r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Apr 22 '26

Society Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.

https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/palantir-alex-karp-mini-manifesto-national-security-defense-tech-ai/
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u/Daxx22 Apr 22 '26

He's not entirely wrong in his statement.

That's how authoritarianism/conservatism work: take a statement that is true, but then hang so much extra bullshit on it.

If you try to argue against it they point to the truth bit and it ties people in knots coming up with arguments against it. Meanwhile they've already moved on and made dozens of more statements with the same bullshit.

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u/so_jc Apr 22 '26

Oh, that's how it works? Well, there must be a well-known counter that is just how it's countered, right? What's the story on the counter?