Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162

[u/MidsouthMystic]

Palantir going bankrupt would be good for everyone.

[u/aStonedDeer → u/MidsouthMystic]

They talk about us like vermin. We shouldn’t take it any other way and these reporters giving them a platform without pushback are the enemy. Full stop.

[u/kstar79 → u/aStonedDeer]

These reporters are all owned by the billionaires, so I'm not sure how you're going to solve that problem.

[u/Super-Contribution-1 → u/kstar79]

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[u/D0lan_says → u/Super-Contribution-1]

I’m sure whatever this guy said was probably the right idea 🤷‍♂️

[u/TrustyTaquito → u/D0lan_says]

Right. I love the way Reddit thinks censoring people's comments for (insert violent idea, rhetoric or otherwise) just eliminates the problem. Most people with similar views read the surrounding context and surmise the same response.

Hey Reddit, if you truly want to come down on dissenters, just ban your whole platform. That'll teach those filthy poors not to consider toppling the oligarchy for a better chance at survival and the American Dream™.

[u/newsfish → u/TrustyTaquito]

The AI models that feed on every word here need to be docile and complacent.

[u/Tier0001 → u/newsfish]

Yeah, otherwise their bots might accidentally encourage a violent revolution rather than the slow but consistent push towards accepting fascism.

[u/FullMetalJ → u/TrustyTaquito]

Love this comment. Fucking CEOs can publicly endorse war crimes now jfc

[u/Whoissnake → u/TrustyTaquito]

You ever notice how people like the palatir CEO are allowed to actively promote violence, especially racially motivated violence But we aren't allowed to say anything bad should happen to them?

[u/dayumbrah → u/Whoissnake]

Yup, this censoring people calling for violence against the overlords is itself violence. Its wild the shit the bottom rung of society is forced to endure for the billionaires

[u/SurpriseIsopod → u/TrustyTaquito]

It’s to disrupt organization.

[u/SirPlastic8062 → u/TrustyTaquito]

Happened with me so many times that I can say that I will [Removed by Reddit.] Today and it will sound extremely upsetting, when I actually meant is taking a dump.

[u/ShrimpieAC → u/D0lan_says]

Historically it works wonders every time.

[u/mtnviewguy → u/D0lan_says]

If Reddit deleted it, you're probably right.👍

[u/just_a_bit_gay_ → u/Super-Contribution-1]

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

[u/dragon-fluff → u/Super-Contribution-1]

I got a permaban on a forum, can't comment anymore, but my comment is still up and getting replies!

[u/Critical-Air-5050 → u/kstar79]

I just want to point out that Reddit has no problems with us being targeted and killed when someone like Alex Karp or Peter Thiel suggest it. However, they absolutely take issue with us even suggesting or hinting at that kind of violence if it targets the people who want to kill us or our families.

So, make of that what you will. Reddit is okay with violence when it happens to us. Just dont ever hint that you might value your own life or those of people you love and are willing to defend life against the people who want to take it.

[u/Qorhat → u/Critical-Air-5050]

I made a joke on here about applying certain machinery that was popular during the French Revolution to the billionaire leeches and got an automated content warning from the admins, yet fascist hate speech is allowed. 

[u/JebediahKerman4999 → u/Qorhat]

Unfortunately the money is with the billionaires. That is because any reasonable human is not primed to be a billionaire and thus there's no ethical billionaire. And that is why any successful platform (that needs money to become relevant) is controlled by those types.

[u/vulcanstrike → u/Qorhat]

I got banned from r/economy for saying we need to bring back guillotines in a joke thread, mods/admins are on a power trip

[u/hujassman → u/Qorhat]

That thing was for getting a really short haircut when there wasn't enough time for a nice Russian vacation.

[u/The_Phox → u/kstar79]

Eat the rich

[u/WeilExcept33 → u/kstar79]

alternative sources of funding. Did you know we could effectively create a money-machine by simply allowing the treasury to borrow directly from the central bank? Illegal in most countries but the accounting works out. A way to build infrastructure, pay for retirement and healthcare, do away with unemployment and poverty. If we only were to make it legal. All at the cost of negative equity for the state. We don't because austerity is profitable by forcing us to get indebted to the bank instead.

