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Palantir CEO and Trump ally Alex Karp is no stranger to controversial (troll-ish even) comments. His latest one just dropped: Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company.
At the New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Karp was asked about the worries over the unconstitutionality of the boat strikes.
“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."
This is bond-level villainy.
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Apparently free speech is when you can’t criticize Israel but can advocate for war crimes.
Free Speech is when you have money and the more money you have the more free your speech is.
Crazy to even talk about “Making War Crimes Legal”, as though this is anything more than a bureaucratic speed bump for the Thielist Techno-Theocracy.
I will keep saying this till I die, aspiring to be a billionaire is a very strong sign of multiple mental diseases involving addiction and sociopathy.
I would argue that “aspiring to be a billionaire” is more of a fantasy than a fixation in the population at large. People don’t really get to choose whether they become billionaires, as they have very little control over the mass appeal of their business ventures.
I would counter that becoming a billionaire is what results in multiple mental illnesses, as the rapid elevation of social status, the alienation from your non-billionaire peers, and the functional immunity from legal censure drives you insane.
Like, JK Rowling didn’t set out to become a billionaire when she wrote Harry Potter. But once her net worth crested into the nine-figures, her mouth-brain barrier disintegrated along with any sense of humility or decency.
I don’t know if this is accurate — striving to reach financial freedom in the form of near infinite levels of wealth is not a sign of mental disease. That’s what I’d call a dream, and it could be purely motivated.
Now, having that dream and being willing to do anything to obtain it — that’s a different story. That’s what it takes to be a billionaire, you have to be completely willing to crush people beneath you for the simple fact that it makes you more money. Many people, myself included, are simply incapable of deciding to harm someone else for simple profit.
Like, I’m not a hyper space nazi because I’d like to be a Viltrumite. I just want to live 1000 years and be super strong and fly and stuff.
Having billions is not financial freedom, it is thousands of financial freedoms. It is hoarding financial freedoms. To that end I can understand someone wanting something on the order of millions, especially depending on where you live (although that is still a shortcoming of education, healthcare, homing systems etc)
Those monkeys would kill the shit out of the hoarder long before scientists got a hold of it.
that monkey that loses its shit for equal pay lives rent free in my mind.
Scientists would study that monkey
Well, jokes on the scientists. We’ve killed most of the primate population and now we’re moving on aggressively to the homo sapiens sapiens. So no more monkeys. No more bananas. And the scientists are on notice.
Not saying someone should assassinate this guy. But man would it be convenient for someone to off this guy.
Also he has meth teeth. Bro is a drugo.
Too many Lex Luthors walking around these days.
Not enough Luigi’s
The patron saint of consequences.
something stopping you from luigiing them?
Don’t live anywhere near and I’m a minority with a pretty notable anti-lex luthor presence online so I’d be tracked readily I imagine. But, doesn’t stop me from considering.
Yeah, timing. America has two important Constitutional checkpoints to get past before we are more or less in the clear - the 2026 Midterms, and the 2028 Presidential Election.
We have to keep a lid on untill we get through the Midterms, which promises to be a bloodbath, even if they get the gerrymander they want. They think they can win by manipulating the number of competitive seats, but they have no clue of how angry people are. There are many, many seats in competition who don’t know it, and a lot of well-established MAGAs, who convinced themselves they were safe, are going to be crying on the day after.
Then we have to get through 2 lame duck years, which is going to get crazy, as he tries increasingly outlandish stuff to try to stay in power so he doesn’t go to prison for the rest of his life, or worse. We will try to keep the lid on for that period, but it may get tough, and maybe even impossible, if they decide to go full on brutal dictatorship in order to hold onto power. Then Luigis will be everywhere. Take away people’s hope, take away their reasons for existence, and they might as well go out with a bang.
And if they steal the 2028 election, it’s on.
But if we can get through the 2028 election without a Civil War, and we get a new president who is courageous enough to deal with MAGA decisively, and purge them from our government and society, then we can maybe have a decent country for the rest of this century.
But we have to get through the 2026 and 2028 elections first. They are literally the most consequential elections since the Civil War, and maybe in our nation’s history.
When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be rich so I couid be Batman. How did we end up in this world full of jokers?
Therein lies the problem. When I was a kid all I wanted to be was spider-man so I could help people.
Notice the difference?
Batman/Iron Man/ et. al are ok as heroes but really their super power realistically should be the number of people they could lift out of poverty with that money. The fact that they haven’t speaks volumes.
I don’t blame the writers per se. They exist in a world same as ours so God forbid a billionaire give away all their money because no one needs all that money.
I also wanted to help people, and be spiderman. My point was when I thought of having a lot of money I thought of the good I could do with it, which is clearly not how the rich think.
In the defense of Batman he does actually try to lift people out of poverty in lots of versions. Wayne industries is basically the only thing keeping Gotham vaguely functional because that city is quite literally cursed while also being in New Jersey.
Like it varies by version but at least with the animated version Batman is dumping cash into charities, job programs, urban revitalization program, infrastructure expansion and repair, and probably some things I’m forgetting. Point is Batman knows that the difference between crime and prosperity is poverty, which he has done his best to eliminate, now he’s stuck with the personally and ideologically motivated as well as the weirdos. Hell some versions of Batman have cured Mr. Freeze and Nora once he found out what was going on with that.
