Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike

[u/otter_lion_1956]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/palantirs-co-founder-thinks-we-should-be-less-judgmental-about-that-deadly-iran-school-strike

[u/kstargate-425]

Of course they do since it was their software in the Maven project that chose that school as a target based off decades old information that Google maps knew about

[u/adulion → u/kstargate-425]

whos going to be held accountable for what people are calling war crimes?

[u/JohnnyValet → u/adulion]

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

– IBM Training Manual, 1979

https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-decision-making-where-do-businesses-draw-the-line

[u/dirtydigs74 → u/JohnnyValet]

tbf the AI didn't make a management decision, someone in the DoD was criminally negligent in checking the validity of the target. And then the sexual abuser in chief tried to cover it up by blaming the Iranians, when he knew full well that it was a mistake by his own armed forces.

If someone drove their car into a crowd of kids because they hadn't serviced their bakes, straight to jail. And fair enough too. But in this administration, it's just another day at the office of the criminally incompetent.

[u/Creative_Ad_8338 → u/dirtydigs74]

Unless that crowd of kids are leftwingers Charlottesville... then there's good people on both sides.

[u/HeyImGilly → u/adulion]

Just like who is going to be held accountable for AI hacking things? If a person did that, it’s a felony. But if it did it autonomously, it’s not?

[u/Aaaabbbbccccccccc → u/HeyImGilly]

The key difference you’re missing here is money. A lot of money. If a person had an AI that was hacking things, police would figure out a way to charge them. Rich people don’t have that problem.

[u/serpenta → u/Aaaabbbbccccccccc]

It's not inherent problem with AI as well. It's just a problem with capital. Like, how many car companies faced any sort of criminal charges or even substantial fines for their analogue gross negligence? Or Boeing, or that train company that caused eco disaster at East Palestine? The state choses to be helpless to the companies above certain net worth.

[u/Reqvhio → u/serpenta]

the state IS those companies above certain net worth

[u/ringwraithfish → u/HeyImGilly]

I feel like this is the first time in history the mainstream narrative has been "technology is doing bad things" and not "the human using the technology is doing bad things".

And the commoners just eat it up not even thinking how ABSURD the idea actually is. A human was responsible for implementing the AI. A human was responsible for prompting/directing the AI to its goal. A human was responsible for reviewing actionable intelligence presented by the AI. A human was (hopefully) responsible for pulling the trigger.

It's just another indication of the technocrats warping reality to fit their narrative and absolve themselves of any responsibility for the harms they cause.

[u/smokeweedNgarden → u/ringwraithfish]

I'm actually seeing the opposite on the ground but maybe because I'm in the Bay Area.

For the first time in a long time I'm hearing people question what exactly the people in their extended circle do/work for in tech.

Like, ok you're in robotics! What exactly do you work on? Do you help make murderbots?

It's starting to look alot like people that work at Raytheon from what I'm seeing

[u/Megakruemel → u/ringwraithfish]

We both know that if a "commoner", as you put it, was using an AI to do even something remotely similar, they would get the book thrown at them. For the smallest of crimes.

It's the same with copyright law. Ai has been inhaling countless (in the real sense of the word) works of writing, movies and art without permission but boy oh boy if you get caught torrenting even one movie, your entire family is supposed to be shouldered with generational debt. Because with torrents they'll argue that you are also responsible for spreading the movie around to other people, even if you only seeded a few megabytes but if an Ai takes 10 movies and mushes them together to make a new one they'll argue it's a new thing because it's a creative remix and only contains a 10th of the movie.

[u/Bac2Zac → u/HeyImGilly]

I don't get this, how is anyone responsible aside from whoever owns it?

Like, if I start a small fire on my property, but it spreads into my neighbors house and burns it down, I'm responsible. For some reason though, if I INVENTED THE FIRE, then I'm not?

[u/I_upvote_downvotes → u/HeyImGilly]

I don't really buy most of those statements about it "breaching containment" anyway. I bet it's 50% hype to keep the bubble from popping, 50% people using their privileged roles to execute code they didn't read.

[u/Junkstar → u/adulion]

Not this guy, I’ll bet.

[u/drfsrich → u/adulion]

The only thing stopping us from rightfully holding this guy and Thiel legally responsible is politicians beholden to billionaire interests.

[u/lynxtosg03 → u/adulion]

No one. No US citizen will ever be held accountable for war crimes. We haven't held anyone accountable for war crimes in over 50 years. People are delusional if they think we'll start now.

[u/GrayEidolon → u/kstargate-425]

deeets

Conservatives are building the surveillance state. This isn’t going anywhere without unprecedented grass roots support and putting conservatives out of power at all levels of government - the sort of grass roots support the surveillance and propaganda state is designed to prevent.

