"THIEL & KARP: These 2 tyrant technologists are totally crazy"
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American surveillance technology contractor Palantir published a 22-point manifesto on the weekend, calling for "a fresh era" American military supremacy based on AI. The net went crazy, and the text was called a model "Technology".
Published on X on Saturday, the paper goes far beyond the typical mission message of a technology company from Silicon Valley. It presents Palantir's positions on the function of technology and military force in the 21st century, stating: "Silicon Valley has a firm work to participate in the defence of the nation;""the tough force in this century will be based on software;""national service should be a common duty,""the postwar weakness of Germany and Japan must be withdrawn."
To realize how a private corp can feel entitled to request specified far-reaching political changes from the state, it is crucial to realize what Palantir is and how much it is connected to a "deep country".
What is Palantir?
Palantir – named after Obsidian Stones of View from Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings", thanks to which the Lord Sauron watches his subordinates – is simply a software company serving mainly defence and intelligence sectors. The company was founded in 2003 by the co-founder PayPal, Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale (who worked for Thiel's Clarium Capital), Stephen Cohen (who had an internship at Clarium), erstwhile investigator of the Sigmund investigation Institute Freud's Alex Karp and Nathan Gettings, a PayPal engineer.
Palantir was Thiel's idea, who said he realized, That "the approaches PayPal utilized in the fight against fraud can be extended to another contexts specified as the fight against terrorism." Thiel's thought was decided by the CIA, which in 2005 invested $2 million in the company through its own venture capital company In-Q-Tel. "I want I had a Palantir erstwhile I was the director." said erstwhile CIA chief George Tenet – founder In-Q-Tel – in 2013 for Forbes magazine. "I want we had the tool of his power."
Palantir is presently valued at about $352 billion, which represents about 80 times the company's yearly revenues. This apparent overstatement is driven by extended Palantir contracts with the U.S. government and its mix of defence and intelligence agencies.
What does Palantir sell?
Palantira's flagship product is an operating strategy called 'Gotham'. This is not a surveillance strategy as such, it collects and analyses existing data that could otherwise take days to analyse it. For example, if the U.S. Central Command is planning a rocket attack in a abroad country, Gotham can combine maps and satellite recordings from this country, data from another agencies, including CIA human intelligence and NSA signal, and local surveillance data to present CENTCOM with possible targets.
Gotham and MOSAIC – another Palantir mark recognition program that collects digital data, including surveillance recordings and IP addresses from the mark area – usage AI to identify the most effective targets for military raids. The U.S. admits that they utilized these programs to choice targets during the ongoing war with Iran, but insist that the final decision about shooting be made by people.
Gotham was besides utilized as a police surveillance tool. For example, the Los Angeles Police Department uses Gotham to collect data on civilians – including names, addresses, social media activities, individual relationships and surveillance photos – to track their connections with known criminals and foretell the likelihood of them committing crimes.
Gotham can "centralise everything that the agency knows about a individual in 1 place, including the colour of the eyes with a driving licence or registration plate with a road mandate – which facilitates the creation of a detailed intelligence report" said erstwhile Wired worker last year.
The Palantir client list is extensive. In the US, it includes the Department of Defense, the Department of interior Security, Immigration and Customs Service, CIA, FBI, NSA, US ARMIA, Marine Corps, Air Force, and peculiar Operations Command, as well as dozens and even hundreds of police departments and another law enforcement agencies. There is presently no uniform, publically available list of Palantir customers in the US.
The Palantir technology is utilized abroad by the British Ministry of Defence, Israel's Defence Forces and Ukraine's Armed Forces, as well as by police departments and government agencies in France, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and large Britain.
Why is simply a private technology company in the supervisory manufacture publishing a manifesto?
Palantir is in fact a data aggregation company, but distinguished by customers, marketing and ideological nature of managers. The company does not advertise itself as a nameless vendor of data collection and analysis software, but – as she says – as a supplier "the chain of killing driven by Alem," which allows "decision dominance from space to mud." Palantir describes his consultants as "software engineers implemented at the beginning", and interior emails as reports "situational awareness". CEO Alex Karp portrays himself as a individual profoundly active in military decisions, which should not be on paper.
