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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 55m

Let's circle back and take this offline on a future engagement.

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 1h

This man is a child

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.

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2d

Love paying $10 for yogurt and $20 for store brand coffee at the local grocery store. I'm doing my part to atone for Brazil punishing Jair Bolsonaro

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2d

Mr. Snrub is right! This is a masterpiece!

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2d

I've never watched it and this reference (followed by like 10 emphatic "no" answers) was when I first became aware of its existence

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2d

3-D Homer asking if anyone saw the movie Tron

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 4d

Aw fuck they got the Superfans?

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 4d

Oh fuck I hate that song

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 5d

All the boys are gonna be out doing the watusi at the local bookstore

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 5d

Ecstatic to not have any idea what song you are talking about. I thought you meant "if I were a carpenter" for a second, but that's a good song.

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 5d

Not a fan of Stevie Wonder's Part-Time Lover?

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 6d

Are those THC drinks any good? How about for someone who hasn't smoked weed in like 15 years?

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 6d

Oops, I pooped my pants

CNBC @cnbc.com · 6d

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 6d

Noah Smith increasingly just becoming Dr. Strangelove. Just a matter of time before he starts involuntarily sieg heiling

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 7d

The VC pitch

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 7d

Wasn't the original pitch that this would be a device unlike anything the world had ever seen?

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 7d

"It should be like Siri, but better"

Wow way to think outside the box, you geniuses

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 7d

$500+ order from the Costco today

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 8d

This seems to be the general self-assessment of stand up comics too

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 9d

And hes GIGANTIC

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 10d

"More Catholic than the pope" used to be a joke you'd say about these types. Now they believe it themselves

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 10d

Can we shut the fuck up about reporting on this dude every fucking goddamn day?

"Local prick says sensational thing" isn't news. I get that he gets clicks, but I don't need to see his ruddy face every fucking day in my feed.

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 10d

Every parent of a 7-17 year old in the world just got triggered by that headline

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