Palantir has secured over $113 million in federal contracts since Trump took office, with ongoing talks to expand its technology to the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, according to six government officials and Palantir employees.
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I told you, folks, that JD Vance is not on our side and you didn’t believe me.
“But he says all the correct words!”
Yes, because words are all that matters. Enjoy the surveillance regime.
When Vance was selected as VP, it became clear this administration would bow to Big Tech.
Are you trying to mock people by telling them to enjoy the surveillance regime you helped bring into power?
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Yeah, dude, because Kamala would have valiantly opposed the surveillance regime, she totes would.
Are you mental or faking it for fun?
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I didn’t say a word about Kamala. Not a single one.
What have you done to try to prevent Trump from effecting these policies as he came to power? Did you foresee the tech billionaires using Trump to replace much of the government functionality themselves when they started giving him money? Why not?
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What have you done to prevent Biden from opening the borders against the express wishes of the overwhelming majority of the population?
More importantly, what have you done to raise your intellectual level and not ask dumb, self-righteous questions?
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Do you have any arguments besides whataboutism? Maybe I am for open borders and Biden did exactly what I wanted. You, though, seem to be against the surveillance regime.
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But seriously, how did you imagine your desired mass deportations, on a purely technical level? That somehow surveillance necessary to achieve this goal would be limited to illegal immigrants only (in a situation when nobody even knows how many there are, but everybody agrees on more than 11 million)? Or that these deportations will be strictly low-tech to satisfy your aesthetic sensibilities? ICE agents going door-to-door, checking all doors?
Just like there is no reality in which one can implement only the pleasant aspects of the Communist utopia, there is also no reality in which one can implement only the pleasant aspects of the right-wing nationalist utopia.
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The people who were brought in during the last year of the Biden administration are all getting financial assistance. They live in state-provided housing. The idea that some extraordinary logistical complexity is needed to locate them is unrealistic.
In connection with this, without googling could you guess how many migrants entered Canada legally in the first 4 months of this year? If you know the number, how do you feel about it?
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Relevance? If they are legal, they do not require either surveillance or deportation.
Come on, you know me long enough. My opposition to Quebec model of nation-state is based not just on having poor French… 🙂
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Yes, completely legal. How many? Just a rough guess.
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couple hundred thousand, including various temporary categories that tend to become permanent?
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817,000.
That’s in only 4 months with a total population of 40 million.
There are two possibilities. One is that Canadians know about this and are happy with the situation.
Another is that Canadians don’t know and wouldn’t be happy if they found out. If the latter is true, what method can be used to create a societal consensus for this project?
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Rooting them out has to be a multi-pronged endeavor. “Micro” strategies like individually targeting 20+ million people, ok, but they have to work in concert with macro strategies like punishing heavily (ruinous fines/jail time) employers who hire illegals. Or by taxing remittances.
You cannot solve this problem without targeting employers.
Clarissa, the Anon above is trying to do some SQL hacking on your combox. Might be time to ban.
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You can find an explanation for what this is trying to do here:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/95771/is-this-an-attempted-sql-injection#95774
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Back when I was still an employee, we used to hire people to do this on purpose to make sure our website wasn’t vulnerable to it. But, anybody doing it in your combox… you can safely assume malign intent.
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The fact that WP security missed it is not good. Is there a reporting mechanism?
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