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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics. That much is clear. But during the Yahoo Finance Invest Conference Thursday, he escalated his counteroffensive, aimed squarely at analysts, journalists, and political commentators who have long attacked the company as a symbol of an encroaching surveillance state, or as overvalued.

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[-] yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Violating everyone's 4th amendment rights is unpatriotic

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

But didn't you hear, he is making money from it so he should be entitled to continue

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

But is it very fascist, and that’s so hot right now.

[-] spits@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Billionaire says this. Billionaire says that. I don't give a fuck what this parasite says. Him and others like him will face their reckoning day.

[-] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago
[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Palantir is a multinational data capture and analytics company.

What exactly is he/it being patriotic to? The US? If so, the company should be banned everywhere else in the world.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Murdering Palestinians with Palantir enabled kill-chains in military networking solutions.

That kind of Patriotism.

Welcome to Year Zero.

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What exactly is he/it being patriotic to?

To himself obviously. You can even feel the narcissism coming from his fucking face.

[-] dorumon@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 month ago

Remind me to never let the people I live with buy a ring camera.

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

“Patriotism will make you rich.”

If you can’t smell the grift and propaganda coming off of this pile of shit then you’re a dangerously stupid human being.

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Punchable face.

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am completely ok with putting multiple cameras in your (Alex's) home, work place and also making all your emails and messages public. All for the sake of patriotism ofcourse nothing else. Afterall if you have nothing to hide why wouldn't you be ok with people reading your emails.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This company should be dismantled and Thiel and Karp should be arrested for violations of our fourth amendment rights. Treason. Prosecute to fullest extent of the law

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Leeching off a dying empire with miltech... Now who's the real parasite Alex?

[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

Fascism and prosperity gospel, both are a circle on the Venn diagram.

[-] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

More like no morals makes you rich. Evil and money are on the same side of the coin in this presidency.

[-] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

What an asshole. If the same thing that makes your government powerful also makes your government evil, than supporting that thing does not make you a patriot, it makes you a fascist.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have a colleague who invested in Palantir. I mentioned to him of the controversy with the company but he just shrugged it since he made some money before selling the shares. I don't really pass judgement on many those who invest in unethical companies simply because the old fashioned way of working and saving simply doesn't cut it anymore. The older generations could party and travel in their twenty's, and buy a house and have family in their thirty's. The younger generation can't really do that anymore.

I also do investing and I realised that it's hard to be ethical under a capitalist system. There are index funds I want to invest in because of lower initial investment requirement, but I don't like the companies listed in those funds. And thus I have to individually invest in companies I like, but I have little gains because my capital is spread out across various equities.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

It's honestly kept me from investing at all. I know index funds are the way to go, but I can't in good conscience invest in these evil companies. I'd rather end up living in the street than sell my soul.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

There is a workaround to the moral problem like hedging with CFD, because you don't technically own shares and thus not funding companies you dislike, you are simply betting on whether the company's share price will either go up or down. But as mentioned, it is leveraged and therefore betting and gambling. There is also holding fees which eats away at the profits in CFD.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah the more complicated and "gamble-y" it gets the less interested I am.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Why do they keep reporting what mirror dimension Taika Waititi said?

[-] d00phy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I’m getting so sick and fucking tired of people tying earnings potential to whether something is good or bad. Same thing with tying wealth to intelligence. It is so monumentally stupid and shortsighted.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's literally a tool specifically designed to accelerate and maintain fascism.

[-] Manjushri@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

While detractors warn Palantir fuels the surveillance state, Karp argues the company exists to prevent abuses of power—by making the U.S. so technologically dominant it rarely needs to project force.

Does this make any sense at all? Even if they were able to make it the U.S. never needs to "project force", how does that have any bearing on preventing abuse or the U.S. becoming a surveillance state.

[-] borth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Preventing abuse by giving them everything they want, so they don't get mad and start abusing all of the stuff that was just given to them.

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago

This dude looks like the villain of the last gen v season

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What? Criminal scum complains about being called criminal scum?

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Patriotic nationalism is a religion that worships dirt.

Surveillance can only ever be used for oppression.

Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

[-] MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Disgusting scumbag. Fuck off and die.

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Would it be morally wrong to kill people like this?

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

It's morally wrong for Alex Karp to exist.

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I’d argue it’s morally reprehensible NOT to exterminate these parasites.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

It's aelf defense since they continue to make decisions that they know will kill people.

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

If we assess the amount of damage they are doing to society against the amount of benefit they bring .... I think you're in the clear.

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Can he be a victim to a hate crime please?

I used to think I couldn't hate anyone more than Peter Thiel, but I fucking hate this guy so much.

[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Fortune gives Karp soapbox from which to say whatever he wants, unchallenged. Eventually, though, they get to..

Critics—especially civil-liberties groups—have accused Palantir for years of building analytics tools that enable government surveillance. Karp says these attacks rely on caricature, not fact.

Then, at last, they finally demonstrate some journalistic Integrity and rebut his statement with why those groups make those accusations.... Oh, wait, no they don't. They just end the article with one final quote from him that could just as easily have been from Hitler.

“Pure ideas don’t change the world,” he said. “Pure ideas backed by military strength and economic strength do.”

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Why do those billionaires keep bothering us workers?

[-] falseWhite@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Boohoo he's "sick and tired".

Get raped and die you fascist fuck.

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