Thiel is on the spectrum, and was bullied for it. But because he was privileged, it couldn't have been his fault, all the peasants are just stupid. Tolkien was his escape.

Hitler was treated like a prince by his mother, and lost his mind when he was rejected from art school. By the Jews, of course... The Jew part was sarcasm...

Himmler was a D&D nerd who tried to create his own Viking Religion, beheaded subjects to cast a spell where the heads were supposed to speak prophecy, spent a ton of Deutschmarks looking for The Holy Grail, Mjolnir, Gungnir, etc. Magical thinking. Delusional.

Musk pays people to make him look like a "L33t G@m3r" to impress edgelord teenage boys.

Trump wants a military parade to try to impress Putin, Xi, Kim, etc., because he thinks they're badass, and wants them to think he is.

All of this is narcissism. Which is a psychological defense mechanism against a massive inferiority complex developed in early childhood, due to neglect, abuse, or both.

These people have the emotional maturity of pre-pubescent children. And always will, Which makes them very dangerous, due to having virtually unlimited wealth.

Imagine a child under 10 years old with the wealth and authority to do anything they wanted to you. That's what we're dealing with.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And putin was a nobody who started as a useless agent in then soviet part of Germany, then carried a bag after a city's major and only then, with connections, he was put in power by oligarchs with none of them believing he'd be anything but a doll, until his goblin ego led him to rob, poison or throw out everyone he disliked.

[+] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Your Russophobia leads you to write BS.
He's a successful self-made man, from zero to hero.
He stopped the leeching of the west after Gorbachov and the sell out Yeltsin that put the Russians in misery.
I don't agree with him on many points but he put Russia back on the map and stopped the eternal bullying of the US imperiast regime.
You can cry about that all you want.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's what I drink rn: https://files.catbox.moe/gw54yf.jpg

You can look up exif data and search for the same picture to find exactly none.

I have a pass since I lived there for all of his presidencies unlike you. Sorry if I assume incorrectly, but I feel like you hate your own gvmnt, but at the same time ready to deny me the same right. People downvoted you because my opinion is popular in this /c/, right, and I downvote you because I'm fucking tired that you and the likes deny local voices, of people whose life got progressively worse, not because of geopolitical struggles between different civilizations\ideologies, but because of fucking greed and powerplay of these fuckung functioneers. You'd not like it there. And as a patriot I hate him and try my best to make at least my small circle of people live better.

Even those, who are pro-Putin and pro-war struggle to wrap their mind around the level of idiocy and madness that happens in our society, and it only grows. In, like, just material dimension, this bottle could've been priced at 200-250 roubles twenty years ago, and now it's a bit over 700, while our wages haven't grown as quick or at all. The same with a street safety since many faced PTSDed drunk soldiers like in the Afghan\Chechen times, neo-nazis having their time with everyone asian-looking like me and general thievery\extortion since many people are beyond the poverty line and get desperate. I've already fought with a couple of these dipshits myself as a guy with some experience, and that's wrong to project my experience onto nation, okay. But I feel like there is a person who should've made all these problems if not non-existent, but at least bearable, and all he fucking does is hallucinating about overtaking the world and calling Trumpie for a chat. Thanks for fucking nothing, fuckass.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I don't like Putin as I said, he's to right wing. But where would your country be if he let NATO and US imperialist warcriminals and their proxy ukronazis ethnic cleanse the Russian part of ex-ukraine and move further east?
And then have nukes placed there?
They are always pushing. Really, think of your safety first and then local politics.
Or come back when you're not drunk.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The whole premise of NATO extension is fake. Why are you parroting that point, what's up with that even? At most, it's defensive equipment, and I don't see how it hurts us, but as a political bargaining chip, I could've demanded something in return for denying our attacking capabilities. I guess, it isn't even counted, that USSR and then Russia made the same perimeter at it's border.

Russian nazis, as fringe as ukrainian ones, are more of a problem to me, especially because at one point they'd become the priveleged class (as promised by the Pres himself) and I'd be sent to prison for deleting their noses and kneecaps. I've kicked one nose in, and they let it slide in the latter 2010x because the guy carried a fucking swastika. But now they are well-enabled, because nazism is the fundamental brick to the current regime.

As a leftie, I feel myself very uncomfortable, because everything from queer issues to any sort of activism puts a darts circle on your back.

You can't even spell such things, or someone would snitch on you and ruin your life. That's the future you'd like?

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

Why are you parroting the western nazi BS?
Russia has some nazis like unfortunately any country.
Nazism and its symols areforbidden. Unlike ukraine where WW2 SS scum are celebrated and proud of it, openly have multiple fascist batallions in what's left of their army.
How weird are you that you have a problem with nazis and then defend a nazi country wanting to genocide your people.
And I'll tell you who was a Russian nazi, that dead POS Navalny.
Not surprisingly whitewashed and portrayed as a hero in the western propaganda press.
If you truly are 'a leftie' -which I don't believe bcs you're lying- you wouldn't support western imperialism.
Eastern Europe, especially in ex-ukraine it would be worse for you.
Those nazis even attack womens rights marches.
Your arguments are textbook paid troll stuff.
Same as 'let PiSSrael genocide Palestinians bcs they don't like the gays'.
So bye.
Go live somewhere else the.
I know the nazis from Russia love to fight for their friends in ex-ukraine in the Russian Volunteer Corps led by Nikitin.
I wonder why they choose that soooo democratic western values country when RuZZia is such a nazi country right?
Really give it up, not interested in your weak disinfo.
Western social media is full of that garbage. Try somewhere else.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Would you explain why? I'm not familiar with any reference.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It’s basically a crystal ball from tolkiens works- they can be used to communicate or show different times/places, but they’re not really reliable. (Edit: they’re also specifically vulnerable to being manipulated and used to selectively show misleading but true things if they fall into the hands of very powerful wizards, and Sauron’s use of them has been broadly compared to wartime propaganda, which is actually especially relevant for the type of data mining they do.)

The unreliability is a reason not to name your company after them, but I don’t know if people would be as surprised by the names “crystal ball“ or “scrying pool” or other unreliable magical methods of seeing things.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank you!

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Of course! It did also just occur to me that they’re also specifically vulnerable to being manipulated and used to selectively show misleading but true things if they fall into the hands of very powerful wizards, and Sauron’s use of them has been broadly compared to wartime propaganda, which is actually especially relevant for the type of data mining palantir does.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Really living up to the name.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's like Palantir is actively trying to top the tech company bad karma leaderboard.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 16 points 5 days ago

I mean, they named themselves Evil Corp

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

THIEL is obsessed with spying thats why he named after the scrying sphere in lotr.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I dislike the guy, but he's just obsessed with Tolkien in general. He's had multiple companies named after his works. Including Mithril, Rivendell, Lembas and Arda.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

anduril, dont forget that one, i think that one was drone tech. just like conservatives, he co-opts perverts the meaning of words.

[–] detun3d@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago

Would you kindly fuck that shit up?

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Peter is autistic, openly, and considers it one of his strengths…

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I'm just going to leave this completely unrelated article here.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/tech-mogul-peter-thiel-says-silicon-valley-revoked-work-from-home-policy-after-discovering-employees-werent-working/articleshow/116734734.cms

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Does this have anything to do with the telepathy tapes?

Or iz my tin foil hat on too tight?