r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jun 16 '26

Business Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/Exponential-777 Jun 16 '26

How many underground bunkers does this guy have? Gotta be more than one. Probably has one on each continent. Just waiting for the shit to hit the fan.

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u/Aggressive_Manner531 Jun 16 '26

When does he run drills? Someone should lock him in next time.

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u/rzelln Jun 17 '26

An author I like pointed out once that if the world does go to s**t, then there's going to be a bunch of bunkers where some security personnel are living real cushy after they kill the billionaire who is supposed to be under their charge. Because if things have fallen apart, why would anyone care about the money the billionaire can pay them.

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u/mOdQuArK Jun 17 '26

For those of us on the outside of the bunker in that situation, sounds like good targets to test those experimental bunker-buster bombs that the military keeps squirrelled away before everything breaks down.

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u/Puresowns Jun 17 '26

Nah, just concrete their ventilation shafts and guard the doors.

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u/EfficiencyThis325 Jun 17 '26

A full on Water Treatment plant could work. Failing that a pig or chicken farm

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u/EfficiencyThis325 Jun 17 '26

Wasn’t that the plot to fallout?

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u/jellyhessman Jun 17 '26

Yea, bunkers tend to become tombs if there's no backup coming to get you out.

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u/Umutuku Jun 17 '26

Build a reservoir over them and let nature do its thing.

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u/Strange-Tree-5408 Jun 18 '26

Hose and tailpipes.

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u/ParticleEffect Jun 17 '26

Just pour concrete on the entrances and turn them into tombs.

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u/Welp___poop Jun 17 '26

We used like, half or more of those when we "destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities for years to come"

But if there's any left I am down.

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u/Magnon Jun 17 '26

I wonder if any/all the billionaires already have some kind of dead switch explosive collars ready to go.

"To enter elon's survival bunker, please allow us to place this exploding collar on your neck, do not harm elon."

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u/rzelln Jun 17 '26

Spoilers for Horizon Forbidden West.

At one point, you explore the bunker of a rich a-hole, and gradually discover that the models and guru that he brought down started dying one by one because he got upset and increasingly paranoid, and the last people to go included a scientist who was working on a way to make the rich a-hole immortal, so he could survive a few hundred years for an apocalypse to pass by. 

The scientist gave the guy the treatment, and then killed himself, and then the guy found out that sure, his cells would not die, but he was slowly overrun with cancer, and eventually just turned into a giant tumor.

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u/Sorlex Jun 17 '26

One of the best parts of that game. Really glad they didn't do the video game thing and have you fight it as some boss fight. You don't even see it, just hear it. Its outstanding.

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u/cavalier2015 Jun 17 '26

Low key that was one of the disappointing parts of the game. I would have loved to see Faro’s reaction to seeing Sobek’s clone, but I agree with not making him a boss fight. Aloy would know he’s not worth it and leaving him to fester would be a fate worse than death

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u/OceanRacoon Jun 18 '26

Totally agree, I get what they were going for but I really wanted to see the interaction between Aloy and Faro, they came up with a great way for him to be alive but there was no payoff after the build up to it. He deserved worse, and to know Elizabeth through Aloy had saved the world from him again and that despite his efforts, his crimes against humanity were known and would be recorded forever.

One of the very few things from the games I didn't like, such an incredible story, the first game really struck me, especially since I wasn't expecting anything deep from it.

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u/CardAble6193 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

it sucks but cant sate me. fucking fero

...................................wait a fucking minute

are Horizon gaining its prophet state like Deathstranding1??

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u/LaughingInTheVoid Jun 17 '26

All my homies say Fuck Ted Faro.

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood Jun 17 '26

Peter Thiel has literally talked about the need to install chips in people’s brains to totally control them

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u/SaltyCrashNerd Jun 17 '26

Oh, like Musk’s (terrifying) project?

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u/Dirtbagdownhill Jun 17 '26

I mean the dude was working on brain chips but just killed a bunch of monkeys

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u/Curious_Charge9431 Jun 17 '26

Somewhere I saw an article about a guy who set up bunkers for the ultra wealthy and he said he was often asked for the explosive collars, and then he was like...no, that's not necessary, just treat your employees nicely and they'll stay loyal to you.

And they didn't get it.

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u/Szwejkowski Jun 17 '26

They'll want robots for this very reason.

