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phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 1h

Even as someone who’s only watched a tiny bit of One Piece, wut

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.

phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 3h

modern technology is a blessing and a curse (but a blessing this time)

phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 3h

that’s so cool

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phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 10h

phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 10h

Garth Tinder swipes right for another Bathurst opportunity #tweetsfrom2014

phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 10h

ASSPEE

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Jeffrey Stanton @jsracing61.bsky.social · 11h

Bathurst

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phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 11h

Bathurst

phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 14h

BAC doesn’t mean “batting average champion” in this case

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 14h

Hey @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I think you should know about this.

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phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 15h

near
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wherever you are

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15h

phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 18h

His son’s kidney*

phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 18h

The grim reaper to the Lostprophets guy:

a baseball player named mattingly is shaking hands with a referee .

ALT: a baseball player named mattingly is shaking hands with a referee .

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phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 18h

The Member Berries Indycar Series

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phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 19h

Oh there’s a lot of people that Mr or Ms Reaper should target

phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 19h

for the love of god Todd Ault why are you trying to bring him back to Indycar

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RJ O’Connell @rjoconnell.bsky.social · 20h

Thinking about the worst unlockable car in a racing game today

A lostprophets themed Nissan Skyline GT-R from NFS Underground

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phiI @philclark.bsky.social · 20h

Monkey D. Luffy******

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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 20h

Why did the court sketch artist draw Alex Palou in the style of the New Yorker mascot and Zak Brown in the style of a second-tier comic about a pet who gets up to antics