Meanwhile the Nazi officials feared that Catholics may cause a civil war if they didn't put just the right amount of pressure on the Vatican. And Protestants tried to become the official state church of Nazi Germany.

Lets, not forget either that the biggest monstrosity of WWII was the religious cleansing, who had a beef with the Jews?

I think you should take some history lessons. Being Jewish wasn't a religious definition for the Nazis, we're not talking about the Spanish Inquisition here. And it's not like Catholics were more (or less) antisemitic than Protestants.

I don't understand the whole hating the Jews thing.

Had they not killed Jesus, his story would be worthless. They made him a martyr. They're responsible for making Christianity in the first place

Oh wait now I understand.

Hating a minority is a theme showing up in politics, every time a society had a downturn.

Jews were scapegoats, they were generally seen as greedy and thrifty. So when the economy went to shit, the workers blamed an ethnic group associated with being successful business people.

The hate for Muslims went up a lot in the aftermath of the 08 crisis. Although the reasons for problems tends to be greed among the elites, they also tend to control the narrative. And will throw a minority under the bus to save themselves

Peter Tiel I think. Trump and Altman are more like grifters. Net Yahoo and Putin are contenders, but they're using mass murder to solidify their own power... It just feels too pedestrian

But Tiel is like a hardcore death cultist or something. He gives speeches warning about how AI will be the anti-Christ, then goes around putting up AI cameras everywhere. He's the type that reads 1984 and pays people to build the torment Nexus

They seem to be wowed more by flash than anything, and the villains don’t seem to be particularly competent or bright. That rules out Larry Ellison and AIPIC.

Various congressional Republicans, Elon Musk, or Javier Milei.

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos are all unapologetic James Bond villains.

In fact, they might be even more ridiculously evil than the Flemming and movie villains. Ernst Blofeld is arguably more reasonable. (Blofeld, on whom Felonious Gru was based.)

I had a friend in college who wrote a paper that religion was started by the original nerds who needed to classify and rank which level of angel and spirit.

I believe he argued the term "Angel of Death +2" is as equally valid as one name to the next across cultures and history.

I still think he was right.