Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics. That much is clear. But during the Yahoo Finance Invest Conference Thursday, he escalated his counteroffensive, aimed squarely at analysts, journalists, and political commentators who have long attacked the company as a symbol of an encroaching surveillance state, or as overvalued.
“Patriotism will make you rich.”
If you can’t smell the grift and propaganda coming off of this pile of shit then you’re a dangerously stupid human being.
It’s literally a tool specifically designed to accelerate and maintain fascism.
This dude looks like the villain of the last gen v season
I have a colleague who invested in Palantir. I mentioned to him of the controversy with the company but he just shrugged it since he made some money before selling the shares. I don’t really pass judgement on many those who invest in unethical companies simply because the old fashioned way of working and saving simply doesn’t cut it anymore. The older generations could party and travel in their twenty’s, and buy a house and have family in their thirty’s. The younger generation can’t really do that anymore.
I also do investing and I realised that it’s hard to be ethical under a capitalist system. There are index funds I want to invest in because of lower initial investment requirement, but I don’t like the companies listed in those funds. And thus I have to individually invest in companies I like, but I have little gains because my capital is spread out across various equities.
It’s honestly kept me from investing at all. I know index funds are the way to go, but I can’t in good conscience invest in these evil companies. I’d rather end up living in the street than sell my soul.
There is a workaround to the moral problem like hedging with CFD, because you don’t technically own shares and thus not funding companies you dislike, you are simply betting on whether the company’s share price will either go up or down. But as mentioned, it is leveraged and therefore betting and gambling. There is also holding fees which eats away at the profits in CFD.
Yeah the more complicated and “gamble-y” it gets the less interested I am.
Depending how one looks at it, even normal investing can be considered gambling. But at the very least, investing is not leveraged, and it is surer and more calculated risk than sports or race gambling. The latter is fixed because of behind the scenes corruption; but with investing, it’s more regulated and so long as you invest in trustworthy companies, it’ll be fine.
Sure, but for people like me who don’t have the time/desire to research individual companies, index funds are the common suggestion. Which brings me to my original comment.
Hey Plantir, you keep saying fascism wrong
Can he be a victim to a hate crime please?
Billionaire says this. Billionaire says that. I don’t give a fuck what this parasite says. Him and others like him will face their reckoning day.
Hmmm yes, the OLIGARKHALSHUGGARE
Palantir is a multinational data capture and analytics company.
What exactly is he/it being patriotic to? The US? If so, the company should be banned everywhere else in the world.
Palantir sounds like it could a russian multinational data capture and analytics company.
Murdering Palestinians with Palantir enabled kill-chains in military networking solutions.
That kind of Patriotism.
What exactly is he/it being patriotic to?
To himself obviously. You can even feel the narcissism coming from his fucking face.
Israel
While detractors warn Palantir fuels the surveillance state, Karp argues the company exists to prevent abuses of power—by making the U.S. so technologically dominant it rarely needs to project force.
Does this make any sense at all? Even if they were able to make it the U.S. never needs to “project force”, how does that have any bearing on preventing abuse or the U.S. becoming a surveillance state.
Preventing abuse by giving them everything they want, so they don’t get mad and start abusing all of the stuff that was just given to them.
Exactly. It’s a power move to change the subject. Imagine addressing people’s issues… you’re just sitting in their domain. You have to change what people are talking about too. He doesn’t need to keep defending against X, Y, and Z if we start attacking his idea of “the greater good” and “agentic force projection.”
Leeching off a dying empire with miltech… Now who’s the real parasite Alex?
There is nothing patriotic about spying on your neighbors, I thought we learned that several times already.
Ah yes, the old slap some, “patriotic” shit on it.
A word I’ve been tired of for about 20 years now. I remember once all the bush s*** happened after 9:11 in the invasion of Iraq, Patriot became the new badge of honor of morons.
I remember actually having a few conversations or even debates with people over politics and then suddenly they would shout “what, you don’t think I’m a fucking patriot?”
What boring dystopia we’ve been in for the past couple of decades.
These people remind me of the men who love their family enough to kill or die for them, but not enough to carry their weight in chores, to show vulnerability, to sincerely listen when needs are expressed…
To these patriots the nation is something to kill and die for. It’s about big displays of badassery. They aren’t willing to volunteer for their country, to give up a portion of their money to ensure everyone eats and gets medicine, to live with uncertainty so that all accused people have their rights respected or so that convicted people have the chance to demonstrate rehabilitation. Their love is tied to machismo, and just as they are bad parents, they too are bad citizens.
Let’s be honest. These knobs aren’t typically fighting or dying for anything.
Oh absolutely not, they’re all talk. But, I do think it’s worth speaking as if they were honest here because so fucking what. You’ll die for your kid but you won’t volunteer at their school or be a scoutmaster or anything like that? A dad isn’t a soldier, a dad is a parent, and parents are supposed to be involved in their kids’ lives and actively teaching them how to become well adjusted adults
Yup. Being a dad is 100% the most important and involved thing I’ve ever done.
Violating everyone’s 4th amendment rights is unpatriotic
But didn’t you hear, he is making money from it so he should be entitled to continue
But is it very fascist, and that’s so hot right now.
Builds army of surveillance tools
“Stop calling it surveillance” These people would be so funny if they didn’t have such a negative impact on millions of people