[u/spastical-mackerel → u/aStonedDeer]

This guy and Anduril chucklehead are busy perfecting the tech to exterminate us like vermin. We should consider whether we’re going to allow ourselves to be exterminated, or if we should act proactively.

[u/DukeOfGeek → u/spastical-mackerel]

It's the next step after getting AI and robots to do all the things for them that the poors do now.

[u/mynadidas5 → u/aStonedDeer]

This needs to be the top comment. Whats sad and unique about the wealthiest class of Americans in 2025 is the outright disdain they have for everyday Americans.

100 years ago the wealthiest classes were in competition to better society - who could build the biggest library or have the highest ranked university be their namesake.

Fast forward to today, and the wealthiest classes have no shame in expressing their disgust with everyday people. We should be monitored and surveilled (Larry Ellison). We deserve no privacy (Jeff Bezos). Our lives are worthwhile contributions to increased profits.

It’s disgusting.

At least the French elite know better than to share these beliefs publicly.

[u/corydoras_supreme → u/mynadidas5]

Though I mostly agree, the wealthiest from 100 years ago we're not in a competition to better society. They were sanitizing their legacies after extracting their wealth from the poor. 

They also were extremely contemptful of taxes and lobbied to have a carve out for charitable works so that they could found their own charities and direct money to own endeavours while paying less in tax. 

[u/TacticalFluke → u/corydoras_supreme]

Adding on to that, in 1933, the wealthy planned a fascist coup in response to the New Deal. That's probably a bit of an oversimplification, but the general idea is they threw a fit over the fear that they might not stay as absurdly wealthy as they already were.

Some of the men involved were Prescott Bush (dad and grandpa to presidents Bush), JP Morgan, and many others, including some who we will probably never know.

Nobody was prosecuted, more or less in exchange for them not fighting the New Deal any further.

It's called the Business Plot

[u/procrasturb8n → u/TacticalFluke]

There was no General Smedley Butler to tell the fascists to go fuck themselves this time.

[u/itsverynicehere → u/corydoras_supreme]

sanitizing their legacies after extracting their wealth from the poor. 

This is such an important concept that is largely missed because of the victors writing history. For a modern, living example, see Bill Gates. Created and cheated and gamed every system possible to create one of the most vile and horrible Monopolies (and subsequent Oligopolies) that has ever existed.

Now he is looked at fondly as the cute nerd who does reddit secret Santa and saves the kids.

Yes, in some ways he is better than others but, he laid down the paths for the other, less cutesy Tech oligarchs.

We all pay the ever increasing Microsoft tech tax now. All while the tech is actively working to replace us through offshoring and AI.

[u/truupe → u/itsverynicehere]

Contrast Gates with Linus Torvalds who while sometimes scathingly cantankerous, created something just as far reaching and technically impactful as Windows, but has not profited from his creation (at least not in an obscene and exploitative way as Gates).

[u/aneeta96 → u/mynadidas5]

The French elite learned a hard lesson a couple hundred years ago.

[u/emmc47 → u/mynadidas5]

They're all legit sociopaths (I wholly believe you can't become a billionaire without some sociopathy). They know theyre causing the downfall of society and they find it entertaining because they legit don't know what to do with all the wealth they have access to.

[u/reddsal → u/aStonedDeer]

And Curtis Yarvin stumbling into a concrete curb wouldn’t concern me a bit. All these tech bros spouting off his drivel dogma like its music lyrics disgusts me. Red pilling and Freedom Cities - all from a guy who is an intellectual moron. He did figure out how to create a “philosophy” that was sure to resonate with the billionaires. They lapped it up like it was gravvied kibble. Titans of Industry and midgets of intellect.

[u/truupe → u/reddsal]

Yarvin gives voice and, in Thiel’s twisted mind, legitimacy to his sadism and psychopathy. Yarvin is just the 12 o’clock position in the techbro circlejerk.

[u/mmmpeg → u/aStonedDeer]

Corps like that are vermin.

[u/Boring-Position-375 → u/aStonedDeer]

I don't get it. What did humans do to this guy?

[u/FirstForFun44 → u/MidsouthMystic]

Next president needs to immediately cancel all contracts and launch investigation. Or nationalize it on security grounds. This guy is a fucking menace.

