Re:Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More
by charintstr on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:59PM
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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
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Re:Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More
by Jtsummers on Thursday October 02, 2025 @11:48PM
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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 now for some reason.
Re:Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More
by palmfacehn on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:38AM
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Thunberg is the poster-child for Globalist technocratic management of energy consumption.
Re:Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More
by jesterson on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:41AM
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> 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.
Re:Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More
by charintstr on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:07AM
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I'm not clear on what substance he has beyond his argument of "I'm really smart and really rich and I think I should run things" though.
Re:Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More
by karmakurtisaani on Friday October 03, 2025 @04:50AM
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Also the technocrat vibes of "I'll grind the poor to a fine powder and use it to fertilize my private garden if no one stops me" are somewhat lacking in charisma.