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mircea_popescu: in
the end...
the stupid side of
the planet ended up dragging
them
to its own level.
trinque: asciilifeform: you need
to go
travel
the parts of
the country you consider "fly over" before we continue
the
thread
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's funny how "winning" works out. white man went
to new world
to make
the local idiots stop sucking. much like iraq
today.
trinque: if
they did nothing after, piss on
them;
they aren't people
mircea_popescu: "is
there such a
thing as a white man left in
the new world ? or did
the redskins
totally eat
the colonists"
ben_vulpes: anyways, asciilifeform is
there a particular
thing you're citing or just "moi moi, uber alles"?
mircea_popescu: trinque yeah, i wouldn't particulartly mind seeing
the answer
to
that riddle play out
trinque: it'll piss
the people who voted him in off quite a bit.
ben_vulpes: unfortunately, without skin in
the game
the man can keep "doubling down" forever.
mircea_popescu: well, he likes
to play
the roll-up. win one, get
to have been right all along :D
ben_vulpes: let us not forget how committed you were
to "can not possibly win, clitler and lizards would never stand for it" you were, asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: decade ago or so. anyway, it's a subculture, inconsequential as it may be. in certain ways infinitely more authentic
than
the alternative interpretations.
mircea_popescu: that's my point. post ww2
there's very marked silence-post-centralisation.
jhvh1: shinohai:
The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was a
thing in
the sense gayness was a
thing. before
the boring lametards got
their grubby culturally appropriative hands on it, meausred in ppm but present.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile workforce became you know, "in charge of its own destiny", consequently sniffs
the hazards voluntarilt.
mircea_popescu: i know
the specs and etc because it was in
the management class, workforce hazards.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sniffing
technological solvents is never going
to be fashionable in
the ipad sense for obvious reasons.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Huffing has been a
thing since sad man first found petroleum seep
mircea_popescu: but it's self limiting enough
that it never was as fashionable as i dunno, raising cats.
mircea_popescu: there's
that picture of
the naked kid sniffing from a bag in bucharest cca 2000
that gave it iconic status
mircea_popescu: depends. became a niche
thing pre 70s ; otherwise during
the 90s
mircea_popescu: i'm pretty sure it's
toluene because of
the
tell-tale parasympathetic lesions leading
to loss of ability
to regulate body heat in abusers.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: max was
total annual premiums for a "bronze" plan
ben_vulpes: if it were "small businesses! young people!"
the clamor for universal college debt jubilee would be deafening
mircea_popescu: "service economy" aka "we'll prosper
through doing each other's laundry, babysitting each other's kids and drawing
things on each other's napkins"
to be replaced by "maga economy" aka "we'll prosper
through hipsters in haliburton hard hats" or wtf.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which,
the utter dearth of "small businesses! young people!" verbiage in
the
tower of maga is perhaps
the lulziest part of all
this.
mircea_popescu: what you mean is, "if you're not
trying
to run a small business"
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: sure, if you don't have
taxable income
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> "Obamacare's markets are nearing failure as premiums climb and healthier individuals drop out" << did someone cancel
the penalty for rolling uninsured or am i missing something here << "Rolling uninsured" penalty is
trivial compared
to Obamacare subscription
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i'm sitting here looking at fy 2016 during which it seems i paid approximately 2.47%, and
this is before figuring in
the easements from
the women i own.
ben_vulpes: what's
the second dubious strat? not picking fights with
the irs?
mircea_popescu: and it principally homes in
the exact sort of middle class boy cleverness you discuss.
mircea_popescu: understand
that
the system isn't
there
to fuck bahamas
the imbecile nigger ; nor buffett
the uberrich whiteboy.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i am fair miserly
though
ben_vulpes: lest anyone get
the wrong idea, i don't
tend
to pick fights with
the irs.
ben_vulpes: "what income?
this other business showed a perfectly-offsetting loss."
ben_vulpes: no getting rich here, just clawing back my pennies from
the commies
ben_vulpes: robust
tax strategy is a wall of pittances.
ben_vulpes: nothing compares
to bitcoin we all know
this
ben_vulpes: pile up pre-tax dollars reserved for 'valid medical expenses' without incurring
the insurance cost
ben_vulpes: and at
the very least shares keybindings with intellij/android studio
ben_vulpes: phf: man once i got
the simulator all wired up boy howdy was it nice
to have unified keybindings for
the mobile scutwork
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i dunno, was
top
ticket in my week 1 argument with stan.
trinque: he
told
the IRS
to stop enforcing it, yeah
ben_vulpes: "Obamacare's markets are nearing failure as premiums climb and healthier individuals drop out" << did someone cancel
the penalty for rolling uninsured or am i missing something here
ben_vulpes: was
there bitching at
the
top about
the selective leaking?
mircea_popescu: i can fish out
the exact article for you if you're curious.
mircea_popescu: (yes,
the problems of
the us
today played out in romania a decade ago, hurr durr).
mircea_popescu: amusingly,
this is 2010
trilema. recently making
the rounds on reddit, and such.
ben_vulpes: "The real scandal here is
that classified information is illegally given out by 'intelligence' like candy. Very un-American!" god i love realdonaldtrump
mircea_popescu: kinda why people
tend
to be cowardly in realpolitik. "yes i can nuke him, and
that'll be
the end of us both" sorta
thing
mircea_popescu: hitler remains a very instructive illustration of
the pitfals of hatred. yes he did destroy
the british empire.
there's not now nor ever will be any future for
the shitheads spawned by
that miserable island.
the cost however...
there's no germany nor will likely ever be one again.
mircea_popescu: they'll never be anything more
than a sort of mexicans, i can use
them as cumrags but not as germans.
mircea_popescu: whereas german, or japanese identity is i suspect forever lost at
this point.
mircea_popescu: there's very little
threat
to greek national identity
the dos can mount
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes because
they essentially dedicate
themselves
to extraction out of
the would-be bigman.
mircea_popescu: testament
to how in a dictatorship
the whore does a lot better
than
the engineer.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the greeks are handling
the postmodern soup a lot better
than eg
the germans.
mircea_popescu: though
they're
trying
to corrupt narrative with
trump also. just,
they're so deeply racist
that
they won't believe a "citizen" could possibly be anything but insane. sluggish schizophrenia ftw!
mircea_popescu: makes sense on
their
twisted level, anyone who doesn't see
the glory of
the libertard revelation is either insane (trump) or else corrupt (if orc).