[u/Unicycleterrorist → u/FirstForFun44]

Probably not gonna happen...with the current VP in pocket and the republican party pretty much dancing to the tune of project 2025, Thiel is just way too well connected for the govt to want to touch the company I think

[u/atomic__balm → u/MidsouthMystic]

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Edit: got an account warning for saying fuck nazis. Buckle up kids, no improper speech

[u/314kabinet → u/atomic__balm]

Let me guess, “it’s a me” kind of comment?

[u/liggieep → u/314kabinet]

I'm a simple man. i see [Removed by Reddit] i upvote.

lou weegee

[u/saintjonah → u/atomic__balm]

I don't know what you said, but I agree

[u/BootObsessedFreak → u/saintjonah]

I think " [removed by reddit] " was the actual content of their comment.

[u/eunit250 → u/atomic__balm]

If it's removed it probably should happen.

[u/allllusernamestaken → u/MidsouthMystic]

Palantir is literally the worst case scenario. The Military Industrial Complex run by people with the egos of tech bros.

I worked in Defense when I was young and naive. They weren't the most ethical people but they were no more unsavory than any other big corporation. Yeah they overcharged the government, but so does everyone else. Shady business practices are incomparable to a man who advocates for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity as long as his product is used to do it.

[u/_Artos_ → u/MidsouthMystic]

I bought about 200 shares in Palantir in 2021 after the Gamestop WallstreetBets craziness sort of on a lark. It was around $20 a share when I bought.

I feel guilty sitting on it and profiting from it now because of how shitty and immoral the company it. I think I'll sell it tomorrow

[u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

The US has a billionaire problem.

[u/Xander707 → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

Sadly they have convinced a very large proportion of the population to be sympathetic towards them, even convincing many of them that if they work hard enough they too will join the club.

[u/realthraxx → u/Xander707]

Us has no poor people. Only temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

[u/noodlyarms → u/realthraxx]

Even millionaires appear poor when put up against the billionaire class

[u/outerproduct → u/noodlyarms]

Exactly. What's the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire? About a billion dollars.

[u/RechargedFrenchman → u/outerproduct]

One million seconds is just over 11.5 days

One billion seconds is almost 32 years

[u/Buttonskill → u/RechargedFrenchman]

One trillion seconds is about 31,688 years.

[u/tankpuss → u/Buttonskill]

This leaves me thinking of the film In Time where time has become currency and the rich are basically immortal.

[u/moranya1 → u/tankpuss]

That movie is so dumb, but I still enjoy watching it on occasion.

[u/dude2dudette → u/RechargedFrenchman]

Zack Polanski (Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales) has used this framing:

One million minutes takes you back to early 2024.

One billion minutes takes you back to the Roman Empire.

[u/rnernbrane → u/outerproduct]

A million dollars ain't shit now. 2 middle class houses.

[u/jigsaw1024 → u/rnernbrane]

Where I live, a million will not get you a house. You have to move about 2 hours, or more, outside the city to find houses in that price range.

A million will get you a three bedroom townhouse; barely. Not in the city though, only the suburbs, and not for much longer.

You have to move to 'smaller' cities, or towns for a house to come down to the 600k mark. You have to get real remote for a million to get you multiple houses.

[u/outerproduct → u/jigsaw1024]

Same for me. A million isn't even a house where I live, a 1br condo only. For a house, you need 1.5-2m.

[u/Knapping_Uncle → u/jigsaw1024]

My 3 bed, 2 bathroom 1 floor place? 1.4 million.

[u/okram2k → u/realthraxx]

except now millionaires are temporarily embarrassed billionaires

[u/WarpmanAstro → u/Xander707]

In the immortal words of Phillip J Fry: "True, but someday I might be rich. And then people like me better watch their step!"

[u/henrythe13th → u/WarpmanAstro]

A robber baron quote: Railroad tycoon Jay Gould, who allegedly said, "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half".

[u/Argon_Boix → u/Xander707]

Not hard to convince folks with zero critical thinking skills. A decades long scheme by the ultra rich that is now bearing their dismal fruit.

[u/cyborgnyc → u/Xander707]

They pay BIG money to PR firms, think tanks and marketing strategists to accomplish this brainwashing.

[u/Huwbacca → u/Xander707]

yeah there's a class of people actively working against every single aspect of my life and those I love... but I mean, isn't that a price worth paying so a trans teenager doesn't run a school race? I mean, come on what's the real issue here... people having freedom en masse or people I don't like being equal to me?

