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Brenda

(2,109 posts)
Tue May 6, 2025, 02:10 PM May 2025

Peter Thiel says Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist, omfg

From the Naomi Klein interview at Rolling Stone.

It is irresolvable with their vision of how to run their businesses. Peter Thiel is very influential in Trump’s orbit as the patron of J.D. Vance. He is incredibly influential in [advancing] many of the more extreme theories surrounding the MAGA movement.

He has found religion recently. I don’t know if you’ve been following this, but Peter Thiel is now running Bible study groups in Silicon Valley. He said in a few interviews recently that he believes that the Antichrist is Greta Thunberg. It’s extraordinary. He said that it’s foretold that the Antichrist will be seeming to spread peace. But here’s his thinking. He says Greta wants everyone to ride a bicycle. (Now, that’s a gross caricature of what she’s said.) But he’s said Greta wants everyone to ride a bicycle. That may seem good, but the only way that could happen is if there was a world government that was regulating it. And that is more evil than the effects of climate change.


There must be some serious mad cow disease affecting the one percenters. Maybe it's mad caviar disease.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/naomi-klein-trump-musk-thiel-oligarchs-climate-science-1235330780/
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Peter Thiel says Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist, omfg (Original Post) Brenda May 2025 OP
The only thing worse than a stupid person Johonny May 2025 #1
Is a stupid person with a forum. marble falls May 2025 #51
It's also foretold the Antichrist will be the "great deceiver" RoadRunner May 2025 #2
Right. And wasn't it Chump who said he would bring us peace, Brenda May 2025 #4
Isn't he the messiah sent from God? Blue Full Moon May 2025 #24
Actually the great deceiver ushers in the anti christ questionseverything May 2025 #37
Good grief, are they all nuts? Biophilic May 2025 #3
I guess if you consider sociopathy to be "nuts," then yes. GoCubsGo May 2025 #9
If I was Greta Thunberg, I would tweet him the following: Gore1FL May 2025 #5
Palantir stock is going down the toilet today newdeal2 May 2025 #6
Good. 58Sunliner May 2025 #59
Peter Thiel doth project too much. nt GoCubsGo May 2025 #7
He doesn't have to worry get the red out May 2025 #8
Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa usonian May 2025 #10
Thanks for those links. Monsters are real. nt Brenda May 2025 #11
Thiel is a nut case LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #12
He read both Atlas Shrugged and the Lord of the Rings... haele May 2025 #15
How much did he pay, I wonder, TommyT139 May 2025 #41
Twice that I know of. haele May 2025 #43
Christopher Tolkien was very much involved TommyT139 May 2025 #45
😑😑😑😑😑 geeeeebzzz! electric_blue68 May 2025 #13
"He has found religion recently."? Bullshit. Midnight Writer May 2025 #14
I posted yesterday about chatbots encouraging spiritual fantasies highplainsdem May 2025 #16
Yeah, that makes sense. Brenda May 2025 #18
The left behind shit never really took off like I'd hoped wolfie001 May 2025 #31
I know what ya mean. Brenda May 2025 #33
They're so stupid wolfie001 May 2025 #49
Peter has always believed he could and should live forever. Maru Kitteh May 2025 #17
Is Peter Thiel into Musk's stash? Botany May 2025 #19
They're all into it. haele May 2025 #44
Can we stop confusing "religion" with Christian Nationalism? flvegan May 2025 #20
Amen (so to speak) Hekate May 2025 #25
Well dipshit, if you can't breathe you can't live. She is trying to save us. Fuck off. twodogsbarking May 2025 #21
Good people are not billionaires. n/t iscooterliberally May 2025 #22
Thiel's Christ is probably Hitler, so he would probably be correct in saying Thunberg is Anti-Hitler. LiberalArkie May 2025 #23
Mad caviar disease! MLAA May 2025 #26
Boom!!! wolfie001 May 2025 #29
#MadCaviarDisease (R) now going viral BoRaGard May 2025 #53
The new CaviarCrypto is really soaring on private jets and Palm Beach tanning beds. MLAA May 2025 #62
Tell me something I don't know. I've always thought that! n/t elocs May 2025 #27
Weirdo closet-case wolfie001 May 2025 #28
You would think these Tech types would have a better grasp on science. Evidently not. nt Quixote1818 May 2025 #30
I think he's projecting. nilram May 2025 #32
People are getting too close to the real answer relayerbob May 2025 #34
It stands to reason... Montauk6 May 2025 #35
Project much, peedy?! Clouds Passing May 2025 #36
"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." (from Thiel's essay "The Education of a libertarian.") red dog 1 May 2025 #38
His head is so far up the Antichrist's ass he can't smell the difference. bullimiami May 2025 #39
How does he reconcile his new found religiosity valleyrogue May 2025 #40
It's intellectual laziness or pre textual IMO Raven123 May 2025 #42
K&R for, "disease affecting the one percenters" UTUSN May 2025 #46
No, Thiel, the Antichrist is B.See May 2025 #47
So we should "respect" batshit crazy, shitlord dystopian tech-bros . . .why? hatrack May 2025 #48
NAZI Thiel Bullying a Person Who Does Good Kid Berwyn May 2025 #50
She's not a favorite of mine, but she's hardly an "anti-christ". Oopsie Daisy May 2025 #52
It is Traildogbob May 2025 #54
You have to be desperate if you are going after someone for advocating using a bicycle DFW May 2025 #55
Just more absurdities Farmer-Rick May 2025 #56
The antichrist is a female with a platform. He looks like a former meth junkie. 58Sunliner May 2025 #57
Dear Petey T, Might want to dial back the dosage on WTAF you are on? Brainfodder May 2025 #58
He is a devil vampire that wants to drink her blood. Bluethroughu May 2025 #60
Don't worry, Peter... Basso8vb May 2025 #61
He has to be another silicon valley drug addict Mr. Sparkle May 2025 #63

