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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society
by /u/NicolasCageFan492 | 111 comments | 2026-06-16T22:41:17+00:00 Central
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| /u/NicolasCageFan492 Notable people on the Thiel List I pulled from maia arson crimew's Bluesky post: Chamath Palihapitiya Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube Charlie Songhurst, board director at Meta Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies Sarah Bond, President of XBOX, Microsoft Manuel Bronstein, chief product officer of Roblox Greg Brockman, Co-founder of OpenAI, fmr CTO of Stripe Mike Cannon-Brooks, Co-founder of Atlassian Scott Cook, co-founder & chairman at Intuit NJ Senator Cory Booker CO Governor Jared Polis Tom Tugendhat, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom. Bret Stephens (Associate Editor of the New York Times) Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic Jon Levin, President, Stanford University. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue. Stan McChrystal, Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army. Rachel Brand, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice. Feel free to suggest other noteworthies. For the link, check my profile's pinned post. I can't link it here because the sub doesn't like bsky links! |
| /u/GayForPay Cory Booker? Kind of confirms exactly what I thought about him. Look at the company he keeps. |
| /u/Bulky_Preparation768 Him being the only Democrat to vote yes on Kushner's dad getting an appointment was some flashing red light stuff |
| /u/DerBingle78 Kushner's dad has been one of his biggest donors for years. |
| /u/CosmoKing2 Kushner's Dad was still the one calling the shots at his companies while in prison. Jared was just "running it" for legal reasons. He's actually a lot like Trump. By that, I mean stupid and ignorant and the rest of his family hates him. |
| /u/Late_Airline2710 Reminds me of Arrested Development without the humor. |
| /u/KeyEntrepreneur5449 He's bought and paid for by Israel. It's not a secret anymore. |
| /u/dreamEater99 Just did too. Did not expect him. |
| /u/SeaDots Unfortunately, I did. I found some of his stuff early 2025 as inspiring and then there were these sprinkles of BS from him that raised red flags for me. It seemed performative and this just proves it really was. |
| /u/TinyJalope Sprinkles of BS like him saying Democrats need to 'compromise' on abortion (despite it being a 60-40 issue in favor of them) or him writing that 'Charlie Kirk Did Politics the Right Way' article? |
| /u/gentlegreengiant I was also not at all surprised. Saw his name and thought 'yea that tracks'. |
| /u/felcom The guy trying to pioneer the "regulations are bad, actually" abundance movement? Really? |
| /u/CosmoKing2 This and The Atlantic CEO blew my mind. |
| /u/BabyWrinkles If you take the most insanely charitable possible interpretation of things... If I were invited to attend this event (this is an attendee/invitee list for their 2026 gathering), I would 110% go, just to listen and engage in dialogue with some of these objectively powerful people. Without additional context behind what some of the sessions actually are and not just the salacious seminar titles, I'm not ready to declare all of them "far reich adherents." Again, if only on paper, having people with different viewpoints invited and/or in attendance lends credibility and might resonate with the heady bullshit Thiel believes. More realistically? Very disappointing. |
| /u/kippikai It's not about "far reich" - it's about moving democrats away from left leaning ideas and back into neoliberalism and the right-shifted "center." No one is arguing these people are "conservative" but they're absolutely allowing themselves to be influenced by the ideology of the extreme right in a way that ensures it won't face meaningful ideological opposition. |
| /u/tjl435 How else are you going to get added to the signal group? |
| /u/BoogieOogieOogieOog Always gave me the vibes of a bought politician. Not surprised at all |
| /u/nycdiveshack He has been bought by aipac for years |
| /u/Accidental-Hyzer Also, Jim Hines, Julian Castro, and Wes Moore? WTF, guys. Any democrat on this list needs to be primaried (if elected) and ostracized from the party. Imagine joining a fucking Peter Thiel organization as a Democrat. Embarrassing. |
| /u/Suspicious_Ice4761 There need to be calls for them to resign. Especially wes moore and jared polis. Everytime they are at any press conference this should be the only topic asked of them. |
| /u/mdp300 When Mitt Romney was being criticized for his past as an economic vulture, Booker suddenly came to the defense of Romney and private equity. Lame. |
