Peter Thiel comes to Paris to speak about the Antichrist

South Park comes my mind

Rich assholes just love talking about themselves…

Oh good luck trying to evangelize the most secular continent on Earth to try and get us back to the Dark Ages that very same religion imposed on us.

Is he talking about himself?

He might as well invite Kenneth Copeland to say a couple of words on the Antichrist himself.

He’s got such an ego, he went there to talk about himself the whole time.

We could do the funniest thing..

I knew he was a narcissist, but traveling all the way to Paris to talk about yourself seems excessive.

We can “thank” this guy for JD Vance. It was Peter Thiel who launched Vance’s political career. If Vance wins in 2028, a Euro-American split seems almost inevitable. Europe might be able to wait Trump out, but 8 years of someone like JD would be too much for even the most Atlanticist European politicians.

Does that make him a Televangelist??? We need to set him up a tent for the true American experience!

Now wondering if this closed doors meeting can remain behind closed doors for an indefinite amount of time.

And moved to the cellar, for good measure.

And I’d be given the keys, can’t be too sure.

So basically Thiel thinks anyone that tries to stop AI from taking over is the Anti-Christ.

Are there any sane billionaires? It seems that money (especially so many) makes you go nuts. Probably all the people around them try to please them, just like the story with the emperor’s clothes

The world is ruled by insane people.

This dude needs to be persona non grata everywhere, he’s a literal cartoonishly evil billionaire who doesn’t even have the grades to hide it.

Please throw him out before he can open his foul mouth.

Aaalright so, we do have a death cult of antidemocratic billionaires going around. Ain’t that fucking great.

As if he is any authority on democracy lmao.

Fuck this guy and his weird Antichrist hobby

NotTheOnion

This guy sick in the head.

Oh bestow upon us your great wisdom, wealthy lunatic sage.

Did the antichrist throw his boyfriend from a balcony in Miami?

How’s that investigation going, Pete?

Someone could do something really amazing in Paris

**The libertarian tech billionaire was to speak at the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on Monday.**

By Raphaëlle Bacqué

Published today at 11:48 am (Paris) 

Peter Thiel’s visit to the Institute of France, a learned society in the heart of Paris, was kept secret until the very last moment. There, behind closed doors, he was due to speak at a meeting of members of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, a working group intended to discuss “the future of democracy.” The group, chaired by former minister Hervé Gaymard, has previously interviewed 25 figures, all French, mainly legal scholars, political scientists and historians.

Even Xavier Darcos, chancellor of the Institute of France, who oversees all five of its academies, was only informed of Thiel’s invitation at the last minute. The invitation has caused a stir within the institution, not only because Thiel, the American billionaire who co-founded the online payment system PayPal and Palantir Technologies, a data analytics giant that works for many governments, is one of the biggest investors in the American tech sector. Rather, it is Thiel’s political ideas, which openly contest democracy, that make his presence at the academy event decidedly provocative.

According to an outline of his speech sent to the academy, of which *Le Monde* obtained a copy in French, Thiel intended to introduce himself as “a moderate Orthodox Christian and a humble classical liberal, with one seemingly minor deviation from classical liberal orthodoxy: I worry about the Antichrist.”

This self-portrait is both startling and conspicuously modest. With his piercing blue eyes, prominent jaw, measured voice and provocative rhetoric, Thiel is far more radical and influential in American circles, notably those now in power, than he cares to admit. He was the first major tech figure to support Donald Trump in 2016, long before the heads of Amazon, Google, Meta, or Apple flocked to the president’s side when he returned to the White House, appearing at his second inauguration on January 20, 2025. Thiel, who was also a mentor to the current vice president, JD Vance, is certainly no “humble classical liberal.” Rather, he is a dyed-in-the-wool libertarian. The ideology, popular in the United States but largely unknown in France, prioritizes individual freedom above all else, promotes deregulated capitalism, and advocates for the state to have only a minimal, even nonexistent, role.

Thiel’s invitation to the academy comes at the initiative of philosopher Chantal Delsol, who declined to answer *Le Monde*’s questions. A learned specialist in the history of political ideas, she has never hidden her support for unity between the right and the far right. Indeed, she played a significant role in persuading her husband, Charles Millon, to accept re-election as president of the Rhône-Alpes region in 1998 with votes from Jean-Marie Le Pen’s far right, breaking what was a taboo in French politics. Nor does she hide her uncompromising, personalist interpretation of the Catholic faith, opposed to all forms of progressivism. It was in the name of this vision of Catholicism that, in the winter of 2024, she notably opposed businessman Bernard Arnault’s election to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, objecting both on the basis of the sources of his wealth, notably his acquisition of Boussac with state assistance in the 1980s, and his lack of published intellectual works.

Promoting his autobiography?