"PETER PETER, MY FRIEND, FUCK YOUR MOTHER FUCKER
YOU WANT CRYSTAL BALLS TO SEE THE FUTURE?
LOOK IN THE MIRROR—YOU'LL SEE AN IDIOT, YOU'LL SEE AN IDIOT"
A group of Galdalfs protesting outside Peter Thiel's home in Palermo.
Afterward, they applauded the Mounted Grenadiers.
Argentina, the best country in the world!
TRANSLATION OF THE VIDEO:
There are political protests, and then there’s Argentina sending a company of Gandalf-lookalikes to Peter Thiel’s house, shouting…
The wizards gathered in front of the mansion Thiel bought in Palermo Chico, unfurled a giant “You Shall Not Pass” banner, and capped off the spectacle with a song dedicated to the tech oligarch. Why Gandalf-lookalikes?
Well, because Palantir—the mass surveillance and military technology company that Thiel co founded—took its name from The Lord of the Rings.
The Palantirs were Tolkien’s seeing stones, instruments capable of observing distant places that ultimately became tools of manipulation and power.
So the Argentines have decided to fight the Lord of Palantir by sending Gandalf right to his doorstep. And why are people protesting against Till?
Because he has been strengthening ties with Javier Milei and his team for months, while millions of Argentines continue to suffer from wages that have been slashed, increasingly expensive services and poverty that continues to plague a huge portion of the country.
And while he’s setting up his own technological Mordor in Argentina, the billionaire has also just purchased, through his fund, a 1% stake in Vista for about $76 million—one of the major oil companies operating in Vaca Muerta.
Military technology, surveillance, data, energy, and direct access to political power. The full package of 21st-century techno-feudalism. So maybe those Gandalf-like figures know exactly what they’re doing.