Nobody thinks that. They are there for money.

That’s just not true. There are plenty of people in defense tech that clearly believe they are doing the right thing. Same with those in the military. Their version of “right” is just different than yours. To them, ensuring American hegemony is more right than whatever your definition is.

This is exactly right and why it is so dangerous. The bad guys dont think they are bad. The opposite is true.

There is the expression the road to hell is led on good intentions line with the heads of bishops.

Those material interests are very persuasive though. Without them, who knows what they might believe.

You would be surprised how pilled some people are. It’s unfortunate.

50% of the US think it's the right thing. Now sure, among educated urban people it was lower, but that's still a large number of people who think it's the right thing, and that executing american citizens for using their constitutional rights is at most "an unfortunate inevitability"

Money, or these IT folks derive pride from the technical challenge of building the tool, whatever its purpose. Or both.

Even Peter Thiel?

Especially Peter Thiel. Now we are not saying he doesn't internally agree with many things that are happening (I don't mean this specific topic but rather overall direction of US society), we know he does.

Yes. These are the same people that will cry about chat control while pushing heinous privacy violations for their right wing overlords.

Many "libertarians" seem to be far more concerned about the age of consent than the size of the military or police force for some reason.