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mircea_popescu: i honestly, if i had to pick, would side with the "evil niggers" and beat the shit out of the pesky internet-addled "civilised" folk.
mircea_popescu: violence got nothing to do with it, it's a convenient scapegoat. like 13 yo girls claiming they don't want to associate with boys because they smell, rather than the obvious "my vagina's not yet developed enough"
mircea_popescu: they are running away from their own sexual impotence.
mircea_popescu: the incident in question where they assaulted some schmuky blond kid (and the police had to come - i wouldn't have bothered) was iirc alabama
mircea_popescu: i dun need you to show me the port quarter. can find on own
mircea_popescu: you recall, i traveled the polace by bus ? hung out with black dudes in the back of greyhounds ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fucking bullshit. the dicklets are fleeing to escape their own ~sexual~ impotence.
mircea_popescu: "Large areas of X, including entire major cities, have been ethnically cleansed by the departure of class-B people fleeing class-A violence."
mircea_popescu: it was memory holed at the time, and not well known since.
mircea_popescu: it is excellent, on one hand because the man is supremely qualified - he is, no doubts about it, he who wrote romania's software, since the kingdom days - and because he actually lived it and saw it, and its context. top notch historical primary source.
mircea_popescu: "Ian Smith could never have achieved any political prominence in prewar Britain, because his origins were decidedly middle-class": what, unlike Ramsay MacDonald, who was the bastard son of a farm servant, and twice PM?
mircea_popescu: which is in no part active because an intelligent being somewhere has failed to feed it crap for decades now
mircea_popescu: yes, it is better to be smart and active than it is to be stupid and active.
mircea_popescu: most people wouldn't hire girls what went to school for the longest time.
mircea_popescu: the difficulty's not in question. the difficulty of finding wet cunts biweekly for the rest of your life is even more burdensome
mircea_popescu: your type of intelligent person is not unlike the guard that shoots himself on the third day, because bored.
mircea_popescu: just as long as he doesn't wiggle them into kicks to his shn
mircea_popescu: if intelligence is not an option, it is not intelligence.
mircea_popescu: hence "<mircea_popescu> yes well, the understandings of the crowd as to the justification of rules is made for the comprehension needs of the crowd, not for the expressive needs of the rules."
mircea_popescu: and no, stupid folks are perpetually asked to run smart on emulator, and they don't even have one.
mircea_popescu: for how long would you personally be willing to run a chip on the breadboard ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in any case, i had to spend half my fucking life yelling at people that "the difference between stupid and smart is that stupid can't be smart, BUT SMART CAN BE STUPID. IF YOU'RE UNWILLING TO EVER BE STUPID YOUR SMART'S JUST ANOTHER FLAVOUR OF DUMB!1111"
mircea_popescu: im sure the fed is resisting socialism by not reporting all it prints to washington
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy notably claims that he was resisting communism by not registering his typewriter.
mircea_popescu: i'm not gonna run it up myself because she was instrumented to test i dun recall what and i fear messing it up.
mircea_popescu: and this was obviously not acceptable, being how inept as he may be, and a fraud as he may be, nevertheless he is the palatial "scientist"
mircea_popescu: but meanwhile it got beleeted. because press, ofcourse.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well it was here site:trilema.com herta muller
mircea_popescu: it's not cowardice per se, even though the drill sargeant thinks so. and the opposite view is not "deliberate stupidity"
mircea_popescu: did you read the one about the german/romanian nobel prize woman debate ?
mircea_popescu: i remember reading that at some point and not being impressed. prolly the log has my expletives, ima look.
mircea_popescu: (and yes, i fundamentally do not like the guy because he reads exactly like andrei plesu, gabriel liiceanu or an entire smattering of entirely identical superficially "cultured", inept and impotent romanian "intellectuals" of the "Resistence throguh culture" brand).
mircea_popescu: "the battle between missionaries and settlers, which ended of course in the victory of the former, was the great conflict of colonialism." << this is broadly coirrect. in the us, decolonialization took the form of "dry states", the missionaries fought against settlers brandied as "the bar lobby" there.
mircea_popescu: i think tacitus lived in a marble tub his entire life, in a museum in illyricum.
mircea_popescu: "What would Tacitus make of this? Frankly, I'm not sure he could even process it." << hot damned...
mircea_popescu: the telegraph obligingly deleted the linked reference to how the senator's daughter was raped by the praetorian guards, so now there's no reference.
mircea_popescu: one'd thing there is some room for personal taste in praxis and stylistics already
mircea_popescu: so i write an article with a cultural grounding introduction referencing newman and proceed to the historical discussion, some guy writes (a decade prior) an article using tacitus in thesame function and casually mentioning garfield todd
mircea_popescu: Todd, basically, was the Universalist to end all Universalists.
mircea_popescu: like "In fact, what Power really means is that a government "cannot survive indefinitely" if it defies the wishes of the international community. Ie, of, well - Power. Here we have the ultimate cause of Rhodesia's destruction. I believe this is a clear and undisputed fact."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently that's working, at least to some degree, if people seriously consider him an influence on anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand, nothing in nature comes without a cost. flying bugs are not by this fact more fit than worms. even if flying is kinda cool.