Like, yeah, they can ‘get away with’ ending soft power. They can ‘get away with’ extrajudicial killings. They’re operating off of pure machismo right now. They’re getting drunk on their vices. They’re stripping masks where masks wouldn’t be advised to be stripped. I feel like I understand now that Fascism is, in part, an expression of weakness. They wouldn’t be doing this unless they were scared. It’s too volatile. It feels both too late on a power-level and too early on a popular-level. Never mind the ticking time bomb that is AI data centers. It feels like, and I’m sure this is cope, there is a timer on their ability to run the circus much longer.
My first instinct here is to doubt myself, intellectual pessimism and all. In that vein, maybe this is just revolutionary optimism, but we’re at the point where it feels like there is a palpable anger brewing in the basement. I don’t know. Maybe Palantir works as an anti-communist panopticon and we just death spiral forever. I don’t want to lose hope.
they’ve pretty notoriously not worked. like their whole business model for over a decade now has been grifting the guvmint for a bunch of bunk ETL products, and I don’t think the advent of slop generation has made them more effective.
I think Palantir (or something similar) is how the feds+local pigs death squaded that guy 100 miles north of portland a week after he shot a fash while defending another protester, but on the whole I don’t think it’s the specter that people are making it out to be in the last couple years. That’s just buying their marketing.