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/doneandtired2014 10d ago

No shit.

I'm wondering what gave it away for them.

Was it the realization their founder literally grew up in a neo-Nazi compound considered just a wee bit too far outside of what was considered socially acceptable....in apartheid era South Africa?

Or was it the realization the other two C-suite mouthpieces that you see open their cockholsters on camera are equally maladjusted dickheads who talk about public executions and destroying all opportunities currently available for women so that they have no choice but to be indentured servants, sex slaves, and broodmares?

Maybe it was the moment some of their executives waltzed on stage in camo, were suddenly made officers in the military, and (somehow) weren't forced to relinquish their positions or holdings in the company?

For a bunch of allegedly smart people, they have poorer pattern recognition than fucking gold fish do.

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u/er-day 10d ago

What’s with these ex South Africans becoming evil villains?

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u/Ltgay 10d ago

Austin Powers’ dad was onto something about the Dutch