Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
2026-04-25 11:21 UTC
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@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-25 11:45
Descent into Glad some of them are finally realizing it at least.
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@Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 20:21
Wow, must be bad if even the fascists are seeing the ‘descent’ into fascism as a bad thing.
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@fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 2026-04-26 03:59
There are two surprising aspects of this to me. Firstly that the employees feel confident enough to express concern about Palantir’s actions in official channels. I would have thought that the nature of their work was obvious enough that this would be a cultural taboo and therefore self-censored. I guess some of them have limits to suspending disbelief for what they had likely internally framed as “work for the benefit of national security” or “job pays too well to care”. The second part is that not all of this official channel discussion was immediately wiped by Palantir, but perhaps they also relied on the premise of self-censorship in preventing these conversations at scale. Either way, I’m somewhat relieved there’s someone at Palantir worried about this at all. The more of them who are worried by this, the more leaks we’ll see.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-04-26 05:28
they knew, you just justified because it was just a job.
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@donald_von_shitsnpants@kopitalk.net 2026-04-25 13:01
Decent? It was always in plain sight. Palantiri, hello?
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@Bahnd@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 14:52
You would think the name was a dead give away that they were cartoonishly evil? I have no simpathy at all for them at all.
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@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-25 15:10
A decade ago a young an gifted software developer acquaintance of mine was going to work for Palantir and already back then I warned him of the kind of company he was joining. After the Snowden Revelations it was already pretty obvious that Palantir specialized in data analytics of and overview interfaces for mass surveillance data - they made their money from helping authoritarian activities, including those in supposed Democracies. It’s pretty obvious that a company doing that is built on the principled of having no Ethics or Morals. Go to bed with the dogs, wake up with fleas.
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@pyre@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 09:27
can’t blame them; there were no signs in the beginning.
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@lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 09:32
Fuck around and find out. Goddamn idiots should have known what they’re getting into.
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@fox2263@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 09:43
Employees of Evil Corp wondering if what they’re doing benefits Evil
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@HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-25 21:55
Descent?
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@AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 2026-04-26 17:25
“Descent”. As if they were not obviously and explicitly fascist from day 1. How dumb can you be? Fuck these fuckers. I’ll forgive them when they start actively sabotaging every single thing they can from the inside.
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@SalamenceFury@piefed.social 2026-04-25 16:32
None of them realized it before? Well then, if you can talk the talk, walk the walk and quit in masse.
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@4am@lemmy.zip 2026-04-25 16:05
> Palantir was founded—with initial venture capital investment from the CIA—at a moment of national consensus following the September 11, 2001, attacks, when many saw fighting terrorism abroad as the most critical mission facing the US. You mean the backlash to our constant and brutal meddling with the will and sovereignty of the rest of the world, the pillaging and raping of both the earth and the humans who occupy it for our own monetary gain? Living like kings through acts of evil so we could parade around calling ourselves The Greatest Country, and even going so far as to hide the worst of the worst atrocities from our own citizens, and the things that couldn’t escape the historical record being swept away as “but we’re better now!” and pretending that just by “stopping” (which we almost never actually do, we just hide it better) that we’ve fixed the problems? That terrorism? I guess 30% of Americans really did know it, and they voted for the most American man they knew of. God this place sucks.
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@blarth@thelemmy.club 2026-04-25 13:54
What did they think they were doing, solving child hunger?
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@pjwestin@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 16:18
Really struggling to understand why they thought, "giant spying program indiscriminately gathering data on everyone in the wold," was ever a good thing.
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@z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 2026-04-25 21:03
Wait...just now!? Lol, even in online tech circles where people are completely willing to throw their morals in the trash in exchange for a job, it's been well known for quite some time now that Palantir is the tippity top of "sell your soul for money" place to work at. This was long before Thiel was in the news and Palantir was selling data and tech to ICE. Why would it be surprising that you sold your soul to a bunch of fascists, and if you're already working there, do you have even the slightest shred of morality left to even say a word about it!? Apparently so, but talk about drinking the company Kool-Aid. Damn...
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@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 14:35
*Actively maneuvering into… “Descent” sounds passive. Still collecting that paycheck and not rocking the boat.
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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 18:57
"Descent"? As in even further than rock bottom?
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@Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-25 15:20
I have seen the "are we the baddies" meme many times, anyone know where it's from?
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@davetortoise@reddthat.com 2026-04-25 15:06
"Descent"? Which way is down when you're at the bottom?
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@db2@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 13:16
The call is coming from inside the ~~house~~ fascist company
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@lol_idk@piefed.social 2026-04-25 15:40
Decently into Facism
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@e461h@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-25 17:46
They need to unionize if they want to see change
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@Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2026-04-25 13:13
Depolitized white cis hetero dudes will always fall for security (French socialists even reused a far right slogan saying "Security is the first freedom" without even going social security...) as an argument. Some will keep their works hoping for third party regulation so stop them to lescent even further. For Palantir workers though, harder to defend. The palantir is litteraly bad in the lord of the ring