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Wicklow hotel cancels ‘secretive’ Peter Thiel group conference

www.irishtimes.com English

Thiel was a cofounder of payments group PayPal and Palantir, a defence contractor known for mass surveillance and criticised heavily for its “strategic partnership” with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in its assault on Gaza.

A leaked schedule for the “retreat” hosted by Dialog, an invitation-only group cofounded 20 years ago by Thiel and entrepreneur Auren Hoffman, featured discussions on topics including preparations for a third world war, battlefield technologies, nuclear energy and cult-building.

Totally normal, nothing to see here. Just a business meeting!

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    Powerscourt Hotel and Spa event was to be hosted by Dialog and attended by senior Nato commander and Trump administration officials
    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10 hours

      One of the luxury-bunker preppers, that answered the question “how to make bodyguards/private army and service people not rebel you (not by treating them humanely, rolleyes)” with “make a cult with you at the center”?

      This would track.

    • Avicenna@programming.devEnglish
      12 hours

      There are enough sub billionaires (almost a billionaire not quite) now that you can build a cult out of them, that is what is happening here.

      And Politicians see this and they are like “we should get Palantir all over our country”. Guess why…

    • 20cello@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14 hours

      Just throw them on the streets and let the people take care of them, bare hands

      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
        14 hours

        Honestly I’m starting to feel like that. They are driving humanity into hell.

        • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7 hours

          I don’t want violence to be the answer to anything. But I also see that people with power have ironically endangered their physical wellbeing by dismantling proper democratic avenues for change and removal

    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
      15 hours

      nuclear energy and cult-building.

      These two that make every child’s birthday party a success!

      /s