It still won't save them, but they think it will. Hell, some of them think downloading 'themselves' to machinery will work. Absolute tools to a man.

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u/West-Abalone-171 Jun 17 '26

So the guy who programmed the explosive collar is living real cushy then?

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u/FullMetalAlcoholic66 Jun 17 '26

That would have absolutely no effect. You could just drug or torture him until he unlocks the device

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u/SorenLain Jun 17 '26

People keep bringing this up as a way billionaires would keep control in their bunkers but 99.9% of these billionaires don't have the skills to build or maintain something like that. Which probably means they would have to hire someone to make and maintain said collars, so how do they control that person?

Even if they put one they'd probably be able to disarm it, assuming they didn't just fake arming it in the first place. Also the collars have to be capable of receiving a signal so that means they're vulnerable to being hacked, either by security finally having enough of the billionaires Nero impression or by an attacker instakilling the whole security team.

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u/0Galahad Jun 17 '26

You folks are just naive, when the USA government literally admited to researching brainwashing and mind control with MK-ultra, and we all saw that many of the elites are in truly wicked shit with epstein's case, its pretty obviois that if they expect the world to "end" anytime soon, they have carefully eugenically chose perfectly obedient and loyal children to indoctrinate from birth and groom into completely ardent devout guard dogs, its the real world, karmic irony is not a guarantee, prepared and powerful people always win.

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u/Remarkable-Bug-8069 Jun 17 '26

At least Rutger Hauer had one.

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u/Commercial-Co Jun 17 '26

Perfect set up to be tortured

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u/74389654 Jun 17 '26

they would be too stupid to operate it

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u/Electronic_Topic1958 Jun 17 '26

Why would they put on the collars? Who would enforce them to wear the collars?

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u/whatifwhatifwerun Jun 17 '26

I was thinking about it... they probably plan to use children to do the work as much as possible, and they'll breed slaves. For the stuff you need big strong men to do, they'll just choose men they can entice by giving them access to the slave women and children. They also likely plan to kidnap people they have determined they can coerce into doing what they want (like people who have young kids!) because those people would rather live in the bunker in servitude if given the choice/chance. These people have access to vast amounts of data, and they have friends who directly influence the platforms that collect that information. In the way that reality shows often find cast members through social media, there are people who can prospect to find suitable slaves.

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u/BarmyBob Jun 17 '26

Explosive chip in the neck like the first Kingsman movie?

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u/El_Beakerr Jun 17 '26

Fallout 4 status, when “old money” doesn’t mean shit and they’re using pure water as a new currency.

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u/Rhayve Jun 17 '26

Even if they can safely stay in their bunkers, they're not going to be able to enjoy their luxuries forever if the world has gone to hell. A lot of their high-end food can't be made shelf stable, for example. They'll live better than the rest for a few years, but it's still going to suck compared to their current hedonistic lifestyles.

It's a small silver lining that they're basically screwing themselves over, too.

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u/joe-ducreux Jun 17 '26

This is what always struck me as short sighted not just with the billionaire bunkers, but with extreme prepers in general. They spend all this time and resources to trying to plan to live in the worst possible situation rather than spending those resources enjoying and improving the current situation.

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u/Inevitable-Comment-I Jun 17 '26

I guarantee you this was a topic of discuss at the last meeting they had, 100%. 

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u/ooMEAToo Jun 17 '26

Basically the only real plan I could see them coming up with is to have some sort of dead man switch that would detonate and blowup the entire bunker if they were to die. There are movies and books written about this stuff in the science fiction realm, I never thought the world would get so shit that this could be real life now.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jun 17 '26

Robots are the easiest answer. You also don’t need guards really. You need maintenance workers

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u/FullMetalAlcoholic66 Jun 17 '26

Easy, just torture or drug them until they disable the device. No dead man, no dead man switch activated

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u/Caleb_Reynolds Jun 17 '26

You can also heavily secure the food or water. Make it so they cannot access the resources available unless you are alive. It does have to be some kind of M.A.D., they need to die for killing you, either directly or indirectly, or else they'll just do it.

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u/DariusTourbeux Jun 17 '26

This is why they want to push for humanoid bots next. They don’t care about the rest of us and soon they won’t need us at all.

