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The guests:

[Dick Gay], who had flown in for the event from Los Angeles and said he was one of the investors of Sperm Racing (which is an actual thing wherein men compete to see whose sperm is “fastest” under a microscope), said he attended the University of Austin, or UATX, an “anti-woke” college reportedly partially funded by Thiel, and built his career around the principles outlined in Thiel’s book “Zero to One.”

Attendee Justin Park said he just wanted to pitch Thiel on putting a 7.5-foot cross on the moon.

[Unnamed], who was in his 30s, said he wasn’t a Thiel fan until last year, when he became a Trump supporter after seeing the president survive an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I misunderstood [Thiel],” he said. “I used to watch CNN and think he’s a Nazi.” Now, he said, he understands the billionaire is talking about something bigger.

The Speech:

Apparently it was both repetitive and mostly a rehash of what he's said in other media.

Yud is the Antichrist confirmed:

One attendee recalled that Thiel’s discussion of the Antichrist was more about a scenario than an individual. Thiel’s Antichrist scenario is one in which a unified government suppresses technology to impose order, or armageddon, wherein AI takes over and ushers in the end of the world.

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[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 1 points 22 minutes ago

Sperm racing.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 18 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I used to think Peter Thiel was a Nazi too.

I mean, I still think he is, but I also used to.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 11 points 5 hours ago

Looking toward to the day when we don't think about these fucks at all.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 5 hours ago

"I used to think he was a Nazi because of his actions, but then someone tried to kill the Nazi, so I support Nazis now."

-Biggus Brainus

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 8 points 5 hours ago

one of the investors of Sperm Racing

Nominative determinism gone wild

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 5 hours ago

I feel like I'm having a stroke

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Do you think he was crazy before the obscene wealth, or did the money drive him mad?