Here's an info dump

The goal here is the dissolution of democracy. And that doesn’t stop when Trump or xyz politician is gone.

Trump-thiel-Epstein admin is building the police state the wealthy have been lusting forever so they can enforce class disparity and dismantle democracy. It’s an international effort.

Big tech built the tools conservatives have been lusting after.

Remember j Edgar Hoover and all his secret files?

DARE was about building paragovernment surveillance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzrGCk-F7FY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLf2h_fo-w good summary if you don't want to read or watch more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlSK_5fMSa4 "you're the product" how LLM training was lowkey crowd sourced.

More broadly, conservatives have been upset since the enlightenment. It’s the politics of aristocrats: anything that ever helped regular people to be more comfortable has enraged them. It’s literally a response to the enlightenment. They resent the enlightenment making things nicer for poor people.

The backbone is that conservatism is about enforcing socioeconomic hierarchy and the techfascists, religious fascists, and heritage foundation race fascists are all in on replacing democracy with feudalistic “network” states run by ai powered surveillance.

Project2025 has been going on since 1981 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_for_Leadership

This current crop are trying to make a new country that "bursts out of the body" of the current country like a cocoon. It's called "the butterfly revolution" and yes it does sound absurd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

It’s why musk speaks at the afd in Germany. It’s why bannon, farage, and Cambridge Analytica were working together on Brexit (watch “the great hack”). It's why thiel's "dialog society" exists. this is an international effort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

https://time.com/7269166/dark-enlightenment-history-essay/

The accelerationists like Peter Theil from the tech faction of conservatism think they can force collapse, then use technology and surveillance to protect themselves. Because they're "done with democracy." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-BQhXdCs8Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

https://pols.sites.haverford.edu/studentvoices/what-is-accelerationism/

These are both Thiel speaking like 10 and 15 years ago. The seasteading thing was an early material attempt at this moving-past-democracy thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hjLgXA-MZY

https://www.seasteading.org/peter-thiel-speaks-about-seasteading/

These aristocrats are working on how to control their security forces though things like "disciplinary collars."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?

The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.

And the vice president of the united states and advisors have given their seals of approval to a book that says conservatives are going to have to kill all the liberals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhumans

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more links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CI2vk3ugk End notes 3: The Origins of conservatism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g How to radicalize a normie - propaganda method

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Here’s more surveillance stuff. The massive forced data center roll out is for surveillance. Do we really think ai is being pushed so hard out of the generosity of tech moguls so that people can ask it to write their emails, do searches, make them pictures, and do some programming?

https://www.aclum.org/publications/ai-powered-surveillance-is-turning-the-united-states-into-a-digital-police-state-now-is-the-time-to-stop-it/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLf2h_fo-w

Next time you go out driving, notice all the cameras watching the road. It’s way bigger than flock. They were going to partner with Ring, putting tons of houses and yards into the machine. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/smart-home/2026/02/13/ring-camera-ad-flock-partnership-super-bowl/88657750007/

Why data centers? All of the audio and video from all of these cameras need to be stored somewhere so they can be processed. They're building real time tracking of individuals with face, car model, license plate, gait (the way you walk is unique) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262885623001580,

devices https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-leonardo-signaltrace-alpr-device-tracking/,

internet history, banking data,

and it's all analyzed together https://theconversation.com/us-government-ramps-up-mass-surveillance-with-help-of-ai-tech-data-brokers-and-your-apps-and-devices-277440.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html It takes a lot of space to store all that and to process it.

John Oliver just dropped a good summary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnBPhelCdWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtUkCvF3fa4 news report about a single guy being harassed by flock cops.

Why are they so desperate?? https://gizmodo.com/flock-reportedly-tried-to-turn-uber-drivers-into-mobile-snitches-2000796138

That's why the data center proliferation is everywhere. It's why people like Bezos are saying water and electricity are better used on data centers than real people. The aristocrats want control of their flock of workers.

If regular people can get behind anti data center / anti surveillance, maybe there’s a chance to stop thiel and tech feudalists. It doesn’t have to be inevitable.

[u/Spez_is-a-nazi → u/GrayEidolon]

Larry Ellison accidentally said the quiet part out loud when he said AI cameras would force people to be on their “best behavior”, by that he means never challenging the status quo, the one he is on top of.

[u/Sei_Mal_Ehrlich → u/GrayEidolon]

Welp this neatly summarizes why I’ve been feeling this insane existential angst since the lead up to the 2024 election. Not sure if we can still stop it entirely but we may be able to prevent some of the worst. I’m deathly afraid every single day because of this shit.

[u/ARobertNotABob → u/GrayEidolon]

Just to add the Project25 Tracker, now 55% complete : https://www.project2025.observer/en

[u/NegotiationNo7851 → u/kstargate-425]

Now we know why Theil lives in Argentina now.

