Gently Mocking Palantir's 'Dominating' Slogan
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This image is a screenshot of a Twitter direct message exchange, displayed in dark mode. User Rhys Sullivan (@RhysSullivan) has sent a message to the official account of the data analytics company Palantir (@PalantirTech). Below the conversation, a quoted tweet from Palantir is visible, which boldly states, 'We build software that dominates.' Rhys's direct message is a playful and sarcastic response to this claim, reading, 'software that... dominates? 👉👈'. The humor arises from the stark contrast between Palantir's aggressive, self-important marketing slogan and the shy, hesitant tone conveyed by the pointing fingers emoji (👉👈). This emoji is typically used to express shyness or a tentative request, making Palantir's powerful branding appear comically absurd and out of touch. The meme satirizes the hyperbolic and often cringeworthy marketing language used by large tech corporations
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A single DM that proves even the most powerful global surveillance software is vulnerable... to being gently roasted for its cringey marketing copy
“We build software that dominates” - perfect, my threat model was missing a SaaS with root access to both prod and my ethical compass
Nothing says 'enterprise-ready data platform' quite like threatening to dominate your customers - though to be fair, after seeing their pricing model, the software isn't the only thing doing the dominating
When your enterprise software company's marketing is so confident it makes Oracle look humble, and your DMs read like a supervillain origin story. Palantir's response perfectly captures that unique intersection of defense contractor swagger and Silicon Valley bravado - because nothing says 'we respect data privacy' quite like openly declaring world domination. At least they're honest about their product roadmap: Step 1: Build software. Step 2: Dominate. Step 3: There is no Step 3
Palantir's ontology dominates datasets - Twitter replies still stuck in the peep stage
'Software that dominates' - ah, God-Object-as-a-Service: prod-wide admin IAM, global mutable state, and a blast-radius diagram that's literally the entire VPC
Whenever marketing promises “software that dominates,” I assume the default permission is org/*:admin with a 36‑month auto‑renew and a GDPR footnote
even on twitter you can still make your bottom thoughts win Comment deleted
Yamete kudosai Palantir Comment deleted
Когда водка хрустит, значит это не водка Comment deleted
did they change the old obscene response? cool Comment deleted