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Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Alex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alex</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Karp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karp</a> is a multi-billionaire who serves as the CEO of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palantir</a>, a controversial software company that has been much more willing than some others in Silicon Valley to provide technology to Western governments for military and policing applications. The company has been described as “the West’s AI arms dealer” and criticized for its work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Israel Defense Forces. Unlike his more famous Palantir co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>, a reactionary MAGA supporter, Karp describes himself as a socialist (he, like Elon Musk, seems to have some idiosyncratic personal definition in mind that has nothing in common with the socialist tradition). Some comments that Karp recently made at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute about why Democrats lost were widely recirculated online. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> described the clip of Karp speaking as “based” and it racked up millions of views. It’s framed as a critique of woke ideology, but it is in fact mostly an argument about U.S. foreign policy and as such is a very useful way to examine some common American myths that are used to justify what I consider to be an incredibly dangerous set of policies. Karp argues, essentially, for a philosophy that is often called (by its advocates) "peace through strength". He says that America needs to frighten its enemies, and that while the “Berkeley faculty” do not understand this, the Real Americans do, and thus an agenda that wins popular support will focus on keeping people safe against external threats. "Scare the enemy shitless" seems to be Point 1 of Karp’s thinking about foreign policy, Point 2 (the only other point) being, We In The West Are Better Than Other People, Who Are Bad And Want To Destroy Us. “We have a consistently pro-Western view that the West has a superior way of living and organizing itself, especially if we live up to our aspirations,” Karp said. This is how he justifies his company’s firm support of Israel, a stance that has caused some Palantir employees to quit as Israel has wiped out more and more of Gaza over the last year: “From my perspective, it’s not just about Israel… It’s like, ‘Do you believe in the West? Do you believe the West has created a superior way of living?’”I haven’t found Karp saying anything more sophisticated about foreign policy than these two talking points,* namely that the West is good and must be protected from the bad people, and that the way to do that is through threatening violence against not just those who hurt us, but also everyone from their “friends” to their “mistress.” Taken together, I think these add up to a highly irrational worldview that, if it is held by powerful people who may shape the future of U.S. foreign policy, endangers the entire future of human civilization. <a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fables-of-weapons-dealers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fables-of-weapons-dealers</a>

Billy :bc:Amazing... electing a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascist</a> made Palantir's stock shoot up? Who would have guessed??<a href="https://beige.party/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palantir</a>, if you don't already know, is steroid-enhanced <a href="https://beige.party/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spying</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#software</a> developed by right-wing <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Billionaire</a> (and JD <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vance</a>'s main benefactor) Peter <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>.It was originally called "Igor" and developed to track down fraudsters at <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PayPal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PayPal</a>, in a "murder-board" fashion, connecting their transactions to their phone calls to their geolocations etc. Thiel turned it into "Palantir" (a name taken from the All-Seeing Orbs in the Lord of the Rings novels), and has <a href="https://beige.party/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a> contracts to use this software to track "<a href="https://beige.party/tags/criminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminals</a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/terrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#terrorists</a>". Just what gets defined as "criminal" and allowed to be tracked with Palantir remains to be seen in the coming years. Alex <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Karp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karp</a>, who runs Palantir for Thiel has stated "that "the Ivy Leagues" have "embraced the thin and new <a href="https://beige.party/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#woke</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a>, otherwise, viewed as an intellectual cause, but in fact, is a way of organizing things so that the greatest institutions of our time disappear and turn into discriminatory dysfunction.""Karp called Palantir a "counter-example" to companies that have embraced <a href="https://beige.party/tags/wokeness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wokeness</a>, adding, "I’m super proud of the results. We are going to continue to execute, especially in the U.S."""That is a real <a href="https://beige.party/tags/danger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#danger</a> to our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> and it is a real danger to Palantir if we allow — if we don’t discuss these things," he said, concluding his point. "---------------So - the way to fight Palantir? Keep being good people and treating each other with respect. Because that's all that "wokeness" is.<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/billionaire-tech-ceo-calls-wokeness-central-risk-america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/billionaire-tech-ceo-calls-wokeness-central-risk-america</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies</a><a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/11/20/palantirs-stock-has-just-done-something-unusual/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/11/20/palantirs-stock-has-just-done-something-unusual/</a><a href="https://beige.party/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CyberSecurity</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infosec</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspolitics</a>

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