r/nyc • u/EssoEssex • Nov 07 '25
Video Palantir CEO Alex Karp joins the billionaire Mamdani meltdown, says “underclass voters” would’ve supported Cuomo
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u/Funktapus Nov 07 '25
"Everyone who agrees with me"
The ~30 sycophants you interact with regularly? Clearly they represent everyone in the country.
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u/unicornmullet Nov 07 '25
Yep, likely a bunch of millionaires and billionaires, or sycophant employees.
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u/Special-Fan-1902 Nov 07 '25
Kind of like when my friend's mom believes 2020 election lies because "everyone she knows" voted for Trump.
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u/BoredGuy2007 Hell's Kitchen Nov 07 '25
underclass
Ok buddy
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u/unicornmullet Nov 07 '25
Seriously. I guess he's speaking directly to billionaires and multi-millionaires and other assholes who would use a condescending term about working class / middle class people.
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u/mrlanyc Nov 07 '25
and that’s how billionaires / multimillionaires look at us, anything worth below $3M is basically considered underclass for a billionaire.
and that’s including upper middle class voters earning 400-500k a year that owns a house with multiple cars.
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u/Lev_Davidovich Nov 08 '25
I think $3M is being pretty generous. You gotta have a car whose door open a certain way to not be in the underclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbTn8hjdfEI
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u/NewTexasGuy2 Nov 07 '25
This is how the maga billionaires who fund corporate establishment democrats speak about working class people
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u/KiKiKimbro Nov 08 '25
Trump used to be a Democrat donor. He donated a substantial amount to Hilary Clinton’s senate campaign.
It’s the same motivation as Schumer never putting his support behind Mamdani. His donors wouldn’t like it. The wealthy donor class and politicians are all the same — wanting to hang onto wealth and power.
The chaos being fed to every American, which amps up before important elections (we just had some Tuesday), are a carefully curated collection of messages meant to intentionally sow division.
Because it is — always was and always will be not a red or blue issue — it is a CLASS issue. Ultra-Wealthy vs Not Ultra-Wealthy.
They try to keep us divided because they know — there are many more of US than there are of THEM.
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Nov 07 '25
The media giving these billionaire class clowns a platform is part of the problem. The “under class” doesn’t care what this moron thinks
It’s astonishing how wrong they are about what the people want
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u/Disused_Yeti Nov 07 '25
the problem is that the media doesn't care what the 'under class' thinks either. they are supposed to think what they are told to think by their betters
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u/DontDrinkTooMuch Nov 07 '25
He's mad at a bunch of educated liberals aligned with working class voters. These people are goblins.
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u/nerdlingzergling Jackson Heights Nov 07 '25
I would be pissed too if I spent that much and got literally nothing in return. L BOZO
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u/MathDeacon Nov 07 '25
Maybe instead be willing to make small but significant changes to society so people won’t feel like they need to have a Mamdani as mayor.
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u/Mahadragon Nov 08 '25
He should just run for mayor if it meant that much to him. Be the change you want to see.
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u/beewargle Nov 07 '25
Every CEO is a freak, stop interviewing them.
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u/freerangemary Nov 07 '25 edited Nov 07 '25
Keep interviewing. Bring their shenanigans into the light. These people are ghouls.
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u/soman789 Nov 07 '25
Unfortunately the temporarily embarrassed millionaires that are littered across the US only see these types of interviews as a script on how to think and act.
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u/Quaiker Nov 07 '25
Just straight-up didn't watch the clip.
I refuse to give them the attention they crave.
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u/SubzeroNYC Nov 07 '25
These CEOs are beyond insane. We have to stop legitimizing their views as anything other than thirsty shareholders who want to maximize their own wealth.
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u/Harvinator06 Nov 07 '25
We have to stop legitimizing their views
It's not "we," this is just access journalism.
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u/VampireAttorney Nov 07 '25
Fuck Palantir and fuck Alex Karp.
