Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics. That much is clear. But during the Yahoo Finance Invest Conference Thursday, he escalated his counteroffensive, aimed squarely at analysts, journalists, and political commentators who have long attacked the company as a symbol of an encroaching surveillance state, or as overvalued.

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    Billionaire says this. Billionaire says that. I don’t give a fuck what this parasite says. Him and others like him will face their reckoning day.

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    Palantir is a multinational data capture and analytics company.

    What exactly is he/it being patriotic to? The US? If so, the company should be banned everywhere else in the world.

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    There is nothing patriotic about spying on your neighbors, I thought we learned that several times already.

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    Builds army of surveillance tools

    “Stop calling it surveillance” These people would be so funny if they didn’t have such a negative impact on millions of people

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    I’m getting so sick and fucking tired of people tying earnings potential to whether something is good or bad. Same thing with tying wealth to intelligence. It is so monumentally stupid and shortsighted.

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    Fortune gives Karp soapbox from which to say whatever he wants, unchallenged. Eventually, though, they get to…

    Critics—especially civil-liberties groups—have accused Palantir for years of building analytics tools that enable government surveillance. Karp says these attacks rely on caricature, not fact.

    Then, at last, they finally demonstrate some journalistic Integrity and rebut his statement with why those groups make those accusations… Oh, wait, no they don’t. They just end the article with one final quote from him that could just as easily have been from Hitler.

    “Pure ideas don’t change the world,” he said. “Pure ideas backed by military strength and economic strength do.”

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    This company should be dismantled and Thiel and Karp should be arrested for violations of our fourth amendment rights. Treason. Prosecute to fullest extent of the law

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      We’ll need to ask them if they’d like to waive any other rights along with their fourth. Like maybe their eighth

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    “Patriotism will make you rich.”

    If you can’t smell the grift and propaganda coming off of this pile of shit then you’re a dangerously stupid human being.