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#16201 the broken

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Posted 17 June 2026 - 07:27 PM

Whaddaya know, putting quotes back in context makes them make sense.

#16202 Whisperzzzzzzz

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Posted 17 June 2026 - 07:44 PM

the broken, on 17 June 2026 - 07:27 PM, said:

Whaddaya know, putting quotes back in context makes them make sense.

Doesn't really make them any better...

#16203 Cause

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Posted 17 June 2026 - 08:57 PM

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 17 June 2026 - 07:44 PM, said:

the broken, on 17 June 2026 - 07:27 PM, said:

Whaddaya know, putting quotes back in context makes them make sense.

Doesn't really make them any better...

There's a huge difference between reading lord of the rings and somehow misunderstanding that Mordor is the good guys and whatever the hell this is. It went from mental illness to bizarre

#16204 the broken

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Posted 17 June 2026 - 09:16 PM

The Last RIngbearer is real, it's the Soviet knockoff of LOTR where Mordor are the good team. So it's not misunderstanding LOTR, it's describing another work entirely... and saying it's ok to challenge mainstream views...or something?

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Posted 17 June 2026 - 09:44 PM

Yeah cause and broken let’s all ignore that thiel is a fucking lizard in a group chat with a bunch of other billionaires CEO’s and politicians and focus on nitpicking the LOTR thing I posted.

Jeezus…

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Posted 17 June 2026 - 10:06 PM

QuickTidal, on 17 June 2026 - 11:59 AM, said:

So billionaire Wormtongue Peter Thiel has a secretive "Dialog Society" group chat...

Notable people on the Thiel's List pulled from the Bluesky post:

Chamath Palihapitiya

Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube

Charlie Songhurst, board director at Meta

Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies

[...]

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It's a big club, and you ain't in it" ~ George Carlin

Reminds me of the show Thiel's Founders Fund launched this month with the intention of "humanizing" billionaires:

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The hottest party game in Silicon Valley started with a casual rallying cry: "Let's go kill some people." [...] The game pits a secret minority known as the "mafia" against a group of "townspeople." Through deception and debate, the townspeople try to expose the mafia before the mafia kills them one by one.

The show could help humanize tech titans, even those known for revolutionizing artificial intelligence and defense tech, said Mike Solana, Founders Fund’s Chief Marketing Officer

The Wall Street Journal - Facebook

... by having billionaires play Mafia. Based on the description this seems like an obviously terrible idea in context. Then again, a bunch of you have organized games on here in the past, so maybe not? IDK.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 17 June 2026 - 10:07 PM