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mircea_popescu: chiefly by us - the socialist entity most threatened in its socialism.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, once one end's threatened, tptb would increase the pressure on the sore spot - hence all the realignment behind palestine these days.
mircea_popescu: in this worldview, the completely insane political construction of "the state of israel" suddenly makes sense, and a lot of it. key to perpetuating the welfare state - no peace in palestine.
mircea_popescu: which may even explain the "civilised world" obsession with same, if one subscribes to the theory that hey, said world's been doing nothing but cribbing the jews since whatever, 500ad.
mircea_popescu: overcompensation if you will, against the thing that produced the "train ticket sold for diamonds" as well as the "i'm fine, even have caviar, what if the world is coming apart"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thinking on the ghetto stuff... it would perhaps not be inconceivable that the contemporaneous jewish obsession with socialism is derived from the utter failure of their previous, individualistic, capitalist approach.
mircea_popescu: that is to say, for some reason if left to their own devices jews especially in europe dwelled in the most insalubrious, asian arrangements conceivable.
mircea_popescu: by the way : it is perhaps worth pointing out, for the benefit of the younger who certainly do not read, and understand even less than what they read, that the jewish ghetto was a ghetto before hitler.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no longer a solution to your stated problem.
mircea_popescu: to prefer a solution that clearly will not work, and by necessity, over a solution that clearly does in fact work is one definition of insanity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sea is very poor solution ot this, seeing how its very demanding nature GUARANTEES you need other people.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo why not "this casts doubt on the overall viability of the USD as a unit of account and medium of payment" etc ?
mircea_popescu: which seems akin to jews reacting to all the propaganda by building auschwitz by themselves.
mircea_popescu: well, if that's the standard i guess the south east of russia then, definitely.
mircea_popescu: where there's no derps, the usg does not magic some into place.
mircea_popescu: police is in town BECAUSE THOSE DERPS LIVED THERE ANYWAY
mircea_popescu: no. because in alaska you can live, and live well, and alone.
mircea_popescu: fucking empty. you have any idea how empty alaska is ?
mircea_popescu: maybe a little bit in there of racial memory. "last time this worked we did it on boats"
mircea_popescu: i wonder why this island/boat/w/e thing is so appelaing.
mircea_popescu: how to suspend laws ? o i know, turn it into a forest!!1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not more than say for your dr. lezzie theory above.
mircea_popescu: (just, THIS lolz you're better equipped to appreciate, not being gunnery sgts or w/e)
mircea_popescu: (and ftr, the island thing is laughable too. we're doing lolz here)
mircea_popescu: decimation 1% yield, as long as it's not your run, is fine isn't it.
mircea_popescu: did i ever recount the very early "special order" scam romanians got hit with ? in like 91 ?
mircea_popescu: i see it as, "elaborate virus, makes targetted fab shit out our own gear "accidentally", we buy it as tailings for pennies"
mircea_popescu: but if you ask me, i do not see ideal situation as "private island where 04938509348509834 SAM batteries and nukes, and purpose-built IC fab"
mircea_popescu: the problem is no longer "where to place the fab" but "where to find coders".
mircea_popescu: have them upgrade to archlinux "for their own interest".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform have it secretly dualboot for all i care.
mircea_popescu: much like un declared tyrants lose their bank accounts.