A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Palantir, which has landed multiple massive contracts under the Trump administration, made $1.6 billion in net income last year.

It grew so much last year that it joined the list of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with its stock more than doubling in value in the first half of 2025 alone. In a report to shareholders, the company said it was “crushing” expectations in terms of growth, with revenue growing 93 percent year over year at the end of 2025.

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[–] 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, and that’s by design. So until somebody comes in and puts a stop to that companies will continue to do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    We need to lobby as a collective to hire politicians to actually represent us.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Agreed. Do you know of a PAC for this? I have been searching.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    Those fucks have also recently got massive 'defence' contracts here in Australia as well. Not happy, Jan.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Has it ever been this bad? I mean in terms of taxes? The gilded age of the 1880s to 1910s had less economic inequality than today.

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    [–] 66 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Thiel is literally in the Epstein files thousands of times. He’s a kid diddler. You couldn’t even write a better comic book villain. Dude belongs in Arkham asylum. He’s going around the world giving speeches that Greta tunberg is the Antichrist

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  • [–] 44 points 6 months ago (15 children)

    Dunno about the other guy but I'm both.

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    I am definitely both, and I'm probably mostly tired because I just got my linux desktop running and have been up too late on it.

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    Its fucken dope (at least can confirm with AMD cards). You'd be surprised how many games you dont even need proton for if you're not gargling AAAs. Linux is totally ready right now.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (9 children)

    I'm a bitch and reverted back to 10 for playing stalker gamma and modding games. I will probably revert back to Mint once gamma is moved away from using wrapper and Nexus releases a Linux mod manager that gets around some of the weird issues. Like how Baldurs gate 3 just doesn't work or how NVSE64 doesn't work for Linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Found modding older totles easier on linux

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (7 children)

    Oh absolutely. Also games that had mod managers out the gate worked fine, such as Rimworld. The problem is that I'm not playing Daggerfall or Oblivion all too frequently, hell even New Vegas required a metric fuckton of black magic fuckery and then broke for no reason though that may have been New Vegas being New Vegas. Regardless given how much I mod games and how little support Linux gets from larger mod managers it's probably better for me to deal with Windows 10 and just wait.

    Frankly I'm kinda annoyed at having to do this since I actually rather enjoy Mint. I was able to customize that shit more than my Tacoma and that somebitch looks quite a bit different than when I got it, except for the paint.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    new vegas

    Is actually my benchmark. Runs better on linux. Getting mods running was slightly easier. Game was moderately less unstable. Was the game i was playing when i switched, so even though it took forever to get working and crashed constantly on linux, id just been through that nightmare on windows, and had close points of comparison.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Like I said it may have just been New Vegas being New Vegas. The problem wasn't getting it working, it was it ratfucking itself about 70 hours into my playthrough for no reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    No operating system stops that, just changes the number. Found frashes to be fewer and milder on linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah New Vegas is relatively easy to get going it's keeping it going that's the problem. Regardless I wouldn't say it's a standard for me for what's modable, for reference I've modded everything from Deus Ex to Arcanum to fucken Jedi Academy which in my experience are the real bastards to get working.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I have like zero experience with them, but don't games like Fallout have Linux mod managers nowadays?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The only native Linux mod manager I found was Limo, which didn't fucken work for me. Didn't recognize any games besides Dragon Age Origins for some reason and even then it didn't recognize Nexus download links. Also the damned thing felt like some weird hybrid between the old Fallout Mod Manage and the old Nexus Mod manager. Ended up using Steam tinker to run Vortex which was also less than optimal.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    I guess it ends up pretty cheap overall when you pay to install your own government and fill it with all the people you diddled kids with.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    So yoyre saying; everything they have is stolen?

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    So, universal healthcare would be a waste of taxpayer money but surveillance capitalism is a-OK?

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    "Yes, Kings!" said the disheartening amount of village idiots.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    We need to bring back the guillotines.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Wealth transfer in progress...

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Where are all those people from this past week who have been making Molotov cocktails?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Good deal for them. Bad deal for every system in the US that relies in taxes.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I guess if you are rich only death is inevitable not taxes

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    Shitty country letting shitty companies doing shitty things. Shocking!

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Interesting, I'm paying taxes on my income, regardless of my expenditure...

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Im not sure if youre actually this daft but obviously thats not true - im sure you're entitled to claim a deduction for expenses you incur in producing your income.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    In the US, maybe. Not in most other countries.

    Also while companies can expense ALL expenditure related in generating their income, people can't. You can't claim 1/3 of your rent, 1/3-1/2 of your food consumption, your bills, etc., as expenditure. Companies can, and they do, often disgustingly so.

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