CEO Alex Karp says he's a Democrat – and Palantir is 'essentially progressive'

29 pointsposted 20 hours ago
by lehi
(businessinsider.com)

24 Comments

thiht

6 hours ago

Absolute psycho

jon128

19 hours ago

  "As a business man, I had to get along with everybody"
    ~ Donald J. Trump during the first GOP debate in 2015

rsynnott

3 hours ago

Ballroom donors getting nervous.

It’s genuinely hard for me to understand how these companies thought this was going to go. Did they think the obese 80 year old was going to live forever, as dictator?

curuinor

19 hours ago

The basic embarrassment of this thing is why business leaders with sense just shut the hell up about the subject. But you have to like, be sober to shut up about such things, so that's Karp excluded right there...

steveBK123

an hour ago

This is what I always said re: Musk/VC bros.. You probably wouldn't like how many/most CEOs vote.. its just that they mostly don't talk about it / keep a lower profile so they aren't really public figures.

It was interesting watching so many go all-in (pun half intended) as if there would never another party in power again. Very short sighted from supposed future seeing visionaries.

zombocomvibes

19 hours ago

What a crackpot. Watch a video with him or Peter, they're clearly on drugs.

sheepscreek

19 hours ago

> I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet

At least he has a good sense of humor.

advisedwang

19 hours ago

He has expertise on targetting progressives for sure ;)

andsoitis

7 hours ago

Well, the Democrats when in power will continue the status quo with Palantir, which should tell you everything you need to know

Llamamoe

5 hours ago

Honestly the US government has been so thoroughly captured by corporate/oligarch interests for enough decades by now that nothing should surprise you.

I'd almost say political leanings barely matter anymore but worldwide most Trump-level disasters seem to be right wing.

euroderf

4 hours ago

This would've been more believable a week and a half ago.

DarkNova6

19 hours ago

Is that a white flag? I can't tell because it turns too quickly with the wind.

reducesuffering

19 hours ago

Alex Karp has always thought of himself as progressive. He's liberal on all the social issues and moderate on economic, practically like establishment Dems that voted for the Patriot Act.

AuthAuth

19 hours ago

He is liberal on a few social issues but he is ideologically opposed to liberalism. He cannot be progressive unless you're on of those people who think progressive is progressing towards an authoritarian "utopia"

sheepscreek

19 hours ago

Alex Karp knows more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet.

Henchman21

14 hours ago

We’ve always been at war with East Asia!

deaux

18 hours ago

He saw Elon Musk purging his X account of any positive mention of the Trump regime and thought he'd join him. I must give it to Elon, he was the quickest to react. Makes sense as he's the most desparate to be liked of all of them.

What's next? Larry Elisson says he's monopolized mainstream media and TikTok to promote progressive viewpoints? Zuckerberg says that he's got the whole world addicted to his algorithms and built a shadow profile on everyone so that he can spread progressive ideals in the most personalized, optimal manner?

You know what, in this timeline, they might even say that.

dpoloncsak

17 hours ago

I agree with the sentiment, but I always got the idea that Zuck was just siding with whoever was in power. It doesn't really feel like, imo, that Meta was designed to spread conservative propaganda...just propaganda in general. Especially not in the league of Larry Elisson...but maybe I'm ignorant of something

deaux

8 hours ago

I think you're right but does it make things better? The duplicitous paper clip maximizer vs the duplicitous ideologue. You can argue for either.