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Peter Thiel says the pope is 'working for the Chinese Communists'

techJul 3, 2026231,801

At the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel said Pope Leo XIV was “working for the Chinese Communists” by calling for stronger international regulation of artificial intelligence. Thiel argued the pope’s May encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which called for AI to be disarmed and for greater international oversight, would discourage American AI development while unlikely to influence China, thereby advantaging Chinese competitors; the Aspen audience laughed at Thiel’s characterization. Thiel spoke on a nonrecorded panel with political scientist Francis Fukuyama titled “Humanity at the End of History” and also warned of a “democratic-socialist takeover” of the Democratic Party. CNN notes Thiel co-founded Palantir and PayPal, was an early supporter of Donald Trump, and helped launch Vice President J.D. Vance’s career through his firm Mithril Capital. The Vatican did not respond to requests for comment. Thiel has a recent history of provocative engagements with the Church, including an invitation-only lecture series on the Antichrist in Rome and the argument that the Antichrist could appear as a world government promising protection from existential threats such as AI or global warming.

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This is a real picture of Peter Thiel and listen, I don't mean it in a phrenology way but I really do think that evil starts to show itself in peoples' faces I just think a heart overflowing with vile abyssal ichor and peptides inevitably twists their faces into a ghoulish, strangely wet mask

real picture of peter thiel looking positively undead
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The Silicon Valley billionaire and prominent supporter of President Donald Trump attacked the catholic leader over his calls to regulate AI.

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