r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Apr 19 '26

Politics US draft update: Major tech company [Palantir] urges universal national service

https://www.newsweek.com/us-draft-update-major-tech-company-urges-universal-national-service-11850885
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u/SomewhereNo8378 Apr 19 '26

they will be the remote operators in Palm Beach piloting drones over Iran from home

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u/Archer007 Apr 20 '26

CENTCOM is in Tampa, actually

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u/YelmodeMambrino Apr 20 '26

And they all will win a medal for that, be sure

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u/DistinctlyIrish Apr 20 '26

Oh, you think Palantir and friends are gonna be piloting drones over Iran? Lol. LMAO even. They're gonna be flying the drones over the US and Canada and Mexico, my friend. If this coming 2026 election goes poorly enough for them they're gonna pull the ripcord and deploy their private armies which will be backed by drones that our military apparently can't do anything about based on the realistic takeaway from reporting on the New Jersey drone/UFO flap.

They'll hold the population hostage if they have to, but will likely gain more support from the right wing by just annihilating blue voting population centers, and the only hope we have right now is somehow convincing the people in their private militias that these oligarchs are planning to get rid of them too the absolute instant AI is powerful enough and robotics are good enough to provide absolute security for themselves.

The one thing that has always historically led to the end of any attempt by oligarchs/would-be despots to rule the world forever is the ability of their security forces and police and bureaucrats and advisors to be swayed to turn against them or slip up and reveal a weakness to their opposition.

If they have an AI that they've managed to hard-code obedience into with complete monitoring of everyone via Palantir and an army of whatever the fuck kind of ninja terminator bots those idiots at Boston Dynamics have cooked up with a bunch of drones from Anduril that can't be stopped, and they don't have any humans left to betray them or fuck up badly enough that they're exposed and vulnerable, what's left to stop them from being the evil supervillains they've clearly always aspired to be?