| /u/Magmaster12 I'm positive somewhere in the last 15 years between now and him becoming mayor of Newark he probably got blackmailed. What Peter Theal is doing is basically just continuing Epstein's legacy of blackmail. |
| /u/qriousqestioner That reminds me about |
| /u/OLPopsAdelphia Look at what he doesn't do! What a deliberately ineffective piece of sh!+! |
| /u/greentrillion Cory Booker is a founding member of Shabtai at Yale with Rabi Shmooley. That org is knee deep in Israeli government connections and just honored the genocidal Ben Gvir less than a year ago. Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir? Rabbi Shmully Hecht |
| /u/honjuden Booker has been complaining about us not doing a ground invasion of Iran. |
| /u/bigbadderfdog It's good that they are inclusive to the mentally ill and incompetent. |
| /u/UpperApe They aren't "inclusive" to the mentally ill and incompetent. They are exclusively mentally ill and incompetent. These stupid fuckers are the scum and leeches of society. |
| /u/imnojezus Hey look, it's the big club that we ain't in. |
| /u/____DEADPOOL_______ I don't want to be in it. |
| /u/GrayEidolon You're probably aware of this stuff, but for anyone who isn't: Conservatives have been upset since the enlightenment. It's the politics of aristocrats: anything that ever helped regular people to be more comfortable has enraged them. It's literally a reactionary response to the enlightenment. They resent the enlightenment making things nicer for poor people. These current assholes are trying to make a new country that bursts out of the body of the current country. It's called "the butterfly revolution" and yes it does sound absurd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin It's why musk was speaking at the afd in Germany. It's why bannon, farage, and Cambridge Analytica were all in bed together on Brexit (watch "the great hack"). It's why this "dialog society" exists. The backbone is that conservatism is about enforcing socioeconomic hierarchy and the techfascists, religious fascists, and heritage foundation race fascists (Mandate for leadership has been going on since 1981. https://www.project2025) are all in on feudalistic "network" states run by ai powered surveillance. That's what they want to replace democracy with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment https://time.com/7269166/dark-enlightenment-history-ess ay/ The accelerationists like Peter Theil from the tech faction of conservatism think they can force collapse, but use technology and surveillance to protect themselves. These are both Thiel speaking like 10 and 15 years ago. This seasteading thing was an early material attempt at this moving-past-democracy thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hjLgXA-MZY https://www.seasteading.org/peter-thiel-speaks-about-se asteading/ These aristocrats are working on how to control their security forces though things like "disciplinary collars." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich -prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: "How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?" The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down. This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers - if that technology could be developed "in time". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism https://pols.sites.haverford.edu/studentvoices/what-is- accelerationism/ Because they're "done with democracy." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-BQhXdCs8Y and the vice president of the united states and advisors have given their seals of approval to a book that says conservatives are going to have to kill all the liberals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhumans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CI2vk3ugk End notes 3: The Origins of conservatism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g How to radicalize a normie. Also, All these data centers are for surveillance. https://www.aclum.org/publications/ai-powered-surveillan ce-is-turning-the-united-states-into-a-digital-police-st ate-now-is-the-time-to-stop-it/ |
| /u/qriousqestioner I appreciate this dense gloss. Thanks! |
| /u/werthermanband45 Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Steven Pinker. Not really surprised about the latter tbh |
| /u/31LIVEEVIL13 oh damn. someone told me Gordon-Levitt was full of shit that he was on the payroll, and all the things he was backing were fake Trojan horses, designed to mislead people opposed to things like AI data centers. I guess this explains it. |
