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These are forcememed companies, unfortunately. Neither Palantir nor Anduril make a single thing that China doesn't, and neither one makes a single thing at attractive cost that would intimidate China in a conflict. They could disappear tomorrow with no impact to US military lethality.

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Based on my direct personal experience, this is a counterfactual statement.

It's sad when partisan politics so overwhelms discourse that people just make up nonsense because they don't like the CEO of a company.

“I personally don’t think that’s true, and it upsets me you believe it’s true” isn’t really an argument though.

What are they making that would intimidate China, that China doesn’t already?

Combat-proven software that helps put warheads on foreheads in compressed timescales. I'm not talking about development projects or what could happen, I'm referring to applications that are being used right now.

There's a massive difference between something in a lab or in a paper presentation and code that is running in production and provably works. There are lots of individuals pushing up daisies that would attest to the effectiveness of Palantir's applications if they could still speak.

Dude, gross. You don’t have to talk like that.

1) lol 2) source for such confident claims 3) even if true, can they potentially make existing tech cheaper than competitors? Competition is good for price. If so, still an "impact on US military" 4) see 1.

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