its really just that simple, theres an entire network of well-funded morons that can turn “litter boxes in classrooms” into a giant campaign issue whereas “armed goons sending kindergarten teachers to slave labor camps” gets ignored

As others have remarked, this is exactly the line Andreessen Horowitz and others have been pushing.

There's a whole Silicon Valley movement toward military contracts (because that's where the money is).

These editorials read like a full-on ad campaign for tech's next big unicorn: war.