The surveillance giant has exploded in value as it’s scored massive contracts from the Trump administration.
Major military contractor and surveillance giant Palantir has posted a chilling manifesto on social media that calls for tech companies like itself to play a larger role in a dystopian future where imperialist and white supremacist powers are unleashed and Americans are increasingly subject to the whims of the surveillance state.
The post contains 22 points it says were summarized from a 2025 book, The Technological Republic, written by Palantir co-founder Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska, head of corporate affairs and legal counsel to the company’s CEO.
The company, also co-founded by Peter Thiel, says that the U.S. should adopt mandatory national military service on a “universal” basis. The military’s needs should be prioritized above all because “the ability of free and democratic societies to prevail … requires hard power,” rather than soft power.
It’s difficult to fully catalogue all the ways in which this manifesto is wrong. Needles to say, everyone in support of it belongs next to Ted Kaczynski.
Ted Kaczynski was against the military industrial state.
Given Ted is dead, I suspect they may be referring to putting him in the next grave ? Just guessing.
There was deliberately sort of two levels to that comment. But as I don’t really advocate murder except as hyperbole, let’s just assume I meant in the next cell. However if you wanted to put that in the ground next to Ted, that would be fine.
I do like the idea of locking them up with Ted and letting him handle them.
Assuming we can re-animate him
I think it’s notable that like four or five of the points are just different ways of saying “The public is so mean to us! We should be allowed a few racist gestures and sexual assaults, as a treat! Nobody’s perfect!”
“Let he who has never raped a child cast the first stone.”
Deal.