I mean no public strategy should include secret bills, Palantir or no Palantir.

If you're idealogically opposed to Palantir, how will a home-grown Palantir help? It would likely do the same things Palantir does but with a Canadian Alex Karp

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gpm 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well there's a clear difference between a creepy company spying on you and a creepy company closely aligned with a government that has threatened to annex you spying on you.

Neither are great, but one is worse.

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dreambuffer 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There likely isn't a Canadian Alex Karp. Karp is a unique byproduct of American culture. The specific brand of arrogance, hunger for war, and callous disregard for human life, all in service of a right wing ideological project, is simply not as present in Canada because Canada is a middle power with more liberal values who prefer diplomacy over war.

	▲	somenameforme 25 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think you can't really measure a country's approach to war unless that country is already quite powerful. This is the reason that it's said that power corrupts. It's easy to have good values when it's difficult to have bad values, or there is minimal benefit to such. But give a man (or country) tremendous power, and suddenly having bad values can be immensely rewarding on short to medium time scales.
	▲	bluefirebrand 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I appreciate that you think so highly of Canada, but no. There are still plenty of people that fit that description born in Canada. I think the main thing is they all move to California or New York as soon as they can, because they can't achieve their sociopath ambitions as easily here.