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Peter Thiel Explainer Time!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/peter-thiel-explainer-timeFollowing last week’s episode of South Park, it has come to our attention that not everybody knows who Peter Thiel is! Time to set that right. Peter Thiel quite possibly knows who you are, with the company he founded, Palantir, running software that analyzes scans of license plates, faces, and who-knows-what-all, along with personal data that the CIA, Defense Department, DOGE, and ICE have scraped and aggregated.
Peter Thiel is a creep, he’s a weirdo. Let’s start with some clips, then get to what the hell Peter Thiel is doing here: ranting about Greta Thunberg and anyone who opposes AI being the antichrist, and being musically mocked! Conveniently, Mojo has put his South Park quotes next to his REAL ones!
Jesus’s slogan is war and un-safety? Okay, bro. You get why Ross Douthat felt compelled to ask Thiel if he’s considered that he himself might be the anti-Christ.
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Anyway, who is this strange and rubbery man, this flattop grooving up slowly? Thiel was born in Germany, spent some of his childhood in the US and some in South Africa, and then came back to the US, where he went to Stanford in the start of the roaring tech-boom ‘90s. Land of venture capital and trolls! He became a derivatives trader, then an investor, and then Hey Pal, it’s PayPal! Thiel co-founded the online payment service, initially called Confinity, then replaced Elon Musk as its CEO. It’s a small cabal! And PayPal was a roaring success. Then what a day, in ‘02 they sold it to eBay! It made Thiel a billionaire. And he kept investing, and was the first investor in Facebook. Then he launched Palantir Technologies and its related companies, and got into data analysis for corporations, and then for the CIA and Defense Department. And then 35-ish years later, Musk and Thiel collabed again on DOGE!
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Peter Thiel is a creep, he’s a weirdo. Let’s start with some clips, then get to what the hell Peter Thiel is doing here: ranting about Greta Thunberg and anyone who opposes AI being the antichrist, and being musically mocked! Conveniently, Mojo has put his South Park quotes next to his REAL ones!
Jesus’s slogan is war and un-safety? Okay, bro. You get why Ross Douthat felt compelled to ask Thiel if he’s considered that he himself might be the anti-Christ.
. . .
Anyway, who is this strange and rubbery man, this flattop grooving up slowly? Thiel was born in Germany, spent some of his childhood in the US and some in South Africa, and then came back to the US, where he went to Stanford in the start of the roaring tech-boom ‘90s. Land of venture capital and trolls! He became a derivatives trader, then an investor, and then Hey Pal, it’s PayPal! Thiel co-founded the online payment service, initially called Confinity, then replaced Elon Musk as its CEO. It’s a small cabal! And PayPal was a roaring success. Then what a day, in ‘02 they sold it to eBay! It made Thiel a billionaire. And he kept investing, and was the first investor in Facebook. Then he launched Palantir Technologies and its related companies, and got into data analysis for corporations, and then for the CIA and Defense Department. And then 35-ish years later, Musk and Thiel collabed again on DOGE!
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They do the same for you
Here's hoping he ends up in a town square too. 
But I'm a PT hater. 