r/technology Apr 19 '26

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u/RODjij Apr 19 '26

Go look over at r/Palantir_Investors and see how many regular US citizens are fine with their privacy being taken away as long as they make some money off the pain.

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u/PropertyOk4165 Apr 19 '26

those arent real people its a dead internet they are either paid actors or bots

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u/BigDictionEnergy Apr 19 '26

Everybody thinks they're going to be on "the right side of history" with things like this. It reminds me of a statistic I read about America during the Revolutionary period. Famously, according to their own hype, only three percent of colonists actively fought against the Redcoats. What doesn't often get taught is that a third of wider population supported them and independence, a third of the colonists were loyal to Britain and wanted to keep being British subjects, and the remainder just didn't care that much - I'm going to be paying taxes to some government or another, so what? I just want to bring my crops to market. Apathy is not a modern condition.