The ability to buy anything on account of having too much money wrecks a person's brain just like a zero-gravity environment destroys muscle mass and bone density.

Human bodies are designed for resistance and they liquefy rapidly without it.
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These fukking guys have noodles for brains
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Thiel uses ‘blood boys’ for blood transfusions cuz he thinks young blood will make him immortal.
He’s neck deep in Epstein shite and was also a big part of the 2016 Wikileaks/election interference bs.
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Who said it must be like getting kicked in the head by a horse every day (having all that money)? Because they were bang on.
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I think we need a complete and total shutdown of billionaires until we can figure out what’s going on
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These oligarchs have develop an over inflated sense of entitlement to the point where they actually believe they're above the law.
They're empty vessels who'll never feel like they have enough because no amount of money could fill the void in their souls.
Pathetic, greedy little men. #justsayin'
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True, they are devoid of empathy. They are textbook psychopathic narcissists.
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Modern inventions aren’t necessarily good or bad.

Take penicillin. Modern and good.

But then take billionaires. Modern and bad.
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These people clearly need our help. They’re crying out for it every day.
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Is it just a q&a session?
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Those two, Andreessen and Thiel are both very dangerous, fascist, and very big Trump financial supporters.
They support the destruction of democracy.
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Andreessen flies under the radar on the list of oligarchs trying to destroy democracy.
Many people in Silicon Valley work with him or his org not knowing they are inadvertently supporting a man who funds politicians (Trump et al) who want to destroy peoples rights & the ability to vote.
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No it doesn't, you're looking for something else.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mackenzie Scott, Melinda Gates. All not brain dead.
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Did you ever think Warren Buffett could’ve just paid his secretary more.
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They’re pretty cooked and a few of those are pedophiles
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not everything can be purchased - an endless frustration to the Epstein Class - resulting in this tedious nihilism
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Welp. Explain his ears then.....
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Like the SNL skit where Trump looks in the mirror and sees John Cena.
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So is “antichrist” a pseudonym for DT…?
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They call that “eustress” in the biz. The biz being social sciences.
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You can have the nicest house, cars, clothes, schools, vacations that a normal family could enjoy for a surprisingly small amount of money, maybe $2M/year. The rest is vanity.
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I just noticed how much Peter Thiel looks like a secondary character in a Frank Miller/Steve Dillon comic. Like, the nasty slightly weird dude next to the villain who's threatening in half an issue before getting absolutely and unceremoniously mangled.
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Creepy dangerous MFs
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We should tax all their filthy lucre as an act of kindness and compassion. They will thank us for it later!
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there's gotta be something else

I know it seems very consistently true but I will remain skeptical until I can test it for myself by becoming a billionaire

I've had almost 40 years to develop my moral center, if I became a billionaire I could handle it, someone let me prove it lol
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The same is true for the use of AI. It eliminates friction in our thinking by being so sycophantic and turns our brains to mush.
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George Lucas, constantly butting heads with studio execs and budget limitations: *makes star wars*

George Lucas, surrounded by yes men who are terrified to criticize him: [that clip where the lights come up after screening phantom menace and everyone looks like a witch showed them their own deaths]
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What has the ex-husband of the woman who made all the good Star Wars films got to do with anything??
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He may have gone too far in some places.
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Eh, tbf to Lucas he begged for others to direct his prequels
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Giving credit where it's due, the most powerful factor reining him in on the original trilogy was his then-wife, Marcia (who won an Oscar for editing the original film).

They divorced after RotJ came out, so yes, by the time the prequel trilogy was made he was definitely surrounded by the yes-men.
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Somedays I do a thought experiment 'I wake up a billionaire with power, what is that like' - immediately surrounded by people, security, staff, handed things, asked constantly for decisions, phone ringing with those I'm in competition/also sharing power, nothing remotely like other people, nonstop.
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I agree, it's mainly non resistance, but it's just everything is not normal, and these people aren't strong enough or have the kind of brain that says, 'ok time for alone, introspection, calmy down, revisit and plan for tomorrow.'
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Your theory seems sound.
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Beyond that, it's the endless desire for more. The mythical green eyed monster, King Midas, hundreds of other tales, fables, parables.

