Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy

https://jacobin.com/2025/11/peter-thiel-palantir-apocalypse-antichrist

77•robtherobber•28m ago

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LogicFailsMe•11m ago

And here I thought he was just trying to wrap his techno libertoonian worldview in the Book of Revelations in the hopes that the religious right would get behind it. Did I miss something?

solumunus•7m ago

No the dude is genuinely cooked.

danudey•5m ago

As are we all, with these people in charge.

snapdeficit•4m ago

Odd for a gay man to court those who support Leviticus stoning of gays. Self hating? Or just savvy?

yannyu•3m ago

In the current setup, having enough money protects you from the laws of the country and the judgment of others. Thiel is rich enough and therefore powerful enough that these culture wars will never personally affect him or anyone he cares about.

lapcat•2m ago

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

poszlem•6m ago

I mean, they have a point. But considering they run a whole journal on literal communism, it’s hard to take them seriously. The message falls flat when it comes from a different flavor of dangerous fantasy.

danudey•4m ago

Nice "both sides" argument, very subtle.

antonymoose•2m ago

Sometimes both sides do suck.

qwerpy•2m ago

When one side of crazies goes after a different side of crazies, “both sides are crazy” is an appropriate way to look at it.

poszlem•2m ago

It’s intentionally blunt. That’s exactly the issue right now: fascists and communists are going at each other and tearing apart what remains of our liberal world.

fukukitaru•44s ago

It's not particularly worth saving

psunavy03•3m ago

Interesting that this is being downvoted considering "Thiel is a right-wing loon" and "Jacobin are a bunch of left-wing loons" are not mutually exclusive statements.

They're both wrong, just in different ways, and observing this is not "bothsidesism."

observationist•48s ago

Yeah, expect this to get flagged and vanish. This has nothing to do with anything even remotely interesting except to those who are emotionally invested with pwning their political or ideological opposition. At this level of discourse, they're all batshit bonkers.

noelwelsh•39s ago

As you observe, the original comment is wrong and as such it contributes nothing useful to the discussion.

tanjtanjtanj•1m ago

Jacobin is not a whole journal on literal communism.

It’s a magazine with a professed socialist view point but it’s more aligned with left-of-center American politics. Think Sanders or Mamdani rather than Stalin or Mao.

fidotron•4m ago

> This justifies the most extreme violence against his opponents while protecting his own views from contestation. Thiel’s world is a battlefield of moral absolutes rather than a terrain of political complexity where different interests and values are contested and negotiated.

The irony of this being on a site called jacobin is palpable.

js8•34s ago

I downvoted you. It's well-known that The Jacobin is named after different Jacobins.

jmathai•2m ago

Maybe slightly off topic to the article, but I don't really care what Peter Thiel has to say. I do think we need to collectively think about how to not give these people a microphone. It's one thing to have concentrated wealth. It's a very different thing to have concentrated wealth and people's attention. I think that's a much more interesting discussion :).

throw310822•28s ago

This is the article's second sentence:

"Thiel’s lurid, apocalyptic view of world politics may be ludicrous or even deranged, but his wealth and power mean that we can’t afford to ignore it."

robertkoss•1m ago

The problem that this article has is essentially this:

> Thiel by contrast is profiting from the use of AI weapons targeting systems used in the Ukraine war and the genocide in Gaza.

Thiel is IMO not doing this for profit. He is deeply ideological, which should be more worrisome.

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