I feel like the Joker would have kicked these guy’s asses.
It’s true. The joker is just in it for the love of the game. In reality he also hates fascists.
More like Penguin. Joker was a nihilist.
Eh, Lex Luthor although a fictional character seems way too competent to be compared to these mustache twirling villains.
Palantir is the enemy of humanity.
damn I dream of letting this guy loose in the forest at night, butt naked, so I can hunt him with my dogs. They love the scent of fear
him, spez and donnie
I hear bloodhounds are great animals for such an endeavor.
Bear country.
He is correct, but the conclusion to draw from that is that the system that allows those businesses to exist needs to be remedied.
Ill bet my nuts that this guy is on drugs.
[Karp]>“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."
Blowing up unarmed fishing boats is not a “constitutional question” it’s a straight-up criminal act. War crimes are well-defined, so there’s no wiggle-room about what one IS.
The problem with constitutional immunity is that it protects indiscriminately. And presidents are using it to commit acts of barbarism rather than as necessary acts to protect national security.
War crimes are well-defined, so there’s no wiggle-room about what one IS.
It’s not a war crime actually. A nation state cannot declare wars on individuals under which the war crime would come about. Article 7 of the Rome statute (The UN thing that defines war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, etc.) defines blowing up civilians as a crime against humanity.
I’m thinking of another thing that can move a lot the businesses: hunting CEOs.
He created a company named after the evil wizards spy glass, he is not subtle about his villainy
If we just make murder legal, I’ll be able to murder anyone I want! Wouldn’t that be great? Give that to me, I have to have it, I demand it.
MAGA: Okay.
I’m GLAD we’re giving HIM Taxpayer Money INSTEAD of Teachers or Hospitals or Children!
-LITERALLY EVERY Republican Voter!
Do we need a purge? One day per year for doing something about the CEO problem?
This dude has got to be trolling otherwise he needs to be put in a mental institution.
Carp, Thiel, Musk, Vance and a bunch of these douchebag technofascists subscribe to this really nonsensical philosophy called “dark enlightenment “ it’s basically just the feudal system with mass surveillance and AI to enforce it. They openly advocate for the dismantling of democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
basically china
Well china has lifted 800 million people out of poverty and these men want to force most of us into poverty or worse because they’re literally fascists
So the ends justify the means? If that’s the case then you basically agreed with these evil cunts because they claim their goals are for the good of people. They are dumb but they aren’t describing a dystopia any more than China is a dystopia.
Personally i wouldn’t go down the chinese route and kill 100 million people just to have the dogshit human rights, labour rights and environmental regulations and go from 50c to $1.20 a day.
I don’t think anyone is spuiking how fantastic china is. They have serious flaws, but they have also had huge improvements in quality of life, poverty, engineering etc. Just to be clear also, China has taken such a staunch stance in nationalism since the bullfuckery of England, America and Japan.
Then why make the defense? Why jump in and “um actually this dictatorship was pretty good” if you arent trying to spuiking how fantastic china is. China doesnt have anything that other successful democracies dont have. As it stands China has done far worse than Carp, Thiel, Musk, Vance
I never said the dictatorship was good. Its not accurate to compare a capitalists who are purely for self enrichment to a country that is lifting people out of poverty. They’re not the same.
DHS has literally said they plan to get rid of 100 million people. Stephen miller has talked about it and project 2025 has too.
Ok but you’d be ok with that since the ends justify the means to you.
Dude seriously American capitalism has killed way more than 100 million. Your Chinese strawman isn’t an effective argument. Especially when we’re constantly starting wars all over the world and literally bankrolling a genocide.
China invests in infrastructure these tech douchebags are welfare queens extorting the American taxpayer to the detriment of our infrastructure. China has universal healthcare. China has affordable housing and affordable food. These techdouchebags don’t want to invest in any of that they want a permanent slave class and the pedophile oligarch class. China literally executes people like this. What we are facing is much much worse and American capitalism has killed well over 100 million people
I think what these men want is much worse
Except China does it to drive national interest, the above forementioned people do it for personal wealth or power growth
Thats meaningless, Carp, thiel and musk could say the exact same thing
But they’re capitalists and beholden to shareholders and profits? They’re not the same. I don’t condone China’s actions around privacy and control. But I also think it’s erroneous to compare them to China.
How is it not a fair comparison? They want to remove all minorities - China removed/is removing ~8 different ethnic minorities, they want a surveillance state with total control - China has a surveillance state with total control, they want a full censored media - china has a fully censored media. The other things is they’re willing to do whatever it takes to reach that goal just like china. All their end goals are basically a powerful group of unelected people ruling over everyone with total control. The cope they all tell themselves(including china) is that they’ll be benevolent. I’m sick of seeing people hand wave all this just because they built a train and some houses(btw a lot of houses in china are shit, they’re tiny and fall apart and the ones you actually want are still unaffordable).
Also corporations can operate however they want and that its just an overused meme to cite Dodge v. Ford as forcing them to maximize shareholder value.
“Worst than Hitler because he cared about Germany or something”
He’s really unwell. His view of the world is a clear and present danger to it.
Yeah this guy seems like a delusional nut job.
Part of it is to get into the media.
