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Yeah that's what I thought as well. Because even if he hates Greta Thunberg, there are much more extreme people in all the direction. So saying something so abs

Yeah that's what I thought as well. Because even if he hates Greta Thunberg, there are much more extreme people in all the direction. So saying something so absurd seems bizarre. And for sure if anyone is to be tagged Antichrist, it would be war machine profiteer for most people. Tbh it's kind of a genius move when countless comments like GP tags the antichrist as just slightly malicious or weird comment by him.

ifwinterco 8mo ago
Yep it's clever. He's many things but he's not stupid
- Betelbuddy 8mo ago
  No. He is stupid... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4ZjhdkOf0_E https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4ZjhdkOf0_E https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-BQhXdCs8Y https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-BQhXdCs8Y https://www.tiktok.com/@eddiethemediatrainer/video/7521152372928810296 https://www.tiktok.com/@eddiethemediatrainer/video/752115237...
  - ratrace 8mo ago
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    - secos 8mo ago
      He didn't say anything close to "Shooting people in the street is wrong!" How did you get that from the linked videos?
      - ratrace 8mo ago
        The first video says that Thiel is answering the question "What do you make of people celebrating Luigi?" and his response was "There may be things wrong with our healthcare system, but you have to have an argument and find a way to convince people" and that shooting random CEOs "isn't going to work". Somehow I'm supposed to be led to believe this makes Thiel come across as stupid. My only guess as to how is because the OP must think that shooting CEOs in the street is an obvious rational good and that opposing such is idiocy, or reactionary fascism (in leftist usage, a synonym for idiocy), or so on.
    - belter 8mo ago
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        dang 8mo ago
        We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines and for using HN primarily for political and ideological battle, which is not allowed here regardless of what you're battling for or against. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        dang 8mo ago
        We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines and for using HN primarily for political and ideological battle, which is not allowed here regardless of what you're battling for or against. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        belter 8mo ago
        No. You were told to ban this 5 year old account, with a karma above 60,000 because it criticized Peter Thiel. It is easy to see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=belter https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=belter the submission track of the account, to see you are being untruthful. The same way you are untruthful, about not disclosing to the community the silently throttling back many of many accounts, not allowing them to post or even reply to comments in a middle of what you decided is acceptable discourse. All the while, at the same time you have here: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders Accounts associated with VCs, that do 10 to 20 submissions a day. You also have been allowing accounts that systematically down vote tech related posts or comments, who are not sympathetic to the current administration. Is that also engaging in political discourse? And worst you are untruthful, to the community, in not disclosing the main page is manually curated. You actually move posts post with 400 comments within minutes to the 20th or 40th page, if they are somewhat uncomfortable. While pushing to the main page every single submission from OpenAI or Anthropic even if they have 2-3 comments. Compared to a few years ago, you let the HN main page, transform itself into 90% submissions on Agentic AI. It might serve the 600 billion critical investment of your pay masters, but transformed something where a few years ago, you had posts from Philosophy, Physics, Math, Literature, etc... to nothing more than a marketing poster to the AI VC bros. Understand that the vast majority outside Silicon Valley, does NOT care about AI, GenAI , AI code generators. They are Hackers...not VCs
- Schmerika 8mo ago
  People can be profoundly stupid in areas like basic/fundamental morality, while also being in the top 0.001% in areas like manipulating media and making money. Examples: Every billionaire. Every single one - except Chuck Feeney who proved the rule.
  - ifwinterco 8mo ago
    I'd argue that's not really stupidity, it's more of a moral and spiritual failing. IMO those are really two separate axes, you can be very smart and also completely evil or quite dumb but a genuinely good person
    - Schmerika 8mo ago
      It's not very smart to fail morally and spiritually, over and over, without ever looking into why or trying to correct the issues. It does take intelligence of a particular kind to examine yourself and what makes you happy, fulfilled. And it takes a certain kind of stupidity to become greedy for more and more and more, neverending. I don't believe that intelligence is a single axis. You can even have different levels of intelligence on different days for the exact same topic; even on the same day from one hour to the next. Some people might be great at set theory but terrible at calculus; some people might be great with their hands at sewing but clumsy with glasswork. People are weird and complex. But what's clear is when people don't even try to be good people. And that requires a particularly dense form of stupidity.
      - ifwinterco 8mo ago
        True yes, I do get what you're saying
      - YetAnotherNick 8mo ago
        Umm, I am not sure. If you can type on HN you are probably much richer than most in 3rd world countries and you for sure can give majority of your wealth to them. Almost everyone of any richness thinks they are not rich enough although almost everyone in tech probably is.
- red-iron-pine 8mo ago
  > He's many things but he's not stupid evil, sun of satan, bringer of the end of times

