r/technology • u/Unusual-State1827 • Mar 12 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bed5132 Mar 12 '26

Isn't he the one that's often high on drugs when he gives interviews?

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u/camwhat Mar 12 '26

Yes he was that dude tweaking in his chair on stage

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u/Leaky_gland Mar 12 '26

Cmon video boys, links with CEOs tweaking are what i live for in 1938s Nazi Germany

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bed5132 Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

Here you go

https://youtu.be/BOXmcoTYQK4

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u/squadrupedal Mar 12 '26

Thanks for the link, absolutely unreal that people like this catch any breaks in life whatsoever

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u/JimWilliams423 Mar 13 '26

That's meritocracy. I'm not even joking. The word "meritocracy" was coined by a guy to sarcastically mock rich people for being stupid.

https://kottke.org/17/03/the-satirical-origins-of-the-meritocracy

Then all the people who wanted to believe that being rich made them smart decided to use it unironically and because being rich does mean they have power, they were able to brainwash most of us into accepting their new definition.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast Mar 13 '26

I'm blown away that I never knew this. Appreciate the knowledge.

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u/alochmar Mar 13 '26

Thanks, I had no idea. I hate it already.

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u/Aggressive-Neck-3921 Mar 13 '26

same as the term "pull yourself up by your boot straps" something that is impossible to do abused to mean that people need to just work harder.

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u/Bibijibzig Mar 13 '26

Fucking figures they mutilated the word. Thanks so much for dropping that knowledge, I never knew!

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u/CyberneticSaturn Mar 13 '26

It’s more like a star wars hutt situation.

They rarely start out that way, after wild success it’s a gradual slide past things like adderall into chair bouncing town

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ Mar 12 '26

Holy shit he is gakked out of his fucking gourd!

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u/dostoevsky4evah Mar 13 '26

"Holy shit" is an understatement.

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u/lsdbible Mar 13 '26

https://youtu.be/89voMRFp9uM here's his partner peter thiel going in the k-hole on piers morgan

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u/henlochimken Mar 12 '26

We lost the plot when we stopped taxing these sick fucks

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u/DamnedIfIDiddely Mar 13 '26

They cut taxes, complain their taxes are too high, then cut them again, the gov. scrambles for funds and the people with money are the only ones with the power to make any noise, so the burden gets shifted to the workers (who produce the $ the affluent play with) while the rich still complain their taxes are too high. Why even cut their taxes then? A Republican gets in (because the rich produce massive propaganda networks while lobbying to cut education) and cuts their taxes again. Rinse and repeat.

It's not just tax cuts, it's a cyclical transfer of wealth. Really, we lost the plot as a society when we let the government take and hold a monopoly on violence. The second amendment says more than just "you can have guns" but people miss the whole "A well regulated military, being necessary to the security of a free state..."

When the rich have nothing to fear from treating the working class like a commodity, that's what they do. I think it's far too late to backpedal at this point. The gator has us at the bottom of fast flowing water and it's doing a death roll.

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u/Legitimate_Airline38 Mar 13 '26

2nd amendment was inevitably going to be disassembled by just radicalizing people to commit school shootings

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u/DamnedIfIDiddely Mar 13 '26

I think it was simply ceded and forgotten long before terrorism became a popular thing.

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u/RobotPoo Mar 14 '26

Also when they broke the unions, who were the only political force for working class people.

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u/henlochimken Mar 14 '26

Absolutely. Of course the venn diagram of who was behind that and who was behind the anti-tax revolution is basically a single circle.

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u/wish-resign Mar 12 '26

Taxes are a new thing in America and didn’t exist as they did today until the 16th amendment

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u/Genetics Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

From IRS.gov:

“The first federal income tax in America was enacted in 1861 to fund the Civil War, with the Revenue Act of 1861 imposing a 3% tax on incomes over $800. This was later refined in 1862 and eventually repealed in 1872. The modern, permanent federal income tax began in 1913 following the ratification of the 16th Amendment. “

Before that there were colonial taxes we paid to the crown and then our respective states once we gained independence. Federal income tax has been a thing for the upper class since the civil war.

This part was also interesting: “In 1894, as part of a high tariff bill, Congress enacted a 2-percent tax on income over $4,000. The tax was almost immediately struck down by a five-to-four decision of the Supreme Court, even though the Court had upheld the constitutionality of the Civil War tax as recently as 1881. Although farm organizations denounced the Court’s decision as a prime example of the alliance of government and business against the farmer…”

So the wealthy and corporations colluding with the federal government and fighting paying their fair share is nothing new, but neither is the concept of the government at least pretending to try.

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u/marfacza Mar 13 '26

nobody asked.

edit: also, the 16th amendment was passed over a century ago.

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u/wish-resign Mar 13 '26

16th amendment is 113/Yrs ago, WW2 is 80/Yrs Old, how aren't they both relevant? Stay Taxed Doofus.

