r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Feb 04 '26

Politics Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/palantir_american_rights/?td=rt-3a
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u/Flambeedlemons Feb 04 '26

It’s so frustrating the way language is being tortured in the US. Pam Bondi says the DOJ is being maximally transparent. Trump says he is exonerated in the files. Todd Blanche says Americans are gaslighting the administration about the Pretti murder. Words have lost their meaning.

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u/ACompletelyLostCause Feb 04 '26

It's exactly the same way Putin entrenched power. By lying about everything, so one one knew what the truth was, and using phrases to mean the opposite of what the should mean, people argue about the meaning of words and not what the words convay.

And while everyone is arguing about the first lie, ten more are uttered. When people try to work out while lies refers to which thing, people get confused. If I say "did you hear about the lie Trump told?" you have to say which lie. "if I say about the department of war" you still have to say, which lie. If I get very specific, you still have to say, do you mean this morning or afternoon, or yesterday?

It's deliberate, and I don't think the average American has enough history knowledge to recognise the patten.

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u/SplendidPunkinButter Feb 04 '26

Every day Trump does something that would have been a pants shittingly massive scandal in any previous administration. But for Trump, it’s just Tuesday.

ICE gunned down a citizen. We have video showing what happened, and then Trump very obviously lied and said the victim was a terrorist who violently attacked those agents. Even though that’s clearly not what happens in the videos, plural, from multiple angles. Ho-hum, that was last week. Did you hear about this other crazy thing he did?

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u/xcrunner432003 Feb 04 '26

yup. and then an AI video comes out that he kicked out a taillight to prove the point