There’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one ask…
But doing so at a time when American-style fascism is historically unpopular basically everywhere, including within the US, just seems like you’ve bet on the losing team at a time when it’s clear they have no chance of coming back to win.
I think people fail to see that this has all been a gamble that has, miraculously, worked out in the favor of the fascists. I have never seen people being this politically educated in my social circles, so we know there’s still a fight that we might win, but we aren’t winning it, and saying we are doesn’t help anyone.
Those dissenting PLTR employees will get sacked, much like Twitter employees core to the spirit of Twitter were sacked to pave way for X. We all mocked X, but it’s still there, radicalizing people towards fascism more and more by the day, so let’s not make the mistake of thinking Palantir is about to lose or that it is on the losing side when everything we see points to them becoming too big and important to lose for governments all over the world. We are on the losing side until fascists don’t hold the highest positions in the most influential government bodies around the globe.
I think people fail to see that this has all been a gamble that has, miraculously, worked out in the favor of the fascists. I have never seen people being this politically educated in my social circles, so we know there’s still a fight that we might win, but we aren’t winning it, and saying we are doesn’t help anyone.
Those dissenting PLTR employees will get sacked, much like Twitter employees core to the spirit of Twitter were sacked to pave way for X. We all mocked X, but it’s still there, radicalizing people towards fascism more and more by the day, so let’s not make the mistake of thinking Palantir is about to lose or that it is on the losing side when everything we see points to them becoming too big and important to lose for governments all over the world. We are on the losing side until fascists don’t hold the highest positions in the most influential government bodies around the globe.
Astute observation and a wise assessment.