this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2025
361 points (97.4% liked)

Not The Onion

17877 readers
338 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35095129

Peter Thiel's Antichrist Antics Continue

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, Peter Thiel has announced plans to deliver a four-part lecture series on the Antichrist. These unusual events will take place at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on four days in September and October.

Thiel, one of the most influential tech billionaires of our time, seems intent on forcing us to discuss the Antichrist. He is clearly trying to make a point. But what is that point?

Thiel’s lecture series won’t provide any clues to the public—it’s off the record. He’ll be delivering his lectures to an exclusive group of Antichrist-curious tech acolytes in a highly-controlled atmosphere.

Here’s the thing: this isn't really about religion. It’s about power and politics, wrapped in theological language. Thiel has long been fascinated with political theorist Carl Schmitt's ideas about “political theology”—the notion that all significant political concepts are secularized theological concepts.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] pigup@lemmy.world 78 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Imagine I give you $100,000 today, tomorrow and every day thereafter. How long until you get tired of getting $100,000 each day?

After only a few days, most people's financial problems would be solved. After ten days, you will have received 1 million dollars. After a few months, you will have been able to purchase anything you've ever dreamed of.

How long, then, until money is meaningless to you?

Do you know how long it takes to have received 1 billion dollars?

27.4 years.

27.4 years of receiving $100,000 every day. A billion dollars is 10,000 $100,000s.

Some people have hundreds of billions of dollars. It is an astronomical number.

You can't imagine how much that amount of money changes a person. You will absolutely lose your mind and yourself.

No one should ever even possess anywhere near that level of money. It's way too much power.

People conflate rich people with millionaires and casually lump billionaires in with that group.

They are not the same. Billionaires are shells of humans, filled with the putrid sludge of a soul completely consumed by greed.

Do not listen to them. Do not believe them. They only tell you things they want you to believe. They will take everything from you, including your life.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yup, I don't give a shit about the multi millionaire orthodontist who co-owns his practice, has a summer home and a boat and some sports cars. Heck a lot of small farmers are multi millionaires on paper.

I do care about the people who have enough expendable cash that they can throw 10M at a political endeavor without batting an eye.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sorry but an orthodontist or a dentist who is a multimillionaire is only normal in the USA. It’s one of the reasons why healthcare in your country is unaffordable.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

I just looked this up and they make big bucks almost everywhere, including Europe.

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago

A hard upper limit would solve a lot of problems in the world. Like once you reach a billion dollars you die immediately.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They have left us with only one solution to the billionaire problem. And they're trying to make that difficult too, with round-the-clock security. But everyone is vulnerable for a moment here or there.

Last night I chatted with my politically moderate neighbor, who is now considering leaving the country, and cheered Luigi, and a bunch of other shit that would have been "far left" a while ago, but I think is now permeating into the middle too.

polarization of the populace works in both directions, the left only lags a bit behind because they actually like stuff like due process and human rights.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Do not listen to them. Do not believe them. They only tell you things they want you to believe. They will take everything from you, including your life.

say crazy illogical thing

do crazy illogical thing

deliver instructions on what he wants you to do

tells a logical truth

you believe it

it's a brainwashing seminar.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If your president embodies every single one of the Seven Deadly Sins, he just might be The Antichrist.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Thanks Jeff Foxworthy

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 97 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

You would think that a gay billionaire who’s obsessed with making himself immortal and putting forward intense surveillance and ushering in AI gods fervently would be most Christian’s definition of the antichrist. I know it’s mine, and I’m not even Christian anymore.

Edit: I am fine with the gay part, I just want to make that extremely clear before everyone rips me to shreds for being homophobic. I just think Thiel is evil.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 57 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The gay part is what makes it crazy, he thinks his money will protect him? The homophobia in the christian world is insane. Just because they're nice to your face, that doesn't mean they wouldn't hang you from a tree if they could. Fake nice is their thing.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Save him? He is accelerating what they are doing. He is funding them and propagandizing to them. He is the main reason fascism is here.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Dude, they will turn on him. It's just a matter of time. As soon as he balks at any single thing they do, they'll turn on him.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 5 days ago (4 children)

remember he defenestrated his BOYTOY from florida last year, probably sucked the life forced out of him to stay young, and then staged an "accident"

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He useful till he ain't....

If the people he's financing ever really seizes control like he wants, the first thing they'd do is seize the wealth of private billionaires like him.

