Palantir CEO and Trump ally Alex Karp is no stranger to controversial (troll-ish even) comments. His latest one just dropped: Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company.

At the New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Karp was asked about the worries over the unconstitutionality of the boat strikes.

“Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product."

This is bond-level villainy.

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    The quote, from _Star Trek VI:The Undisovered Country __ by Kurtwood Smith as the President of the Federation, “Just because one CAN do a thing, does not necessarily mean one MUST do a thing.” I swear, if we quote the Oracle at Delphi any more in humanity, we might seem insane to any extra-terestrial beings. /s?

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        So, was Farenheit 451 about keeping the idiots from the ideas that were dangerous, or simply convincing them to willingly build the torment nexus? Instructions unclear, critical debate needed.

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          Uncertainty is a wing of the Torment nexus surely. The only way to leave it is through certainty, but you’ll never know if what you’re certain about is actually true