Comment by rcpt

14 days ago

Wishful thinking but it would be real great if a future leader destroyed this infrastructure.

I'm sure they'll run on not using it but when systems like this exist they tend to find applications

Wishful thinking but it would be real great if an engineer poisoned these datasets with bait entries

  • It’s not gonna happen. The people who work at Palantir, if they’re not just there for the money, think they’re doing the right thing, they see themselves as keeping the country safe and improving government efficiency (and who could be against that?)

  • We need more René Carmilles and less of the typical HN techbro that champions the technology, and charitably, doesn't care what its used for.

The “opposition” has never not funded ICE. Throwing out national level republicans is not enough, almost all national level democrats have to be thrown out too.

  • > The “opposition” has never not funded ICE.

    The current administration’s ICE chaos theater is clearly something very different than the past few administrations. Let’s not try to pretend this is normal, because it’s not. They’re doing a shock and awe campaign and maximum fear and news coverage are part of the new agenda.

These tools are there to make sure no such leader ever gets to power, and to ensure the death of the free state. Luckily there's a constitutional amendment (and therefore a constitutional duty upon true Patriots) that has a patch for such regressions.

Reality is that once the next group is in power they keep all the same infra in place so they themselves can use it oft expanding it further. Then when they are kicked out, the next one comes in and does the same.

I dont like any of it but patriot act, covid vaccine tracking, flock, etc are all arms of the same hydra. This is just one more expanding arm of power and control in a long history of gov attempts to control populations.