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asciilifeform: (iirc, most airframes lost, at least according to Official histories, were accounted for by mechanical wear)
mircea_popescu: why not those idiotic tank on stilts things from holywood "fiction"
mircea_popescu: aha. otherwise dumbest thing ever, really, chopper as battle machine ?!
asciilifeform: they settled on physically marooning the cannon fodder behind enemy lines, with chopper. hence that vehicle becoming iconic of the period.
asciilifeform: vietnam is a fascinating treasury of lulz, and quite well-documented. how, for instance, the command was mainly occupied with question of how to actually make the conscripts fight instead of 'travail arabe' imitation (consisting of retreat and shots fired for sound effect)
asciilifeform: by some accounts, good share of the actual 2way fire exchanges, ~were~ with ak.
mircea_popescu: allowing the ru to superiorily lulz at teh orcs.
mircea_popescu: if it weren't for the needs of us industry to feel important and relevant, war'd have been fought with ak-47 on both sides.
asciilifeform: it was the first swallow of the post-eisenhower spring.
mircea_popescu: well they were pretty shitty rifles.
asciilifeform: vietnamese would not even take the rifles. 'this little black rifle is of no use to our cause.' --actual order
asciilifeform: i suspect that modern folx see war as a snore at least partly because there is not so much that is to be carted away. killing, e.g., usg troops, is pest control. cockroaches - don't have gold.
asciilifeform: quite likely there are folx in rural ru still shitting in toilets from reichstag to this day.
asciilifeform: (though they did find a way to take zeiss home -- entire thing, men, machines, glass.)
mircea_popescu: germans were more practical, burn teh locals take the train system.
asciilifeform: grunt can take the 'tic, tac' 40 watches home, but not the berlin train system
mircea_popescu: and the losers are to do what losers are to do, raise the children resultant.
asciilifeform: ww2 (and zhukov in particular, with his trains) was hilarious exhibit of orcs trying, hopelessly, to apply this principle to modern conveniences
mircea_popescu: to be traded away or kept, but in any case - his. his by right of war.
mircea_popescu: that's the solidus, a trophy of the victory. each soldier takes his home.
mircea_popescu: as many equal rounds as there are men present.
mircea_popescu: you understand the ancient conception of war ? you raise a bunch of men, you go the next town over, you beat up all the guys, this is the work ; you fuck all the women and drink all the booze, this is the party (like what they do in sane jurisdiction during college games, the winning team gets the naked cheerleaders of tghe losers') ; then all the gold found on the premises is melted into one single thing and it is poured in
mircea_popescu: i dunno about that. ww1 veterans got gold ? what gold did they get ?
asciilifeform: if 'their plumbing' means 'stitch malefactor's arse to his mouth' and take his gold -- then yes, deal.
mircea_popescu: you're only plumbing to get paid, it's not your fucking physiological function after all!
mircea_popescu: wtf, suppose you're a plumber, go do a spot of work, dork refuses to pay, you go to courthouse to complain they make you do their plumbing too. this sounds like a deal to you ?
mircea_popescu: not "come to palace cut more heads".
mircea_popescu: bitch, veteran = golden solidus and all the barbarian women in a county. that's the deal.
mircea_popescu: basically they fought another war for free because they weren't paid for he first one ?
mircea_popescu: mno. hooker fucks, soldier fights. as the hooker fucked so the soldier fought.
asciilifeform: ~then~ went on to get fucked by new folx, in new orifices.
asciilifeform: mno. went to his house, and burned it to the ground, and fucked his daughters' neck stumps.
mircea_popescu: this is a deal ? because why, they "got married" ? tyvm.
mircea_popescu: who ... fucked once more, and allowed them to stay on, to get fucked more as the need may arise.
mircea_popescu: so they got fucked once and didn't get paid, so they went to the fucker's house to complain.
mircea_popescu: how not ? think of them as hookers.
mircea_popescu: how exactly didn't they get the same baculum ?
mircea_popescu: which is this ?
asciilifeform: the 1 time they didn't, was the winter palace thing.
mircea_popescu: well yeah. the veterans usually get fucked, from rome onwards.