Palantir's mission, as he said at last year's financial conference, It's "terrorizing enemies and sometimes killing them." As the company's public face, Karp defended the usage of IDF Palantir software to plan attacks in Gaza and urged the US to prepare for the war on 3 fronts against China, Russia and Iran.
Manifesto can be regarded as a continuation of this sales presentation. The adaptation of Karp's 2025 book, "The Technological Republic", 22 points image a planet where Palantir products will be even more desirable. Consider the following points:
"The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has a affirmative work to participate in the defence of the nation."
"The ability of free and democratic societies to win requires more than a moral appeal. It requires hard power, and the hard power in this century will be based on software."
"The question is not whether AI weapons will be built; It is crucial who will build them and for what purpose. Radiators do not halt to devote themselves to theatrical debates on the merits of developing technologies with key military applications and national security. They will continue."
"The atomic era is coming to an end. 1 era of deterrence, an atomic era, is coming to an end, and a fresh era of deterrence based on AI is about to begin."
"Postwar weakness of Germany and Japan must be withdrawn. The weakening of Germany was an excessive correction for which Europe now bears a advanced price. akin and highly theatrical commitment to the nipponese pacifism, if maintained, will besides endanger to change the balance of power in Asia."
"Silicon Valley must play a function in combating violent crime."
Karpa's products are indirectly presented as a solution to these problems, and his message "peace by force" seems to be designed to satisfy recently neoconservative president Donald Trump, with whose administration will yet sign contracts. After AI Anthropic was removed from the Pentagon program due to the refusal to let mass national surveillance or full autonomous weapons, the Palantir manifesto is equally a sales presentation and a pledge of allegiance.
His another arguments go deeper into cultural warfare, declaring that visionaries specified as Elon Musk should be praised for believing in "a large narrative," that "the universal intolerance of spiritual religion in any circles must be fought" and "some cultures have made crucial progress; others stay dysfunctional and regressive."
Who are Karp and Thiel, and why are they controversial?
These points reflect Karp's ideological character – he describes himself as "progressive, but not woke" and "technological nationalist". Karp besides introduced himself as "socialist" and "neomarksist", He consistently voted for the Democrats, while besides praising certain Trump policies. His only coherent convictions seem to be that "The West has a better way of life" And that this way of life must be defended "through organized violence." Karp is Israel's loud defender and described pro-Palestinian protesters in the US as "an infection inside our society."
Thiel, unlike him, is simply a much more organization figure. As a staunch Conservative, he supported libertarian and Republican initiatives and funded the legislature run of Vice president J.D. Vance in 2018. Although Thiel is referred to as a libertarian, he supports the Interventionist Alliance of Democracy (founded by erstwhile NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen) and sits on the Bilderberg Group's steering committee.
Thiel funded the 2015 Hulk Hogan wrestler suit that led Gawker to bankruptcy, nearly a decade after the blog revealed he was gay.
What do people say about the manifesto?
The Palantira Manifesto met with an overwhelmingly negative reaction, and commentators described it as "Frightening,""technology" and "The gibberish of a comic villain".
"The imagination of the manifesto...is the U.S. government and its technological allies as dominant players, unlimited responsibility" – wrote political scientist Donald Moynihan. "A planet where soft force has a real and lasting impact is simply little profitable for a company like Palantir compared to a planet where we blow up quite a few things."
"If governments were actually doing their job, this Palantir paper would not be a manifesto they proudly brag about, but a clear sign of the urgent request to remove his software from the public institutions that have penetrated," French entrepreneur Arnaud Bertrand wrote on X: "In practice, they say 'our tools do not service your abroad policy. They're expected to enforce ours."
Manifesto is more crucial than any Trump action, argued Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin on X. "Trump is an insignificant pawn on a serious chessboard. His function is full destruction. phase of preparation. Palantir is much more serious. This is simply a plan to safe the descending dominance of the West by extremist means."
An anti-ICE group of demonstrators hosts a rally in front of Palantir offices in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2026. © Getty Images; Celal Gunes
