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bogwogyesterday at 9:21 PM1 replyview on HN

For anyone causally scrolling by, know these people are trolls. The founder of Palantir has called technology an "incredible alternative to politics", saying:

> you could unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people and beg people and plead with people who are never going to agree with you through technological means

If that's not "technofascism" then idk what is. Trying to spin that as culture war bullshit is disingenuous.

See quote at 13m14s in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ95Gmvg_D4


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Manuel_Dyesterday at 9:24 PM

You realize that "changing the world without politics" doesn't mean overthrow of democracy. It means founding businesses to produce goods and services that change the world. Google and Facebook absolutely changed the world, not through politics, but by creating technology.

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