If only people didn't like Pedophiles and billionaires destroying our daily lives....
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I'm shocked the rich people setting up automated global fascism also fuck children.
They fuck everybody, just in different ways :)
Flabbergasted even
Of course the UK wants to deal with palantir, they want a surveillance state. They have always wanted a surveillance state there
Why am I not fucking surprised?
Its cofounder Peter Thiel is basically a doomsday culter who wants to be the one to herald doomsday for most of the population.
Oof, can't wait till this asshole dies off just like every other doomsday wannabe fucktard.
Don't worry, it's cool, he has a great bunker and a few private islands to chill on. If he doesn't put you on the "cull" list.
Jokes on these fucks, when the economy fails and their Mercs no longer get paid guess who's gonna get popped.
It does seem like the muttering, scrawny weirdo would be the first to get put out on their arse post-apocalypse by... literally anyone currently in their employ.
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And he has the fucking audacity to five a four part lecture about the antichrist. The nerves
Does he put forward his case that he is the anti christ? As he sure comes across as someone who would want that. He has always felt like the sort of motherfucker who would read the Stand and identify with Randall Flagg
but it is always them: either over-compensation or target misdirection
I assume y’all on the other side of the pond are just learning about Palantir for the first time and that’s why you’re looking for bombshell headlines. I can assure you as someone from Silicon Valley that there is literally no single headline that can possibly convey the pure evil that is Peter Thiel. He literally believes that it is morally and, from his perspective, objectively correct that a few pre-selected technocrat elites (his words) should rule city-states that “compete” with each other. He is currently miserably failing at building a libertarian “eutopia” (his words) out in the desert to the east of San Francisco. He promises it would be done by this year. It hasn’t even started.
He founded PayPal and got mad when he immediately learned that banks exist for a reason. He was such a piece of shit that Elon Musk couldn’t work with him.
Dude, the US has been lagging behind the UK for the last decade. We voted for Brexit because of Cambridge Analytica, then you voted Trump for the first time because of Cambridge Analytica. We voted for Boris in 2019, you got Trump again in 2024. We're probably going to vote in Nigel Farage next and then the US will be like "Hold my beer!"
Palantir is just another symptom of this wider problem.
Ok, but hear me out: what if we got Nigel Farage in a 10 gallon hat with Liz Truss in a 10 gallon hat for VP.
We voted for Boris in 2019, you got Trump again in 2024.
It's the hair!
What a weird comment... Yeah guy, you did all the shitty things first I guess?
uhm idk who's not familiar with Thiel but the blueprint of his "utopia" - "The Sovereign Individual" was literally co-written by no other than William Rees-Mogg a conservative house of lords cross-bencher who's also the father of two other conservative MPs that have served in the UK Parliament.
the 2014 reprint of the book has a foreword by Thiel, where he says that it's "the most influential book he had read"
so as usual the theoretical frameworks have been drafted in the heart of empire and implemented in the "land of the free"
Palantir has been here for years and the police, healthcare and MOD already use them.
The first time? Hardly, for anyone who can read and find proper news sources. I've been telling people for years that the most dangerous people in the fascist middle northern america are not in the white house, but in the silicon valley - and that the most evil motherfucker is Peter Thiel.
I can assure you as someone from Silicon Valley that there is literally no single headline that can possibly convey the pure evil that is Peter Thiel. He literally believes that ...
Fuck, you spoiled my plan to drop a nuke there.
It is an ideal belief system for soi-disant libertarians who realize that, regardless of the principles of freedom being the ostensible foundation of their ideology, they are unwilling to tolerate others' enjoyment of freedom.
pretty much
unfortunately not because Palantir will be handling the NHS data. what a shit show.
Wikipedia classifies him as a "thinker". Does your wiki entry classify you as a thinker? Check and mate, lib.
Being a "thinker" isn't exactly a high bar. A fish can do it (depending on the definition). I mean I suppose I can think, but I wouldn't brag about it.
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It's always the people you most expect huh
It’s somehow always the ones you suspect.
Peter Thiel is pure evil. This tie is not surprising at all. The piece of shit is un-ironically giving a lecture on the antichrist in September.
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The fuck is the NHS doing even talking to Palantir? That's nuts.
the commoditization of personal data
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