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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 108 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Epstein was probably providing Blood Boys for Theil's age extension experiments. He believe the blood of young men can keep him young. Not kidding, these Sociopathic Oligarchs are serious weirdos.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

It was absolutely mind-boggling to me when I found out that Gavin's blood boy on Silicon Valley wasn't fictionalized or some industry in-joke I wasn't aware of. Like all the crazy out-of-touch billionaire shit he does, and they literally just had to change the person's name to make a comedy show about it.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Peter Thiel is IMO the most monstrous human to ever gain power because of how explicitly his interests are to attain godhood. He’s literally anime evil, his ambitions are not dissimilar from the antagonist(s) of FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

This dude watched Altered Carbon and thought the Methuselahs were the good guys.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's not alone, there are a lot of them. Eventually they'll start reaching Trillionaire status, and some of them will form an alliance, and challenge entire countries. They will be able to afford their own armies, conquer territory, and found their own nation, with whatever laws they want.

This is why we can't have Billionaires. This is an easily predictable future. Do we really have to wait until it happens, and then say "Why didn't somebody do something to stop them when we had the chance?"

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 15 hours ago

Do we really have to wait until it happens

Apparently

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Challenge countries? LMAO, no. Maybe one of them, some particularly daft cunt, might delude himself into saying or doing some shit that attracts the attention of some state actor, and then either "kill himself" or just "pass away".

Serious state actors can point a districts worth of people into the sole interest of murder. Most of these people don't even know what they're doing or why. Just entire machinery solely for killing one dude, and this dude doesn't even have a nuke or two to launch if things go sideways? Training exercise. More likely it's going to be their own government.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There are already Sociopathic Oligarchs whose fortunes dwarf the GDP of many small countries. You are assuming they'll be challenging superpowers, but they don't need to do that.

All they have to do is conquer a small nation, probably an island, that NOBODY is going to defend beyond a chewing out, and they've been chewed out before.

So then they control a place like Madagascar, or Papua New Guinea, or whatever, and it's doubtful that the rest of the world will go against them, especially when all the Oligarchs in those countries warn their bought and paid for politicians to stay. Besides, a consortium of Trillionaires can buy off any country that objects.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 50 minutes ago

Why bother attacking an island when you can buy off a whole legislator in an actual superpower? They’ve been doing it state by state in the US, and they’re about to do the same to the whole country (this test run is largely working, obviously).

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

They won't leave us alone! They won't let go of the reins, they refuse to die and are trying to find ways to greatly extend their lives so they can continue to terrorize the world forever. Make it stop!!!

It doesn't seem to be working for him. In fact it seems to be making him more of an aging demon.