The old and new testament, the Hadith and Quran, Confucianism, Buddhism, every religion teaches that worse than building riches is the drive to endlessly consume.
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Catholics view Greed as one of the Cardinal Sins. Together with Gluttony and Pride.
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Hahah, omg thank you, this is so accurate !

#Science and #ScienceSky , put out all your research here!
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Although we must admit,
loads of drugs were involved, too.
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This is why we all seem to remember guys like Donald Trump and Elon Musk being smarter years ago. Because they were. Their brains have turned to vanilla pudding and it's not just dementia.
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No, they were never smart.
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I am not sure I agree, Brandon. Remember when good ol' Turd Blossom, Karl Rove, was regarded as some kind of political genius? It is not, in my opinion, genius to have no values on what you will do to obtain money or power. It's instead a weird form of narcissistic solipsism, not genius.
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I mean the drugs aren’t helping. But yeah.
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I think its the Viagra, steroids and whatever other life extending drugs they're taking
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lol, i don't think so. they just spent more time making sure people saw them doing things that could be interpreted as smart, and they spent more money hiding the acts and foibles that made them seem dumb.

and, really, trump never came off as smart.
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Elon was smarter years ago; Trump has always been a fucking moron.
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No, it's also tons upon tons of Special-K and crushes up Adderall.
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It was fascinating watching Elon devolve. He truly was passionate about rockets and EVs but Twitter and the ability to ignore "no" that wealth brought destroyed his ability to think critically. He reveled in the attention the worst of Twitter gave him and leaned into it.
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Elon is a dumb person's idea of what a smart person is.
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I'm not buying "smarter". Maybe "put more effort into lying".
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People that think Elon was smart, I’m begging you to read about his PayPal days
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All these oligarchs are connected, they're all evil

There are video of him with Cisco's CEO, at Stanford, with Peter Thiel, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Y combinator, Bitcoin channels, a bunch of other people

I had to scroll 50 videos on YT before I had a first "leftist" channel on this dude
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Serial killers: I have to write a Manifesto
Oligarchs: I have to write a Manifesto
Serial killers: kills a bunch of kids, go to jail, get death penalty
Oligarchs: kills a bunch of kids => gets a standing ovation
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The married Thiel's "kept" lover apparently committed suicide when Thiel cut him off. (Below article doesn't mention that Theil had recently cut him off.) Theil is so disconnected from his own humanity as it shrinks into oblivion.
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They're just psychopaths in the clinical sense. They're incapable of introspection or caring how their actions affect other people.
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Wealth breeds depravity
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But how would one know if one had zero introspection if one never introspected themselves for introspection?
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Nice. This is like the flip side of

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"Oh yeah, how would you know?"
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Why do they look like demons coming out of the mouth of hell (especially Peter Thiel)? Positive there's a whiff of sulphur about them...
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The kindest description of Thiel I can give is that he looks like Dobby's dad.
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It is WILD that Thiel is the actual living embodiment of every story written about the anti-christ. So ask yourself..would the devil himself go about calling others the devil? Yeah. I think so. I don't even believe in this crap and I still think he is some form of hell that escaped the underground.
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It's also worth noting that a lack of introspection (here : zero) results in very few moral values.
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We are who we are depending on the choices we make.
Their minds were already corrupt long before they became obscenely rich.

No man can buy tomorrow, not even a billionaire.
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This makes so much sense!
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Tech bros are the new antichrist
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If you think AI psychosis is bad, just try surrounding yourself with yes-men courtiers for a few decades.
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I would say part of the problem is that llm chatbots are making the experience of being surrounded by ultra-sycophants is now available almost any income level.
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When I learned what "stress wood" was, my true education began.
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Yes, but I think that “daddy issues” play big part in it.
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Look at those gremlins. Not a shred of decency in either
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I love how Thiel is turning into a very sweaty disoriented version of Gollum at incredible speed.
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Wait, is he basically saying that he's an animal or an infant?
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The resistance here is about a brain solving problems. If one has enough money to contract labor to setup and run a nuclear reactor might cause them to glance at their balance sheets, but they do zero work for it, they haven't solved a problem, they've delegated it. Same problem with AI use.
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Apparently he never heard of Socrates from 400 BC
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Yup we need to take 90% of the ultra rich’s money. They’d still have more than enough and it wouldn’t destroy them or us.
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I'd put forth an alternate idea: to achieve billionaireitude one must pass through an earthbound, human level version of the great filtering hypothesis. Millionaires must abandon their empathy, rationality, humility, and shame to achieve next level. Trillionairehood demands industrial-scale genocide
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That theory really resonates with me.
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This is an excellent visualization, and I'm stealing it. Thank you.
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Dear creator