ifwinterco 8mo ago

Yep it's clever. He's many things but he's not stupid

Betelbuddy 8mo ago
No. He is stupid... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4ZjhdkOf0_E https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4ZjhdkOf0_E https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-BQhXdCs8Y https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-BQhXdCs8Y https://www.tiktok.com/@eddiethemediatrainer/video/7521152372928810296 https://www.tiktok.com/@eddiethemediatrainer/video/752115237...
- ratrace 8mo ago
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  - secos 8mo ago
    He didn't say anything close to "Shooting people in the street is wrong!" How did you get that from the linked videos?
    - ratrace 8mo ago
      The first video says that Thiel is answering the question "What do you make of people celebrating Luigi?" and his response was "There may be things wrong with our healthcare system, but you have to have an argument and find a way to convince people" and that shooting random CEOs "isn't going to work". Somehow I'm supposed to be led to believe this makes Thiel come across as stupid. My only guess as to how is because the OP must think that shooting CEOs in the street is an obvious rational good and that opposing such is idiocy, or reactionary fascism (in leftist usage, a synonym for idiocy), or so on.
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        dang 8mo ago
        We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines and for using HN primarily for political and ideological battle, which is not allowed here regardless of what you're battling for or against. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        dang 8mo ago
        We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines and for using HN primarily for political and ideological battle, which is not allowed here regardless of what you're battling for or against. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        belter 8mo ago
        No. You were told to ban this 5 year old account, with a karma above 60,000 because it criticized Peter Thiel. It is easy to see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=belter https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=belter the submission track of the account, to see you are being untruthful. The same way you are untruthful, about not disclosing to the community the silently throttling back many of many accounts, not allowing them to post or even reply to comments in a middle of what you decided is acceptable discourse. All the while, at the same time you have here: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders Accounts associated with VCs, that do 10 to 20 submissions a day. You also have been allowing accounts that systematically down vote tech related posts or comments, who are not sympathetic to the current administration. Is that also engaging in political discourse? And worst you are untruthful, to the community, in not disclosing the main page is manually curated. You actually move posts post with 400 comments within minutes to the 20th or 40th page, if they are somewhat uncomfortable. While pushing to the main page every single submission from OpenAI or Anthropic even if they have 2-3 comments. Compared to a few years ago, you let the HN main page, transform itself into 90% submissions on Agentic AI. It might serve the 600 billion critical investment of your pay masters, but transformed something where a few years ago, you had posts from Philosophy, Physics, Math, Literature, etc... to nothing more than a marketing poster to the AI VC bros. Understand that the vast majority outside Silicon Valley, does NOT care about AI, GenAI , AI code generators. They are Hackers...not VCs
Schmerika 8mo ago
People can be profoundly stupid in areas like basic/fundamental morality, while also being in the top 0.001% in areas like manipulating media and making money. Examples: Every billionaire. Every single one - except Chuck Feeney who proved the rule.
- ifwinterco 8mo ago
  I'd argue that's not really stupidity, it's more of a moral and spiritual failing. IMO those are really two separate axes, you can be very smart and also completely evil or quite dumb but a genuinely good person
  - Schmerika 8mo ago
    It's not very smart to fail morally and spiritually, over and over, without ever looking into why or trying to correct the issues. It does take intelligence of a particular kind to examine yourself and what makes you happy, fulfilled. And it takes a certain kind of stupidity to become greedy for more and more and more, neverending. I don't believe that intelligence is a single axis. You can even have different levels of intelligence on different days for the exact same topic; even on the same day from one hour to the next. Some people might be great at set theory but terrible at calculus; some people might be great with their hands at sewing but clumsy with glasswork. People are weird and complex. But what's clear is when people don't even try to be good people. And that requires a particularly dense form of stupidity.
    - ifwinterco 8mo ago
      True yes, I do get what you're saying
    - YetAnotherNick 8mo ago
      Umm, I am not sure. If you can type on HN you are probably much richer than most in 3rd world countries and you for sure can give majority of your wealth to them. Almost everyone of any richness thinks they are not rich enough although almost everyone in tech probably is.
red-iron-pine 8mo ago
> He's many things but he's not stupid evil, sun of satan, bringer of the end of times