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asciilifeform: partizan comes out of the forest. says to farmer, 'we need flour and milk.' farmer: 'germany gave me my land. go off to the forest before i pump you full of buckshot.'
asciilifeform: the correct analogy is the 'happily occupied' territories of, e.g., ukraine, belorussia.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, because you're politically engaged. i'm sure the nazi "victims" of special forward batallion inspired a lot more revulsion in liberated population than the perpetrators.
asciilifeform: the cattle - moo to their grave.
asciilifeform: the latter grows a 'soul', or at least ~agency~, when he finally cocks the pistol.
asciilifeform: in just about every description of a postal in my living memory, the victims inspire considerably more revulsion in my mind than the perpetrator.
mircea_popescu: also consider - someone like the young rodger is the result of careful selection over the generations.
mircea_popescu: hey, nobody disputes that "human life is supreme value" is a recipe for utter disaster of the foulest, worst smellijng kind.
asciilifeform: if not the illustration for this.
asciilifeform: and who, while we're on the subject, are BingoBoingo's 'people of lolmart' sideshow candidates ?
asciilifeform: why does anyone imagine that the same thing did not happen to people ?
mircea_popescu: haha like that. sure.
asciilifeform: i said 'ought to have gone to the trench.'
asciilifeform: but note, i did not say he ought to have been in the trench 'to turn into a Real Man'
asciilifeform: now this, possible.
mircea_popescu: fragging officers exists BECAUSE of the practice of killing rodgers.
mircea_popescu: the other kids will just kill him and that's that.
asciilifeform: half of europe remembers it, i suspect, to this day.
asciilifeform: dunno why you're so certain of this.
mircea_popescu: the point is, he'd be dead before making the trench.
mircea_popescu: this is beyond the point.
asciilifeform: so long as there isn't froth and spittle, they'll take ya./
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because insane. even in voltaire, cca 1750, there's an evident awareness of candide's probable fate in army.
mircea_popescu: well... not really like a t cell
asciilifeform: a postalist is as healthy, a necessary, thing, as a t-cell.
mircea_popescu: which is by definition an universal apocalypse from the subjective view.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, eventually the rest of the decerebrated body calls for apoptosis.
mircea_popescu: calling nero that type may be slander ; that it seemed to the pinoy at the time the more credible slander is instructive.
asciilifeform: which is to clean up the river of meat, by one small bit.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman i don't buy nero-the-historical-character either ; but my point is that the description of him from ancient sources hostile is mendacious in a certain way, which certain way supports my view in that it makes it plain the ancients were aware of the type.
asciilifeform: it is my considered view that postalist is cow who ~grows~ a soul, in adulthood. and understands that there is precisely one useful thing left for him to do.
asciilifeform: unsurprisingly 0 discussion of this in tardstream organs, but what of all the billions of 'people' with no souls, who obediently moo in their stalls ?
diana_coman: dunno if I really buy Nero being the same kind of broken; might need to brush up on it in this light at least out of curiosity
mircea_popescu: also not a need ; but it serves my stand better the larger diversity there is in the examples.
diana_coman: aha; why the need to go back so much in time though?
shinohai: Well there was Pekka-Eric Auvinen
mircea_popescu: i also seem to recall a dude that burned some building in athens.
mircea_popescu: i seem to recall a dude who set rome on fire.
diana_coman: uhm, haven't really searched this but do you mean that there are similar shootings all other the world? can't really be that this kind of broken is to be found in the us alone
mircea_popescu: will of the gods ; precludes human law.
mircea_popescu: even this seems a tall order.
diana_coman: the way I read asciilifeform's point of bringing culture in was that it's culture responsible for the outcome of there being a broken kid; not for the fact he was broken, not for the fact he existed in the first place; simply and strictly for he's specific end
mircea_popescu: amusingly, if the "brain scan" approach were science, this kid would look so deeply evident on a scan...
diana_coman: he was broken to start with (or in a more charitable view one might be inclined maybe to think that some actual interaction when he was tiny etc - but that is a matter of hope rather than anything else)
mircea_popescu: and so he serves us in the sense a "stray torpedo" helps the navy that launched it if it happens to hit "something" that "wasn't supposed to be there"
mircea_popescu: it's just that his extremely rare make-up (as it's rare for kids this dysfunctional to survive the cunt's regexpes) allows us to examine THAT culture in an exotic light
diana_coman: yes, but that was not the point
mircea_popescu: it's not the culture that fucked up rodger. he would have been broken in any culture.
diana_coman: you mean you think that's a biological impossibility for some reason? as otherwise it's still basically a broken culture thing at most and so what asciilifeform said, but not exactly "nothing anyone did or didn't do"
mircea_popescu: i'm not even asking for the mother.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman i wish to meet the father that actually does this. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: (for this discussion we distinguish between "homosexual = man incapable of forming deep connections with women" and everything else ; fucking men is not even contemplated for criteria as such.)
