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US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

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Re: US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

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Does this mean if you’re under them in the org chart you are a troop?

It means they are now refered to military courts and they get military ids instead of civilian . They probably have fewer rights than citizens , no?

Hopefully makes it easier to try them in The Hague

Re: US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

#72
post #24

- [Palantir] A surveillance company used by by spy agencies - [Meta] A social media company that has all your personal conversations & pictures, video, audio - [Open AI] Something many people at work & school are uploading sensitive data to - All run by acolytes of Peter Thiel - Current president & vp are bankrolled Peter Thiel - Top executives formally recruited into US Army. USA is sleep walking into something very…

Okay. What do we do? Be as radical as you want, just don't say, "Vote."

Re: US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

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post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is an Ad hominem against the source w/o addressing the actual content of the article.

It did address the content of the article: it suggested a more reliable source that is saying the same thing. Questioning the integrity of a source is not an ad adhominem argument. Saying that a conclusion is false because of the speaker would be an ad hominem.

Attacking anything other than the argument itself is fallacious. The core of tenet described in Ad Hominem is that the argument is being diminished because of who is delivering it, if it is a person, a robot, a magazine or parrot doesn't change that the argument itself is being ignored.

Re: US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

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This is a stupid clickbait layer on top of a neutral informative announcement: https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...

It's just a way to re-link the military with the tech industry, which is arguably how we won the previous world wars. If the US falls behind, then be prepared to learn Mandarin.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, Fascism and Capitalism largely walk hand-in-hand these days... Their bastard love-child will almost certainly be the death of "civilized" society if allowed to continue on the path it's currently on... It's well past time society starts brainstorming a better option.

You could almost say capitalism's final form is some flavor of oligarchy fascism

This is an incredibly correct post.

Re: US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

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post #15

Grayzone is an extremely unreliable source which frequently publishes false stories with an anti-US bent [1][2]. The past discussion [3] has a WSJ link which should be preferred over this. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone [2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/02/grayzon... [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268547

I stopped reading as soon as I read "unprovoked" in regards to the current middle east conflict. I think regardless of what side you are on, there has been a lot of provoking all around.

Re: US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

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- [Palantir] A surveillance company used by by spy agencies - [Meta] A social media company that has all your personal conversations & pictures, video, audio - [Open AI] Something many people at work & school are uploading sensitive data to - All run by acolytes of Peter Thiel - Current president & vp are bankrolled Peter Thiel - Top executives formally recruited into US Army. USA is sleep walking into something very…

> USA is sleep walking into something very nasty. I still don't know what it is.

Maybe there's something fast & vicious in the works, but it could just be the merciless grasping at any shred of power these Hostis Humani Generis do.

The big move is writ large. It's multi-front sell off of the enduring value of America. Fullscale assault on schools. Destruction of science and medicine. Giving up on USAID then FEMA. Selling off millions of acres of land.

The network state ideology is that you should have to know someone and be in a network to get anything. If you aren't born into or allowed entrance into a network you get nothing. Reducing what government does to nothing melds well with the Christo-fascist ideology that likewise resents any state not run by and for the church: two sides of the same coin.

Re: US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

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post #65
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- [Palantir] A surveillance company used by by spy agencies - [Meta] A social media company that has all your personal conversations & pictures, video, audio - [Open AI] Something many people at work & school are uploading sensitive data to - All run by acolytes of Peter Thiel - Current president & vp are bankrolled Peter Thiel - Top executives formally recruited into US Army. USA is sleep walking into something very…

The people want to be surveilled. This is their choice, which has been revealed billions of times since the dawn of the modern social media era. As a result I have zero pity, and the public can reap what it has sown. Privacy advocates, cypherpunks, hackers, et cetera have been sounding the alarm bells since Room 641A, if not earlier. Not only has the Internet at large failed to heed these warnings, some of those "con…

*The people are too poor and disconnected to dissent.

Everything comes down to the desperation to survive in a world where abundant (ABUNDANT) food, shelter, and clothing still must be "earned" (so say our elites).

Re: US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is an Ad hominem against the source w/o addressing the actual content of the article.

Before you run cover for these guys you should probably know it’s not “muh based anti-American-imperialist” but agitprop in service of Russian and Chinese imperialism.

That isn't my point at all. Most good propaganda is true btw.
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