A social network for TRUMP holders with US Id verification would be very cool. Could allow polls, endorsement alerts, etc

In his recent op-ed in the Financial Times, Peter Thiel attempts to do what he once criticized Locke for doing. However, conservatives must never lose sight of the important questions again.

https://shawkisukkar.substack.com/p/thiel-new-american-regime

This is worse than the burning of the library of alexandria

I can’t listen to both Zuck and Altman, they’re both so fake that it’s intolerable.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SXJGSPeQWbACveJhs/the-best-tacit-knowledge-videos-on-every-subject

The natural conclusion of the failure of both establishing democracies around the world and the failure of science and technology is bringing back colonialism.

One interesting thing in this debate is that people kept using this line which is fantastically great.

It’s hard to overstate how important this part from Vance’s speech is going to be in American politics going forward:

 “One of the things you hear people say is that America is an idea. America is not just an idea, is a group of people with a shared history and common purpose.”

The pressing issue of this time is what is the path to cultural restoration, and you can't do a cultural restoration while you have massive amounts of immigration.

https://youtu.be/L-vB1HaBsog?si=7Pj9Ml6NILMEKFxO

Geopolitics

Anyone else starting to get worried about this rise of casual open imperialism? Like, not "peaceful trade at prices social justice activists don't like" imperialism but actual "let's go conquer stuff" imperialism. I know it's "meant to be a joke", but often such jokes are a first step to normalizing something dark...

"Well, on some dimension, my feeling that if I don't drink diet coke every day that's on some level is definite pessimism, that we're not going to conquer death, and if so then we're just living at the end of time and we should all just drink the diet coke too."

It’s not the noise that bothers me, it’s the entitlement of someone not being aware that others might be bothered. YOU KNOW, WE'RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY!

Shawki Sukkar

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