Palantir CEO and Trump ally Alex Karp is no stranger to controversial (troll-ish even) comments. His latest one just dropped: Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company.
At the New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Karp was asked about the worries over the unconstitutionality of the boat strikes.
“Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product."
This is bond-level villainy.
Too many Lex Luthors walking around these days.
When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be rich so I couid be Batman. How did we end up in this world full of jokers?
Therein lies the problem. When I was a kid all I wanted to be was spider-man so I could help people.
Notice the difference?
Batman/Iron Man/ et. al are ok as heroes but really their super power realistically should be the number of people they could lift out of poverty with that money. The fact that they haven’t speaks volumes.
I don’t blame the writers per se. They exist in a world same as ours so God forbid a billionaire give away all their money because no one needs all that money.
In the defense of Batman he does actually try to lift people out of poverty in lots of versions. Wayne industries is basically the only thing keeping Gotham vaguely functional because that city is quite literally cursed while also being in New Jersey.
Like it varies by version but at least with the animated version Batman is dumping cash into charities, job programs, urban revitalization program, infrastructure expansion and repair, and probably some things I’m forgetting. Point is Batman knows that the difference between crime and prosperity is poverty, which he has done his best to eliminate, now he’s stuck with the personally and ideologically motivated as well as the weirdos. Hell some versions of Batman have cured Mr. Freeze and Nora once he found out what was going on with that.
I feel like the Joker would have kicked these guy’s asses.
It’s true. The joker is just in it for the love of the game. In reality he also hates fascists.
More like Penguin. Joker was a nihilist.
Not enough Luigi’s
The patron saint of consequences.
something stopping you from luigiing them?
Yeah, timing. America has two important Constitutional checkpoints to get past before we are more or less in the clear - the 2026 Midterms, and the 2028 Presidential Election.
We have to keep a lid on untill we get through the Midterms, which promises to be a bloodbath, even if they get the gerrymander they want. They think they can win by manipulating the number of competitive seats, but they have no clue of how angry people are. There are many, many seats in competition who don’t know it, and a lot of well-established MAGAs, who convinced themselves they were safe, are going to be crying on the day after.
Then we have to get through 2 lame duck years, which is going to get crazy, as he tries increasingly outlandish stuff to try to stay in power so he doesn’t go to prison for the rest of his life, or worse. We will try to keep the lid on for that period, but it may get tough, and maybe even impossible, if they decide to go full on brutal dictatorship in order to hold onto power. Then Luigis will be everywhere. Take away people’s hope, take away their reasons for existence, and they might as well go out with a bang.
And if they steal the 2028 election, it’s on.
But if we can get through the 2028 election without a Civil War, and we get a new president who is courageous enough to deal with MAGA decisively, and purge them from our government and society, then we can maybe have a decent country for the rest of this century.
But we have to get through the 2026 and 2028 elections first. They are literally the most consequential elections since the Civil War, and maybe in our nation’s history.
Don’t live anywhere near and I’m a minority with a pretty notable anti-lex luthor presence online so I’d be tracked readily I imagine. But, doesn’t stop me from considering.
Eh, Lex Luthor although a fictional character seems way too competent to be compared to these mustache twirling villains.