asciilifeform: the folx 'with the guns and training' were raped by washington (shay's rebellion), by hoover (bonus army), by johnson (vietnam), by bush/obummer (iraq bonus withdrawal, retroactive, evictions, dekulakizations.) somehow.
mircea_popescu: but in any case - stomping into the ground anyone with "protests" is certainly the moral imperative of the age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1zp953kVLs to quote the left's own agitprop.
mircea_popescu: derp who's never been punched imagines his edgy talk is something he can support because he has no life experience ; and will be shocked to discover that if you get yourself in the situation where you get punched, people don't usually stop after the first one, even though you switchedon a dime from tough talking dragon to whining little girl.
mircea_popescu: "And the frightening thing is that the Left is so foolish, so stuck in its bubble that it has no understanding that it can only push so far before the people with all the guns and all the training push back. That’s the problem with kids who were raised on participation trophies and who never got into a fistfight – they don’t consider the possibility that they will lose, and lose hard." << dude exactly has it. loudmouth
mircea_popescu: then again, i am hard pressed to ground the proposition that the left shouldn't be tortured in anything palpable. why exactly not ? i have nfi.
mircea_popescu: supposedly mercy killing is when you kill an injured animal on the spot, rather than torture it medically for a while first.
mircea_popescu: so yes, it'll be either crush them now or crush them tomorrow or crush them next week etcetera. the only variable is how long the gnashing of teeth is to last.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, yes, they won't fucking yield, mostly because being a libertard means you have absolutely nothing else, so what exactly would be the difference between yielding and blowing oneself up ? they would, isis style, if they had the guts. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : townhall.com significantly more widely read today than theatlantic.com ; i bow to your more relevant lulzlinks lol
mircea_popescu: ad with it. shame on the arm!"
mircea_popescu: but in other butthurt, from thenewrepublic fake news outlet : "The term “fake news” outlived its usefulness almost as soon as it became common parlance, and is perhaps only valuable now as a marker for whether journalism that paints President Donald Trump in an unflattering light has reached his desk." ie, "our arm outlived its usefulness just as soon as the enemy broke it off our shoulder and started beating us in the he
mircea_popescu: maybe make a website for it too. "here's the dozen children that had to lose a limb because johnny mc fucksticks, "hacker and evanghelist" had really bad parents who didn't beat him."
mircea_popescu: fucking 7 year cycles, most of the idiots must be dead by the time they're 7 and people are looking for compliant cocksuckers to fill the scant page jobs available.
mircea_popescu: that's what built the british empire, that's EXACTLY what built european civilisation, and i would much rather cut a limb off any three year old than ever again encounter any of these unchecked, unhumbled, unhinged monstrosities "liberal our democracy" produces.
asciilifeform: eh if the immune system worked, the tumour would not be basketball-sized.
mircea_popescu: chains for the poor, whippings for the poor, feed children as little as they can bear and send them away from their mothers as soon as they can wlak, to slave in the house of another.
mircea_popescu: hey, the feeling is entyirely mutual. i don't simply think they're misguided, although they are, or for that matter wrong. i don't hate them, but there's no question of the world continuing on any other basis than the complete enslavement of any lefty anywhere.
mircea_popescu: "Leftists don’t merely disagree with you. They don’t merely feel you are misguided. They don’t think you are merely wrong. They hate you. They want you enslaved and obedient, if not dead."
mircea_popescu: o hey, there's the other side ?
mircea_popescu: don't tell me orcs have buttons too ?!
mircea_popescu: aww such battelfields of teh futures.
asciilifeform: maybe the ftmeade pipe nao has lag, and so mircea_popescu's -- doesn't
mircea_popescu: omfg check it out... no lag! too bad it gets laggy sometimes ~randomly~. hurr.
mircea_popescu: that shit was so amusing, the collective sigh of relief on twitter, "finally, something we are qualified to discuss! bathrobes!"
mircea_popescu: and, amusingly, fake news are too busy stroking each other with bathrobe talk to say anything. and then expect anyone to think very much of them. hurr.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform so far in the ukraine the russians are on the move, the "goivernment controlled" areas shrinking. they just lost another rural shithole this morning
mircea_popescu: diabolique with the ustardian remakes. really puts some light on the fundamental cultural inferiority of the new world.)
