• moondoggie@lemmy.world
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    20 minutes ago

    “I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”

  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    Please stop give giving pieces of shit people like this any attention. Please do not spread their bullshit. Negative attention is also attention.

  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    Now they’re just spewing bullshit. It’s really the Kremlin (and maybe others) playbook. Overwhelm everyone with crap and we just don’t have the energy to figure out the correct parts. Donald trump is a master of this too.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Everything I don’t like is [communism/woke/dei/liberal/etc.] and generally also projection.

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    We need to do some MRI scans or something so see if the brain damage is detectable once you pass one billion dollars.

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    11 hours ago

    This guy’s really not great at veiling his dream of being world boss man.

    He’s so fuckin’ stupid that the fact that he’s insanely rich is really the problem.

    This guy could have a stroke tomorrow and talk only about my little pony and he’d still have influence.

    Musk could have a lobotomy and switch to painting public urinals with his own shit and he would still have influence.

    Both of these south African Nazi fuckbois are the best example of what’s wrong with the world.

    Oh and Alex Karp can suck a giant dick and get fucked too.

  • NONE@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I seriously wonder if this guy actually believes what he’s saying or if he’s just saying it to fool the most gullible and naive investors.

    I don’t know which of the two possibilities is worse…

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      9 hours ago

      It doesn’t get a lot of play, because it’s kind of obtuse, but he has extremely strong beliefs; they’re just ones that don’t preclude him saying this stuff to fool investors. There were a few pieces that have been written about it, and they flared up again after his weird antichrist lectures last year.

      The article hints at it it, but basically, he subscribes/contributes to an extreme variant of an obscure religion-adjacent philosophy that posits that the social stability benefits of an authoritarian Christian monoculture, preferably over the whole world due to some quirks of Christian theology, but certainly at least in the parts of the world where Christianity is a majority religion, are so amazing that they’re worth pretending that it’s all actually factually true, and that a surveillance state to preserve harmony (and, surprise side effect, it also locks in the power of the elites who establish it all!) is completely acceptable. Theoretically the Christianity part is optional, but there is a lot of risk inherent in not relying on the historical social glue.

      To him, seeking this is for the good of humankind. Anything that opposes any of it with any sort of sway, and especially from a Christian context, can be fairly called an antichrist. It’s some serious Leto II God Emperor of Dune shit.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      He’s gay, talking about the antichrist and trying to discredit the pope.

      I think it’s propaganda.

  • Ilixtze@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    It makes sense for a posthuman moron like Thiel to look more and more like a caricature of Frankenstein’s monster with every picture. We need to update our classic to the “clankerstein; the dumbass Prometheus.”

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      12 hours ago

      Prometheus

      … but instead of stealing the secret of fire from the gods to gift to humanity, he stole their garbage to sell to idiots.