in Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale’s words, the company that got all our data was founded to kill communists - the other co-founder, Peter Thiel, the OP’s article identifies as the architect of this ‘authoritarian stack’.
as per OP, those Palantir founders (by Founders Fund and 8VC) used $1.5B to fund (incl. seed round) a certain autonomous arms manufacturer.