Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

The contempt I feel for these people is unreal…

  • kn0wmad1c@programming.devEnglish
    41·
    2 个月前

    The Palantirs in Tolkien’s world twisted and corrupted those who used them into evil, paranoid creatures (like Saruman).

    This seems like life imitating art.

  • fonix232@fedia.io
    251·
    2 个月前

    Rolling back anti-slavery laws would also be good for business.

    In fact some new laws making anyone whose net worth isn’t at least 50 million USD, a property of a randomly assigned mega-corporation, would be amazingly good for business!

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 个月前

    CEO’s only say this shit when they’ve already broken the law. I have no doubt in my mind this dude has committed war crimes.

    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlineOP
      6·
      2 个月前

      Meaning they should just be arrested and charged already, and not by some special agent, but by a rookie cop just barely out of high school and policy academy and it should be their first felony arrest. Make it as humiliating as possible for them.

  • Talaraine@fedia.io
    13·
    2 个月前

    Eh, not to be ‘that girl’ but the context of this article doesn’t seem to match the title. What he’s saying is that if the government WANTS to keep it’s activities constitutional, meaning they will succeed in any later litigation, they need detailed information before each and every strike so they can make wise decisions.

    His argument is that only HIS company can provide that detailed information…so the government needs to keep paying them.

    Ragebait?

    “Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product,” Karp said. His reasoning is that if it’s constitutional, you would have to make 100% sure of the exact conditions it’s happening in, and in order to do that, the military would have to use Palantir’s technology, for which it pays roughly $10 billion under its current contract.

    • ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml
      19·
      2 个月前

      Thanks for the additional context, but that’s a dumb argument. There is no constitutional ground for these strikes, with or without his bullshit product, because there is no war. They’re committing straight up murder which is (still) illegal.

    • blarth@thelemmy.club
      2·
      2 个月前

      *hears metal guitar *

      “This must be about hate and anger!”

      Well, yes, but not like that…

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Didn’t Dave Mustaine eventually become an outspoken conservative? Like, how the fuck does that ever happen.

  • 100@fedia.io
    3·
    2 个月前

    it goes both ways, you cant complain if your enemies target civilians or use biological or chemical weapons

    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlineOP
      21·
      2 个月前

      They believe they are a cut above the rest. Basically is they expect the enemy to act with extreme restraint while they exercise none whatsoever.

  • Thoralf Will
    41·
    2 个月前

    And next they request slave labour to become legal again, right? Because that’s good for business as well.

  • chromeleon@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 个月前

    That’s not what he is saying. This Gizmodo article is trash but at least it gives you the actual quote so you can find out what he really said.