Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

[Nevilledog]

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. “And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”

This sounds like a direct, long-term pitch to the GOP from a CEO whose tech firm already has numerous government contracts and is deeply embedded in the Pentagon. Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you. He’s aligning his technology with both GOP political strategy and the larger male-centered culture war that the right has been waging for the better part of a decade now. And how exactly would his technology only hurt Democrat women?

Karp also made a Patriot Act–era argument, justifying his admittedly “dangerous” technology by claiming that Palantir will allow us to “be American” in the future.

“These technologies are dangerous societally,” Karp continued. “The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.… Why is it that we’re absorbing the risk of disrupting the very fabric of our society, including the most powerful parts of our society, if it’s not because it’s about maintaining our ability to be American in the near term and long term?”

*snip*

Fuck this dude.

[dweller]

1. Not this shit again

The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.… Why is it that we’re absorbing the risk of disrupting the very fabric of our society



P25 playbook

✌🏻

[Initech]

45. The scary thing is that multiple high profile MAGAs in Congress have sizeable investments in this shit.

They should all be expelled. Palantir is an extremely evil corporation that should not exist in a free society.

[flamingdem]

2. Karp likes to call himself progressive

He's pure maga with this statement.

[popsdenver]

24. Didn't he recently move

the Corporation from California/Colorado to TEXAS???????????

It's not just Republicans in Congress, Supereme Court, and Republican Mass Media.........
It 's the CORPORATIONS that put them all in power..........

I am waiting for them to re-name The United States of America....to: The United Fascist Corporations of America

Orwell was a true Visionary, and he warned us...........

[EYESORE 9001]

3. He deserves blunt testicular trauma

but I’d settle for making him feel what he will describe as torture, when it’s actually no worse than paying a proportionate amount of tax to the benefits you already enjoy in a civilized society. I don’t think this fucker would prefer lack of civilization, what with so many people with nothing to lose setting out on a quest for that tasty billionaire meat.

[aggiesal]

6. I stealing this ''blunt testicular trauma''. I'm not even asking for permission ...

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. That dude is a maniac

[BaronChocula]

5. This is a clear admission

that white working-class men (white, in particular) are in the tank for the super-rich.

[erronis]

56. Guess they've figured out uneducated white males are easy targets.

Duh.

[SamKnause]

7. Fuck you.

[OMGWTF]

8. The Patriarchy must DIE!! Be glad women only want equality and not payback.

[lastlib]

9. And the dinosaur he rode in on.

I hope it was a stegasaurus.

[poli-junkie]

10. He sounds like he wants to be the

leader of the incels. Just how would he go about suppressing women?

[BattleRow]

16. And they think Iran is an opressive regime?

Whoa!
Seems like Palantir is stealing the playbook.

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. Wishful thinking from a scared little oligarch-wannabe.

Nothing can stop the Blue Tsunami.

See you in November, Palintir Fuckwad.

[IcyPeas]

30. ... unless they cheat.

[Fiendish Thingy]

35. I'm not worried about Palantir manipulating election results

Too many other variables involved, especially this year.

[Wednesdays]

44. And the GOP efforts against the tsunami

...is like the 3 meter tall seawall Japan had in 2011, against the 12 meter high tsunami.

[lastlib]

12. My Shakespeare amendment:

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the billionaires."

Sounds like a plan.........

[DinahMoeHum]

27. Nah, not the billionaires themselves, but their children.

. . .and their grandchildren.

destroy the generational transfer of their ill-gotten wealth.

[mountain grammy]

13. K&R for the

Fuck this dude. WTF!!! I assume he’s completely disconnected from women and even Americans.

[highplainsdem]

14. He's a misogynistic monster.

[FakeNoose]

15. I'm only interested in disrupting the power of billionaire CEOs - who are almost exclusively men

Alex Karp is an asshole and he's anti-American.

[highplainsdem]

17. Thanks for posting this, Nevilledog! Btw, I don't think TNR has a paywall. I've never hit one, anyway.

[Nevilledog]

42. I get one every now and then so I err on the side of archiving it.

[NBachers]

18. This is the Most Efficient Final Solution crowd at work.

[skypilot]

19. So, it looks like I went to high school...

...with this fucker. Just looked him up on Wikipedia and he graduated from my high school two years after I did, so he would have been a sophomore when I was a senior. I never met him and don't remember him.

[belpejic]

20. Psychopath

I'm convinced that this guy Karp is a psychopath. He's definitely a loose cannon, and is probably far less intelligent than he thinks he is. He really should not be making such consequential decisions about how surveillance technology is deployed by the federal government.

[hunter]

21. The boys party and the women clean up the mess when its over.

The quicker this AI party ends, the less mess there will be to clean up.

[catsudon]

22. i feel very dirty making money off Palantir stocks

i promise to use those ill gotten gains for good

[Clouds Passing]

23. With you. Fuck.This. Dude

[FadedMullet]

25. "And to make this work...." Make what work? A.I. or the disruption of society? What's your real goal here?