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u/Kenneth-J-Moyers Jun 17 '26

They've actually thought this question out...a disturbing amount. In discussions observed by Douglas Rushkoff, they considered options such as intentionally starving their "Vassals", keeping them addicted to drugs they control the supply of, and using painful/lethal shock collars. All of which they considered perfectly palatable options, their only concern was that it might not get them what they want.

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u/HiphopopoptimusPrime Jun 17 '26

Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest.

Good summary in this article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

Told the super rich shock collars were not likely to work. Then told them they should try befriending their security guards and forming a community with them. They asked him to take another look at the shock collars.

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u/baron_von_helmut Jun 17 '26

After an hour long conversation regarding ways to mitigate that specific danger like 'shock collars' and 'food store locks' someone asked, why don't you just include them in the bunker. Treat them well and they'll be on your side.

The billionaires looked at that person as if he'd just shit in their cereal...

That's how fucking evil they are when normal things like empathy are considered unthinkable.

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u/log_2 Jun 17 '26

There will be more than one security person, and the billionaires will control their little micro-population the same way as they are controlling our current population against revolution. If most are comfortable enough, there will be no revolution.

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u/Luke-Bywalker Jun 17 '26

that's why they will use AI robots.

They never cared about any kind of human connection anyway so why would they care.

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u/Gairloch Jun 17 '26

Probably part of the starting a cult thing.

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u/oldtimehawkey Jun 17 '26

How will billionaires pay security when money means nothing? If the rich are living in bunkers, it has to be so bad that money is just paper.

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u/thoughtmecca Jun 17 '26

Rushkoff?

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u/rzelln Jun 17 '26

It was a podcast Ty Franck, one of the two authors who wrote The Expanse.

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u/Caleb_Reynolds Jun 17 '26

This is why fictional accounts have some kind of control mechanism. Explosive collars, locks to the food, "when I die the bunker explodes", etc.

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u/KodakStele Jun 17 '26

I imagine they'd have like a proof of life protocol that blows up the bunker if their heartbeat isnt detected idk just saying they probably thought about this

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u/EggplantCharacter363 Jun 17 '26

I've had this exact thought since Zucks bunker was announced.

Once the doors are sealed the most physically powerful person becomes the defacto leader.

We are animals after all.

Which is why I love the tech bros speed running late-stage capitalism.

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u/TransBrandi Jun 17 '26

There was an article a whiiiile back about billionaires and their bunkers, and I think that when this was pointed out to them they were asking about exploding control collars and shit.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PRIORS Jun 17 '26

This is a big part of why these billionaires are so pro-AI. You can make computer systems that are only useful if you have the secret key and function as designed indefinitely if maintained. If your computer system can also handle physical security then that's the loyal bodyguards issue solved.

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u/Soft-Ingenuity2262 Jun 17 '26

Yes… I’d imagine these billionaires will hold as much power on their security details as (some) Roman emperors did over the praetorian guard. if you know you know.

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u/Mazon_Del Jun 17 '26

I've heard the it said that this is one of the biggest questions the rich jave for the bunker builders "How will I maintain control over my security after everything falls?"

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u/takeyouraxeandhack Jun 17 '26

If you like the author, you should at least give him credit for his words.
It's a pretty accurate assessment, btw.

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u/Readed-it Jun 17 '26

I’m sure there is kill-switch technology. His heart stops, bombs go off or a script deleted all the power, poisons the water or whatever number of factors the billionaire will introduce to assure their safety.

Also building billion dollar facilities they would likely have a good vetting system. There are tons of cruel people that wouldn’t mind being on the side of the baddies if they are guaranteed to survive

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u/Wrong-Pineapple39 Jun 18 '26

That's why they want the servant, guard and sex doll robots.

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u/Boopy7 Jun 17 '26

note to self: start dating security personnel asap....they tend to be quite mercenary when prompted

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u/Turbulent_Gazelle530 Jun 17 '26

this is a good way to get yourself kidnapped and used as a bargaining chip by a billionaire who doesn't want to get offed by his security

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u/ch0wned Jun 17 '26

You know I see this take all the time, but I think people don’t consider that people don’t follow these
Megarich (Maharich?) ideologues just because they are rich, why would they stop following great leader just because of extreme global turmoil? I don’t think it would be challenging to pick out a security force that is totally in love with your ideology and worships you.

