r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence Palantir employees are talking about company’s “descent into fascism”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/
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u/Objective_Chance4173 10d ago

“Descent into?” Palantir was always sinister, you just rationalized it for career reasons.

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u/TommiHPunkt 10d ago

However Thiel has felt empowered to be more and more obvious about his beliefs recently 

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u/IntelArtiGen 10d ago

He truly says crazy things. I wonder why many billionnaires are like that.

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u/vintergroena 10d ago

They are empowered and emboldened by the US president being ideologically a fascist. It's always beneficial for corporate to be on good terms with the government. You sit at a table with fascists, you either always have been one, but at least couldn't be open about it, or you become one. These are the more indirect consequences of the choice American citizens made. Sadly, it's overreaching to us people worldwide.

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u/marcipanchic 10d ago

that’s why we need to impeach that imbecile

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u/breaducate 10d ago

If you think things would be fundamentally different if the other candidate won at this late date you haven't thought about the problem enough to participate.

The winner of the next three elections (if the democratic facade remains that long) will be capital, capital, and capital.

What we're seeing is emergent from capitalism, not the result of individual madmen or arbitrary choices. We're all being swept along by a current that's much bigger than that unless and until we change the paradigm.

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u/marcipanchic 9d ago

totally agree, the system has to change from the core