Johonny

(26,829 posts)
1. The only thing worse than a stupid person
Tue May 6, 2025, 02:16 PM
May 2025

Discovering religion, is them "explaining" your religion to you.



Brenda

(2,109 posts)
4. Right. And wasn't it Chump who said he would bring us peace,
Tue May 6, 2025, 02:24 PM
May 2025

end all wars with one phone call? Yet Thiel attacks a young woman who simply decided as a kid to speak out about how the people with power and money were doing NOTHING to stop climate catastrophe.

GoCubsGo

(35,068 posts)
9. I guess if you consider sociopathy to be "nuts," then yes.
Tue May 6, 2025, 02:35 PM
May 2025

I believe Thiel is just another uber-wealthy right-wing con artist, who is probably using his alleged new-found "religion" to manipulate his latest marks.

Gore1FL

(22,997 posts)
5. If I was Greta Thunberg, I would tweet him the following:
Tue May 6, 2025, 02:26 PM
May 2025

@PeterThiel Boo.
--the AntiChrist

haele

(15,697 posts)
15. He read both Atlas Shrugged and the Lord of the Rings...
Tue May 6, 2025, 03:18 PM
May 2025

"There are two novels that have a lifelong impression on smart 14 year old bookish boys - Atlas Shrugged and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. One is an unrealistic fantasy and the other has Orcs..."

Unfortunately, with his Afrikaans background, the Rand fantasy made more of an impression the Tolkien fantasy, even though Tolkien was from South Africa himself.
Tolkien would hated Apartheid. His heroes always prevailed through diversity and inclusion of different talents and experiences.
Segregation was a weakness in his world.
FWIW, when he described his orcs, tended to have mottled greyish skin, and both the Hobbits and "Strider" - later the Returned King Elessar - were described as being brown skinned or swart (extremely tanned).

Thiel admires Saruman. Has been said by those who know him that he's commented Saruman should have been the hero, he could have defeated Sauron and his orcs sooner - but of course, it could just be him being the urbane troll he is.

