The Palantir Stare Meme
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when a freedomcel says something so surveillancephobic you gotta hit them with the palantir stare😶
Overview
This meme features a close-up photograph of Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir Technologies, a tech company famous for providing large-scale surveillance data services to government agencies. The overlaid text jokes: when a 'freedomcel' (a pejorative portmanteau of 'freedom' and 'incel' used to describe people aggressively opposed to mass surveillance and obsessed with personal freedom) makes a paranoid argument about surveillance, you respond with this intimidating 'Palantir stare'. The joke relies on the fact that Palantir is exactly the entity anti-surveillance activists fear, with Thiel's stare representing the company's surveillance power directed at the freedomcel.
Origin notes
This meme originates from Reddit, with the original Reddit post titled 'Freedomcels 😡'. It is a text-overlay meme created using an existing public photograph of Peter Thiel, circulating in online tech and political meme communities.