Post #678774
2026-03-17 03:09 UTC
Replies (31)
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@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk 2026-03-17 22:20
@mattmay@mstdn.social I bet HBO and Disney have already bought in...
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@jdp23@neuromatch.social 2026-03-17 04:06
@mattmay@mstdn.social it's like a plot of a Dan Brown book that he rejected as "nope, too implausible"
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@Zebadiah_Carter@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 04:28
@mattmay@mstdn.social I was wondering when the Itialian far-right was going to make the play that the new American Pope wasn't Pope-y enough. Thiel is... a choice... for that foil though 🤣
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@Bongolian@mstdn.social 2026-03-17 04:55
@mattmay@mstdn.social Thiel had a warm-up lecture series in San Francisco on this topic last year, hoping to attract supportive techbros. The lectures were characterized by one critic as "meandering musings". He though Greta Thunberg or Eliezer Yudkowsky might be the antichrist (!), yet the characteristics for the antichrist that he gave sounded more like himself: "They can do it if they're young – or – get rich young, since 'money has this remarkable velocity.'" #thiel #antichrist https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist
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@keithpjolley@discuss.systems 2026-03-17 04:59
@mattmay@mstdn.social 😱🤯
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@lain@lain.com 2026-03-17 05:33
@mattmay@mstdn.social > massimo faggioli
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@mxenbionix@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 06:09
@mattmay@mstdn.social Whether its prohibiting harm being done to others by regulation or insinuating people have a obligation to society and the planet these type of people take my breath away with how disgusting they are. I remember having a conversation with a tech bro 'anarcho capitalist' type that held the position that any form of taxation was the same as slavery. 🤢🤮
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@hteasley@mastodon.scot 2026-03-17 06:23
@mattmay@mstdn.social This is the plot of the worst James Bond movie.
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@JonSaenzAgirre@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 06:40
@mattmay@mstdn.social or that US evangelical christians would vote a president like Donald "grab by the p___y" Trump.
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@celeduc@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 07:15
@mattmay@mstdn.social gay billionaire republican *vampire*, as in literally draining the blood of young men. It's Anne Rice and Dan Brown shit.
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@mcv@friendica.opensocial.space 2026-03-17 07:23
@mattmay@mstdn.social Thiel is desperately trying to paint someone other than himself as the Antichrist. He's one of the main forces trying to set up a global surveillance state.
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@EduEdu@universeodon.com 2026-03-17 07:26
@mattmay@mstdn.social so Thiel is “preoccupied with the risk of a one-world totalitarian state” as opposed to a “one-world totalitarian technofeudalism”. That’s rich
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-03-17 07:47
@mattmay@mstdn.social From what I've seen, Peter Thiel is not a good lecturer. What does he hope to accomplish against the Pope?
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@Tooden@aus.social 2026-03-17 08:07
@mattmay@mstdn.social Thiel's hubris knows no bounds.
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@bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org 2026-03-17 08:50
@mattmay@mstdn.social hopefully i drank my (1st) coffee before reading this.. "challenge the pope": .. my pc would be soaked in coffee and me histerically laugh-gasping for air.. poor Peter is really lost in himself, and for humanity. the rest of the article remains cringely fearful nevertheless
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@Ex_spurt@aus.social 2026-03-17 09:39
@mattmay@mstdn.social my theology is a little rusty but I am pretty sure this looks like something the Antichrist would do
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@JimmyB@mas.to 2026-03-17 10:07
@mattmay@mstdn.social I don't think Thiel is concerned about a 'one-world, totalitarian state' coming into being: the authour has not done her homework. Peter Thiel is concerned only that he controls the one-world, totalitarian state when he creates it. Folks really should read and listen to what he actually says. This is a man who believes the world needs to be depopulated and is creating a massive autonomous weapons factory in the US to help achieve this. Imagine being on the receiving end of that...
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@notsoloud@expressional.social 2026-03-17 10:21
@mattmay@mstdn.social I'll never be more Catholic than the Pope, but perhaps I can be more popish than the Catholics 😆
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@sonjdol@ohai.social 2026-03-17 10:34
@mattmay@mstdn.social Could you please add a date to that screenshot? Knowing where things come from is improtzin the age of fake news
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@sheogorath@microblog.shivering-isles.com 2026-03-17 11:11
@mattmay@mstdn.social Who can beat first hand experience?
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@capnthommo@c.im 2026-03-17 11:12
@mattmay@mstdn.social I'd have thought I'd accidentally ingested some kind of psychotropic drug. Mansplain doesn't even begin to cover it.
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@MeneerDeBruin@mastodon.nl 2026-03-17 12:34
@mattmay@mstdn.social My guess: Thiel is coming out as the anti-christ.
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@CJPaloma@mstdn.social 2026-03-17 12:44
@mattmay@mstdn.social as a LGBT person of a certain age I ALSO cannot imagine in 1990 a Catholic Gay Republican white male speaking about religion -and going against doctrine of the church... and me (along with millions of other sane LGBT+ people)…being on the side of the current Pope.
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@rotopenguin@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 13:04
@mattmay@mstdn.social there's also the detail where, according to the billionaire, this is the Antichrist.
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@ketmorco@fosstodon.org 2026-03-17 13:57
@mattmay@mstdn.social wait, Theil is arguing that preventing him from destroying all freedom and replacing it with Palantir is... Anti freedom?
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@RandamuMaki@mstdn.social 2026-03-17 13:57
@mattmay@mstdn.social I'm sure Life's scriptwriters right now are having a collective stroke. Someone should check up on them, because this season's plot lines are insane.
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@leeloo@c.im 2026-03-17 14:25
@mattmay@mstdn.social "A one-world totalitarian state"? Sounds like the end goal of promoting Trump, Starmer, Orban, AfD,...
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@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 14:26
@mattmay@mstdn.social Where is the Spanish Inquisition when you need them‽
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@thesanesociety@mastodon.online 2026-03-17 19:37
@mattmay@mstdn.social With one of them having the Swiss guard and the entire Catholic bureaucracy on his side, and the other empowered with an AI intelligence machine and a drone army, this might turn into an interesting battle. And while I don't really care about Catholic doctrine, Peter Thiel is obviously insane.
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@elfin@mstdn.social 2026-03-17 22:31
@mattmay@mstdn.social I am not inebriated enough for this shit. Waiter! *Three* Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, please.
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@js@mastodon.nl 2026-03-17 22:37
@mattmay@mstdn.social Yet here we are