TommyT139

(2,488 posts)
41. How much did he pay, I wonder,
Tue May 6, 2025, 06:32 PM
May 2025

...to use LOTR names for his products? The Tolkien estate has historically been very aggressive pursuing copyright claims.

haele

(15,697 posts)
43. Twice that I know of.
Tue May 6, 2025, 07:09 PM
May 2025

Palantir and Arundel are two. I don't know what else he's used, but he's probably going to have enough lawyers claiming those names are out of copyright or he might just be throwing a bunch of money at them and thinking they're not going to look too closely at what his products are doing.
They aren't technically evil on the surface, and he probably could spin some beneficial tale about aiding humanity or something.

Remember, the estate is at the grandchildren's level, and whether or not the grandkids want to preserve the lore and legacy, their personal political outlook may not be the same.
Which can easily be said about many millennial kids who might be following in "Grandpa's footsteps".

TommyT139

(2,488 posts)
45. Christopher Tolkien was very much involved
Tue May 6, 2025, 07:51 PM
May 2025

Pretty much made his living off of putting out everything that could even barely be a story line....Anyway, it just galls.

Midnight Writer

(25,968 posts)
14. "He has found religion recently."? Bullshit.
Tue May 6, 2025, 03:16 PM
May 2025

And his god has the same enemies that Peter Thiel has.

What a fortunate circumstance.

highplainsdem

(63,657 posts)
16. I posted yesterday about chatbots encouraging spiritual fantasies
Tue May 6, 2025, 03:27 PM
May 2025
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143453623 - LBN
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220294854 - GD

and it's a fairly safe bet that Thiel has access to the best chatbot his money can buy, probably one customized for him. Which could help explain both this delusion about Greta Thunberg and the bizarre op-ed he wrote for the Financial Times in January:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219893424
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219919577

Discussions with his friendly local chatbot are likely to take him farther and farther out on both rhetorical and intellectual limbs, until whatever they're discussing bears little resemblance to reality but makes perfect sense to him - and his chatbot is likely to agree and applaud.

Brenda

(2,109 posts)
18. Yeah, that makes sense.
Tue May 6, 2025, 03:36 PM
May 2025

So maybe the chatbots will tell these NutGods to self terminate and they'll put us out of our misery.

Brenda

(2,109 posts)
33. I know what ya mean.
Tue May 6, 2025, 05:06 PM
May 2025

It's been decades since I first saw a sign saying "When you rapture can I have all your shit?"

I grew up hearing "Don't be grounded when the rapture comes."

Gee, after 2000 years and your stupid predictions keep coming up empty, maybe you should quit being such a dumbass and get a fucking life right here, right now.

Maru Kitteh

(32,092 posts)
17. Peter has always believed he could and should live forever.
Tue May 6, 2025, 03:33 PM
May 2025

He used to think he could buy that, now he’s moving to plan B.

Rich people are WEIRD.

haele

(15,697 posts)
44. They're all into it.
Tue May 6, 2025, 07:15 PM
May 2025

Ketemine is the toke for tech Bros. They feel like they're all-seeing, know it all Gods when micro dosing on it. "Gives you a better overview of your business situation".

Ya, and drunks make the best drivers...

Maybe they should start macro dosing; maybe they can start flying or phase through structures...

flvegan

(66,643 posts)
20. Can we stop confusing "religion" with Christian Nationalism?
Tue May 6, 2025, 04:07 PM
May 2025

Stop giving these fucks an excuse or a pass under the flag of some sort of blanket "religion" disclaimer.

LiberalArkie

(19,967 posts)
23. Thiel's Christ is probably Hitler, so he would probably be correct in saying Thunberg is Anti-Hitler.
Tue May 6, 2025, 04:25 PM
May 2025

BoRaGard

(7,598 posts)
53. #MadCaviarDisease (R) now going viral
Wed May 7, 2025, 08:25 AM
May 2025

It's spread by contagion at the Gourmet G.O.P. Billionaire Golffe Galas at Krasnov Properties, Inc.,
funded by millions and millions of hard-earned US taxpayer money
(or as the GOPer Bros call it while sneering, Sucker and Loser Protection Payola).

