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When Palantir chief<\/span> executive Alex Karp<\/a> sat down with Politico<\/a> this week, he reportedly used the word \u201cprogressive\u201d eight times to describe both his political philosophy and his company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been a Democrat my whole life,\u201d Karp told Politico, which noted that he called the Democratic Party \u201ctotally irresponsible<\/a>\u201d in the distant time of October 2025. \u201cI know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir\u2014all of our products are essentially progressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Karp has called himself a progressive. In 2018, The New York Times<\/a> reported that Karp described himself as such. In the same article, he claimed to have voted for Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

Karp has also donated<\/a> money to Democratic candidates. In 2023, for instance, he donated<\/a> $360,000 to a joint fundraising committee for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The next year, he donated<\/a> $1 million to MAGA, Inc.<\/p>\n

Palantir has a share<\/a> of supporters<\/a> from the Democratic party. However, it\u2019s not necessarily clear how the products of Palantir\u2014a company that built the technology<\/a> that underpins much of the Trump administration’s brutal arrest and deportation campaign, sold tools<\/a> to the US military that can use generative AI to help plan and execute drone strikes, and partnered<\/a> with the Israeli military to assist in its devastating war on the Gaza strip, among other things\u2014could reasonably be seen as progressive.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s instructive, then, to look at what else Karp has said in recent weeks, and how it lines up with his idea of what\u2019s \u201cprogressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his most recent quarterly letter<\/a> to Palantir shareholders, Karp actually doubled down on his basic premise. In it, he argued that Palantir employees are \u201cthe pioneers of a genuine and viable antiwar movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all, in no uncertain terms, living through what John Lewis Gaddis, the professor of naval and military history at Yale, presciently described decades ago as the long peace<\/a>,\u201d Karp wrote, despite the fact that the US and Iran are currently engaged in direct warfare.<\/p>\n

During Palantir\u2019s corresponding earnings call on November 2, Karp was asked to clarify the statements in his letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur products are built to avoid war, meaning the adversary knows that they will have such pain inflicted upon them that in fact it’s not worth going to war,\u201d Karp said. He did not, however, address the relevant possibility that the US is the party that initiates war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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