Why JD Vance Says UFOs are Demons

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Rebecca Watson shares some insight into what could be behind Vance's blathering.

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1. Is it because he's a dipshit?*

* I didn't watch the video.

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2. Here's the story about Thiel.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession

Peter Thiel’s Armageddon speaking tour has—like the world—not ended yet. For a full two years now, the billionaire has been on the circuit, spreading his biblically inflected ideas about doomsday through a set of variably and sometimes visibly perplexed interviewers. He has chatted onstage with the economist podcaster Tyler Cowen about the katechon (the scriptural term for “that which withholds” the end times); traded some very awkward on-camera silences with the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat; and is, at this very moment, in the midst of delivering a four-part, off-the-record lecture series about the Antichrist in San Francisco.

Depending on who you are, you may find it hilarious, fascinating, insufferable, or horrifying that one of the world's most powerful men is obsessing over a figure from sermons and horror movies. But the ideas and influences behind these talks are key to understanding how Thiel sees his own massive role in the world—in politics, technology, and the fate of the species. And to really grasp Thiel’s katechon-and-Antichrist schtick, you need to go back to the first major lecture of his doomsday road show—which took place on an unusually hot day in Paris in 2023. No video cameras recorded the event, and no reporters wrote about it, but I’ve been able to reconstruct it by talking to people who were there.

https://archive.ph/3hzxm

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3. I have actually known a few Christians who have said the same thing.

The only mortal beings that have intelligence are humans, according to them. Any aliens that show up are actually demons in disguise and they are trying to fool us so that we will accept them and their demonic ways.

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4. J D "Maybe it's Maybelline" Vance

Must be experiencing toxic brain shock from eye shadow poisoning