I don't know how much people outside of MN know about what's going on, but it's fucking dire here. However bad you think it is, it's worse.
As bad as Chicago?
Much worse
The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
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#52I am all for criticizing and pointing fingers at trump and this entire administration.
But it does say they have been working with ICE for “years” in the article. What is not really clear to me is was the app made worse recently, was it originally commissioned under trump?
Nothing about that changes that they should not be working with ICE and they deserve any pressure they get to cut ties. But there is some history here I am very curious about.
All of that being said, I am concerned about how this will be turned around and used in more than just ICE and targeting everyone. Especially since we can be sure this will be used in largely blue big cities.
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#53Per the WSJ, as of January 10th this year, ICE has identified 13 instances of agents firing at or into civilian vehicles, leaving eight people shot with two confirmed dead. Five of those shot were citizens. According to court records, only one of these civilians was armed and never drew his weapon. There is a sickness curdling in the dark corners of Silicon Valley. These people need to be humiliated for being the sni…
"humiliating" folks might not be the proportional response when innocent people are dying
How else are we supposed to deter tech people from working for Palantir? What is a good polite method?
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#54Per the WSJ, as of January 10th this year, ICE has identified 13 instances of agents firing at or into civilian vehicles, leaving eight people shot with two confirmed dead. Five of those shot were citizens. According to court records, only one of these civilians was armed and never drew his weapon. There is a sickness curdling in the dark corners of Silicon Valley. These people need to be humiliated for being the sni…
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#55If you work for Palantir and if you work on these systems: You have blood on your hands. You know that it's not right what is happening on the ground right now. Do something.
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#56The Palantro CEO, Alex Karp, is on the record that he approves of what the president is doing in regards to immigration enforcement and the striking of boats in international waters.
This type of behaviour from Palantir is old news: https://www.business-humanrights.org/es/%C3%BAltimas-noticia...
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then argue for democratically changing the law to make them unambiguously legal. Selectively enforcing only the laws you want to is the key enabler of corruption.
> Selectively enforcing only the laws you want to is the key enabler of corruption. Like expanding Presidential immunity specifically for a President with 34 existing felony convictions? Or the admin refusing to even investigate the agent in the Good shooting ( https://www.axios.com/2026/01/14/ice-trump-minneapolis-inves... ) while going after her widow ( https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-doj-resign..…
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#58And ppl were worried about China's 1984 style use of Ai, lol. In the end it was greedy software developers that enable this.
> And ppl were worried about China's 1984 style use of Ai, lol.
Came here to say the same...
> In the end it was greedy software developers that enable this.
Nope. First is a failing govt system (not upholding the constitution) that's enabling this.
Second it's not the devs but the business men (that are so much in bed in govt that they have become indistinguishable).
Look, there are software devs (and probably business men) that are equally greedy in, say, Finland/Iceland/etc. But it's not happening there: they simply have a govt that's better for the people at large.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I expect masked ICE agents to be deployed to polls in purple and blue states to "prevent non-citizens from voting" (i.e. to scare minorities away from polls)
> deployed to polls in purple and blue states to "prevent non-citizens from voting" (i.e. to scare minorities away from polls) MOST states (purple, blue, red) have mail-in voting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting_in_the_United_St...
For now. The tyrant controls the post office.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I expect masked ICE agents to be deployed to polls in purple and blue states to "prevent non-citizens from voting" (i.e. to scare minorities away from polls)
> deployed to polls in purple and blue states to "prevent non-citizens from voting" (i.e. to scare minorities away from polls) MOST states (purple, blue, red) have mail-in voting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting_in_the_United_St...
They're working on that.
Challenging the rules: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-revives-...
Changing the rules at USPS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-this-new-mail-rule-c...
And I'd fully expect some fuckery via executive orders closer to the election, and SCOTUS to use the emergency docket to let them "temporarily" be enforced.