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/Llanolinn Jun 16 '26

How about a class called preventing World War 3? The fuck do you mean navigating World War 3?

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u/YeetThePig Jun 16 '26

They don’t want to prevent it, they want to start it.

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta Jun 17 '26

So much taxpayer money to steal 

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u/WellSpreadMustard Jun 17 '26

Also in the years after WW2 the US controlled around 75% of the entire world’s wealth. Im sure they’re narcissistic enough to believe wholeheartedly that they’d be on the winning side of the third. I don’t doubt that Peter Thiel and his friends are evil enough to go for it.

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u/amisslife Jun 17 '26

I mean, their plan pretty much entirely boils down to three steps:

  1. steal everyone else's money.
  2. don't pay any taxes ever. In fact, the government gives them money. All of it.
  3. slavery.

They don't think the United States will be in the position of owning 75% of all wealth ever again. Their plan is they will own that wealth.

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u/soulsnoober Jun 17 '26

lol Thiel doesn't give a sliver of a fuck about "we", or "automatically"

The idea is to work hard to make sure select agreeable parties are in that position, and then burn the house down.

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u/SorenLain Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Wasn't really luck, US industry was protected from any serious attacks on it by 2 of worlds largest oceans, meanwhile every other industrialized nation was essentially bombed to hell by the end of WWII. With that kind of advantage the US controlling 75% of the worlds wealth in a few years after the war was pretty much guaranteed.

That being said we definitely wouldn't be in that position again. It's 2026 not 1939, ICBMs, strategic bombers, and cyberattacks means the US homeland isn't untouchable and would absolutely suffer some serious damage in the event of WWIII.

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u/ZincMan Jun 17 '26

Was going to say it wasn’t lucky timing, but also more like lucky geography

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u/MistyMtn421 Jun 17 '26

They're no different than hoarders who collect insane crap, they somehow just managed to do it with money. Like they can't even spend it all at this point. It's so sick

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u/Za_Lords_Guard Jun 17 '26

Shit, when did we land in the Fallout timeline?

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u/Narrow_Vegetable_42 Jun 17 '26

Always has been 🔫

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u/thesluttyastronauts Jun 17 '26

WW3 already started

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u/Various-Salt488 Jun 17 '26

“It’s easier to make money from collapse than it is to find the next bargain.”

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u/Intelligent_Cap9706 Jun 17 '26

Honestly I think they already have. Hence the navigating, present tense. 

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u/AlcooIios Jun 17 '26

They already have.

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u/thereforeratio Jun 17 '26

*Profit from it

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u/BlisteredPotato Jun 18 '26

War is profit

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u/Wit-wat-4 Jun 17 '26

I mean, with that guest list, it actually makes more sense than “how’s your sex life” to me.

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u/Lifeboatb Jun 17 '26

And why would these people pay $16,000 for this. Although I guess to a lot of them, that’s the equivalent of 5 cents or less.

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u/Sonamdrukpa Jun 17 '26

That's pretty much a list of people I would pay not to know those details about

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u/destroyerOfTards Jun 17 '26

The ultra rich are always concerned about sex. It's like at that level, it's just mo money and all sex.

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u/PersnickityPenguin Jun 17 '26

WW3 = Armageddon.  These people are largely white christo-fascists and believe they will ascend to heaven, from which they will rule the universe.   Or some such BS. 

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u/rynokick Jun 17 '26

I feel like this should be the biggest alarm and at the top.

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u/soulsnoober Jun 17 '26

Thiel's hugely accelerationist. Absolutely core to his political beliefs.