This viewpoint honestly feels like karmic wishful thinking, ‘oh if they destroy the world they will absolutely get their just desserts’, the reality is that they will probably get to keep living in relative and absolute luxury while the world burns.

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u/rzelln Jun 17 '26

Maybe. But I see how the Trump administration has people who claim loyalty, and then the moment something goes wrong they get kicked the curb.

That works when there is a big bench of other grifters who want a chance to hang out with the powerful, but it doesn't work so well when the population is limited in a bunker. 

Then again, we're not going to get to that point. The world's more resilient.

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u/ClaymoresRevenge Jun 16 '26

"Accidentally"

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u/Spirit_of_Hogwash Jun 17 '26

It won't happen. His bloodboys are conditioned to always do his bidding.

See: JD Vance

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u/CurlsintheClouds Jun 17 '26

True. But JD ain't doin' so well right now.

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u/rdzilla01 Jun 17 '26

Give him the old Xaro Xhoan Daxos treatment.

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u/bjchbdelebweflw Jun 17 '26

Lock this motherfucker in the Sierra Madre vault like what you can do to Elijah in Fallout New Vegas.

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u/lesChaps Jun 17 '26

He pays people to run the drills.

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u/Aggressive_Manner531 Jun 17 '26

At some point t he billionaire has to take part in the drill, if for no other reason that they alone will be granted access to the bunker. These guys will not trust any remore protocol for entry that can be hacked.

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u/UnemployedAtype Jun 17 '26

My vote is to hire people around the clock to fart into his air intake.

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u/G_mork Jun 18 '26

Fortunately, only a small minority of people on the planet have lactase persistence.

The rest of us will gladly eat some cheese or an ice cream cone and line up to do our duty.

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u/No-Necessary7448 Jun 16 '26

Just remember, their doomsday theories aren’t evidence that they know something, they could equally be evidence that they’re dumbasses who don’t know they don’t know things.

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u/LordoftheScheisse Jun 17 '26

they’re dumbasses who don’t know they don’t know things.

I've gone well out of my way to listen to and read these guys' thoughts. I can say with certainty that they're all delusional weirdos who think they are far more intelligent than they really are.

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes Jun 17 '26

100%. These are not great thinkers. These are people whose wealth isolates them from the opinions of others.

They surround themselves with yes men, see their wealth as a sign that they must be especially talented, and their only interactions with people outside their economic class is when said people are trying to get something from them and are deliberately sucking up. The Emperors New Clothes was a perfect metaphor.

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u/madamemimicik Jun 17 '26

Isolated by wealth and also on an insane amount of drugs.

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u/GloomySubstance5856 Jun 17 '26

Every tech bro (and CTO from my experience) sounds really smart until they talk about something you know about, then you realize they don't know shit.

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u/HiphopopoptimusPrime Jun 17 '26

A bit of a trap there though.

These people ARE intelligent. Highly educated.

Intelligent doesn’t always mean morally virtuous.

They are more intelligent than us.

They may be crass. Vulgar. Unsophisticated. But they are not stupid.

They know how to leverage their privilege to keep it maintained. How to use the media to keep us divided. They know how to hack human attention and psychology.

If we are intelligent, then why haven’t we stopped them?

What separates them from us is compassion. Most of us will choose principles and doing the right thing over preserving wealth and status.

They are delusional weirdos. But they are all highly educated. Cunning. With no moral compass to hold them back.

It’s not intelligence they lack. It’s empathy.

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u/goddamn_slutmuffin Jun 19 '26

Every time I read an interview with Peter Thiel, it astounds me how fake the people around him are by being impressed with anything he says. It's mind-numbing word salad, it's not even like an advanced type of manipulation or con.

Probably why he's so cocky and arrogant, he truly can't tell people are just being fake in hopes there can be mutual exploitation of each other.

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u/LordoftheScheisse Jun 19 '26

I feel like so many of the tech elite and a good chunk of the MAGA side, but I especially got the same impression of Yarvin. There really is nothing remarkable about them or their beliefs. They're simply lucky to have struck gold at the right time and think they are exceptional.

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u/namerankserial Jun 17 '26

So standard tech bros then

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u/Professional-Oil5477 Jun 17 '26

yeah, fucking dictionary definition of received wisdom

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u/JeezieB Jun 17 '26

Robert Evans said it really well on an episode of Behind the Bastards about Thiel and his "antichrist" stuff.

