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You are paying taxes to destroy your own rights to privacy
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I’m aware of that - unfortunately.
I meant that ironically, since Germany, of all countries, has a history marked by totalitarian surveillance and oppression due to its Nazi past.
What is happening in the U.S. and what Palantir stands for bears a striking resemblance to the strategies of the Nazis during the Third Reich.
This makes it all the more alarming that even the Germans have clearly learned nothing from history and now want to engage in baseless mass surveillance once again - and to do so, of all things, with Palantir, a dystopian tech giant owned by a self-confessed fascist and enemy of democracy.
Irony detected, all good.
Ain't that the truth.
In 2025 I told my German family that what's happening there right now is very much comparable to what happened in Germany in 1933. They balked, saying I'm exaggerating, but they have changed their mind since.