Comedians Roast Peter Thiel Antichrist Obsession
With 10 days to go before Peter Thiel begins his four-part series of secret Antichrist lectures in San Francisco, things are not looking good for the tech billionaire’s apocalyptic escalation.
Yesterday, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder was ruthlessly mocked on the Joe Rogan podcast, the largest podcast in the world.
Rogan and comedian Tim Dillon roasted Thiel’s obsessions with mass surveillance and the Antichrist.
Rogan: What does he know about the Antichrist?
Dillon: I’m guessing: A LOT.
Rogan: If you told me there was a movie and there was a guy who played the Antichrist…I would say ‘oh, is that him?’
Rogan notes that the “optics” of Thiel giving an Antichrist lecture are terrible.
“One lecture on the Antichrist would be insane,” responded Dillon. “This guy’s doing a series…and nobody in his inner orbit went ‘Peter, how bout one lecture on the Antichrist…or no lectures?’”
Both also expressed horror at the rapidly expanding influence of Palantir, Thiel’s powerful surveillance company.
“The Palantir thing is very odd,” said Rogan.
“A lot of people feel that this is the precursor to a social credit score, a digital…police state and that it’s being done under the guise of security,” said Dillon.
This brutal takedown is particularly damaging for Thiel because it’s coming from his own side. Rogan has been exceedingly friendly to tech billionaires and far-right figures. Elon Musk famously smoked marijuana on his show in 2018.
When even Republican-aligned figures are openly mocking the spectacle of a surveillance billionaire moonlighting as a religious lecturer, it suggests Thiel has badly misjudged his audience.
The hypocrisy was impossible to ignore. Silicon Valley is rapidly moving toward exactly the sort of totalitarian-enabling technologies about which Thiel claims to be concerned.
Thiel, who has said “the slogan of the Antichrist is ‘peace and safety,’” co-founded a data mining and surveillance giant deeply embedded in government, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies. Garrett Langley, the CEO of surveillance tech company Flock Safety, recently told Forbes that his company can eliminate all crime in the USA.
Dillon took note of the irony.
“It's so strange... you build military AI, military drones, autonomous drone technology to export to war zones all over the world,” said Dillon. “You build domestic surveillance technology to surveil our friends and neighbors. And then your other pet passion is the Antichrist.”
For a figure who has spent years cultivating influence across right-wing media and politics, getting roasted by allies represents a serious miscalculation. As Dillon put it, nobody in Thiel’s inner circle had the sense to say ‘how bout no lectures?’
Click below to watch the segment on tech power, surveillance, Peter Thiel, and the Antichrist:
Dillon and Rogan also expressed concern about Network State projects like Praxis, echoing Dillon’s previous criticism of such projects and suggesting a growing wariness of bizarre tech politics.
Stay Tuned: Next week, the Nerd Reich podcast will illuminate Thiel’s Antichrist obsession.
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