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Lynda Phoenix's avatar

Is this another holier than thou guy breaking the 1st commandment? I'll bet he'd like to put the squeeze on everyone else's 1st Amendment also. He believes he's number 1, but he's really number 2 ( at least he's full of it! if you get my drift).

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Carol Gaikowski's avatar

Check his connections to JD Vance.

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Lynda Phoenix's avatar

Isn't he JD Dancer's puppet master?

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Robert Sydenham Ball's avatar

The evangelical community and its leaders have sold this load of horse shite as truth. Revelations is an allegorical tale about Rome and its treatment of the christian cultists in the first century.

The author/s used the allegorical style to obscure the story from Roman overlords and secret police.

There is NO BEAST. People like Thiel are the beast and the real liars.

The paranoid ravings of “believers” are predicated on a heretical misinterpretation of the bible and Paul’s storytelling.

The dispensationalist heresy was fostered in the mid 19th century and with the advent of story tellers like Hal Lindsey and his apocalyptic fictitious writings of the 70’s. The exclusivity of a special people disappearance tickled the egos of ‘believers’ and the power/money greed of the evangelical doomsaying preachers.

It is all fiction. It is used to frighten and control people who want magik and to escape human responsibility for the fouled nest of humanity.

They are misinformed cowards and foolish, evil, egoists like Thiel are truely the Sauron of this world.

It is not so simple nor facile.

Lies and manipulation of dupes.

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Susan Cooper's avatar

"It’s like Frankenstein holding a press conference about the dangers of reanimation."

Chef's kiss -- love that simile!

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Gabe rudolph's avatar

I think it's a clever and thought-provoking way to illustrate hypocrisy.

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Katherine Martushoff's avatar

You didn’t miss a beat! He’s everything you wrote and then some. And he is as close to the anti-Christ as we could imagine.More dangerous than Musk and Trump because he comes across as rational and sane while spewing the insane.

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Dalene Dougherty's avatar

He reminds me of Roy Cohn.

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Joel Applegate's avatar

A cutting survey of the territory. "Thiel isn’t wrestling with Revelation. He’s marketing it." Damn straight. These minions first spawned their self-fulfilling prophecies during the Eisenhower administration.

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TWSchumacher's avatar

His father was a Nazi engineer and escaped Germany just by the skin of his teeth after the war. That awful crowd of misfits will not die easily, nor completely…Maybe never, since their ilk and evil impulses are deeply engrained within homo sapient DNA. 🧬

Very grim outlook.

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Bad Bunny's avatar

Every time I see that face, all i can see is the box cover of the old Mr. Potato Face game. I think he started Palantir cuz he just luuuuvs things with lotsa eyes.

Marx coined the pejorative term "lumpenproletariat" for what would today be MAGA.

I'm proposing a bookend term for the oligarch class. "Lumpenpeterthieliat".

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M.A. Taylor's avatar

Great takedown. The fascist earned it too.

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