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what makes him/them a war criminal?
The whole point of Anduril is to create autonomous weapon systems that can kill people autonomously without human involvement. When you look at interviews and speeches that Palmer Luckey has given, they are always deeply unsettling. In a 2024 speech, he said "Societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. You need people like me who are sick in that way and who don't lose any sleep making tools of violence in order to preserve freedom." ( https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/palmer-luckey-every-countr... ). He's said in a Bloomberg interview that "there are actually things I would like to build that the DoD would not use and would not deploy, that they do think are beyond the pale" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItLFpYha6Wc ), and he's said in an Axios interview that he would be willing to build nuclear weapons, as well as chemical weapons "in a specific vertical". He elaborates by saying that it's a huge mistake that the US military isn't allowed to use tear gas in combat. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZfW3YTJ5Eg )
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Sponsoring a genocide, I would guess?
You understand that drones are used for precision strikes instead of indiscriminate bombing, right ? It's the opposite of "sponsoring a genocide" (if there actually ever was one happening…)
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Nah this money came from selling Oculus. That’s what made him a billionaire…
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Only military using Anduril in combat is Ukraine defending from russia
That is patently false as a look through the company's wiki page(s) will confirm [1].

1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries]

I came here to say the same thing. ModRetro is like if Palantir decided to start selling board games. The company is poison by association and Palmer Luckey certainly doesn't hide it (the drone part, for example).
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