• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    3 hours ago

    He is projecting what he wants to do. You can only be the greatest man, if all others are dead or subservient.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      21 minutes ago

      As far as we know so far, Epstein only trafficked girls, so it’s unlikely Thiel was involved with him for that reason.

      It looks more like Thiel was there for the influence-peddling and the connections to intelligence organizations.

    • Liuone@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 hours ago

      Greta is just a young activist woman, the fact that all of these multi billiinaire pedophiles see her as such a threat is so hilarious to me. Guess they are afraid of honest people they can’t be bought there no dirt on them to blackmail them, so they just make up this crazy shit.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      23 hours ago

      Thiel and Epstein are could be considered the Anti Christ in Christian mythology.

      Thunberg? Yea nah

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      19 minutes ago

      If Thiel were to die, I think it’d be a wise idea to bury him at a crossroads with a stake through his heart.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      ·
      1 day ago

      Also are we supposed to ignore the 3,000 or so lines in the bible where it explicitly says that the meek and poor = good and the rich and powerful = bad? What do you call a christian who hates christ?

  • GMac@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    1 day ago

    I remember when insane people were given psychiatric support instead of vast amounts of money and public speech platforms… I miss those days.

  • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    60
    ·
    2 days ago

    It is projection. Peter Thiel is the closest thing to the anti-christ alive in terms of his impact. Trump would be a close second purely based on his personality, impact, current, and past deeds.

    TL;DR; the people who are doing anti-christ like shit, are the ones worried the most about the anti-christ.

      • hector@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 day ago

        Projection long predates these clowns. The republican party, and the oligarchs and their companies, projected all of their own faults onto their opponents and critics long before any of the current nonsense.

        As long as the population trusts these ivy league suits, on tv, on the radio, in academia, that are in league with those monied interests, the perpetrators can accuse others of what they are doing to some effect. It’s as simple as that.

        People trust the wrong people, and manipulators learned how to play those people. For the oligarchs and their companies, they’ve went to great expense and cooperated for 50 years to create this alternate reality, and to war against reality itself, to further their business interests. In doing so they created a monster that will further escape their control and destroy them one way and or another, along with the US republic, freedom, our way of life, the value of the dollar, etc. But that’s another story.

        These current leaders just co-opted, seized control of the machine built by big money working together to further their interests by removing reality from our nation.

      • hector@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        Thiel is worse simply as he’s more powerful and can get more done. This guy’s machinations brought the current president to power, silicon valley never would’ve surrendered to the party enough for them to win without thiel and his help, which is much much more involved than we know.

        Then we must consider, doge, the fake non congressionally made illegal agency, that hired non senate approved leaders, was staffed by young men recruited from Thiel/Yarvin/et al’s drug fueled parties, and groomed them, to access and export all government agency data to their (and other sources as they secretly agreed,) secret data banks.

        That information in the hands of these people, in combination with what they already have, and their political connections, is far more dangerous than one might realize. It is dangerous in ways not apparent. Information is power and they had too much before.

        Ellison has nothing like that going on to that degree. He’s a tool, a piece of shit, but he’s no Dr. Evil as Thiel is.

  • inkzombie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    32
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    I’m just tired of religion in general. The older I get, the more disgusting it is that adults are rooting for a petty apocalyptic torture porn revenge fantasy.

    • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      23 hours ago

      Evangelicals and Zionists are death cultists who want to end mankind to bring about the conditions of their salvation.

      They are dangerously stupid.

  • Gerudo@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    2 days ago

    Ah yes, the antichrist is famously depicted as a champion for climate change awareness and ending genocide.

    • Pamasich@kbin.earth
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      52
      ·
      2 days ago

      It’s called projection. You accuse an enemy of something that actually applies to you or your team. Heavily used by people on the far right. People also refer to it as “every accusation is a confession”.

      Like when Musk called that diver a pedophile, when Musk is the actual pedophile.

      That’s why the accusation seems odd since the antichrist is more likely to come from the Republican party than some random activist. Because this is actually about the Republican party, not Greta.

    • KbSez@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      2 days ago

      trump meets all the descriptions and signs for the Antichrist.