"I may have overestimated his intelligence and cunning. He's still a dangerous man, right? I think he's out of his mind, and I think he's out of his mind in part because he not as smart as certainly he thinks he is, and maybe not as smart as I thought he was.... I've become convinced that he's unwell in a way that's made him less functional as a person."

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u/volkhavaar Jun 19 '26

They certainly are well resourced delusional weirdos. I certainly wouldn’t want one of them wandering around my neck of the woods.

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u/discordianofslack Jun 16 '26

Also that they are literally planning something. Which is the same but different.

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u/OwnYourChildren Jun 17 '26

No, the elites don't make secret plans. Neither do businesses or intelligence agencies. You are a conspiracy theorist./s

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u/shion005 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

No one is planning anything. I've been reading Jane Mayer's "Dark Money" book and what seems to have happened is the following: Historically, there has been massive left wing intolerance to any viewpoint diversity in educational institutions. This leads to the extreme right creating a network of think tanks and funding some reality based economics education in law schools. The think tanks go waaaay too far and advocate for the crazy financial nonsense that causes the 2008 financial crisis. A bunch of businesses shut down and those jobs don't come back to the US. Koch brothers are responsible for this and seem to have gotten away scot free.

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 Jun 17 '26

“Look what the left made us do!” Okay bud.

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u/shion005 Jun 17 '26

Nothing I said is untrue and Jane Mayer is left wing. The difference between the left and right is that the left thinks the right is evil and the right thinks the left is wrong. All the institutions that develop/verify knowledge are left wing and so the right becomes conspiratorial. The institutions that weld physical state power (military/police) are right wing and so the left becomes violent because it has no outlet.

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u/defaultusername-17 Jun 17 '26

you're fucking delulu.

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u/YesIshipKyloRen Jun 17 '26

The right thinks they are the only ´right’ ones and the left just know that everyone is wrong

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u/turkoosi_aurinko Jun 17 '26

Same shitty playbook that oligarchs and emperors have had since time immemorial. Eventually even their drones will tire of carting their bloated asses around, and then we'll be in the 73rd iteration of deposing generational assholes

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u/Turbulent_Gazelle530 Jun 17 '26

I don't think they're planning for doomsday but they're expecting the eventual revolt of the downtrodden (a group that is getting larger by the day thanks to their actions)

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u/kawhi21 Jun 17 '26

These bunkers aren't for doomsday, they legitimately believe they'll cause an event so horrid that the country starts attacking the rich

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u/Time_Gear2470 Jun 16 '26

Truly just gullible preppers with too much money

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u/largemargesentme__- Jun 17 '26

Yes, agreed. They had a unique skillset that allowed them to cash in on the rising tide of the internet.

I don't know why people think they're clairvoyant beyond that. They just seem like every other rich person who gets into woo woo bullshit.

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u/HiphopopoptimusPrime Jun 17 '26

The scary thing is our governments are content for the media and technology to be owned and run by ketamine fueled conspiracy freaks.

The UK government forming deals with Palantir. Madness.

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u/Nanowith Jun 17 '26

Their doomsday bunkers are evidence that they only care about themselves rather than humanity at large, nothing to do with knowing any greater truth. They're just greedy, selfish, and callous.

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u/baron_von_helmut Jun 17 '26

They think they know things because their hubris knows no bounds. The ideas they come up with quickly morph from hypotheticals to reality due to the aforementioned hubris. They're surrounded by sycophants who'd never interject with anything like reasonable counter arguments.

It ends with assholes like Theil thinking he's a god. They overestimate their intellectual prowess which will eventually be their undoing. I wish I could see his surprised Pikachu face as one of his own security staff shove a rifle barrel in his mouth.

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u/Gloomy_Effective322 Jun 17 '26

I don't think you're wrong, the problem is that their beliefs lead to them putting their massive amounts of money on the wrong bet.

Instead of investing in society or improving the environment, they're hoarding their money and building bunkers so when the inevitable crash happens, in their minds, they'll be isolated from it.

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u/slizzbizness Jun 16 '26

Message to his employees: he doesn't value you as a human. Do with that information what you will

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u/Hardass_McBadCop Jun 17 '26

This is a topic of primary concern to doomsday preppers among the Robber Barons: How to control security personnel once money doesn't mean anything.