mircea_popescu: i'm rather amused, tbh.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, that thing's been redone a few times, always hacky and with hacks. the original version - is with alain delon. see that, compare the ustardian ineptitude, it's a cultural shock about on the level of comparing the original diabolique with the ustardian remakes. really puts some light on the fundamental cultural inferiority of the new world.)
asciilifeform: ~0 endowments in umd. it is funded by extorting md state treasury, and secondarily by milking chumps.
mircea_popescu: in fact umd is exactly in the position of "the talented mr ripley"
a111: Logged on 2017-02-07 22:55 mircea_popescu: unlike the rich ivy leagues, it entirely lives off trump's charity.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-07#1612238 << 'trump's' usg is rather like that ameriexpat d00d's bangkok pub. that is, 'his' to ceremonially sit on. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: but in other lulz : whenever a "liberal" dork points out that "the electoral college is broken because hillarious clinton got 52% of the popular vote", feel free to retort the inept hag carried less than 500 counties. out of over 3000.
mircea_popescu: who does those ?
mircea_popescu: the only problem is that "civilisation" aka "liberal democracy" aka rank nonsense promises her "a job" doing nothing and a full trough every day, no matter what. the shit must be taken away, let the average girl worry about feeding herself, ukraine style.
mircea_popescu: "you're not even fat, what exactly is your problem ?" "PRECISELY that! I still hold on to my princess delusions because unlike the fatty, i've not been forced to abandon them yet."
BingoBoingo: But he prefaced it with "no shit" so I assume truefax
mircea_popescu: she's probably got some scrawny horse at home and doesn't perceive the branch to swing to all that clearly.
shinohai: But ask then to take a topless pic with face "Oh shit, that's too much"
shinohai: No shit, saw this hamplanet girl getting boned by a guy in a horse mask today. Face for the world to see, no shame.
mircea_popescu: by 2017 they must have gone through the "hai" "tits or gtfo" "uhh...." cycle at least 1k times. what, they need 1k more ?
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what they're thinking. not like you can date without linking your cooch page, so wtf.
shinohai: I just don't understand girls that say "I wanna be popular and get followers, but won't show face for X reason. Why doesn't anyone like me?"
shinohai: I tried to get tits in here for us today, wannabe slut won't show her face so I said "Well, can't exactly help you"
mircea_popescu: epic shit. i guess ima start offering a bitcent per cracked progressive head, or somesuch. lettuce fight "the battle" then huh.
mircea_popescu: "We can’t know how the battle will finish, only that it will be fought. This is, quite suddenly, the story of our time."
mircea_popescu: (also, trump releases list of ~100 terrorist attacks, fake news agrees with itself that this changes nothing, that it's not fake news and that durr!)
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, the "Special relationsheep" britain speaker of parliament declares he will oppose trump speaking in uk parliament. hurr!
mircea_popescu: in my own experience, it's very common for poorly socialized anal child to neeneer something along these lines, "oh you wouldn't dare" until the very first time you grab a stick and take his consciousness away.
mircea_popescu: unlike the rich ivy leagues, it entirely lives off trump's charity. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i.e. 'we will do exactly what we did under obummer, and fuck you, and oh hey did we mention, fuck you? and go ahead and try to pull fed funding, that button ain't connected' ☟︎
asciilifeform: r undocumented persons, unless they have a warrant or absent exigent circumstances. UM​D police will not partner with ​ICE officials to assist with ​immigration enforcement activities. UM​D police​ will not detain, question, or arrest any individual solely on the basis of his or her undocumented status.'
asciilifeform: 'We will provide you with all available protections under the law and in accordance with the guidance provided by the State Attorney General: We will not release information on immigration status of our students, unless required by law. We will not share student information ​with Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE)​ officials without a court order. We will not permit ​ICE officials to enter campus buildings to search fo
asciilifeform: would be mighty interesting to see why.
shinohai: Strange wheezy won't build trb ... I did it < month ago without issue.
thestringpuller: mod6: wheezy doesn't want to build TRB anymore. ping me if you have a specific image that you recommend from the wheezy era
BingoBoingo: ty fxd, could make good meme fodder, but prolly ought to save for better opportinitit
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: ty fxd
asciilifeform: mats: if only they had with what to glass it.