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@PalantirTech If you want #6, you have to deport ALL of the foreigners. And I mean ALL of them. No sane person is going to potentially sacrifice their child for a project that benefits random Latinos and Indians, and allows naturalized citizens hold public office.

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

@BenStiller Amazing

@NatureUnedited @iohndee

Tiny round rain frog wakes up, yawns, rubs his eyes, then squeezes himself into his tiny hole

@GarbageHuman24 Oy vey

You have a very big decision to make

@AuronMacintyre @charlesmayne69 Don’t worry, it’ll be Cuba, then probably Turkey

How about America next I heard that was supposed to be the focus, what we actually voted for

@45678Generico @iohndee Interesting choice of words given the situation

@iohndee Come on man.

Every time a right-wing man gets doxxed these days, it's just another hot pin-up boy for my fashy homosex gooncave.

A useful way to think about migration is to consider what kind of societies the migrants have built in their home countries and to what extent you would like those conditions replicated here.

Clav is important in part precisely because he is so unhappy. What he is aspiring to is what our culture implicitly tells us is the ultimate good, his autism making that implicit explicit. As he ascends to what every young man with a modicum of ambition secretly aspires to be, but never achieves due to laziness and risk aversion, only to find that its attainment means little and does not fill the hole in his soul, he becomes more and more distraught. And when he eventually realizes that the goal is foolish and searches for something more worthwhile, live in front of millions of acolytes, he will unleash a spiritual and cultural reformation in young men the likes of which has not been seen in centuries.

How exactly does the“ quiet way” cause mass deportations or use of the CBP Home App (never mentioned anymore)? It’s called taking ownership of a mission, not dodging it. Mass deportations is what we are after, not being quiet. @OldPatrolHQ @hernandoarce

@HomericFuturist x.com/repdonbacon/st… This Bacon retard is a menace

There you have it folks He wants to fly in replacements, he doesn’t consider himself one of you His identity as professed here is “immigrant” You will never be allowed to be a nation, you are just economic units to be cycled through to maximize profit

Haiti is dangerous because Haitians live there If you bring Haitians to America than America becomes dangerous Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

The world is not owed a job, benefits, and place to stay in America. We are a nation of laws and U.S. citizens—not a charity service. Folks here in Washington (including some of my Republican colleagues) need to remember that.

Let's be clear on what a "yes" vote means here. It's a vote to let 350,000 people who would otherwise be deportable stay in America indefinitely. They come from a non-English-speaking country that has not formed a stable and prosperous society in almost two centuries of independence and whose founding event was a literal genocide of the White population. How does that help Americans?

@realBrandonGill @AuronMacintyre Please run for President

Today, we're going to find out which members of Congress think America is a sovereign nation and which ones think America is the world's permanent hotel.

@RepDonBacon @DawnENelson1 @OmahaChamber “Can’t find workers” is pretty much always code for “won’t pay enough for anyone with self-respect”

@DawnENelson1 @OmahaChamber We have very low unemployment. A great diverse economy. Most employers can’t find workers and I talk to most.

Removing TPS status for Haitians living in the United States would cost 350,000 workers their ability to work at a time when we’re already facing serious workforce shortages. I’ve heard from healthcare providers and business leaders across Nebraska, including @OmahaChamber, who are concerned about the impact this would have on patient care and our economy. I don’t see the goodness of deporting people who are here legally, working, and contributing to our country.

If you elected me President, I would mass execute these politicians for betraying the American public.

@theblaze “We are a nation of people who are not of this nation” Pretty shitty marketing tbh. Even though it’s a stupid slogan, at some point don’t you stop being a nation of outsiders and have to have a consistent identity?

DHS Secretary Mullin: “We want legal immigration. We’re a nation of immigrants.”

@EricLDaugh We are not a nation of immigrants though.

🚨 JUST NOW — DHS SEC. MARKWAYNE MULLIN: "We want legal immigration. We are a nation of immigrants." INGRAHAM: "The right kind of immigrants." MULLIN: "That's right." INGRAHAM: "We want MASS DEPORTATIONS, Mr. Secretary! That's what the American people voted for." MULLIN: "We want to deport ALL those individuals who came in illegally."

@nic_carter @PraiseTheCMen the bigotry of low expectations strikes again

@PraiseTheCMen is this a joke lmao

He shot a realistic Jeep commercial using a toy car and an iPhone 🤳

@TomSteyer It’s like $3.20 where I live. What the fuck is going on in California?

California: The man who brought you $8 gasoline would like you to vote for Steve Hilton.