If you'll allow me to make this worse by highlighting something you already know that some either don't know or are not sufficiently weighing: Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are defense contractors. Putting them at the center of the military-industrial complex makes sci-fi dystopia a live possibility.

palantir, who’s products dont actually work, overseeing sigint analysis in the (restarted) drone war would be very NotPoggers

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And to make this even worse, Musk would head up a government efficiency commission. Like, similar to how he made Twitter "more efficient".