Alexander

Clean air, water, and a livable climate—just minor human rights, right? Fixing it? Oh, just a tiny moral obligation. No pressure.

[𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖞𝖊𝖗 🎱🍸✨ @kepsis85]

@BulwarkOnline Trump really messed us all up ! He gotta go !!

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump: "I am pleased to announce my intention to run for a fourth term as President of the United States. I will be doing that…I won three times, now I'm going to do it again. I'm going to do it…I won three times. Did very well the second time, by the way. Rigged election."

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

Awful...

[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

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Elon Musk is an enemy of the truth and an enemy of Europe

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

It's a prudent deal.

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

Charlie Kirk (2023): "I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."

He was shot today.

https://t.co/R5LatPO2NN

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@dom_lucre I think seeing guns in the hands of kids no matter what race they are is nasty. We're not training our kids for warfare.. we're training them to become something greater than what we are. And that kid looks just like his dad probably gonna be bald, just like him too.

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@RadstormR18852 @AngryJoeShow Pull your panties out of your pussy.. go cry to yourself. You have the emotions of a toddler that can't take any type of trolling. You don't deserve to be on the internet you're a coward.

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@snafuluke @AngryJoeShow Oh I can tell, your bio says how idiotic you are

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@RadstormR18852 @AngryJoeShow Trump's a bitch.. and so are you

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@Masokista93 @AngryJoeShow This flag means you're gay af

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@AngryJoeShow Joe you are who they want to ship out.

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@elonmusk This is absolutely fake, chatgpt doesn't do the pick one kind of thing. You would know this Elon, if you've talked to it. This is just deceptive marketing to make it look like Sam Altman isn't king of A.I, when in reality he is.

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@iam_smx Elon is a dipshit. I know smarter homeless people.

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@elonmusk Apple isn't as important as you think. Make your own pbones half the price, Apple will flounder. OpenAi has a better product overall. Should have never let Sam Altman go.

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@MarioNawfal @imPenny2x I just tried to use it, it wasn't capable of a simple task. ChatGPT is still far superior.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

WHAT IN THE HOLY FUCKING HELL HAPPENED TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 🤔🤦😡😤

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

4th Graders!

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@ML3democrats Donald Trump is a pedophile

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@catturd2 Another republican, they attack America at least once a week. It wasn't a fed but a mislead.

[Alexander @Classicfeedback]

@JTMarlin007 @RenoRonAI @rgj I don't a shit, this country can burn. And it will because of faggots like you .