If you’ve heard the name “Palantir” in the news recently, it isn’t because Lord of the Rings is real now. All it means is that our society is run by nerds — nerds who, it turns out, have a vested interest in making our lives as close to a dystopian fantasy as they can!

Palantir is a company that does a lot of things, but their claim to infamy mainly comes from their military technology. You might remember them from such hits as their CEO saying that their mission is to “scare enemies and, on occasion, kill them,” and now, they’ve got a whole new mission: keeping track of every single American.

That’s right: the Trump administration has allegedly tapped Palantir to develop a database of every single American citizen’s personal information. What are they going to do with that? Who knows, but like that bizarrely-shaped USB charger you can’t bring yourself to throw away, they probably just think it will come in handy someday.

This puts some politicos in a bit of a pickle. This is especially true of some of the anti-government folks who, despite their whole “anti-big-government” stance, found themselves throwing their weight and reputation behind Trump.

Take, for example, the white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes, who argued in a recent show that Palantir was created so that the U.S. government could violate citizens’ rights.

In contrast, his on-and-off-again buddy Alex Jones takes a different approach. Instead of saying that we should hate the government-associated firm that’s slowly building the Panopticon, he says that we shouldn’t be scared of them. Why? Because they’re “small.” Also, “all the A.I.’s are woke,” according to Jones. Sorry, Grok!

Others on the right also don’t really know what to make of this. Some feel betrayed, yet more still are wondering if MAGA was a psyop from the beginning, while a third group apparently can’t read the original New York Times article about it without having seven different A.I.s summarize it for them in baby language.