"Passive consumers of unthought thoughts"?
You mean... like a religion brainwashes you into becoming as you're indoctrinated?
Maybe this guy is being decent, or maybe he just sees a threat to his monopoly?
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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AI is just the next form of control after businesses have already infiltrated online forums.
I'm... What? WTF, is that headline trying to tell me that I'm experiencing an aneurysm?
The pope doesn’t like AI, brandished a sword and called people idiots. More at 11
That's kinda based ngl. Too bad the Catholic church is an awful organization.
Okay but what if we put their awfulness into a directed form aaaaand they burnt down Constantinople... again.
Being the head of the longest-running pedophile ring in history doesn't give one much high ground to chastise from.
Yo, where can I get me a pope sword?
The enemy of my enemy and all that. If dude can convince any of his followers to wake the fuck up then let the man speak; we could use the numbers.
Ok he was cooking with that line.
"unthought thought" might replace "artificial hallucination" in my vocabulary.
3, 2, 1... Peter Thiel is giving some spiel in Europe about the Pope being the Antichrist
Look... Im sure this is not the first time the pope has been called the antichrist. It likely happened in 884, 964, 997, 1012, 1378, 1409, or 1418 to just name a few.
(This is not be taken seriously, I grabbed a bunch of years from the Wikipedia list of antipopes to make a point when the role was contested. In the case of the ones between 1378-1418, where a bloody mess is an understatement (I would rather read history on the war of the roses), there have been significantly fewer violent disagreements regarding the title/position since then)
Hell I'm sure you could probably throw a bunch of even earlier dates in from back when the Catholics and Orthodox were united under the Chalcedonian Roman Church.
Hear me out, Trump is the Antichrist!
"I'm definitely not the antichrist, so much so I go around holding events to discuss the antichrist and how I am not him." The lack of self reflection or perhaps just plain evil is astounding
Well yeah, the pope is Antichrist.
The whole assassination of Jesus was an inside job orchestrated be Peter to become the first pope and lead the flock astray right in the hands of the devil!
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I mean... a religious leader accusing people of being "passive consumers of unthought thoughts"... am I the only one seeing some irony here?
Not that I particularly disagree, but an ironic messenger.
'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'
That's brilliant! I'm not Catholic, I'm not even religious at all, and I've NEVER paid attention to any Pope, but this guy is different.
He's American with black heritage, so being different than the ones before is basically built in.
Never fear though, there's a shoe waiting to drop somewhere, there always is.
He's also a mathematician.
He is Peruvian in my book
Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts
Interesting contrast to the church itself, which has the capacity of turning people into passive consumers of thoughts that have been painstakingly processed for centuries.
Martin Luther typed these words
They don’t appreciate their fanbase being taken away
Passive consumers of overthought thoughts?
Passive consumers of poorly thought thoughts.
I don't know about the West, but a lot of Catholic community in SEAsia (excluding PH) are not blindly following the Pope. I know a lot of people in the community instantly criticizing any form corruption or negativity.
Even our mass regularly ask community to be more rationale in thinking.
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rare pope W
This is the way the papacy has been for 13 years now.
Pope can't handle the competition.
Savage 😉
Amen
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