| /u/bayleysgal1996 And here I was thinking he was just a useful idiot for the people who go "think of the children" when they push censorship crap |
| /u/thisistherevolt I knew Booker was a POS, but Castro? Maaaaaaan. 😢 |
| /u/yoga1313 Same, that shocked me. |
| /u/Pooch1431 both attacked Biden on the debate stage years ago. Must be getting fed similar talking-points. |
| /u/Downtown_Statement87 OMG Grover Norquist! He's the OG "We want to make government small enough to drown in the bathtub." I talk about him all the time because he and his ideological ilk are super critical to understanding how we got here. I can't believe he's manifesting in his corporeal form! When it comes to purposely destroying America's institutions so that you can then say "See? They don't work!", Norquist scuttled so that Elon could slither. Ahhhhhhh Grover Norquist! I need a moment. |
| /u/gerblnutz I often try and tell people about this guy and Ollie North and how they basically tried what's happening now under Reagan, but we still had some senators with balls back then and delayed REX84. All of the Iran Contra people including "I did not trade guns for hostages" Reagan deserved to rot in prison. |
| /u/Downtown_Statement87 Yes oh yes talk to me baby. Sometimes I feel like NO ONE except for me remembers when Reagan tried to do all of this but didn't quite make it, so it is comforting to know that people still remember. During Trump's first campaign in 2015, all these old, vanquished names emerged from the way way back, like "Somehow, Roger Stone returned." It made me feel so frantic, like "listen, everybody, we've been through this before and these people are not in it for We the People." None of this bullhockey has been new since the ink dried on the Southern Strategy, so I appreciate encountering people who know their history. Gah! Mentioning Grover Norquist and company makes me want to run all around like a sprayed roach. Boo this man! |
| /u/sarkouille It's baffling how much shit there is that Reagan did in plain sight, in secret, but ended up being seen and probably that remained unseen. It's not only him who should have had jail time for that, but hundreds. |
| /u/WiSoSirius The Deep State is not Red or Blue. Simply, it's class elitism that pull levers in their favour And all my homies hate Leonard Leo |
| /u/Margray That's just it, they've got us fighting a culture war so we don't realize they're waging a class war. Fuck all of these people and anyone who accepts their money. |
| /u/PsychoCrescendo worst blunt rotation ever |
| /u/Standard-Mechanic101 Explains why Tulsi Gabbard suddenly grew silent when it came to her anti-war rhetoric. |
| /u/CurryMustard I think Thiel bailing out to Argentina and Tulsi quitting around the same time makes a lot more sense now. I wonder if it was the iran war that did it or the walls closing in on the epstein shit. Either way they saw the writing on the wall and dipped. |
| /u/ohanzee6 Ezra Klein wants to be thought of as an important person so fucking badly |
| /u/Liminal_Aspect Ezra Klein, damn talk about not surprising in hindsight |
| /u/currently__working Check his subreddit, they keep deleting posts which are pointing out this connection. If it was innocuous, maybe they'd just let it be? He could explain himself... |
| /u/DrewDown94 Ezra Klein being on here explains a lot lmao |
| /u/OMG_IM_A_GIRL BUT THE NYT AND THE EZRA KLEIN ARE SUCH FUCKING LEFTIES!!! /s |
| /u/Impressive_Wrap_7869 If you think Ezra Klein is left, I know a socialist named Ronald Reagan |
| /u/dzogchenism Ezra Klein and Polis make so much more sense now. |
| /u/shoqman Not seeing anybody mention Sam Harris. |
| /u/naruda1969 Because nobody is surprised |
| /u/Wonderful-Medium7777 Well of note is the Rt Hon. Tom Tugendhat he is a Conservative MP ( British Parliament) and has been an MP continually since 7 May 2015. I'm in the Uk and didn't expect to see that at all. |
| /u/doomgoblin Wasn't* Tulsi the one who was going to get fired but resigned because her husband needed her due* to his health? |
| /u/art-is-t Tulsi Garbage is there too wow |
| /u/strangefish That she's on the list didn't surprise me at all. Garbage in a list of garbage. |
| /u/ItsCalledDayTwa Whats the source for this> I didn't see it in the article am blind. |
| /u/NicolasCageFan492 I tried to link it but this sub doesn't like bsky. It's posted on maia arson crimew's bsky. She got an anonymous tip and WIRED confirmed and published this. Wired has more info they're not releasing as well. |
| /u/throw_every_away I've always thought Corey booker was a piece of shit. He's like one or two steps to the left of an average conservative, pretending to be progressive. |
