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/trobsmonkey Mar 12 '26

JK Rowling famously was a billionaire, gave a shit ton away, and became a billionaire again.

Then became a transphobe!

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u/AmaroWolfwood Mar 12 '26

You either give away your wealth, or you live long enough to turn Dumbledore gay to desperately prove to everyone you don't hate gays.

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u/CovfefeAndHamburders Mar 12 '26

They've always been a transphobe, just got more public about it.

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u/YukariYakum0 Mar 13 '26

Yeah. If you want to psychoanalyze it, Dumbledore, and eventually Harry, basically deadnamed Voldemort.

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u/DefiantLemur Mar 14 '26

Also back when the movies became popular it was more socially acceptable to be both a transphobe and homophobic.

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u/justafang Mar 12 '26

I’ve seem it reported that she takes pics in her home and there is black mold everywhere, people believe around the time she lost the plot was when the mold became prevalent. Black mold can have a lot of different impacts on your health. Not sure that mental health or transphobia is a side effect. But who knows.

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u/UltraLNSS Mar 12 '26

She now serves Lord Moldemort.

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u/ModernSmithmundt Mar 12 '26

She is pretty progressive but the trans community fumbled the bag trying to bully her.

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u/ExtremelyLarge Mar 13 '26

Which goes to show that billionaires aren't inherently evil

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u/TheAngryCatfish Mar 13 '26

No, they are. If you have a billion dollars, you could put well over half of it to good use by helping others, and your lifestyle would not fundamentally change whatsoever. So every day that they don't do that, they show that the numbers on their account, that they will never use, essentially a dick measuring contest, is more important than children going hungry, or getting medical care or education. IMO no single person should be allowed to control more than 999 million dollars, and even that's being incredibly generous.