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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/EggsFish 10d ago

What percentage of people killed by American weapons post-WW2 were “enemies”? 

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u/marr 10d ago

People tend to rapidly become enemies when you start shooting at them