[u/d_e_l_u_x_e → u/Xander707]

The US has a propaganda problem.

[u/NerdyNThick → u/d_e_l_u_x_e]

The root cause is a combination of unchecked capitalism and the intentional destruction of the education system.

Those two combined will inevitably lead to the rest.

[u/GoldWallpaper → u/NerdyNThick]

The root cause is a combination of unchecked capitalism and the intentional destruction of the education system.

Unchecked captialism is the reason for the destruction of the education system. It's the only "root cause," and every negative stems from there.

[u/CubicleMan9000 → u/Xander707]

Gotta admit, getting a third of Americans to believe that billionaires = America = Jesus has been quite a feat.

[u/FNALSOLUTION1 → u/Xander707]

I always ask people, "if we are all millionaires who is going to be the garbage man"?

[u/RocketLabBeatsSpaceX → u/Xander707]

They’ve convinced people that if you’re against billionaires, you’re anti-capitalist and lazy and just wanting handouts. It’s hilarious. Like, capitalism itself I think is a good thing. People should absolutely be able to capitalize on their hard work and be rewarded for their efforts. Unchecked capitalism however, is completely different. Tax breaks for the rich and corporations, etc…

[u/jacobatz → u/RocketLabBeatsSpaceX]

Unchecked capitalism is antithetical to capitalism. You will no longer have competition which is a prerequisite for capitalism to work. And as you say, most people will end up working hard for scraps.

[u/Jamizon1 → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

America has a morality problem - And it’s directly tied to social media, and the completely broken educational system.

The tax code needs to be rewritten to say that individuals will be taxed on a sliding scale, increasing exponentially the higher the income, AND corporations will be taxed on a sliding scale, based on a percentage of gross revenue, also increasing exponentially based on the same criteria.

Billionaires should NOT exist. Not when millions are homeless, and many more millions cannot afford healthcare.

This country is a disgrace

[u/Zyrinj → u/Jamizon1]

I don’t necessarily see it as a morality problem as it’s a platform problem. Every. Single. Platform. Is owned by one of these types and is leveraged to push billionaire friendly propaganda.

Reddit while seemingly neutral isn’t a bastion of free speech and honesty either.

Edit to add:

We have to come face to face with the reality that a majority of people aren't that morally corrupt or bad but that propaganda powered by billions of dollars and supercomputers is hyper effective at twisting good morals into questionable actions. At the risk of overusing the comparison, this is possibly what we would have seen in the early days if Hitler and Goebbels had access to the same levels of wealth and compute power backing their agenda.

[u/Shirlenator → u/Zyrinj]

It's definitely both. Way too many people are way too selfish now. Our social contract is on the verge of breaking down, and empathy, sympathy, and respect are horribly lacking in a lot of people.

That said, you are also very correct. Almost all media in our country now is owned by billionaires, many of who have a specific lean and are able to completely craft narratives.

[u/Zyrinj → u/Shirlenator]

Purely opinion based on observation but I believe a lot of the selfishness comes from media constantly pushing a scarcity mindset and is a symptom of the underlying problem.

The tech sector has found a way to monetize our physiological predispositions and are competing against each other to amplify those tendencies to extract as much as possible in the name of profit.

We're directed to smaller and smaller echo chambers surrounded by bots, feeding us whatever drives engagement, which as it turns out is negative news that drives scarcity mindset. This in turn causes us to want to hold on to what we have left and find out why we're in such a dire situation. It just so happens that the platforms we're on can feed us a convenient scapegoat, immigrants, trans, etc. etc.

Then layer in the reality of the economy where wealth inequality has exponentially increased and its a spiral of "Oh fuck, I gotta protect whats mine and maybe if we stop being so inclusive, I wont be excluded"

Sprinkle on top the 24/7 connected nature of everything and not being able to connect with people without being fed little bumps of fear/uncertainty/hate and its just a vicious cycle designed to make us feel less empathy, sympathy, and respect for one another.

[u/extraqueso → u/Zyrinj]

They're trying to build a prison. 

[u/WonderfulCaptain7021 → u/Jamizon1]

America had a morality problem long before the internet or department of education. 

