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Thiel is weird, like being willing to admit in an interview that he regularly gets blood transfusions from healthy young people in order to prolong his life back in 2016 or 17, or hesitating when on a podcast and asked if he believed in humanity surviving into the future... but he's generally not completely fucking bonkers. He's one of the most successful Silicon Valley investors. Remember that he basically made JD Vance, Planatir is getting deeply entrenched in multiple countries' intelligence agencies and law enforcement groups, he has a ridiculous amount of connections to everyone involved with Project 2025, some connections to the current AI bubble, and at least some connection to getting Trump into office in the first place. He is probably the closest thing we have to a real life supervillian, as trite as saying that is.
This is an absurd statement, but he's saying it for a reason. He's trying to make something happen with this. He's trying to push things in a certain direction. Don't just laugh at the absurdity or make some cheap laugh statement about delusional Christians and turn your brain off.
Seems like he's trying to make regulations for AI not happen so Palantir can be a creepier orb of intelligence.
Hes like if Elon Musk wasn’t a fucking moron.