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.
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.
Too many Lex Luthors walking around these days.
Not enough Luigi’s
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.
Eh, Lex Luthor although a fictional character seems way too competent to be compared to these mustache twirling villains.
uhh… isn’t it the ICC/ICJ who determines what is a war crime and what is not? How would making them legal in the US affect the ICC/ICJ in ANY way?
We’re not subject to the ICC/ICJ.
Never signed that treaty.
In the US what makes a war crime criminal is the UCMJ and various other us law codes. We get rid of things like “no double tapping” and “you can declare no quarter be given” and suddenly it’s legal.
(There is a very pointed distinction between legal and moral. Explaining that to these fucks is useless.)
Ah. I wasn’t aware of that that he USA isn’t subject to them icc/icj. Thanks.
Yup one of those facts that , uh. Well. Speaks for itself.
(The good guys™️ don’t need that, right?)
I’m thinking of another thing that can move a lot the businesses: hunting CEOs.
Palantir is the enemy of humanity.
I’m GLAD we’re giving HIM Taxpayer Money INSTEAD of Teachers or Hospitals or Children!
-LITERALLY EVERY Republican Voter!
He is correct, but the conclusion to draw from that is that the system that allows those businesses to exist needs to be remedied.
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
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
“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.
“you would have to make 100% sure of the exact conditions it’s happening in, and in order to do that, the military would have to use Palantir’s technology, for which it pays roughly $10 Billion under its current contract.”
Trump could do the funniest thing - call Palantir essential for national security, buy it under Eminent Domain “at a reasonable price” (let Trump call it 20x forward earnings instead of 220x or ~10% current market cap), and let the competency of the government run it’s course until the whole thing has degraded
The quote, from _Star Trek VI:The Undisovered Country __ by Kurtwood Smith as the President of the Federation, “Just because one CAN do a thing, does not necessarily mean one MUST do a thing.” I swear, if we quote the Oracle at Delphi any more in humanity, we might seem insane to any extra-terestrial beings. /s?
So, was Farenheit 451 about keeping the idiots from the ideas that were dangerous, or simply convincing them to willingly build the torment nexus? Instructions unclear, critical debate needed.
Uncertainty is a wing of the Torment nexus surely. The only way to leave it is through certainty, but you’ll never know if what you’re certain about is actually true
Slavery was pretty good for business too I hear.
34th Rule of Acquisition: War is good for business.
Jesus fucking Crapcakes.
He’s saying we should codify war crimes as crimes in the constitution so in order to not commit war crimes presidents would need the precision targeting Palantir would provide. That’s the exact opposite of what the title implies.
Are we VC funding target lists because it’s illegal to pay for them?!
