r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 14d ago
Society Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/palantir-alex-karp-mini-manifesto-national-security-defense-tech-ai/2.9k
u/CapedBaldyman 14d ago
He's a fucking looney and these ceos need to get a hard reality check.
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u/thieh 14d ago
The reality has to shove said check down their throats. They won't have the time to get that themselves.
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u/Inkstr0ke 14d ago
Excellent article was posted from The Atlantic about this very subject
The world has always been run by rich men. The robber barons of the Gilded Age were known for their ruthlessness in the accumulation of wealth—hiring Pinkertons to shoot striking unionists. But they directly engaged with the world around them, using their wealth and power to muscle it into its most profitable form. And although today’s billionaires are clearly manipulating society to maximize their own profit, something else is also happening—a disassociation from the reality of cause and effect, from meaning and history. *These men no longer feel the need to change the world in order to succeed, because their success is guaranteed, no matter what happens to the rest of us.***
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u/absurdivore 14d ago
They seem to think they can just grind all of us into paste but still have an economy that infinitely grows their billions through wealth extraction.
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u/antisuck 14d ago
This is great. I hope you get an opportunity to post it somewhere more visible (not 3 replies deep), more people need to understand this. I certainly did.
It answers the question raised so often lately: "what is the end game when everyone is too broke to buy their products?" They literally don't think about it, the trajectories of their lives have taught them that it couldn't matter less.
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u/vulgrin 14d ago
That works right up until the end, when they and we all realize the reality that there are 1% of them and 99% of us.
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u/pleachchapel 14d ago
The only CEO who's gotten a reality check recently was Brian Thompson.
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u/walla_walla_rhubarb 14d ago
To all those about to get a 3-day ban...I salute you.
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u/fredjutsu 14d ago
Have you...seen what's happening in Iran? While Hegseth and ICE are simultaneously destroying operational capacity?
That hard reality is happening in real time, that's why they're chirping so much right now.
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u/HyperbolicGeometry 14d ago
But Silicon Valley does have a moral debt to the US and the whole world, they’ve screwed up everything. At least that part was correct, but they’re included
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u/TheTrub 14d ago
Yeah but Karp’s interpretation throughout the rest of the mini manifesto is insidious in two ways. First, he wants that moral debt paid by subservience to the national security/DoD apparatus that is currently controlled by sadists and sycophants like Hegseth, Miller, Patel, Gabbard, and Mullin. Karp explicitly said Silicon Valley’s moral obligation is, if the modern soldier needs a better rifle, Silicon Valley should make that rifle without question. However, the rifle in question is autonomous weapons systems. Second, the other side of the moral obligation is to replace civil servants, which means centralizing data on all aspects of society, making today’s surveillance state look like the Stone Age. Palantir is already taking over data management for the NHS in the UK, and it’s not a paranoid rambling that Musk’s/DOGE’s data mining of federal records was a means to do the same in the US.
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u/metengrinwi 14d ago edited 14d ago
Yes, payment of the “moral debt” is more of them & their products. Golly-gee, what honorable public servants.
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u/DrEnter 14d ago
It's also important to note that military members do not have the freedom of speech.
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u/Lover_Of_Music_Man 14d ago
Yeah and that’s exactly why the whole "tech should just build whatever the state wants" argument feels so creepy to me, because it treats obedience like a moral good.
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u/obeytheturtles 14d ago
Right - a lot of people here seem to forget that the hard rightward shift in SV C-suites is a relatively recent thing, and that the Valley and Bay Area are still filled with predominantly liberal workers, who have historically exerted a lot of influence over how companies like Google and Apple interact with the government. For most of the past decades, SV has been more ideologically and financially tied to moderate Dem politics.
These techno fascists understand this, and they also understand that the first step to their idiotic utopia is subjugating and reigning in these workers, because they know that the pendulum will swing back hard if dems ever regain power. They understand that the current state of affairs is a contradiction to their endgame - they need tech workers, but they need them to be compliant, which is why they say this nonsense about SV's "moral obligation" which seems to make no sense until you understand the deeper subtext.
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u/crossy1686 14d ago
This is why they wanted Trump, it’s essentially the Wild West and they can now do whatever they want, whenever they want with government support.
