Satirical Commentary on Government and Technology
Hello, I'm from the government with an update on
humanity's gentle
slide back into feudalism, as foretold in scriptures like
Idiocracy and Back to the Future II.
We are now entering what experts call the find out stage, brought to you
by Brawndo. It's got electrolytes.
And now please rise for our first t-t-trillionaire, the
product of decades of policy failure, taxpayer handouts, and
ketamine.
Hail. Of course, when you wake up to the obscene inequality
we've
enabled, you'll want to fight back.
That's why billionaires are building the tools to protect
themselves
from you, tools like Palantir. Hi, I'm from Palantir, the
military contractor and AI software company named after the
all-powerful seeing stones Tolkien warned us not to leave in the hands of
evil bastards. Thankfully, we are very wise and balanced,
like our CEO, who can't stop talking about killing
people, wants an AI
arms race, and gets a boner talking about the West's
superiority in applying
organized violence. And our founder, who thinks Greta is the
Antichrist-
Pete knows about the Antichrist
... and no longer believes freedom and democracy are compatible. Hail.
By freedom, of course, Pete means freedom for him
and his brologarch mates
to rule the world. And that's where Palantir comes in.
Let's meet some of our valued clients. Hello, I'm from ICE.
Kidnapping people off the street is hard work, but not with Palantir.
Palantir makes it easy for us to link your tax file, social security license,
and plates into AI-driven hit lists.
Sure, we mostly use it on migrants now, but Palantir will come in real
handy when we need to round up the resistance. Thanks, Palantir.
Hello, I'm from the government of Israel.
Committing war crimes is hard work, but not with Palantir.
AI-assisted targeting makes it simple to murder thousands of people, even
if most of them are civilians according to our own reports.
Thanks for supporting our genocide, Palantir.
Here at the British government, we heard Palantir is used for war crimes
and said, "Hey, let's give them a contract with our NHS."
Could someone
abuse that data? No. It's not like Palantir's UK CEO is
the grandson of a known fascist, Nazi-loving antisemite. Hail.
Here at the Australian government, we have no fucking clue.
So while others are ditching Palantir due to fears over data safety and its ties
to El Douche, we've let Palantir into our defense
department, banks,
and even supermarkets. G'day, I'm from Coles.
Price gouging you wasn't enough, so we hired Palantir to track
and cut costs on our already underpaid serfs.
I mean, staff.
Sadly for us, people are realizing what fucking psychos we
are here at
Palantir. That's why France just ended our contract.
British MPs want us out of the NHS, and GetUp is campaigning to
kick us out of Coles, which is a good start, except Palantir is
just one head of the hydra. The underlying problem
are these billionaire
shitbags and the feudal dystopia they're building around us.
So if you like democracy, now would be a great time to
wake the fuck up and stop them while you still can.
This has been a message from your local government franchise. Good luck.
Authorized by the Department of Tech Bro
Feudalism.
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