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mircea_popescu: i am the proud result of an endless line that predates all states, and the fucking lake, the lake's bottom, and the core of the earth are mine.
mircea_popescu: i am not a person in the sense of this rootless, hopeless lotus floating on a sea that somehow is owned byu "the state".
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i kinda don't look at that part, because plenty of orthodox nuts otherwise very intelligent.
mircea_popescu: but i mean... sure, he's uppity. i have yet to see a sign of intelligence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i rarely get to read folk who at the same time seem able to find their way out of a paper bag and actually believe obama similarly could.
mircea_popescu: "Hey, who wouldn't vote for Morgan Freeman? Obama is unabashedly liberal, intelligent, and acts like he knows it. He's "uppity." People who think they're superior run headlong into someone who is superior, and they don't like it."
mircea_popescu: strangely enough, the dsm-ud did not have a heading for "bush-reactive psychopathy"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is the lemonade stand <=> dope slinging ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i dun recall what the problem was with it, i think it mostly fell through the cracks for lack of pressing need. the server's up at any rate.
mircea_popescu: nm back now. i swear it was dead for a coupl;a minutes
mircea_popescu: not even a weapon. they also don't craft houses, or water pipes.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, for all the people who have all sorts of malformed opinions, cvasi-ideas and ready judgement about "how mp is!11" stemming out of some sort of emotional knee jerk over me not caring for whatever pet peeve of theirs, NONE to date has actually tried the "hey mp, what'd it take to convince you feminists are not retarded children and socialism is really the path to go!"
mircea_popescu: "Mostly it's laziness (or shallowness) and an attempt to seize the moral high ground. It's hard to defend specific issues when you're confronted by someone who simply rejects your basic premises. How do you find out what lines of argument they would find persuasive? (Hint: ask them. Say "what exactly would you accept as proof that I'm right?" Most of the time they don't have a clue, because most people only think about
mircea_popescu: "In fact, most people are out of their depth in a mud puddle."
mircea_popescu: "Ultimately it's undergirded by one of the great intellectual fallacies of modern times, the obsession with structure as opposed to content. If structure is all important, then if two conflicts have similar structure, they are similar."
mircea_popescu: and .HTM like it's 1993 and microsoft dreamweaver, and "Failed to connect to server. The reason may be that the encryption methods supported by the server are not enabled in the security preferences." and aww.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the magic moment is the part where you go "and yet unlike every other bucket of lick-a-squid shit, the maker of this one was clearly aware. wtf ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i saw it, and i think it's great. just... writing's not automatic!
mircea_popescu: actual argument, in actual debate, at the time of diderot & co
mircea_popescu: i suppose the theory is that "italians have forgotten how to sing and only french royal comedy institute knows anymore"
mircea_popescu: more like making them come out to him being a parasite.
mircea_popescu: poor star had no fucking idea how many women it had impregnated, from paris to shanghai
mircea_popescu: every group lays the same pretense. irrespective of the justification. much like every absoute monarchy sooner or later got around to deriving the monarch from the sun
mircea_popescu: fwiw, thjere's a contingent of deranged romanians who believe zamolxis taught the romans to read.
mircea_popescu: the island 50 miles off the coast which you can see on a clear day, but which the mud packing philosophers and astrologo-mathematicians of a certain complexion failed to find,
mircea_popescu: i suppose they got numbers from the indians while they were exploring zanzibar
mircea_popescu: how exactly did some us black guy get his "we" to include i presume egyptians, which weren't black while he wasn't in africa, is anyone's guess.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: “White folks was in caves while we was building empires… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
mircea_popescu: anyone care to appreciate my validation so we can make it a social media ?
mircea_popescu: i hereby validate one derp's appreciation of the other derp's appreciation of the first derp's appreciations on issues she doesn't understand and wasn't really asked about.
mircea_popescu: "Thanks for your comment, dumspirospero! I appreciate your appreciation of the post."
mircea_popescu: " Obama has never ruled out military force if negotiations failed"
mircea_popescu: “The reality of the situation is that the U.S. dollar hasn’t been this strong in decades. The thought that it could be replaced as a reserve currency is laughable at this point on a geopolitical basis and nothing in the Iran deal even remotely touches upon that issue,” he added.
mircea_popescu: but yes, he's right. obama has managed to put the us in the worst position of all
mircea_popescu: As for the “lesser of two evils” argument, I just have to quote from Ijeoma Oluo who was saying earlier:
mircea_popescu: "Katherine van Wormer Professor of Social Work University of Northern Iowa"
mircea_popescu: "today i will drink mumm instead of cliquot, because german froth is so much later!"
mircea_popescu: For her part, noted feminist Gloria Steinem said (in 2008) that she supported Clinton over Barack Obama because, “Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women…”
mircea_popescu: "While many people are excited about the prospect of the first woman president, I think that a Hillary Clinton presidency will be another in a long series of triumphs for white, corporate feminism and defeats for racial justice."
mircea_popescu: heh. i suppose the widespread metanonsense is why people are so lost when confronted with groups utterly disinterested in prestige,
mircea_popescu: "The Trotskyist is AGAINST Stalin just as the Communist is FOR him, and, like the majority of Communists, he wants not so much to alter the external world as to feel that the battle for prestige is going in his own favour."