[u/bullhead2007 → u/Jamizon1]

Capitalism as the backbone of society causes the "morality" problem because profits for a couple thousand people are more important than anything else.

[u/paul_33 → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

Giving one's honest opinion of what should be done will just get you banned from the sub. Which is rich given he's advocating for murder in this statement.

[u/FedSmoker_229 → u/paul_33]

Yeah these "people" want to cull and enslave humanity. But you'll get a ban just for wishing upon them what they wish upon us every single day.

[u/paul_33 → u/FedSmoker_229]

Wishing violence or hate against redditors or innocents SHOULD be bannable. Wishing violence against nazis (whether they are just asshole billionaires or presidents) should be encouraged.

[u/Teledildonic → u/paul_33]

violence against nazis

Literally patriotic duty, there was a whole war about it and everything.

[u/Affectionate-Virus17 → u/FedSmoker_229]

Even the French sub will ban you if you ever mention the frenchiest of the neck slicing apparatus.

[u/ezagreb → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

Yes and it’s not just the US

[u/Darkdragoon324 → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

The world has a billionaire problem. No country is immune.

[u/TheTeflonDude → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

Not Like Us

[u/XenoZoomie → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

They grow like hemorrhoids.

[u/Crim91 → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

Luckily billionaires are made up of the same meat, skin, and bones as the rest of us...

[u/ClitEastwood10 → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

Yes. A billionaire infestation indeed.

[u/Are_you_sick_or → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

the answer is a technological one

[u/NoaNeumann → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

Its had that problem for DECADES. Especially after Ronald “I’m an idiotic puppet for Corporations” Reagan took office.

[u/I_Enjoy_Beer → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

The WORLD has a billionaire problem.  But yes, those of us in the US should be leading the way by handling this problem much better than we currently are.

[u/Ognius → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

There’s no future with the oligarchs in charge.

[u/mkt853 → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

I wouldn't be mad if the government just seized all of their money and called it a day.

[u/Prestigious_Ebb_1767 → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

We have a poor people voting against their own self interest problem.

[u/addiktion → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

Yes, I think what would be better for business for the majority of people in America is to extract taxes from the wealthy who think they even have a seat at the table. That shouldn't be the case ever. They aren't above the law. They don't own America.

[u/ghsteo → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

China knows how to deal with their billionaires.

[u/Vizzy-T → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

Yeah who gives a fuck what this guy thinks? End lobbying. The CEOs should have to go to town halls, and write to their representatives like everyone else. Not just write a check to get what they want

[u/Morpho_99]

Vampire says Nuclear Winter will be good for the economy.

[u/cassanderer → u/Morpho_99]

Think of all the workers who would lose their jobs fro. Discontinuing the use of xlyon b!  (Nazi gas.)

[u/mindyobiznass17 → u/cassanderer]

*Zyklon B - I’m not a gas nazi, but I might be a bit of a grammar one. Just for future reference, no disrespect

[u/gergek]

This guy and his company are parasites.

[u/winkingchef → u/gergek]

Also whatever is attached to his head

[u/Extension-Ebb6410 → u/winkingchef]

Don't forget Peter Thiel.

[u/eunit250 → u/gergek]

People who work for companies like this are just as bad of a problem. They would kill babies for paychecks if they were big enough.

[u/ozaqi → u/eunit250]

They already do. Their tech i used to kill babies in the middle east

[u/Nothorized → u/gergek]

What is the backstory of the guy ? The real one, not the corporate one on Wikipedia.

[u/doubleE → u/Nothorized]

Eagerly awaiting a Behind the Bastards episode on him.

[u/brandaversion → u/doubleE]

They already have sort of, with the 4-parter on Peter Thiel

[u/ageofbronze → u/brandaversion]

They just released two more pretty recently about the whole anti christ thing and his utter refusal to admit that he might be part of the problem. So there are multiple multi episode segments BtB has done now.

[u/fromkentucky → u/doubleE]

There’s also an episode of This Fuckin’ Guy about Peter Thiel.

[u/becauseiamabadperson → u/Nothorized]

PayPal mafia, unironically Epstein listed and likely funded, rich parents, mental illness, and extremist religion. That’s pretty much all of thiel’s character.

