• paequ2@lemmy.today
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    Well, clearly this is gonna be something that every republican will oppose, right? Riiiight? The government tracking citizens with a database?? My conspiracy theory neighbor bitches about this all the time. He’s gonna oppose this, right???

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    Well the half-good news is, judging by Palantir’s track record of managing large public projects elsewhere, that project is bound to bankrupt the US once and for all so people can build something new. The bad news is, it’s probably only going to happen late within the first fifteen years of the ‘two-year’ contract.

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    The sprawling bureaucracy needed to analyze and maintain such a database will be so costly in comparison to its actual value that it’s already amusing to think about.

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      I think nobody is a fan of Palantir. In a truly democratic society people would never allow such a company to collect all your data.

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      In what world is that even a plausible outcome of this news? This feels non-sequitur by its pure absurdity. If they had a list of 1000 things they can do with this database, that would not even be on the list.

      I understand you are talking about something which either interests you or is a cause you care about, but we’re talking about monumental governmental surveillance by a president many scholars are calling a fascist. This is not the time nor the place to discuss such matters and trying to have that conversation could easily be read as dismissing the plentiful and obvious concerns around privacy and safety of the American public.

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        I’ve seen that Dan guy with some astronomically stupid takes, always funny to see his actual doofus face next to them