A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Palantir, which has landed multiple massive contracts under the Trump administration, made $1.6 billion in net income last year.
It grew so much last year that it joined the list of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with its stock more than doubling in value in the first half of 2025 alone. In a report to shareholders, the company said it was “crushing” expectations in terms of growth, with revenue growing 93 percent year over year at the end of 2025.
48 Comments
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 111 pts · 126d
I am so tired of this shit
frongt@lemmy.zip · 51 pts · 126d
Don't get tired. Get mad.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 44 pts · 126d
Dunno about the other guy but I'm both.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 32 pts · 126d
I am definitely both, and I'm probably mostly tired because I just got my linux desktop running and have been up too late on it.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 126d
One of us One of us One of us
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 9 pts · 126d
Its fucken dope (at least can confirm with AMD cards). You'd be surprised how many games you dont even need proton for if you're not gargling AAAs. Linux is totally ready right now.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 126d
Come here brethren, stay awhile
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 126d
Right? After I switched a few years back, I was kicking myself for not doing it sooner.
It feels like what using a personal computer was always meant to be like
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 126d
I'm a bitch and reverted back to 10 for playing stalker gamma and modding games. I will probably revert back to Mint once gamma is moved away from using wrapper and Nexus releases a Linux mod manager that gets around some of the weird issues. Like how Baldurs gate 3 just doesn't work or how NVSE64 doesn't work for Linux.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 2 pts · 126d
Found modding older totles easier on linux
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 126d
Thiel is literally in the Epstein files thousands of times. He’s a kid diddler. You couldn’t even write a better comic book villain. Dude belongs in Arkham asylum. He’s going around the world giving speeches that Greta tunberg is the Antichrist
muffedtrims@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 126d
🎶I'm Peter Thiel and I know about the antichrist🎶
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 9 pts · 126d
Also drinking all that boy blood.
etherphon@piefed.world · 7 pts · 126d
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
For real. The baby eating doesn’t keep them young
Chozo@fedia.io · 28 pts · 126d
We need to bring back the guillotines.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 6 pts · 126d
Its the only way a living thing has a future.
Marthirial@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Marthirial@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
We need to bring back the balls of using the Guillotines.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 20 pts · 126d
I guess it ends up pretty cheap overall when you pay to install your own government and fill it with all the people you diddled kids with.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 19 pts · 126d
So yoyre saying; everything they have is stolen?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 125d
Yes, and we should take it back.
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 126d
So, universal healthcare would be a waste of taxpayer money but surveillance capitalism is a-OK?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 125d
Now you're getting it.
tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 126d
"Yes, Kings!" said the disheartening amount of village idiots.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 126d
Trickling the wrong way.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 126d
Or working exactly as it was intended
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 125d
When it's not working, it's working.
inari@piefed.zip · 13 pts · 126d
Wealth transfer in progress...
Drusas@fedia.io · 13 pts · 126d
Where are all those people from this past week who have been making Molotov cocktails?
BigTrout75@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 126d
Good deal for them. Bad deal for every system in the US that relies in taxes.
laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 125d
I guess if you are rich only death is inevitable not taxes
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 125d
And they are working on the death part now.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 126d
$0... 🙃
rogsson@piefed.social · 5 pts · 126d
Shitty country letting shitty companies doing shitty things. Shocking!
krisevol@lemmy.zip · -11 pts · 126d
fonix232@fedia.io · 30 pts · 126d
Interesting, I'm paying taxes on my income, regardless of my expenditure...
fizzle@quokk.au · 2 pts · 126d
Im not sure if youre actually this daft but obviously thats not true - im sure you're entitled to claim a deduction for expenses you incur in producing your income.
fonix232@fedia.io · 11 pts · 126d
In the US, maybe. Not in most other countries.
Also while companies can expense ALL expenditure related in generating their income, people can't. You can't claim 1/3 of your rent, 1/3-1/2 of your food consumption, your bills, etc., as expenditure. Companies can, and they do, often disgustingly so.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 0 pts · 126d
Disgusting meat. Complain again when youre a citizen.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 126d
They should pay taxes on their billionaire's worth. He should be taxed out of existence. If he can't or won't pay, he should be incarcerated. If he doesn't want to be incarcerated, he should leave the country.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 6 pts · 126d
Out of existence, taxed or otherwise.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 125d
Tax wealth, not work.
krisevol@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 125d
garbage_world@lemmy.world · -16 pts · 126d