Palmer Luckey: Big Tech is too scared of China to help defend the U.S.

The techcrunch piece is just cheerleading for something that might happen. It won't be more than a slice of SV anyway. More likely is that SV VCs invest in ventures headquartered in VA, CO, TX, and other defense-friendly ecosystems.

Meanwhile, SV (and especially its VCs) are really only interested in money. Just like most other sectors. If it's bad for US security, that's secondary. Get us in a war, where the source of profits shifts, that'll shift too.

Sure, some companies are but how many? How vitriolic is the backlash when certain firms try to work with the DOD vs. China (thinking about Project Maven, ICE contracts, etc. when many companies work with a regime perpetuating an actual genocide). His personal political views aside, I think Silicon Valley as a whole until recently was not enthusiastic about working with government and especially not the DOD (in no small part this was gov's fault- insane procurement processes and sales cycle meant they were an awful customer) but hopefully they're getting their shit together with the creation of things like DIU, Afwerx, Navalx, etc. and the private sector is realizing how important it is to work with a government that has democratic values and is trying to uphold those globally instead of working with say China who helps to prop up Russia while they ravage Ukraine.

Using "Trump supporter" to smear a guy is really childish