None of them realized it before? Well then, if you can talk the talk, walk the walk and quit in masse.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2026
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You would think the name was a dead give away that they were cartoonishly evil?
I have no simpathy at all for them at all.
Why would you even name yourself after the Palantiri, they're literally tainted with bad omens.
They are implied to be made by Fëanor, who in rage perpetuated a mass-slaying of his kin because they refused to give him their boats, which he needed for his crazy revenge quest.
Some were then literally used by Sauron, who literally is the servant of basically Satan, to gain knowledge so he could conquer Middle-earth.
Like why would you think that'd be a good name for a company.
Probably because you have the hubris necessary to believe that if the One Ring were in your hands, you would be strong enough to wield it without becoming corrupted.
A few years ago, I had an acquaintance that was trying to join the CIA. She got several rounds into the interview process but ultimately took a job at Meta (who she was also interviewing with). She got fired in one of the later mass layoffs, but she chose to work there. She knew the kind of company they were and are, and she was like, "They gonna pay me lots of money? Then I'm in!" And look how that worked out.
There is no world in which these companies are doing anything good, and if you think they are, then you're the ignorant rube they want to help bring about technofascism, and they're fine tossing you into their grinder as meat as they please.
Palantir was founded—with initial venture capital investment from the CIA—at a moment of national consensus following the September 11, 2001, attacks, when many saw fighting terrorism abroad as the most critical mission facing the US.
You mean the backlash to our constant and brutal meddling with the will and sovereignty of the rest of the world, the pillaging and raping of both the earth and the humans who occupy it for our own monetary gain? Living like kings through acts of evil so we could parade around calling ourselves The Greatest Country, and even going so far as to hide the worst of the worst atrocities from our own citizens, and the things that couldn’t escape the historical record being swept away as “but we’re better now!” and pretending that just by “stopping” (which we almost never actually do, we just hide it better) that we’ve fixed the problems?
That terrorism?
I guess 30% of Americans really did know it, and they voted for the most American man they knew of. God this place sucks.
Really struggling to understand why they thought, "giant spying program indiscriminately gathering data on everyone in the wold," was ever a good thing.
I have seen the "are we the baddies" meme many times, anyone know where it's from?
The show is very worth watching and most is on YouTube.
"Are We the Baddies?" is a 2006 comedy sketch by the British comedians Mitchell and Webb, performed both on recorded television in That Mitchell and Webb Look and live at The Secret Policeman's Ball.
Source: Wikipedia
Oh you've got a lot of very good TV to watch. The show is "That Mitchell and Webb Look"
A decade ago a young an gifted software developer acquaintance of mine was going to work for Palantir and already back then I warned him of the kind of company he was joining.
After the Snowden Revelations it was already pretty obvious that Palantir specialized in data analytics of and overview interfaces for mass surveillance data - they made their money from helping authoritarian activities, including those in supposed Democracies.
It's pretty obvious that a company doing that is built on the principled of having no Ethics or Morals.
Go to bed with the dogs, wake up with fleas.
What did they think they were doing, solving child hunger?
Still collecting that paycheck and not rocking the boat.
Decent? It was always in plain sight. Palantiri, hello?
People are fucking stupid.
I still have only vague ideas what they even are and do and why they are special. Yeah, marketing, data brokering, spying, PR, social engineering, propaganda, but then how does that differ from Meta and Google.
This may an overly cynical take, though that seems hard to do these days, but I’ve always believed they are intentionally vague… even to their customers.
Werent palantir those shady orbs from LOTR? You know, the backports sauron used to spy on us...
They were a tool for good before they were corrupted, though.
No they weren’t?
Were they, though?
Ungoliant says, "yes."
Decently into Facism
"Descent"? Which way is down when you're at the bottom?
Descent into
Glad some of them are finally realizing it at least.
"the arm patch, disposal of an disdain for law, security and privacy, alignment with fascists...all of that seems pretty innocuous and normal but when we bored into FDAs data, wow, that really opened my eyes"
Nuremberg 2.0 testimony
Right? Either this is bullshit ‘news’ (high probability) or Palantir employs some truly stupid people.
It’s mission statement was always been “Extreme authoritarianism and subjugation of the individual to the interests of the surveillance state.”
When a company is named 'Palantir' you know what you're getting into right from the start.
The call is coming from inside the ~~house~~ fascist company
Depolitized white cis hetero dudes will always fall for security (French socialists even reused a far right slogan saying "Security is the first freedom" without even going social security...) as an argument. Some will keep their works hoping for third party regulation so stop them to lescent even further. For Palantir workers though, harder to defend. The palantir is litteraly bad in the lord of the ring