Bankrupt them plz
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And make them live. Make. Them. Live. Poor.
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Yes because the Greek & Roman philosophers were writing Yelp reviews.
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as someone who grew up in trad-Cath circles, "lectures on the Antichrist" sets off alarm bells in my mind, because celebrity exorcists/theologians with fringe (sometimes borderline schismatic) views have become a real problem in the last decade or so
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(those views often being something like, "the Pope is actually the Antipope, because he promotes compassion instead of lambasting queer people all the time. this was revealed to me during an exorcism by a demon, and demons are well known to be reliable sources of information")
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I find it baffling that Theil is so obsessed with the anti-Christ and yet is to clearly missing all the way *he* specifically lines up with the description.
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Also baffling that he considers the antichrist might be...

🔽
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His definition is something like "Every doomsayer is (or could be?) the Antichrist, because they're bringing about (or want it to come about?) the Armageddon." But that *still* doesn't rule him out, which is just funny.

PS. Sorry it's not a definitive quote, it's been a while since I looked.
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Especially him being in Rome, as the Antichrist is supposed to become Pope at some point. We should watch out for a coup attempt.
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The man initially squared his Catholicism with his homosexuality by trying to live forever - can’t condemn my eternal soul to Hell if I don’t die; checkmate, God.

Since that Plan A failed, Plan B is to bring on the Apocalpse and vanquish the Antichrist - can’t have Hell without the Antichrist. 👉😎👉
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I mean, these men all more or less like to think they are actual God, so it kind of tracks.
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It’s less baffling when you consider that his name comes up a lot when religious people talk about the concept of a modern anti-Christ. He’s trying to get ahead of it in a very “look over there” way.
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isn’t the Antichrist supposed to be like-able? I thought they were going to try and fool us at least.
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You have to be fucked up to have that much money in the first place, though.
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The irony of Thiel's Antichrist schtick is that if the Antichrist does in fact exist it is quite plainly Ol Dumpy (down to the fake head wound descibed in Revelation)
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Peter Thiel knows about the antichrist.
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Cogito ergo…woke?
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Plus, they

(1) have reached a pt in life at which they've been surrounded for yrs - decades, perhaps - by sycophantic flatterers (not good for anyone); &

(2) proceed under the remarkably common misperception that to be exceptionally good at one, maybe two, things is to be wise about all things.
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“A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.” —screenwriter John Rogers
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coincidentally, becoming friends with Peter Thiel is what made Andreessen into a Nazi. Dude helped write Mosaic, co-founded Netscape, then 10 years later started having dinner with that Fascist Scumbag and here we are.
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I’d go a step further and say the ability to amass that much money in the first place indicates a seriously damaged person. It’s basically sociopathy plus a hoarding disorder.
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"why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are?"

- Plato, Theaetus c.369 BCE

Andreessen is trying to say he has no conscience, no empathy. It's a tech bro thing.
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Introspection is new? like f it is read some books
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Was it Sócrates that said, “know thyself”?
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He did say it, but he was quoting an existing phrase inscribed at the Temple of Delphi.
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If society has to completely collapse, I hope somehow we end up with every billionaire being put on Manhattan Island and Snake Plissken is dead.
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Oligarchs are above the law: society has already collapsed

Even absolute kings were not above the law like our oligarchs are now (they had to respect the Church)
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More than buying anything, there's the ability to buy your way out of any consequences, and the ability to surround yourself with people who only tell you you're brilliant.
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Truer words were never said.
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Those who ought not have security clearances at all…
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That said, Peter Thiel does look like a guy who’s just been told his mule has died, so he should at least have country muscle.
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Really? I was thinking he looked like a guy that knows every slur for Italians and has too much knowledge about the secret magics of the Thule society for reincarnating their fallen brethren.
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We need to regulate wealth as a public health issue. A little is your own business, but too much and it starts cooking your brain and you start making it everyone else's problem
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Excessive wealth becomes a mental illness.
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