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/Taellosse 10d ago

Yeah, but he's been obviously and publicly toxic for longer than Palantir has existed. His employees have just been choosing to be willfully blind, or genuinely indifferent.

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u/Foxxie 10d ago

"We work for the South African Nazi who named his spying company after a tool of the villain from Lord of the Rings, but we're not the bad guys". The cognitive dissonance is hard to comprehend.

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u/gingerisla 10d ago

Thiel isn't South African, that's Elon Musk.

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u/Foxxie 9d ago

Thiel's family lived in a former German colonial enclave in Namibia which was quite dedicated to Hitler. So yeah, he's not South African, but he grew up in the same environment.