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mircea_popescu: the substance of the squal of the little girl confronted with the underside of a large boulder exposed to air
mircea_popescu: the entire "putin doesn't understand how thwe world works" and "oh horror x! oh horror y!" is really the voice of a deconstructed postmodern intellect confronted with the sheer obscenity of reality.
mircea_popescu: this sort of ablated hipsterism is what passes for strategic thinking in the us.
mircea_popescu: and nobody could conceivably wish to do anything *seriously*
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "but nobody would dare sink a carrier, because THEN ITD MEAN THEYRE SERIOUS ANBD FOR REAL!!!!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yet the us seems to be bringing it a whole lot these days lol
mircea_popescu: undata just look at how the southerners were coerce to become yanks after the war.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least, this;'d be the "most favourable possible ulterior retrospective construction"
mircea_popescu: if he makes it whole and says "without the gulags, from congo to CAR"
mircea_popescu: just, headcount is irrelevant in a discussion of bestness.
mircea_popescu: because if you don't then by your definitions eugenics, and if you do wtf you doing in slovakia instead of say b-a.
mircea_popescu: jurov do you believe that out of two possible situations, the one with more people in it is always best ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what is us academia if not exactly this ?
mircea_popescu: by definition you know ? if you're not hurtin yourself then why wouldn't it be fake.
mircea_popescu: <undata> this to me sounds like a very wealthy man lighting his wealth on fire to display sovereignty << afaik the only possible honest signal is exactly this.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> bagels7: the beatings were way worse than any bdsm "master" i had <<< lol same << lol wait, bagels7 is into bdsm ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> jurov: maximizing meat now? << as far as i can tell, there's a certain subgroup of transhumanists for whom even the faintest hint of discussion as to whether rivers of meat is the correct minimaxing is "eugenics" which is to say their local equivalent of "fascist" ie, very bad mkay.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so laughable, most of the world lives on less than that.
mircea_popescu: not feminists, they got thick scales over all that fat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but was he being mindcontrolled by aliens.
mircea_popescu: since the romans were being used as the measurement unit.
mircea_popescu: jurov not sure you realise the problem with your thinking here, but anyway : is homosexuality an eugenic experiment ?
mircea_popescu: but should perhaps preface the general statement with a clue. "as far as everything's eugenics, then gulags are eugenics"
mircea_popescu: jurov well that's then a narrow view you're more than welcome to
mircea_popescu: seems putting them all in a large nude colony in montana may work.
mircea_popescu: suppose you end up in charge of the us. now, there happens to exist public record of me saying something about social sciences, professors and fallopian tubes.
mircea_popescu: let's work a model jurov. suppose you're me, and suppose you're stuck doing what i think best (stalin -> lenin relationship)
mircea_popescu: no wai the gulags can be reduced as "eugenic programs"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the q i want answered asciilifeform is re aurelian!
mircea_popescu: jurov i think you miss the points where he's being facetious
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well... but but the wooden plow people had it with 50s tech ?
mircea_popescu: geopolitics, gotta love em. nobody can keep straight wtf's going on for five lines.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was aurelian under control of alien pederasts ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that "without anyone';s help is nonsense". for one thing, there were 3 romanian armies there
mircea_popescu: the salic law of succession specifically had a 5) and thou shalt not have fixed borders in there.
mircea_popescu: anyway, european borders. never an established matter.
mircea_popescu: well, whatever, southern parts romania, but lettuce not quibble :D
mircea_popescu: i don't see why he'd care about anything but sevastopol, myself.
mircea_popescu: what any large power needs are land connections to ports all around.
mircea_popescu: 2) ukraine "joins nato". so what, all of russia to be served by vladivostok ?
mircea_popescu: look at it from moscow's pov. 1) the us builds a large base at constanta, once europe's largest port by tdw, and mere miles from the russian bases at sevastopol
mircea_popescu: imagine, random chance a better bet. that's the fucking antithesis of statality.
mircea_popescu: which is in and of itself the saddest indictment one can ever hear about any state.
mircea_popescu: this is not necessarily a bankrupt approach, arguably even better fitted than "everything us is good"
mircea_popescu: so far their ideology pretty much reduces to "anything us is evil" as best i can tell.
mircea_popescu: right, which is how you know he's just realpolitiking all over nuland's face, ass and tits.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i said "because if you're reading the guardian&co, what you see there is coming out of the same sifon that yields the "putin is insane" spritz."
mircea_popescu: jurov you didn't like my position on isis and i was trying to articulate it.