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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸

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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸

@benkohlmann

People, ideas, technology. In that order. | Personal Account

Dallas, TX

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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Dec 19, 2025
Deeply honored that the United States Senate confirmed me tonight to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower & Reserve Affairs. I'm excited to soon serve our President, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Navy, and the American people. America is worth
Senate Cloakroom
@SenateCloakroom
Dec 19, 2025
Confirmed, 53-43: Confirmation of the en bloc nominations provided for under the provisions of S.Res.532.
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Dec 7, 2024
This is why
Brutal Regime Apocalyptic Dreams
@brutal_regime
Dec 6, 2024
Can anyone explain to me why regular Americans with no actual capital feel the constant need to defend capitalism?
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
May 4, 2024
For ~$9.6B of outside capital, SpaceX has launched a rocket into orbit over 320 times. For $11B of taxpayer money, California built 1600ft of a concrete bridge. Let that sink in.
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Feb 22, 2025
My first civilian job between the military and b-school was with an airline startup. The co-founder and my boss was a guy named Dan Caine. He took a bet on a dude who cold emailed him. LtGen Dan Caine is now the nominee to be Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. This is an
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Dec 21, 2024
A founder once told me “a unit of risk scales better than a unit of hard work.” One of the secrets of the universe.
Jacobin
@jacobin
Dec 20, 2024
The ratio of CEO pay to worker pay is almost 300 to 1. Are we really supposed to believe CEOs work 300 times harder or create 300 times more value than us? jacobin.com/2023/11/ceo-pe…
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Nov 18, 2024
Dude in my church just had his 7th and 8th kid baptized this morning. I went to look at his bio. Unreal. > Rhodes Scholar > 82nd Airborne, Bronze Star > Magna Cum Laude Harvard Law > SCOTUS Clerk > Won a SCOTUS case this year Pro-Natalism wins with high status examples.
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Jun 19, 2024
At TED in 2018, Gwynne Shotwell estimated Starlink would cost ~$10B. Within 36 months of first deployment, there were 2.2M subscribers. In 2021, the government authorized $42.5B for rural high speed internet. 36 months in, ZERO homes are connected. Let that sink in.
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
May 26, 2024
How it started // how it’s going
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Nov 27, 2024
At the risk of being kicked off X and blacklisted from Silicon Valley, I need to directly challenge three of the most influential voices of our age – @elonmusk, @joerogan, and @pmarca. Their understanding of fighter aviation is misinformed. In many areas they’re ahead of the
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Nov 29, 2024
Two Americas: > The Bears fired their coach for misplaying the last 0:30 of a football game. > No senior military or civilian officials have been fired for the catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal. Accountability matters.
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Oct 4, 2024
Peter Thiel, a Christian, via Founders Fund, invested $20M SpaceX in 2008. This funding was a major reason SpaceX survived tough early days. SpaceX is mankind’s best hope for a becoming multi-planetary in our lifetime. Many anti-space decels are anti-religion secularists.
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Dec 29, 2024
If you’re a guy in your 20s, get married and have kids. Go into debt if you have to.
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Oct 15, 2024
Young men: By meditating on these two images, and the time between them, you can unlock the secrets of the universe. The road is fraught with peril. But you have it within yourselves to tame the dragon. Build.
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Ben Kohlmann 🇺🇸
@benkohlmann
Mar 11, 2025
American Dynamism.
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