So Not Surprised

It appears, at least according to the headline, that the, "CEO of Palantir Says He Spends a Large Amount of Time Talking to Nazis."

Given that Palantir founder and literal vampire Peter Thiel spent some of his youth growing up in a Namibian Town controlled by South Africa where they literally greeted each other with Nazi salutes, this could just refer to his talking his boss, but he's referring to other Nazis, ones who proudly carry the label.

While you were busy wasting your time listening to podcasts and doomscrolling on your phone, one of America’s leading AI overlords was educating himself by talking to Nazis.

This was the startling admission made by Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of the software company Palantir, a company that’s come under increasingly heavy scrutiny for its growing role as a provider of AI-powered surveillance technology to the military and government.

In an interview with podcaster Molly O’Shea published this week, Karp, who has Jewish heritage, was discussing German culture and his time in the country before going on a tangent about how outrageous it is that people online “laud the Nazis.” Then he fessed up to something even more eyebrow-raising.

“I spend a lot of time talking to Nazis,” Karp said, implying that this is an ongoing pastime of his. “Like, real Nazis,” he emphasized.

Karp explained that it was his way of “understanding what made them tick,” before making an ironic observation.

“Part of the crazy thing about people who laud the Nazis nowadays is there’s not a single Nazi that would ever have included them in their movement and would have shipped them off to the camps quicker maybe than they shipped me off to the camps!” he chuckled.

Proving that he does not understand Nazis.  They were pathetic losers.  Just look at Horst Wessel, or Goebbels, or Himmler, or Goering.

They were not only morally bankrupt, they were pathetic nerds living out a revenge porn fantasy.  (Something that they have in common with Ayn Rand's fans)

He's talking to Nazis because he wants to talk to Nazis.  That is all you need to know.