• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    True, but the state has always oppressed its citizens. It doesn’t even need taxes to do it. That’s just extra control and punishment for the poor.

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    7 hours ago

    Eagle Eye is when AI is used to automate control of military assets.

    Like the possibility of erasing somebody with a fucking Hellfire missile from a Predator drone… on US soil.

  • LLMhater1312@piefed.social
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    21 hours ago

    Obviously anti palantir and anti military here but my understanding of the federal tax system and how spending works is they actually fund all this stuff before taxes come in, having a sovereign currency and central bank has vastly changed the structure of taxation on the federal level(unlike local propertytaxes for examplewhich function in the traditional way ), this is a MMT take but it makes sense to me

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      Yeah the state will print endless money for its primary purposes: violent control, theft, enforcement of capitalism, genocide, etc. Thus, Palantir.

      On the other hand, the state will ferociously attack any money meant to improve and liberate our lives, since this is a direct threat to capitalism.

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    23 hours ago

    And that’s just America.

    But to defuse the paranoia a little, they said the same about the most recent, disturbingly powerful, global PMC: G4S. Not much actually happened yet as a result of G4S power. Which, as it turns out, also uses Palantir systems.

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      Not much actually happened yet as a result of G4S power.

      Do you really think they’re going to tell you that they’re spying on you?

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      22 hours ago

      the AI bubble is being propped up so Palantir, an AI company, together with other world governments can build police surveillance states