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@_Junk_ If Konami wasn’t a completely braindead company, they would put this dude on a first class flight to Japan, hand him a blank check, and ask him how much money will it take for him to develop full time.

Konami hit this guy with a cease and desist by the way. If they won't do it, and they won't let US do it, why are they ACTIVELY killing their own game?

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

@CWOneZero @FreightAlley Incredibly simplistic. CHIPS was the only major bipartisan legislation of his term. Biden also largely kept the trade policies from the first Trump admin. Manufacturing output has been flat since 2008. Largely because of NAFTA and transshipment by China.

@DV1776 @FreightAlley Biden saved manufacturing with the Chips act and co. The stat shows it starting to grow from 2022 onwards and getting lower again since Trump

The most remarkable pattern is showing up in our high frequency freight data for the first time since we launched in 2018. The center of the country: the rust belt and and the industrial heartland is no longer just recipients of freight (imports) but actual producers of freight thanks to the surge in American manufacturing.

When a "charity" receives 96% of its income from the federal government, it is NOT A CHARITY, it is a GOVERNMENT AGENCY... Progressives hate the mixture of church and state, until it benefits their desire to import people who hate us.

@WSJ “Conservative paper of record” hired a bunch of coastal leftists who are desperately embarrassed over their inability to get hired by the NYT. Truly pathetic.

Podcasting is dominated by men. Maria Sharapova wants to offer some counterprogramming. The tennis star’s new podcast, “Pretty Tough,” debuts on April 22 as an alternative to what has become known as the manosphere. It aims to highlight ambitious women. on.wsj.com/4sFMJgo

@captive_dreamer @joekent16jan19 Retarded take. We could blockade and sanction Israel into the Stone Age. Just like we did with Iran.

@joekent16jan19 Limiting aid means we don't have leverage over them, which is actually Netanyahu's long term goal anyway

It appears that a historic deal is within reach, and it will hold if President Trump is willing to enforce the restrictions he’s placed on Israel. This post indicates a good start—but it must be followed by actually limiting U.S. military aide to Israel.

@chrispavlovski @XJosh Very cool Chris. When will you be terminating @TheQuartering from the "deal" he claims to have extended with your company? Your lack of response is not principled, its cowardly at best.

@XJosh We use Cloudflare. No creator has a 5 year deal with Rumble, or even close. Also, Rumble has been moving away from a “deals” structure towards a Creator Program structure and/or Rumble Studio ad reads structure. Hope this helps.

Recap of Rumble's Free Speech: 1. Using Path Networks to DDoS protect Rumble Cloud and Rumble Video, who previously gloated about ISP blackholing Kiwi Farms. 2. Paying TheQuartering >$2M while he takes down channels and gloats about depriving a family-of-7 their income. The first screenshot is Path Networks openly gloating that they deplatformed Kiwi Farms. They did, at an ISP backbone level. @rumblecloud is currently a frontend provider for Kiwi Farms. At any point Path Networks could deplatform the Kiwi Farms again, and all of @rumblevideo. Rumble has been made aware of this multiple times by Twitter and Email and they refuse to find another DDoS provider or simply inhouse their own. The second screenshot is a fraudulent demand letter sent to our physical datacenter by Path Network's attorney demanding that they physically seize our harddrives and send them to Path Network. Thankfully, our datacenter did not do this. (Path's CTO either is or was Corey Barnhill, now d/b/a Corey Shiratori, who has openly stated he watched a child be anally raped while talking to his girlfriend. The recordings of this are on the Kiwi Farms.) The third screenshot is @TheQuartering directly telling me that he can deplatform and extort (imo) anyone he wants to deprive them of constitutional rights, and that he doesn't have to worry about fallout, because he has 5 years of guaranteed income from Rumble, paid for by public investment into $RUM, delegated to him by @chrispavlovski. He immediately followed up on these threats the next day. The timeline is so tight that I do not believe it could have been anyone else but Jeremy Hambly. Then, both the Quartering and Chris Pavlovski personally stated on Twitter that the deplatformed clip channel would be welcome on their competing product. I'm sensing a trend here. Deplatformed by Path Networks? Find sanctuary on Rumble Cloud, protected by Path Networks. Deplatformed by The Quartering? Find sanctuary on Rumble Video, funding The Quartering. I'm being forced to assume that this is sanctioned activity and Rumble doesn't give a fuck about censorship, especially if it drives customers into their walled garden.

REPORTER: Iran is going to execute four more protesters, including the first woman protester. What do you tell Iran? TRUMP: Tell that to the Pope

@nayibbukele President Bukele after banning the ugliest haircut known to man.

What must be done leaves no room for hesitation.

@Jim_is_Awesome @GovRonDeSantis @RaysBaseball Define “poorer.” Tampa Bay is not a poor city, it has one of the lowest cost of living of any major city. Building a ballpark village with sales tax revenue won’t make a city poor. This is a far better use of tax money than handing it to corrupt NGOs and bureaucrats.

@DV1776 @GovRonDeSantis @RaysBaseball Good let their tax payers become poorer in order to give a billionaire free money

The construction of a new Rays stadium and surrounding entertainment district will ensure that @RaysBaseball remains in Tampa Bay for the long-term, will be good for Hillsborough College, and will transform the Dale Mabry site into an economic asset that will benefit the city, county and region. As leaders in Hillsborough convene to forge a path that will keep @MLB in Tampa Bay, I hope the commissioners keep an open mind and consider the potential of the full-spectrum vision for the site that goes beyond baseball—and which can enhance the economy and culture of Hillsborough County for years to come. Let’s get it done!

@avidseries Were you born yesterday? They will simply raise spending, make minimal cuts, and the problem will restart again in 2-3 years. Putting more water in a bucket doesn’t matter if you have a fist sized hole inside.

The tax would affect only homes that are worth more than $5 million and are not being used as the primary residence of the owner. It would raise about $500 million annually to help close the city's budget gap. Seems like a good idea.

@mattyglesias Yes, the conclusion that I drew is that when conservative groups break the “media-higher education” indoctrination effect, leftists will cease to exist within 20-30 years without immigration.

This chart poses some interesting questions.

Good luck with finding your troops….

@ClayTravis @TheAthletic @nytimes Worst part is, NYT laid off nearly all the local coverage for non-NFL sports. Still had the budget to push out continuous coverage of the WNBA and racism.

Just a reminder as the Russini saga plays out, @TheAthletic has lost hundreds of millions of dollars since it was founded, yet @nytimes paid over $500 million for the company and now uses it to (mostly) make far left wing sports content the larger sports fan market detests.

Caitlyn Jenner killed the name "Caitlyn". When Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn, the popularity of the name Caitlyn itself crashed. According to Social Security data, "Caitlyn" went from the 588th most popular baby name to dropping out of the top 1000 released names completely in just a year.

This man is every bit as free as any Mongol on the Great Plains of Asia. Godspeed, ratman.

@Cernovich His Excellency is the Vicar of Christ. He is the least bad of all of His options. That does not make him automatically correct on civil politics. Many Papal authorities have abused their power for cynical gain.

If the Pope wants to talk politics, then his views are to be evaluated at the same level as anyone’s. His Twitter account was Reddit tier shitliberalism.

@Osint613 On one hand, I don’t support splitting Christian voters. Stupid politics. On the other hand, I would love to hear an equally forceful condemnation of the authoritarian, anti-Christian China from the Catholic church.

U.S. President Donald Trump: "Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about “fear” of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo’s Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested. Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church! President DONALD J. TRUMP."