[u/SkankHuntThreeFiddy → u/NegotiationNo7851]

They welcome Nazi pederasts with open arms there. 

[u/herzkolt → u/SkankHuntThreeFiddy]

He's not welcome here. There have been many protests in front of his house in Buenos Aires telling him to leave.

[u/onimush115 → u/kstargate-425]

It's absurd that he claims Iran may have lured the AI system by tricking it into thinking it was a legitimate target for the sympathy.

These companies are going to come up with every possible reason why their AI system were actually right and it was actually the fault of whoever was negatively affected by it.

[u/Saurian42 → u/kstargate-425]

Fuck palantir

[u/DensePoser → u/kstargate-425]

That's the party line. They knew it was a school for kids of the IRGC and terror-bombed them, something they have tons of experience with. The claim that they had no idea the very short terrorists in the school are children is rather implausible to anyone paying attention to surveillance tech.

[u/2dudesinapod → u/DensePoser]

Yep, not only did they bomb it, they triple tapped the survivors and first responders. They had eyes in the sky and knew what they were bombing.

[u/Starslip → u/kstargate-425]

Palantir's co-founder thinks it's very judgmental of you to remember that

[u/Damet_Dave → u/kstargate-425]

Look, targeting a school full of children could happen to any of us, no need to be all critical.

Let’s just move on and everyone go back to sleep.

[u/Tricky_Rule_4565]

I wonder which company is responsible?

And this is the guy who thinks we shouldn’t pass any regulations and not slow AI

[u/Suecotero → u/Tricky_Rule_4565]

Palantir deployed Maven at the DoD which used Grok to select the target.

Then someone at the DoD greenlit the strike based on the faulty intel assessment.

The DoD command chain involved should go to trial for war crimes. Killing hundreds of civilians (children!) through gross negligence is a war crime. Palantir and Grok should lose all government contracts and be fined for misleading the DoD and failing to deliver reliable targeting data as specified in their contract, including possible jail time for the involved corporate executives depending on how much they lied about the software's capabilities.

That's what should happen in a normal country, but the US isn't a normal country anymore.

[u/S_A_N_D_ → u/Suecotero]

Imagine Iran accidentally bombed a school in the US instead of an airbase?

The US put people in Guantanamo for not wearing uniforms/being recognised combatants when targeting US soldiers... Yet they won't prosecute their own for killing kids.

[u/Suecotero → u/S_A_N_D_]

"It's OK when WE do it" is an attitude Russia and the US seem to have in common. Superpower brainrot, if you will.

[u/Morguard → u/Tricky_Rule_4565]

He who controls the AI will be the most powerful person on Earth. They want to turn themselves into Kings.

[u/JMurdock77 → u/Morguard]

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

— Frank Herbert, Dune, published 1965

[u/FadeIntoReal → u/JMurdock77]

Perfectly apt. 

[u/gravtix → u/JMurdock77]

We’re gonna need a Butlerian Jihad in real life.

[u/JMurdock77 → u/gravtix]

Wrong read. Herbert never envisioned a Skynet scenario; men controlled the thinking machines. The entire series is a warning that a retreat into luddism just changed the tool of control being exploited by the ruling elites. The problem was always the ruling elites. Baron Harkonnen would fit right in with the Epstein class.

[u/dat_GEM_lyf → u/JMurdock77]

And this makes their comment invalid how?

[u/JMurdock77 → u/dat_GEM_lyf]

I’m saying that approach doesn’t solve the problem on its own. These people aim to reduce us to feudalism, beneath them. Taking away one tool doesn’t fix that on its own.

[u/rkiive → u/dat_GEM_lyf]

The butlerian jihad targetted the machines themselves and not the ones using them as tools of oppression.

[u/Badtrainwreck → u/Morguard]

No one will ever be more powerful than a united working class, but the masses have to be aware that these people want to crown themselves kings

[u/Black-Shoe → u/Badtrainwreck]

The working class needs to stop voting for billionaires to fix their problems.

[u/No_Cover_6217 → u/Black-Shoe]

If the politicians themselves aren't billionaires, most of them are backed by billionaires to do their bidding.

[u/No_Cover_6217 → u/Badtrainwreck]

When your work labor no longer matters, what power do you have? Because we're barreling towards that reality.

[u/TootTootMF → u/Morguard]

The good news is no human alive could ever hope to control a super intelligent AI.

The bad news is no human alive could ever hope to control a super intelligent AI.

[u/Tricky_Rule_4565 → u/Morguard]

I agree that the people who control the most AIs of the future will concentrate power to a ridiculous degree. There is no good future with AI. If we just open source it then it is inevitable that some wacko will try to use it for nefarious purposes and if we don’t we’re at the mercy of the US government or private companies.
It’s all so depressing.

