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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.
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Not sure where covenant is from exactly but Thiel has a hard-on for LoTR company names.
We'll see it as a sign evil can only corrupt existing names, it can't create new names.
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.
And the version regarding imaginary friends
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."