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Palantir CEO and Trump ally Alex Karp is no stranger to controversial (troll-ish even) comments. His latest one just dropped: Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company.
At the New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Karp was asked about the worries over the unconstitutionality of the boat strikes.
“Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product."
This is bond-level villainy.
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damn I dream of letting this guy loose in the forest at night, butt naked, so I can hunt him with my dogs. They love the scent of fear
I hear bloodhounds are great animals for such an endeavor.
Bear country.
him, spez and donnie
34th Rule of Acquisition: War is good for business.
The quote, from _Star Trek VI:The Undisovered Country __ by Kurtwood Smith as the President of the Federation, “Just because one CAN do a thing, does not necessarily mean one MUST do a thing.” I swear, if we quote the Oracle at Delphi any more in humanity, we might seem insane to any extra-terestrial beings. /s?
So, was Farenheit 451 about keeping the idiots from the ideas that were dangerous, or simply convincing them to willingly build the torment nexus? Instructions unclear, critical debate needed.
Uncertainty is a wing of the Torment nexus surely. The only way to leave it is through certainty, but you’ll never know if what you’re certain about is actually true
I would attempt to argue, but I can say the sky is cerulean, and someone will argue till they’re black and blue.
Slavery was pretty good for business too I hear.
He is correct, but the conclusion to draw from that is that the system that allows those businesses to exist needs to be remedied.
Jesus fucking Crapcakes.
I’m GLAD we’re giving HIM Taxpayer Money INSTEAD of Teachers or Hospitals or Children!
-LITERALLY EVERY Republican Voter!
Does this guy ever stop and think, “the shit I say is fucking horrible and makes me look like an irredeemable asshole?”
With his shitty hair style, probably not.
Also: Does Palantir have a PR department to tell him how this stuff reflects on the company? Cuz it’s baaad.
This dude has got to be trolling otherwise he needs to be put in a mental institution.
Part of it is to get into the media.
He’s really unwell. His view of the world is a clear and present danger to it.
Yeah this guy seems like a delusional nut job.
Carp, Thiel, Musk, Vance and a bunch of these douchebag technofascists subscribe to this really nonsensical philosophy called “dark enlightenment “ it’s basically just the feudal system with mass surveillance and AI to enforce it. They openly advocate for the dismantling of democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
basically china
Except China does it to drive national interest, the above forementioned people do it for personal wealth or power growth
Thats meaningless, Carp, thiel and musk could say the exact same thing
But they’re capitalists and beholden to shareholders and profits? They’re not the same. I don’t condone China’s actions around privacy and control. But I also think it’s erroneous to compare them to China.
How is it not a fair comparison? They want to remove all minorities - China removed/is removing ~8 different ethnic minorities, they want a surveillance state with total control - China has a surveillance state with total control, they want a full censored media - china has a fully censored media. The other things is they’re willing to do whatever it takes to reach that goal just like china. All their end goals are basically a powerful group of unelected people ruling over everyone with total control. The cope they all tell themselves(including china) is that they’ll be benevolent. I’m sick of seeing people hand wave all this just because they built a train and some houses(btw a lot of houses in china are shit, they’re tiny and fall apart and the ones you actually want are still unaffordable).
Also corporations can operate however they want and that its just an overused meme to cite Dodge v. Ford as forcing them to maximize shareholder value.
Well china has lifted 800 million people out of poverty and these men want to force most of us into poverty or worse because they’re literally fascists
So the ends justify the means? If that’s the case then you basically agreed with these evil cunts because they claim their goals are for the good of people. They are dumb but they aren’t describing a dystopia any more than China is a dystopia.
Personally i wouldn’t go down the chinese route and kill 100 million people just to have the dogshit human rights, labour rights and environmental regulations and go from 50c to $1.20 a day.
I don’t think anyone is spuiking how fantastic china is. They have serious flaws, but they have also had huge improvements in quality of life, poverty, engineering etc. Just to be clear also, China has taken such a staunch stance in nationalism since the bullfuckery of England, America and Japan.
Then why make the defense? Why jump in and “um actually this dictatorship was pretty good” if you arent trying to spuiking how fantastic china is. China doesnt have anything that other successful democracies dont have. As it stands China has done far worse than Carp, Thiel, Musk, Vance
I never said the dictatorship was good. Its not accurate to compare a capitalists who are purely for self enrichment to a country that is lifting people out of poverty. They’re not the same.
DHS has literally said they plan to get rid of 100 million people. Stephen miller has talked about it and project 2025 has too.
Ok but you’d be ok with that since the ends justify the means to you.
Dude seriously American capitalism has killed way more than 100 million. Your Chinese strawman isn’t an effective argument. Especially when we’re constantly starting wars all over the world and literally bankrolling a genocide.
I think what these men want is much worse
China invests in infrastructure these tech douchebags are welfare queens extorting the American taxpayer to the detriment of our infrastructure. China has universal healthcare. China has affordable housing and affordable food. These techdouchebags don’t want to invest in any of that they want a permanent slave class and the pedophile oligarch class. China literally executes people like this. What we are facing is much much worse and American capitalism has killed well over 100 million people
Do we need a purge? One day per year for doing something about the CEO problem?
Alex Karp realized only hell was real, leading him to realize that he must be as evil and cruel as possible in this life to secure a seat at Satan’s dining table.
Having no ethics and morals makes more money in unregulated capitalism, more news at 11
Are we VC funding target lists because it’s illegal to pay for them?!
“you would have to make 100% sure of the exact conditions it’s happening in, and in order to do that, the military would have to use Palantir’s technology, for which it pays roughly $10 Billion under its current contract.”
Trump could do the funniest thing - call Palantir essential for national security, buy it under Eminent Domain “at a reasonable price” (let Trump call it 20x forward earnings instead of 220x or ~10% current market cap), and let the competency of the government run it’s course until the whole thing has degraded
Palantir is the enemy of humanity.
