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Peter Thiel is literally insane. The money has gone to his head, much the same way it happened to Elon Musk.
The research is very clear in this field, becoming so rich that you are always surrounded by yes people makes you delusional very quickly, and over time the delusions accumulate to become outright insanity.
The possibility of becoming a billionaire needs to end. It is harmful both to the individual and to society.
yeah but Thiel is not a thrillionaire…yet
AFAIK Musk is the only trilionaire, but the effect can also happen way before a billion.
I see it happen with people making 35k a year look at maga
I don't think that's quite the same mechanism. People can be crazy without being rich too.
The crazy in the avarage MAGA crowd is probably for many founded in unconscious fear. But yes they are also delusional.
Targeted deflation. 2% deflation per year. Guts assets and increases the value of production over financialization. You need to produce more than 2% to be worth sinking money into. Kill zombie businesses. Debt becomes a serious consideration rather than a thing you do as the normal. Need to pull the pin on 120 years of foolishness
I'm so fucking glad more and more are recognizing how crazy Peter Thiel is.
Elon Musk is outwardly crazy and ruining the fucking world.
Peter Thiel (who btw is Musk's inspiration and good friend) is batshit insane and avoiding the limelight for decades while manipulating world politics.
thiel for the longest time always stayed out of the news because of this. AI going bust probably getting people like him all nervous.
I thought thiel and musk personally hated the fuck out of each other, and describe each other pretty accurately?
There is no scorn as between that of competitive nerd losers.
Truly, once you pass a certain threshold of capital accumulation nothing can dethrone you. Not even your brain being turned to mush. The things Thiel says are the ravings of a lunatic. If he weren't an oligarch they'd put him away. And obviously he's not the only one. One has to wonder if perhaps it is the power itself that drives a man mad. There ought to be a marginal wealth tax that starts wherever the gains to happiness begin to diminish and build exponentially towards 100% at, say, 1000x the median net worth of a single individual. The way things are isn't good for us or them.
Personally, I think an absolute cap on income, wealth, assets, and a limit of 1 focused business owned, with huge punishments for going beyond the limits. The elite get away with evading contributing to society, because there is an entire Wealth Defense industry to protect them from consequences. Making it impossible to hide money would be key to eliminating fiscal obesity and political corruption.
Money does this to people. Because money is power. And power corrupts absolutely.
Money also happens to reward and promote the worst kind of behaviors, so the richest people tend to already be the most psychopathically aligned.
And who does Peter work for? Isn’t he the migrant to the US who is looking to move to Argentina?
Please stop reporting all the stupid things billionaires say.
I hope a gorilla escapes and rips this guy's head off on live stream
That made me laugh out loud 😂
(Pic related hahaha)
Pretty sure Pete’s barber works for communist china
What is truly mesmerizing is watching people conflate earning money with being smart about everything.
... or anything really.
Peter Thiel is a bad person. I don't know how else to describe him. There are quiet billionaires who are like this behind closed doors, and then there are those that are vocally just bad people. No billionaire is a good person.
Even worse, actively, constantly, trying to convince others to be bad people as well.
I honestly wonder how these people sleep without being like...haunted by their own despicable selves.
If they had any conscience at all, they wouldn't be nearly that wealthy
So says a horseman of the Apocalypse. A plague of eyes.
I can imagine a future where people like this have caused so much damage they are hunted.
Thiel is already frightened of the public, I’ve seen reporters approach him and he looked like he was wearing a vest and was in a state of complete dread practically running away. But his face just kind of looks like it’s melting anyway, he has a hint of palpatine about him, pure evil.
Sure thing Pete. Please shove off to Russia.
hey he learned one thing from russia, his sidepiece was defenestrated in florida, in 2024, after the side piece of course being in a relationship with already married thiel was voicing his concerns over Thiels concerted effort of anti-lgbtq+ agenda by partnering with gop and other far right groups .
What an idiot.
The US should do to the Catholic Church what we did to TikTok. I'm not going to feel safe until all the American diocese are owned by a fascist billionaire looking to milk the congregation's data for AI training.
They kinda already did that considering that's basically who the Mormons are. Hopefully I didn't miss the point of the joke here.
If you are attacking the Catholic Pope for being a foreign agent of Communism... You might be the Antichrist. If you back the company that is named after the all-seeing orb turned evil from The Lord of the Rings... You might be the Antichrist. If you obsessively see any opposition or person trying to fight the climate crisis as "The Antichrist"... You might be the Antichrist. If you think Freedom, Democracy, and Governments are the enemies of good... You might be the Antichrist. If you think being against fascism is a bad thing... You might be the Antichrist. If you think humanity shouldn't exist anymore because you believe in Transhumanism and not humanism... You might be the Antichrist.
He has suggested that the Antichrist is with us. He has said who it is in his speeches.
This is no joke, he thinks it probably is Greta Thunberg.
while thiel himself have actual APOSTATES : Karp, and jd vance, and a "controlled" puppet like trump plus the ability to distort reality for people who are easily manipulated.
All hail Greta!
named after the evil all-seeing orb in the Lord of the Rings
Now, now. A point of order.
The Palantiri are not evil, at least not originally. They were made by the elf Feanor in the Undying Lands, and for the vast majority of Middle Earth's history, they were a tool for good, allowing the free people (especially Arnor and Gondor) to communicate with each other over long distances and monitor their kingdoms. However, with the fall of Arnor and the decline of Gondor, at least one of the Palantiri fell into the hands of Sauron, who used it for evil purposes. And this made all of the others dangerous to use as well, since using them would put one in direct communication with Sauron himself, potentially making one vulnerable to mind reading (as happened to Pippin), psychic influence (as perhaps happened to Saruman), or at least only being able to see things that Sauron wanted one to see (as happened to Denethor). Only someone more powerful than Sauron could use them safely at that point, and there was no one left in Middle Earth at that time who was powerful enough to do so. (Aragorn was able to somewhat do it ... but he was only able to use it to directly communicate with Sauron -- even he wasn't able to fully control it and make it show whatever he wanted.)
It would be interesting to find out if Sauron's influence over the Palantiri was permanent, or if it ended after his downfall. But, unfortunately, as far as I know, the story never mentions how they were affected in the aftermath. Could go either way. With the destruction of the One Ring, everything Sauron built with his power was undone, which could include the corruption of the Palantiri. However, the Palantiri do seem to be susceptible to getting fixated on certain things if they're used for that purpose too much -- for example, even long before Sauron, one of them was already fixated so it could only be used to look into the Undying Lands, and only someone extremely powerful could make it show anything else. So it's possible that Sauron's long use of them could have made the Palantiri in general or at least the Palantir in his possession permanently fixated on Mordor or something. It would have been nice to get some closure on that in the story, to find out if the Palantiri became useful again after Sauron's fall.
Of course, none of this applies to the actual US surveillance company, which definitely is evil.
i heard he is obsessed with the fanfic version written by a russian, called the last ringbearer.
Ah, of course he would be. The fanfic version where Sauron is a misunderstood hero.
Good god that guy is absolutely fucked out of his mind.
Between now and November, we are going to get so, Fucking, tired of hearing about communists.
In the picture they’re using of Peter Thiel, he sorta looks like he’s wearing Cardassian prosthetic makeup lol.
Didn't he also claim the literal Pope is in cahoots with the literal Antichrist?
Are the Chinese Communists who aren't building their own AI in the room with us now?
Couldn't make it any more clear. Money can't buy you smarts.
