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.
Not saying someone should assassinate this guy. But man would it be convenient for someone to off this guy.
Also he has meth teeth. Bro is a drugo.
Apparently free speech is when you can’t criticize Israel but can advocate for war crimes.
Free Speech is when you have money and the more money you have the more free your speech is.
Crazy to even talk about “Making War Crimes Legal”, as though this is anything more than a bureaucratic speed bump for the Thielist Techno-Theocracy.
Ill bet my nuts that this guy is on drugs.
Scientists would study that monkey
Well, jokes on the scientists. We’ve killed most of the primate population and now we’re moving on aggressively to the homo sapiens sapiens. So no more monkeys. No more bananas. And the scientists are on notice.
I will keep saying this till I die, aspiring to be a billionaire is a very strong sign of multiple mental diseases involving addiction and sociopathy.
I would argue that “aspiring to be a billionaire” is more of a fantasy than a fixation in the population at large. People don’t really get to choose whether they become billionaires, as they have very little control over the mass appeal of their business ventures.
I would counter that becoming a billionaire is what results in multiple mental illnesses, as the rapid elevation of social status, the alienation from your non-billionaire peers, and the functional immunity from legal censure drives you insane.
Like, JK Rowling didn’t set out to become a billionaire when she wrote Harry Potter. But once her net worth crested into the nine-figures, her mouth-brain barrier disintegrated along with any sense of humility or decency.
I don’t know if this is accurate — striving to reach financial freedom in the form of near infinite levels of wealth is not a sign of mental disease. That’s what I’d call a dream, and it could be purely motivated.
Now, having that dream and being willing to do anything to obtain it — that’s a different story. That’s what it takes to be a billionaire, you have to be completely willing to crush people beneath you for the simple fact that it makes you more money. Many people, myself included, are simply incapable of deciding to harm someone else for simple profit.
Like, I’m not a hyper space nazi because I’d like to be a Viltrumite. I just want to live 1000 years and be super strong and fly and stuff.
Having billions is not financial freedom, it is thousands of financial freedoms. It is hoarding financial freedoms. To that end I can understand someone wanting something on the order of millions, especially depending on where you live (although that is still a shortcoming of education, healthcare, homing systems etc)
[Karp]>“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."
Blowing up unarmed fishing boats is not a “constitutional question” it’s a straight-up criminal act. War crimes are well-defined, so there’s no wiggle-room about what one IS.
The problem with constitutional immunity is that it protects indiscriminately. And presidents are using it to commit acts of barbarism rather than as necessary acts to protect national security.
War crimes are well-defined, so there’s no wiggle-room about what one IS.
It’s not a war crime actually. A nation state cannot declare wars on individuals under which the war crime would come about. Article 7 of the Rome statute (The UN thing that defines war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, etc.) defines blowing up civilians as a crime against humanity.
If we just make murder legal, I’ll be able to murder anyone I want! Wouldn’t that be great? Give that to me, I have to have it, I demand it.
MAGA: Okay.
He created a company named after the evil wizards spy glass, he is not subtle about his villainy
Do we need a purge? One day per year for doing something about the CEO problem?
He’s making a great case against whatever business he’s in.
Palantir itself is enough of a case to be against the whole thing and anyone involved.
Not according to the governments he contracts with.
damn I dream of letting this guy loose in the forest at night, butt naked, so I can hunt him with my dogs. They love the scent of fear
Bear country.
him, spez and donnie
I hear bloodhounds are great animals for such an endeavor.
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.
uhh… isn’t it the ICC/ICJ who determines what is a war crime and what is not? How would making them legal in the US affect the ICC/ICJ in ANY way?
We’re not subject to the ICC/ICJ.
Never signed that treaty.
In the US what makes a war crime criminal is the UCMJ and various other us law codes. We get rid of things like “no double tapping” and “you can declare no quarter be given” and suddenly it’s legal.
(There is a very pointed distinction between legal and moral. Explaining that to these fucks is useless.)
Never signed that treaty.
We signed on, but the Republican Senate never ratified it.
Ah. I wasn’t aware of that that he USA isn’t subject to them icc/icj. Thanks.
They have a law that “allows” Den Haag if an American is brought in front of the court there.
To make sure it can’t turn against the good guys, of course.
Yup one of those facts that , uh. Well. Speaks for itself.
(The good guys™️ don’t need that, right?)
Palantir is the enemy of humanity.
I’m thinking of another thing that can move a lot the businesses: hunting CEOs.
He is correct, but the conclusion to draw from that is that the system that allows those businesses to exist needs to be remedied.
