What does Peter Thiel mean when he says the USA is the last iteration of the Roman Empire?

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• urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He thinks that a single global technological authoritarian system will grow that he considers the antichrist. He considers the alternative to be some cataclysmic war that will wipe out humanity. He says he wants “a narrow path through them.”

  What he wants is a future of neofuedalist technocratic states because he believes that somehow if you have a few fascist kingdoms run by billionaire dictators, rather than a single one, that’s the optimal state.

  In practice it means that he wants the fall of global civilization, and he wants those multiple states run by billionaires simply because he’s not wealthy or powerful to control every other billionaire who also in his mind would have their own state, but he doesn’t want them controlling his slave-kingdom.

  He thinks that by carefully destroying anything democratic and rebuilding it with a combation of fascist dictatorship, something better will survive.

  So, he’s Caesar from fallout new Vegas, who wants the same thing, has an intelligence stat of 4, and is dumber than a mole rat.

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• Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  he means he’s a cult leader and the dumb gibberish he makes up is to convince his followers that they have some secret knowledge that gives them advantage above others

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• MantisToboggon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mean he’s a mark ass bitch.

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• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m torn between the actual answer and a shitpost one

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  • Stormy@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Give me the shitpost one

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    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      FIYA PON BABYLON

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• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hall was, at best, an idealist. Thiel is a greedy fn looting fascist with bunkers worldwide.

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• breezeblock@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He’s a fucking idiot who cares what he means

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• Catalyst7985@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yo mama

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  • zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yo’ mama!

    Yo’ daddy!

    Yo’ bald-headed granny!

    She’s ninety-nine, she thinks she’s fine, she’s goin’ out with Frankenstein!

    Go granny! Go, go, go granny!

    (You reminded me of that little ditty from elementary school a loong time ago. If only my brain could remember important things that way…)

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    • wangaBanga@feddit.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Jonesin for another verse!

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