@dccommonsense Yeah, after the garbage the democrats tried forcing on society, bring on the Thielocracy, brought to you by Palantir ™️. At least they aren’t trying to affect your day to day life with evil.
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Dylan Jenkins
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Our government should keep companies like this as far away from the levers of power as possible.
These are the sorts of companies we need govt to protect us FROM, not to work arm-in-arm WITH.
Benjamin De Kraker@BenjaminDEKR
Palantir calls for a national draft (???) "National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force"
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@BrAgLifeEnjoyer Kinda wish he wasn’t gay, but it also makes it funnier somehow 🤔
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More and more unironically
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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@Howlingmutant0 Honestly, the novelty will wear off in a couple of weeks and it’ll just be a thing that’s technically out there, but nobody cares. You may get the occasional leftist that send you free pizza, though 😬
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This has been fun but when do I get to go back to being anonymous
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@AuronMacintyre I’m cool with Monroe doctrine style interference in the western hemisphere. Those can actually be tied directly to the American peoples’ interests. Iran is a little different.
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It has become very obvious to me that almost none of you have ever visited Arkansas. Which isn’t that surprising honestly.
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Heading down to the bodega with Howling mutant, grabbing an iced cafecito, chopping it up with everyone behind the counter + appreciating the dude who’s blasting “Oye Como Va” through his backpack speaker.
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@RepMcCormick @grok what’s the T stand for in “TPS” in this context?
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I voted to extend TPS for Haitians because I cannot, in good conscience, send people who were lawfully granted protection here, followed our laws, and built lives under our rules back to rape, murder, and chaos in a lawless Haiti. This is completely separate from amnesty or illegal immigration. Conflating the two is dangerous.
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FYI, the Gulf of Mexico has over 14,000 habitable abandoned oil rigs
Do with that information what you will
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@AuronMacintyre People don’t revolt when their bellies are full
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Honestly, everyone got angry with Curtis Yarvin when he said literally nothing could trigger a violent uprising in America but this stuff makes me think he’s right
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You read the Bible and think “Wow God wiping out an entire civilization with brimstone and hellfire, seems harsh”
Then you see stuff like this and you realize it isn’t harsh enough
Right Angle News Network@Rightanglenews
Two gay men in Nashville are sparking nationwide outrage after recording a video of themselves mocking the baby they had via surrogacy as it cries for its mother for content. Man: “Who do you want, Dada or Pop?” Baby: “Mama” Man: “No, there is no mama.” Baby: cries
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@GreeneMan6 If he turns out to be normal, I am going to riot.
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This is biggest “uno-reverso” sting since they nailed Al Capone for tax evasion.
HowlingMutant@Howlingmutant0
Getting doxxed from Goodreads gotta be the lamest way to go down of all time
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Getting doxxed from Goodreads gotta be the lamest way to go down of all time
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@JoelWBerry @enjoyer_liberty There is plenty of room for a faction between Israel-first neocon types and the retard right. Mike Huckabee, Lindsay Graham, and Ted Cruz are still cringe, regardless of how retarded Tucker Carlson gets.
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The “Retard Right,” as it stands:
Tucker Carlson
Nick Fuentes
Thomas Massie
Candace Owens
Dave Smith
Alex Jones
Joe Kent
Rand Paul
Marjorie Traitor Greene
Darryl Cooper
Shawn Ryan
Megyn Kelly
Joe Rogan
Jake Shields
Elijah Schaffer
Owen Shroyer
Am I missing anyone?
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You think that the senate will overcome the filibuster to pass this unpopular bill, and then Trump will actually sign it?
Think about it, there is no electoral benefit for the GOP to support this. This is just 6 RINOs that are breaking ranks for a symbolic vote. It’s not indicative of any greater trend.
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@dylanj149 @JoelWebbon With our government, it's equally likely than not lol
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Democrats are demons. Republicans are traitors.
I can no longer argue for the lesser of two evils, because I honestly don’t know what’s worse.
God help us.
RightLine@RightLineNews
🚨 BREAKING: Six House Republicans just joined Democrats to PROTECT HAITIAN MIGRANTS, 219-209 This would give Haitians temporary protected status — a category in which one of them KlLLED that woman in Florida at a gas station
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@_gamersfrenzy_ @JoelWebbon lol, you honestly think this will pass?
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@LudwigNverMises @RedWavePress 🤷♂️ I enjoy Theo Von and he and Vance seem to get along pretty well. Theo is, of course, a crypto-groyper, so he goes a little too hard against Israel.
But, I would say Vance is right to keep Theo as a friend, especially with Trump’s era coming to a close in a couple of years.
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@RedWavePress Stupid of Vance to do this, totally embarrassing to recommend Theo
I’m embarrassed
I want to stand for something, not for pandering to a depressed man child
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Ben Shapiro GOES OFF on JD Vance for Recommending Theo Von’s Podcast at Turning Point USA Event: “Maybe the Vice President thinks he has to kiss Theo Von’s half-r*tarded a$$ in order to keep him in the coalition, and that’s his political calculation. I think it’s a bad political calculation. There is NO politician that is fully capable of just picking up a prior president’s coalition and then just carrying it forward.”
“Theo Von is basically just a Bernie Sanders leftist… and engages in all the sorts of conspiracy theories and, of course, is good friends with Candace Owens… and that’s the guy that the Vice President thinks everybody should listen to.”
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@mattvanswol It’s 209 republicans voting “no”. Also, this will die in the senate. And if not there, it will die to Trump’s veto. Show a little more fortitude…
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LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT…
THE GOP ARE OUT THERE:
>BLOCKING RECESS APPOINTMENTS
>TAKING LONG VACATIONS
>NOT VOTING ON DOGE CUTS
>NOT PASSING THE SAVE ACT
>NOT FUNDING DHS
>…TRYING TO PASS AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS?!!!!
IS THIS THE “MAJOR REFORM” THE AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTED FOR?!!!
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@ReviewsPossum Use zoomer slang, but in a completely incorrect way. Make sure that you are as earnest as possible without even a hint of irony.
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What's the most obnoxious millennial thing I should be doing to piss off zoomers?
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@captive_dreamer I just WISH someone would give me their take on Israel. Nobody ever talks about it 😫.
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