https://blog.wntrdev.ca/tags/thiel/ Recent content in Thiel on WNTRDEV.BLOG Hugo en-us Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:39:26 -0400 https://blog.wntrdev.ca/posts/palantir/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:39:26 -0400 https://blog.wntrdev.ca/posts/palantir/ <h1 id="accelerationist-ceos-and-the-tech-state-corporate-fusion">Accelerationist CEOs and the tech-state-corporate fusion</h1> <p><strong>Previously published on LinkedIn</strong><br> <strong>April 29, 2026</strong></p> <hr> <p>Palantir&rsquo;s 22-point manifesto is being debated as either technofascism or corporate cringe. Both readings miss what the document actually does.</p> <p>Is it fascist? Yes, on Griffin&rsquo;s palingenetic criterion, Paxton&rsquo;s mobilizing-passions frame, and most of Eco&rsquo;s Ur-Fascism checklist. Axis rehabilitation is an unusually explicit tell. The mass-movement base and the Führerprinzip are absent, which is why technofascism, or neoreactionary techno-imperialism, tracks better than 1933 analogies. The intellectual lineage clearly runs Schmitt to Strauss to Thiel to Yarvin.</p>