I remember the guy started working on military defense but i didn’t know he founded his own military defense company named after the lord of the rings with the help of peter thiel. Also i wasn’t aware his company is now producing an arsenal of surveillance weapons and leading the sector.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries

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      The secret sauce is that most of them always were bigoted assholes. They just pretended not to be because that wasn’t socially acceptable. But showing their wretched true selves is cool under the new administration, so they are.

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      Did he ever possess a different world view? Or did we assume someone in tech in early 2000s must be actually smart and not a bad person, only to find out they’re a piece of shit a la, Zuck, Dorsey, Musk, etc.

      Remember there was a time we didn’t know everything about these people and the notion that they were creating these platforms and industries for the betterment of man kind didn’t seem so crazy.

      Now we know every last one of them is a money obsessed freak with entire cemeteries in their closets, touting “Effective Altruism” or “Rationalism” or whatever new fad fake philanthropists are claiming this quarter.

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      He’s always been a shit heel. He was funding pepe meme anti Hillary billboards in 2014.

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      Wasn‘t he let go from Facebook partially for his political views like being a fierce Trump supporter, though? That was years before Suckerberg turned full fascist oligarch himself mind you.

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      They have everything they want on demand and they lose touch with what it was like to be a normal person. They might have these thoughts inside their head all along but just could never express them when they were among normal people.