to feel emboldened to say next to me as a front man offending half of America.
I don't think in win lose, I think in domination, almost nothing makes
a human happier than taking the lines of cocaine away from these short sellers.
I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl laced
urine spraying on analysts who try to screw us.
And now, despite whatever thoughts
you have on good ol American scent pee, Karp is a tricky figure to pin down.
Yes, he partnered with Peter Thiel, the notorious far right libertarian
who backed Trump's 2016 campaign and bankrolled JD Vance, his political career,
to build a data surveillance company for hunting down terrorists.
All stuff that might be easy to generalize as conservative.
But then again, he backed Kamala Harris during the latest presidential election.
He frequently donates to Democrats.
He likes to go trail running and loves Denver.
All stuff that might be easy to generalize.
As lesbian, everybody, I think we got a new type of guy on our hands.
Karp is someone who comes from a kind of left wing background.
Peter Thiel, who's the, you know, founder and and really the person behind Palantir
is, famous in the Valley
for being a very outspoken conservative or of techno libertarian.
You know, they have his really interesting,
strange bedfellows in terms of leadership.
But I think they have something in common with the old, old style valley
of the Valley of the Cold War era,
and that there's this understanding that there is a partnership
that's necessary between private industry and the defensive stablished
in order to get the best tech in the hands of the U.S government.
That's wax and wane.
But there's always
the business of war has always been Silicon Valley's business to some degree.
The relationship that Alex Karp and Palantir are pushing
for between the tech industry and the Department of Defense
isn't so much a new status quo as it is a fresh version of an old one.
Carp is very open about being a fan of the old school tech industry, one where
Lockheed Missiles and SpaceX
was the largest employer in Silicon Valley through the 1980s,
one where the Department of Defense built the original internet,
one where Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project brought together the finest
scientific and engineering minds in the US to collaborate with the government.
In his new book, which I read on the subway
and was then immediately hit on by a very foreign attack drone,
Alex Karp argues that the tech industry has lost its way over
the last few decades, focusing on consumer products
that essentially abandon any serious attempt to advance society.
He writes that the software industry should rebuild its relationship
with the gov't,
and while the blending of business and national purpose makes many uneasy,
it is now the job of Silicon Valley to defend the West.
And it's here.
The Karp has differentiated himself from his 21st century
tech contemporaries with how open he is about both patriotism
and making tech products for killing, but his peers are starting to follow suit.
The Valley has always had these ties with Washington, D.C., but
often has been very low key about it and coy about it, and pretended that are
we don't do anything with those people over there.
They're like, we don't care about politics.
It matters nothing to our business.
We're a free market miracle.
And in the background they're like, not this tax break.
I'm interested now. It's just more overt.
And now I think there's a more broader public consciousness of like, oh,
wait a minute.
People like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, they they get a lot of federal contracts.
Now, despite
Karp and Palantir's very real momentum, it doesn't mean that they are that close
to revolutionizing the defense industry and unseating those old defense primes.
They have yet to prove that they can build a major weapons
system better than a Lockheed Martin, Boeing or Raytheon.
They may have their own views on that, but when I look across at like what's
being used in Ukraine on a mass scale that is not yet
the Palantir's are and are rolls of the world, doesn't mean
they won't do it, but they have yet to prove they can.
Nonetheless, it is possible the palantir will be the future,
and if they are, then the approach that they have taken to rise to prominence.
Well, this would all mean an entirely new paradigm
for how American defense companies operate.
You don't typically see the heads of Lockheed Martin or Raytheon
giving opinions about how the world should be ordered.
Lockheed Martin is not trying to appeal to the day
traders, or to the meme stocks, or to any of that.
Palantir is they're kind of trying to sell themselves to the nation writ large.
I think that is part of what is new in this era is Silicon Valley.
Companies say working with the Pentagon is not a dirty business.
It helps national defense.
These are good things to do.
And clearly their message is, is working.
Will that work in the long term?
We'll see. Indeed.
We will see for now though.
In the meantime, I've got my eyes on you, Palantir,
and I encourage all my fellow citizens to do the same.
For if a defense company thinks that it can.
OSHA.
And now for a dramatic
reading of Palantir Reddit posts
through 1.6 mil into Palantir, because the CEO's head
looks like my grandpa balls, so are we warmongers.
Palantir is a good stock, but isn't an ethical investment.
Hamas really took us to the moon.
Zero upvotes, 30 comments.
Software and war fire emoji.
I'm gonna come.
Let's go to the moon.
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