"Dan then asked me to write about it, and I eagerly accepted, even if I think the fact that a company led by a psycho whose most substantial accomplishment is that he helped create a payments app, and who thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist, would be less damaging if it advertised at baseball fields rather than having plainly bought, uh, America. Your mileage may vary."
"And yet, and regardless of the stated circumstances of the Palantir banner wrapped over the panel over the monster seats, further answers of questions which the team did not remit to me before I wrote this (I do not blame them, I have barely ever emailed them and I suspect they were busy), that banner can never be un-furled. It was there and cannot not have been there."
A Palantir banner hung above Fenway Park during the Secretaries' Cup while the U.S. Coast Guard Academy team played. Palantir is identified as a sponsor of the Coast Guard, linking corporate advertising to a government institution. The banner's presence is portrayed as emblematic of surveillance capitalism and corporate influence in public spaces. Leadership at Palantir, specifically Peter Thiel, is criticized for controversial views and outsized power. The presence of the banner is described as unavoidable and troubling, suggesting moral compromise where sports organizations appear less objectionable than broader institutional control.
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