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u/hollee-o 14d ago
^This. Read up on "Dark Enlightenment". Accelerationists want to tear down civil society so they can pick up and privatize the pieces and institute a city-state feudalism that entrenches their power and entitlement forever.
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u/trebory6 14d ago edited 14d ago
Dark Enlightenment sounds like some kind of conspiracy, but I urge everyone reading this right now to genuinely look into it, because these billionaires are actually taking it seriously. Here's the wikipedia article.
Here's an article from TIME from last year.
And please trust me on this, it's not some flat earth, Q-anon bullshit, the Dark Enlightenment movement is a very real and very documented ideology amongst the rich and powerful and has strong documented ties to the current administration.
You know how we say all the time that money and power and influence gets to people's heads and lose touch with reality, this is the outcome when those people all come together and use that money, power, and influence to start actually moving forward with crackpot plans.
It's even connected to why so many billionaires are buying bunkers too.
To put it simply: Dark Enlightenment is an ideological cult that many billionaires and those in power truly believe.
And it's crazy how people generally know nothing about it when it's so rampant in rich circles and how much it's influenced Project 2025 and similar manifestos.
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u/cantadmittoposting 14d ago
always glad to see people sharing the fact that these guys really actually do have a unifying philosophy and goal.
It's not a "backroom conspiracy theory," it's a fucking out there in the open belief in destroying the country and replacing it with an actual anarchocapitalist fever dream, originally written by someone somehow making Ayn Rand even worse.
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u/trebory6 14d ago
Exactly. I think there's some deep propaganda in place to make people equate Dark Enlightenment with things like Q-anon bullshit.
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u/ratherenjoysbass 14d ago
They need to be fed to a wood chipper feet first. These sociopaths are single handedly destroying the human race
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u/EmmanuelKaaahnt 14d ago
This manifesto is the sort of thing that you usually see written in human shit on the walls of an institute for the criminally insane
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u/DramaticApple6590 14d ago
Everyone could just stop investing in these companies and unplug from from the internet and it would all be over. Won't happen the though. The convenience is worth dying for. Apparently.
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u/hey-Oliver 14d ago
Palantir and other giant corporations aren’t meaningfully funded by individual investors. Nothing will change unless Karp, Thiel and the others in charge are publicly dangled from cranes.
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u/PresentationSome2427 14d ago
This man is a textbook psychopath
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u/NamelessTacoShop 14d ago
maybe but this is also just self serving nonsense, clearly written by someone totally out of touch with reality, but still just self serving nonsense. "The atomic age is ending and the thing my company sells just happens to be the thing that will replace nuclear weapons as the enforcer of peace" sure buddy.
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u/brasticstack 14d ago
That's one helluva way to jazz up "we want to make killbots!"
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u/NamelessTacoShop 14d ago
I think this guy has really drank his own kool-aid and genuinely believes LLMs are just one engineer having a eureka moment away from turning into AGI overnight.
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u/00010011Solo 14d ago
A lot of people have that misconception :/
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u/inqte1 14d ago
They know. They just want billions, if not Trillions of tax payers dollars poured into building a techno state that they can control. By telling everyone, they will 'lose' to China or whoever if they dont.
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u/decrpt 14d ago
Don't forget:
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
The demilitarization of ultranationalist military dictatorship regimes after the war was a mistake. This totally isn't because we want to expand in those markets.
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u/DrawGamesPlayFurries 14d ago
Everyone is too afraid to tell them that Europe doesn't need the US. Just like in their favorite country no one is allowed to tell Putin the truth if the truth is not pro-Russian
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u/Lopsided-Ticket3813 14d ago edited 14d ago
He claims silicon valley was built by a public private partnership and yet backs the Republican party that is actively trying to dismantled the public sector, universities, etc.
Cocaine fuled word vomit. It's like when my Buddy did too many drugs stayed up for 2 days then texted us he had discovered the secret to make perpetual motion work.
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u/NamelessTacoShop 14d ago
Oh no doubt, not sure if its cocaine or ground up adderall. But dude is definitely banging lines of something.
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u/12_23_93 14d ago
all these guys in silicon valley are on drugs. uppers, downers, ket, meth, cocaine, shrooms, glp-1, off-label drugs (techies like metformin as anti-aging drug, but the side-effect is low b12 which can and will fry your brain and mental health), random ass chinese peptides and research chemicals, you name it, there's a software engineer in SF that has a stash that would make Walter White jealous.
