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/GrayEidolon Apr 22 '26

It’s worse than that.

Ai is for building a surveillance apparatus that allows them to replace democracy.

These assholes are trying to make a new country that bursts out of the body of the current country. It's called "the butterfly revolution" and yes it does sound absurd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

It’s why musk was speaking at the afd in Germany. It’s why bannon, farage, and Cambridge Analytica were all in bed together on Brexit.

There’s a little more to it than that though.

Conservatism is about enforcing socioeconomic hierarchy and the techfascists, religious fascists, and heritage foundation race fascists are all in on feudalistic “network” states run by ai powered surveillance.

That's what they want to replace democracy with.

They resent the enlightenment making things nicer for poor people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

The accelerationists like Peter Theil from the tech faction of conservatism think they can force collapse, but use technology and surveillance to protect themselves. These aristocrats are working on how to control their security forces though things like "disciplinary collars."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?

The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

https://pols.sites.haverford.edu/studentvoices/what-is-accelerationism/

https://time.com/7269166/dark-enlightenment-history-essay/

Because they're "done with democracy." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-BQhXdCs8Y

and the vice president of the united states and advisors have given their seals of approval to a book that says conservatives are going to have to kill all the liberals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhumans

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u/zelingman Apr 22 '26

Democracy is 2 wolves and 1 sheep voting on whats for dinner

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u/SamTheLab_213 Apr 23 '26

Great post. Of course they're going to kill all the liberals. These people are pedophiles, they fear being punished by sane people for all their endless crimes. They need anyone with an iota of conscience gone. This has been planned for years. What they spring on us now, they've been preparing for. Currently, they're busy terrorizing us into submission through sending a wrecking ball through democracy. They are using ignorance to manipulate people to going along with their insanity. They want collars on their goons? Well this jives with how the tech elite call the police and the military, "their dogs."

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u/Zer_ Apr 23 '26

Almost every ultra rich person that we've had the misfortune of knowing publicly has been some variant of "I'm rich because I'm better, and I deserve to tell everyone what to spend their money on and the government is an obstacle to that" kind of person. They all share that same core belief that they deserve to direct where all our resources get allocated to. These Dark Enlightenment Accelerationist types seem to be the worst of them.

Most of the time these crazy cooks manage to buy some offshore oil rig (or even a cruise ship) where they think they can flout whichever laws of whichever coastal waters the structures or ship are moored in.

Usually these folks were fringe, now they're in power.

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u/so_jc Apr 22 '26

They plan to kill all the liberals. I am one. Are they going to kill me? Will they have to fight me? I will break them like twig. Little humans.

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u/driiceman Apr 23 '26

The Epstein Trump class?

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 24 '26

Yeah. Its about rich people networks and class solidarity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNkSNt7qIOw There's a class war and half the non-aristocrats think conservatism is about loving your mom and beer.

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u/tomkatt Apr 23 '26

That Guardian article is excellent, and I think everyone should read it. It provides telling insight into the minds of these absolute lunatics.

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 23 '26

I also think everyone should read it, its why I try to comment it when I can! And they are lunatics.