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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by estearum on Monday August 04, 2025 @09:06AM (#44785231)
That's on the tame end of Peter Thiel's rather demented belief system.

Another tidbit: he believes Greta Thunberg is very possibly the actual antichrist.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ao_umPlSV6o

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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by nancyminusone on Monday August 04, 2025 @09:37AM (#44785601)
That sounds like something the real antichrist would say
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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by macrolocal on Monday August 04, 2025 @11:06AM (#44786861)
Say what you will about Peter Thiel, he does have a sense of humor.
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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by ImJamal on Monday August 04, 2025 @09:59AM (#44785857)
I think he was saying the antichrist would be more likely to be a person like Greta, not Greta herself, but the clip cuts off the context at the beginning so it is hard to say.
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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by Jtsummers on Monday August 04, 2025 @11:12AM (#44786967)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antic...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antic... - Gift link

https://archive.is/mPjPq - Archive link

So yes, he does say it's more likely to be Greta Thunberg than an "evil tech genius", but does not outright say she's the Antichrist.

I still find it strange that he's afraid of her creating a one world government.

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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by ilikehurdles on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:31AM (#44786348)
Why is our media literacy so in the gutter? A few second clip of an easily accessible and free interview from a NYT podcast would not be accepted as gospel fact in the hn of the past.

You may very well and with good reason disagree with Thiel on the downstream effects of climate regulating agreements/regimes on global productivity and liberty, but regurgitating “Greta is the Antichrist” just replaces discussions of interesting issues to yelling at shadow puppets in Plato’s cave.

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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by estearum on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:35AM (#44786386)
I stated exactly what is true, which is that he believes Greta Thunberg might be the actual antichrist. He said it himself.
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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by inemesitaffia on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:14AM (#44796658)
You've been handily corrected.

Are you wrong or were you lying?

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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by estearum on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:31AM (#44796787)
What? GP didn't even contradict anything I said, just claimed there's some ambiguous problem with citing a few second clip of the person saying the thing I accused them of saying.
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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by inemesitaffia on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:44AM (#44796881)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44786967

I actually went to listen to it too.

I've seen this nonsense before from journalists

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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by estearum on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:50AM (#44797378)
My claim: "he believes Greta Thunberg is very possibly the actual antichrist"

Thiel's words:

> Thiel: ... The way the Antichrist would take over the world is you talk about Armageddon nonstop. You talk about existential risk nonstop, and this is what you need to regulate....

> in the 17th century, I can imagine a Dr. Strangelove, Edward Teller-type person taking over the world.

> In our world, it’s far more likely to be Greta Thunberg.

https://youtu.be/vV7YgnPUxcU?t=2748

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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by ilikehurdles on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:44PM (#44805913)
He’s talking about

> downstream effects of climate regulating agreements/regimes on global productivity and individual liberty

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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by estearum on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:09PM (#44806102)
He's talking about the Antichrist dude... he's a devout Christian... they believe in things like the Antichrist.

People really do be bending over backwards not to hear the words spoken to them if they seem too wacky to be palatable. Dark secret though: billions of people believe truly wacky shit. Some of those people are unbelievably wealthy.

Anyone can go read the transcript. It's quite clear he's saying he believes Greta might very well be the Antichrist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antic...

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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by inemesitaffia on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:50AM (#44863174)
An English comprehension class will suit you.

More likely to be Greta Thunberg isn't saying it's Greta.

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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by estearum on Monday August 04, 2025 @09:31AM (#44785532)
Sure. There's a big difference between believing a 20 year old climate activist is a clown versus a harbinger of the apocalypse as foretold in an ancient text 2000 years ago.
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