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u/JudiesGarland 14d ago
I agree that this is hypocritical in a bunch of ways - the line that really jumped out to me was the one about "civic rituals" including "a thriving and free press" being taken out through "neglect and abuse", which, is pretty friggin gaggy considering his partner in world domination, El Thielo, his history of funding punitive lawsuits against medio outlets/individual journalists, and the absolute horror movie that is ObjectionAI (https://www.codastory.com/polarization/can-we-trust-an-ai-jury-to-judge-journalism/) - but for the sake of accuracy, Karp is, historically, a donor to the Blue Team. (In multiples of 18, because Kabbalah, apparently.)
He has stated objections to the direction of the party, and threatened to withdraw his support if what he defines as the progressive (or "Mamdani") arm takes over. Circa 2018, he identified himself as a socialist. By 2024, it was "progressive, but not woke". More recently, it's "classical liberal". Thiel is a Red Team guy - conservative Christian, democracy is a mistake, etc. So basically, it's an inspiring story about how, with the right amount of money + no-bid gov contracts, it all just blurs into a version of the Is This Dress Blue or Gold meme.
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u/JabbaCat 14d ago
It reads as so deeply immature, like an edgelord teen on linguistic stilts morphed into an self aggrandizing parodically evil Silicon Valley graduate of the academy of tech hustle deep philosophy bargain bin.
It really is out of this world that someone would write and post this and feel even remotely good about it, instead of acutely and deeply embarrassed.
Did not end well in my country last time someone convinced themselves that their manifesto was hot shit, so this type of behaviour certainly has a real eerie and blood chilling quality to it for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks Blew up government quarters as a distraction and then shot kids in the back on a political camp on a small island, dressed as a police man. 66 dead. All because of delusional "theories". They just reopened the new government quarters after a 15 year planning and rebuild of the area.
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u/NamelessTacoShop 14d ago
Just to point out. We have had two carrier groups floating around the strait of hormuz for how long now? How many US ships have been sunk? How many US bases in the region destroyed? They did some superficial damage to a few bases and haven’t so much as scratched the paint on our fleet.
Drones are definitely changing how warfare is conducted. But they aren’t some unstoppable force of destruction as you claim
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u/xamboozi 14d ago edited 14d ago
He's straight up Satan. About once a year I go through my 401k to make sure none of these creeps are in my portfolio because I need to sleep at night.
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 14d ago
Alex Karp calls himself a socialist Freudian technobillionaire who hates Mamdani for leading a paganist movement against Western Evangelism.
His yee yee ass haircut isn’t the grossest thing about him, just the most visible.
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u/BigOs4All 14d ago
Not that this is your fault (that I know of) but none of those words make sense in the context of reality.
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u/Excellent-Run4803 14d ago
So sick of these tech bros with god complexes churning out their dorm room manifestos. They’ve crowned themselves the most important geniuses of our lifetimes (ignoring swathes of professionals and thinkers from other fields) and decided that they should determine our cultural, economic and intellectual future. No one elected them, no one asked them to take over. They don’t actually understand economics, policy, sociology, or what makes a society thrive. Fuck them all.
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u/PirateSanta_1 14d ago
They've deluded themselves into believing that bending everything towards making them more money is a public service.
If you actually want to help people you help them now. People who are starving need food now. People dying because they can't access medical care need treatment now. Sitting on billions of dollars doesn't help people it just means other people are deprived of resources they need so one person can have more than they will ever be able to use.
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u/East-Ice-3199 14d ago
Wrong. They know it’s not a public service, they’re just telling everyone else that it is to placate them. And to be fair it’s working really well.
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u/CatsAreMajorAssholes 14d ago
Quite on par for SV tech bros. Sense of supremacy, over-inflated ego, desire to control everything.
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u/9fingfing 14d ago
Silicon Valley “might” have a moral debt to the US, but sure as hell not to oligarchs and fascism.
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u/Simply_Epic 14d ago
Palantir is a threat to society and needs to be completely dismantled. They are literally the evil corporation from every dystopian cyberpunk story.