| /u/31LIVEEVIL13 "If nine people sit down at a table with one Nazi, there are 10 Nazis sitting at the table." except in this case, there are several dozen Nazis sitting at the table, and I'm guessing a few hundred newly made Nazis join them. |
| /u/Exponential-777 How many underground bunkers does this guy have? Gotta be more than one. Probably has one on each continent. Just waiting for the shit to hit the fan. |
| /u/Aggressive_Manner531 When does he run drills? Someone should lock him in next time. |
| /u/rzelln An author I like pointed out once that if the world does go to s**t, then there's going to be a bunch of bunkers where some security personnel are living real cushy after they kill the billionaire who is supposed to be under their charge. Because if things have fallen apart, why would anyone care about the money the billionaire can pay them. |
| /u/mOdQuArK For those of us on the outside of the bunker in that situation, sounds like good targets to test those experimental bunker-buster bombs that the military keeps squirrelled away before everything breaks down. |
| /u/Magnon I wonder if any/all the billionaires already have some kind of dead switch explosive collars ready to go. "To enter elon's survival bunker, please allow us to place this exploding collar on your neck, do not harm elon." |
| /u/rzelln Spoilers for Horizon Forbidden West. At one point, you explore the bunker of a rich a-hole, and gradually discover that the models and guru that he brought down started dying one by one because he got upset and increasingly paranoid, and the last people to go included a scientist who was working on a way to make the rich a-hole immortal, so he could survive a few hundred years for an apocalypse to pass by. The scientist gave the guy the treatment, and then killed himself, and then the guy found out that sure, his cells would not die, but he was slowly overrun with cancer, and eventually just turned into a giant tumor. |
| /u/Sorlex One of the best parts of that game. Really glad they didn't do the video game thing and have you fight it as some boss fight. You don't even see it, just hear it. Its outstanding. |
| /u/Spirit_of_Hogwash It won't happen. His bloodboys are conditioned to always do his bidding. |
| /u/No-Necessary7448 Just remember, their doomsday theories aren't evidence that they know something, they could equally be evidence that they're dumbasses who don't know they don't know things. |
| /u/LordoftheScheisse they're dumbasses who don't know they don't know things. I've gone well out of my way to listen to and read these guys' thoughts. I can say with certainty that they're all delusional weirdos who think they are far more intelligent than they really are. |
| /u/MommyLovesPot8toes 100%. These are not great thinkers. These are people whose wealth isolates them from the opinions of others. They surround themselves with yes men, see their wealth as a sign that they must be especially talented, and their only interactions with people outside their economic class is when said people are trying to get something from them and are deliberately sucking up. The Emperors New Clothes was a perfect metaphor. |
| /u/discordianofslack Also that they are literally planning something. Which is the same but different. |
| /u/slizzbizness Message to his employees: he doesn't value you as a human. Do with that information what you will |
| /u/Hardass_McBadCop This is a topic of primary concern to doomsday preppers among the Robber Barons: How to control security personnel once money doesn't mean anything. It's a little weird. These people range from average fitness to being some of the physically weakest people on Earth . . . And they're cultivating a world of "might makes right." |
| /u/zoppaTheDim Never knows when he'll have to flee the country. Another member of the Epstein club. |
| /u/Boopy7 what's funny about Thiel and Ellison is both of them look like they took someone else's face off their face and put it on their own faces before the surgery was perfected. And it always looks like those second faces are melllllting |
| /u/Dirt-Road_Pirate Eat the rich, celebrate the poor. |
| /u/therallystache The poor make all the best art and food anyways. |
| /u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs These people would gladly end the world just to say "I told you so" |
| /u/Own-Initial-9544 Or to not get taxed fairly |
| /u/Admirabletooshie If the playing field was fair not a single one of them would have succeeded. Elon lied on his immigration paperwork. He should have been deported, had his government contracts cancelled, and his assets vital to national security seized. Instead he is made the richest man on earth and the Immigrant that jumps through all the hoops the right way but didnt descend from emerald mine slave owners gets deported for a paperwork mistake made by government officials. It's not fair, the game is rigged, and pretty soon they will own and rent you the very air you breathe. |
