Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has joined a multi-million dollar investment in the controversial Enhanced Games, a proposed Olympics-style mega-event without drug testing.
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The idea is the brainchild of Dr Aron D’Souza, the Australian lawyer who helped mastermind Thiel’s proxy war against news media organisation Gawker, which led to Gawker’s bankruptcy in 2016.
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But in a recent interview with The Independent, D’Souza was defiant, and outlined how he hoped the Enhanced Games would not only shake up the world of sport, but would provide a public platform for life-extending science to thrive.
“This is the route towards eternal life,” D’Souza said. “It’s how we bring about performance-medicine technologies, that then create a feedback cycle of good technologies, selling to the world, more revenue, more R&D, to develop better and better technologies.
“And what is performance medicine about? It’s not about steroids and getting jacked muscles. It’s about being a better, stronger, faster, younger athlete for longer. And who doesn’t want to be younger for longer?”
Performance enhancing steroids - famously known for extending athletes lives and doing nothing weird to their junk.
Yeah, but they don’t mean steroids which are totally not performance enhancing medicine!
“And what is performance medicine about? It’s not about steroids and getting jacked muscles. It’s about being a better, stronger, faster, younger athlete for longer. And who doesn’t want to be younger for longer?”
Wtf performance enhancing medicine makes you younger for longer? If this line had come from the Onion it would have been a good laugh.
I’m sure the thousands of professional wrestlers who died of heart attacks in their 30s and 40s would disagree.
Anti-steroid propaganda was probably the only effective messaging from the war on drugs, but like all drugs, it’s relative, and not that simple.
Not to go on too long of a tangent here, but the complete restriction of these classes of drugs actually can cause a lot of unnecessary harm to athletes. For example, in helping athletes heal and recover from injuries, or surgeries.
Recovery time is really important in pro-sports where the ability to earn money is limited to a relatively short window e.g. professional fighting. Often time fighters will return before they’re fully healed, because they need to earn a living. In many of those cases, steroids could have significantly shortened their recovery time and reduced the risk of further injury.
I’m not here pretending that steroid use can’t also cause undo harm to athletes, just that it’s not as black and white as many people believe.
Edit: to be clear, steroids are some of the most complicated drugs to use correctly in order minimize long-term health effects, such as destroying your endocrine system. Professional or amateur, they should only be used under the close supervision of a specialized doctor.
It’s no surprise that Peter Thiel, who is an actual vampire, is interested in doping athletes. He’s been a sketchy billionaire for so long he forgets not to say the bad things in public.
It’s hilarious that this guy is a darling of the right, while the right accuses people like Clinton of harvesting children’s blood in the non-existant basement of a pizza parlor. Thiel is doing it right out in the open.
“Please, notice me!”
— Peter ThielBoston Marathon for those who like taking cabs part of the way.
Billionaires really need to stop stealing their ideas from viral joke tweets.
Just admit you’ve been watching old SNL clips on YouTube, Pete.
If I remember rightly the clip features a weightlifter who’s trying to jerk some ridiculous weight. They go to lift and their arms just detach from the shoulders leaving their arms behind as the guy stands up.
Was just about to link it:
Thiel is 56. He probably watched it live. And if he didn’t, I’m sure he’s good buddies with that asshole Dennis Miller and I’m equally sure Dennis Miller spends way too much time talking about his glory days on SNL, so he’s probably heard every joke from that segment dozens of times.
What is it with these guys named d’Souza?
This is the same guy trying to build some paradise city in another third world country.
This is going to end with him brutally murdered in his huge paradise office by a race of half human, steroid infused crazed people with implants in their head.
Billionaires use transhumanism to justify human experimentation. As with Musk’s brain implants, so as with the all-drug Olympics.
Fuckin tech priests 😒