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mircea_popescu: anyway, malcom x correctly identified "the state is this thing which fucks us over", but he thought it's about money (ie, what he didn't have) rather than about cocksize (ie, what the people actually employing it didn't have).
mircea_popescu: if you run gpg correctrly, whic his to say locally, use plaintext email
mircea_popescu: iroquis worked fine without anyone "claiming the land". fine enough for the us to try and copy off them everything they didn't understand from french anyway
mircea_popescu: this has exactly zero to do with governance in the general case.
mircea_popescu: it pretends, and apparently convincingly, to be either or both, but it is neither. for that matter, koreans believe "the party" is equal to "the atmosphere". what of it.
mircea_popescu: the proposition that "religion === morality" or "state===society" or "monarchy===worldview" etc is so much smarmy pretense.
mircea_popescu: needn't have "an alternative to monarchy" in terms monarchy'd comprehend. ditto re state.
mircea_popescu: he had some rather on point comments re bitcoin's end game in 2012
mircea_popescu: when an otherwise smart guy is too stupid to get out of the rain.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo maybe. there should be a new word, "low functioning intelligence". the exact counterparty to high functioning autism
mircea_popescu: anyway, someone should tell falkvinge to gtfo in here and stop being retarded.
mircea_popescu: "we've seen teh weird web technologies deployed on 8chan last month and we figure it's actual magic"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo for as long as fiat financing lasts, everyone gets to pretend they're the most serene republic.
mircea_popescu: how is "working undercover" what you do when you sit around in a gas station "trying to catch people who self serve" ? this isn't even lance corporal, whaty officer.
mircea_popescu: tire societal relations to make room for the horse on the battlefield.
mircea_popescu: seriously, as far as the "public opinion" is concenred, "there exists a weapon that has never been used on account of it being too effectual". something that happened with nothing never, the celts used iron weapons and the europeans used machine guns and everything in between that actually worked and was actually useful was actually used. and not a little used. USED. ubiquitously used, the franks re-engineered their en
mircea_popescu: i take it the unsolicited redrawing of mpex on toilet paper by kindergartners did not end up selling for the "very modest" five digit figure he had in... for lack of a better term, mind ?
mircea_popescu: cdefs.h doesn't sound like it would be needed anyway :D
mircea_popescu: (the word has a particular slang meaning in english, a certain sort of beer drinking, saber rattling british citizen.)
mircea_popescu: the similarities are overpowering. both groups are grossly acultural, clinging to ridiculously simplified worldviews and models of thought, and pretending to a legitimacy and importance that is both absent in the field and justified ideally and historically only.
mircea_popescu: if anyone can explain the difference between "for king and country" of the blips of the 1800s and "for democracy1`11`11" of the redditards of today...
mircea_popescu: yes, some symbolic "states", about as related to historical states as the queen of england's to historical britsh monarchs will survive
mircea_popescu: i think it's liable to go the same place - state's exactly as dead today as monarchy was in 1803
mircea_popescu: and the numerous coallitions of defeated european monarchs trying to save monarchies from napoleon
mircea_popescu: moreover, there are hard to miss parallels between this entire "saving the state" interventionism of the us coallition
☟︎ mircea_popescu: one should really stop and think for a moment if he notices that the opposing players eschew "opportunities" he himself wouldn't.
mircea_popescu: perhaps because they're not retarded enough to be the us.
mircea_popescu: state's in just as bad a shape as syria/ukraina/etc ever were.
mircea_popescu: i am kind of curious why neither are going for the "peace keeping" thing
mircea_popescu: anyway, i see a point to actually signifying tattoos, those queen of spades ankle stuff, or the russian cat or whatever.
mircea_popescu: i suspect worthless argentines tryin to act brazilian tough
mircea_popescu: the earlobe idiocy is really popular here in the hipster crowd
mircea_popescu: trinque the lol part is, how often the tattood were in fact free agents or otherwise involved.
mircea_popescu: this chick has on her pubis that original persian message, in greek.
mircea_popescu: actually the only tattoo i ever saw that i thought was cool,
mircea_popescu has seen plenty of "property of X" crotch-and-other-places
mircea_popescu: you are aware, yes ? point of life for the genotype driven is reproducing the damned things
mircea_popescu: think about it - that's for many of them the ONLY chance they get to reproduce their dna.
mircea_popescu: everyone's happy : the plebs for a, the corp because b), as quarters weren't evenworth stealing
mircea_popescu: (same holds true for the recent downturn in actual marriages ended that way too)
mircea_popescu: the only reason there's no coke machine murder-suicides is the low value of the item.
mircea_popescu: imo most coke drinkers do about the coins and machines what they do about their hopes and wives
mircea_popescu: don't come to me with a model that requires turning wizards into coke machines. there's no power to do so and the effort would be overall -ev anwyay
mircea_popescu: the usg did NOT survive eating the coin merely a few times.
mircea_popescu: the machine has a horrible reputation, and only survives in its abjection
mircea_popescu: but when i tried that you said "it is a mistake to ask"
mircea_popescu: why would THE WIZARD get involved in this, when there's an unbound negative result on the table.
mircea_popescu: anyway, by "magical dragon" i meant what you seem to mean by "wizard" just ftr.
mircea_popescu: not an easy task for angels to actually walk the earth.
mircea_popescu: and the past few years have taught me a whole lot about the value and complexity of maintaining impeccability.