Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics. That much is clear. But during the Yahoo Finance Invest Conference Thursday, he escalated his counteroffensive, aimed squarely at analysts, journalists, and political commentators who have long attacked the company as a symbol of an encroaching surveillance state, or as overvalued.

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    Fortune gives Karp soapbox from which to say whatever he wants, unchallenged. Eventually, though, they get to…

    Critics—especially civil-liberties groups—have accused Palantir for years of building analytics tools that enable government surveillance. Karp says these attacks rely on caricature, not fact.

    Then, at last, they finally demonstrate some journalistic Integrity and rebut his statement with why those groups make those accusations… Oh, wait, no they don’t. They just end the article with one final quote from him that could just as easily have been from Hitler.

    “Pure ideas don’t change the world,” he said. “Pure ideas backed by military strength and economic strength do.”