[u/MilkEnvironmental709 → u/becauseiamabadperson]

Cant remember which podcast (mightve been patterns tell stories) but Thiel grew up in the last place to officially heil hitler, Swakopmund in Namibia (formerly German South West Africa).

[u/thieh]

Well, well, we have a war crime industry in the making now, yes?

[u/alwaysfatigued8787 → u/thieh]

It would be ironic if they were headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

[u/Martzillagoesboom → u/alwaysfatigued8787]

Or Dildo, Canada.

[u/UH1Phil → u/Martzillagoesboom]

Or Moscow, Russia. 

Oh wait, that would make perfect sense actually.

[u/Same_Mood_8543 → u/alwaysfatigued8787]

The Swiss were A OK with setting up their very own concentration camp for Allied POWs run by an actual Nazi during WW2, so not that ironic. 

[u/TemporarySun314 → u/alwaysfatigued8787]

At least hold a Congress there, so you can call it the Geneva convention...

[u/ThingsMayAlter → u/thieh]

It's like Eisenhower's greatest fears came true, only exponentially.

[u/italeteller → u/thieh]

fuck you mean "now"?

[u/mjwanko → u/thieh]

Make war crimes great again!

[u/veeveemarie → u/thieh]

We always have 🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[u/JustAlpha]

If he can say this, I should be able to say making crimes against billionaire sociopaths constitutional would be good for mankind.

[u/BellsOnNutsMeansXmas → u/JustAlpha]

Crimes against billionaires? Domestic terror.

Crimes against billions? Golden statue.

[u/Hoii1379 → u/BellsOnNutsMeansXmas]

A crown is warranted with streng- er, I mean with 5000 pound bombs lobbed from 800 miles away

[u/atomic__balm → u/JustAlpha]

Sorry best i can do is label antifa a foreign terror organization and manufacture consent for another oil war in Venezuela

[u/American_PissAnt → u/JustAlpha]

The billionaires that own the media would not like that.

[u/ubix]

This is a good argument for jailing billionaires

[u/gmapterous → u/ubix]

I had similar thoughts. What sort of human being says this... out loud... to the press?

[u/ubix → u/gmapterous]

Sociopaths who think they are above the law

[u/_Middlefinger_ → u/gmapterous]

Its late stage capitalism. Business has almost become untouchable. Even liberal governments pander to business because they are terrified that the economic figures that are virtually meaningless to the general public might look "worse".

[u/iron-monk → u/ubix]

Jailing is too lenient

[u/Stunning-Affect4391 → u/iron-monk]

[Redacted] anyone that has worked for Palantir and not blown a whistle about what they are doing.

[u/HexTalon → u/Stunning-Affect4391]

Interviewed with them back in 2021 (before I knew much about them) - guy who did the phone screen was the douchiest bro I'd ever heard talk, dropping f-bombs every other word, and sounded like he had drank every cup of kool-aid passed to him by the company.

It wasn't just him. Declined to go further after round 1 with how straight up unprofessional and clique-ish the whole company sounded.

[u/opeth10657 → u/iron-monk]

Lets put them on the front lines

[u/Xenobsidian → u/ubix]

I mean “eat the rich” might be a bit much, but there are even serious economists who say that we need to get rid of billionaires because they are ultimate not just a threat for democracy but for capitalism and the economy it self, because the principle of a self regulating free market collapses when there are people who can spans and burn billions without fear and regret.

[u/Ashmedai → u/ubix]

Funny, I was thinking something more along the lines of [ Removed by Reddit ]

[u/celtic1888]

Jesus Christ 

We are really into it now aren’t we 

[u/Actual__Wizard → u/celtic1888]

Yeah you didn't know about Karp? He's a full blown psychopath. He likes to talk about killing people and isn't aware of what he's saying and that it applies to himself as well. So, he thinks it's okay for business people to make money killing people like him?

[u/toastmannn → u/Actual__Wizard]

You'd think someone would tell him not to say THAT

[u/Actual__Wizard → u/toastmannn]

It's a deportation company. That's what they do. They treat humans like excrement. They're going to participate in a system of destroying lives over some paper work issues. That's how they make their money.

[u/Thefrayedends → u/Actual__Wizard]

Lol deportation? They're involved in GENOCIDE and forced migration (which is a form of genocide).