[u/orcvader → u/Tricky_Rule_4565]

I hear you, but, hear me out.

These technobros want to embed themselves into government asap because they know the “AI revolution” is smoke and mirrors.

The fundamental technology behind LLM’s is out. It’s open source. You can run local models at home (if you have a powerful enough computer) today and pay $0 in tokens or usage fees.

They know this. Every day the gap between the dozens (maybe hundreds) of free LLM’s and the “frontier” cutting edge models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and others is closing - and fast.

Their company valuations are obviously unsustainable and at some point someone has to pay the piper.

Their hope is to have enough guaranteed government contracts and other “protections” before the consumer tech becomes so good that you don’t need a $8,000 computer at home to run models that are - for the average user - as good as ChatGPT (but more secure, more private, and more efficient).

[u/Diz7]

If it happened on American soil it would be "Never Forget".

[u/nebulous-blob → u/Diz7]

America forgets more kids being killed in school shootings than were killed in this bombing all the time. A lot of school shootings don't even register as major news. If anything it would be more apathy for dead kids.

[u/NearEastMugwump → u/nebulous-blob]

Yes, but this mass killing would be committed by brown people!!!!! who aren't Christians!!!! That's worse!!!

(Automod, this is SARCASM.)

[u/lightsworn55 → u/NearEastMugwump]

Unironically thats the logic these people run on. Ive had some mf straight up saying he'd offer his daughters as Trumps concubines if he succeeded in deporting all the non whites 😂 

[u/NearEastMugwump → u/lightsworn55]

Yeah, that guy is the one who needs to get deported. To the sun.

[u/Koopslovestogame → u/Diz7]

Nah it’s a school.

Remember all the pre-school shootings and all the legislation that they introduced because everyone thought enough was enough?

[u/CelestialFury → u/Koopslovestogame]

Yeah, after nothing happened when the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre occurred, that was the point when American voters showed they were okay with the mass killing of children and with the election of Trump, who was best friends with Epstein, Republican voters showed they don't care about pedophilia either.

[u/Diz7 → u/Koopslovestogame]

But if it had been committed by brown people from a country with oil...

[u/deffcap → u/Koopslovestogame]

Yes. It’s all good if it’s domestic. It’s only bad if Jonny Foreigner does it.

[u/TurtleMode → u/Koopslovestogame]

Plus it’s the kids fault for being in school, they should have been out working to help the economy!

[u/SapientTrashFire → u/Koopslovestogame]

Yes, but A WHOLE DIFFERENT COUNTRY DOING A FULL WAR AGAINST US wasn't the culprit.

We have fully guaranteed a forever-enemy by doing what we did to Iran and given their leaders a genuine "never forget" movement to rally their people for as long as necessary.

[u/Odd-String29 → u/Diz7]

The US has killed more kids since 9/11 than the number of people that died in those attacks. 

[u/Important-Factor-552 → u/Diz7]

Well America is uniquely shameless and evil. 

From anyone else such behavior is abhorrent tho. They should know better. America invented lead gasoline. Americans can't be expected to understand basic humanity. It is an unfair attack on American heritage, which is most brain damage and ads.

[u/ZenX22 → u/Important-Factor-552]

To some degree I think it's a world power thing.

For example I live in the Netherlands which is a pretty "good" country these days but it certainly was not the case when we were a global colonial power.

[u/Novel-Reaction2939 → u/Diz7]

This pyschopath happens to be the worst kind of zionist, he's a Kahanist.

[u/One-Reflection-4826]

we're ruled by psychopaths. 

[u/thisbechris → u/One-Reflection-4826]

Treasonous, pedophile, psychopaths.

[u/nd_annajones → u/thisbechris]

It's not even a conspiracy, it's literal reality happening before our eyes in real time. How many years of ruined sleep does it take before we can class-action these people for pain and suffering?

[u/coconutpiecrust → u/One-Reflection-4826]

Psychopaths are the only people who want to rule. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy, unfortunately. 

[u/Mute2120 → u/One-Reflection-4826]

“If you’re evil you’re not bad and therefore you're actually maybe kind of good because at least you're getting something done.” -Peter Thiel

https://v.redd.it/6jiijprycxrh1

[u/awitchiguess → u/One-Reflection-4826]

Absolutely devoid of empathy 

[u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

“It could be the case that somebody made 99 really good choices and then one bad choice and it led to a horrible thing,” 

Um, yes that’s literally how liability works if you don’t have enough wealth to shield you from the consequences of your actions. A pilot who lands 99 planes safely then comes in to work drunk and crashes the plane will very much be judged on that fact and not the 99 times he safely landed the plane.

