If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
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@mattmay it's like a plot of a Dan Brown book that he rejected as "nope, too implausible"
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@mattmay Didn’t Francis already reign in Opus Dei? Maybe that’s why they’re mad.
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@mattmay Didn’t Francis already reign in Opus Dei? Maybe that’s why they’re mad.
@slyborg The organization, yes. The ideology, of course not. They just found another clubhouse.
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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
@mattmay 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
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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
@mattmay can,t he just send the Swiss Guard and put an end to this nonsense?
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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
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@axeln @mattmay Regarding billionaires such as Thiel, historian Timothy Snyder had a very interesting essay in January of this year about a lecture to schoolchildren that J. R. R. Tolkien gave in 1938, in which Tolkien compared the very wealthy to dragons. The lecture was in part an explanation of Tolkien's thought process behind his 1937 book, The Hobbit.
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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
@mattmay 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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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
@mattmay This is the plot of the worst James Bond movie.
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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
@mattmay or that US evangelical christians would vote a president like Donald "grab by the p___y" Trump.
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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
@mattmay 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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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
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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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
@mattmay 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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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
@mattmay 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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If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke
@mattmay 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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