• @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    Well, clearly this is gonna be something that every republican will oppose, right? Riiiight? The government tracking citizens with a database?? My conspiracy theory neighbor bitches about this all the time. He’s gonna oppose this, right???

      • @[email protected]
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        142 months ago

        Something something accusing their opposition of doing the thing that they either are currently doing, or 100% would be doing if they had the opportunity.

    • Beej Jorgensen
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      92 months ago

      Hypocrisy is considered a strength. So they’re definitely not against it.

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      22 months ago

      It will be used to track who owns a gun!

      Maybe not, but the fact that it could, should get them to oppose it.

    • melroy
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      142 months ago

      I think nobody is a fan of Palantir. In a truly democratic society people would never allow such a company to collect all your data.

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    102 months ago

    Well the half-good news is, judging by Palantir’s track record of managing large public projects elsewhere, that project is bound to bankrupt the US once and for all so people can build something new. The bad news is, it’s probably only going to happen late within the first fifteen years of the ‘two-year’ contract.

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    42 months ago

    The sprawling bureaucracy needed to analyze and maintain such a database will be so costly in comparison to its actual value that it’s already amusing to think about.

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      In what world is that even a plausible outcome of this news? This feels non-sequitur by its pure absurdity. If they had a list of 1000 things they can do with this database, that would not even be on the list.

      I understand you are talking about something which either interests you or is a cause you care about, but we’re talking about monumental governmental surveillance by a president many scholars are calling a fascist. This is not the time nor the place to discuss such matters and trying to have that conversation could easily be read as dismissing the plentiful and obvious concerns around privacy and safety of the American public.

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        12 months ago

        I’ve seen that Dan guy with some astronomically stupid takes, always funny to see his actual doofus face next to them