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Thiel brought up Gates and Musk when discussing how an Antichrist figure could dominate in the short span of a lifetime.

After reading a 19th-century poem about how Jesus and Alexander the Great each died at 33, Thiel said in the present age the fastest means to power may be through wealth, noting that Gates became a billionaire at 31.

The world's richest, in his view, think too little about their identities as billionaires and what will become of their treasures after death.

That's how Thiel said he persuaded Musk. He said he looked up actuarial tables and found the probability of Musk's death in the coming year equated to giving $1.4 billion to Gates, who has long sparred with the Tesla CEO.

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[-] aviationeast@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Both are antiChrists. And either could be the AntiChrist.

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thiel seems to have way too much control over people like Trump, Musk, and Vance for me to believe they're much more than just flying monkeys.

They might be high ranking flying monkeys, but at the end of the day it's so obvious how he's in complete control and they don't even seem to realize it.

Especially with Musk. I do not trust Elon Musk. Never have and never will. But I can't help but feel some form of pity for him.

There's a know your enemy episode about him where they dive into his childhood and holy shit that dude has got to have some serious cptsd.

He went from being abused and controlled by his own God awful father, to being abused and controlled by Peter Thiel.

From the little I know about their relationship, I do know that so far Peter Thiel has:

•Staged a coup to successfully oust Musk from PayPal

•Set him up as the public face of DOGE to carry out all the plans he had been making since he became involved in Trump's first administration. And therefore take all the public blame.

•Got him ousted from the White House as soon as Michael Kratsios was sworn in.

•Made jokes about "saving" Elon Musk from going to therapy in his first Antichrist talk

•Now he's trying to control where Elon Musk spends his money even after he's dead by using passive aggressive manipulation tactics

Elon Musk has an abusive boyfriend, and he doesn't even realize it.

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

worlds smallest violin is playing right now

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