Andreessen- and Thiel-backed defense startup opens U.S. missile factory as it exits stealth

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/defense-tech-covenant-anthem-missile.html

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2d (5 replies)

Man, all these tech bro defense companies all have with disturbingly religious or kinda overtly evil-adjacent (Palantir) overtones.

This is fine; I am fine with this.

😐

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d (4 replies)

Not sure where covenant is from exactly but Thiel has a hard-on for LoTR company names.

Flower@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2d

We'll see it as a sign evil can only corrupt existing names, it can't create new names.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)
Telorand@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 2d

It should be a huge red flag to everyone that he seems to identify with the bad guys in stories. And yes, I include the aforementioned "imaginary friends."

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d

Pretty terrible media literacy for a white supremacist to take inspiration from a story where a white man has the right to rule by virtue of his genetics and must defeat the dark-skinned hordes.

Or something.

icantthinkofone@piefed.social · 6 pts · 2d

leeches have to go where the blood is

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2d

I'm curious how the pre-existing big players in the MIC would react to this. Perhaps just buy it. Low cost is fine, low price is not.