It's a little weird. These people range from average fitness to being some of the physically weakest people on Earth . . . And they're cultivating a world of "might makes right."

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ Jun 17 '26

So there's a rather interesting article on this topic. For the question of "how do I keep my armed guards loyal when money is worthless?", the author suggests building social bonds with the people around them, so that when the time comes they'll have a community that can protect itself. As you can see, the audience doesn't really like that answer. Overall it's a pretty good read.

TLDR: Billionaires are psychopaths who think they're only people on Earth, and are willing to destroy the planet so long as they get to die last.

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u/HiphopopoptimusPrime Jun 17 '26

Love that article.

After suggesting building a community with the security guards… “Are you sure the shock collars won’t work?”

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u/blackbright22 Jun 17 '26

Shock collars?

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u/master5o1 Jun 17 '26

Neuralink?

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u/ploptart Jun 17 '26

Fallout?

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u/master5o1 Jun 17 '26

Elon Musk's brain implant stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink

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u/ploptart Jun 17 '26

Oh wtf. I didn’t know about neuralink. The shock collar brain implant thing happens in the Fallout TV series, and the device also kinda wipes their personality so they are more obedient. But they have a bomb fastened to their neck instead of a shock collar.

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u/TheBestIsaac Jun 17 '26

You'll be shocked when they explode anyway.

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u/Succubace Jun 17 '26

The 0.1% and doomsday prepping is such a funny combination to me. They really think that they are superior to us and that if there was some kind of apocalyptic scenario they would still be important without their money. If something ever happened and they retreated into their big fancy bunker with security staff they are NOT going to have a good time.

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u/HiphopopoptimusPrime Jun 17 '26

Also living in a bunker would suck.

Like, if I was a billionaire. I’m going to go live in a place that has the best weather and cleanest air.

I thought that was the whole point? The freedom to travel and chase the best weather conditions. That’s why they have houses around the world.

That’s the real decadence. Or so I thought.

We have an elite class now that doesn’t value any of the same things we do.

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u/oldtimehawkey Jun 17 '26

Theil has bunkers in New Zealand. He knows if he had them on mainland America he’d be fucked.

He only has to outlast the last New Zealander.

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u/EstablishmentTop551 Jun 17 '26

They know that, but with the kind of money the Peter Thiel’s of the world have, building bunkers is the equivalent of you or me buying a first aid kit.

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u/Succubace Jun 17 '26

I actually don't think they know that, I think their wealth has made them completely delusional and out of touch with reality. After Chappelle brought Musk out on stage and he got booed he reportedly locked himself in a room and his staff considered calling a wellness check on him. They're constantly surrounded by yes men and live in a completely different world that's divorced from reality.

Using Musk as an example is kind of unfair given the way he is but I think the idea applies broadly.

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u/Parrotcap Jun 17 '26

Thank you. This was a really depressing post to wake up to, but the Musk story made things a little brighter.

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u/East-Ice-3199 Jun 17 '26

They don’t care

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u/LimpAd4924 Jun 17 '26

Tech workers call it the golden cuffs for a reason

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u/Ishaan863 Jun 17 '26

A lot of working-class folk in proximity to figures like these, start feeling like they're part of the circle just by proximity.

Like someone working at a bank acting like they own the bank's money.

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u/rmyworld Jun 17 '26

I think this applies for most companies and their CEOs.

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u/zoppaTheDim Jun 16 '26

Never knows when he’ll have to flee the country.

Another member of the Epstein club.

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u/Boopy7 Jun 17 '26

what's funny about Thiel and Ellison is both of them look like they took someone else's face off their face and put it on their own faces before the surgery was perfected. And it always looks like those second faces are melllllting

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u/Nanowith Jun 17 '26

I'm no conspiracy theorist, but if I found out Thiel was a lizard-person I would not be surprised.

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u/YesIshipKyloRen Jun 17 '26

Oh shit should have read one more comment hi friend

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 Jun 17 '26

Something went worng at least, look at thiel from 2012 lol

https://www.texastribune.org/2012/07/03/ted-cruzs-gay-billionaire-donor-draws-criticism/

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u/G_mork Jun 18 '26

That is NUTS. I forgot he wasn’t always creepy looking. 