Why risk them staying supportive when you can just seize all their wealth for themselves?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The elites always seem to have this “honour amongst thieves” thing between them. They see eachother as actual humans, just not the rest of the humans. At least that’s how it’s always seemed to me.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

The elites always seem to have this “honour amongst thieves” thing between them

Until they don't...

This ain't a hypothetical, we have thousands of years of recorded history. When wealth because concentrated and the wealthy seize the government, it doesn't take long for the new government to start cannibalizing the very wealthy elites that put it in power.

That turns the remaining ones against the government.

They side with the poor, call it a revolution, and they end up as the biggest fish in a more equal pond.

This is literally how America became a country... And France funding us led to their revolution because they squeezed the poors to fund us.

This isn't a new scenario, it happens all the time

We just need to prolong the good part of the cycle if we live thru it. But eventually our grandkids or their kids won't remember and we'll do it again.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 5 days ago
[–] Wigners_friend@piefed.social 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He is desperate that people regard him as a deep and serious thinker. The trouble is, no interesting thought has ever crossed his mind. This is the reason for his pathetic hatred of academics. His university professors rightly saw a useless dweeb with an outrageous sense of self regard.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

The only reason Trump went to the Wharton School of Business was to take advantage of his draft deferments, which kept him out of the Vietnam War. (Trump got 5 deferments, one medical and 4 educational).

He apparently didn't learn much while he was there, because his professor at Wharton (William T Kelly) has said, "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."

[–] Jakule17@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think we should allow everyone to introduce themselves

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

He's a man of wealth, and taste

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 4 days ago

Of course I know him. He's me.

[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

So he’s just gonna be there showing PowerPoint slideshows of him and his buddies? Lol.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm reasonably sure that Peter Thiel is ~~the~~ an antichrist. Seems exactly like the kind of people warned about in the Book, charlatans, fraudsters, those who worship the dollar over Jah.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So this lecture is like a Disney villain singing about their plans.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] 5too@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He wishes he was as cool as Scar!

[–] josefo@leminal.space 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, these nazis are also lame

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

Also his surveillance company is literally named palantir(the orbs from Lord of the rings that saurrumon has laying around, that have him a direct line to the bbeg

[–] Raxiel@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Don does like it when people talk about him, but I doubt he could sit through four lectures

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 28 points 6 days ago

He should be cowering in his bunker

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

The event is sponsored by a non-profit that promotes “Christ in science and technology” or something.

Who We Are

We’re a community of thinkers, builders, artists, and leaders who are wrestling with what it means to live with purpose and conviction. We’re here to explore deeper questions, together.

And yes, we talk about Jesus.

Not in a pushy way. Not with religious jargon. But with honesty, clarity, and respect.

Because we believe Jesus is so much more than a religious figure. He's the answer to the longings we often try to fill with ambition, success, or self-discovery.

[–] h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago

thinkers

LMAO

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

He's the answer to the longings we often try to fill with ambition, success, or self-discovery.

Like saying 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything. Maybe we need to figure out what the question is, cause this answer doesn’t make any sense.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They should give all they have to the poor and follow him.

Not to the church. Not to preaching. To the poor. End world hunger. Eliminate a neglected disease. Speak with poor people in Africa and south America and ask them what would make their lives better and easier and buy them that. Feed Palestinians. Go to Jesus's home and feed the starving people there with every last dollar lest you find yourself trying to fit a large animal in an infamously small hole at peril of your soul.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They should give all they have to the poor and follow him.

Or, hear me out, spend billions on research of a machine that would shove camels through needles.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

considering it's Peter Thiel doing this, nothing good can come from this.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A four part lecture on Trump? But why?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So, what, is this just going to be his autobiography?

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, Peter Thiel has announced plans to deliver a four-part lecture series on the Antichrist. These unusual events will take place at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on four days in September and October.

Thiel, one of the most influential tech billionaires of our time, seems intent on forcing us to discuss the Antichrist. He is clearly trying to make a point. 

But, what is that point?

Thiel’s lecture series won’t provide any clues to the public—it’s off the record. He’ll be delivering his lectures to an exclusive group of Antichrist-curious tech acolytes in a highly-controlled atmosphere.

load more comments (8 replies)
[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I'm not antichrist, I'm just antichrist curious

load more comments
view more: next ›