Powerscourt Hotel and Spa event was to be hosted by Dialog and attended by senior Nato commander and Trump administration officials

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!

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    12 hours ago

    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
    10·
    14 hours ago

    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…

    • 1984@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      20·
      16 hours ago

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

      • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        9 hours ago

        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
    31·
    17 hours ago

    nuclear energy and cult-building.

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

    /s