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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 2m

Thiel has been carrying on about the antichrist and overthrowing the constitutional order for a while now

In any other context you’d back away slowly and suggest therapy, but instead he gets fawning nod-alongs from Ross Douthat

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 6m

Peter Thiel, even more than Elon Musk, personifies the modern billionaire class

He is totally fatuous, no more insightful than a 17-year-old who is too into Nietzsche, but gets carried aloft entirely due to his vast wealth

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23h

The president of Columbia University behind “if you protest Nazism we will expel you” had won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · Apr 29

sometimes history really does just serve up a perfect example on a silver platter

go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=G...

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 3h

Had to check a few times that this is real, and you guys wow Joe Biden had access to a time machine

Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post
@realDonaldTrump • October 12, 2025
12:38 AM

THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies.
What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 13h

During the Constitutional convention debates, since many of the framers essentially were trying to recapitulate the one system they knew, John Adams proposed that the office of senator should be for life and hereditary

maybe if they’d done that, by now our senate would be vestigial

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 13h

It’s what the senate itself (or House of Lords) is for in most other liberal democracies

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 19h

Barron really looks like the villain in a 1980s British public school drama

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21h

Let’s Go Brandon Token 📈

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 22h

Kavanaugh’s take is certainly illuminating (derogatory)

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23h

I’m kinda perplexed at the notion that a scrum play isn’t true football

Also perplexed at the notion that it’s somehow unfair, when any team is allowed to do it

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23h

Kavanaugh was the only conservative dumdum among the Six Horsemen who even bothered explaining his awful views and for that he is the one being pilloried

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23h

Sort of tragicomic that Brett Kavanaugh is getting (deservedly) skewered for his concurring opinion in the Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo shadow docket order, when the SCOTUS majority stayed the trial court’s 4th Amendment order with *no opinion at all*

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23h

She stood with Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders and called for a “Reconquista”

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23h

The president of Columbia University behind “if you protest Nazism we will expel you” had won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize

bsky.app/profile/saba...

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · Apr 29

sometimes history really does just serve up a perfect example on a silver platter

go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=G...

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23h

Eh. Could imagine Deloitte running a consumer survey and a bunch of respondents lazily responding to “farm-grown,” and PepsiCo is now trying to use the stat to promote their new “yup, we’re just good ol’ down on the farm fresh“ branding

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23h

Hard not to see some whiffs of PepsiCo trying to appease/mollify RFK Jr. and the cohorts of right-wing wellness bros, particularly on the note that they’re switching from seed oils to olive and avocado oils on some of their product lines

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23h

Idk doesn’t really pass the smell test

The stat comes from PepsiCo’s own press page, probably came from some market research as part of their rebrand project. The specific wording is 42% don’t realize they’re “made with real, farm-grown potatoes”

www.pepsico.com/our-stories/...

From potato to chip: The next chapter of Lay’s

Lay’s – The #1 Potato Chip brand in the World(1) revamps its look and its recipes to celebrate its heritage while paving the way for the next 100 years.

www.pepsico.com

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

I think the image moderation tags are automated and the service they use is, shall we say, imperfect

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

Mistakes were made

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

The Jacobins, uh, very arguably good guys?

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

Not only that, I hear there’s a big baseball game

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

They’re basically deformed tiny shrimps

A diagram of anatomy of a barnacle, showing a section along the anterior-posterior midline, and showing how the internal anatomy is clearly crustacean (legs, antennae, etc.)

A diagram showing the lifecycle of barnacles. The juvenile stages are recognizably crustacean, akin to little shrimp

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

The discovery in the early 19th century that barnacles are crustaceans (crab / lobster / shrimp relatives) and not molluscs (mussel / clam relatives) was a significant driver toward systemization of zoology and thinking about adaptation & heritable descent

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

Satire is dead

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 18d

Douthat: so, w– would you say that in your mind, the government is literally the Satan of the New Testament

Thiel: I mean…I would. Yes. I would.

Douthat: What makes you sure it‘s, y’know, Satan?

Thiel: the Food & Drug Administration‘s safe & effective standard for new drug applications

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

time for the auld rounders match. are we liking the batsmen this Michaelmas?

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