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1 posted on 12/10/2025 2:15:33 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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The interviewer here is a pathetic hardcore Leftie and Trump hater from CNBC (Andres Ross Sorkin). Karp crushes him.
2 posted on 12/10/2025 2:19:02 AM PST by RoosterRedux (“Critical thinking is hard; that’s why most people just jump to conclusions.”—Jung (paraphrased))
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Liberals hate poor white males most of all. Since white people are defined is privileged, those who dont make it are deemed as failures in society.


3 posted on 12/10/2025 2:49:41 AM PST by Jonty30 (The next time I go to Communion, I think I will dip the wafer into the wine to improve the flavour.)
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Bkmk


5 posted on 12/10/2025 3:38:17 AM PST by sauropod
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In fact, NO ONE is upset about blowing up cartel drug boats. NO ONE really cares if they double-tapped it to kill any survivors.

This is all democrat, anti-Trump media, manufacturing the latest “outrage.” They get a few stupid, controlled political figures to participate, and throw all these manufactured narratives at the wall, to see what sticks.


30 posted on 12/10/2025 7:29:38 AM PST by PGR88
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Karp needs all the positive PR he can get. But I wouldn't hold him up as an icon of democratic virtue. Quite the opposite.

Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp boasts openly that his company aims “to scare enemies and on occasion kill them.” That is not corporate bravado. That is the ethos of a company that sees itself as an extension of U.S. military power, not a vendor serving a constitutional government.

https://sfl.media/understanding-the-real-dangers-of-the-surveillance-state-palantir-is-constructing/

The Real Dangers of Palantir: How a Silicon Valley Surveillance Empire Threatens Americans

“When you merge military AI, federal data, and billionaire ideologues into a single platform, you’re not protecting democracy — you’re building the operating system for authoritarianism.”

Palantir Technologies, the Peter Thiel founded surveillance giant now fused directly into Trump’s second administration — sits at the crossroads of everything Americans should fear: unregulated artificial intelligence, militarized data analytics, concentrated wealth, and a government openly hostile to dissent. The intersection isn’t metaphorical. It’s literal. And it represents the most aggressive consolidation of surveillance power in modern American history.

A Quiet Federal Takeover Disguised as “Efficiency”

In March, Trump signed an executive order that obliterated decades of legal and bureaucratic firewalls, forcing every federal agency, DHS, DOD, IRS, SSA, HHS, and more to share personal data into a single integrated system. That order handed Palantir the job of building what is essentially the largest, most intrusive domestic intelligence database America has ever attempted.

No debate. No public input. No congressional safeguard. A private company now sits at the center of America’s most sensitive information. The IRS used to guard tax data with religious ferocity. HHS used to operate under strict medical privacy law. DHS used to silo immigration data from domestic policing. Trump bulldozed those lines and Palantir is now the architect of the rubble. Former intelligence officials quietly admit even the CIA never dreamed of this level of access on domestic soil.

Imagine a system that can instantly:

• Pull your tax returns

• Analyze your health claims

• Map your social network

• Scan your political posts

• Detect your travel patterns

• Flag your bank transactions

• Cross-reference it all with law enforcement databases

The U.S. spent two decades building a global counterterror surveillance empire after 9/11. The tools were supposed to be used overseas. But with Trump’s reorganization and Palantir’s centralization, those tools have now turned inward, aimed at the domestic population with unprecedented speed and scope.

This is how democracies tip into digital authoritarianism. Not through dramatic coups, but through administrative “efficiency.”

Palantir now sits at the heart of the federal data pool. Its founders and allies openly disdain democratic governance. Its software was designed to hunt people. Its political partners have spent years calling their opponents “enemies.” History tells us what happens next. Tolkien’s palantír corrupted anyone who used it. Thiel’s Palantir is following the same arc, except this time the “seeing stone” is powered by AI, backed by billionaires, and lodged inside the U.S. government. How this ends is no longer a matter of speculation. It depends entirely on whether the country wakes up to the scale of the threat before the machinery becomes permanent. Because once a surveillance system like this is fully operational, it doesn’t get dismantled. It gets inherited. It gets expanded. And it gets weaponized against whoever stands in the way.


There’s no way that anyone who genuinely believes in the Bill of Rights - can be ok with what Palantir does - at the behest - and with the blessings of, our government.

People who destroy freedom and get paid for it - are not heroes.

31 posted on 12/10/2025 12:16:16 PM PST by yelostar (The media exists to present narratives, not necessarily truth)
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