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This quote immediately stood out: > Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism? Their framing is wrong. The beliefs and internal politics of the people
by asdfman123 6mo ago
This quote immediately stood out:
> Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism?
Their framing is wrong. The beliefs and internal politics of the people making the surveillance tools don't matter.
The fact is they're making tools to assist government overreach, and anyone with any political awareness (or maybe more importantly here, objectivity) could have seen that. They're just the enablers.
- red-iron-pine 6mo agolol what? "it's not that corporations could be evil, it's the gubermnt!" meanwhile large corporations literally bribe trump -- they're the ones calling the shots, and the government is just the organ
- asdfman123 6mo agoNah, it's not like that. It's not defending them. I'm more saying they never DESCENDED into fascism -- their ideas about how things should go in the world don't really matter. They are merely enabling fascism, regardless of their attitudes towards politics or their work, and they should have known that from the beginning. They're literally saying "people are using the weapons we make to hurt people." No shit, what business did you think you were in?