Is this a fascist piece or a neocon one? I can't decide. Makes sense that he's from Palantir though.
It's a military profiteer drinking the cool-aid thing. Although...TBH he's never going to get shot at seeing the rank he's getting from the start.
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#22this is absolutely one of the last big steps in the fall of america - letting the preferred and loyal plutocrats take positions in the actual armed forces should be horrifying to absolutely everyone that wants a civilian republic to continue beyond the end of this term.
politicians and judges allowing trump to run again was a catastrophe, as was American citizens voting for him to get to have another go.
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#23Army press release: https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...
> The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI. Oh, great, vertical integration between the violence organizations and the three worst and most amoral companies in tech. I’m sure not…
You are not a real corporatocracy until you don't have military ranks just for your C-suite pals
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#24> and commission as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve’s newly formed Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps.
'New Executive Innovation Corps brings top tech talent into the Army Reserve to bridge the commercial-military tech gap, with four tech leaders set to join as officers.'[1]
lol. As someone else said in this thread, this is basically stolen valor.
[1] https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...
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#25A takeaway I have is that the US and UK are now very actively and strongly preparing for a world war.
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#26You lost me at “Executive Innovation Corps”. Rich men playing soldier to get some patriotism points as usual
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#28This article is clearly written with an attempt to frame this as a purely patriotic and yet somehow an apolitical ideological decision, but it reads as incredibly fascistic.
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#29What a joke - they couldn't 'serve' their advisory roles without playing dress-up and commissioning directly as Lt Cols?
There is a long history of direct commission oficers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_commission_officer> in the military.
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#30Just jumping right in as a Lt Col? Is there a lot of precedent for that? I know that the armed forces have worked with a lot of scientists before, like in the Manhattan Project, but my understanding is that most of them remained civilians.
There is a long history of direct commission officers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_commission_officer> in the military.