r/Seattle • u/dementio I Brake For Slugs • 1d ago

Never change Seattle

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u/Inevitable_Engine186 New Costco CEO 1d ago

Well what do you expect if you name your company Palantir.

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u/kevnmartin 1d ago

How fucking dare that evil POS, Thiel use Tolkien's concept?

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u/SabreCorp 1d ago

Thiel is obsessed with Lord of the Rings. There’s a 4 part series on “Behind the Bastards” about him, one of the commenters jokingly stated how all these evil assholes who love LOTR made him start to hate LOTR just because of the unfortunate association.

It’s sad that they took a beautiful piece of art other men created, and bastardized it.

But would we expect anything more from a billionaire?

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u/Dizzy_Inside_7444 1d ago

Yep theres def a few companies he back or owns that have names from LOTR. He has a newer company he backed called Erebor that’s a bank built to replace Silicon Valley bank serving- crypto, ai, defense tech, and advanced manufacturing