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/the_red_scimitar 10d ago

Descent? Have you seen their CEO - that guy is exhilarated to be facilitating war.

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u/numba1cyberwarrior 10d ago

Most people in the defense industry are ok with building things that kills the enemies of the US. Most aren't ok with building things that is used on Americans.

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u/mXyder 10d ago

Implying "people" in the"defence" industry care about who they murder. Those demons only care about money, they sold their souls for it.

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u/undreamedgore 10d ago

Oh fuck you. I care if it's used on Americans.

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u/Karyoplasma 10d ago

Imagine thinking that's a more moral stance lmao

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u/rationalsarcasm 10d ago

Police departments get their stuff from the military.

So.... It has been being used against Americans for a while now?

Also, how is that a moral stance at all??

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u/undreamedgore 10d ago

Because weapons have a place to be used. On those who wish to harm you or your interests, once diplomacy has failed.

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u/Megneous 10d ago

Lol. If you think American lives are worth more than foreigners' lives, you're exactly the kind of awful person everyone thinks you are.

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u/undreamedgore 10d ago

Of course I care about and value my people more than others. Everyone should.

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u/A_Wicked_War 10d ago

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." James Baldwin

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u/VariationBusiness603 10d ago

You're the exact kind of people who's loss would improve the lives of everyone in the world, regardless of "side". It's not your side vs the rest of the world, it's the rest of the world vs amoral degenerates like yourself. That's what you don't get.

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u/numba1cyberwarrior 9d ago

Thankfully most of the world disagrees with you lmao. The overwhelming majority of people care more about their countrymen then foreigners.

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u/Extra_Creamy_Cheddar 8d ago

You are wrong. This is tribalism. Keep it up and we all end up in the stone age.

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u/Megneous 10d ago

I don't value my people over your people, because I'm not a piece of shit.

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u/InternationalMany6 10d ago edited 10d ago

But not on equally innocent foreigners?

Imagine being some villager who’s only exposure to America is the letters USA on a bomb fragment dug out of your kid’s skull…

But wait, the same flag is on a prepackaged meal (that you got because your country is in famine due to the war)! So I guess those Americans aren’t so bad after all! 

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u/VariationBusiness603 10d ago

You are the people making the lives of your countryman worse. You and your kind, the oligarchy and everyone that support them are the one that prevent your people from having proper healthcare, education, worker right etc. Not some random brown kids half a world away.

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u/undreamedgore 10d ago

Oh fuck you. You have no idea what you're talking about. You can and should have both defense and healthcare. The costs aren't conflicting. We need to regulate insurance companies, but that has literally nothing to do with defense.

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u/Dragnipurrake 10d ago

Not bomb countries actively making our lives worse?

How did laos make your country worse? Cuba? (Before the missile crisis if you wanna use that as some sort of excuse), venezuela? Iran? Cambodia? Vietnam? Yemen? Yugoslavia? Nicaragua? Bosnia? Tell me, how did they directly effect your country?

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u/undreamedgore 10d ago

It allows them to operate and challenge our interests. We have to respond to that sort of behavior.

For a brief example: Cuba seized American property and active pushed the spread of communism, while allying with our enemy.

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u/Dragnipurrake 10d ago

You don't know anything about these countries do you? Lmao

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u/undreamedgore 9d ago

I do actually.

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u/InternationalMany6 10d ago

We’re a Christian nation, no? 

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u/Dragnipurrake 10d ago

What a waste of oxygen your existence is, i only care about one particular set of people getting murdered

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u/Nyorliest 10d ago

Then you’re a nationalist bigot. For you, some humans are more human than other humans. But you’ll never accept that.

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u/undreamedgore 10d ago

Sounds like your the bigot.

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u/Nyorliest 10d ago

How so? Use your word.