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Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by walrus01 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:08PM (#16693977)
I don't think thiel and palantir would have lost that much if Clinton won. If the bulk of palantir revenue comes from DoD and intelligence community (IC) contracts, he cares about whoever will increase the DoD budget in general. No matter whether it is Bush or Trump or Reagan, a republican president almost always increases defense and IC spending and green lights new toys for them to play with. Defense contractors who don't care about Democrat or republican ideology simply care about their bottom line.
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Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by lesss365 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @08:41AM (#16697218)
True that the Republicans usually increase defense/IC spending, but the Democrats support them just as much. Feinstein is almost always pro IC operations. Clinton pushed for US involvement in Libya and Syria, and in a speech before the Democratic Convention was sabre rattling at China. Clinton also, according to Seymour Hersh, was aware of CIA gun running operations out of the US consulate in Benghazi. Obama's support for DoD/IC activities should be common knowledge.

Not making a partisan argument, as I don't affiliate with either party, just stating that both sides exhibit support for DoD/IC activities and both were likely to support equal, if not increased, levels of spending on them

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Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by walrus01 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:36PM (#16701673)
Probably the biggest recent example would be the size of the DoD budget shrink during 8 years of Clinton:

https://www.google.com/search?q=clinton+presidency+dod+budge...

And then the massive DoD budget increases under Bush, post 9/11 and Afghanistan/Iraq related which kept a lot of large and medium sized defense contractors riding the gravy train for a very long time.

As best I can remember Obama did not significantly shrink the DoD budget as a whole, though it did drop a bit from the 2006-2007 peak under Bush, though some programs were cancelled.

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