asciilifeform: 'or if stalin did it and not brit crown'
asciilifeform: cars yes. 100%confiscation a la stalin -- not yet, generally
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: stalin, supposedly, once said to his friends, 'history divides into three eras, matriarchate, patriarchate, and secretariate'☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: nobody arrested relatives, post-stalin, but various folx were sacked from sugary professorships etc.
asciilifeform: if earlier set of powerrangers weren't similarly retarded, we would not have heard of stalin, say.
asciilifeform: yes, some folx are friends with chumpatronicist, or bank robber (stalin et al), who will give them a little dough out of whatever private reason of his own.
asciilifeform: and yes, stalin famously uttered the sage wisdom, 'we ain't got any nonreplaceable people here'
asciilifeform: at the design stage, there is an expectation, engineer knows in advance that if the thing buckles under any number of tanks that its surface might contain: stalin will shoot him
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's grandfather pre-'41 was professor of physics; but post-'41 -- cannoneer. because stalin needed cannoneers.
asciilifeform: in re mr.t lulz, 'Trump will continue his losing streak if he keeps Bannon at his side, WSJ says in blistering editorial. Hits against President Donald Trump's senior counselor Steve Bannon are circulating Tuesday morning, with “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough saying it's “hard to find a more villainous historical figure this side of Stalin or Hitler.'
asciilifeform: the last d00d who has this problem, AND solved it 100% -- was stalin. in '37.
asciilifeform: whether you are under stalin, or fdr, or mao, whoever.
asciilifeform: the nyt-made alt-stalin. but approx., yes.
asciilifeform: ( in the religion pete_dushenski was thinking of, stalin played role of 'devil' rather than god, since '53 at any rate )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re ^ and the part where the asian folk donated jewelry to motherland's central bank , quite reminiscent of the 'old woman who bought t-34 tank and named it after stalin and her five dead sons' recurring item in ww2
asciilifeform: ( 'stalin's' algorithm of guarding gold, i.e. 'if it is lost, shoot everyone who might have sold the coordinates of the convoy' doesn't necessarily work either, because somewhere high enough in the chain there is usually someone who is 1) unshootable + 2) knows the coords )
asciilifeform: (it is, incidentally, the idiot word salad 'fandom' of ~this~ 'cybernetics' that stalin banhammered, and not some other, practical thing)
asciilifeform: stalin understood the basic problem with exporting nonrenewables in exchange for paper.
asciilifeform: 'i invited the strippers [,] hitler and stalin to my party'
asciilifeform: afaik pete_dushenski is this canadian fella who likes to race cars, and also occasionally reads the logz and writes summaries, in something like stalin's radio caster (levitan) voice.
asciilifeform: stalin followed peter's 'colonization with the crown as sole european' model.☟︎
asciilifeform: recall how they in 1990 or so 'all sov archives now open!!11' 'fine, now gimme stalin's 1938 plenum speech'
asciilifeform: (answer, for the thick, is that your rng, if it works correctly, is EXACTLY as likely to shit out a string that xors yours to 'kill stalin at midnight with table leg' as an equivalent length string of zeros, or any other.)
asciilifeform: there are good examples of this kind of thing, from the past, see 'chicken' and 'stalin'
asciilifeform: aha but bought by 'selling pieces of the motherland' (stalin's words)
asciilifeform: and where did stalin come in ? i must've woken up in some parallel universe ?
asciilifeform: i mean i get it, mircea_popescu is stalin and не шагу назад and human wave attacks do have merit and occasionally do the job. but the kind of thing proposed here is inherently not a 'mass' product.
asciilifeform: well yes, 'building' in the sense that stalin built
asciilifeform: 'the hookers churchill and stalin...'
asciilifeform: why did beria's bullet have to wait for a dead stalin ?
asciilifeform: but still reminiscent of vasiliy stalin
asciilifeform: i like to think of the more positive, stalin sense
asciilifeform: 'if you give Stalin a memorandum recommending that 500 priests get shot, and Stalin crosses out 500 and pencils in 1000 in red pencil, then you better find 500 more priests to shoot, or the number becomes 1001 and includes you.'
asciilifeform: famously attributed to stalin circa '37
asciilifeform: yezhov's was a complicated matter. in the sense that he wasn't 100% 'pet', showed signs of being willing and able to bite stalin. so had to go.
asciilifeform: (mega-revisionary history fella, craps out tome after tome re: 'stalin was planning to attack')
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: meant something like a 'mircea_popescu as stalin' scenario
asciilifeform: decimation: there is a popular anecdote where stalin is said to have visited his elderly mother, who tried to comprehend what he does 'for a living'
asciilifeform: ultimately, being a builder of industry at the 1917 (or even today's) tech level, fundamentally sucks. as in, the same way being in prison sucks. so stalin et. al. tried experiment: what if being a peasant sucked -more- ? and - it worked.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not 'evil' but 'car that runs out of gas' as per your stalin article.
asciilifeform: 'stalin did not recede into the past - he dissolved into the future!' (de gaulle ?)
asciilifeform: roosevelt (or stalin, for that matter) just subscribed to a somewhat baroque school of biodiesel manufacture
asciilifeform: back to the treatment of nothaus - this was SOP for dissident types, at least post-stalin. you land, not in a jail cell, but a comfortable 'hotel room', where no one hangs you upside down, no! - but well-dressed, educated fellows have little chats with you over good coffee - to make you 'see reason.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: supposedly stalin, but in point of fact it was a fictional stalin.
asciilifeform: alternatively, a 'stalin' biography, our führer is soon to fail out of bob jones bible college.
asciilifeform: stalin died, condoms appeared, marriage as SOP didn't really start to sink till the '90s (ussr)
asciilifeform: ^ translation: 'this is comrade stalin. you must know because of whom you still live.'
asciilifeform: phun phact. russian truck drivers had portraits of stalin in their windshields (facing out.) possibly even now.☟︎
asciilifeform: incidentally, stalin's '30s purges are almost universally misinterpreted. he was trying to close down the meatgrinder.
asciilifeform: (famous letter from tito to stalin, found on the latter's desk after his death)
asciilifeform: stalin was never more frustrated and ineffective than when he played civ1
asciilifeform: at least stalin, in his engineered famines, sold his abroad to buy cannon
asciilifeform: bounce: one of the purposes of stalin is to distinguish between imitators and the genuine article.
asciilifeform: heretic david koresh (sp?) crunched under tank treads, with his men. and yet no stalin.
asciilifeform: (there is also no proof that stalin spoke the famous 'no man no problem')
asciilifeform: stalin, during famous party plenum, re: spanish civil war gold:☟︎
asciilifeform: if the only things you can 'own' are those that fit in your coffin, then: stalin owned only an overcoat. and a few coin in his pocket.
asciilifeform: where did Stalin put uncooperative judges?
asciilifeform: note that Stalin couldn't even ride a horse (Zhukov rode in the victory parade in his stead.)
asciilifeform: actually, Stalin ramped up industry, the war machine, etc. by saving on the men in the leather jackets. (Most of the purging was of the old purging apparatus.) Resources are, unfortunately, finite.
