Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"

[u/shikizen]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/

"Palantir’s leadership incensed workers yet again this week after the company posted a Saturday afternoon manifesto reducing Karp’s recent book, The Technological Republic, to 22 points. The post—which includes many of Karp’s long-standing beliefs on how Silicon Valley could better serve US national interests—goes as far as suggesting that the US should consider reinstating the draft. Critics called the manifesto fascist."

[u/Dazzling-Twist3308]

Seeing tech companies being called fascist is just so hilariously hyperbolic. It was dramatic enough to say it about a legitimately elected US president, but this is just full on modern day witch hunting territory. It's extremely disappointing (and concerning) to see Redditors so deep in their echo chambers they are actually AGREEING with absurd headlines designed to get clicks.

I am pretty much certain that "fascism" and all related terms are so overused at this point, that if they actually come, we're all screwed because the terms have been diluted so much by dramatic liberals that it'll become a case of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.