Personally, I doubt this. Putting aside the fact that this is coming from Lunduke, it’s not uncommon for governments or companies to sponsor open source projects. The STF currently also invests in various projects like Python and ActivityPub, I don’t see this as necessarily nefarious and seriously doubt this is some evil scheme to backdoor arch.

If you have a problem with this but not people making the same arguments to defend the IDF or US armed forces, it can only be because you don’t see non-American lives as equal in value.

Not that BE is good of course, he’s a radlib who happens to uphold the correct political line occasionally.

Unsurprising to say the least. Frankly, I kinda doubt most engagement on that site is organic but I’m also willing to believe that the majority American userbase of reddit is lib enough to just uncritically accept this as gospel without further investigation.