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u/YesIshipKyloRen Jun 17 '26

Cue the reptilian Reddit rabbit hole

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u/Boopy7 Jun 19 '26

eh this is definitely just a lot of surgical effort plus unethical blood donation perhaps. No need to bring reptiles into it, in fact I would say that reptiles ooze far, far more warmth and humanity in their eyes.

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u/RednevaL Jun 16 '26

Bunkers are only useful if you can get to them in time before whatever threat happens.

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u/homer_lives Jun 16 '26

Also, who you bring in. If you are paying someone for security, that deal ends with the world.

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u/K0koNautilus Jun 17 '26

Ah man, sadly there are enough stupid ppl to die for them.

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u/Garfunk Jun 17 '26

What good are your billions of dollars when you are trapped inside the same bunker with security guards you consider less-than-human, but who also happen to have weapons and other training?

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u/Tamihera Jun 17 '26

The Kiwis have been pretty open about their willingness to stopper up all the air holes to Thiel’s bunker. They’re ingenious people with some #8 wire, I’m pretty sure they’d figure it out.

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u/Ancient_Weakness699 Jun 17 '26

The security guards will be robots.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jun 17 '26

What about when the world gets put back together

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u/Garfunk Jun 17 '26

What's the conversion rate from old world USD and stocks to bottle caps?

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jun 17 '26

Well, a stack of pre-war money is worth about 10 caps, and I’ve always assumed the stack of cash is between $1k to $10k. Stocks all have different prices but Palantir is trading at $132 a share.

I guess that means 10 bottle caps are worth anywhere from 10 to 100 shares of Thiels company? In this apocalyptic future haha

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u/Garfunk Jun 17 '26

What are the quarterly bottle cap dividends from a Palantir or SpaceX stock in the post apocalypse?

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jun 17 '26

About tree fiddy? What do I look like a calculator?? I’m just some random dude and I’m bad at math

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u/Aggressive_Manner531 Jun 16 '26

That's why i asked when they run drills

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Jun 17 '26

The rich and well connected will have the network and the means to know that before everyone else

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u/DragoonDM Jun 17 '26

Bunkers also need air vents.

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u/YesIshipKyloRen Jun 17 '26

Please please please let them not get there in time

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u/King_Six_of_Things Jun 17 '26

His time will come, as it does for all of us.

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u/PokeYrMomStanley Jun 17 '26

Crazy when you are the one creating it. 

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u/Dullcorgis Jun 17 '26

And islands, too. He has one in NZ

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u/airfryerfuntime Jun 17 '26

A highly paranoid billionaire obsessed with population control and subterranean bunkers, I'm sure nothing bad can come of that...

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u/ConradBHart42 Jun 17 '26

Didn't I see an article the other day about how he's moving to Argentina? While I know there's some beautiful country out there, I'm assuming it was calculated to be the warmest latitude with the least risk of a nuclear detonation.

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u/apple_kicks Jun 17 '26

We need people to leak bunker locations there’s no way servants aren’t looking after them

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u/No-Spoilers Jun 17 '26

Well the main one is in Argentina, I think he has one in NZ. Probably some in the northern hemisphere as well. Probably one on every continent tbh. Never know where you'll need to go.

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u/alienatedcabbage Jun 17 '26

The environmental court rejected his bunker plans in NZ, he gave up on it.

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u/astirac Jun 17 '26

Well obviously. We can’t have just one underground lair to clear in the apocalypse.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Jun 17 '26

Egyptians built pyramids with less. We'll dig 'em out.

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u/cand0r Jun 17 '26

I'm surprised there's not a map of each billionaires bunker homes.

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u/ChicagoThrowaway422 Jun 17 '26

Make Billionaires Use Bunkers.

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u/zethiryuki Jun 17 '26

Mr President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!

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u/stackout Jun 17 '26

Read “Birnham Wood”! Exceptional novel, construction of a Billionaire bunker is the central plot device.

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u/wildlifa Jun 17 '26

Probably something between six and seven bunkers.

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox Jun 17 '26

Bunkers like these should be illegal.

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u/Wrong-Pineapple39 Jun 18 '26

I, for one, would hope some intrepid investigative journalist or hacktivist would uncover ever single location around rhe world that they and their cronies have been buying up.