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littlemissmartypants

(29,388 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 02:30 PM Tuesday

A partial description of Peter Thiel with some opinions

A partial description of Peter Thiel. He...

●Criticizes traditional education (says only to believe what he tells you to believe, and you should buy his books, go to his seminars, if you are allowed into one plus join his cult)

●Believes in radical innovation and disruption (get out of his way because he likes to create chaos aka move fast and break everything)

●Argues that monopolies are preferable to competition (Give him all of your money. You don't need to buy anything but what he's selling)

●Doesn't believe in democracy, suggesting that it can lead to mediocrity and a lack of innovation. (The "my way or the highway" philosophy. But be prepared to build your own roads or preferably use only his if you're deemed worthy)

●Famously stated, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." (Democracy is for cucks. Everyone should be a Christian Nationalist like him and walk with his special kinda goosestep.)

●Expressed concerns that society is experiencing stagnation, particularly in technological advancement due to a lack of ambition (you're lazy and I'm smarter than everyone) and lack of vision in pursuing "transformative" (really kooky) ideas (that he wants you to believe without question because you're dumb and lazy)

● Advocates transhumanism, using technology to enhance human capabilities and extend life. (So, when human parts break or are too weak, they should be replaced with robot parts like mechanical limbs and brain implants so humans can live forever and dominate the planet while he and his buddies try to grow food on Mars)

●Argues that monopolies are preferable to competition (those who already own everything should own everything else, so don't bother with your side hustle or want to fulfill your own dreams)

●Is creating a massive database of personal information stolen by infiltration of the US Social Security System by the so-called department of government efficiency Boyz for which the purpose for the owners of this data remains a mystery.

~Think of him as the Nazi version of 'Father Knows Best' without the home cooked food , smiles, and democracy.~


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RESIST!! ✊️

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A partial description of Peter Thiel with some opinions (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Tuesday OP
Expert on Antichrist Kid Berwyn Tuesday #1
The revelation that "Each lecture -- which will not be transcribed or shared with the public..." littlemissmartypants Tuesday #2
Well, an Anti-Christ should be able to lecture on that subject very well. haele Tuesday #22
And how many different variations of the Bible are there? mwmisses4289 14 hrs ago #29
He's also rumored to use "blood boys". BannonsLiver Tuesday #3
So much of what these kooks believe falls under the caucasus region beliefs, I do wish they'd just slightlv Tuesday #5
Maybe your thinking of Elizabeth Bathory? mwmisses4289 14 hrs ago #30
Thanks. Speaks to the Transhumanism point. littlemissmartypants Tuesday #6
He's so much worse than I've thought... unspeakable evil comes from such ungodly men ancianita Tuesday #20
K&R orangecrush Tuesday #4
. BoRaGard Tuesday #7
Well thought out, thank you. Passages Tuesday #8
Thank you, Passages. ❤️ littlemissmartypants 14 hrs ago #26
Damn, that is truly disturbing PatSeg Tuesday #9
KNR and bookmarking for later. My head hurts. niyad Tuesday #10
Scariest of all is that when Trump makes our wishes come true by croaking ASAP, Marie Marie Tuesday #11
PT is the non-fiction version of the fictional... Snackshack Tuesday #12
Except he's no Sorcerer. Just a twisted little psychopath like all of his friends. littlemissmartypants Tuesday #13
Fair enough. Snackshack Tuesday #14
It would be great... littlemissmartypants Tuesday #15
Here you go. Snackshack Thursday #24
More like PT (Thiel) is PT Barnum. . . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Tuesday #23
You forgot the most important thing Nigrum Cattus Tuesday #16
One of them... ancianita Tuesday #21
Democracy can lead to medicrity and a lack of innovation. MLWR Tuesday #17
Mr. Looney Tunes.. Joinfortmill Tuesday #18
He's surrounded by !*young guys*! that agree with him 100%. No criticism wolfie001 Tuesday #19
Resist and always question authority. marble falls 15 hrs ago #25
❤️ ✊️ littlemissmartypants 14 hrs ago #27
There's some really dark personal details too newdeal2 14 hrs ago #28
This is a great overview of a guy who is barreling through our rights, but who most people don't even know about. Scrivener7 14 hrs ago #31
Thiel is . . . peggysue2 11 hrs ago #32

Kid Berwyn

(21,901 posts)
1. Expert on Antichrist
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 03:00 PM
Tuesday
Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel to lead 4-part series on the Antichrist

By Christian Post Staff, Wednesday, August 27, 2025

A California nonprofit is set to host an off-the-record lecture series featuring billionaire investor Peter Thiel on the biblical figure of the Antichrist.

Thiel, 57, will offer his thoughts on "how his Christian faith informs his understanding of the world," including the areas of theology, history, literature and "politics of the Antichrist" as part of a four-part lecture series at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, according to a flyer for the event.

