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mircea_popescu: for all their pretense, they're people. they cry, they hurt, they get hungry and desperate.
mircea_popescu: this is a fact. it's to be used, to hurt THE PEOPLE involved.
mircea_popescu: more imporantly : every bureaucrat, no matter how low ranking, has an identical bureaucrat clone ready to take over, revving in a corner.
mircea_popescu: and the rest of the "rogue gallery" will be confronted with the unpleasant dilemma that they're in the trenches, and either continue or get shot or else withdraw and get shot.
mircea_popescu: he fucks up assistant profs for breakfast, it's his job.
mircea_popescu: one wallace loh is going to be confronted with the particularly unpleasant dilemma of either saying "yeah mp was right, they were usg all along" or else fucking up an assistant.
mircea_popescu: looky, there's very little point in constantly rehashing this particular form of learned helplessness thing you got going. i don't work that way, i never worked that way, it doesn't in any sense work. it can be a quaint curiosity if you wish, a peculiarity of a peculiar gentleman if oyu must. it can never be more than that and it can never have any impact or meaning in the world.
mircea_popescu: you're saying this as if their 0.5.4 has any bearing on anything.
mircea_popescu: the line they crossed is that they exposed their master, and yeah they're fucked.
mircea_popescu: his reptilian majesty is still lying about its involvement in that particular scam.
mircea_popescu: "o, parents should tell their kids all about how a) they're smarter than kant and b) really, it was god not this evolution bs,"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo thaty's not a bad flag at all. whose is it ?
mircea_popescu: iirc the faggots licked them. there's not much lower to go after that.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and honestly, it's dubious whether feds can actually afford going to battle with a well organised us based clan.
mircea_popescu: nah, feds would never give money, they'd just move in.
mircea_popescu: this guy is going to die accidentally when his bedroom falls on him
mircea_popescu: scenario would be triggered by an audible break in or an attack on my housemates—and, for that apocalyptic event, I have my bow and arrows."
mircea_popescu: "As a man, my arsenal is heavier in my room. In my bed is a bowie knife, on the night stand a dagger, by the dresser a late medieval arming sword, at my desk a pair of butterfly swords, by my foot locker a Viking sword and a jobolo wood baton, and by the door to my room a hickory walking stick, a razor sharp daito [ninja sword] and a 14 inch meat hook. I want to emerge from my room with a weapon in each hand, as such a
mircea_popescu: always shoot the politicians, whenever something goes not to your liking.
mircea_popescu: also in the same news dollop, "wot allows mapping the entire visible relationship map". derp.
mircea_popescu: because they're white, and really that's all there is.
mircea_popescu: folks around here earnestly believe their country is unlike congo.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do you tell them apart ? most are very sloppy too
mircea_popescu: "The Black Guerilla Family was running at least one Maryland Corrections facility, and even had military operatives in Afghanistan bringing home dope. Terrence White, the incarcerated Commander of the gang, impregnated four corrections officers!"
mircea_popescu: romania's not been much of this for at least 10 years by noiw.
mircea_popescu: anyway, doing violence to the poorly secured chumpnet is a rite of passage for most of the not-dumb youth of the third world, you must appreciate. in luxor, a tiny town on the valley of the nile, the intellectual elite of boyhood gathered around two beat up dexktops and an acoustic modem trying the same thing.
mircea_popescu: this sort of crap is unavoidable when doing "reporting". paris was never as fashionable as usians thought.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you recall the story of one guccifer, uneployed cab driver fucking around in internet cafes ?
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it's a rural townlet on par with say dublin, ohio.
mircea_popescu: it was never truly mention-worthy, but some english speaking journo in search of something to write about it wrote that, and well, ever since it's been some sort of english language accepted truth.
mircea_popescu: cazalla nonsense. there was a high concentration of kids fucking up windows boxen in that town, a decade ago.
mircea_popescu would not actually want to be saddled with one of those idiots.
mircea_popescu: how did the theory go, "bureaucrats are genetically inferior and morally stunted, and so the best thing for their sake is having them live out their lives as slaves for actual humans"
mircea_popescu: "lone wolf terrorists" have a pretty decent claim to getting an ex-usg civil servant as chattel slave once the thing's done.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the us dept of derp is short on money and understaffed, so it figures hey, what's this shikrashka thing alf keeps mentioning ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: eh he's prolly gonna show up having an ugrent business proposal to discuss in short order.
mircea_popescu: there's more twu wuv crushed under the trainwheels of normal life than under anything else.
mircea_popescu: simple people miss their funerals because some workshop boss didn't let them off. way the world works.
mircea_popescu: where he'd have had to wheelbarrow his cash home after being in line for hours.
mircea_popescu: so he asked his workshop boss to let him go to THE STATIUM
mircea_popescu: so he had an immense sum to pick up, and he was scheduled to do so a friday evening.
mircea_popescu: so this one guy, working in a furniture shop, had played this romanian ponzi scheme. early. and kept putting it all in.
mircea_popescu: did i ever tell you the story about the blue collar guy who had caritas tickets ?
mircea_popescu: revolutionaries are generally like that in their writing.
mircea_popescu: what, this is an item accidentally shaped like a tree that coincidentally drops plantains to the ground, but not for this reason a plantain tree ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the proposition that joe stack is not revolutionary seems alike the proposition that you're innocent of math.