Alex Karp: Palantir manifesto described as 'ramblings of a supervillain' amid UK contract fears

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: Yesterday Palantir posted a manifesto summarizing a book by its crazy CEO, Alex Karp. Link to Threadreader page.

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Source: The Guardian

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears

Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

Aisha Down and Robert Booth
Tue 21 Apr 2026 06.00 BST
Last modified on Tue 21 Apr 2026 10.48 BST

The US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”.

“Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive,” wrote Palantir in a 22-point post on X over the weekend, which also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of Germany and Japan.

The post exhorted the US to reinstate a military draft, saying that “free and democratic societies” need “hard power” in order to prevail.

It also predicted a future dominated by autonomous weapons: “The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/palantir-manifesto-uk-contract-fears-mps

[Hey Joe]

1. Spoken by an individual who knows full well

That HE will never have to put his skinny little ass
in harms way so that oligarchs can get even richer. He knows full well all that fighting and dying will be done by other, poorer people and he won’t have to so much as lift a soft little finger and risk chipping a nail in defense of democracy.
Fuck him and all his tech bro buddies.

[peggysue2]

2. And there's always this . . .

Buried in the technocratic Bible:

In an interview with CNBC in early March, Karp suggested that AI would “disrupt” the power of “highly educated, often female voters who vote mostly Democrat”,and instead empower “vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters”.

This pitting of 'highly educated, often female voters who mostly vote Democratic' against the working class is a feature not a bug in the Tech Bros philosophy because highly educated female voters challenge the patriarchy's ideological plans for the future which is, by and large, strict control of the masses.

That includes all genders, btw. Otherwise known as "Our way or the highway."

Project 2025 scoops up this tidy detail going so far as suggesting women should not vote at all, that all votes should follow the man of the castle, the father, the husband, etc., because (they say) women are too emotional.

Hahahaha.

What they're really saying is that educated women (or critical-thinking men) are more likely to smell a rat when it's ready to go for your throat, your freedom, your sense of liberty. They just assume that all men would eagerly jump on the ' let's subjugate women train.' The natural order of things and all that.

Jerks!

These uber-wealthy people are drunk on their own sense of power believing they're above and beyond mere mortals. They've entered the land of hubris, arrogance and think of themselves as gods who are entitled to rule the world, reshape it in their own image.

The Epstein class needs to be dismantled. The Epstein class needs to be brought down to Earth.

[awesomerwb1]

3. Bizarre and scary stuff

These billionaires like Musk, Ellison, Bezos and Theil want to control the world and mold it their own bizarre views of what societies should be like.

-They own most of the US media now.
-AI + data centers,
-heavily invested in private equity (which is already on a shopping spree to own everything from single family homes and all services related such as HVAC, plumbing and electrical), to doctor and vet practices, and health care.

To name a few. If you're not worried about this, you should be.