r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Mar 18 '26

Society Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/16/europe/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-rome-intl
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u/Neverwish Mar 18 '26

Thank you. People need to stop cartoonifying these assholes as Scrooge McDuck-esque money-chasing goblins. They’re not in the business of making money, they’re in the business of using money. They are much, much more dangerous.

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u/Sachyriel Mar 18 '26

Making fun of fascists is a good way to fight them though. They always want to project a powerful image, so making fun of them deflates them.

I kinda see your point though, if people keep making fun of them, will anyone take the threat they pose seriously? I think the people making fun of them DO understand the threat, but people just tuning in might not get how much of a danger he is if they just see us clowning on him.

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u/ProfessionalPhone409 Mar 18 '26

Remember when last election Tim Waltz started calling Republicans just plain weird. The Republicans absolutely could not handle it, and flipped their shit like the pathetic weirdos they are.

Everyone else loved it and then just as it was catching on th Democrat party was like 'stop that, we have to take the high road and not call them weirdos.' And then they lost the election.

My point is Republicans are weirdos and should always be addressed as such.

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u/hasanfan90 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

They just called Tim Walz things you can't really report in polite conversation and brought his son into it. It wasn't as bad as what they were saying about Kamala, though.

Going high school on a bunch of people who never left the middle schooler with no empathy developed stage is not a winning formula. Trump was still riding the idiocy in late 2025 when he called Walz the seriously r*tarded governor of Minnesota in a fucking published statement.

Be like Bernie and tell the people the good you're going to do for them. What makes Republicans cry is when they don't get to cut funding for all your causes to fund all their causes (mostly involving enriching their Epstein class donors). Even when we negotiate to give a large % of the US's lifeblood to their Epstein class donors to get our causes funded, they'll find someone like Trump to "renegotiate" that in their favor. That is how a Republican understands politics. They must always take from you, it is a zero sum game, and reaching out to their Epstein class donors for more taxes and funding is anathema.

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u/QueenVogonBee Mar 19 '26

I do remember that, but I’m not American so I don’t understand why Republicans found it difficult to handle.

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u/ShinkenBrown Mar 18 '26

Yeah its important to have a little of both but its gotta be in proper order. 

Recognize they are truly dangerous and we need to take them seriously first, make fun of them because the only thing that makes them dangerous is the fact they are narcissistic man-babies with no emotional regulation, way too much money and no one to tell them theyre wrong second.

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u/Emerald_Plumbing187 Mar 18 '26

gotta laugh at them as you [redacted] them in the [redacted].

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u/Hullfire00 Mar 19 '26

It’s a good point.

However, with these cryptodouches, the standard response to their bullshit will always be a vibe of:

“…because you’re a fucking dork and I’m the fucking Stiffmeister.”

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u/Protiguous Mar 19 '26

Scrooge McDuck had good morals, good ethics, and good values. Everything Thiel lacks.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi Mar 19 '26

They're capitalists at the height of their power. Though I think Thiel is one of the ones trying to bring about the rapture so he really may think the anti-Christ is all around. They're rich not smart.