In 2023, the then-Conservative government awarded Palantir with a £330m contract to “build a new NHS data platform”. The move proved controversial because Palantir is a US spy tech firm and its co-founder Peter Thiel is a prominent Trump donor with links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, a trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Thiel’s connections.

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    It’s 100% safe to assume anyone who even leans in the direction of supporting supply-side economics is a diddler.

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      Does he put forward his case that he is the anti christ? As he sure comes across as someone who would want that. He has always felt like the sort of motherfucker who would read the Stand and identify with Randall Flagg

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    Of course the UK wants to deal with palantir, they want a surveillance state. They have always wanted a surveillance state there

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    The most evil and corrupt person is linked to the most evil and disgusting person? Say it ain’t so I’m clutching my pearls over here.

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      This isn’t even the first time Thiel has been linked to Epstein, but we never really hear about it for some reason. This isn’t even the first time he’s been linked this summer.

      Ever since that gawker lawsuit, it kinda seems like bad press about Peter Thiel gets buried almost as soon as it’s published.

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    I find this very hard to believe, he’s such a good boy and helps grannies cross the street.

    I think it’s time we send some F-16s to fire missiles at Chinese weather balloons, our real enemies.

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      It’s worse, they sent an F-22 to shoot a 400k USD missile, I bet the balloon’s radar never saw it coming!

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          I don’t know which all aircraft were involved at different points, but there was absolutely a shoot-down by an F-22.

          I don’t know anything about this website but it was one of Wikipedia’s sources. I remember seeing the pictures/videos with the F-22 clearly visible, plus the noteworthy stats like being the first f-22 kill, being the first engagement over US territory since WW2, and that it was probably the highest air to air kill.

          https://www.twz.com/f-22-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-off-carolinas-with-missile

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            Oh I agree, I wasn’t making an exclusive statement. It’s just pretty wild that this was 2 years ago and feels like a fever dream now.

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        It’s way worse, shooting weather balloons make them sound like angels.

        https://investigate.info/company/palantir

        They provide police state technology currently used by ICE to target immigrants and several US cities police departments use their tech for “predictive policing.” Not to mention they are actively and enthusiastically testing predictive generative AI to plan war crimes and hallucinate targets in the Gaza genocide. Technology they will bring home as “battle tested.”

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          Also a lot of right-wing government are planning to use the same exact tech to “completely remove homosexuality from society” among others.

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    There are jokes I could make. There really are.

    I just don’t know how to make the idea of Thiel wanting a database of everyone who’s underged into something funny.

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      Thiel shared his views on the Ten Commandments and identified which ones he believes are the most significant.

      “The Ten Commandments, the two most important are the first and last on the list. The first commandment is, you should worship God,” Thiel reportedly told attendees. “The tenth commandment is, you should not covet the things that belong to your neighbor. In some ways, the first commandment is to look up, and the tenth commandment is you do not look around. And if you’re too much focused horizontally on all the people around you, that’s sort of the bad version you get caught up in.”

      He’s such a hypocrite!

      The greedy guy who owns a company that offers mass surveillance systems says that not looking around at your neighbors is one of the best virtues. LoL