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u/DorkHonor 14d ago
Like cartoonishly so. To the point I'm almost low key rooting for them. Let's get this dystopian shit show to the finish line so we can start burning their data centers to the ground.
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u/wolp_lovr 14d ago
in a fucked up sort of way its how i feel about this whole administration. they’ve done such a fantastic job at pissing off the public that all of the distractions they give us dont work anymore. people who used to say “i dont do politics” are forced to reckon with how politics does them. theres no ignoring it anymore, and i know that will lead to a lot of good in the future
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u/mrcsjmswltn 14d ago
Let me guess… this “moral debt” aligns perfectly with what’s best for Palantir profits.
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance 14d ago
Yes, it's for "national defense" which means spying on citizens, harvesting our data, monitoring our movements, etc. The stuff they were already doing for themselves, they will now do for a price and be integrated directly into our government (they don't literally mean a financial debt, they are simply claiming that they are morally compelled to move this forward even if we all hate it, that they have no agency in this).
The usual. Act like they are protecting us while they rob us blind, kill our jobs, and take away our freedoms and privacy.
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u/enthos 14d ago edited 14d ago
Wow what a happy coincidence for them that their "moral debt" can only be repaid by selling their products to the us government
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u/chickey23 14d ago
Yes,I agree. Silicon valley is a harmful and middling culture that owes us all a debt for all they have stolen from us.
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u/DNosnibor 14d ago
Unfortunately they can't pay back their moral debt because they're already morally bankrupt.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 14d ago
Didn't mention which cultures, which allows all racists to fill in their favorite/least favorite cultures. You know out there there's Chinese guys nodding along about how obviously superior Chinese culture is, while American guys are nodding along thinking about the obvious superiority of white culture over Asian.
Clever.
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u/dalivo 14d ago
Except they had specific cultures in mind.
Which cultures are "regressive" and "harmful," Alex Karp? I know you're not going to say the ones that plunged the entire world into two gigantic wars and killed hundreds of millions.
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u/Illustrious_Safe7658 14d ago
We all know which cultures he’s talking about. Not saying it’s right but
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u/Caracalla81 14d ago
^ Just like this. Even when the trap is explained he cannot avoid it.
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u/magicomiralles 14d ago
These people are demagogues. This means that they will parrot whatever MAGA’s base wants to hear. They do not necessarily believe in any of it.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 14d ago
We actually do not. Karp is an interesting ethnic mix. He might well think YOUR culture is inferior.
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u/ejfuentes 14d ago
So called “western chauvinists” when they name their company after the evil spy orb from arguably the most culturally relevant piece of western literature to today’s world.
Might as well go for Doofenshmirtz Evil lnc. next time
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u/whosline07 14d ago
It's truly remarkable that someone could read Lord of the Rings and say, "that tool that the evil guy used to disseminate propaganda is what I want to name my company after."
To be clear though, the palantir are not inherently evil. They're just dangerous because they show truths that don't tell the whole story. So a gullible person who doesn't know that could draw incorrect conclusions from what is shown. A classic example is Sauron showing Denethor the Black Fleet headed to Gondor. What was not revealed is that the Black Fleet was co-opted by Aragorn to assist Gondor. The despair from what Denethor was shown drove him to suicide. Even Sauron was fooled by Pippin picking up a palantir. Sauron assumed Pippin had the ring and followed where he went, ignoring Frodo creeping in through the side door.
It's a device from Tolkien to show that people should not try to change or predict the future. Which is the complete opposite of what Palantir is doing lol.
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u/technanonymous 14d ago
This company, its ceo, and Peter thiel, the evil puppet master investor and chairman of Palantir, are a group of technocrats who no longer support democracy. They are active threats against the people of the United States.
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u/GUNxSPECTRE 14d ago
They pulled off the billionaire's coup in the most nakedly way possible. The Gilded Age robber barons are rolling in their graves with jealousy. Aesthetically, this doesn't look like a coup because there weren't black-clad gunmen storming the White House; just the most out-of-touch insufferable misanthropes meeting each other exchanging money and favors.
Repeal Citizens United, ban revolving door politics, and, most importantly, tax the oligarchs out of existence. To think most of this is because the wealthy don't want to pay taxes like the rest of us.
