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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.
mircea_popescu: then you'll be in a better position to appreciate the inanity currently rotting your brain away.
mircea_popescu: bagels7 the best advice for you is to a) create a list of 100 classical texts written before 1800 ; b) spend two weeks reading NOTHING online but that. not anything. not a single page of popurls or whatever. none.
mircea_popescu: 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 my position is, "their enemies which i don't particularly care for claim they be evil, but otherwise also got beat to shit". this i can go for.
mircea_popescu: <bagels7> idk 6 hours of week for church and spankings if you talked or moved too much for not being able to sit still for 2 hours << that part's great. stfu and sit put.
mircea_popescu: undata is this one of those where kids get bored so they claim to see jesus and adults get all excited "because kids can't lie" and then the primary attention getting mechanism available to kids is making wild religious revelation claims ?
mircea_popescu: in this case, graybeard in computing means a true expert.
mircea_popescu: a term of art is a word that has a speciffic meaning within a discipline.
mircea_popescu: virtually all the imbeciles we despise had computers as children.
mircea_popescu: all the people we think are ok met computers in college
mircea_popescu: bagels7 think of it this way : most of the graybeards that we respect met computers in their 50s, after fucking with paper for a long time.
mircea_popescu: maybe my judgement is idiosyncratic, but i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: sure, if you want to melt the cheese you can go "and taleban bombed nyc"
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't recall a humiliating defeat of the us and its allies at the hands of either iran or taleban.
mircea_popescu: mebbe someone in your position contribures what looked best to them ?
mircea_popescu: generally the way this works is someone asks a question and sometimes i pop an article out. but they're generally much more concrete.
mircea_popescu: hey there s. we were just talkin bout isis. how do you take that ? :D
mircea_popescu: imagine the whole saltmines of salt i need for all these other "reports"
mircea_popescu: undata if i sent my spymaster there, and she operated without constraint and superhuman power to report,
mircea_popescu: we see the burning, we know the arsonist, could we not say isis in in control of the us today ?
mircea_popescu: as far as any observer can determine, isis burned 50 trn worth of us soil.
mircea_popescu: this alone is good credentials, but consider : 50 trn is the us going to pay over the next 50 years for that war, and they were sent home by isis.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would go so far as to say that isis is the thing that made the us destroy its permanent installations in baghdad, something that has not happened since china beatthem in vietnam.
mircea_popescu: so far it's not a thing yet, and it should be supported, merely to ruin more of the socialist world.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the discussion of whether we like or dislike isis is to be had once isis is a thing.