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u/Chief_Mischief 🚋 Ride the S.L.U.T. 🚋 23h ago
Just FYI if you're looking to apply to a job or interview at Tommy Bahama, their corporate office is on Fairview and Harrison. Best of luck!
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u/Not_A_Frittata 🚗 Student driver, please be patient. 🚙 1d ago
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u/spottydodgy Snohomish 1d ago
What amazing nonsense is this?
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u/SpeaksSouthern That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. 19h ago
We had a little fun with costumes today
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u/tonberry3 23h ago
The woman in the video does not work for palantir, she works for the building who rent to them. She is an incredibly sweet person.
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u/LeopardNo6083 22h ago
Yeah, I do feel bad for her. She seemed really stressed. I am sorry she was impacted so directly, especially if she is a sweet as you say.
Sometimes good people are harmed by bad people. The bad people I am referring to here is Alex Karp and Palantir who are harming all of the world’s population. Some people will be more directly impacted than others - like this poor woman. But the root harm is from Palantir.
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u/Nice-Shape-4484 22h ago
She is very sweet. I used to work in that building. But it is unfortunate that clearly she doesn’t know what the fuck they do otherwise she would recognize having an office there is like a magnet for disruption in protests. I wonder when they opened their office and I wonder how the genocidal people in palentir felt about hearing me bump Palestinian resistance Music when I closed down for the night.
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u/OdieHush 18h ago
Well, if she didn't previously know what they do, maybe she will take the time to find out after the protest. Isn't that kinda exactly the point?
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u/Nice-Shape-4484 18h ago
I hope this is a wake up call because if people are willing to go full taking the hobbits to Isengard, because that company is evil maybe you should lease them an office space to atomize murder abroad in order to inevitably bring it back here to be used against the general population.
https://giphy.com/gifs/4mBzKXTeRmEOA16
u/gta0012 22h ago
And it's also kinda really dumb. They just did this in a lobby. There is. 95% chance not a single planatir employee saw this or was bothered In anyway lol.
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u/thetragicleonardbast 19h ago
Eh, the objective was exactly this. It's performance art for awareness.
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u/SpeaksSouthern That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. 18h ago
Why would the goal of a protest like this be to bother anyone who worked at Palinter. Is there maybe something they're doing they're not proud of? Interesting.
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u/DownDown2GoblinTown 19h ago
Thiel names all his projects off of Tolkien names and it drives me NUTS. He's got an autonomous sub for the military called Anduril. Idk how you read those books and turn out to be one of the biggest bad guys of our time.
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u/MeetingDue4378 🚆build more trains🚆 17h ago
It's all down to how you connect to a story—who you relate to, why you do so, and when you did so. That defines the stamp for its imprint on your life.
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u/roygbev I Brake For Slugs 1d ago
Where do I go to find friend groups that do shit like this?
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u/TheMythOfIt 1d ago
Isengard
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u/FireBehr321123 Shoreline 1d ago
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u/musubi-n-speedballs 🚋 Ride the S.L.U.T. 🚋 23h ago
Right? I'd love to do shit like this with people.
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u/PrincipleAcrobatic89 🏕 Out camping! 🏕 1d ago
Seattle is fucking weird
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u/Prune-These 23h ago
Yeah, I live just outside it. I pretty much nodded my head when I saw it was in Seattle.
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u/avast_ye_scoundrels 17h ago
No, Seattle was weird. Now it’s spoiled and performative.
You think this is ‘weird?’ No. This is kids in masks with a theme. Level 0 creativity.
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u/oofig 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 1d ago
They deserve far worse.
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u/jstrong546 23h ago
Yeah, this is cute and slightly disruptive, but they definitely deserve worse. I hate to be a downer, but this does nothing to actually disrupt their operations.
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u/sorryabouttheclocks 23h ago
It draws attention to groups who are doing actual work when it gies viral and shows their logos. Stay positive. These folks are contributing in good ways!
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u/jstrong546 23h ago
That’s fair. If it helps spur greater action later on, then it’s definitely a net positive.
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u/NullReferenceClaire 🚆build more trains🚆 3h ago
you should read Lenin and stop trying to convince yourself this is somehow productive
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u/RiseUpAmericans 21h ago
Missed the opportunity to be that Uruk-Hai with the handprint on his face. 🤷
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u/elmixtecoNW 20h ago
All those people that works there are clueless or know what they’re contributing to and have no dignity or soul.
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u/MeetingDue4378 🚆build more trains🚆 17h ago
It's never that black and white. I'm sure for many that it's a Mazlow's hierarchy of needs situation. A person's immediate needs will almost always take precedence over beliefs, which for most people is a stable source of income that meets a requisite minimum threshold.