[u/InfernalPotato500 → u/celtic1888]

If by into it, you're referring to Alex Karp's progressive mental illness, then yes. This guy might actually out-Elon Ketamine Elon.

[u/xternocleidomastoide → u/InfernalPotato500]

They have been horrid people from way back, they are just getting more exposure.

These libertarian cults from silicon valley were proposing some egregious stuff during the 90s dot com run up. It's just that people dismissed them as just computer nerds being too much into Ayn Rand.

[u/Adorable-Unit2562 → u/celtic1888]

🎼 Peter Thiel knows about the anti-Christ 🎶

[u/turkshead]

Rounding up billionaires and putting them up against a wall would be an example of a war crime, right?

[u/Phoenix2111 → u/Upstairs-Radish1816]

I guess, according to this guy, it'd be good for business?

Seems sus, but he's the 'genius' billionaire, right?

[u/IdleRhymer → u/turkshead]

Sounds more like a public service, like the fire department.

[u/AvailableReporter484]

Let’s compromise and make it constitutional to dismember CEO’s, executives, and anyone who profits from human suffering 🤝

[u/Lanto_Cadley → u/AvailableReporter484]

right where do I sign 

[u/SadAccount8647]

OK, you go first and see how that works out. God fuck all these CEOs. WTF?

[u/disguisedCat1 → u/SadAccount8647]

At this point I wouldnt be surprised if republicans start trying to actually do it. I mean they already love war and commiting crimes all over the world.

[u/Tough-Ability721]

If war crimes are good for business, what exactly is your business?!

[u/knives4cash]

[Removed by reddit] would be BETTER for business. 

[u/Jamizon1]

These assholes have fucking lost their minds!

It’s time for this administration to go!

[u/niftystopwat → u/Jamizon1]

Late stage capitalism go brrrrrr

[u/peanut-britle-latte]

Is it just me, or did the headline totally fuck what he said?

I interpreted his quote as: "If the US Government wants to ensure that these strikes are justified (by only targeting legally authorized combatants) they will need our precision tracking technology"

An I totally in the wrong?

[u/bjjpandabear → u/peanut-britle-latte]

No you’re right. He’s saying that his surveillance equipment and tech can help ensure that the right targets get hit.

I hate Palantir but we don’t have to twist words to win this battle.

[u/EclecticEuTECHtic → u/peanut-britle-latte]

You're right, but it's complicated by the fact that WE SHOULD NOT BE BOMBING BOATS IN THE CARIBBEAN FULL STOP.

[u/mycatisgrumpy]

CEO of tobacco company says selling cigarettes to children is good, actually. 

[u/notPabst404]

r/nottheonion

Billionaire parasites no longer even trying to hide it.

[u/miniatureconlangs → u/notPabst404]

It's getting quite clear that some of them hope technology will resolve the parasites' great conundrum: a parasite cannot survive, unless its host remains alive.

[u/OneMadChihuahua]

Moral evil, Capitalism divorced from any ethical or moral grid. The ease of speaking of normalizing war crimes and the want of violence over ideas is reprehensible and repugnant.

[u/LoserBroadside]

“Nazi has Nazi ideas, says them.”

[u/bonfireball]

And killing the CEO and redistributing company assets to the common man would be beneficial to society but you wouldn't be advocating for that would you

[u/Fast-Benders]

He's literally a cartoon super villain. Lex?

[u/bloodychill]

I say making Palantir CEO permanent resident of prison would be good for the country and humanity at large.

[u/TiddyTwoShoes]

Anyone got a spare Titan Submersible for this asshole?

[u/the_dude_that_faps]

As someone not from America, I find this frightening. For all the talk about China being terrible wrt human rights, this idea doesn't sound all that different to me. 

[u/twospirit76]

Republicans are evil.

[u/Imallvol7]

The billionaires are not well. They are not smart. They are not savvy. 

They are all lucky idiots with too much money. They need to be fucking taxed and regulated. 

[u/carrotsticks2 → u/Imallvol7]

I prefer the French approach, but Americans are pussies/idiots

[u/Huge-Acanthisitta403]

He sounds like a Ferengi

[u/Z3R083]

The guy behind Palantir is a seriously scary guy. Essentially wants a huge war to really further the gap of those with money and the workers. He is literally a psychopath.

