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Palantir CEO and Trump ally Alex Karp is no stranger to controversial (troll-ish even) comments. His latest one just dropped: Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company.

At the New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Karp was asked about the worries over the unconstitutionality of the boat strikes.

“Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product."

This is bond-level villainy.

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[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Not saying someone should assassinate this guy. But man would it be convenient for someone to off this guy.

Also he has meth teeth. Bro is a drugo.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently free speech is when you can't criticize Israel but can advocate for war crimes.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Free Speech is when you have money and the more money you have the more free your speech is.

Crazy to even talk about "Making War Crimes Legal", as though this is anything more than a bureaucratic speed bump for the Thielist Techno-Theocracy.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 14 points 14 hours ago (3 children)
[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Those monkeys would kill the shit out of the hoarder long before scientists got a hold of it.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

that monkey that loses its shit for equal pay lives rent free in my mind.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I will keep saying this till I die, aspiring to be a billionaire is a very strong sign of multiple mental diseases involving addiction and sociopathy.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I would argue that "aspiring to be a billionaire" is more of a fantasy than a fixation in the population at large. People don't really get to choose whether they become billionaires, as they have very little control over the mass appeal of their business ventures.

I would counter that becoming a billionaire is what results in multiple mental illnesses, as the rapid elevation of social status, the alienation from your non-billionaire peers, and the functional immunity from legal censure drives you insane.

Like, JK Rowling didn't set out to become a billionaire when she wrote Harry Potter. But once her net worth crested into the nine-figures, her mouth-brain barrier disintegrated along with any sense of humility or decency.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't know if this is accurate — striving to reach financial freedom in the form of near infinite levels of wealth is not a sign of mental disease. That's what I'd call a dream, and it could be purely motivated.

Now, having that dream and being willing to do anything to obtain it — that's a different story. That's what it takes to be a billionaire, you have to be completely willing to crush people beneath you for the simple fact that it makes you more money. Many people, myself included, are simply incapable of deciding to harm someone else for simple profit.

Like, I'm not a hyper space nazi because I'd like to be a Viltrumite. I just want to live 1000 years and be super strong and fly and stuff.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Having billions is not financial freedom, it is thousands of financial freedoms. It is hoarding financial freedoms. To that end I can understand someone wanting something on the order of millions, especially depending on where you live (although that is still a shortcoming of education, healthcare, homing systems etc)

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Scientists would study that monkey

Well, jokes on the scientists. We've killed most of the primate population and now we're moving on aggressively to the homo sapiens sapiens. So no more monkeys. No more bananas. And the scientists are on notice.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Ill bet my nuts that this guy is on drugs.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

[Karp]>“Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product."

Blowing up unarmed fishing boats is not a "constitutional question" it's a straight-up criminal act. War crimes are well-defined, so there's no wiggle-room about what one IS.

The problem with constitutional immunity is that it protects indiscriminately. And presidents are using it to commit acts of barbarism rather than as necessary acts to protect national security.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

War crimes are well-defined, so there’s no wiggle-room about what one IS.

It's not a war crime actually. A nation state cannot declare wars on individuals under which the war crime would come about. Article 7 of the Rome statute (The UN thing that defines war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, etc.) defines blowing up civilians as a crime against humanity.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Do we need a purge? One day per year for doing something about the CEO problem?

He created a company named after the evil wizards spy glass, he is not subtle about his villainy

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago

If we just make murder legal, I'll be able to murder anyone I want! Wouldn't that be great? Give that to me, I have to have it, I demand it.

MAGA: Okay.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 14 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

damn I dream of letting this guy loose in the forest at night, butt naked, so I can hunt him with my dogs. They love the scent of fear

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Bear country.

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

him, spez and donnie

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

I hear bloodhounds are great animals for such an endeavor.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Too many Lex Luthors walking around these days.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 7 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be rich so I couid be Batman. How did we end up in this world full of jokers?

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Therein lies the problem. When I was a kid all I wanted to be was spider-man so I could help people.

Notice the difference?

Batman/Iron Man/ et. al are ok as heroes but really their super power realistically should be the number of people they could lift out of poverty with that money. The fact that they haven't speaks volumes.

I don't blame the writers per se. They exist in a world same as ours so God forbid a billionaire give away all their money because no one needs all that money.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

I also wanted to help people, and be spiderman. My point was when I thought of having a lot of money I thought of the good I could do with it, which is clearly not how the rich think.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

In the defense of Batman he does actually try to lift people out of poverty in lots of versions. Wayne industries is basically the only thing keeping Gotham vaguely functional because that city is quite literally cursed while also being in New Jersey.

Like it varies by version but at least with the animated version Batman is dumping cash into charities, job programs, urban revitalization program, infrastructure expansion and repair, and probably some things I'm forgetting. Point is Batman knows that the difference between crime and prosperity is poverty, which he has done his best to eliminate, now he's stuck with the personally and ideologically motivated as well as the weirdos. Hell some versions of Batman have cured Mr. Freeze and Nora once he found out what was going on with that.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like the Joker would have kicked these guy's asses.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

It’s true. The joker is just in it for the love of the game. In reality he also hates fascists.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

More like Penguins. Joker was a nihilist.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 21 hours ago (4 children)
[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

The patron saint of consequences.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 points 21 hours ago

Eh, Lex Luthor although a fictional character seems way too competent to be compared to these mustache twirling villains.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

He's making a great case against whatever business he's in.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Palantir itself is enough of a case to be against the whole thing and anyone involved.

[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 58 points 1 day ago

Palantir is the enemy of humanity.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago

I'm thinking of another thing that can move a lot the businesses: hunting CEOs.

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