Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill communists

Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by jutter on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @04:40PM (#46519229)

I'm not sure what it's like in the US but here in Australia "Nazi" has just come to mean a White man of good character who doesn't want eleventy billion brown foreigners flooding his country.

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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by clanky on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:08PM (#46519540)

Capitalizing the 'W' in white is so funny, just the perfect encapsulation of how this just one more form of idpol brainrot.

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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by landl0rd on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:14PM (#46520213)

Don't many style guides now say you're supposed to capitalize the names of races and ethnic groups?

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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by clanky on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:23PM (#46520330)

Yes and it's just another empty and meaningless idpol elevation of style over substance.

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