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mircea_popescu: sooo, they're doing a "marcha de las putas" ie, localized slutwalk
mircea_popescu: more of the same and less of everything, the socialist-democrat platform everywhere¶ siempre!
mircea_popescu: “My plan would make Wall Street banks, profitable corporations, millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes. My plan would provide living wages for working people and ensure equal pay for women,” Mr. Sanders says, ticking off his plans to raise taxes by $1 trillion and spend it on infrastructure, guarantee free tuition at public colleges and universities, raise the minimum wage, raise Social Securit
mircea_popescu: on the apparently safe assumption that nobody has anything to say to anybody anywya
mircea_popescu: fuck a number of DIFFERENT women ; do a number of DIFFERENT things. eat variedly. die happily.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform devoting your "whole life" to anything, be it some dumbass woman (hey - for every woman that you're willing to die for!!11 there is a dude somewhere who's sick of her dumb ass), or ideas, behaviours and whatnot is stupid writ large.
mircea_popescu: the mandatory googles that drm the environment "to protect the user" are exactly the same notion, coming from the same place, going to the same place.
mircea_popescu: the most obvious problem with it from your planet should be that it is cosubtantial with IP.
mircea_popescu: "entirely without" is a meaningless conceit of no value of import, which you nevertheless desperately wish to have because it's a requisite pillar for the temple of nonsense you build and apparently invested yourself in.
mircea_popescu: how quickly we forget that china is to japan what the ipad is to the blackberry.
mircea_popescu: how quickly we forget that it was actually japan that drove the harpoon into the great "western" whale.
mircea_popescu: you damn near close did speak jp. so did plenty of chinese.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do you think it's the samurai rather than the peasant doing poetry ?
mircea_popescu: it's only -ev if you have NO INDEPENDENT MEANS OF SUPPORT
mircea_popescu: anyone can be boole in this sense, just close your eyes.
mircea_popescu: that it sometimes works is a case-by-case type of argument, useless when one tries to argue class.
mircea_popescu: "something other than immediately +ev practicalities" is the definition of insanity.
mircea_popescu: (in which case - the harem is really the perfect solution. mother-aged children are pretty uch the only human beings i ever knew to benefit from socialism. so make the harem, let the women be sisters, let society function.)
mircea_popescu: funny how this works, makes me thing socialism is a constant, like the water table.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : incas were prolly the most socialist tards alive, because they managed to split up, the inca owned everything.
mircea_popescu: their fucking library! they made it, they burned it! what's it to you ?
mircea_popescu: or in other news, if your dad wanted some intromission advice from you when doing your mom, he'd probably have asked.
mircea_popescu: so then what calamity ? "historical calamity" or "they got what they had coming", exactly the same thing.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what cultured means to you, but there's something definitely wrong with the archeologist who goes to the local court to file a restraining order against this one long extinct tribe for having broken all the pots of this other one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what historical event isn't a historical calamity ?
mircea_popescu: the only people who did something of themselves were the ones who didn't.
mircea_popescu: simple heuristic : nobody who paid his taxes for 1989 ever had any money, nor did his children have a chance that was in any way connected to them. black fucking holes of dumb.
mircea_popescu: depends on what "folks like me" means. if it means, folks who stubbornly live in moscow and work for the state, you're right.
mircea_popescu: and, again, the most important predictor for the effects of digestion was...
mircea_popescu: survival of soviet families depended on HOW connected they were, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: the important point in that comparison is that her transition is NOT going to be managed by her
mircea_popescu: you understand ? tools have their mass, which means microscope is perfectly usable hammer.
mircea_popescu: every object has other assets. THIS is what it means to be an object.
mircea_popescu: her : "so how the fuck would i manage my transition!111!"
mircea_popescu: her : "and besides, that webcam site was not even in russian"
mircea_popescu: her : "you already said no company ever needs a soviet accountant".
mircea_popescu: her : "even if you are right about where this shit's headed, i would not last five seconds"
mircea_popescu: so the year is 1988. the persons are a well connected mobster and a youthful rose. she is in a terminal year at university, studying to be a soviet state company accountant. he just came back from dubai.
mircea_popescu: let's work an example with sluts, easier to take women as objects than yourself as an object.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i did not say 'wot is useless' but that i in particular do not - as demonstrated experimentally not long ago - command particularly much market value there. << the idea is not that you command anything. the conversion from postmodern derp to feudal subject is not done under the control of the derp.
mircea_popescu: the only way people could be moved off the good policy to the shitty one was the garglwe of "rights" and shit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know feudalism is safer for the slaves than even socialism. certainly than capitalism.
mircea_popescu: gotta protect the bitcoin. both in this angle and in the angle kako was discussing yest.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, in proper (ie, macroeconomic) terms, this consideration is the reason, ie the absolute driver, of why society will reorganise into feudalism.
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