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1. iamdelirium · 1790353251 · focus · HN ↗

   I wonder if this is going start being abused soon.

   If I was Palantir or any other GOP aligned company, I would be completely against this. What's to stop a Democratic president from doing the same thing and destroying them?

   1. cramer4next · 1790353527 · focus · HN ↗

      Can you clarify what a GOP aligned company is? Is that any company thats willing to do business with the U.S. government or any businesses thats willing to sell products in red states?

      1. Ydarbleoj · 1790354014 · focus · HN ↗

         Maybe it's the companies that flank the US president at events in an attempt to gain favor? Or the companies that own private prisons that lobby for immoral policies on policing?

         1. cramer4next · 1790355017 · focus · HN ↗

            This doesn't appear to be unique to the GOP. Plenty of companies flank to whomever is in office. Even at that local government level. "Immoral policies" is subjective and would be in the eye of the beholder. If this was truely quantiative the U.S. wouldn't be a divided nation.

            1. Ydarbleoj · 1790359217 · focus · HN ↗

               The mere existence of private prisons in the US is immoral. To argue otherwise, is a failure to extrapolate what that means at every level of gov and society. Weird take.

               1. sejje · 1790362241 · focus · HN ↗

                  > The mere existence of private prisons in the US is immoral.

                  This doesn't pass a basic logical sniff test.

                  What if the private prisons provided much greater comfort, rehabilitation, medical and mental care, and so on? How could you call it immoral just for existing?

                  1. Ydarbleoj · 1790362962 · focus · HN ↗

                     That's a great what if despite what we currently know of these prisons and what we know of private companies seeking profit at the expense of whatever you're stating.

                     There's a country in the 30's that used misinformation to sell what you're suggesting and they, at one point, had a thriving prison system that only took a little over a decade. Don't be so polyannish.

                     1. cramer4next · 1790365145 · focus · HN ↗

                        So if I follow your logic here you feel the same about grocery stores being private? Because if they were run by the U.S. government you wouldn't have 47.9 million people (about 1 in 7 Americans) living in food-insecure households? All because a private company that employs people are tryng to make money?

                        SRC: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ers.usda.gov&#x2F;topics&#x2F;food-nutrition-assistance&#x2F;food-security-in-the-us&#x2F;key-statistics-graphics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ers.usda.gov&#x2F;topics&#x2F;food-nutrition-assistance&#x2F;fo...

                        1. Ydarbleoj · 1790366048 · focus · HN ↗

                           You&#x27;re definitely not following my logic because of your false equivalence WRT private companies and prisons.

                           If you think prisons should have profit motives where growth only comes from continually seeking punitive policies to imprison people then I don&#x27;t know what to tell you. The extrapolation isn&#x27;t that hard and I don&#x27;t anything good coming from it. Weird takes.

                           1. cramer4next · 1790367257 · focus · HN ↗

                              I think I am because the &quot;equivalence&quot; is private vs government run service. The arugment is equal. There is no public service thats better then the private equivalent. Period.

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