Secondly where the hell are you getting the “good choices” from? Not a single thing done in this entire debacle has been a “good choice”

[u/StewPorkRice → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

Yea.. I’m pretty sure if Iran bombed my daughters school I would not be “less judgemental”

[u/DurantaPhant7 → u/StewPorkRice]

“One bad choice” is a hell of a way to justify murdering ~150 innocent children.

[u/08-bunny_man → u/DurantaPhant7]

”It was terrible what happened to the children (..but if it hadn’t we’d prolly be speaking Russian)”

If I had tomahawked a girl school I’d stop what I’d be doing and question my judgement for the rest of my days. But this particular dude is rationalizing it to be normal and needed.

[u/dimechimes → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

A 1% failure rate is completely unacceptable when it comes to killing humans.

[u/Spez_is-a-nazi → u/dimechimes]

And a bunch of other innocent people died in their other target selections too, those just weren’t as egregious as the school.

[u/SomberArtist2000 → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

"No one ever talks about the vast majority of my life when I didn't go on a murderous rampage killing spree!"

-Man at his own defense trial

[u/hasordealsw1thclams → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

Seriously, they’re not doing the good choices part of the equation.

[u/SaphironX → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

Man I don’t care if someone made 9999 good choices; blowing up over 100 children remains an objectively bad choice.

A really fucking objectively bad choice.

Then again it’s Palantir and the guys running it are complete fucking lunatics.

[u/Darkheart001 → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

You don’t get credit for the times you didn’t murder school girls, it’s not like oh only 1 in 100 is ok. Real people died.

[u/bokmcdok → u/Darkheart001]

Trying to remember the amount of times Ive accidentally murdered a bunch of children. I think it's zero. I think.

[u/Dramatic_Explosion → u/[deleted]]

Especially when you consider step 1 is "So you have a stable peace treaty with a country but everyone keeps talking about how you rape children so you need to make headlines about something else" and step 101 is "and now there's a global gas shortage and diesel fuel runs out and regular gas is headed towards $6/gallon."

[u/ObjectGlad6997 → u/[deleted]]

Oh they knew alright. Some generals children went there.

[u/Financial_Funny_559 → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

Heartless POS and a low life

[u/3-DMan → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

"This is supposed to be a happy occasion ! Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who's schoolchildren!"

[u/EastHillWill]

Read the article in case this was taken out of context but nope, shockingly the Palantir dude is just a POS. Suggesting that Iran tricked us into hitting the school is really something. Fuck this guy and everyone like him

[u/Spez_is-a-nazi → u/EastHillWill]

Which is a tacit admission that their AI is absolute crap, but he certainly won’t think through the implications of his statement.

[u/interwebzdotnet → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

Palantir doesn't have their own AI in terms of an LLM. They use GPT and Claude mostly.

[u/chooseusermochi → u/EastHillWill]

Jon Lonsdale, paypal mafia. He is just as much of a complete fucker as elon and thiel. Don't let him hide. Who would have thought that dumb ebay company would fuck up the entire world.

[u/dirtyword → u/EastHillWill]

He is going out of his way to minimize children’s deaths. It would be really simple, as a public figure, to say: it was absolutely a tragedy, and wrong. Costs him nothing. The only reason not to say that is because he doesn’t care about those children’s lives, in his heart.

[u/zebrasareneat → u/EastHillWill]

Hmm. Maybe I will be less judgemental about those planes that hit those buildings. America must have just tricked them into hitting the buildings.  

[u/compuwiza1]

He can go to hell.

[u/NorridAU → u/compuwiza1]

Like that is tangible. Put him in The Hague now.

[u/doomscrollah → u/NorridAU]

There is a reason why the Trump administration is trying to dismantle the ICC in The Hague ( https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvnl0elz47o)

[u/thisbechris → u/compuwiza1]

I heard someone say once, “they can go to hell with gasoline drawers on.” I think that fits here.

[u/ohfml → u/compuwiza1]

First, let’s bring him before a judge. For judgement. 

[u/hinterstoisser → u/compuwiza1]

Can I add Karp and Thiel to that list?

[u/Fantastic-Swim6230]

Wasn't there a study that came out awhile ago that stated that a high number of CEOs were sociopaths?

[u/southcookexplore → u/Fantastic-Swim6230]

The book “the psychopath test” discusses this and Honeywell

[u/ZenX22 → u/Fantastic-Swim6230]

I think a certain level of sociopathy is required to occupy such a position. For example, you need to be okay with laying a lot of people off and impacting their lives.

[u/Angreek]

I’m American and I’m beyond offended that my tax dollars are being used to terrorize other cultures for corporation profit over anything that enhances my actual life. Fuck the US govt

[u/No-Double-Trouble → u/Angreek]

Voting out AIPAC candidate is first step. If you can do that small step, it will open a big horizon for improving our country.