      Thiel helped him rise to power…

        • Sarah Valentine (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          11
          ·
          2 days ago

          Spiritually, yes it can be anyone or group whose behavior is diametrically opposed to the teachings of Christ. But usually “antichrist” refers to a specific apocalyptic individual who embodies Satan the way Jesus embodies God. There are a number of prophecies concerning the rise, activities, and destruction of this individual. Funny that Peter Thiel doesn’t use either to describe his antichrist. He just makes shit up and calls it antichrist because that’s what works on the hateful bigots of the maga base.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          2 days ago

          Many Baha’is believed the US Dollar was the antichrist for the US, because their definition of antichrist was anything that gets in the way of the masses finding their own spirituality. Then Trump got elected in 2016…

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    2 days ago

    Is he saying there that the entire reason they are destroying the world is to bring about their religious doomsday fantasies?

    I mean by now “every accusation is a confession” is pretty much proven about these people. So this too has to be projection and actually about his team.

    • Twongo [she/her]@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      2 days ago

      i think you put too much value on the ramblings of a mentally ill person in the midst of a psychotic episode.

        • hector@lemmy.today
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 day ago

          Bannon is entirely cynical and has no religion in truth. Neither does Thiel. They are in league with the religious right, fully intent on betraying and subordinating them after they achieve absolute power.

          They are playing the religious people, the religious leaders on the right are playing their own people too more often than not, but also see themselves as playing the business lobbies like these tech bros. They think they are using them back.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 days ago

        No, lots of them openly want this…

        Why do you think a bunch of Christian white supremacists are so fucking set on the Jewish people controlling Israel?

        It’s because in their fairy tale book, armegeddan starts in a Jewish controlled Israel.

        Like, it’s a crazy plan, but how anyone in 2026 can think that means it’s not someone’s plan…

  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    Thiel links these religious themes to what he calls the exhaustion of the Enlightenment story of progress and the crisis of modern liberal democracy, arguing modernity’s faith in reason, institutions, and global cooperation is breaking down under the weight of geopolitical conflict and technological upheaval. He has suggested the stagnation of transformative innovation, rising bureaucracy, and a growing reliance on supranational bodies are signals that the modern era is ending and that a new, more openly theological politics is emerging in its place.

    Within this framework, Thiel has repeatedly singled out Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as emblematic of what he calls “legionnaires of the Antichrist”—figures who seek to halt or tightly control scientific and technological development in the name of safety or planetary survival. In leaked recordings of a four‑part “Antichrist” lecture series, he described the modern Antichrist not as a reckless technologist, but as a “Luddite who wants to stop all science,” adding, “It’s someone like Greta,”

    Lets say for the sake of argument his overall idea has merit, but hes way off in choosing Thunberg. Who do we know, what major political figure, has massively undermined society’s faith in reason, institutions, and global cooperation? What major political figure has rejected scientific advancement that would save the planet in favor of the archaic “drill baby drill” model of propping up destructive industries like coal, oil, etc.? What major political figure has argued that the United States should have unilateral control over the western hemisphere, and has time and time again reduced global cooperation via the UN, treaties, etc.?

    I dont even think most of his argument is that far off base. I also think its plainly obvious that Donald Trump is the antichrist if there is one. His followers wear the mark of the beast on their foreheads (MAGA). He seemed to suffer mortal wounds, or came close, and yet miraculously survived (Covid. Or almost being shot in the face). He literally calls himself the “President of Peace” which is such a blatant ripoff of the “Prince of Peace” aka Jesus Christ. The antichrist is someone who will turn good people into bad people by convincing them that being on the side of evil is actually righteous. Look at the moral denigration of his followers who will never see the light.

    There was a website that tracked all the ways he was similar to the biblical descriptions of the antichrist that is ten miles long. They stopped updating it years ago before he even reached a second term in office. Its only gotten more obvious in the interim. Trump is literally the antichrist

    https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 days ago

      the modern era is ending and that a new, more openly theological politics is emerging in its place.

      Yeah, that’s what he’s working his ass off to make happen.