Dean Blundell,    -  Dean Blundell SubstackStephan: The MAGAT billionaires don't often spell out exactly what they want America to be, but some do and Peter Thiel is one of them. He is clearly a neo-medievalist fascist, and what he wants should scare you enough to get involved with some kind of group or organization that fosters wellbeing. Peter Thiel Credit: Getty BEFORE WE START: WHY THIS IS THE MOST DANGEROUS COMPANY IN THE WORLD Forget ExxonMobil. Forget Lockheed. Forget Facebook, Raytheon, Pfizer, BlackRock, every villain you’ve been trained to point at for the last thirty years. Those companies are dangerous the way a loaded gun on a table is dangerous — inert until somebody picks it up, and usually somebody does, and usually people die, and we write books about it afterward. Palantir is dangerous in a category those companies don’t occupy. Palantir is the first private corporation in history that has successfully fused four things that every civilization in recorded history has kept — deliberately, and at enormous cost — separate: One — the surveillance apparatus of the state. Every American’s tax records. Every immigrant’s file. Every license plate read by every camera. Every health record flagged for fraud. Every name on a watch list. Palantir’s Foundry and Gotham platforms don’t just access this data — they are the layer through which the government now sees itself. The East Germans needed 91,000 Stasi officers and 189,000 informants to [...]Read the Full Article »

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