• VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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    23 minutes ago

    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.

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    23 minutes ago

    What is truly mesmerizing is watching people conflate earning money with being smart about everything.

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    20 minutes ago

    The chinese communists make some good points compared to blowhard American industry capitalist crybabies.

    Wait… is he trying to make chinese communists look good by opening his mouth and spewing this nonsense?

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    1 hour ago

    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.

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    39 minutes ago

    Didn’t he also claim the literal Pope is in cahoots with the literal Antichrist?

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    Between now and November, we are going to get so, Fucking, tired of hearing about communists.

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    What, because the Pope is adhering to some of the ten commandments? like love your neighbor? Christianity was originally and in part, a response to inequality.

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    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.

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    5 hours ago

    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.

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      They kinda already did that considering that’s basically who the Mormons are. Hopefully I didn’t miss the point of the joke here.

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    5 hours ago

    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 evil all-seeing orb in 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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.