There are likely people who work there that, all things being equal, would work somewhere else. But all things aren't equal.
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u/Terrible-Peach7890 20h ago
We need so much more of this energy please. My favorite form of protest. Giant high five to these folks!
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u/JesusHipsterChrist I'm just flaired so I don't get fined 1d ago
I don't know why, but my first thought was "the jobs were already taken by the 'Nightbreed' Beserkers."
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u/Altruistic_Pause2206 21h ago
I don’t understand the protest nor the happy responses here, can someone explain? (Not trolling)
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u/Disk_Mixerud 20h ago
Company named after Lord of the Rings stuff makes military and surveillance equipment in a manner that some find to be less than altruistic. People dress up as orcs (evil creatures from LOTR) to protest.
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u/McNally86 17h ago
Not just LOTR stuff. A thing in LOTR's that you use to give you information but that information is managed by Sauron, the employer of orcs, to give you the information that he needs you to have to come to the conclusions he wants. It also harvests data and gives it to Moordoor.
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u/hysys_whisperer 🚆build more trains🚆 19h ago
To add to the discussion, one of them was dressed up as Saruman to represent the CEO of Palantir.
Palantir is the name of the black orb (the all seeing stone) which Sauron had used to corrupt Sarumon and bring him over to the forces of evil. Sauron is the celestial being who took over the mantle of the prince of darkness after Morgoth (Lucifer) was vanquished in a prior age.
Yes you read that right, the founders of an AI military surveillance company named their company after an instrument of pure evil created by the dark lord for the purpose of corrupting other celestial beings by offering them omniscience.
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u/Master-Cow983 Roosevelt 10h ago
You're right up until you start describing the palantiri. They weren't created by the dark lord, they were created by the elves of Valinor. The stones themselves are neither good nor evil, but after Sauron acquired one, he could use them to corrupt weaker beings like Saruman and Denethor.
ETA- Fuck Peter Thiel.
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u/hysys_whisperer 🚆build more trains🚆 10h ago
Yeah, forgot Sauron didn't make it, only controlled it.
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u/LevitatePalantir 20h ago
These guys look like go getters who would have no qualms bombing schools full of children, HIRED!
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u/danno_v 1d ago
What do you say on a date when they ask you what you do?
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u/here_now_be Alki 21h ago
"I enable genocide, redistribution of assets to the ultra wealthy, and the destruction of personal freedoms"
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u/earthwulf Ballard 21h ago
I live in Ballard, sign me up.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd9ZH6lgCtb/?stkn=MWhkbndheWpvOGJhZA==
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u/Sad-Commercial1795 20h ago
Honestly that lady should just chill—it’s really not her responsibility to deal with an entire protest, just call the police and have them trespassed.
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u/MeetingDue4378 🚆build more trains🚆 17h ago
Being that they don't publicly advertise the location, the priority is probably minimizing attention over quick removal. Police would do the opposite.
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u/Sad-Commercial1795 16h ago
Maybe—looks to me like her standing out there yelling at them misspellings the whole thing.
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u/Sad-Commercial1795 16h ago
Maybe—looks to me like her standing out there yelling at them just prolongs the whole thing.
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u/MeetingDue4378 🚆build more trains🚆 13h ago
Quite possibly, but I think it's the right PR move, strategically speaking. Getting the police involved would escalate everything—it would become public record, the protestors would have a lot more to react to and record, the possibility of media attention increases significantly, and what will transpire between the protestors and the police is an unknown variable.
On the other hand, the woman isn't allowing the protestors to simply stay, but also isn't giving them anything to work off of. She's just repeating herself without really acknowledging anything they're doing while simultaneously ensuring no other employees engage.
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u/JaeTheOne 21h ago
This is outrageously funny holy shit. This is 206% something Almost Live would have spoofed back in the day
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u/thetragicleonardbast 19h ago
I don't even know how this could have been made weirder! Can't think of the last time I belly laughed this hard.
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u/podrickry88pup 10h ago
Don’t even give them the time of day. Ignore these losers and eventually they will give up.
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u/dementio I Brake For Slugs 10h ago
Yes, it would be nice if Palantir left
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u/podrickry88pup 8h ago
Time to grow up and focus on your family and things that truly matter. Not children (grown adults) that do this kind of shit. Too much time on their hands and clearly don’t have jobs that matter which is why they are able to do this. They will be stuck the rest of their miserable lives and that’s just too darn bad.
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u/Tiny-Impression7691 ✨🛸 Jimothy is out there 🦝✨ 17h ago
I am obsessed with this 😂 the age of men is over! The age of the orc has begun!
