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mircea_popescu: and generally, no involvement of us in anywhere to date has been economically productive.
mircea_popescu: merely because the ww2 cost the us less than it cost europe does not mean it wasn't costly.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>chetty: this is not what happened? << no, it is not what happened.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure they were all spies sent by stalin himself to lure the enemy into a false sense of confidence.
mircea_popescu: what, "i'm a boy from tenesee here to die for some fat bitch's right to marry her dog" ?
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: texans would prolly ally with the invader if the invader bitchslaped california harsly enough
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "usian" is a population. like the argentine cattle. not a nation.
mircea_popescu: whole fuckthing wouldnt' work too well if you just fell in.
mircea_popescu: yeah, he would. like the woman puts up resistence. with her uterus.
mircea_popescu: but the notion the usian will put up any sort of resistence, to any sort of invader, ofany kind come from anywhere...
mircea_popescu: it had plenty of other choices, such as for instance, sitting around.
mircea_popescu: so, walrus is fucking a penguin. and one of those seagulls goes in front of it and exhibits itself for sexual use.
mircea_popescu: the firmware in question is both dedicated and ubiquitous.
mircea_popescu: where girl goes and kneels before anotehr woman's rapist to get some herself.
mircea_popescu: most teenaged girls' immune system had been massaged on more or less nothing but "boys" for millenia
mircea_popescu: <trinque>and I would expect a military dictatorship period directly following the fall of usg << IF you can find a certain corporal in the army that will get badly defeated and who resents the coupla decades of peace which consist mostly of american teenagers being used as public toilets from rashapur to ankara, then yes, maybe, dictatorship.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mexicans are kinda lazy methinks. the arabs are more serious when they do it.
mircea_popescu: what do you think a military is, some sort of a country club ? it exists to obey orders. the orders atm are on the line of "scoring officers' sensitivity to inane nontopics"
mircea_popescu: <trinque>if there is not a single man inside the us military who can figure out something to do with even fragments of the thing, wtf? << you need to stop being racis.
mircea_popescu: all those preppy white chicks probably make excellent harem slaves.
mircea_popescu: <mats>militaries require competent leadership. when i say existential threat, i do not mean ISIS will march on DC << it doesn't want or need to march in dc. all it conceivably might want is to pull a rotherham over at vassar.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>trinque: the next major usg trend is 'demand destruction' << i suspect this is what 2015 stalin would have called dekulakization.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>the USA has its own oil reserves, many of which have barely been used << so does nigeria. wtf argument is this.
mircea_popescu: the future where russian military was like present day german military seemed the likelier eventuality in 1990.
mircea_popescu: much like the third reich military had no debts owed to weimar and generally was hitler's creation.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>am I wrong in understanding that there is still a considerable Russian military? << you are wrong in imagining there's any sort of continuity. present day russian military shares nothing at all with the one that ended, and is almost entirely putin's making.
mircea_popescu: neone's welcome to furnish his own skull as he sees fit.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_>trinque, one possibility: if no more paycheck people will just walk away, sell off the gear << exactly how it went in russia heh.
mircea_popescu: right. worked so fucking splendidly over that last siege
mircea_popescu: in no way different than any other mental healthcare hospital, except it's larger and per-patient cheaper
mircea_popescu: <trinque>I would really like to understand this logic by which the entire US military vanishes << the "entrie us military" long ago vanished. it now consists of boys playing video games and girls playing the tomboy. that is not an army, it's a psycho patient support group.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>we'll lose ground but there's a vast difference there << nobody has any incentive whatsoever to be "american". it's not even vaguely an identity. you might wish to be texan, maybe, liek some soviets wished to be russian. but otherwiose, being an iowan or a californian or a wisconsinian or generally an american is the epitome of fair weather friends : for as long as it pays to do so and no longer.
mircea_popescu: the last light shut off is in the office of the guy giving free housing to "needy" voters.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>the us military will be the last light shut off, not the first << looked at the budget past decade ?
mircea_popescu: <trinque>seems about the same size << the chechens are about the same size. the us is in no sense the same size as the su when it fell. this theory can be readily verified putting the country through the equivalent of the 90s, which is coming regardless.
mircea_popescu: <mats>ISIS is an existential threat at this point in time << he has a point. isis would be the first state actually outside of us policy since soviet russia.
mircea_popescu: trinque how do you know he means the part about immigrants and not the part about "the debt of the us shall not be questioned" ?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>wake me up when they close mit << what, you mean THE PREMIERE something something INSTITUTION in THE WORLD!!! ?
mircea_popescu: they really should, once they're done fix bitcoin, go bring democracy to africa or what was it.
mircea_popescu: it makes for a decent contrast, which i guess is what all humor comes from.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, we have yet another bleeting barn animal from anybarn, usa, derping impressively about things he's heard of, via movies.
mircea_popescu: lol. this entire "cheap suits" business has its comedic value. here's something you wouldn't know : while visiting here, ben_vulpes got to meet my tailor, on the grounds that we walked by his shop downtown and teh old jewish gentleman ran out to assure his dearly beloved mr popesco that his suit will be done in time.
mircea_popescu: i feel kinda scammed, those !up s go for like a bitcoin each iirc.
mircea_popescu: give me a cato any day, keep all your cesars and pompeys.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, a man can't really ask (nor should really ask) for more than to be on the wrong side of the major battles of his time.
mircea_popescu: phf nah, it means, "told you they're going to lose the war - already out of bullets!"
mircea_popescu: "We are sorry, This PDF is available in download format only"
mircea_popescu: how does it feel, to have stuck so badly in so many clocks ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, they won't be really USED yet. we just want it for when intel finally comes out wiht the chip and we can push it - not before"
mircea_popescu: in fact, making "intel the only way to run bitcoin node" is the biggest strategic gain usg can hope for atm.