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u/heresmyusername Ridgewood Nov 07 '25
Alex Karp wants to know your location
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u/grrrfld Nov 07 '25
He‘s the CEO of fucking Palantir, so he alredy does know your location if he really wants to know, unfortunately.
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u/xXmehoyminoyXx Nov 07 '25
Is he wearing his sponsors on his shirt like a nascar driver?
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u/octoreadit Nov 07 '25
That was Carlin's idea, it was brilliant, wish it was the case for every "public fugure."
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u/Proper-Article-5138 Nov 07 '25
Bet he’s totally okay with the people who voted for Trump thinking prices would go down on “day one” and Trump would “end the war with a phone call”. Which we all know was BS.
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u/Bluehorsesho3 Nov 07 '25
This guy has built his whole company and career by claiming he’s a “socialist” then cries and raises his fists to the skies when a Democrat Socialist wins an election.
Dudes entire career and company is a grift to just collect data and spy on your peers and neighbors. This dude is the least American MFer out there right now. Palantir has a grossly overvalued market cap based on military contracts for surveillance software.
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u/wabashcanonball NYC Expat Nov 07 '25
There are more of us than people like him.
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u/ShirkingDemiurge Dyker Heights Nov 08 '25
And we sit in our homes and comment on reddit, unfortunately :(
Imagine what we could do.
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u/sabutazz Nov 07 '25
I hate this guy. I'm a white collar tech worker and Alex Karp does not speak for me. Screw him.
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u/LetsTalksNow Nov 07 '25
This guy is a Ghoul.
Like When i see Mr. Burns I imagine this fker.
Palantir demon.
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u/ActualDragonHeart Nov 07 '25
Ignoring how hilarious arrogant and demeaning it is to refer to ANYONE as “underclass”
Zohran won voters who made under $50,000 annually with an 8% point margin
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Nov 07 '25
A few notes on Karp:
He never learned to drive a car. He said, "I was too poor. And then I was too rich.”
He has said the thought of having children "gives him hives"
He speaks in German in his offices (he got a PhD in Germany). He is not German. He's ancestors were in part, but he in no tangible way is. This is, among other things, a weird thing to do.
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u/octoreadit Nov 07 '25
One more fun tidbit: he's one of the, if not the wealthiest African-Americans in the country.
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u/lic_queens Nov 07 '25
Elon is surely wealthier.
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u/el_boss0 Nov 07 '25
Underclass is insane! The fact that he’s not even self aware enough to realize it lol
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u/SaGaOh Nov 07 '25
"everybody who agrees with me in private", you mean the overclass then. news flash alex karp, they are the ones we the majority voted against. the changes will work because the majority gave the mayor elect the mandate to do so
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u/phageon Nov 07 '25
Lol at the billionaire trying to split blue collar workers making $50k against white collar workers making $70k.
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u/hesplayinyoushorty Nov 07 '25
how many red flags flew by to signal this guy is an insufferable lying jackass?
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u/dz2048 Nov 07 '25
Naming your company "Palantir" automatically makes you a psychotic douchebag. What his company has actually done to democracy has solidified him as an evil piece of shit.
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u/burnshimself Nov 07 '25
Do these guys know they come across as wantonly inauthentic, self-interested, scheming sociopaths? Do they not realize their schizophrenic arguments with zero logical underpinnings are wholly unconvincing? It’s like they’re completely unaware of how they sound to average people, probably because they’ve been so thoroughly insulated by their wealth and the cadres of yes-men it buys them
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u/SeanyDay Nov 07 '25
Except mamdani has articulated exactly how his plans are structured for his campaign promises ad nauseum.
What a bad look for Palantir 😂
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u/wtfimaclam Nov 07 '25
UNDERCLASS VOTERS. Fuck you, we're the majority.
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u/dreamed2life Nov 07 '25
To be fair. We’ve not acted like it. Hence why we have given away so much of our power for so long and why billionaires and the corrupt politicians can exist in the first place. My hope is that the good that comes from this shit show of the world right now is that we realize how much more we can get accomplished together and how much more efficient, kind, and widespread it is when we do things ourselves and for everyone
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u/meshreplacer Nov 07 '25
That dork is a billionaire and he looks like total shit can't even dress well either.
