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[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Illegal migrants speak about how witches sometimes manage to sneak onto their dinghies when they cross the Mediterranean Sea to go to Europe.

They say that when witches are detected, they are tied up and thrown into the sea to drown.

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[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

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Round Animals and Memes @Aniimalsauras]

How's life going?

Me:

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

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

[The Wolf Man @iTheWolfman]

Turkish soldier gives chocolate to a Syrian child, one of the bars drops... He picks it up and thinks he has to give it back.. ❤️

Look at him waving goodbye!!

[Elder @AncientAlien777]

@noclador Not to mention Iran owns 11% of the shahdeniz pipeline that goes through it

[Elder @AncientAlien777]

@Afri_hubb @visegrad24 Not rly, nothing happening and hope won't happen in Georgia. In that regard, Georgian government is little bit pro Russian , so i don t think they can take us in Nato anymore

[Elder @AncientAlien777]

@nexta_tv @grok when does Trump's deadline end

[Elder @AncientAlien777]

@Vehk102 @Awk20000 Yeah, in other parts of the world we call it corruption .
Why do you Americans are terrified of the idea of accountability from the government.
If Tim was supporting this somali scum or he/his family wa getting smthing out of it, he should be sent to the prison.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The 24-year-old student Robina Aminian was shot dead in Tehran by the Islamic regime’s security forces while out protesting on the streets.

Rest in Peace Robina

[yeet @Awk20000]

Asmongold vows to try his best in helping spread the word abt Iran

Also calls out the mainstream West for lack of coverage

“I’m doing my best..u might not know..my mods are in contact w a number of ppl in Iran & bc of that they’re giving us updates/ideas

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Elder @AncientAlien777]

@TheKudzuKing @nyaraVT Yeah, u got palestinian flag

[Elder @AncientAlien777]

@BrainGlitchery @ufc @MerabDvalishvil @Rainbow6Game Umar needs to come out of his closet and fight smn else

[Elder @AncientAlien777]

@Karmo1629 @Twist_404 @visionergeo No it is provocation from Russia cause we got recommendation for EU candidate status

[Elder @AncientAlien777]

@clashreport Why would you pro Russians has to blame The West every time? West has to defend human rights and uphold international law,humanitarian law and those hamas,Iran and Russia does not right?

[Elder @AncientAlien777]

@populist34 @squatsons @Mike94335407 Executed?where de hell do u even live?

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Who was the greatest artist of the 20th century?

People talk about Picasso and Dalí, but here's a name you probably haven't heard: Hasui Kawase, the last master of Japanese ukiyo-e.

It sounds oddly specific, but no other artist in history was so good at depicting the weather...

[Elder @AncientAlien777]

@BabakTaghvaee1 Another invasion? What u mean they liberated their inernational borders occupied by armenia

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

While visiting Mongolia, Pope Francis cheered the Empire of Genghis Khan, saying, we must learn from his empire of how Genghis Khan managed to sustainably reign different nations. And this after the Pope praised Russian empire last week.

Well, I do not think we must be surprised that the head of Catholic (universal) Church is a friend of (a sort of) imperialism. Being a Pope automatically qualifies you as a friend of imperialism of some kind.

What makes many people surprised - is that this very Pope fiercely fights the West, but bootlicks anti-Western empires (or those he think are or were). This looks like a paradox for many. I do not see this as a paradox.

I think his leftist and regional heritage is important here. As a Pope, he loves imperialism. As a leftist person, he hates the West. So instead of supporting spreading of universalistic ideas of democratic, egalitarian, and other humanistic values, he serves the evil spreading of totalitarian, suppressing, genocidal empires, as long as he believes they fight the West he learned to hate. Very sad. A captured Pope.

And G-d, I miss Wojtyła.