Scheduled for Sept. 15, Sept. 22, Sept. 29 and Oct. 6, Thiel's lecture will explore the theological and technological dimensions of the Antichrist, drawing upon religious thinkers such as French philosopher René Girard, whom Thiel studied under at Stanford University, along with Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, Carl Schmitt and John Henry Newman.

Each lecture — which will not be transcribed or shared with the public — is designed to form a "cohesive series," and admission is only offered to the entire lecture series, rather than individual dates.

The event will also feature a moderated Q&A with Peter Robinson, host of Stanford's Hoover Institution podcast "Uncommon Knowledge," and an audience Q&A for attendees to have "a chance to engage directly with Thiel."

Source: https://www.christianpost.com/news/palantir-ceo-peter-thiel-to-lead-4-part-series-on-the-antichrist.html

littlemissmartypants

(29,388 posts)
2. The revelation that "Each lecture -- which will not be transcribed or shared with the public..."
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 03:07 PM
Tuesday

Is what prompted the opinion expressed in the first statement.

Thanks for sharing this, Kid Berwyn.

haele

(14,546 posts)
22. Well, an Anti-Christ should be able to lecture on that subject very well.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 06:03 PM
Tuesday

Considering that every mention in the New Testament of Anti-Christ tends to talk about "they " and "them" rather than a singular; the only singular Anti-Christ is the final one in the John the Revelator's writings which pretty much referred to Nero.
Here's my free lecture based on 58 years of having read the Bible in various forms (I got bored one summer while my parents were working and read the entire KJV at home, a 1920 version with cool Victorian plates and annotations when I was 9...)
1. According to the Apostle Peter and following teachers of Christianity, an "Anti-Christ" is someone who sets himself (or herself) as a Prophet claiming to speak for the Christ or continue Christ's message beyond the accepted teachings
(Sorry Muslims, even though Jesus is a respected Prophet teaching "God's Mercy", Christians think it stopped there; you can blame Nero and the several itinerant Roman and Greek Antichrists making their Profits ...)
2. The world was supposed to end "soon" (a hundred years or so) after the Crucification, so everyone was supposed to be celibate so as to be pure when Jesus called his flock home. You were only supposed to get married if you absolutely couldn't stand to be celibate or not masturbate.
3. Hell really isn't described as a final destination for anyone who wasn't seriously, joyfully evil. Purgatory is implied.
4. All of the early Christian teachers were not univocal and contradicted each other; heck, all versions of the Bible aren't univocal and they all contradict themselves, so your (or your society's) interpretation of a Christian Bible will always be personalized to forward whatever agenda best represents or is most advantageous. An Anti-Christ is one who forces everyone else to live by his original her interpretation or expansion on the Bible.
There, that's my lecture on Anti-Christs. Only difference is I'm not rich, connected, and arrogant, so few people will pay to listen to me.

mwmisses4289

(2,089 posts)
29. And how many different variations of the Bible are there?
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:14 AM
14 hrs ago

Just off the top of my head, I can think of the catholic bibles (they've updated and modernized it a few times since the 1960s), the wycliffe bible (the first bible in the english language, which has its own fascinating history), the Gutenberg bible, the greek and russian orthodox bibles, the mormon version of the Bible, the jehovah witness bible, the king James version, and alot of the different evangical sects who seem to have printed their own versions of the Bible over the last 30 years or so.

slightlv

(6,523 posts)
5. So much of what these kooks believe falls under the caucasus region beliefs, I do wish they'd just
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 04:17 PM
Tuesday

immigrate there and live their lives according to the medieval folk tales. Wasn't it ceceascus wife who bathed in the blood of virgins to stay young? And she wasn't the only one. Reminds me of one of the Dr. Who episodes about vampires...

littlemissmartypants

(29,388 posts)
6. Thanks. Speaks to the Transhumanism point.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 04:19 PM
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https://archive.ph/28xV4

Peter Thiel Wants to Inject Himself With Young People’s Blood

The Silicon Valley billionaire reportedly sees blood transfusions as the pathway to radical life extension.

by Maya Kosoff|August 1, 2016 4:32 pm

Trump delegate and Gawker bankrupter Peter Thiel is no stranger to the idea of increasing his lifespan through science. “I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual,” he wrote in libertarian journal Cato Unbound seven years ago. On Bloomberg TV in 2014, Thiel explained that he was taking human-growth hormone pills as part of his plan to live 120 years. “It helps maintain muscle mass, so you’re much less likely to get bone injuries, arthritis,” he said.

