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@PalantirTech Conscription is slavery.

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

@JunLaw2020 @MoppMoppp @kekiusteeshirt This is the third person. x.com/jeremyrys2?s=2…

@MoppMoppp @kekiusteeshirt The third person seems to be masked off completely in the video. His/her face was not visible and voice was removed. I wonder why. 🤔

🚨 Scientist Amy Catherine Eskridge was found dead at 34-years-old. She had publicly warned her life was in danger over groundbreaking work tied to UAP technology.

@JunLaw2020 @MoppMoppp @kekiusteeshirt The video is a screen recording done by the person we can’t see or hear. It’s different from zoom recording the meeting.

@GalacticCurator @aakashgupta Rise of the Resistance is the best theme park ride I’ve ever been on. By far.

No, IN PRACTICE you went and saw Rey, Chewbacca, RD-D2, Kylo Wren and First Order stormtroopers. IN PRACTICE you saw a full-size millennium falcon you could ride and an animatronic Hondo Onaka. IN PRACTICE you got to ride the best theme park ride ever made, Rise of the Resistance, and see nearly full size AT-ATs as part of the ride... Your whole post is just vile hatred for what was an amazing park that millions loved as it was. I'm don't mind it changing as parks should change over time, but your post ignores the park WAS very popular and always crowded when I went. And It had already changed over time anyway as you could also se The Mandalorian and Grogu there as well already.

Disney spent $1 billion in 2019 building a Star Wars theme park where you were not allowed to meet Luke, Leia, Han, or Darth Vader. Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland was set on Batuu, a backwater planet in a narrow window between The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. By that timeline Luke was dead. Han was dead. Vader had died 30 years earlier. Leia was alive but had no canonical reason to show up at an outer rim smuggler outpost. Imagineer Scott Trowbridge spelled out the design rule in 2022. Characters on Batuu would stay locked to their specific era. No visitors from other Star Wars timelines. The immersion was the entire point. In practice guests flew to Anaheim for Star Wars and walked through a $1 billion set to meet Vi Moradi and Dok-Ondar. The locals of Black Spire Outpost. The parallel failure was Galactic Starcruiser. $5,000 for two nights in the same sequel-era window. No Luke, no Vader, no Han, no Leia. Disney wrote down $250 million to close it 18 months after opening. On April 29, Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland abandons the rule. Darth Vader will roam Batuu hunting Luke. Leia and Han will appear at the Millennium Falcon. Kylo Ren is being pulled from the land and relocated to Tomorrowland. The ambient Batuu music gets replaced with the John Williams score. Disney spent seven years defending the design principle. Then Galactic Starcruiser closed with a $250 million write-down. Luke Skywalker showed up for one limited event last year and got swarmed by guests. The rule quietly got dropped. Avengers Campus figured this out on day one. You put Captain America in the Avengers land.

@GamewithDave All the Sierra games but especially this one. I can’t believe my parents let me.

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

@HSGARAGE1 That’s basically my life except my Toyota isn’t rusty.

アメリカの兄貴達の好きを詰め込んだ画像生成リベンジ！ 毎回銃とビールが足らんって言われたから、これで文句ないでしょ？ まだ足りないものある？ ってかこのツイート届いてる？🤣

@KevinKileyCA How much will this cost tax payers? x.com/billmelugin_/s…

I warned Newsom that requiring schools to keep secrets from parents about the name and gender used by their child was a clear violation of federal law. Sure enough, the Supreme Court struck the law down. Now our taxpayers owe $4.5 million in legal fees.

@clashreport Account based in West Asia reposting RT.

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

@ComicDaveSmith @LudwigNverMises I don’t think anyone actually watches that clip.

@LudwigNverMises Wow Austin, very impressive. How about this: supporting a regime that funds genocide and launches wars of aggression is evil. Having a conversation with a guy is now. Now, kindly fuck off.

Palling around with Jiang to help the dems is evil They want to lock us in a global gov that’s impossible to escape This is partly Thomas Massie’s fault for not working with Trump over a stupid budget and then forcing all his fans to go to war against civilization on his behalf

@TomSteyer You’re a fucking nightmare

@ericswalwell @Cernovich Well said

After all the whataboutism & rationalization & partisanship, it comes down to this: You can vote for a sexual predator, or not vote for a sexual predator. #ALSenate

@SS_strength @FenixAmmunition 🤌🏻

@FenixAmmunition Nightstand fren

My friend, in America we have what is called a "nightstand gun", on the table next to our bed. Just in case. A gun is the first thing I see when I open my eyes every morning.

@TheCalvinCooli1 @SteveHiltonx Then Bianco it is

🚨Just in: President Trump has officially endorsed Steve Hilton (@SteveHiltonx) for Governor of California

@ViridescentSoul @DocStrangelove2

@DocStrangelove2 This is not good for the Japanese people. Think for a minute. They've been importing browns like crazy into Japan, now they plan on making guns easily available? That is active warfare on the Japanese population by their jew controlled government.

LETS FUCKING GO

@_LeglessWonder @Polymarket 🏆

@Polymarket Oh he’s a 3rd world leader alright

BREAKING: UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, to address the nation this morning — becoming the 3rd world leader to schedule a national address today.

UFO 'Gatekeeper' General Vanishes Days After Trump's Full Disclosure Order zerohedge.com/political/ufo-…

On Monday we connected Monica Reza to General McCasland. Over 25,000 of you read it. Then you started sending us names. Carl Grillmair. Caltech astronomer. Shot on his porch. His killer's charges were dismissed 11 days before. Nuno Loureiro. MIT fusion scientist. Shot at his home. His killer planned it for three years. Jacob Prichard. Jaymee Prichard. 1st Lt. Jaime Gustitus. All three worked at Wright-Patterson. All three dead in one night. AFOSI investigating. No motive. Melissa Casias. Los Alamos National Lab. Badged into a nuclear weapons facility, wiped her government phone, walked into the wilderness. Four days after Reza. Nine names. One institution. Nine months. Our full OSINT investigation is live. Every name sourced. Every connection documented. thesentinelnetwork.substitutestack.com/p/the-long-cou…

Thomas Woods is an anarchist not a libertarian. Certainly not a constitutional conservative, not MAGA, not Trump, not Reagan, all of whom and which he has condemned directly and indirectly. Woods is a Tom Massie/Ron Paul diehard.  He jumps in on behalf of Joe Kent and the Woke Reich, lying about our outreach to Kent about my interviewing and Kent ignoring our follow up, to create confusion and hostility, because his agenda is to bring down the system, undermine the war effort and Trump presidency.  Kent is his latest project. I’ve ignored him for many, many years but he cannot let go. Another crackpot.

@micsolana Someone should write a novel about a country that tries this.

we focus a lot on the idea that socialism has always failed because it is an inherently value destroying system, and that’s true. but maybe more important today is the kind of person who *still* thinks it can work is just truly very stupid. and stupid people tend to fail.

@MassieforKY @realDailyWire Can’t love this ratio enough

@realDailyWire “Wrecks?” You’re getting wrecked in these comments. secure.thomasmassie.com/donate

Trump WRECKS Thomas Massie: "Massie is a complete and total disaster as a congressman and frankly as a human being. He's got one thing going, he went to a good college, but I know a lot of stupid people who went to a good college."