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mircea_popescu: as if
there's a set of recipes
to choose from or what ?
mircea_popescu: in point of fact,
there comes a
time when
the poor will be rendered for fat. it's what it is.
mircea_popescu: the british don't really want
to
talk about
the great potato famine ; and
the usg likes
to pretend
the irish
that ran off
to new york didn't go
through
the exact same wringer.
mircea_popescu: and ESPECIALLY it goes with industrialization, which is
to say,attempting
to break out of it.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 18:15 mircea_popescu:
there is nothing necessary about
this cycle of wasteful idiocy. beat your swedish civilised wife whenever she deos
the dumb.
mircea_popescu: 1940, kids were malnourished all over
the world,
the pretense
that germany somehow stood out at any point is ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: and don't
tell me "hey, it's only british empire when we want
to pretend like largest in history, it's really its own
thing at all other points", ima barf.
mircea_popescu: moreover
this whole "oh germany was starving"... dude, it's
the 40s. new york was fucking starving, gimme a break. who wasn't starving ?
mircea_popescu: "oh if some fucktard who
thinks he's a jew because his mother's an idiot says he is holocaustoffended ima say i studied goebbels!!1". wtf already.
mircea_popescu: in any case,
the history of interwar germany is interesting as a
topic of study, rather
than a
topic of conversational macguffins.
mircea_popescu: one didn't make
the hitler chancellor ;
the other did. it's all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there is entirely no difference between usg pantsuit cca 2015 and germany nazi cca 1933.
mircea_popescu: (no good equiv
to ro "spulbera", it's built out of powder with
the italian s' device (svenuto, sfortunato etc)
to denote
that which wind does
to dust and power
to incosequentialness)
mircea_popescu: bluster and pretense aside,
the original socialists were never all
that secure in
their "reich". at all points coulda ran into some republic and be spulberati off
the flow of history exactly like
the pantsuit in 2016.
mircea_popescu: hitler blabbering about how
the army betrayed him and shoulda killed
them all like stalin (really, it was earlier
than stalin
time, but you can't say "like
trotsky" can you now) is exactly a fruit off of
this.
mircea_popescu: usual anachronism, "this
toe sock works great as a soup starter so
that's what it was". not
THEN it wasn't lel.
then it was a complicated
thing. such as for isntance, a desire of
the new socialist strep
to make "culture just as good" as
the guys
they were
trying
to replace, landeschnekt and ritters dominating
the army.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i
think proposing goebbels is a sort of ziggler-skinner is dismissive
to
the man.
mircea_popescu: you want
to "study goebbels", you're going
to review a lot of old celluloid reel, read journals, stuff like
that.
there's no substitute, wut.
mircea_popescu: and i find it superlatively dubious
that "i have made a study" relies on having reviewed no original materials but read chomsky's as cliffnotes.
this is no way
to get anywhere, and i suspect a large portion of chomsky detractors are actually almost-intelligent folk who
tried
to use him in
this manner, got hurt in
the process, and decided
to assign blame, if possible
to
the
tool
they misused. chomsky is fine, but not if you're
mircea_popescu: suss was exactly 1940. and
the hell goebbels had
to go
through
to get
the cast (they were famous actors, and more interested in hollywood bux
than anything) is a very fine entry point for one
to understand just how weak and circumstantial
the reich was, and just how much accident and fortune played into
the good doctor's work
mircea_popescu: it's
true
that hitler was a bit of a literalist, and kept liking
these barely-cinematic mechanicist pieces of nonsense ; but
that doesn't make
the opposition stand like he
tries
to make it stand.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside
the remarkable poverty of reference, i'd like at least for
the few popitems he uses
to be at
the fucking least correct!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: with similar "historical fact". it's in no sense factual, goebbels' jewel, and
the item for which he worked his ass off, has jew right in
the fucking
title.
mircea_popescu: that aside,
there's a different serious problem : "Joseph Goebbels were _not_ concerned with propaganda
towards
the Jews.
this is an historical fact." is what he says, but he says
this in
the exact manner of
the man he otherplaces despises, "who forms a knowledge without having had
the curiosity
to study".
the reason i even wrote
http://trilema.com/2017/jud-suss/ is ~specifically because~
there's a lot of similar ignoramuses
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, i can't miss
that for someone who read and
traveled and so on as you say, naggum has a lot of
trouble destructuring nubbinisms.
