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mircea_popescu: life's what happens while people had other plans, an' posteriority remembers what you did BESIDES paying the bills.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform russian side is a little better represented, but not much.
mircea_popescu: this merely speaks to the poor quality of english "historians". where's the new york gibbon ?
mircea_popescu: nobody has made a "Russia and the US in the 1800s : A Tale Of Twin Sisters" monograph to date
mircea_popescu: pretty much the same problems, the same solutions, the same obsession of women with french and men with german shit and so on.
mircea_popescu: at the time, in fact, the us and russia had a shitload in common : inept peripheral immense landmasses.
mircea_popescu: it's easy to recast today as some sort of nefariousness, but if regarded properly rather than anchronistically it's just exactly the same as imperial russians trying to copy prussia.
mircea_popescu: decimation in particular, the us fed was an attempt to copy germany, at the time extremely effectual.
mircea_popescu: he died iether before or soon after, and had for a while retired.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i dunno where that wb quote is, somewhere in his 70s brk letters. all poetic about how great paying taxes is because hey, being rich's unfair.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, they're too stupid to understand it, for another they don't speak the language, for the third they imagine they have political judgements to make.
mircea_popescu: an' generally, i'd be wary of trusting the current retards' retelling of century old banking history.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is entirely counterfactual nonsense that never happened.
mircea_popescu: a crown in the traditional sense is a very primitive instrument, because it purports (necessarily, but ineffectually) to hold ALL sovereignty. now the poor bearer's stuck deciding how fires are to be put out, how wives are to be kept, etc.
mircea_popescu: oh. well, no. he wore the banking crown, nobody disputed that, and for good reason.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he was one of the three, nothing is misidentified is it.
mircea_popescu: know many dudes with 1trn in loose change knocking around ?
mircea_popescu: the cost for the 20 measly thousand the dod scrounged together (and who faced exactly the fate of crassus' host) was > 1bn
mircea_popescu: to properly grok how rich the triumvir was : he could afford to pay for ~18 million usians to go fight for tikrit.
mircea_popescu: the j p morgan bailout was essentially a "everyone come to my house!" and then "you will do like so because i say so"
mircea_popescu: the buffett-rich, the people who are not merely willing to go on the record stating "i am representative of richness, i couldn't exist outside of usg, therefore usg is EVERYTHING", but actually believe it.
mircea_popescu: tons of things "legal if you have a license we aren't issuing because we're at liberty to do this."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the price thing is amusingly at work in all sorts of ATF stuff.
mircea_popescu: decimation i had made that point, yes, but the counterpositive is not necessarily true.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform got a link to where you go "omg wtf bbq am i the only one trying to run these shitstacks"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform such trials particularly suited to electroprocess.
mircea_popescu: for that matter : sodium bullets encased in very thin metal : just thick enough to carry it through the air. once it fractures on impact, sodium released.
mircea_popescu: metallic arsenic bullets. an assassin's dream come true
mircea_popescu: if there's a way to show the cultural superiority of the 4th republic, this film in this context is it.
mircea_popescu: listen, do this : pirate it, sit the girl down one fine evening after a delicious repast, watch this thing.
mircea_popescu: lol alf's crazy gnome lab. "insert pipe here, piss in this funnel and point this end towards enemy".
mircea_popescu: so basically... either water the plantville farm all day, or else go talk to tlp's intensive pilling unit, or worse!
mircea_popescu: i used to know poor people like that. all the things they couldn't afford, they didn't do not because they couldn't afford them
mircea_popescu: tbh, that is the only logical end game : US of Best Korea, where everything is banned not because they can't afford anything, but for Ideological Reasons. Honest.
mircea_popescu: isn't cody wilson the guy with that blog, what was it called
mircea_popescu: <decimation> it's all a game of who can pass the liability to usg the most directly <<< quite.
mircea_popescu: you know i suspect potapov is like the ru mil pythagoras.
mircea_popescu: by the time you're shooting policemen you're not going to save on the rifle. those suckers cost thje enemy like 1.5-3 mn a pop.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, much better barrel. accuracy is a thing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's all in the filling. they make dup double strength cartridges now.
mircea_popescu has never actually seen a mosin used in practice. ever. anywhere.
mircea_popescu: more like a "tough as nails, swiss made SKS". like the mac10 maybe.
mircea_popescu: in any case im notsure you'd want a plain bolt action for that purpose.