Peter Thiel is the less famous and somehow more evil version of Elon Musk. The two, in fact, are close friends and co-founded PayPal together in the late ‘90s. Thiel was the main backer behind J.D. Vance’s Ohio Senate campaign in 2022, and he’s also the co-founder of Washington’s new favorite intelligence company, Palantir.

Here he is mumbling his way through a question about whether or not he thinks the Antichrist, which he’s been very vocal about, would be doing exactly what he’s doing if the Antichrist were alive today.

That awkward moment Peter Thiel realized he might be the very Antichrist he warned about
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Palantir specializes in creating software for “big data analytics,” and the name is lifted from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. A “palantir” in Tolkien’s world is the indestructible crystal ball Saruman uses to spy on Middle Earth.

If you don’t want people to think you’re the Antichrist, you probably shouldn’t name your spooky “big data analytics” company after an evil wizard's crystal ball.

I get that most tech guys are also huge nerds, but come on!