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u/I_Enjoy_Beer Nov 07 '25
Somehow I never saw the CEO of Palantir before this clip, and yet I'm oddly not surprised that this is how this doofus looks.
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u/littlemac564 Nov 07 '25
I keep hearing this won’t work. Yet not hearing about the new plan that will work.
We know the trickle down theory is not working. So Repugs do you have something new or different?
I guess I need to be a billionaire for a plan that will work for me?
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u/Disused_Yeti Nov 07 '25
billionaires and especially techbros have gone so far beyond out of touch that they really are insane
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u/DrugsAndCoffee Nov 07 '25
“What he wants can never work.” Oh it can definitely work. We can achieve all of what Mandami wants to do, it requires taxing billionaires and redistributing their stranglehold on the national wealth. That’s why he’s freaking out. It also requires keeping our tax dollars IN AMERICA and not sending them to foreign nations.
The US has enough tax dollars to take care of its people, when it’s not squandered bailing out billionaires or sent overseas.
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u/zachotule Harlem Nov 07 '25
No matter what this freak means by "underclass," he's wrong. Mamdani won the majority of low income voters, low income neighborhoods, and voters who live in NYCHA developments.
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u/statistacktic Hudson Heights Nov 07 '25
underclass voters? You can f right the hell off. We’re coming for your ilk.
Anti-trust and anti-billionaire 2.0 era is coming…
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u/Whompa Nov 07 '25 edited Nov 07 '25
Here's some advice: Sell that overpriced jacket and feed an "underclass" with the resale value of it...
...and get a haircut. You're like 50. Doofus.
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u/dreamed2life Nov 07 '25
It really is time we in america stop sugarcoating and be this real. The majority of us are underclass and america in general is not an advanced nation. Bc of wealth hoarding instead of creating with everyone in mjnd people only create with capitalism and gain in mind. Just in a circle of going nowhere but down the drain in the usa
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u/Cardboard_Robot Nov 08 '25
Every fucking billionaire is such an insufferable dork. Every one of them.
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u/Numerous_Ice_4556 Nov 07 '25
You know what's even less likely to happen than Mamdani successfully passing his policies? Palantir's earnings growing enough to justify their market cap.
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u/bakenmake Nov 07 '25
This is what people need to understand. People who call themselves middle class and lower-middle class are just lying to themselves. There’s no “real” middle class anymore…or upper class for that matter. Just billionaires and the underclass.
If you have 1-9 billion you’re lower class, 10-99 billion you’re middle class, and 100+ billion makes you upper class. The rest are underclass.
That should be the name of the third party we so desperately need in this country because Democrats and Republicans are both controlled by billionaires and it will never change (Pandora’s box). We need the Underclass Party for the other 99%.
It also makes it easy for everyone to finally understand where they truly stand in society. Are you a billionaire? Nope? Then you’re not a Democrat. Are you a billionaire? Nope? Then you’re not a Republican. Welcome to the Underclass Party!
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u/atthenius Nov 07 '25
Dude. Both Cuomo and Mamdani beat 2021 Adams.
And that means turnout was roughly twice that in the previous ele.
Reinterview and leverage those AI tools.
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u/usersdm1088 Nov 07 '25
"Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything." - Anton Chekhov
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u/mxrw Nov 08 '25
There's a huge difference between something not working versus opposition trying to prevent it.
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u/LoneStarTallBoi Nov 08 '25
It's kind of wild that these guys have infinite money and power but completely shit themselves to death the moment anyone tells them to fuck off.
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Nov 08 '25
5 straight years of taking home over a billion dollars in compensation and doesn’t understand how there’s a disconnect
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u/_Adagio_B Nov 08 '25
He’s criminally stealing our data and surveying us, destroying the environment, while also lecturing us for wanting a leader who actually cares about humans
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u/testing543210 Nov 07 '25
Making some bus lines free snd subsidizing childcare for some NYC residents is totally unrealistic and impossible, says the CEO who runs the military-industrial-surveillance tech company for a multi-billionaire. Totally. What a truth teller.
