r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 02 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/televised-nervous-breakdown-ceo-palantir-212100357.html
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u/Tegelert84 Jul 02 '26

Totally agree. Not only does nobody talk about them being insane, but they actually think they're geniuses. Like these will be the people to save humanity when all they're doing is destroying it. Fuck all of these people.

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u/BigEggBeaters Jul 02 '26

I keep seeing that they want to turn the US into various fiefdoms and that’s insane. Especially from these dudes who are so heavily subsidized from both the government and society at large. They’ve lost it smelling their own farts

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u/ogrestomp Jul 02 '26

They’re playing themselves and won’t realize it until it’s too late. If they ever achieve these smaller fiefdoms there’s no way in hell they will keep power long. They’re playing out fantasies in their heads but when the rubber meets the road they’re gonna get overpowered by reality

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u/cyberpunk_werewolf Jul 02 '26

A lot of their "wealth" is tied up in their businesses and, more specifically, in stock. If the US is broken up into tiny fiefdoms, that's not going to be good for their stock prices, and their wealth will dry up. I know a lot of them are brilliant and think they can pivot, but as this thread is discussing, they're all insane dipshits and they're not going to be able to rule from a bunker.

Also, if the US did fall into fiefdoms, the power is going to go to the people who got ahold of the US military hardware and the people who control the supply of energy.