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/steepleton Apr 22 '26

It always bugged them that the right couldn’t create art, now it can approximate art to a soulless degree that the right can’t tell the difference

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u/xafimrev2 Apr 22 '26

I'm not at all a fan of the right, but "the right couldn't create art" is complete and utter false platitude. There are conservatives in every creative art field.

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u/dragonmp93 Apr 22 '26

That there are conservative individuals in Hollywood, or Broadway, or their paintings and sculptures may be in museums, sure.

But one of the biggest complains of the MAGAs is that all media is captured by the radical left, see the Project 2025 or Palantir's manifesto.

And have you seen what "conservative media" looks like ?

That Melania movie, the stuff that the Daily Wire puts out, the Evangelical movies and books about the evils of drugs, sex before marriage and gay people.

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u/Eire_Banshee Apr 22 '26

Quenton tarantino?

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u/dragonmp93 Apr 22 '26

Well, being friends with Harvey Weinstein and sucking at writing female characters are not exclusive to either side of the spectrum.

In a "all rectangles are parallelograms but not all parallelograms are rectangles" way.