Montauk6

(9,343 posts)
35. It stands to reason...
Tue May 6, 2025, 05:15 PM
May 2025

In THEIR bizarro world of Jeezoid Heathenistic Abandon, down is up, stupidity is genius, evil is good, demons are saints.

red dog 1

(33,695 posts)
38. "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." (from Thiel's essay "The Education of a libertarian.")
Tue May 6, 2025, 05:19 PM
May 2025

Last edited Tue May 6, 2025, 06:01 PM - Edit history (1)

(Other Peter Thiel quotes)

-"People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little about AI."
- "A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise."
" I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones."

IMHO, Greta's not the AntiChrist, but Peter Thiel might be.

valleyrogue

(2,820 posts)
40. How does he reconcile his new found religiosity
Tue May 6, 2025, 05:49 PM
May 2025

with being a gay man unless he belongs to one of those "liberal" churches?

Raven123

(8,012 posts)
42. It's intellectual laziness or pre textual IMO
Tue May 6, 2025, 06:34 PM
May 2025

People like Thiel know what they want. They are too lazy to look in the mirror and ask why they want what what they want. And if they do ask that question, the answer is unsatisfying because it is contrary to what they know is for the greater good. Far easier to seek approval from an ancient text, stake a claim that they are right with God and all who oppose are wrong or worse. They see themselves as rational beings rather than greedy and self interested.

B.See

(9,054 posts)
47. No, Thiel, the Antichrist is
Tue May 6, 2025, 08:00 PM
May 2025

profiting off of crypto currency, putting air travelers in harm's way, rounding up people in the dead of night, and shredding Epstein files.

hatrack

(65,336 posts)
48. So we should "respect" batshit crazy, shitlord dystopian tech-bros . . .why?
Tue May 6, 2025, 08:43 PM
May 2025

Just wondering.

Oh, yeah they're rich, I forgot . . .

Traildogbob

(13,310 posts)
54. It is
Wed May 7, 2025, 08:30 AM
May 2025

Pretty obvious the more money you have the more it eats away brain cells. Just look at the candidates that have been exposed since Trump rode the escalator down. Warped sick ass mutherfuckers.
Putin, Trump and Musk……..need I list the other most obvious, that now run and own our country. Is the elusive George Soros this nuts, or does he still have a brain being he gives us all his cash. My check is a little late.

DFW

(60,733 posts)
55. You have to be desperate if you are going after someone for advocating using a bicycle
Wed May 7, 2025, 08:33 AM
May 2025

My wife comes from the flat farm country of the northwest, and grew up on a bicycle. She still uses it here in town, and it's no accident that she still has the figure of a 20 year old model at age 73. It was the main for of transportation for her parents, as well. They never even owned a car. Her mom used to ride her bike the 6 Kilometers to her dentist beyond the age of 90, and probably still would (she is now 98) if her eyes still worked.

Farmer-Rick

(12,845 posts)
56. Just more absurdities
Wed May 7, 2025, 08:34 AM
May 2025

From the absurd.

Untill people stop letting the filthy-rich control them, the stupidity and destruction will continue.

58Sunliner

(6,451 posts)
57. The antichrist is a female with a platform. He looks like a former meth junkie.
Wed May 7, 2025, 08:37 AM
May 2025

I don't think he found god either. I think he is a drug abuser who is now delusional.

Brainfodder

(7,781 posts)
58. Dear Petey T, Might want to dial back the dosage on WTAF you are on?
Wed May 7, 2025, 08:39 AM
May 2025

IMHO though not a M.D. the horseshoe stuck up your keister might have developed some rust and perhaps wasn't washed first is the hypothesis we at Low Ball and Twitch are going with, thank you.

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
60. He is a devil vampire that wants to drink her blood.
Wed May 7, 2025, 09:11 AM
May 2025

Seriously, this guy has baby blood transfsions. He is wacko, look at him. He is also the maker of JD Vance.

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