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Palantir manifesto described as 'ramblings of a supervillain' amid contract fear

theguardian.com

17 points by e12e 10 days ago · 6 comments

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FpUser 9 days ago

From the manifesto:

>"only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost"

Ok, so MIC companies do not get to make profit during a war, all relatives of government officials and C-level execs sit in trenches - I am all for it. Wake me up Mr. POS when that happens

e12eOP 10 days ago

The post in question (also linked in TFA):

https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312

sillyfluke 9 days ago

dupes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845197

bell-cot 10 days ago

<sigh/>

Part of me wonders if Karp might just be mocking recent rants by the Trump & Tech Bro's gang.

Part of me wonders if the UK government could get its sh*t sufficiently together to dump Palantir if he'd actually gone Full Bond Villain, and (say) vowed to forever erase Britain from the face of the earth.

  • sillyfluke 9 days ago

    >Part of me wonders if Karp might just be mocking recent rants by the Trump & Tech Bro's gang.

    You haven't been following Palantir in the news in Trump's second term I would wager. This is definitely not the case. If it is, Karp is engaging in a multi-year performance art gimmick.

    Palantir and other Big Tech execs were given the rank of Lt. Colonel in the army last year:

    https://thegrayzone.com/2025/06/18/palantir-execs-appointed-...

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