Ah crap, saw the Palantir manifesto
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#Via Killswitch / iamkillswitch
11:13 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir is trending. There's the techno arm of global fascism and probably behind every single surveillance bill whether it's disguised as child safety or not."
#Via Kat Tenbarge
@kattenbarge
11:12 AM · Apr 19, 2026"At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at 'big tech reform' don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software."
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#Via Killswitch / iamkillswitch
11:13 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir is trending. There's the techno arm of global fascism and probably behind every single surveillance bill whether it's disguised as child safety or not."
@_L1vY_
Whilst the evidence suggests that Meta are behind much of the ID verification push, I have a strong hunch that Palantir are in the background whispering in the right ears to push this crap forward. -
#Via Wandering Hoo / wanderlib
11:21 AM · Apr 19, 2026"9, 18, and 20 scare the shit out of me..."
@_L1vY_ it's such a whiny list
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@_L1vY_ it's such a whiny list
@wronglang How dare we hold them to account for anything
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
8:38 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir released what it describes as a vision for 'The Technological Republic' in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:"
@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath Link, please? I'm finding articles about it but not the manifesto itself.
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@wronglang How dare we hold them to account for anything
@_L1vY_ huge Brock Turner vibes
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@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath Link, please? I'm finding articles about it but not the manifesto itself.
@msbellows There's a link to the thread reader in the very next post.
(If you want to go directly to X to see the actual post you probably can via the thread reader, but I'm not posting X links here!)
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@msbellows There's a link to the thread reader in the very next post.
(If you want to go directly to X to see the actual post you probably can via the thread reader, but I'm not posting X links here!)
@_L1vY_ I completely missed that; thank you.
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
8:38 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir released what it describes as a vision for 'The Technological Republic' in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:"
it really is time to burn it all down
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@_L1vY_ I completely missed that; thank you.
@msbellows You are not alone in that!
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@msbellows You are not alone in that!
@_L1vY_ That's why I didn't delete my question once you answered it. Other people may have the same question!
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Ah crap, saw the Palantir manifesto
Here we go.
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Ah crap, saw the Palantir manifesto
Here we go.
Also, people need to understand just how twisted Alex Karp is psychologically. He can rant about white superiority, but he’s a very mixed breed. This phenomenon is familiar to people of color where individuals of mixed background often become the most vitriolic racists.
Somebody like Nick Fuentes would be another example of this, but you have your pic from the GOP as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp#Early_life_and_background
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
8:38 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir released what it describes as a vision for 'The Technological Republic' in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.
These points stand out:"
@_L1vY_ @leahmcelrath would've been nice if they'd asked a cultural anthropologist for input. I have uh thoughts
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Also, people need to understand just how twisted Alex Karp is psychologically. He can rant about white superiority, but he’s a very mixed breed. This phenomenon is familiar to people of color where individuals of mixed background often become the most vitriolic racists.
Somebody like Nick Fuentes would be another example of this, but you have your pic from the GOP as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp#Early_life_and_background
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @L1vY@mstdn.social
there's a logic that says because Nick Fuentes has a lot of Mexicans, Italians, and Irish immigrants in his family tree he's overcompensates by being a huge xenophobic white supremacist assholehe may be a bad example though, because in reality he's a huge cynic who says whatever gets the most profitable and fame increasing reaction from his chat
but the UK government has certainly had a lot of people, born in the UK, who were the children of immigrants, who despised immigrants and became head of immigration just to go on some sort of personal crusade against them. Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, etc
we must also consider the plight of the pick-me. the right wing media always has a place for members of minorities happy to tell them they're right, and punch further down the social hierarchy
the counter argument to all of this is it removes agency from these people. maybe they are just racist by random ideological preference
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @L1vY@mstdn.social
there's a logic that says because Nick Fuentes has a lot of Mexicans, Italians, and Irish immigrants in his family tree he's overcompensates by being a huge xenophobic white supremacist assholehe may be a bad example though, because in reality he's a huge cynic who says whatever gets the most profitable and fame increasing reaction from his chat
but the UK government has certainly had a lot of people, born in the UK, who were the children of immigrants, who despised immigrants and became head of immigration just to go on some sort of personal crusade against them. Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, etc
we must also consider the plight of the pick-me. the right wing media always has a place for members of minorities happy to tell them they're right, and punch further down the social hierarchy
the counter argument to all of this is it removes agency from these people. maybe they are just racist by random ideological preference
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @L1vY@mstdn.social
Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, is a black woman with a huge hard on for white imperialist history (and future)to us that seem insane, but to her its her favourite fandom
perhaps she doesn't want to belong, perhaps she's just got awful taste
ultimately, what matters is her actions not how she reached them
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @L1vY@mstdn.social
there's a logic that says because Nick Fuentes has a lot of Mexicans, Italians, and Irish immigrants in his family tree he's overcompensates by being a huge xenophobic white supremacist assholehe may be a bad example though, because in reality he's a huge cynic who says whatever gets the most profitable and fame increasing reaction from his chat
but the UK government has certainly had a lot of people, born in the UK, who were the children of immigrants, who despised immigrants and became head of immigration just to go on some sort of personal crusade against them. Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, etc
we must also consider the plight of the pick-me. the right wing media always has a place for members of minorities happy to tell them they're right, and punch further down the social hierarchy
the counter argument to all of this is it removes agency from these people. maybe they are just racist by random ideological preference
Sure, and I think your take on Fuentes’ spot on, nonetheless, the phenomenon, people hiding themselves from hatred by identifying with the hatred as well understood psychological phenomenon.
Karp feels like an example of that
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @L1vY@mstdn.social
he is a very interesting personthe children of socialists
thinks of himself as progressive but hates 'woke' people
likes Hillary hates Bernie
what he wants from the Democrats is basically Republican policy
though I guess some Democrats want that. ones sold out to big money donors (most of them) or like Ezra Klein that think the way to win the country is give up on supporting abortion in red states. signaling to women their bodily autonomy is a debate and not a fundamental human right to demand the world over
anyway, this guy needs a psychiatrist
wealth reveals. whatever else he is, this dude is a racist piece of shit
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#Via Ian Boudreau
@ianboudreau
10:06 AM · Apr 19, 2026"Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol."
@_L1vY_ @ianboudreau good point
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#Via Dr. Damien P. Williams
@Wolven
11:08 AM · Apr 19, 2026"I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now.
And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today."
