Setting aside the veritable TITAN-loads of shady shit Palsntir is up to, it's also worth noting that Reddit's policy changes have made it clear that providing a platform for the spread of disinformation is a central part of its current business model, so I'd assume that not only is Palantir using it for that purpose, but that they are far from alone.
Imagine being so intelkectuslly and ethically bankrupt that you'd want to boycott s store chain because someone involved in it dared to run an ad promoting "values like honoring commitments to allies, defending against dictators, and respecting trading partners."
So now, to the MAGAs, honor, integrity, liberty and respect are evils that must be opposed in favor of Trump's ideals of dishonor, dishonesty, tyranny and disrespect
Seriously, I expect that future histories are going to record that the US collapsed in an inexplicable avalanche of stupidity and insanity.
a “new phase” of militarization against Americans
It's not even a matter of saying the quiet part out loud any more. There is no quiet part — Trump and the Republicans (and most of the Democrats even, judging from their complete failure, even now, to do anything at all to even slow Trump down) are overtly and systematically implementing a violent and oppressive plutocratic autocracy and they aren't even bothering to pretend otherwise.
I wish I could pop into the future and read what history is going to have to say about all of this, because it's going to be spectacularly horrific.
Aside from the many odd things that creep in around the fringes as a result of Trump's deep and abiding mental illness, the main thrust of this administration is to transfer as much wealth and power as possible from the people to the wealthiest few.
And it's safe to predict that that's going to end about as well for everyone involved as it always has.
Reminder that Trump isn't carrying out an autocratic coup d'etat in the US by himself.
He has the active support and assistance of the Republican party and their politicians at every step of the way.
Trump is Pol Pot. The Republican party is the Khmer Rouge.
No surprise there - Republicans have hated Wikipedia pretty much from the start, since they require valid attribution and constantly fact check, which means the Republicans can't spin their lies.
Ah... this is such a perfectly Trump story. The Onion couldn't have done a better job of it.
The fate of the western world has been placed in the hands of a man who's the emotional equivalent of a four-year-old competing for daddy's attention.
Oh boohoo - somebody maybe said mean things to him while he was using his daughter as a human shield (or maybe they didn't and he's lying).
And meanwhile, parents in Ukraine are digging their children's corpses out from under rubble.
It doesn't get much more Musk than, "I polled the racists and they said racism is okay, so racism is okay "
The Israeli government and its international sponsors/defenders have been telling people for decades that if they oppose the oppression and murder of the Palestinian people, it must be the case that they hate all Jews, so effectively that support for the oppression and murder of Palestinians is a position universally held by all Jews.
It was inevitable that some steadily growing number of people were going to believe them.