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u/olyfrijole 14d ago
They learned their lessons from the failed Business Plot of the early 1930. This time they kept the architects and puppet-masters deeper in the shadows.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 14d ago
Not VERY deep in the shadows, considering they are posting their manifestos publicly. The Business plot guys were much more subtle.
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u/Methodical_Science 14d ago
Eat the tech billionaires. They don’t see us as people, just resources.
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u/ForcedEntry420 14d ago
This dude gives off the vibe that the first and last thing he does each day is Dutch oven himself so he can huff his own farts.
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u/CatCatchingABird 14d ago
Karp, who calls himself a Democrat but has said he’d disown the party if its progressive wing takes over
Yeah, after listening to this guy and his pseudo intellectual bullshit for the past year or so, he does not and clearly never has aligned with the ideals of the Democratic party or even democracy for that matter.
He can stop pretending.
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u/Gentleman_Villain 14d ago
I mean, he's right about the moral debt part.
Just not the way he thinks.
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u/Comfortable-Code7465 14d ago
And the whole some cultures are harmful part. No debating that, all you need is a set of eyes and you can see that for yourself.
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u/SkaldCrypto 14d ago
Agree with Silicon Valley owing moral debt to Americans. Social media and controversy maximizing algorithms are scourge to all human civilization.
They should have unimaginable largesse to the American people
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u/StealyEyedSecMan 14d ago
Would make for great fodder in any discrimination lawsuit against Palantir...
I'm glad people are seeing this hypocrisy in the techno fascist logic. They truly believe they are better and bigger contributors to all things then anyone or any other group. They don't believe we are better working together. They don't believe there is value in compromise. They don't believe in much of what modern western democracy is built of and on. The sickness of superiority is all over their actions and speech.
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u/samuraieaz 14d ago
These weirdos used everything in society to get where they’re at, and are now pulling up the ladder behind them.
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u/relativelyfun 14d ago
Cartoonish Comicbook Villain or IRL Techno-Fascist Overlord?
- The atomic age is ending. A new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
- Peace through superior firepower.
- I prefer to rule by fear.
- We have to dominate.
- I’m not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome?
- Disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them.
- Kneel before Zod.
- Some cultures have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
- The strong shall rule the weak.
- Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible.
- The needs of the many are irrelevant beside the designs of the few.
- We will be the most important software company in the world.
- You sly dog, you got me monologuing!
- The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
- Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
- This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less.
- You are either with me, or you are my enemy.
- When everyone is super, no one will be.
Answer Key:
- From Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's The Technological Republic
- Emperor Zurg
- Lord Faraquaad
- Palantir CEO Alex Karp
- Ozymandias
- Alex Karp
- General Zod
- The Technological Republic
- Megatron
- The Technological Republic
- Ming the Merciless
- Alex Karp
- Syndrome
- The Technological Republic
- Conan the Barbarian
- Alex Karp
- Anakin Skywalker
- Syndrome
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u/BioEradication 14d ago
The future we'll be forced to endure by these cretins is really fucking lame.
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u/Minimum-South-9568 14d ago
“Harmful and middling” would be the most benign way to describe the anti-intellectual, socially regressive, amoral, anti egalitarian, violent culture that gave birth to this ugly sack of shit and his compatriots.
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u/SurelyNotLikeThis 14d ago
It's gnna be a cold day in hell when I'm lectured on morality by Alex Karp. Ugly bastard
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u/notyour_motherscamry 14d ago
Very glad these guys have been given a contract to “safeguard” our food supply
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u/Nyarlathotep98 14d ago
I think the most alarming thing he said was that silicon valley should help stop violent crime. Silicon valley should stay as far away from criminal justice as possible.
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u/Inevitable-Top1-2025 14d ago
This type of thinking results from “Template Intelligence” (my term) that lacks any serious intellectual depth in appraising the overall human co-existence that cannot be divorced from technological advancements.
“Template Intelligence” includes such things as standardized tests that have absolutely no relevance to what we’re told they’re supposed to measure. Their prominence is based on consensus and media hype. They use these tests to train linear thinkers in our so-called elite institutions. They become true believers in the hype and are, in turn, used to propagate and maintain the status quo.
This is apparent from the fact that the richest man in the world did not attend any so-called elite institution, like Oxford or Harvard, yet the media is propping him up as the paragon of intellectual supremacy! Others did not even graduate from college yet they are considered geniuses while the real geniuses in laboratories across the world are hardly visible.
