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2026-03-17 12:07 UTC

@meganL@mas.to @Bongolian@mstdn.social @mattmay@mstdn.social I am fully aware of that. What really stumps me is the fact that he honestly seems to believe in this Antichrist stick, and sees himself as the „good“ defender. Scary stuff.

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@meganL@mas.to 2026-03-17 12:14

@axeln@norden.social Pardon me for taking the comment at face value, then. I apologize. However, I do think it's important to publicly state wherever possible that this stuff they do doesn't come out of ignorance. Too many ppl think that mere education would change these ppl. That they're simply misguided. And it's possible others reading the replies would have thought that as a result, so I chimed in.

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@Bongolian@mstdn.social 2026-03-17 14:29

@axeln@norden.social @meganL@mas.to @mattmay@mstdn.social #Thiel knows what he's doing alright, but on some level he doesn't understand what he's doing: he named his company Palantir after #Palantír, the crystal ball in the Lord of the Rings books. In the books the Palantírs were accurate in foretelling the future but unreliable for showing guides to action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr

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