You (and the guy you linked apparently): OMG what a stupid idiot hahaahaha obviously shooting people in the street isn't wrong
How did you get that from the linked videos?
Somehow I'm supposed to be led to believe this makes Thiel come across as stupid. My only guess as to how is because the OP must think that shooting CEOs in the street is an obvious rational good and that opposing such is idiocy, or reactionary fascism (in leftist usage, a synonym for idiocy), or so on.
Watch the videos again and try again.
I will indulge you enough to explain it to you like a 5 year old, what they show. Just in case you miss it the second time... :-)
"Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example" - https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-...
We've asked you repeatedly to stop breaking the site guidelines and explained to you more than once that using the site primarily for political or ideological battle is against the rules. You've continued to post lots of flamewar comments and even many of the non-political ones have been snarky or aggressive. That's a lot of poison added to the ecosystem. What made you think that was ok? We told you repeatedly that it wasn't:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755154 (April 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142554 (Feb 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35605974 (April 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397254 (June 2021)
When I saw you getting aggressive with that other user yesterday, for me it was the final straw and I banned your account. (The other user also, of course, but whether your account was breaking the rules has nothing to do with what someone else was doing.)
You've listed a lot of grievances here, which I suppose is natural at such a moment, but I don't know if it makes sense to go through them in detail. I do want to point out that this bit is wrong: "you are untruthful, to the community, in not disclosing the main page is manually curated": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I/we have nothing against you personally, and if you genuinely want to use HN as intended, we can unban your account. The main thing we'd need to do that is some reason to believe that you've had a change of heart about how to contribute to HN and will follow the rules in the future.
Examples: Every billionaire. Every single one - except Chuck Feeney who proved the rule.
IMO those are really two separate axes, you can be very smart and also completely evil or quite dumb but a genuinely good person
It does take intelligence of a particular kind to examine yourself and what makes you happy, fulfilled. And it takes a certain kind of stupidity to become greedy for more and more and more, neverending.
I don't believe that intelligence is a single axis. You can even have different levels of intelligence on different days for the exact same topic; even on the same day from one hour to the next.
Some people might be great at set theory but terrible at calculus; some people might be great with their hands at sewing but clumsy with glasswork. People are weird and complex.
But what's clear is when people don't even try to be good people. And that requires a particularly dense form of stupidity.
> If you can type on HN you are probably much richer than most in 3rd world countries
Centuries of exploitation, ongoing, that we all benefit from. Yes.
> and you for sure can give majority of your wealth to them.
Well, no, not really. Not if I want to own a house, and be able to retire some day. For those living in America it's even tougher; where a medical emergency can bankrupt a lot of people.
But what you're missing is that the difference between being a millionaire (which I'm not even) and a billionaire is ... About a billion dollars.
And rather than help 3rd world countries, or even the hungry people in their own, billionaires generally do shit like what's in the Epstein Files (which Thiel explicitly is) and the Panama Papers to keep things getting even better for themselves at everyone else's expense.
So, you're conflating two very, very different scenarios.
evil, sun of satan, bringer of the end of times