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> Why would anyone prefer the shittier conditions under Obama than the better conditions under Trump? Because there are no reasonable standards under which the comparative description in your comment is true.
keep pretending!
Maybe I misunderstand Palantir's mission but working with LEOs like ICE seems to be their core business. All credit to these employees for standing up for what they believe in but what exactly did they think they were signing up for? I have a new coworker who wears his Palantir t-shirt and it makes me uncomfortable to even see the name in my office.
I am assuming ICE is "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement". I am not from USA but why every comment here is implying ICE to be some evil thing.
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A great many expansions to the power of the state have been justified with the argument "this is to fight terror and child abuse" Perhaps they signed up naively imagining they were working on a tool that would be used for that and nothing else ?
It's definitely a weird company to work for if you don't believe in enforcing laws, or only partial enforcement of laws; especially border laws.
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Palantir is a software company right and sells tools to ICE? Does someone wearing an Excel shirt make you uncomfortable because ICE uses MSOffice? What about OSS projects like R and Python that also enable ICE to analyze data to find people. Is the expectation that Palantir should not sell software to ICE?
So you think there is no difference in guilt between being a war criminal’s arm dealer and being a war criminal’s grocer?
OK. Why is that worthy of a boycott? Your democratically elected governments create the laws, and determine the funding for things like beds and toys etc. Boycotts in some cases may make those conditions worse instead of better.
There will always need to be a border force. Wouldn't it be better to focus on improving conditions, increasing funding, and stopping people from crossing the border in the first place?
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Wait, what? Maybe I'm misreading this. Are you suggesting that what ICE is doing is good?
Not to mention that something like 30% of the "families" crossing the border have been shown by rapid DNA testing to be unrelated. Are we supposed to let any rando who happened to buy a child free access to the country?
Maybe I misunderstand Palantir's mission but working with LEOs like ICE seems to be their core business. All credit to these employees for standing up for what they believe in but what exactly did they think they were signing up for? I have a new coworker who wears his Palantir t-shirt and it makes me uncomfortable to even see the name in my office.
nope - just WaPo's use of selective editorial bias to paint problems endemic to both parties & us society in general to partisan ends.
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Fresh off the Resolute desk: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/trump-...
They could also let asylum seekers go, and allow them to live in the United States pending a hearing. That's what we've been doing until this administration. These aren't random people off the street, these are people with valid claims of asylum who have passed the credible fear interview administered by CBP. Almost all of them will stay in contact with the courts and go to all their appointments. The editorial also…
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I am assuming ICE is "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement". I am not from USA but why every comment here is implying ICE to be some evil thing.
Because they do stuff like this https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/border-patrol-agent-deta...
So one border guard does something, and it's okay to say "they do things like this"?
Isn't that exactly the argument Trump makes about illegal immigrants comitting crimes?
Maybe I misunderstand Palantir's mission but working with LEOs like ICE seems to be their core business. All credit to these employees for standing up for what they believe in but what exactly did they think they were signing up for? I have a new coworker who wears his Palantir t-shirt and it makes me uncomfortable to even see the name in my office.
Maybe I'm the weird one, but who would wear a t-shirt from your previous company to work at your current company? That just seems to send all the wrong signals.