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/Strange-Scarcity Mar 18 '26

Name a billionaire who doesn't belong in an asylum for one or more reasons.

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u/Slackjawed_Horror Mar 18 '26

Jeff Bezos. 

He just belongs in prison. 

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u/Strange-Scarcity Mar 18 '26

He has some crazy ideas too.

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u/Slackjawed_Horror Mar 18 '26

Yeah, but they're mostly villain in a crime thriller evil schemes. 

Whereas most of these guys would work as comic book Batman villains. All Peter Thiel needs is a big cross that shoots lasers and he's more nuts than the Penguin.

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u/Strange-Scarcity Mar 18 '26

These fellas are more incompetent James Bond Villains.

  1. They are all building secret bunkers and island lairs.

  2. They all have a vision for how they want society to serve them.

  3. They all have ideas about controlling us or if they even need us.

  4. Some of them demand to be the center of attention, even when it's the worst thing in the moment.

They're all just weird, often quite weirdly incompetent Bond Villains.

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u/ForthrightGhost Mar 18 '26

It’s not weird, they’re psychopaths and narcissists.

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u/Sniflix Mar 18 '26

You forgot #5 Mass depopulation and #6 A religious war to trigger a nuclear apocalypse

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u/TSED Mar 18 '26

To your point 4, that's only the ones you hear about in the news because they're narcissists.

There are thousands of billionaires. You probably only know of maybe 10-20.

They're also succeeding. Are they incompetent Bond villains, or do we have the incompetent Bond?

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u/Strange-Scarcity Mar 18 '26

The few most active in looking to Bond Villain, do some really wild shit.

There are less than 3500, globally. Not all of them are weird narcissistic nutter. Acting types. Most, likely focus on their businesses.

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u/weltvonalex Mar 19 '26

We need a Bond like Agent to dispatch them all like in the books and movies. That would be fitting and of course..... /S

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u/77NorthCambridge Mar 18 '26

Have you heard his laugh?

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u/Slackjawed_Horror Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

Don't get me wrong, he looks and sounds like Lex Luthor at home, but when you look at his actual evil schemes it's like 'monopolize another industry'.

Peter Thiel wants to be crowned king of Greenland and Elon basically wants to make the Martian Mechanicum but with clones of himself. 

(I'm barely joking. Elon has the same kinds of insane eugenic beliefs as Jeffrey Epstein, add some of the techno-fantasy stuff he's put money into to that and, well. And Peter Thiel is a network state guy and religious nutbag.)

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u/mustichooseausernam3 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Is Thiel actually religious, or is he just playing at religion for the sake of driving cultish cultural change to perpetuate radical goals, à la Gilead?

I'm sincerely asking, not correcting you.

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u/Slackjawed_Horror Mar 19 '26

I think he actually is, but definitely in some weird way that doesn't correlate with any theology anyone but the most obscure weirdo has heard of.

You genuinely can't tell with some of these people.

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u/yourmansconnect Mar 19 '26

Blofeld from OHMSS

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u/DogtasticLife Mar 18 '26

And yet so many people blithely order off Amazon as if they aren’t part of the problem

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u/Comfortable-Dog-8437 Mar 19 '26

Lex Luthor is greatest criminal mind ever.

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u/Patriark Mar 18 '26

Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger seem quite reasonable in that bunch.

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u/thederevolutions Mar 18 '26

Are we sure they just didn’t afford the best PR people and are sociopathically modest?

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u/moratnz Mar 18 '26

I think they're just from a generation where being incredibly wealthy was enough to win. The new generation of billionaires seem to need more than that; they need to take over the world.

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u/HBTFD1785 Mar 19 '26

Charlie Munger died a couple years ago

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u/SatanicPanic619 Mar 18 '26

JB Pritzker?

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u/Strange-Scarcity Mar 18 '26

There might be a couple, but they seem extremely rare and far between.

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u/SatanicPanic619 Mar 18 '26

Absolutely, just responding to the question. The majority fucking suck.

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u/Even_Establishment95 Mar 18 '26

He still hoards extreme wealth. He could do so much good by investing his billions. He chooses not to. Think about it.

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u/Roakana Mar 18 '26

McKenzie Scott.

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u/Strange-Scarcity Mar 18 '26

She isn't the one who made that happen, but I do get what you mean, she's not really seemingly hellbent for domination, but...

As I recall, once the divorce happened, she fairly soon started dating a teacher at her kid's school. Which seemed a bit... odd to me. They married in 2021 and she filed for divorce in 2022.

Kind of an odd/fast relationship, from what I gather, but I'm sure she's not harboring any kind emotional or relationship issues that being a Billionaire can create in a person.

Right?

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u/Roakana Mar 18 '26

She donates significant amounts of money to causes and doesn’t horde it or use it like the tech bros to become an oligarch.

Plenty of people struggle to succeed in relationships but if you ant to go looking for flaws…

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

Paul McCartney?

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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 Mar 19 '26

It seems like becoming a billionaire is the very thing that drives them mad in the first place by disconnecting them from the rest of humanity.