SE Donald

she/her 💜 community organizer 🗳 We can work in harmony with nature 🌱

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

the city of montreal when it sees a well-funded public service

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

@TheChaosWeeber - Our Conservative leader aligned himself with Donald Trump
- Trump ramped up the annexation talk right around our election
- Our centrist party distanced themselves from America and drifted right to close the gap
- The bottom fell out of our left wing
- It was still close

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

What do you mean “in deficit”? They’re public hospitals! Give them more money!

[CP24 @CP24]

Ontario hospitals announce job cuts, nearly three-quarters of hospitals in deficit https://t.co/5UNKHjuQpg

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

@yanickmproulx

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

The SPVM reported a loss of nearly $900 million in 2025

[CTV News @CTVNews]

#BREAKING: Canada Post reports loss of $1.57 billion in 2025 https://t.co/NFUVqFM1CD

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

It’s always ‘Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime’ and never ‘Silicon Valley must play a role in eliminating poverty’

[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

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

What is the benefit of rich people being in your city if they don’t pay taxes?

[Ashley Moody @AshleyMoodyFL]

The last thing you see before you move to Florida:

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

your move @MarkJCarney

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

PM Carney: "Our goal is AI for all. AI governed by Canadian values, AI accountable to Canadians, AI that serves Canadians. AI for all can make the jobs of Canadian workers more interesting and more rewarding."

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

My hot take is that, more than anything, this proves that conservatives are grifting on issues like conversion therapy and abortion. She never cared! She’s just on whatever side personally benefits her the most!

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Marilyn Gladu: "I oppose conversion therapy, I always did."

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

Oh so now police services wanna talk about resources going to places with “no tangible evidence of success” 🙄

[Toronto Police Association @TPAca]

We support the decision of @TorontoPolice not to participate in this program. With no viable plan presented by the federal government, it makes no sense why we would allocate our limited resources towards this misguided attempt at public safety.

In Toronto, our members are dedicated to making an actual difference on our streets by targeting illegal firearms and partnering with other law enforcement agencies to tackle the smuggling of guns and illicit drugs across our borders.

Our position has been clear from the beginning: money spent on the buyback program should be directed to police services across the country, rather than on a bureaucratic program with no tangible evidence of success.

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

The way that this is so untrue — Zohran stuck his neck out for trans rights when he could’ve folded — shows that these pundits will ignore anything that doesn’t fit their narrative in favour of getting liberals to “neutralize” on identity issues

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

Mamdani effectively neutralized hot-button issues like trans rights and instead relentlessly focused on the cross-partisan goal of affordability. In this sense, he's more like Bernie Sanders circa 2016 than Bernie Sanders (or everyone else) circa 2020.

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

@Jameshasaface Thanks for the link! Was planning on signing up, appreciate you making it easier :)

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

This guy could really get back some of the working class, anti-Liberal Party sentiment that the Conservatives have been preying on. Hoping his party doesn’t sabotage him!

[Rob Ashton @Rob_T_E_Ashton]

For decades, CEOs have been writing the rules. Corporate profits soared while workers' wages stagnated. It’s time to rewrite those rules.

My Worker Power Plan puts power back where it belongs: in the hands of workers.

Join our movement to make this plan a reality: https://t.co/PRdkrESHjZ

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

@CanadianGreens @ElizabethMay How do you make them deliver? You just gave up all your leverage!

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

“secured a historic on-the-record promise” elizabeth may you are not a serious person

[Green Party of Canada @CanadianGreens]

A major win for the planet, and for the Greens. @ElizabethMay just secured a historic on-the-record promise from PM Mark Carney: Canada will meet our Paris climate targets and our Kunming–Montreal biodiversity goals. We’re not here for talk, we’re here for results.

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

Scratch a liberal etc.

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

WATCH: Green Party Leader @ElizabethMay chants "Go Doug Ford."

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

i live in a mostly southeast asian neighbourhood and you know what i associate that community with?

taking their kids to the playground. teenagers setting off firecrackers like i used to. cricket games in the park

did people always feel this comfortable being racist? damn

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

When I was a kid, I associated Canada’s Indian community with engineers and doctors. I hate that this population is being diluted by a new cohort of uneducated village kids who seem more intent on scamming the system than assimilating.

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

We’re gonna politely clap our way into being the 51st state aren’t we? #ElbowsUp

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

NEW: Canadian Parliament gives standing ovation to Charlie Kirk.

[SE Donald @SamDonald]

Not that anyone asked but Trudeau should’ve nationalized Air Canada in 2020 after bailing them out then maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess

[sandy @beateasy]

“neutrality takes the side of the oppressor” and “we must respond to violence with non-violence” are related btw