mircea_popescu: a) germany won ww2, which is why us is
trying
to be alt-germany not alt-britain ; and why hitlers' goals (anihilation of british empire) were delivered upon ; b)
the war was by very far
the best
thing
that couldf ever have happened
to russians, as individual people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently
there was also some private acrymony. anyway,
the piece reads like
the flailing of pantsuit flavours.
mircea_popescu: same reason, gat smiles. "it's because
the alternative is..."
mircea_popescu: the reason smart people condescend
to use bad
tools is because
they have no others. why do we use gnat or gcc ?
mircea_popescu: so i
think
the correct working of
the system is well understood. similarily,
that
this system is not implemented correctly is also obvious. in
this context, gat's one liner is perfectly sensible, what's
the problem with it ?
mircea_popescu: and for
this failure it gets punished out of existence.
mircea_popescu: what did you
think explanation is, lmao.
to MY STANDARD.
mircea_popescu: let
the ~actual~ 15yos be in
the position where
they have
to explain
themselves, and receive in exchange clarifications of
the rules and punishments as appropriate.
mircea_popescu: you drive, "cop" gets in
the way. does cop explain
to you why he got in
the way or does cop expect you
to explain what it was you were doing
to him ?
mircea_popescu: who explains events
to whom is
the entire construct here. let
the dumb explain
their dumbness
to me.
mircea_popescu: bitch, i'm not explaining jack shit
to you. YOU fucking explain
to me how exactly you ended up with all
this crap.
mircea_popescu: can you picture
the hordes of
tv watchers gathering me up and setting up a spectacle (like
those inane 1980s lassie-in-court
tv productions) whereby some pompous douche ("a judge!!11") asks me
to... explain... what happened ?
mircea_popescu: for convenience, let's say it's a big deal. no need
to specify what.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider
the following situation : something happens.
mircea_popescu: let
the monkeys negotiate from
this position where
they have
to explain
themselves
to my standard.
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking idea of republic is
to meaningfully unite
the smart and destroy
the fakeout "unity" of
the monkeys.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact
that's exactly how it works : if you convince
the smart folk
to be separate and you unite
the monkeys into one "state",
then yes you get
the size disparity problem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't see how
the linked item supports
the
theory.
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, if you ask
the last years' crop of retards, "things were always
that way". perhaps because
their inumerate mothers went
to yoga classes in
the same 1974s and drank smothies)
mircea_popescu: "since about say 2010,
there's a new generation of programers, whose mantra is “help”, “be positive”.
They shy away from negative
things, even occasional swearing. I consider
them scumbags." <<
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-07#1766301 not even
terrible ; anyone know how
ti invite
the dood ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i'll confess i'm not very impressed with
the nonsense. it's one
thing
to flame some idiot into
the ground, but it's not clear
to me gat/garrett met
the criteria.\
mircea_popescu: he also wrote a lisp-is-faster-than-c item back in
the days
the microsoft hired hands were pissing all over o'reilly&marc "my middle name is cocksucker" andressen's java
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's his issue with gat anyway, i always
thought he was one of
the more level headed mid generation lisper folk.
mircea_popescu: there's
this observation
that "the dumb woman's ideal is
to live in K-selected society so
there's no infibulation or
tit pounding ; but
that
then she personally defects
to pursue r-selection".
this may or may not be
true as applied, but it exists as a
trope,
the forever wank of
the insufficient, be it a dumb woman, a dysfunctional adolescent (the neil simon
type,
that
then "goes
to city and becomes his
TRUE SELF writing for n
a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 20:10 mircea_popescu: ostile
to
those who simply did not like your idea
to begin with) may be
too much for some brittle egos [...] while
the Scheme community encourages people
to go off and implement
their _own_ Scheme,
the Common Lisp standard is so big and mature
that
those who want
to reinvent
the wheel, or at least a portion of
the wheel (like an Arc :), usually fail miserably."
a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 20:06 mircea_popescu: you will never fucking reinvent infinitesimal calculus. for one
thing, it's fine as it is (you fuck with it, it get heavy, and you still no hit largest side of barn), and for
the other fuck you and your psychological needs. you were born late rather
than early, if you don't like it should have been born earlier. invent something else or don't, either way.
mircea_popescu: and so on. yes, reification is
the (forced, sure, but still) mistake of
the drowning.
mircea_popescu: sure. im not even persuaded
this is any kind of unfortunate.