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π‘†π‘–π‘™π‘–π‘π‘œπ‘› π‘‰π‘Žπ‘™π‘™π‘’π‘¦ π‘œπ‘€π‘’π‘  π‘Ž π‘šπ‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘™ 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑑 π‘‘π‘œ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘π‘œπ‘’π‘›π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘¦ π‘‘β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘šπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘’ 𝑖𝑑𝑠 π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘ π‘’ π‘π‘œπ‘ π‘ π‘–π‘π‘™π‘’

"you keep using that word 'moral' ... I do not think it means what you think it means."

Left Coast Tom's avatar

I'm thinking if Alex Karp needs a 20+ point fascist manifesto then signing up to work for Palantir may be roughly equivalent to Homer Simpson signing up to work for "Hank Scorpio" of the "Globex Corporation".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY1t_-geYqc

Beelzebub Griddlecake's avatar

My counterpoint is called the Giant Mulcher Manifesto.

"M"'s avatar

Yes, well, by all means -- let's see that

42tontom's avatar

Are there no Pits of Despair we can shove these dweebs into?

"M"'s avatar

I think there are ...

but the question that seems to be more on target these days is

"Who here posesses the political will to offer the first push?"

I mean, Jeebus - TIMOTHY SNYDER suggested some months ago when he was "on tour" with Rachel Maddow in Los Angeles that pro-democracy people though doing "great on 'defense'" needed to be MORE ON OFFENSE.

It's not just us little people shrieking into the void hdere, damn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCkX7c6N0MA

Nancy Potter's avatar

Would a tl:dr translation of their vision be that we should accept the techbros as our masters and never criticize them for being abusers, rapists, and all-around disgusting human beings? Because they're all altruistic in ruling over us, there's no such thing as grift, and they will protect us whether we like it or not?

"M"'s avatar

We're not supposed to care that they're NOT altruistic

but otherwise ...

Mr. Knows Nothing, et. al.'s avatar

Silicon Valley's 'Project 2026'.

Beelzebub Griddlecake's avatar

Silicon Valley's "Project We Want To Be The First Against The Wall."

AJ Milne's avatar

I keep thinking sweet FSM what a pathetic, pale, ugly, dim world it makes when rancid, mediocre, drooling morons like this dumb as a bag of hammers smug stuffed shirt take power.

The holocaust wore loafers.

NH is for πŸ¦‘πŸ„πŸ's avatar

β€œAny business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.”

Core β€œfuck off and die” comment. THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T A BUSINESS AND SHOULDN'T BE RUN LIKE ONE. The measure of success of business is healthy profit; the measure of success of government is good governance. We pay public servants based on their contribution to governance, not to a balance sheet.

Or maybe he’s saying public servants are UNDERpaid? Seems unlikely, since the entire raison d’etre of these fuckers is drowning the government in the bathtub before it cuts into their profits…

N L Lewis's avatar

I more-or-less-respectfully submit that the term for having posted something on Xitter should be "Xat."

As in "Palantir's creep-meister has Xat another steaming load of self-adoring autocratic nonsense."

RandomNameAllocated's avatar

Author photo : well I suppose he does have a fine head of hair... whose ever it is

Tim Weston's avatar

I confess to having had many of these same aspirations. In junior high...

SkeptiKC's avatar

It is just damned dark in here.

Recognizing circumstances for what they are is fucking gutting.

Hank Napkin's avatar

Tolkien Estate to the rescue?

pskbh's avatar

I tried but just can't maybe later πŸ˜•. Hal? Is that you?

Not you Marcie.

I need a spell...

ralph's avatar

And the release it on the day of the VΓ€derstolstavlan? That’s the view of a 22Β° halo over Stockholm in 1535, and if I have to know about it so do you