Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures
Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it called a “brief” 22-point summary of CEO Alexander Karp's book “The Technological Republic.”
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@palantirtech
@palantirtech
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Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel
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@samfbiddle
Sam Biddle
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“the disinformation surrounding the company was deliberately created by our adversaries” is a funny response to people criticizing the company's own self-published manifesto
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@amitisinvesting
Amit
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@PalantirTech This was one of the most important books written in the past decade. It forces people to confront the contradiction between Silicon Valley and technological process at the intersection of what Silicon Valley first started off to defend: Western Values. Exceptional b…
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@garethdennis
Gareth Dennis
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I cannot express the extent to which this company needs to be aggressively dismantled, its assets seized and its data storage destroyed completely. It is a deeply evil organisation run by deeply evil people. Yet they are still deepening their access in the NHS! Get them out.
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@owenshroyer1776
Owen Shroyer
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Palantir calls for a draft, among other serious statements on AI.
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@miltonicmindset
Joseph Webster
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@PalantirTech 23. Companies should not be publishing manifestos on how our societies should operate and function. The act of private companies attempting to take on the role of government and/or policy construction should be seen as a threat to national security and the Western w…
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@bettercallmedhi
Mehdi
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I just finished reading palantir's manifesto & I need you to understand what you're actually looking at because this is the MOST important document the tech world has produced this year most people came away thinking «wow what a thoughtful essay about patriotism and technology
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@robertgraham
Robert Graham
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Wow, Palantir has gone full Nazi.
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@richardhanania
Richard Hanania
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“We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.” Who the hell do these people think they are? They think they can call to draft people because they spy on everyone?
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@cernovich
@cernovich
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People are gonna call me a shill but this is really good, so whatever. 👇
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@petertodd
Peter Todd
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One day, all the Palantir haters will have to come to grips with the reality that the disinformation surrounding the company was deliberately created by our adversaries who feared its potential to strengthen and embolden the ability of free and democratic societies.
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@benjamindekr
Benjamin De Kraker
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Palantir calls for a national draft (???) “National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force”
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@agdugin
Alexander Dugin
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Palantir Manifesto is much more important than Trump. Trump is insignificant pawn on the serious chess board. His role is total destruction. The preparations stage. Palantir is much more serious. It is the plan to safeguard the declining dominance of the West by radical means.
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@gothburz
Peter Girnus
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I helped write the manifesto. I also read the dissertation. That's the part nobody mentions. Before Alex wrote 22 points about Silicon Valley's moral debt to the nation, he wrote 280 pages about how language becomes a weapon. His doctoral thesis — “Aggression in the Lebenswelt”
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@captive_dreamer
@captive_dreamer
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Found this one particularly interesting [image]
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@petertodd
Peter Todd
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My political party is Palantir.
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@yanisvaroufakis
Yanis Varoufakis
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If Evil could tweet, this is what it would!
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@shaunmmaguire
Shaun Maguire
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This was brilliant Despite what the extremes preach on social media and Ivy League campuses Palantir represents the ideological center with a rarely articulated moral clarity
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@simondixontwitt
Simon Dixon
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@PalantirTech Trust me bro. No thanks. We saw what you did in Gaza. We know what you want to bring home. [image]
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@eliothiggins
Eliot Higgins
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Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. — twitter-threa…
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@campuscodi.risky.biz
Catalin Cimpanu
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TL;DR: Use our software if you wanna turn your democracy into a dictatorship! We have a FAQ page! [embedded post]
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@ayoub
Elia Ayoub
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Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They're so arrogant and self-confident they don't seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. — We must get rid of Palantir altogether. — twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
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@eliothiggins
Eliot Higgins
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The headline argument is straightforward enough, democratic survival depends on hard power, hard power is now software, so Silicon Valley owes the West an AI weapons industry. Adversaries won't wait, so we can't either, which taken at face value sounds like a defence of democrac…
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@masnick.com
Mike Masnick
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I've had some friends suggest that there was plausible deniability for people who used to work at Palantir who thought at the time it was just another tech company. I always found that hard to believe as it was always creepy and cultish. But after this... anyone still working t…
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@eliothiggins
Eliot Higgins
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It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the pol…
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r/technology
r
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Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures
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r/BetterOffline
r
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Wake up Babe, the new Palantir manifesto for the Technological Republic just dropped.
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@andreachalupa
Andrea Chalupa
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Palentir lays the groundwork to justify genocide. Some animals are more equal than others. This is literally Orwell: — techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...
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r/JoeRogan
r
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Palantir released their “New” Manifesto today on X
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@booch.com
Grady Booch
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I didn't vote for any of these people. — And yet, they desire power and control without accountability. — x.com/PalantirTech...
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r/ThielWatch
r
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Disturbing Palantir manifesto posted on twitter
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r/FreeSpeech
r
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Palantir issues its conditions for the surrender of the Human Race
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@wajali
Wajahat Ali
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Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote. — Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California. — techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...