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Palantir is a data analytics gov contractor with MAGA branding. It is not an ultra-omnipotent warfighter superdemon, even if their leadership or employees wishes it to be so. Ignore dumb X bluster if you want to stay sane.

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Ignoring a cornerstone of how the lists are being compiled is historically a bad idea.

Reading posts like this is ignoring Palantir. There are better sources of information that divulge their bad ethics.

Although the idea is obviously completely untenable by this point, many people probably still have their heads in the sand with the idea that Palantir exists to "Defend the Shire" and take out far-flung 'bad hombres' halfway around the world. It's good for them to have this perception corrected by a source with some authority.

I agree. Their heads are in the sand in part because they obsess over empty calorie boast posts instead of investigative journalism like this:

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-recor...

There's a growing list of things we're told to ignore, from Trump constantly saying he'll annex Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal, to new executive orders to chill free speech. "Take them seriously, not literally. On second thought, please don't even take them seriously..."

Umm..

At least it's truth in advertising. I guess Auschwitz.com or Dehomag.com must have been already taken.

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