[Grins]

26. Palantir founder: Peter Thiel

Any questions...?

[yellow dahlia]

28. I caught most of the interview on CNBC, by accident.

I found him very difficult to try and understand - his communication style is childish and incomplete. Indeed - he shouldn't be entrusted with anything.

The interviewer was very wishy washy - I don't know here name.

[Bread and Circuses]

29. So AI is going to take the Jobs of

highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat…


Sounds like this guy knows ZERO Democratic women.

OR What Work they REALLY DO!

[MLWR]

32. If I should have the pleasure one day of reading that this freak is dying slowly of a very painful disease,

I promise I won't cry.

[markodochartaigh]

33. "...our ability to be American..."

American is like Scotsmen, there is no true one.

[milestogo]

34. PALANTIR CEO ALEX KARP ANNOUNCES THAT HE IS A MISOGYNIST PIG

AND HE IS FULL OF KRAP.

[ECL213]

36. Well, highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly "Democrat"....

ain't gonna stop voting.

[Jacson6]

37. Appears delusional. n/t

[ChicagoTeamster]

38. How exactly does the technology lessen power of educated females and increase that of less educated men?

Do we really want a society where the roles requiring more educated people are replaced or destroyed by technology? Won't the educated people just wind up using the technology? How are they replaced and the less educated elevated?

[lonely bird]

61. It doesn't

It increases the power of emotionally stunted little Techbros.

[uponit7771]

39. Normal humans do **NOT** hate these day walkers enough

[C Moon]

40. Palantir Fascismitis

[valleyrogue]

41. Peter Thiel's outfit. n/t

[Initech]

43. Palantir must be shut down. Fuck them to hell.

No, we don't want what these fascist shitbags want! We want democracy and freedom!

[Hassler]

46. Where is the factory located that turns

Out these fascist assholes who are committed to the enshitifaction of everything? It needs to be blown up.

[mwmisses4289]

47. Ok, I keep switching letters in his name, my brain keeps seeing Krap.

Just those snippets of his conversation- did he take lessons in creating word salad from sara palin? What the freaking eff was he trying to say? I gave myself a headache attempting to make sense of that gibberish!

[RainCaster]

48. 'Our AI isn't woke'

Peter Theil's sales pitch, pure and simple. What an asshole.

[BadgerMom]

49. Palantir is technological evil. It's Thiel's baby.

And Thiel is pretty evil.

I feel silly using the word “evil,” but that’s the correct word.

[Mblaze]

50. We need to know how Palantir will accomplish that

A vote is a vote. How can they engineer a refusal of votes from US citizens?

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Again, how does the software accomplish this?

[UpInArms]

51. I am so tired of these misogynistic fucktards

Who idolize the dark ages

Go live in a cave, you freaking monsters

I am so ashamed of the women who raised these things

[Pisces]

52. Wow, this plus the article I read in Ny magazine today paint a scary picture of what is converging in politics.

We may laugh or scoff at this disgusting nonsense but it is all over the place. Women are viewed as the enemy. We are viewed as natural Democrats. Here is a link to the article in the NY Mag

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/young-women-leaving-maga-new-right.html

It is terrifying. I also read the an article in the Times about a woman who went to see a young politician in Fl. And this was his incel message: Women are the enemy,

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/opinion/james-fishback-gen-z-republican-florida.html

This is not something we should laugh at this needs some action from our leaders. We need everyone to be awake. Hanmaids Tale was a primer for these fools. They are using it as a direct how to manual!!!

[Nevilledog]

57. I did the OP on the NY Mag article also. 😉

[Pisces]

60. It is some scary stuff out there. I fear for our daughters! I think these guys are trying to be tricky with SAVE act.

Like all things Trump does with zero thought to fall out. He will break things just to win. If married women can’t vote due to name change you effectively cut off 40% of voting women. Limiting job prospects etc. We need to make this front and center. I feel fascism, racism, sexism all ism’s are taking over before our very eyes!

[rampartd]

53. we will never "be america" again

[TygrBright]

54. If I were a working class male, I would be deeply insulted.

I know a lot of American working class males and none of them would a) want to knowingly degrade the democratic process for any reason, or b) want their mothers, sisters, daughters or granddaughters to forego education and every possible chance to live better lives than their parents and grand parents.

The noisome ravings of internet incels have convinced these lowlife grifters that "all" men who are not edgelord wannabes will joyfully welcome remaking society to leave people like Epstein and Elon in charge of everything, and they are absolutely wrong about that.

dismissively,
Bright

[GiqueCee]

55. WOW!

Karp plumbs new depths of total assholery.

[Blue Full Moon]

58. The name says it all.

The Mouth of Sauron is flapping his lips. Palantir was seeing eye stone used by Sauron. This company is the epitome of evil.

[Blue Full Moon]

59. The real evil is In-Q-Tel.

It is CIA using venture capitalism to create tech to use against us. They made Palantir and the rest of that ilk possible.