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I wonder when people will stop being scared to speak out. Is it once they lose their job due to stolen data? Is it once Palantir decides they are a threat and they lose their freedom? Is it once they lose their own land? Is it after starting the 10th war?

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NoKings is this weekend, millions are speaking out together

Yes. The problem is, it is only this weekend.

1. It's the first of the year, there will be more NoKings

2. There are many more protest besides NoKings

3. Direct Action is better than no action. We only vote once every 1/2/4 years. This helps get people moving, to take their first steps. Case in point, this year I am printing whistles and information

A lose of time and rage.

NoKings starting a new political party around the movement, or explaining how to do it to people, so youngsters can fire the GOP for good... that would change the game. THAT would send the clear message that politicians will hear with fear.

But marching, not, It will not change anything. Is just distracting the frog in the bath for a little more, while the slow cooking coup continues. Unless the politicians think that they personally have something to lose, they will not care.

At the risk of stating the obvious, Black Cube is an actual private intelligence firm that sells spy services [1], while Palantir is a software firm that sells software (even if that software is used by intelligence, gov, etc). You can go spin up a free Foundry instance [2] and test it, and it doesn't have secret buttons to imprison people.

[1] https://www.blackcube.com/

[2] https://www.palantir.com/developers/

And yet both these technologies are being used to subvert democracy and suppress opposition… almost like it doesn’t need to be fully automated fascism to be fascistic.

Kind of them to put the evil right in the name.

Yes, they are master hackers - they even hacked the scrollbar on their web page.

From Black Cube's website:

Our Code of Ethics was developed together with Prof. Asa Kasher, an internationally acclaimed scholar specialising in philosophy and ethics, who wrote the Code of Ethics for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

From Wikipedia on Prof. Kasher:

Kasher states explicitly that it is justified to kill a Palestinian child who is in the company of a hundred 'terrorists', because the 'terrorists' might kill children in Sderot. But in reality, it was a case of killing a hundred children who were in the company of one 'terrorist'." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Kasher

Ethics code. Got it.

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