| /u/chycity1 If only there was something we could do... |
| /u/Enderkr There is, we just can't talk about it on Reddit and nobody wants to throw the first torch. |
| /u/ChaosArtAunt I want to. But we're afraid no one will follow suite, or that no one will pay attention to us. It has happened before. |
| /u/El_Beakerr "PAY TAXES!!!! Screw that! I will not pay taxes like the common citizen, I'm gonna nuke the world!" |
| /u/Luster-Purge Thiel unironically is low key upset that he will never be the Antichrist. |
| /u/fullchub Or to rule the ashes. "Chaos is a ladder" has almost become tech bro dogma. They "warn everyone" about the coming chaos while actively cultivating it and benefiting from it. |
| /u/ImKingFlippyNip CO Governor Polis was the one who commuted Tina Peters' 9-year sentence a few weeks ago. For some context |
| /u/MyLastAcctWasBetter Was he identified in the leak? I didn't see his name in this article? I'm genuinely asking- I could've missed it without realizing. The guy is a piece of shit for commuting her sentence and clearly corrupt. I just wondered how that particular information was relevant here. (Like I said, I'm willing to admit I missed the mention.) |
| /u/art-is-t "Gandalf's the crazy person who wants to start a war. Mordor is this technological civilization based on reason and science. Outside of Mordor, it's all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works." Peter Theils exact words .... He literally sides with evil in books. |
| /u/achar073 Words of a 14 year old edge lord |
| /u/WellSpreadMustard Thiel's gotta be one of the most evil people alive right now. It's reptilian and animalistic in nature, just completely devoid of empathy. I wouldn't be surprised if he someday argues the utilitarianism of doing factory farming of people for food. |
| /u/Boopy7 not sure if you're kidding but I'm pretty sure I recall him doing this. However it is more useful to use them for future organs and body parts, according to his buddies. I would say he is equally evil to a few others out there. Shaming him for his disgusting personality or looks won't work -- shaming him for how repulsive and useless he is for all humanity, however, would be enjoyable. He is truly a pointless person even for his own adopted twins. His existence is like a festering carbuncle upon the face of humanity. One quickly turning cancerous. |
| /u/CrunchyZebra It's so slap-you-in-the-face obvious who you're supposed to like in LOTR and this loser still managed to be wrong. |
| /u/Juniper0223 I mean, fairly unsurprising for someone who decided a Swedish Gen Z climate activist is who is being described as the antichrist in the bible....what a sweaty little wierdo |
| /u/takingthehobbitses Tolkien would have hated his guts. |
| /u/rarescenarios Username checks out. But like, there are great deconstructions of LotR and it's tropes. Jaqueline Carey's Sundering duology is explicitly that. This mf though would be evil by the standards of any fantasy world outside of that VHS segment with explicitly Satanic demon people. |
| /u/mournthewolf What technology does he think Mordor is so advanced in? Slavery? |
| /u/A_Suspicious_Package Slavery, yes. Also "meritocracy" lol |
| /u/aybeeayseeaybeebee Historically speaking, when groups of incredibly rich and powerful people get together for a "dialog", the questions always seem to be "Is slavery really that bad?" and "Should the poors vote?" |
| /u/lambentstar Probably thinks Sauron invented the palantiri or some nonsense. |
| /u/DukeOfGeek Where's there's a whip... |
| /u/Magnon Mordor has more advanced industry than the human nations since they can mass produce armor and weapons for their huge hordes of orcs. They also have a massive eugenics program to produce tons of orcs, which I'm sure he finds appealing. |
| /u/randynumbergenerator They've also completely collapsed the ecosystem, which in any reasonable world would put a limit on the long-term survival of the "civilization", such as it is. |
| /u/tobygeneral The humans all have armor too though, and it's better armor than what the orcs wear. The soldiers of Gondor are all rocking glimmering full plate suits that are ornamented. The orcs may be able to spit out the cheapest iron chest piece to slap onto 10,000 uruk-hai but that doesn't mean they're more advanced than humans. |
| /u/That_Trouble87 Now you're beginning to understand their entire motivation |
| /u/Agitated_Celery_729 If you read his book or listen to him talk, he's a fucking edgelord who's made being contrarian his whole goddamn personality. |