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[–] 50 points 9 months ago* (10 children)

Meanwhile my dad: ‘you should really invest in this company Palantir’…

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  • [–] 69 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    My brother is a total Palintir supporter because he sees his stocks rising. I tell him he’s supporting evil but he says their CEO is a Democrat and has nothing to do with Thiel🙄. Like most Americans he’s ok with evil if it pays well.

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    The CEO is insane. He apparently self-describes himself as a socialist but is the highest paid CEO on earth and fantasises about dumping cyanide-laced urine on people protesting state-backed brutality

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Fentanyl.

    Fentanyl laced urine.

    That's what he said.

    Its basically a modern update on how the CIA would just dose their coworkers with LSD, but much more overtly weaponized.

    ... I am fairly sure that that would count as a war crime, if done on a battlefield.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    90 years ago: buy Hugo Boss and Mercedes

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If you did and held for say 30-40 years you would have an amazing return on investment.

    Funny how a government can fail, but the corporations keep going

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