Well, clearly this is gonna be something that every republican will oppose, right? Riiiight? The government tracking citizens with a database?? My conspiracy theory neighbor bitches about this all the time. He's gonna oppose this, right?????
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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2006'es Alex Jones would have gone mental over this.
Something something accusing their opposition of doing the thing that they either are currently doing, or 100% would be doing if they had the opportunity.
It will be used to track who owns a gun!
Maybe not, but the fact that it could, should get them to oppose it.
Hypocrisy is considered a strength. So they're definitely not against it.
Already not a fan of Palantir, this is pretty bad news
Maybe better to link the source article on this one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
Well the half-good news is, judging by Palantir's track record of managing large public projects elsewhere, that project is bound to bankrupt the US once and for all so people can build something new. The bad news is, it's probably only going to happen late within the first fifteen years of the 'two-year' contract.
Tyrans
The sprawling bureaucracy needed to analyze and maintain such a database will be so costly in comparison to its actual value that it's already amusing to think about.
Databases aren't fireproof. This seems like a good reason to kick things off.
Afaik this is basically what the NSA's Prism is.