re: Palantir CEO: Ivy-educated are upset that the oil and gas profession is more valuable

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In 2003, Thiel tapped him to co-found Palantir. He used Habermas's goofy critical theory ideology and backdoored his theory by turning his abstract theory into a billion dollar company. He lives in New Hampshire and hates woke technology which is why he refused to move to the Silicon Valley.

He is as smart as Elon Musk and busted his arse to get where he is. I've known him for 15 years and he is the real deal.

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I know very little about Alex Karp, except what I've read in an article or two a couple years ago, but like Chicken (who posted just after you), I understood Karp to be a socialist.

Your post intrigued me enough to scan his Wiki page:
Alex Karp - wikipedia

and it confirms most of my superficial understanding:

- Born in NYC to a Jewish doctor dad and African American artist mom, both of whom were noted for social justice / civil rights activism... a trait that they passed on to Alex.

and...

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In 2018, Karp said he is a socialist and a progressive ("but not woke"). In addition he said he voted for Hillary Clinton. In 2024, the Financial Times identified Karp as "a major Biden donor". Current Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson wrote in 2024 that Karp "seems to have some idiosyncratic personal definition in mind that has nothing in common with the socialist tradition".[

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I can appreciate someone who can balance seemingly paradoxical opinions and reconcile them through higher principles. And I suspect there is an ethical basis to his guiding principles that helped him befriend the more conservative Thiel. So, while I don't like that Karp is a socialist, I feel some relief at hearing his anti-woke sentiments which have come out in a few "based" sound clips like that in the OP. I guess these make him seem pragmatic... perhaps not too different than Musk, who also considered himself more than left than right, but noted the Left moved away from him more than he did from the Left.

That being said, what do you mean by saying Karp is the real deal (aside from smart)? I sincerely do not mean this as a gotcha. I am honestly ambivalent about Palantir and their mission, about Karp... and about Thiel for that matter. I can read things like the following quoted excerpt from wiki and agree with him on the idea of the need to project strength (even if I don't like the sound of techno-nationalist):

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In 2025 Time magazine listed Karp as one of the world's 100 most influential people, calling him "the embodiment of a new kind of Silicon Valley billionaire: an unashamed techno-nationalist who evangelizes Western power."[53] In naming him to the Time 100 list, the magazine noted that in a letter to investors Karp quoted Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations, "the rise of the West was not made possible 'by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.'" Karp wrote that "Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do."[53] During a New York Times interview, Karp said "you scare the crap out of your adversaries" and "are we tough enough to scare our adversaries so we don’t go to war? Do the Chinese, Russians and Persians think we’re strong?" Maureen Dowd, a journalist, said the interview was "brim[ming] with American chauvinism".[8]

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... and yet find it concerning / confusing he was a Clinton and possibly Biden supporter (though understand he may have donated to simply not draw the ire of the Biden regime). I mean, how can he reconcile wanting the US to convey power while supporting the Left, who has actively worked at eroding US power in favor of globo interests (using progressive and woke ideology and methods)?