Dennis Koch

Palantir is building a privately managed state! Let’s stop the bullshit. Palantir is not a normal tech company, and it never was. It is what happens when surveillance, militarism, elite ideology, and software get fused into one machine. Its own public messaging now reads less like product marketing and more like a doctrine for a colder political order, one where war, control, and obedience are treated as moral necessities rather than things that should terrify free people. This company is already fed by the state btw. In its 2025 annual report, Palantir said 54% of its revenue came from government customers. The Pentagon then moved Palantir’s Maven system into CORE military status, with long term institutional funding, and NATO acquired Palantir’s AI enabled warfighting system for Allied Command Operations. So when Palantir talks like a political actor, people should understand that it is not speaking from the sidelines. No, it is already wired into the bloodstream of Western power. And that is the part too many idiots still miss. Palantir is not “just” analytics. It is an instrument for making populations, borders, battlefields, bureaucracies, and institutions more legible to power. Palantir won a $30 million ICE contract in 2025 tied to identifying undocumented immigrants. In Britain (wtf are you doing brits?), Palantir is already deeply embedded in the NHS Federated Data Platform under a £330 million, 7 year contract, and many warned 2 days ago that the UK now has a weak hand in that test case because dependency is already setting in. . That is how this shit works. First it is a tool. Then it becomes infrastructure. Then it becomes impossible to remove without pain. This is why Palantir is so dangerous to any serious idea of democracy. Populists do not just want applause. They want machinery. They want systems that can classify faster, flag faster, correlate faster, and act faster. They want less friction, less oversight, less delay, less human hesitation. Palantir offers exactly that. Not persuasion, but sorting. Not public reason, but operational dominance. Not democratic patience, but decision compression at scale. The modern authoritarian does not arrive with a speech first. He arrives with software and money. The governance structure makes it even worse. Palantir’s filings show that the founders retain extraordinary voting power through special share structures and founder voting arrangements that can preserve up to 49.999999% of voting power in key circumstances. Peter Thiel remains chairman, and he is an early supporter of Trump. So what you have here is not just a contractor. You have a founder controlled company, tied to hard power, embedded in state systems, adjacent to reactionary political networks, and openly drifting from “we build tools” into “we will tell civilization what it needs.” That is rotten as fuck. And no, the problem is not that Palantir is “controversial.” The problem is that it is normalizing a model in which private firms become the operating layer beneath war, borders, health, and internal administration at the same time. Once that happens, elections still exist, parliaments still talk, judges still issue opinions, but real power starts drifting downward into systems most citizens will never see and cannot meaningfully challenge. That is how freedom dies in the digital age. Not with 1 giant dramatic moment. With procurement contracts, dependency, classified integrations, and executives telling you this is all necessary for security. Palantir is the kind of company that should make people deeply uncomfortable. Because it is effective. Because it is connected. Because it is ideological. Because it sits exactly where the worst instincts of the state meet the most powerful tools of modern computation. And because once a machine like that is fully normalized, good luck trying to claw the fucking power back.