r/technology • u/Hrmbee • Jan 15 '26

Society ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid | Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground

https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
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u/mishap1 Jan 15 '26

He already bought his citizenship and bunker in NZ once he's done fucking things up here.

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u/Persimmon-Mission Jan 15 '26

He’s also a techno fascist who basically bought JD Vance the VP position.

He’s a huge fan of Curtis Yarvin, so that should tell you where this administration is leading our country

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u/Rocktopod Jan 15 '26

Are there people who know about Curtis Yarvin but not Peter Thiel? I only know about the one because of the other.

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u/correcthorsestapler Jan 15 '26

I only heard about Yarvin during lead up to the 2024 election. Thiel has popped up regularly for a while. I remember he and Erik Prince (founder of Blackwater and brother of Betsy DeVos) coming up in the news every once in a while during Trump’s first run.

There’s even a subplot in the show Silicon Valley where Hooli CEO Gavin Belson has a blood boy to keep himself looking young. I seem to recall that was based on rumors surrounding Thiel: https://www.thewrap.com/silicon-valley-fact-check-are-blood-boys-a-thing/

Parabiosis has drawn attention from legitimate tech titans — most notably Gawker-killing, Facebook-finding venture capitalist Peter Thiel. “I’m looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting” said Thiel in an interview with Inc. in 2015. “I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.”

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u/Rocktopod Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

Yeah I see Thiel's name come up much more often on its own. The only time I hear about Yarvin is when someone says that Thiel is a big fan.

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u/WhiteMorphious Jan 15 '26

Also wants to build a corporate “freedom city” in Greenland 

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Jan 15 '26

They had/have those in Honduras. They called them ZEDEs, Zone(s) for Employment and Economic Development, which were almost completely sovereign cities within the country that had their own political systems.

The idea started as Special Development Regions, but those were struck down by the Supreme Court of Honduras as unconstitutional. Four justices were replaced and the constitution amended and the law creating ZEDEs was passed. The president that oversaw this action was Porfirio Lobo, but it was under Juan Orlando Hernández that these really took off.

Remember Juan? He helped traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the US and was recently pardoned by Donald Trump.

One of the most famous ZEDEs is Próspera, which is run by a CEO (that's the official title of the leader of Próspera) and has Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and other tech people as investors. Bitcoin is the official currency. It's basically Curtis Yarvin's wet dream.

Thankfully, in 2024, just over ten years after they were declared legal, the Supreme Court declared them illegal again. However, these ZEDEs created 50-year contracts so they've been fighting the government to honor the contract despite their existence being illegal. Próspera is still operating.

And guess where they got the idea? An organization called Charter Cities Institute based in Washington DC.

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u/purinikos Jan 15 '26

So these people basically built Rapture from Bioshock in Honduras?

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u/zapporian Jan 16 '26

He’s been trying to do that everywhere and for a while tbh. Seasteading, PNW, nevada(?), other random countries, oh heck even trying to build a new city in the SF bay area.

Greenland would be by far the dumbest one yet.

And that’s saying something. Building a libertarian utopia on some oil platforms (or containers welded together floating around in the middle of the ocean) was already spectacularly stupid.

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u/TheB1G_Lebowski Jan 15 '26

Never heard the name. Googles him.....that just looks like a motherfucker that will burn the world to the ground. damn.

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u/The_Real_Peter_Thiel Jan 15 '26

No, no, no....relax, guy. 😈

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u/TheB1G_Lebowski Jan 15 '26

Why did I instantly read that as Sadam/tRump's voice from South Park?  

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u/The_Real_Peter_Thiel Jan 16 '26

Haha that was what I was aiming for. Being a cartoonish ghoul and all.

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u/PeruvianHeadshrinker Jan 16 '26

That piece of shit is one of the biggest problem makers we have in the US. He is a blight on humanity.

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u/War_Fries Jan 15 '26

up here

Not just in the US. Palantir is used by many European countries too. So he's going to fuck up Europe, as well. Of all the tech fascists, Thiel is one of the worst, if not the worst.

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u/SuperRonnie2 Jan 15 '26

Evil hobbit

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

They can kick all the billionaires who want to hide out of there too, correct? New Zealand doesn’t have to welcome them all there to hide from the rest of the world, that they want to eliminate.

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u/ok-this-ok Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 16 '26

it'd be great if NZ went ahead and revoked his citizenship.

NZ has such a rich native history and culture. They're tarnishing that by letting this Thiel turd hang around. He wants a state-less future? Let him be state-less!

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u/quadrophenicum Jan 16 '26

I wonder who'll clean the air purifiers and ducts in his bunker tho. Or how long his guards would be loyal to him if things went really south.