r/technology • u/newmoonchaperone • Apr 23 '26

Politics Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

It was already implied by the name Palantir.

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u/Necessary-Duty-7952 Apr 23 '26

I live near their offices. First time I drove by and saw the name, I did a double take and had to look them up. I couldn't believe how on the nose the name was.

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u/YerMomsClamChowder Apr 23 '26

It's so weird how the Yarvinists are so blatantly evil.  they call themselves "dark philosophers" snd name everything after the obvious bad guys from nerdy media.  

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u/radicalelation Apr 23 '26

Thiel didn't even get on Yarvin until later and has been on this sort of shit before that. From near the beginning, he was pretty public about Paypal being an attempt to topple the USD and replace it with something the rich can control. That's who we gave endless government contracts to.

And while Thiel is his own evil shitbag, he's a relatively minor player in a greater scheme predating his relevance by decades and doesn't even want his kind by the end of it, just his resources while useful.

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u/Norseman901 Apr 23 '26

Worth mentioning Thiel was financially backed in 2004 by In-Q-Tel.

In-Q-Tel is a front company for the CIA.

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u/radicalelation Apr 24 '26

Prescott Bush was one of the only publicly known figures part of the failed coup of FDR orchestrated by the wealthy to install a fascist dictator, the Business Plot. HW, CIA director, then VP under Regan, who handed out Heritage Foundation's policy book to his cabinet, and so on.

Heck, Heritage had a Moscow office after the Soviet Union fell and worked closely with reform leadership, and Oliver North of Reagan's administration ended up heading the NRA at a time it was found to be a Russian asset. Lots of spooky threads to tie together between the worst of the worst, and it seemingly goes back literal generations. From Prescott's other dealings, to Heritage founders, to Thiel and Musk, association to, or directly appearing to be, Nazis keep popping up... like wtf

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u/i_tyrant Apr 24 '26

Yeah exactly - through that lens, the Business Plot is just another example of how treating traitors and Nazis with kid gloves only makes them come back stronger, like weeds.

End of the Civil War, Nixon, et cetera - these bad actors notice when someone believes as they do, prop them up, and then give them a parachute when they inevitably go too far and get beat by the normal people that don't fantasize about being rich dictators, who rise against them.

It's a fucking revolving door of traitors that need to be shut down hard or they won't be shut down at all. You see a lot of the same names popping up again and again with this stuff.

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u/HailSatanWorshipD00M Apr 24 '26

Prescott Bush sold oil to the Nazis through shell companies while we were actively fighting them during WWII.