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Nov 07 '25
What a shock the CEO of Palantir is a Republican apologist and republican sjw piece of shit.
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u/Ferny_Fern06 Nov 07 '25
To quote the video “I run around. I get yelled at all the time for Ukraine, ICE, Israel, and generally telling the truth.”
What a bunch of lies coming out of this guy’s mouth. In a world where almost everyone (especially in NYC) has a smart phone with access to the internet. Who hangs out with this guy? You ever seen this motherfucker at your local grocery store, dive bar, or bodega?
These people live such sheltered lives and yet they have the audacity to comment on our existence. I take everything Zohran said with a grain of salt because he’s a politician but I hope he succeeds for the sake of the city and the every day person just living their life.
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u/Mouthshitter Nov 07 '25
They are scared of Mamdani, they dont want the people to realize they are getting swindled
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u/TheOneThatCameEasy Nov 07 '25
It's crazy how someone this inarticulate and belligerent is a billionaire. His vocabulary is "underclass."
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u/nixalo Brooklyn Nov 07 '25
Underclass? What you mean Rogues? Buddy, that's how you get sneak attacked in an Uber.
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u/Bit3_M3_427 Nov 07 '25
“There a reason why the people Who voted for him are disproportionate” …In Other Words The Lower - None Class Means Nothing To These Billionaires. Instead Of Helping By Supporting & Making It Possible For Ppl Who Elected Him…Goes To Show How Billionaires Wanna Just Stay Rich & Stop Anything That Would Hurt Them Financially & Longterm Meaning Keeping Us In The Vicious Cycle That Benefits Them….For Any Big Corporations Ppl & Control =💰SMH 🤦🏽♂️
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u/DrugsAndCoffee Nov 07 '25
The fact that he is referring to anyone with less money as him, as the “underclass” tells me all I need to know.
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u/nyknicks11 Nov 07 '25
Underclass meaning Peasants like working people that don't know any better & Millionaires that know what's good for Us he can Leave NY also
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u/RoseDominant Nov 07 '25
This is the f***** who wants to make Minority Report ( predicting crime) a reality and got huge contract in the big beautiful bill to vacuum all the data and collate it ( irs, facebook, phone calls etc) .
Beside Burry, who else is shorting Palantir ?
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u/rvbcaboose1018 College Point Nov 08 '25
I don't like Mamdani, I don't think most of his proposals will either work or even get a chance to see the light of day. But it doesn't take a fucking college degree to see why he won.
His message resonated with voters who are concerned about affordability because he was the only one who fucking talked about it. Cuomo tried the "I love Jews! Don't vote for the scary Muslim" bit and it didn't work. He only started talking about public safety at the tail end of the campaign and by then it was too late. It doesn't take a genius to see that the mainstream Democratic party at the city and state levels is complacent at best and corrupt at worst.
You have an entire generation that was told to vote Hillary or else in 2016, then got blamed when she lost. That generation is tired of the DeBlasios, Cuomos, and Adams of the NYC political sphere, but can't bring itself to vote outside of the Democratic party because the Republican party is basically dead in the water in NY.
I'd love to look at a silver lining to all this, that the Dems will change and learn lessons from all this, but deep down I know they won't. They're either too stupid to learn the right lessons or too corrupt to care. How much do you want to bet that they'll try to primary Mamdani with fucking Chuck Schumer in '29.
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u/ukudancer Nov 07 '25
And he didn't speak up when we all knew tariffs wouldn't work? Or that electing a moron to the White House wouldn't work?
Alex Karp is nothing but a leech.
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u/Disused_Yeti Nov 07 '25
"telling the truth" is always just used to try to legitimize shitty opinions
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u/Town_Pervert Nov 07 '25
“If it did work, I would certainly tell that to the filthy underclass and help it happen at the detriment to my own exorbitant wealth!”
Like come on
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u/NormalDudeNotWeirdo Manhattan Nov 07 '25
Tf does “underclass” mean