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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.
mircea_popescu: what now asciilifeform ? lizards lying about how fucked they are ?
mircea_popescu: “There are more of these guys to follow than we can possibly follow,” Sen. Lindsey Graham told us. “It’s just a matter of time before one of them penetrates the net.”
mircea_popescu: that's ok. it'll be a lot worse next year. and the next and the next, and who knows, maybe it makes it till 2020 even.
mircea_popescu: His comments track with those of his House counterpart Devin Nunes, who said earlier this week that the country is at a higher risk of terrorism than ever before.
mircea_popescu: The recent arrests are “an indication that the increased number of threads of threats … is at the highest level that most of us have seen since 9/11,” Chairman Richard Burr of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence told us in an interview.
mircea_popescu: islamic state my foot. your own people hate you because you're hateful, contemptible twerps, yo. nothing isis can or could do has anything in there.
mircea_popescu: check it out, hanbot's thesis is well confirmed... by the wolf's own mouth.
mircea_popescu: "The FBI has been rounding up more potential “lone wolf” terrorists, congressional leaders and the Justice Department say, in response to the perception of a mounting threat of domestic attacks inspired by the Islamic State."
mircea_popescu: "In addition to the embarrassment of having their bro-y, bitchin’ orgy leaked online—you can view uncensored portions below—Pearson (who is also the manager’s son), Hopper and Smith can be heard making at least one racially insensitive remark toward the three Thai girls involved with the players."
mircea_popescu: heh. the flags are either the imperial gold with whatever schmuck's escutcheon (i suppose fried chicken and watermelon for the current holder ?) or else the guelph red, or white, or blue, with the horse, the tower, the you name it.
mircea_popescu: and so no. an "american company" did it ? obama did it.
mircea_popescu: trinque "american companies" are exactly government entitites.
mircea_popescu: a committee did it ? you each did it, individually, the full thing.
mircea_popescu: the point is to allow no quarter. there is no excuse. joint and several liability exists to deal with exactly this sort of situation.
mircea_popescu: cut their vague generalities straight from under them.
mircea_popescu: this isn't about principles. this is about particular morons being particularly moronic. they are personally responsible.
mircea_popescu: ask who doesn't want to tell you, why don't they want to tell you ?
mircea_popescu: Some unnamed genius at the company feels << this is the important part. do not allow the fucktard remain anonymous.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was gonna say "why not take it back to civil war" to you, but then i realised what cw1 was.
mircea_popescu: Recently agitators in the United States along with officials in various government capacities have been exploiting a recent minor tragedy << would work without the 2nd recent too
mircea_popescu: it's our own "kick the usg till it bites, then shoot it" gambit.
mircea_popescu: no big surprise gavin & gang are attacking it while claiming it';s all about anything else.
mircea_popescu: i've been saying for years it's the one vulnerability.
mircea_popescu: allows mempools to be run like a service, much like say a website works.
mircea_popescu: inclusion in one of these is valuable, and so a private deal can be had.
mircea_popescu: in this way : some mempools, by virtue of being well curated, get to talk first to miners.