ya, well, it didn’t rattle Thiel enough not to create the abomination he called palantir afterwards. Twat.
The PATRIOT act (and others) was passed by congress, who wasn't then voted out of office by the electorate. So I don't think Palantir is really any more complicit than "the American people".
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
There is a reason we spend two billion dollars a day on the US military whilst not at war and it has nothing to do with “the people” who are mostly struggling to make rent and afford groceries whilst working constantly without healthcare.
Most Americans don’t vote (but are forced to pay taxes to fund these things) so assuming their will without data is spurious at best and actively misleading at worst.
If you vote, but not for those people, and those people win anyway, well... that's how democracy works.
That description covers all of the candidates.
This is the central lie/blame assignment of democracy, and it is plainly false on its face. How can someone totally uninvolved in a process be in any way whatsoever responsible for the outcome of that process?
You also go on to refute it yourself in the next paragraph.
On that, we are in agreement: there is no fundamental problem with the state that can be fixed by voting. Voting legitimizes the fraudulent and coercive system; abstaining is a vote for its invalidity. More people consider the system invalid than participate in it.
I think political posts should be empty if more people abstain from voting than vote for any single candidate.