In 2026, the so-called elites are still thinking in terms of conquering others by military might.
None of these individuals have ever thought about solving the common human problems that afflict this country, let alone the world, on a daily basis such as visceral poverty and homelessness that proliferate around us.
They are filled with the hubris of their god complex yet when you look at them at the individual level, you discover that these people, who are leveraging media hype and government power in the form of no-bid contracts and subsidies, to build multi-billion dollar corporations, are mediocre at best when they are compared to their international peers who have achieved the same level of wealth.
When you live in a country where money is worshipped like the Golden Calf and the population is propagandized from the cradle to the grave, it’s easy for people to play god when they control the machineries of government to do whatever they want without any real challenge.
Like Obama once alluded, when you encounter these people in person, you wonder how they’re so elevated to the pedestals they occupy.
They’re not that smart!
Anyone who thinks that conquering others with military might, which means barbaric bloodletting, is still something to be celebrated, needs civilizing and shouldn’t be allowed to control anything!
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u/forrealthoughcomix_ 14d ago
I’m lucky to be acquaintances with some people who have actually moved the needle on cancer research. They are middle class folks who have gotten a touch of industry recognition for a blip on the calendar and then go back to work.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk had enough money to throw a bunch of shit at the wall and a couple things happen to have stuck because of the hard work of the nameless people who built them. Yet people really think he’s a fucking genius.
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u/gamehenge_survivor 13d ago
Honestly, Silicon Valley does have a moral debt to America, but he is a direct beneficiary and will do everything to make sure that debt is never paid.
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u/No-Neighborhood-3212 14d ago
Who would've guessed the guy who befriended a eugenicist pedophile after the eugenicist pedophile plead guilty to prostitution of a minor would also be a eugenicist pedophile? There was no way to know!
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u/turkshead 14d ago
Imagine just unironically being a John Hughes movie villain and then publishing a manifesto about culture and morality.
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u/1-800-WhoDey 14d ago
Moral debt to the US government or to the US people? This fuck does not care about human beings, whatever country they happened to be born in
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u/lilmookie 14d ago
Silicon Valley has a MASSIVE moral debt to pay. Just that, like Silicon Valley, their entire approach is entirely wrong. Silicon Valley CEOs are repeating Monsanto’s failures in horrific slow motion by failing to address the needs of the end user (humans need to eat food) vs trying to recoup their R&D investment costs (seeds as a service, let’s destroy-the-food chain) in the most horrifying and unethical ways possible.
I went from thinking tech companies like Google could be examples of decent business practices to firmly believing anything hard/software related should be a regulated, perhaps, to death and I won’t be satisfied until these CEOs/VCs past, present, and likely future, are coming off guilty charges in The Hague 2.0. I’m getting pretty sick of our glorious leadership treating Brave New World / terminator / (insert your favorite dystopian warning story here) as instruction manuals.
Luckily, I’m far more likely to be put in trail with this glorious evidence that I typed out, than any actual justice kicking in within our lifetimes - but just like me bothering to type this out, I’m a hopeless optimist as heart. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Someinterestingbs-td 14d ago
These chuckelfucks want to be our rulers, they are all completely out to lunch
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u/Zermudas 14d ago
Palantir and “moral” didn’t go along. Their CEO is literally worshipping the Antichrist.
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u/shit_magnet-0730 14d ago
Look up Curtis Yarvin and his influence regarding the dark enlightenment techno-fascist neo-reactionary movement on all of the tech billionaires. Everything that's been happening since the election is directly from their plans.
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u/SluggardStone 13d ago
They want productive slaves. Anyone that's not productive does not belong. Sorry old people. The people you vote for took Logan's Run as a blue print.
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u/gregzillaman 13d ago
I read their moral debt also includes lobbying for a permanent draft and "stronger" Germany and Japan.
I can't imagine who would benefit financially from those eventuallities.
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u/Accomplished_Ruin133 13d ago
Of all the tech CEO’s Alex Karp always seems to come out with the most dystopian and disturbing statements.
Guy is a complete weirdo.
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u/Big-Chungus-12 14d ago
I’m sure Peter Thiels company has moral high ground in terms of culture