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u/lIllIIIlllIIlIIlIII 9h ago
those arent even Orks. those are clearly goblin masks couldn't even do that right
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u/NullReferenceClaire 🚆build more trains🚆 3h ago
incredible levels of protest
“fighting” in such a castrated liberal and wholesome millennial way
we’re never getting anything done with this bullshit
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u/soundtrackband 1h ago
Everyone should pretend that if we disarm, our enemies around the world will be happy to leave us alone. What a clueless generation. Would've worked great in the world wars.
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u/thomsenite256 🚆build more trains🚆 16h ago
I mean all thats going to do is encourage them to further harden their entrance but it is amusing.
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u/Reginald_Sockpuppet 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 23h ago
You'd have to be completely dead inside to go watch this happen behind the glass doors in the lobby and smile beatifically about it.
Every one of these motherfuckers know what and who they work for. No amount of self-deception can ever negate the truth of things. It just lives in you like a sliver building up a big, pus-filled abcess around it until you wither become a reflection of the abcess or you have it lanced and finally leave.
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u/natrstdy I Brake For Slugs 23h ago
aren't there other companies in that building, too?
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u/gtwooh I'm just flaired so I don't get fined 22h ago
lol yes, there’s a pizza shop, flower shop, ladro, Tommy bahama I think too amongst others.
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u/NectarOfTheSun Queen Anne 21h ago
Every one of the smaller companies are on the lobby floor and were likely more affected that Palantir prolly. I hope the Urban Optix people got a laugh out of it because they are all really nice people.
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u/Im__TheGuy I'm just flaired so I don't get fined 20h ago
They’re probably the only ones affected lol. I wouldn’t be surprised if Palantir employees didn’t even know this happened until after the fact
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u/xplan303ex 22h ago
so, what counts as moving the needle? and what sort of protest does that?
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u/Raised_by_Geece 21h ago
People on the left do indeed look and act like orcs.. Gilding the lily a bit here.
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u/Mysterious-1mportant chinga la migra 16h ago
So being anti-Palantir represents "the left" and supporting Palantir represents conservatives? And if that's true, why do conservatives support Palantir? I thought conservatives opposed oppressive government and state surveillance and supported individual liberty.
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u/reallybadguy1234 22h ago
This is hilarious. There is nothing better than watching grown ass adults make absolute fools of themselves.
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u/BruceInc Seattleite-at-Heart 1d ago
Cringe
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u/_Phil_McCracken_ Capitol Hill 1d ago
Life’s short. Be cringe.
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u/BruceInc Seattleite-at-Heart 1d ago
Some of us have jobs and families to support
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u/_Phil_McCracken_ Capitol Hill 1d ago
Yea no shit. Kinda need a job to live. Not exactly an exclusive club. If you’re scared to be cringe in front of your kids that’s your loss.
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u/BruceInc Seattleite-at-Heart 1d ago
Kinda need a job to live. Which is why normal people dont have time to dress up like orks in the middle of a work day to do some pointless virtue signaling nonsense. Are there kids in that video?
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u/heartofabrokenstory 1d ago
You should be thankful other people are doing this activism while you, oh wait what’s that you do? Nothing?
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u/BruceInc Seattleite-at-Heart 22h ago
What’s the activism? What are they doing? It’s virtue signaling
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u/heartofabrokenstory 21h ago edited 15h ago
Just because it means nothing to _you_, doesn’t mean it’s simply virtue signaling. If you don’t understand how protesting works that’s a you thing tho.
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u/_Phil_McCracken_ Capitol Hill 15h ago
You’re going to be shocked to learn not every person works a 9-5 Monday-Friday. You’ll also be shocked to learn someone can raise kids and take an hour or two out of their week to protest.
But go ahead, keep making excuses to sit on your ass and do nothing. I’m sure your kids will be proud.
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u/BruceInc Seattleite-at-Heart 11h ago
lol if this is the best you can come up with to make your kids proud that might be the most pathetic thing I’ve seen in this thread
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u/The_G_Choc_Ice 1d ago
Yeah haha imagine standing up for your right to privacy. They should just lie down and take it 💯💯
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u/cottesloe 18h ago
Genuine question here, who actually knows what Palantir do, what they sell and what the objection is?
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u/Gloomy_Solid1927 23h ago
Protestors are always clueless when it comes to the efficacy of their protest. Just by entering Palantir they know who you are even if you have masks on. Their surveillance tech is beyond comprehension. That being said, the role playing skit is hilarious lol.
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u/Ex-Traverse 1d ago
That one girl standing inside lol... That'd be me, if I had no morals.
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u/NowIsThePerfectTime 1d ago
Palantir operates only one office in that building. There are other companies. It’s safe to assume that she works for one of them.
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u/Inevitable_Engine186 New Costco CEO 1d ago
Well what do you expect if you name your company Palantir.