horrible new ID poll tax laws.

It wasn't voting that "defeated" southern slave owners, it was a war. A war that leveled cities and killed more Americans than any before or since. Also, I'm pretty sure this man and everyone in his class control a larger percentage of the economy than any plantation owners. Saying we should just vote out way out of oligarchy ignores the history of every oligarchy in the world, and makes you at best and unwitting pawn of the pedophile ruling class.

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Post by 2001-wville »

Rome is of interest to Republican power brokers because church-going White Catholics increased their voting for Trump by 5% (57-62%) from 2020-2024. Taxes for private schools is a right wing religious plan aimed at making the country conservative, “On a mission from God: inside the movement to redirect billions in taxpayer dollars to religious schools,” ProPublica, 1-13-2025. Reportedly, 80% of private school parents choose religious schools.

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Post by 2001-wville »

Initial reporting about the Catholic prayer app, Hallow, identified the involvement of JD Vance in its founding. Hallow app is sponsoring Tucker Carlson’s program during Lent 2026. The timing of JD Vance’s conversion to Catholic (2019) was similar to his political opportunism in Ohio.

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Post by heresie-dabord »

camillomiller wrote: post #46
mattkevan wrote: post #34

Behind the Bastards did a good two-parter on Thiel's lectures. He sounds dangerously insane. It'd be bad enough if he was just some random crank, but the fact he's got the level of power and influence needed to actually make his beliefs happen makes it exponentially worse. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtR7ny9TuCY Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXhyx-vVG_Y

Genuine questions: what can be done in a democratic setting to stop him? Who should take into their hands the job to stop him, and to what lengths should they push themselves?

> what can be done in a democratic setting to stop him?

What are you prepared to do to contain/restrain a person who is non compos mentis?

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