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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by ceayo on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:03PM (#46516005)
That is authoritarianism. Indeed, you have a valid point, except that communism in fact only is an economic theory and does not implicate anything on other areas of government. There is no difference between a capitalist authoritarian and a communist authoritarian except that a communist actually has a story (i.e. a fairy-tale) to sell to their people.
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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by ratrace on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:44PM (#46517542)
> communism in fact only is an economic theory and does not implicate anything on other areas of government

This is unbelievably naive.

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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by breppp on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:26PM (#46516371)
the problem with communism in Russia has been that the minute the economy theory inevitably fails, you now have to starve the farmers, and when they don't agree with being starved you need to send them to a gulag
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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by 0x3444ac53 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:07PM (#46516067)
Capitalism also has a fairy tail to sell it's people tho?
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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by dekhn on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:15PM (#46516186)
Of course. All successful large-scale political movements have underlying narratives that only loosely correlate with reality.
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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by drcongo on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:18PM (#46516251)
Very much. It's basically: look at all these lovely billionaires, one day you'll be one of them too!
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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by nailer on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:07PM (#46521207)
Yes, when countries move from communism to capitalism, poverty, infant mortality, unemployment and every other bad metric goes down.
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