[u/DejongBCN]

Unbelievable you can say things like this publicly today. 

[u/SmokedAlex → u/DejongBCN]

Sadly, it has become totally normalized. It is disgusting.

[u/Aaaabbbbccccccccc → u/SmokedAlex]

If you just declare the crime publicly while committing it, apparently that’s a “one neat trick” certain people have found works.

[u/theDarkDescent → u/Aaaabbbbccccccccc]

Very important asterisk, *if you’re incredibly rich, white, and male 

[u/camthedestroyer → u/DejongBCN]

The wealthy and powerful have always been able to do that.

[u/polarparadoxical]

A rich guy with six kids is saying we should be less judgemental about mistakes that result in the deaths of others peoples children because it might affect his bottom line.

Asshole.

[u/OdinsShades → u/polarparadoxical]

He and all involved need to go to prison for an obvious war crime.

[u/xppet]

In a fair and just world, the person responsible would have been prosecuted and punished, but we don't live in one. Now, we are left dealing with leaders who can look at such a tragedy and simply say, 'so what?'

[u/Top5hottest → u/xppet]

But isn’t that the point. With AI making our decisions.. there is nobody to hold responsible. We are all free of accountability in the world of the future!

[u/JMurdock77]

SEVEN TIMES UVALDE. SEVEN.

If anything, we aren’t angry enough. And we can’t exclusively heap the blame on the AI, as much as they want to hold it up as a layer of deniability. Men chose this war. Men pulled the trigger. Men must be held accountable.

[u/BulbusDumbledork → u/JMurdock77]

the tomahawk missiles hit each of the buildings centre mass. deliberate, precise strikes. they hit the school building; a medical clinic; a kids playground and cardiology centre; a second kids play area; a shop nezt to the play area; and an auditorium in the educational complex. the strike was done in the middle of the day on saturday, which is a school/working day in iran.

these strikes occurred over two separate waves, with a gap of an hour between them. local news already identified the school as such after the first strikes, with people rushing to the scene to help before the second wave hit.

the school had previously been part of the neighbouring irgc compound but was fully separated by 2015. palantir and the pentagon want you to believe the ai accidentally used pre-2015 data. but the geography of the two lots had changed materially since then, including some of the buildings that were precisely hit only opening long after the school was fully converted.

curiously, the compound with all these kids' facilities that were destroyed had other civilian buildings not primarily designed for use by kids, such as a cafe and a car wash. these buildings were not struck.

[u/Grumpy_Tanuki → u/BulbusDumbledork]

"these strikes occurred over two separate waves, with a gap of an hour"

Ah. I didn't know this, nor that they used 7 missles.
And I usually read all the headlines in my country and if I do not know something it's probably because they made their best efforts to hide it.
Obviusly the strategy to hit in a second wave is to maximixe casualities in first responders.
If I write what I think I would be banned for life.

[u/bokmcdok → u/BulbusDumbledork]

They sent a SECOND wave?

[u/JMurdock77 → u/bokmcdok]

Parents of those children were getting urgent calls from staff at the school to come and pick their children up after the first strike. They moved everyone into the central prayer room, which they thought was more sheltered, to try and keep them safe. The second strike on the building then killed them all.

Gave enough time for everyone involved except those who pulled the trigger to suffer some psychological torment first.

[u/m3R000]

Well now I'm 100% sure palantir was involved in that strike one way or another

These people are so freaking evil beyond any human comprehension

[u/Mute2120 → u/m3R000]

Peter Thiel: “If you’re evil you’re not bad and therefore you're actually maybe kind of good because at least you're getting something done.”

https://v.redd.it/6jiijprycxrh1

[u/syylvo]

This man should be arrested for crimes against humanity.

[u/rellotscire]

Palantir is such a cesspool of awful people.

[u/DunkTheLunk23]

So if that same thing happened to his child, he’d keep that same energy…right? 

[u/spudmonkey → u/DunkTheLunk23]

He has several daughters about the right age. Imagine if some random country blew up his kids....

[u/LeoSolaris]

I wondrous if he would be "less judgmental" if one of the dead was his kid.

[u/vega0ne]

50 years of neoliberal propaganda and Harvard business school “ethics” have led to a generation of suits that couldn’t possibly give less fucks

And they are rewarded for it

[u/newfor_2026]

fuck these people. it's absurd they're saying these things and no one does anything about them.

[u/whichwitch9]

And I think he can go fuck himself with a rusty knife.

We can think whatever we want

[u/jawdirk]

It would be a shame if some country were to accidentally strike a Palantir board meeting, but we should not be judgmental about it if it happens.

[u/Jertimmer]

State of America:

Kill 123 children: ah, forget about it, shit happens

Kill 1 CEO: hunt that motherfucker down!

