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.
And Americans let him feel safe doing so
yeah but Thiel is not a thrillionaire…yet
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 was a billionaire last week. It is way over-rated, I went back.
Meme stocks are a hell of a drug, eh?
Sooo… dragon sickness?
I hope a gorilla escapes and rips this guy’s head off on live stream
I like people who know what they want
And then Duke Nukem walks in and shits in his neck hole.
That made me laugh out loud 😂
(Pic related hahaha)
“Don’t worry, it was a Banksy!”
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.
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.
Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. I have not read the books so I am just going by memory of the movie franchise which I haven’t seen since it first came out (and I have Long Covid) so the finer points of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion(Thank you spellcheck for that one) are not at my fingertips.
Considering the Death and Destruction of the real world Palantir, not to mention the evil use of general control and aid in creating a police state on purpose to the point that its employees have at several points have opened up large discussions that basically say “Are we the baddies???” I think the evil version of the Palantir shown in the films is the best analogue.
Anyway updating my post now.
Excellent write-up. I learned a lot! Always something new to learn about Middle Earth. :)
I recently watched a video essay that tried to explain why all these billionaires basically do the “invent the Torment Nexus from the famous novel Do Not Invent the Torment Nexus” thing…
Essentially, in their minds they’re the hero. They have money and power and think they’ll do it differently. Skynet without Judgement Day, Blade Runner’s neon and flying cars without the social erosion, and so on…
It’s so weird how Thiel is such a “fan” of Tolkien’s works and yet his first move here was to double down on Boromir’s initial folly:
Boromir: “Why not use this Ring? Long has my father, the Steward of Gondor, kept the forces of Mordor at bay. By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe! Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy. Let us use it against him!”
Aragorn: “You cannot wield it! None of us can. The One Ring answers to Sauron alone. It has no other master.”
Imagine the hubris, thinking a global surveillance network with the power to designate its own targets would never be used by “the wrong hands.” Pathetic.
Thiel is the antichrist? I thought the antichrist would be more powerful and less generally pathetic. I never pictured the crumbling of the western world being so pathetic and half assed about literally everything.
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.
What is truly mesmerizing is watching people conflate earning money with being smart about everything.
In the picture they’re using of Peter Thiel, he sorta looks like he’s wearing Cardassian prosthetic makeup lol.
He looks like his own wax sculpture rapidly melting away. Guess all those blood transfusions from young guys don’t work out very well for him…
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.
I wonder how they eat without being poisoned by there cooks
Good god that guy is absolutely fucked out of his mind.
Couldn’t make it any more clear. Money can’t buy you smarts.
Between now and November, we are going to get so, Fucking, tired of hearing about communists.
Didn’t he also claim the literal Pope is in cahoots with the literal Antichrist?
He looks like a turd with warts, please tell me he’s sick?
He’s nuts. He killed his boyfriend.
