they knew, you just justified because it was just a job.
When a company is named ‘Palantir’ you know what you’re getting into right from the start.
You would think the name was a dead give away that they were cartoonishly evil?
I have no simpathy at all for them at all.
A few years ago, I had an acquaintance that was trying to join the CIA. She got several rounds into the interview process but ultimately took a job at Meta (who she was also interviewing with). She got fired in one of the later mass layoffs, but she chose to work there. She knew the kind of company they were and are, and she was like, “They gonna pay me lots of money? Then I’m in!” And look how that worked out.
There is no world in which these companies are doing anything good, and if you think they are, then you’re the ignorant rube they want to help bring about technofascism, and they’re fine tossing you into their grinder as meat as they please.
I was recently recruited by Meta, had a bad feeling, did some research, and sure enough, it was was a terrible place to work, by all accounts. I already had doubts about Meta and deleted my Facebook account over a decade ago. Needless to stay I withdrew my candicacy.
Like attracts like. I hope all these people selling their souls and their country out for money to companies like Meta and Palantir, who make money hand over first by actively making society less safe and free, get what’s coming to them.
I would never work for Meta, TikTok, Palantir, etc no matter how much they paid me.
Why would you even name yourself after the Palantiri, they’re literally tainted with bad omens.
They are implied to be made by Fëanor, who in rage perpetuated a mass-slaying of his kin because they refused to give him their boats, which he needed for his crazy revenge quest.
Some were then literally used by Sauron, who literally is the servant of basically Satan, to gain knowledge so he could conquer Middle-earth.
Like why would you think that’d be a good name for a company.
It’s because they’ve read the books, know they’re popular, want to be hip and interesting, and completely miss the morality of the books they think they love.
Look at Musk naming barges after space ships from a society where people can change gender practically at will, yet can’t deal with the fact that his daughter is transgender.
I’d thought it was more active vice signalling, like they want everyone to know they’re evil.
Probably because you have the hubris necessary to believe that if the One Ring were in your hands, you would be strong enough to wield it without becoming corrupted.
Samwise was a fictional character sadly
I have seen the “are we the baddies” meme many times, anyone know where it’s from?
Ha ha ha thank you so much!
Oh you’ve got a lot of very good TV to watch. The show is “That Mitchell and Webb Look”
Will do, thank you very much!
I think horrible history? Nope: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-we-the-baddies
That Mitchell and Webb Look! Hilarious British sketch comedy show, and if you enjoy it, check out Peep Show by the same comedians, David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Even funnier IMO!
The show is very worth watching and most is on YouTube.
“Are We the Baddies?” is a 2006 comedy sketch by the British comedians Mitchell and Webb, performed both on recorded television in That Mitchell and Webb Look and live at The Secret Policeman’s Ball.
Source: Wikipedia
A decade ago a young an gifted software developer acquaintance of mine was going to work for Palantir and already back then I warned him of the kind of company he was joining.
After the Snowden Revelations it was already pretty obvious that Palantir specialized in data analytics of and overview interfaces for mass surveillance data - they made their money from helping authoritarian activities, including those in supposed Democracies.
It’s pretty obvious that a company doing that is built on the principled of having no Ethics or Morals.
Go to bed with the dogs, wake up with fleas.
i first became aware of the company, when i was searching on lore about the lotr objects, what you know it led to a website owned by thiel, and then it became more apparent when helped sued gawker who was likely investigating thiel on his companies shady practices.
Still collecting that paycheck and not rocking the boat.
They need to unionize if they want to see change
“Descent”. As if they were not obviously and explicitly fascist from day 1. How dumb can you be?
Fuck these fuckers. I’ll forgive them when they start actively sabotaging every single thing they can from the inside.
Yeah you have to be willfully ignorant to work there and claim its only now descending into fascism
The call is coming from inside the
housefascist companyPalantir was founded—with initial venture capital investment from the CIA—at a moment of national consensus following the September 11, 2001, attacks, when many saw fighting terrorism abroad as the most critical mission facing the US.
You mean the backlash to our constant and brutal meddling with the will and sovereignty of the rest of the world, the pillaging and raping of both the earth and the humans who occupy it for our own monetary gain? Living like kings through acts of evil so we could parade around calling ourselves The Greatest Country, and even going so far as to hide the worst of the worst atrocities from our own citizens, and the things that couldn’t escape the historical record being swept away as “but we’re better now!” and pretending that just by “stopping” (which we almost never actually do, we just hide it better) that we’ve fixed the problems?
That terrorism?
I guess 30% of Americans really did know it, and they voted for the most American man they knew of. God this place sucks.
Decently into Facism
None of them realized it before? Well then, if you can talk the talk, walk the walk and quit in masse.
Oh they realized. But it was their job. To question it might put them out of work. Can’t take the risk. Can’t do anything about it now - try to blame Theil or Trump - even though they are the ones that built it and looked the other way the entire time. It isn’t descending into fascist. It was being built to enable and protect fascism when it came back out in the mainstream.
Really struggling to understand why they thought, “giant spying program indiscriminately gathering data on everyone in the wold,” was ever a good thing.
“But you see, they told me it’s for democracy and freedom!”
“When I agreed to work for a well known techno-facist to develop exactly the kind of surveillance tool a facist state would kill for, I had no idea this would descend into fascism!”
“Descent”? Which way is down when you’re at the bottom?
Employees of Evil Corp wondering if what they’re doing benefits Evil
