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Pete Hegseth’s Firing Squad Livestream Is Finding Fans in the Defense Industry

“I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.” So said Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Anduril Industries, a military technology company that sells autonomous drones and software to the Defense Department, Customs and Border Protection, and militaries abroad in a vocal defense of “public and brutal” executions in general, and…

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Mother Jones· Oct 13, 1:35 AMPete Hegseth’s Firing Squad Livestream Is Finding Fans in the Defense Industry

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