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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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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.
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.
He is correct, but the conclusion to draw from that is that the system that allows those businesses to exist needs to be remedied.
34th Rule of Acquisition: War is good for business.
Slavery was pretty good for business too I hear.
Jesus fucking Crapcakes.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
uhh… isn’t it the ICC/ICJ who determines what is a war crime and what is not? How would making them legal in the US affect the ICC/ICJ in ANY way?
We’re not subject to the ICC/ICJ.
Never signed that treaty.
In the US what makes a war crime criminal is the UCMJ and various other us law codes. We get rid of things like “no double tapping” and “you can declare no quarter be given” and suddenly it’s legal.
(There is a very pointed distinction between legal and moral. Explaining that to these fucks is useless.)
Ah. I wasn’t aware of that that he USA isn’t subject to them icc/icj. Thanks.
Yup one of those facts that , uh. Well. Speaks for itself.
(The good guys™️ don’t need that, right?)
They have a law that “allows” Den Haag if an American is brought in front of the court there.
To make sure it can’t turn against the good guys, of course.
Never signed that treaty.
We signed on, but the Republican Senate never ratified it.
Those monkeys would kill the shit out of the hoarder long before scientists got a hold of it.
that monkey that loses its shit for equal pay lives rent free in my mind.
I will keep saying this till I die, aspiring to be a billionaire is a very strong sign of multiple mental diseases involving addiction and sociopathy.
I don’t know if this is accurate — striving to reach financial freedom in the form of near infinite levels of wealth is not a sign of mental disease. That’s what I’d call a dream, and it could be purely motivated.
Now, having that dream and being willing to do anything to obtain it — that’s a different story. That’s what it takes to be a billionaire, you have to be completely willing to crush people beneath you for the simple fact that it makes you more money. Many people, myself included, are simply incapable of deciding to harm someone else for simple profit.
Like, I’m not a hyper space nazi because I’d like to be a Viltrumite. I just want to live 1000 years and be super strong and fly and stuff.
Having billions is not financial freedom, it is thousands of financial freedoms. It is hoarding financial freedoms. To that end I can understand someone wanting something on the order of millions, especially depending on where you live (although that is still a shortcoming of education, healthcare, homing systems etc)
I would argue that “aspiring to be a billionaire” is more of a fantasy than a fixation in the population at large. People don’t really get to choose whether they become billionaires, as they have very little control over the mass appeal of their business ventures.
I would counter that becoming a billionaire is what results in multiple mental illnesses, as the rapid elevation of social status, the alienation from your non-billionaire peers, and the functional immunity from legal censure drives you insane.
Like, JK Rowling didn’t set out to become a billionaire when she wrote Harry Potter. But once her net worth crested into the nine-figures, her mouth-brain barrier disintegrated along with any sense of humility or decency.
Scientists would study that monkey
Well, jokes on the scientists. We’ve killed most of the primate population and now we’re moving on aggressively to the homo sapiens sapiens. So no more monkeys. No more bananas. And the scientists are on notice.
Having no ethics and morals makes more money in unregulated capitalism, more news at 11
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.
I’m GLAD we’re giving HIM Taxpayer Money INSTEAD of Teachers or Hospitals or Children!
-LITERALLY EVERY Republican Voter!
I’m thinking of another thing that can move a lot the businesses: hunting CEOs.
Palantir is the enemy of humanity.
Not saying someone should assassinate this guy. But man would it be convenient for someone to off this guy.
Also he has meth teeth. Bro is a drugo.