[u/SomeIdea_UK]

No. I think we should be more judgmental about these shitty human beings who value their bank balances more than the lives of 120 little girls.

[u/Timelord1000]

Yet more proof that no one should be allowed to become a billionaire/trillionaire and that wealth and/or success in business is no proxy for intelligence and/or the ability/right to govern the masses and/or make policies affecting others.

[u/MorbidDusk]

“They’re getting global sympathy by getting us to hit things,” Lonsdale went on.

What a depraved psycho. Iran didn't "get you to hit things". You shouldn't have been in that country to begin with. You and everyone involved in starting this war has blood on their hands.

[u/Common_North_5267]

"They’re getting global sympathy by getting us to hit things,” - Joe Lonsdale

In what demented world do these people live? This was an unprovoked war where the US are the aggressor, how are they "getting us to hit things" ?

[u/lokeshj → u/Common_North_5267]

I thought that sometimes the headlines are just clickbait and i should read the article to be sure. Turns out what he said is even worse than what the headline siggests

[u/jmur3040]

Imagine saying this if it was your child who died in the strike. Like there was zero reason for this to happen. It would take no convincing for me to decide the United States shouldn’t exist anymore if my child was in that strike.

[u/Zestyclose-Height-36 → u/jmur3040]

the are manufacturing terrorists to leverage more money for the department of war.

[u/snarf_victory]

none of his stated reasons would hold up in a high school-level debate.

[u/TeaInASkullMug]

I hate rich people 

[u/Cyraga]

Nah be more judgmental. Never forget it. Remind yourself when these discussions arise that the only thing that stops you being one of these targets is convenience

[u/RedFrostraven]

"Come on, it's not like the children were white!"

-This guy, literally, and everyone who thinks he should not rot in prison.

[u/ptwonline]

Tech bros not exactly fighting hard to shake that sociopath label they have received.

[u/no_f-s_given]

Palantir's cofounder is an evil piece of shit.

[u/yawningintothevoid]

We are complicit in war crimes. Our government is complicit in war crimes. Palantir is complicit in war crimes.

[u/Timelord1000 → u/yawningintothevoid]

Taxation without representation means “we” are not responsible. Palantir, this administration and the individuals in Congress who support this are responsible. We must not let them hide behind a fake/non-existent public consensus to skirt accountability.

[u/YaBoiFarfour]

“It could be the case that somebody made 99 really good choices and then one bad choice and it led to a horrible thing,” Lonsdale told Reuters Global Defense Editor Joe Brock on Friday, in a talk aimed at investors. He also argued that Iran might have deliberately lured the US military into the AI-assisted targeting of two Tomahawk missiles at an elementary school on the first day of the the Trump administration’s war in Iran. The attack killed more than 150 people, most of whom were children.

I’m sorry this is unacceptable in my countries military. I strive for us to be better and do not accept this.

[u/soundsdoog → u/YaBoiFarfour]

They could have literally checked Google Maps.

[u/mpember]

Murder machine invester thinks we should chill out about murder.

[u/Holzkohlen]

Hitler says we should be less judgemental about world war 2

Totally normal thing to say

[u/redheadedandbold]

Joe Lonsdale is immoral trash. Money can't buy integrity.

[u/samurai77]

Everyday these tech bros say things that are more and more unhinged and show we don't need them at all!

[u/Ranessin]

Less judgmental than nobody going to jail or being banned from government contracts over hundreds of dead children?

[u/aquoad]

the two things these people think:

1) "Money!! Money!! I want more MONEY!"

2) "The poors need to be kept in line!"

[u/astroaxolotl720]

And I think that’s a depraved statement to make that demonstrates how the tech bro billionaires think lol

[u/Striking-Performer66]

These rich fucks just keep proving how out of touch with reality they are. Cause if it was his kids scholl....

[u/PantaReiNapalmm]

such people will kill your children for few dollars more. They have no soul, no dignity, no heart, only bottomless avidity

[u/Taellosse]

"Evil overlord thinks evil is not that bad, actually"

[u/Capable_Delay4802]

Joe Londsdale is a moron. Not cause of his politics, he’s just an idiot who got lucky. Who cares what this guy says.

[u/Igarlicbread → u/Capable_Delay4802]

That doesn't rid them if their accountability, lot of idiots in power as of today.

[u/Ramoncin]

Yeah, it was no big deal. They were children of terrorists, and brown to boot.

But if the enemies of the USA pulled something like this, Fox News would still broadcasting memorial services and adding "Remember the school!" crawls to the bottom of the screen.

[u/Designer_Hat_6387]

every single person who died in that school is of more value to society than this piece of shit, may he rot in hell, as he deserves

[u/Sudden-Purchase-8371]

Your technology murdered schoolgirls. I think we're not being judgemental enough. They should be in the dock at The Hague being tried for crimes against humanity.

