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mircea_popescu: even the people who could readily realise it'd be them, didn't care.
mircea_popescu: also, it was plainly apparent to everyone in 88 that yes, 93 will be starving
mircea_popescu: this was a major propaganda point (soviet propaganda had the unique distinction of actually being mostly true). nobody cared.
mircea_popescu: i mean that literally. nobody. more people were starving in new york than in russia.
mircea_popescu: decimation nobody was actually starving in russia in 1988
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: how much work to auto-kick join/part sp4mz0rz? << i occasionally do it, but meh.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't the man in the street. it was EXACTLY the famished student.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the "man in the street" in russia STILL has batyushka portraits!
mircea_popescu: necessity is the mother of invention. and also, stupidity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most importantly : note that at the time they surrendered en masse, less than 1% of 1% had BEEN THERE
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as far as they see it, because fucktarded politburo is poisonng gender relaitons.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: yeah, cazalla and BingoBoingo are getting it done. < +1
mircea_popescu: for one thing, women are easier than ever. and they're mostly affraid of them. why ?
mircea_popescu: how they call it is irrelevant. note what they substantiall say.
mircea_popescu: do the experiment yourself. ask peopel what the ideal world is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but it was centered on the aspirational class. as typified by gorby.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what triggered me was the 8chan pic. seeing how
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i blame both of you. thirty lashes. << o.O careful with that, sht hurts.
mircea_popescu: i would accept fealty from a us puppet president, sure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but if your corvee theory is correct, why exactly was it that one could buy rusting cccp subs on the open market in 1991 ?
mircea_popescu: "Guy exposed a cabal of users taking over reddit yesterday, spawned a watchdog subreddit of 2500 subscribers overnight, was then banned by reddit's admins, all the subreddit's mods then banned, admins won't say why, and now they're handing the subreddit to the corrupt cabal of users who were exposed."
mircea_popescu: because crediblity in the state media is desirable now.
mircea_popescu: assbot: The Lesbian Jewish Leftist Conspiracy Tearing Reddit Apart, Untangled << this i meant.
mircea_popescu: "The amount[of medicaid fraud], just in New York, is estimated by Issa’s committee to be in excess of $15 billion, equivalent to $1.9 million per patient per year!" << ahahaha epic.
mircea_popescu: decimation clearly if more money were spent on healthcare everything'd be better.
mircea_popescu: would you / me / qntra / anyone give a shit about how many ether coins were "Stolen" ?
mircea_popescu: it's the simple knowledge that the usd is just a scam altcoin anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not the abundance that makes them not news worthy.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: lol @ USGavin pumping satoshi for his dox straight off the bat << funny how that works, in retrospect huh.
mircea_popescu: the thing is, a destroyer "cost" a coupla bil, and will sell for what, 10-20k btc.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "keeping boat afloat" and "correctly filing form GX-22"
mircea_popescu: the other 50% is spent on imaginary things that meet no pactical verification
mircea_popescu: decimation but it's about 50% of the spending that actually does something, you see.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your model implies i am going to be able to buy off us destroyers.
mircea_popescu: the incas carried out considerably longer on that principally because they weren't trying to keep carriers afloat.
mircea_popescu: sure, it's not a problem. but there's no paying for anything either.
mircea_popescu: yes, but it's a fairly major player in the financial markets.
mircea_popescu: if the chinese go 8% or fuck you, that's the end of paying. for anything.
mircea_popescu: the entire non-"government shutdown" is predicated on rolling debt at 0.2% or less.
mircea_popescu: decimation if the chinese shock the market (putting obama in the position of putin), they won't have what to pay for limo gasoline with.
mircea_popescu: but that's "why" : let the engineers move to st petersburg.
mircea_popescu: decimation it has missiles capable of bridging to hawaii just fine.