• bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
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    10 days ago

    Well, he is one of the Antichrist’s most loyal servants. So if you want to hear what AC is up to, Thiel is probably the one to ask.

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      9 days ago

      No, no, no. The Antichrist is Greta Thunberg for checks notes for seeking to halt or tightly control scientific and technological development in the name of safety or planetary survival.

      While it appears that Thunberg has never called out Thiel by name, she has been typically ferocious in her criticism of the wealthy in general. Generally, she often frames “the rich,” including private-jet users and fossil-fuel investors, as sacrificing people and the planet “to maintain their extreme lifestyles,” and has criticized private jets and airport expansions as symbols of this. Perhaps most famously, at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in 2023, she accused the political and business elite of putting “corporate greed” and “short-term profits” above the planet and people, saying they are “at the very core of the climate crisis.”

      Where Petey Thiel wants to live in a technofasciast dystopia.