[u/totallyclips]

Spoken like a true Christian

[u/Highland_Fether_68]

Wonder who's failing AI intel led to those death?

[u/0Tezorus0]

Remind me why do we let crazy people run the world already ?

[u/PhillNeRD]

A first strike by the most advanced professional military on earth knew what they were doing. It was calculated. It was a straight war crime. They want to blame AI. But we all know they knew what they were doing.

[u/ldssggrdssgds]

How's about this as a response: Merica shouldn't have started this in the first place.

[u/Ambitious_South_2825]

I can't say a whole lot about this other than I desperately hope this person meets the most unfortunate end.

[u/ReasonableDefault]

We hit a School:

Palantir: OOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!

It was a School in Iran:

Palantir: PHEWWWWWWWW

[u/ELLinversionista → u/ReasonableDefault]

I fuckin hate how the human lives value is based on where they were born. These are girls for fucks sake. If the same thing happened to a school in the united states, the impact would be so different. But why???

[u/ReasonableDefault → u/ELLinversionista]

I think renaming from the Department of Defense, to the Department of War, pretty much sums up the attitude behind things like this. These incident are considered collateral damage in "war", and countries use the term when it justifies these kind of things.

[u/LightningRaven]

You mean the US terrorist attack that murdered 100+ children? Or the subsequent war crime that killed the first responders to the terrorist attack? Or the third war crime that killed the second responders?

All so that oil companies can keep their profits high and Trump can manipulate the market to enrich his pedophile friends.

[u/Andreus]

I think we should be more judgemental. I think every current and former employee of Palantir along with every investor in Palantir should be jailed for life, and anyone who defended Palantir on the internet should be forced to write and read out a humiliating public apology or also go to jail for life.

[u/Cool-Spite-9428]

People with money don't care if you or your children die

[u/coffeetacocat]

Maybe he should be put into a similar situation D that school girls

[u/AccurateLover]

Sonidos de guillotinas cayendo

[u/Ok_Rabbit5158]

With today's technology, there is no pass on this one. Phuckers.

[u/da8BitKid]

That's his perspective, got respect it. He's a sociopath with no shame. Act accordingly.

[u/whiznat]

“Hey I made obscene amounts of money so it’s cool, bruh. Just chill.”

[u/Straight_Storage_378]

Easy to say when they are not his kids.

[u/upvz]

evil man thinks evil is not that bad

[u/grislebeard]

huh, sounds like something a ghoul would say

[u/TheLesserWeeviI]

The USA has never been particularly concerned about the safety of schoolchildren.

[u/PhazePyre]

Let me pose a hypothetical. If Iran struck the school his daughters, and possibly son attend. Would he say people should be less judgmental and forgiving of the people who struck the school with a missile? Or would he be rightfully angry?

[u/AfricanTech]

He would.

Humanity has long left the room that tech bros occupy.

[u/YoureProbablyAB0t]

How about he goes and fucks himself?

[u/mister_obvious_2nd]

"Our crappy product made some grave error that resulted in the death of 150 schoolgirls but I think you guys should be less judgmental about that."

This guy..

[u/Eyesthelimit]

They did zero intelligence gathering on these initial targets. I believe the information was 10 years old. It was labeled a school on Google Maps and no one thought to follow up on that clue.

The US murdered those girls. Trump and BB murdered them. That’s the only take away that matters.

[u/pruneforce17]

if you still work for palantir you're responsible for genocide

[u/RhoOfFeh]

It sounds like maybe he is starting to recognize that if and when people rise up, he's going to be one of the first in line.

[u/ThrowawayAl2018]

He is literally a Psychopath with a capital P.

[u/Unikum_01]

Disgusting person

[u/Striking_Assist_7715]

It really takes an evil demonic psychopath to be a C level executive doesn't it. 

[u/MalFido]

Fuck no, if anything we should be more judgemental of the triple tap that killed 170 precious little girls!

This man is a psychopath, a danger to society, and should be locked up for life.

[u/Linked713]

of course but if iran does it, then its #neverforgetagain

[u/No-Wonder1139]

You double tapped a school just for fun. Everyone involved should be in prison at a minimum. Not whining about being judged for it.

[u/AccomplishedBrain309]

And more judgemental about the software that caused it to happen. No freepasses for ai caused crimes. Hold the corporations accountable.

[u/VarietyMage]

Okay, I'll be less judgemental about that, and be MORE judgemental about HIM.

Fucking psychopathic asshole.

#BanPalantir

#ErasePalantir

[u/Piglet6482]

Yeah, you commit one little war crime and people just get so mad. Get out of here, loser.