“We just want to undo democracy with arguments about how wealth should be able to purchase any service to crush anyone not of the super rich with their full participation in the system of destroying themselves” version 9,811
This is the top thing I’m looking for - mostly because I’m not hearing about it from anyone.
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X 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.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Here it is live. What a time.
And woe to those who manipulate the truth and freedom, and the very ideals of our civil and democratic natures, for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.
Pope Bob nails it 💪
no we don't need to revisit just war theory just because some fake hillbilly from central ohio has been elevated way the fuck beyond his station
Screenshot AP news website. Article title reads “House Democrats will try anti-corruption message to gain traction against Trump”
Holy shit, they’re listening.
Amazing - thank you. I’d love to know what happened to those women and their children - maybe DNA genealogy has started to reveal some of those stories
So when the Antichrist is revealed, are Christians supposed to do anything? Asking for a friend
the Democrat who wins will be the one vibrating with desire to drive the MAGAs before them into the snow and cold, unheeding of their piggy little squeals for mercy
Magyar's no mercy approach needs to be used in the US
Trump will pardon everyone for everything he can-including himself
But pardons don't cover state crimes. And despite the SCOTUS immunity decision, there are still ways to prosecute him
We cannot repeat the failures of the Biden administration
Fuck this corruption 🤬
we will have to see how well he follows through but so far the rhetoric from Magyar is a pitch perfect model for what we need from the next Dem administration
no mercy, no reconciliation
On a more serious note, this does show the necessity of a big-tent single-issue pro-democracy coalition. Autocrats lose when anti-authoritarianism is the opposition-uniting priority, and win when they can play divide and conquer on lesser issues.
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Let’s goooooo Tisza - and democracy!! 🇭🇺❤️🇭🇺❤️🇭🇺
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Marcello Hernandez wearing a red t shirt with a giraffe in sunglasses on SNL
The moment
No no no you see it’s only illegal because he’s not profiting from it
Oh, then, so this was all for show. What joke - like you open talks with a regime you’ve been at war with for 50 years and then you’re like oh whoops won’t happen and go home
But the core truth remains. You cannot have what works without the attending toxins. They are inextricable. As ever, my primary contention is that the technology is destructive to the fabric of human society, and on those grounds should we make our stand.
Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news
Shortly after I read about the toll idea last night, I said to myself - hold on, something stinks here. My theory was that Trump went to the IRGC and said, You’re thinking about this all wrong. We can make money. Shut up and do this.
And here it is. Holding the world hostage.
For my part, I just picked up a bottle of bourbon let’s see if it helps me peel myself off the ceiling
Trump is a pussy ass bitch.
“A whole civilization” - shut up, you bloated fuck.
Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
It’s like Trump never happened - a weird brief break in these crappy times, celebrating something that doesn’t include him and that he hasn’t been able to screw up
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Everyone give this a share after.
It’s so calming to read something so straightforward and real, written in such a clear, moral voice.
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