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, I did NOT say to teach him anything; precisely my point: nothing to do to make him something else than he was (or rather: wasn't); what I meant by plenty to do starts with NOT pretending he is a fine child like all the rest, let's get him to college, give him a car etc
mircea_popescu: notice that his attachment to boys as described reads cvasi as it is.
mircea_popescu: shinohai to continue the discussion : yes, a little less cursed he'd have made a great pedo ; and a little less cursed than that even, he'd have made a great homosexual.
shinohai: Looks like a face that would have made a great career transexual though.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman kid is lacking the hardware. you can make a seeing child learn to read ; you can fit glasses to a "retarded" kid that's just myopic and let them catch up to their normal level. you can not teach reading to child born withou eyes.
diana_coman: done or not done there rather
diana_coman: asciilifeform, I'm not sure I got that
asciilifeform: diana_coman: the 'could have been done' phrasing is symptomatic of the cultural illness that leads to postals being a ~necessary~ thing in the first place.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, that may be, although I suspect it's not true per se: sure, nothing could have been done to make him something else than he was; plenty could have been done to allow him to die happy for instance instead of giving him that responsibility too; moreover there was plenty to be done to help everyone else basically; what asciilifeform says
asciilifeform: (i personally could have greatly benefited from trench warfare! in the everettian sense.)
asciilifeform: or at LEAST trench warfare.
asciilifeform: or typhus.
mircea_popescu: though in fairness i must say, nothing anyone did or didn't do could have helped this kid. he is the definitionally patibulaire
diana_coman: asciilifeform, but keeping them alive is one thing, at the end of the day I can keep whatever I want alive in a jar on my windowsill
asciilifeform: imho postalists ought to use wholly homemade weapons, e.g., explosive.
asciilifeform: my one criticism of 'postalists' is that they violate a cardinal rule of mircea_popescutronics: 'don't administer the beating in a way that leaves the punished believing in possibility of recourse.'
mircea_popescu: this is to me indicative.
mircea_popescu: then they get truly irate ; if it doesn't look like it possibly could they're just displeased.
mircea_popescu: and they see it as cardinal sin to attempt to fix. ESPECIALLY if it seems to work.
asciilifeform: so when they get the (very occasional) bill, they... moo.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, diana_coman : ask anyone who grew up as usaschwitz inmate. the culture is broken in ways that make dr mengele look like a harmless eccentric. they see it as a VIRTUE to keep broken people, esp. children, alive.
mircea_popescu: see, if this guy was ever so slightly less broken, he'd have survived a coupla years more with a cloak of semblance of normalcy covering him ; and consequently acquired both a love of 12yo girls and the deep cowardice that's universally the mark of hte pedo.
PeterL: I thought somebody here suggested "The White Guard" by Mikhail Bulgakov, but I can't find it in logs now. Anyway, I recently finished it, was pretty good book.
diana_coman: but myeah, I guess that article makes sense
diana_coman: the last part I suspect is just that they don't meaningfully talk or actually interact with anybody simply
mircea_popescu: diana_coman the reason they "didn't notice" / "didn't take action" is that they're "modern democracy liberal civilised people" which is to say that strange sect of neopuritanism which believes from is both necessary and sufficient ; don't curse and you'll go to heaven ; don't say nigger and you'll get promoted ; don't meaningfully talk or actually interact with your children and they'll go to college.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, that diana_coman , otherwise the soul of benevolence and peacibility, is talking of smushing and killing keenly reminds me of an older trilema article ;
diana_coman: something like that; I find it more damning though that apparently nobody around him either noticed anything of the kind or otherwise take any meaningful action on it
mircea_popescu: characteristically, it shares a lot with traditional doctrine re females ("utterly dumb in the sense of actually devoid of a soul / humanity spark") ; apud classical greeks.
mircea_popescu: in feminist theory (the "mainstream" version not the "slut-friendly" fringe) THIS is the necessary and ubiquitous characteristic of all prostitutes, incidentally.
mircea_popescu: key brain structures apparently failed to mature past ~30 months.
diana_coman: for some reason the whole thing did trigger one old memory of a classmate in the 4th grade who shouted through tears: WHY do they all go to congratulate you for winning instead of consoling me for losing; having also observed quite a lot of small children recently, I would be inclined to think this guy was just stuck somewhere around a *very* little age and that is that
mircea_popescu: sooo, /me taught girl about cheese ; maybe a coupla years ago. now /me goes to the fridge, there's epic stuff in there didn't evne know existed in this country.
a111: Logged on 2015-10-10 13:15 mircea_popescu: their issue is with the WILL. car deaths are "accidents". that's ok. just as long as nobody gets what they WANT libertard is happy.
asciilifeform: '“I’m angry that it happened, you know, that it does happen,” Pieter de Kock told ABC News. “I’m angry that it’s … it’s not changing in this country. We need to change this violence.”'
diana_coman: well, your notes provide good places to stop and read a bit actually: kind of like signposts here, look at THIS shit - a gem of a shit in a tedious shit
asciilifeform: '“I don’t think I would have made it without any support,” she said, fighting through the tears.'
asciilifeform: the sheer cattle-banality of the Officially-sainted martyrs seeps through.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman i'm about 32/108 done, fancy that.
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/iVmK2 << news bulletin from the time. reading it makes me wish the fella had used a maxim gun, or sarin.
diana_coman: I suppose I don't have the same amount of patience with spiders; and certainly no qualms killing them if they don't get out of the way; I read about half the first part and then really skipped through it and still felt that I lost too much of my time on it
mircea_popescu: diana_coman the way it goes in my head reading it is something like "why doesn't this fucking spider walk away. o wait, ITS A SPIDER."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect it's very convenient muppet. has entirely nothing to do with anything of political interest, or for that matter this world.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman how would that happen ?
diana_coman: his "writing" can kill more than a bunch for sure
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very unusually, and afaik unlike every other postalhero, rodger's youtube thing is still up: https://www.youtube.com/user/ElliotRodger
a111: Logged on 2016-08-23 21:38 asciilifeform: the 'keys rating keys' thing does not yet exist.
diana_coman: is that elliot rodger guy still alive (well, as much as he ever was) - might be about time to get him to join eulora; it has COOL cookies