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A comment on Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist.

Re:Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antich... by 10111001 on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:28AM (#50243321)
> “He has an unhealthy obsession with the Antichrist, the figure around which his personal theology revolves,” says Gil Durán. “It is anti-Christian, and his sermons accuse all his political enemies of being possible vectors of the Antichrist. He encourages people to view our current politics as an existential battle between good and evil. He accuses Greta Thunberg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, critics of AI and even the Pope of being possible Antichrists. It’s pure gibberish, but it’s also a kind of confession. If Silicon Valley billionaires want to see the face of evil, they should look in the mirror.”

IIRC, for Thiel, the "Antichrist" is disagreement with or opposition to his techno-libertarian ideas.

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Re:Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antich... by jialatsia on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:04AM (#50243917)
Thiel who's been a longtime supporter of Trump said a few weeks ago that the US “should not have” launched the Iran war and that "there were a lot of mistakes that were made and that US may lack both the hard power and the soft power to prevail". i think at least he doesn't blindly support the admin and is true to his beliefs being opposed to neoconservative interventions.

on a separate note, Anthropic has been having private meetings with religious leaders about Claude’s possible consciousness and moral status. I fear the anti-christ could just be an AI gone rogue.

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Re:Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antich... by m000 on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:22AM (#50244214)
Hindsight is always 20/20. And as an outsider to the administration, it costs him nothing to admit the obvious failure.
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Re:Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antich... by alphawhisky on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:53AM (#50244799)
>Outsider to the administration

Hahaha. Haha. You serious?

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Re:Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antich... by red-iron-pine on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:37PM (#50249735)
Vance is his puppet, and he will be sacrificed the second it looks like there could be any blowback
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Re:Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antich... by 10111001 on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:53AM (#50244784)
> i think at least he doesn't blindly support the admin and is true to his beliefs being opposed to neoconservative interventions.

And I never said or implied so, but I think he shares a lot of domestic political enemies with them.

> on a separate note, Anthropic has been having private meetings with religious leaders about Claude’s possible consciousness and moral status. I fear the anti-christ could just be an AI gone rogue.

IIRC, an AI not "gone rogue" could be an antichrist, too.

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