[wutwutwat]

"humiliating" folks might not be the proportional response when innocent people are dying

[biophysboy]

How else are we supposed to deter tech people from working for Palantir? What is a good polite method?

[rootusrootus]

I am pretty sure the implication was not a polite method. GP is suggesting extrajudicial violence

[cies]

The govt contract with them should be voided. That's the way.

But in the US no one believes they can meaningfully influence govt for real issues. And they are right.

Sure you can get them to paint a rainbow zebra crossing. /s

But not stop/prevent a (civil) war. Democracy dies and lobbyism (what we call corruption in "modern western democracies" -- because we dont do corruption, that's for poor countries!) takes over when the power is consolidated at a high enough level.

[Kapura]

people cannot yet be held accountable; this is an important first step, however.

[wutwutwat]

Ah ok, we'll hold people accountable. Sweet!

Hopefully the number of people who die stays low until that happens, which always happens, at least.