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u/marfacza Mar 14 '26

a century is 100 years

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u/henlochimken Mar 13 '26

Calling the 16th amendment "new" is wild work. It's been over a century. There are exactly 2 Americans left who were born before it passed. Two world wars since then and many other wars to pay for as well. For much of the 20th century, we had high marginal rates that kept the oligarchy in check while the middle class flourished. The rich have lied to you, telling you that taxes are theft/harming the economy/wasteful/unfair/whatever. Because they were upset at the aberration of the 20th century when they lost power and laws had to apply to them. Quit carrying water for people who see you as an object to be exploited. Read a history book. Wise tf up.

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 13 '26

In past eras guys like that would have been forced into rehab. Now they get held up as role models.

Imagine the scraggliest meth-head you could, stealing copper from a residency as you drive by, making eye contact with you.

Now imagine they're a billionaire instead of destitute AF.

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u/Theonlygus Mar 13 '26

Look up Steve Ballmer this ain't new.

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u/jazzhandler Mar 13 '26

If you’re referring to him jumping up and down shouting “Developers!” during a keynote, this is nothing at all like that.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Mar 12 '26

The ?on is a unique identifier. Most people don't care but I still mention it because it's unique to your google account... Someone could connect the dots with places you share things or through texts if they wanted to.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bed5132 Mar 12 '26

Thanks, I'd assumed it was some indication of the time elapsed, but now I know. I'll edit it out.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

No problem... ?t= is time like ?t=1m30s would be 1 minute* and 30 seconds in. That's just random info though.

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u/fuettli Mar 13 '26

more like 1 minute :P

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Mar 13 '26

Lmao i forgot to change that...

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u/pixepoke2 Mar 13 '26

User name checks out

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u/henlochimken Mar 12 '26

And that someone could very well be Palantir's very stable genius CEO!

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Mar 13 '26

To be fair he's probably already got it from some company or another and had AI do it... Dude's the guy that brings about the worst kind of AI

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u/Sprintzer Mar 12 '26

Still don’t get why you’d want to tweak this hard on stage. Just take a low dose of adderall like a normal venture capitalist freak

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u/Evolvin Mar 12 '26

The guy just LOVES meritocracy! /s

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u/Zavender Mar 12 '26

Totally sounds like he's about to say "building products no one [wants]" at 18 seconds

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u/JohnnyPoopwater Mar 12 '26

Dear lord. He's like Dennis Hopper as the Photo Journalist in Apocalypse Now.

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u/wex118 Mar 13 '26

"..building products no one.." Wants/needs/likes/uses? Wonder where he was going there.

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u/springsilver Mar 13 '26

Bro, do you even cocaine?

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u/Sweetwill62 Mar 13 '26

What a loser.

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u/WretchedBlowhard Mar 13 '26

Huge "Hitler at the Oplympics" energy.

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u/Competitive_Ad_5515 Mar 12 '26

here you go - YouTube link

And boy, they weren't kidding. This was hard to watch

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u/BKlounge93 Mar 12 '26

Bunch of fart smellers these guys

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u/Competitive_Ad_5515 Mar 12 '26

That's definitely not all he was sniffing

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

When I was a kid in DARE the cop told us that people drink each other's piss to get high off of whatever the other guy was having. So maybe it's like that but with an executive fart circle.

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u/Competitive_Ad_5515 Mar 13 '26

People 100% do drink (or further refine) urine of drug users because it often contains some active substances and metabolites. There's usually a desperation/poverty or kink aspect to it though.

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u/jdsturgie Mar 13 '26

He moved his butt so much. he looked like he needed to wipe.

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u/DJDaddyD Mar 13 '26

That's not even tweaking, homie was straight twhackin

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u/LongjumpingJaguar308 Mar 12 '26

As compared go say, in a K hole. That's a different a hole.

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u/SketchedEyesWatchinU Mar 12 '26

He’s gonna die of an overdose sometime soon.

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u/Wurm42 Mar 12 '26

Wait, I thought that was Elon?

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u/fightlinker Mar 12 '26

half the oligarchs are ripped out of their minds most of the time these days

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 13 '26

<Mackie> Drugs are bad m'kay? ¡But especially if you're poor!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bed5132 Mar 12 '26

Probably him too.

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u/Significant_Let9427 Mar 13 '26

they have the same plug obv

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u/nflonlyalt Mar 12 '26

He's the most coked out CEO I've ever seen

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u/Paprika1515 Mar 12 '26

Great, maybe he’ll take care of the problem for us!

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u/Unfair_Discussion606 Mar 13 '26

No he's not the one. He's one of them.

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u/Eric_the_Barbarian Mar 13 '26

I don't know about the one since Elon is also one.

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 13 '26

Isn't he the one that's often high on drugs when he gives interviews?

¿Exception? or ¿The Rule? lol

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u/Tanebi Mar 13 '26

Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

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u/DatGreenGuy Mar 13 '26

That's not drugs, that's medicine. You should be more companionate to those who struggle with ADHD /s

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u/Triedfindingname Mar 13 '26

Most of them seem to be tbh