Lord of Cognac

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[Ulf Poschardt @ulfposh]

das ist auf so vielen ebenen lustig - diese Kachel.

Darwin ist einfach der GOAT

[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

[HDS @hdsexpress]

Elle fait rager tous les nègres et les bougnoules depuis 24 heures

Bravo à elle

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

“America kidnapped communist dictator and is torturing him and his wife to death”

Yes, based. You were saying?

[Matthias Helferich MdB @MatthiasMdb]

Correctiv-„Journalist“ sagte heute über @apollo_news_de und @niusde_ im Roten Salon der Volksbühne folgendes:

„Apollo News ist rechtslibertär, die hassen Arme.
Nius ist rechtsradikal, die hassen Ausländer.“

Warum müssen wir für derartige Kultur bezahlen?

[Dr. Rainer Kraft, MdB 🇩🇪 @Dr_Rainer_Kraft]

Wer einer angegriffenen, europäischen Demokratie Waffen zur Verteidigung vorenthält, der würde auch einer Frau, die gerade von zwei bärtigen Typen (um es besonders plakativ zu machen, machen wir die südländisch) in ein Gebüsch gezerrt wird, das Pfefferspray aus der Hand treten.

- Ist diese Hilfe teuer? Leider Ja!
- Versagt diese Regierung dabei, die Bürger vor dieser zusätzlichen finanziellen Belastung durch Einsparung an anderen Haushaltsposten (z.B. Entwicklungshilfe, Klimafonds) zu schützen? Auch Ja, wie die Vorgängerregierung.
- War das sofortige Bürgergeld falsch? Ja!
- Gibt es Korruption in der Ukraine? Ja! (deswegen gehören Hilfsgelder überwacht)
- Haben auch Bürger korrupter Länder ein recht auf Sicherheit? Ja! (sonst hätten wir auch keines)
- Ist es in Deutschlands Interesse, wenn sich Russland Zugriff auf ukrainische Schwarzerde, die Mykolaiw-Werft, die ZTMP Titanfabrik in Zaporishia, den Antonow Flugzeugbauer in Kiew, den Raketenbauer Pivdenmash, die moderne, ukrainische Drohnentechnik oder andere Industriebetriebe des ehemaligen sowjet. Industrieschwerpunktes der Ukraine sichert? Nein! (besser ist es diese Ressourcen dem europ. Wirtschaftsraum zuzuführen)
- Ist Russland mit der Ukraine 'saturiert'? Nein (sagt Putin, Medwedjew oder Solovyev selbst)
- Soll man ukr. Wehrdienstverweigerern Schutz geben? Nein (Wir unterstützen Euch, aber kämpfen müsst ihr selbst, den Fehler den wir in Afghanistan gemacht haben nicht wiederholen)
- Werden die Ukrainer unter russ. Knute leben wollen oder zu Millionen westwärts strömen? Sicherlich letzteres, auch wenn nicht alle kommen werden.
- Wären wir, wenn die Ukraine sofort wegfällt milit. jetzt in der Lage russ. Aggression zu begegnen? Wahrscheinlich nicht, zu viel wurde kaputt gemacht.

Fazit. Der Verlust der Ukraine an einen anti-europäische und ja, auch anti-deutschen (einfach Solowjev zuhören) Gegner stärkt diesen und schwächt uns. Deswegen wäre gutes, vorausschauendes Krisenmanagement nötig. Leider bietet die Merz Regierung dieses genau so wenig wie die Scholz Regierung.

[Nasser @RichPianian]

If you say the phrase “late stage capitalism” around me I’m just gonna assume you were molested

[Josema Vallejo @JosemaVallejo]

La racaille francesa ya tiene su víctima.

El pobre Maël, estudiante modélico, de 16 años, que solo quemaba institutos y apedreaba a policías, ha perdido un ojo por un disparo de material antidisturbios.

Eres adulto para jugar con fuego; eres adulto para quemarte.

Cero pena.

[Chris Tomlinson @TomlinsonCJ]

France doesn't need a new president; it needs a military coup at this point.

[Felix @WolfDesNordens]

Was derzeit in Frankreich passiert, ist kein „Schülerprotest“, es ist Aufstand migrantischer Nachkommen, die sich in Frankreich nun als eine anti-weiße Mehrheit verstehen.

Demografie ist Schicksal.

[Zack @Asmongold]

@Erundel If you Thanos snapped the top 2% of society out of existence, every company, country, and system along with civilization as we know it would collapse within weeks

If you did the same thing to the bottom 2%, nothing would change. If anything, average daily life would improve

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

This story is going to take a major swerve if these men turn out to have arrived recently on a small boat crossing the English Channel...

Things could get very interesting if the US decides British immigration policy is a threat to its national security.

[kaiserKenny🇺🇸🇺🇦 @kaiser_kenny]

“You literally support Ukraine”

Yes

[AIWillEndUs @TimeAi37627]

@abbythelibb_ Activists for Palestine, BLM, Trans, they all have one thing in common. Collectivists. They are the most horrible deranged people that have ever walked this earth. They should be shunned from society.

[Ulf Poschardt @ulfposh]

Der Kampf gegen rechts war ein Kampf für links. Alle haben Angst vor 1933. Die eigentliche Gefahr ist 1949: die Wiederkehr der DDR - und das mit arabischen Islamofaschisten an Bord.

[kernel @kernelshark]

Plan:
1. Die Linke bekommt die Alleinherrschaft in Berlin
2. Wir bauen eine Mauer um Berlin
3. Wir schieben Ausländer aus allen Bundesländern nach Berlin ab
* Sozialismus wirkt*
4. Verteilungskämpfe lösen das Problem mit Linken und Ausländern
5. Profit & Seelenfrieden

[Lord of Cognac @Arnoldg1m]

@Stern_66 Hat mich vor 2 Jahren blockiert obwohl ich nie mit ihm interagiert habe richtig

[schrammi @ogschrammi]

Russenstusser sollten sich mal entscheiden, ob Asow Nazis oder Juden sind.
Außerdem:
Was für eine Diskussion willst du hier anstoßen? Dass Juden uns alle kontrollieren und jede Bewegung automatisch diskreditiert und nutzlos ist wenn ein Israeli sie mal finanziert hat oder ein jüdischstämmiger Oligarch? Das Rabbit Hole ist ist so deep, dann kannst du gleich die Flinte ins Korn werfen weil dann ja alles literarisch sinnlos ist. Das gilt dann auch für die AfD zum Beispiel. Aber da bist du ja nicht mal Mitglied.

[Orthodoxy Enjoyer @Ortho_Enjoyer]

"Fuck the tourists but let's import 4 quadrillion Arabs and Blacks"

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Justice for young Louis in France, who was beaten to death over nothing.

Justice for every victim of open borders.

May this continent wide nightmare end.