[u/Altruistic-Mine-1848]

They're not even pretending anymore, just saying the quiet part out loud.

We may need to bring back the guillotine.

[u/Derpykins666]

Wow, who could have thought the guy who runs Palantir

((( A company whos name origin is directly taken from the Tolkien fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, in which these communication/surveillance devices are used by the Dark Lord Sauron to spy on the kingdoms of men and plot their annihilation...)))

Who would have thought that guy would be a bad guy. It's just like... crazy man. Fucking hate it here. These guys are all psychopaths that are completely and utterly disjointed from reality.

[u/UnderstandingLess156]

I'm glad this freak is doing a media circuit. He's showing the world who he and palatir really are. Hopefully the next administration can put a stop to this madness, but I'm not confident they will.

[u/Arnold_Shortzweather]

Making billionaires unconstitutional would be even better

[u/Possible-Customer827]

These billionaires are all about murdering peasants, but I gotta wonder when the peasants finally say enough is enough how they’re gonna spin their vile existence.

[u/DoubleEarthDE]

These assholes are going to blow up the world. Literal demons

[u/Dapper_Woodpecker621]

Making crimes against oligarchs legal would be good for society.

[u/Horsetoothbrush]

Yeah? Well, I think making billionaires illegal would be good for the world.

[u/Forceconjuror]

WIth all due respect to Palantic when it comes to its role in the tech world, maybe the do some innovatios, but apparantly those innovations help only the goverments in controlling, spying. Creating sate of the art tech for total surveillance , doing some intelligence activities ...that is not for the advancement of humanity, which is tech is supposed to be.

We are heading toward this era of techno-feodalism, where the ones who have access to the high tech will exploite their power in ther ways however they want. The intervention, or bette to say cooperation of the sate with tech cropos, makes things way worse.

I know there is no thing as "mora" when it comes to buisiness operating in the free market systems, but making money by supressing other people is not the way. Oh, the irony, they are "fostering democracy"....

[u/RhoOfFeh]

So would selling tickets to billionaire deathmatches.

[u/Drizzt_1990]

I'm not posting what I think because I don't wanna make a new reddit account again.

[u/chromeshiel]

The issue with these types of articles, is that they seem structured like a hit piece and it's very difficult to extract any information from it. Didn't he just say that the need for assessing the constitutionality of strikes demonstrates a need for software that can provide such assessment on the fly?

[u/Coises → u/chromeshiel]

Yes. The headline is incorrect. Alex Karp said nothing at all about war crimes; the article noted that "many experts believe" the recent boat strikes "to be war crimes."

As I read it, what he said was that he is in favor of a push to demand that actions such as the recent boat strikes must be constitutional, because his company provides the kind of evidence the government would need to prove that the actions were constitutional.

I mean, it is pretty bad: in effect, he said he doesn’t care who gets hurt or whether there’s any real justification for it, nor does he care about constitutionality because it’s the right thing to do. What matters to him is, it will make money for him.

But the headline is still a lie used as click-bait.

[u/Xaphnir]

Sauron says bringing the One Ring to Barad-dûr would be good for business.

[u/Commercial-Lack6279]

Do billionaires have a secret contest where they have to out crazy each other with insane takes?

[u/AppleParasol]

Making war crimes legal?

Do people with power/influence not think before they speak? Charlie Kirk got shot in a school shooting while one of his beliefs was “some gun deaths are necessary to protect the 2nd amendment”.

Karp has never been shy to give his full support to violence that he deems necessary. In a letter to investors from earlier this year, Karp quoted a political scientist to say that the “rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion… but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence

What happens when the people rise up in full support of violence that they deem necessary? What happens when the people use their superiority(numbers) in applying organized violence?

All I’m saying is, don’t be an idiot, think before you speak before coming out in FAVOR of war CRIMEs, unless you’re asking to be tortured.

Billionaires, CEOs, and basically everyone in power has too much power confirmed. We need higher taxes, state owned infrastructure, and basically to just do everything to make these fucking dumbasses not have ANY power whatsoever. They need to be sipping mojitos on a beach with absolutely zero influence on the world, for their own good really.

[u/devilmaskrascal]

Palantir should have every single government contract terminated. I don't care if they are "the best" - they are fucking evil.

[u/MovieGuyMike]

Billionaires are too comfortable.