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We want to take a moment to thank Ash, as we have recently parted ways, for everything he has given to our organization. From his strong dedication on the sidelines to the relationship he built with us, his time has truly left a lasting impression. We are deeply grateful for all the many years he has contributed to GamerLegion and wish him all the best on the next chapter of his journey!
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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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@owo_jamie Being THAT desperate for attention from incels only to get 30 likes😭put a end to their misery
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proudly joking about trans suicide sponsored by skins dot com. awesome
sara.@ggsarzi
Cancelled or not, statistically speaking, around half of sogz audience wasn’t gonna be there next year anyways
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Seixas banging the bars sbout losing an uphill sprint finish to Ciccone at 18, he's a psychopath 😭
Cycling on TNT Sports@cyclingontnt
Glasses = Thrown! 🕶️✈️ When Guilio Ciccone won Stage One of the Tour of the Alps and celebrated in his usual style 😎
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@BlueCityBrain Congrats, your argument is more annoying than any discourse about The Invincibles by Arsenal fans
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The Invincibles as an accomplishment is so damn overrated because it focuses purely on games in the PL and ignores the entire context of their season
- Knocked out in the Semi finals of the FA cup to United
- Knocked out in the Semi finals of the League Cup by losing BOTH games to Middlesbrough
- UCL lost 2 games in group stage vs Inter and Kyiv then got knocked out in the QFs against Chelsea
In their last 9 games to end the season they drew 5 times
It would be so much more impressive if they actually done a double or domestic treble or even a CL title. But the fact is that all they won that season was the Premier League winning 26 games and drawing 12 times. Chelsea literally the season afterwards is talked less than this Arsenal team yet they lost 1 game all season going 5+ more points and conceding only 15 goals - winning a cup + PL trophy. This invincible team couldnt even go B2B they only won the FA cup the next season.
At a total points level;
They would have finished 3rd in both the 2018/19 and and the 2021/22 season.
Their points total would have won TWO titles between the years 2016/17 and 2023/24 whered they'd have won the title in 2022/23 by 1 point where City lost the last 2 games focusing on their treble and the other by 4 points over 2020/21 Man City who had wrapped up the title in like March (done a double + Made CL Final)
For additional context Al Hilal in the Saudi League is an interesting "invincible season" right now they havent lost a game (~35+ games) in ALL competitions this season yet are 8 points from the top, knocked out of the Asia Cup (UCL equiv) by going out on pens, and are in the semi of the local cup. They could literally go invincible in ALL Competitions for the season and win NOTHING.
The objective of football is to WIN and WIN on multiple fronts.
Danis@DanisMCFC
The only thing Arsenal fans can talk about is their fluke invincible season 😭😭😭😭😭
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Giro stage of Naples will finish in Piazza Plebiscito and not in Lungomare Caracciolo
It will be a sprint on city cobbles
tuttobiciweb.it/article/177624…
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Óscar Freire has been arrested in his hometown of Torrelavega (Cantabria) after his wife reported that he constantly harassed her. The arrest took place this Sunday, following a complaint filed by the woman from whom he is currently divorcing
efe.com/espana/2026-04…
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