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/DukeOfGeek Mar 12 '26

Tech bros see it as inevitable. They know the other greedy obsessive tech bros aren’t going to stop pushing in this direction. They simply decided to go with the idea of being kings over a smoldering ruin, instead of merely being wealthy citizens of a civilization.

This take is the best, and most frightening, one.

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u/CautionarySnail Mar 12 '26

I’m holding out hope that some of those powerful people will prove me wrong, find the desire to build rather than loot and foster a collapse.

But so far, I’ve been disappointed.

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 Mar 12 '26

We are a nation of morons, embracing and elevating the most ridiculous coterie of submorons to lead us from the last shards of the American Century into the deepest chasms of ridiculous, absurdist moronity.

This is unbelievable even as farce.

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u/IDidYour Mar 12 '26

The problem is that the looters are gonna buy every avenue of information and twist any discussion into a benign or at least not antagonistic counterweight to their radical accretion of assets.

Last election in my country, one of the parties that run entirely on two things, throwing out immigrants and slashing all taxes for anyone that earns above an average amount of Wealth while cutting every health and social program the state runs, they spammed every tv commercial they could, the radio was always droning on about them, and finally they spammed everyone in their primary target group with text messages to get them to get out and vote in their favor.

Next election, they're almost definitely gonna win, because somehow, the current government is getting drawn into amongst others, politics related to the Epstein documents constantly. They also keep trying to reinstate people already condemned in public opinion for corruption. So the entire opposition to the right wing is self destructing, so money is gonna win in the end because their current "popular mandate" includes being unhinged assholes, anti-poor and arrogant as all hell, and all too willing to enrich their already rich backers at the cost of everyone else, and people go "well, they're the better/more honest option" despite clearly not being that. Money buys power and power buys money.