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So they are planning on relying on an outside surveillance and analytics tech company whose name is taken from the Lord of the Rings orbs that are used by Sauron to spy on Middle Earth. But that's just a fluke coincidence, right?
Uh... So, yeah, that's just the single most famous line from Sauron himself, about his plan to enslave all of Middle Earth. Funny coincidence. But this is a code update - I'm sure this will be run by reasonable people, bean counters, and not insane partisan zealots.
So...umm...
If you don't know much about Palantir... Well, its founder would definitely side with Sauron, too put it lightly.
Considering Peter Thiel’s stated preference for Mordor (Sauron's realm where "the very air is a poisonous fume"), there’s no doubt that he knows exactly what he’s doing,
”Gandalf’s the crazy person who wants to start a war… Mordor is this technological civilization based on reason and science. Outside of Mordor, it’s all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works.”, Peter Thiel