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Post by levocardia »

labrador wrote: post #31

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said in The Great Gatsby “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." However Peter Thiel was not born rich, which makes it safe for me to say he's just like several of my friends who've lost their minds on psychedelics. I've enjoyed them but the the trick is to know when to stop. As Ram Dass said "When you get the message, hang up the phone." Peter Thiel-Bac…

I think it's more mundane: Thiel, Andreesen, et al., are just rotting their brains on X and in group chats. Marshall McLuhan was right again.

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-t...

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Post by stronglikedan »

> PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel has long held outrageous ideological views — and imposed them on the world using his billions of dollars in wealth to do things like build ICE’s massive surveillance panopticon, support the rise of the “New Right,” and destroying Gawker Media by secretly funding Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against it.

So he's like the universe's balance to George Soros. Too funny.

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Post by throwaway48476 »

jmdeon wrote: post #42
luckydonkey wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Now they have money and power and use both in pretty obscene ways, like starving children in Africa to death by yanking the aid that was keeping them alive away. It’s because there’s lot of corruption in places receiving aid, look it up. Fixing problems is not as simple as giving someone money, there needs to be lots of accountability, which is often missing. There are fake NGOs and non-profits which essentially tr…

> Fixing problems is not as simple as giving someone money I've heard the exact opposite. Usually it's the strings attached that end up being perfect for the corrupt to grab onto and manipulate.

Or it's going to be corrupt no matter what. Like life, corruption finds a way.

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Post by Barrin92 »

lacker wrote: post #6

Personally, I'm not religious. But 20% of Americans believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. Is it really so crazy for one venture capitalist to believe that the Antichrist is real? Part of the freedom of religion is accepting that other Americans really do have religious beliefs that differ from your own sometimes, and that's okay. It doesn't mean you need to support the policies that he supports. But we d…

>Is it really so crazy for one venture capitalist to believe that the Antichrist is real?

I think it's pretty crazy to take a man at face value who claims to believe in the real presence of the anti-Christ and literalist reading of scripture but is also married to another man and has boyfriends who mysteriously fall out of windows.

Religious crazies exist everywhere, but only in America would someone continue to listen to a person with all those things going on at the same time and think they aren't bullshitting. If I genuinely believed in eternal hell I probably wouldn't live like Peter Thiel and in all likelihood neither would he. "Venture capitalist afraid of the antichrist" is in itself pretty funny given what scripture has to say on God and Mammon

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Post by JohnFen »

noir_lord wrote: post #20

One day we’ll get past as a civilisation assuming rich people are smart or worth listening to solely because they are rich. You can’t ignore the Thiel’s of the world (because they won’t let us) but you don’t have to put any credence into every utterance that falls from their mouths either. In a different age he’d be peeing in bottles and pulling a Hughes, the ultra wealthy divorced from reality schtick isn’t even new…

> One day we’ll get past as a civilisation assuming rich people are smart or worth listening to solely because they are rich.

I hope so, but I doubt it. Along with that, I'd like to see us get rid of the delusion that beauty and good are correlated.

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Post by [deleted] »

PaulHoule wrote: post #3
ta9000 wrote: post #2

Or people are just seeing the real person. Before the filter was needed but now that views tangential to his are more mainstream it’s easier for him to let the full nut-job out. Same with the CEO of Salesforce.

One morning early this year there was a black sign stuck on the front door with some edgelord crap from Palantir: https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114356523256174674 I feel like a real dope because Thiel’s minions got me to buy a Rene Gerard book.

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Post by edot »

antinomicus wrote: post #5
ta9000 wrote: post #2

Or people are just seeing the real person. Before the filter was needed but now that views tangential to his are more mainstream it’s easier for him to let the full nut-job out. Same with the CEO of Salesforce.

I’m honestly thinking he saw all the attention Elon got and wanted some for himself. For real - ten years ago if you asked anyone if they knew who Peter thiel was, maybe 4/10 would be able to tell you. But even among those 4 if you asked do you know what Peter thiel looks like they might all have shrugged. Now, at least to me, it seems like Thiel has decided to do interviews and public appearances like he never did b…

I think your numbers are off by at least 10x, if not more. Ask a random American nowadays (not a tech worker) and I’d be shocked if more than 1/30 have even heard his name, let alone seen his face. 10 years ago I’d be shocked if it wasn’t 1/100. Again, average Americans, not entrepreneur / tech people / politically active person. Most Americans don’t even know who their senators are, and less than 60% can name one of the rights the first amendment protects. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/07/what-amer...

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

stronglikedan wrote: post #52

> PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel has long held outrageous ideological views — and imposed them on the world using his billions of dollars in wealth to do things like build ICE’s massive surveillance panopticon, support the rise of the “New Right,” and destroying Gawker Media by secretly funding Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against it. So he's like the universe's balance to George Soros. Too funny.

I don't like a balance that adds evil but go on
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