Given Thiel’s obsession with warding off death, it comes as no surprise that the Silicon Valley billionaire is interested in at least one radical way of doing it: injecting himself with a young person’s blood. On Monday, Jeff Bercovici of Inc. magazine published part of a year-old interview with Thiel, in which the venture-capitalist explains that he’s interested in parabiosis, which includes the practice of getting transfusions of blood from a younger person, as a means of improving health and potentially reversing aging. “I'm looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect,” he said. “And so that’s . . . that is one that . . . again, it’s one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.”

It’s unclear whether the 48-year-old entrepreneur is currently receiving parabiosis treatments. Bercovici reports that a Thiel Capital employee—actually, the “Personal Health Director to Peter Thiel,” according to his LinkedIn page—previously expressed interest in the technique to Jesse Karmazin, the founder of Ambrosia LLC, a company that has been looking for volunteers over the age of 35 to receive blood transfusions from individuals under the age of 25. Bercovici notes that Silicon Valley is abound with rumors of wealthy tech elites experimenting with parabiosis, and Gawker has reported that it received a tip in June claiming that Thiel “spends $40,000 per quarter to get an infusion of blood from an 18-year-old based on research conducted at Stanford on extending the lives of mice.” When Thiel was interviewed by Bercovici last year, he told the reporter that he hadn’t “quite, quite, quite started yet.” A spokesman for Thiel Capital told Inc. that nothing had changed since then.

Thiel himself has invested in a number of biotech start-ups, including companies like Stemcentrx, which seeks to use stem-cell technology to cure cancer, and he’s given $6 million to biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey’s Sens Foundation, which seeks to extend human lifespans. Thiel’s Breakout Labs funds a number of biotech start-ups. He’s also signed up with cryogenics company Alcor to be deep-frozen when (or if, a more optimistic death-cheating evangelist would say) he dies. There are three ways you can approach death, Thiel has said. “You can accept it, you can deny it, or you can fight it. I think our society is dominated by people who are into denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it.”
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Short article.


I wonder if Elizabeth Holmes' main squeeze is the one testing his rumored blood supply? Birds of a feather and all that jazz notwithstanding.

ancianita

(41,630 posts)
20. He's so much worse than I've thought... unspeakable evil comes from such ungodly men
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 05:29 PM
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Lord have mercy

PatSeg

(50,897 posts)
9. Damn, that is truly disturbing
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 04:26 PM
Tuesday

Apparently people like Thiel think they are some kind of superhuman gods who know what is best for everyone else.

Marie Marie

(10,513 posts)
11. Scariest of all is that when Trump makes our wishes come true by croaking ASAP,
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 04:34 PM
Tuesday

Peter Thiel will be pulling JD Vance's strings. These technocrats are as power hungry AND insane as Trump. Between their agenda and Project 2025 - the US will become unrecognizable. We need Democrats in the majority of our Government - FAST!!

littlemissmartypants

(29,388 posts)
13. Except he's no Sorcerer. Just a twisted little psychopath like all of his friends.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 04:40 PM
Tuesday

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

Snackshack

(2,567 posts)
14. Fair enough.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 04:48 PM
Tuesday

I thought about going with Countess Báthory in my comparison but that would have just compounded my categorical mistake.

Honestly the interview he gave where he hedged on his answer about "if the human race should endure" should be all anyone needs to know about this guy and his motivations.

ancianita

(41,630 posts)
21. One of them...
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 05:31 PM
Tuesday

I never have and never will use PayPal, and always pay DU by credit card. I don't know why DU continues to do this.

MLWR

(524 posts)
17. Democracy can lead to medicrity and a lack of innovation.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 05:08 PM
Tuesday

I can't remember the USA being criticized for having a lack of innovation. If we are plagued by "mediocrity and a lack of innovation," why is it that "The United States has the most Nobel Prizes by a significant margin, with a total of about 420-423 laureates as of 2025, making it the leading nation by a wide margin." (see: Google)

wolfie001

(6,013 posts)
19. He's surrounded by !*young guys*! that agree with him 100%. No criticism
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 05:12 PM
Tuesday
Most likely scenario.

newdeal2

(3,836 posts)
28. There's some really dark personal details too
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 08:56 AM
14 hrs ago

These are not reported in MSM but there’s a lot of online discussion and evidence that at least one or a few younger guys ended up dead while allegedly “dating” Peter (he supposedly kept them hidden from his husband).

Scrivener7

(57,028 posts)
31. This is a great overview of a guy who is barreling through our rights, but who most people don't even know about.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:25 AM
14 hrs ago

Thanks.

peggysue2

(12,147 posts)
32. Thiel is . . .
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 11:57 AM
11 hrs ago

A nasty piece of work with a sense of entitlement big enough to swallow the world. His sock puppet JD Vance has been anointed to bring this vision into full reality, the Dark Enlightenment supported by a larger band of rogue geniuses.

Enough is never enough for these whackos.

Never forget, never forgive.

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