A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone.

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• Wammityblam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’re reaching the end game of late stage capitalism where the government and the biggest companies on the planet come together to cement their positions of power.

  They will work together to ensure that neither one can be dethroned

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  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eh, that’s what they’re trying to do, but that’s always what groups like them have tried to do throughout history and it never really works for very long. We aren’t reaching the end of anything, it’s just the next stage of the game.

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Correct.

      It’s a cycle, and one that’s repeated many, many times.

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I still have my great grandfather’s torches and pitchforks in the family armory, so I’m ready for the next stage also.

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    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The damning class conflict has been raging for more than a century, and it’s getting worse and more complicated.

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• northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The sign in the thumbnail… it’s hardly a secret.

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CIA and KGB and Stasi and Gestapo were supposed to be secret but weren’t

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The secret part is generally just who is in the organisation, hence the gator masks.

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  • Chulk@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And yet so many people have a hard time acknowledging it.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Palantir has products?

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  • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know you are probably joking.

    From the wiki on palantir:

    Its flagship products—Gotham (for intelligence and defense) and Foundry (for commercial and civil use)—connect previously siloed databases to support intelligence operations, counterterrorism analysis, law enforcement, and enterprise analytics.

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• kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I guess that’s okay, if we really got our money’s worth.

  /s

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