Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics. That much is clear. But during the Yahoo Finance Invest Conference Thursday, he escalated his counteroffensive, aimed squarely at analysts, journalists, and political commentators who have long attacked the company as a symbol of an encroaching surveillance state, or as overvalued.
Punchable face.
Disgusting scumbag. Fuck off and die.
“Patriotism will make you rich.”
If you can’t smell the grift and propaganda coming off of this pile of shit then you’re a dangerously stupid human being.
Fortune gives Karp soapbox from which to say whatever he wants, unchallenged. Eventually, though, they get to…
Critics—especially civil-liberties groups—have accused Palantir for years of building analytics tools that enable government surveillance. Karp says these attacks rely on caricature, not fact.
Then, at last, they finally demonstrate some journalistic Integrity and rebut his statement with why those groups make those accusations… Oh, wait, no they don’t. They just end the article with one final quote from him that could just as easily have been from Hitler.
“Pure ideas don’t change the world,” he said. “Pure ideas backed by military strength and economic strength do.”
What? Criminal scum complains about being called criminal scum?
Ah yes, the old slap some, “patriotic” shit on it.
A word I’ve been tired of for about 20 years now. I remember once all the bush s*** happened after 9:11 in the invasion of Iraq, Patriot became the new badge of honor of morons.
I remember actually having a few conversations or even debates with people over politics and then suddenly they would shout “what, you don’t think I’m a fucking patriot?”
What boring dystopia we’ve been in for the past couple of decades.
These people remind me of the men who love their family enough to kill or die for them, but not enough to carry their weight in chores, to show vulnerability, to sincerely listen when needs are expressed…
To these patriots the nation is something to kill and die for. It’s about big displays of badassery. They aren’t willing to volunteer for their country, to give up a portion of their money to ensure everyone eats and gets medicine, to live with uncertainty so that all accused people have their rights respected or so that convicted people have the chance to demonstrate rehabilitation. Their love is tied to machismo, and just as they are bad parents, they too are bad citizens.
Let’s be honest. These knobs aren’t typically fighting or dying for anything.
Oh absolutely not, they’re all talk. But, I do think it’s worth speaking as if they were honest here because so fucking what. You’ll die for your kid but you won’t volunteer at their school or be a scoutmaster or anything like that? A dad isn’t a soldier, a dad is a parent, and parents are supposed to be involved in their kids’ lives and actively teaching them how to become well adjusted adults
Yup. Being a dad is 100% the most important and involved thing I’ve ever done.
Gross
There is nothing patriotic about spying on your neighbors, I thought we learned that several times already.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics
I’m pretty sure that goes both ways.
No CEO is needed. He should become a better person and quit.
I’m getting so sick and fucking tired of people tying earnings potential to whether something is good or bad. Same thing with tying wealth to intelligence. It is so monumentally stupid and shortsighted.
FLAG!!!
While detractors warn Palantir fuels the surveillance state, Karp argues the company exists to prevent abuses of power—by making the U.S. so technologically dominant it rarely needs to project force.
Does this make any sense at all? Even if they were able to make it the U.S. never needs to “project force”, how does that have any bearing on preventing abuse or the U.S. becoming a surveillance state.
Exactly. It’s a power move to change the subject. Imagine addressing people’s issues… you’re just sitting in their domain. You have to change what people are talking about too. He doesn’t need to keep defending against X, Y, and Z if we start attacking his idea of “the greater good” and “agentic force projection.”
Preventing abuse by giving them everything they want, so they don’t get mad and start abusing all of the stuff that was just given to them.
COVID missed a few assholes.
Coked up like a child dizzy on lemonade
