rant · moment 12 of 14
Palantir's Lifestyle Brand Rebrand
from Tylenol ‘Tism, FBI at Jan. 6th, & Meeting The Mossad | The Tim Dillon Show #463 · #463
8 min
Tim mocks Palantir and Peter Thiel's push to sell merch like tote bags and hoodies to make the surveillance and drone-targeting company seem cool, contrasting Thiel calling Greta Thunberg the Antichrist while building autonomous killing technology.
- Peter Thiel says regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, then claims Greta Thunberg is more likely to be Satan than the guy building autonomous drone armies.
- Palantir is rebranding as a lifestyle company, moving away from its focus on drones and surveillance.
- Defense contractor Palantir is selling t-shirts and tote bags to rebrand its image and encourage public endorsement.
- Palantir launched merch the week before revealing a new tracking tool created for ICE to monitor immigrants.
- Tim asks why defense companies can't just be evil anymore without needing public approval and cool status.
- Tim catalogs Palantir's actual accomplishments: identifying targets, enabling autonomous drone strikes, surveilling citizens with facial recognition.
- Every person reduced to facial characteristics, threat profiles, and digital files containing health data, protest history, and police records.
- Tim contrasts tech people's need for applause with finance people, who just wanted to steal without requiring admiration for doing it.
- Palantir constantly tries to rebrand through edgy lectures on the Antichrist and merchandise to make their brand seem cool.
- Palantir is building wearable surveillance tech with taxpayer money for the Trump administration in preparation for controlling civil unrest.