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mircea_popescu: they're currently going through the "hate them" phase. perhaps this may soon resolve al-fucking-ready.
mircea_popescu: they are cutting up women because they're desperately trying to resolve the significant sociopolitical problem of carin what women think.
mircea_popescu: the usg is as related to this as the fly on the radiator related to the car crash.
mircea_popescu: but the arabs already proved themselves. in fact, we even have sciences and arts at all because the arabs kept them while the west was being all "progressive" the last tim around.
mircea_popescu: if this happened in africa you could murder me on this score, which is why we're not here talking about the numerous much larger rebellions all over subsaharan africa past decades.
mircea_popescu: this has to be supported merely because it hurts nato.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a) only an ideology can foment revolution ; b) all ideologies are reducible to ideologies. socialism, religion, take your pick. "democracy"
mircea_popescu: cazalla> did ya know that reddit doesn't even come close << yes. i knew.
mircea_popescu: and im pretty sure isis is the first place with a serenissima embassy, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: or peron for that matter. recall his 1950s attempts to make fusion work ?
mircea_popescu: they'll try shit with the desperation of stalin trying on shit.
mircea_popescu: once they establish some sort of state, they'll try shit.
mircea_popescu: THIS is m y point exactly. whether they do or don't do better atm is immaterial. they WILL do better, necessarily, because they don't share the same lockdowns
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform take it another way : where do i have a better chance to sell the experiment being tried ? wash dc, london or baghdad ?
mircea_popescu: the russians being a fine example. i could readily stroke the same public knowledge to elicit a "I'm sure they're backwards as hell".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what if you were told the same about russians ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so far, 99% of the thoughts are "haxx the web"
mircea_popescu: and its improbable it happened seeing how they all happen right under my window.
mircea_popescu: "evil warlord killed 5698048605 tenured professors in the us"
mircea_popescu: like me hanging by their fallopian tubes all us "social sciences" professors
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do not see that such anti-intellectual stuff is anything but 2nd layer us propaganda re isis.
mircea_popescu: undata in a world where pretense is allowed, truth is necessarily disallowed.
mircea_popescu: isis is about as interesting as the columbian farc, except not bound by low population and tiny geograpgy.
mircea_popescu: the substantial difference being that greece is a colony today.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how would you know ? hollywood too busy giving prizes to shitfall.
mircea_popescu: that sort of thing is stopped by people like us, and in its boundless ineptitude, the us has failed to come crawling on its hands and knees begging us.
mircea_popescu: that sort of thing can not be stopped by obama and buterin, oscar laureates.
mircea_popescu: everyone that stays behind to populate reddit is plainly contemptible for this very reason.
mircea_popescu: tell; you what, any 20 yo male that is not abortion material actually goes to isis today.
mircea_popescu: at the "o noes, all these 20something kids going to isis"
mircea_popescu: and that was no isolated incident, look how fucking paniced the socialist states are today
mircea_popescu: fuck, the entire lawrence of arabia episode shows the arabs actually can make leaders OUT OF THE SOCIALIST GRUNTS
mircea_popescu: all three socialisms tried, the british, and the russian, and the us.
mircea_popescu: the "state" has been trying to make sure arabs have no leaders since the days of mandate palestine.
mircea_popescu: this is why black society is inferior and arab society is not
mircea_popescu: undata "the state". fuck them, they should have made sure they grew leaders.
mircea_popescu: you have to understand there are some invariants in every system. you can pick which invariants, when you design it
mircea_popescu: i wonder if mr "advanced permanent threat" lol can be relied on.
mircea_popescu: you know if this helpful ddosing of noobs continues we might even not need the voice thing anymore.
mircea_popescu: or wait, no, was it "6 years schooling each, together = ged" ?
mircea_popescu: undata cops sweating is also pretty common in the south.
mircea_popescu: cazalla seems to me on somewhat intuitively obvious, this. taking the gun of some armed entity is one of those things where you take your life in your hands. either you know what you're doing or don't complain at the results.
mircea_popescu: there wasn't at any point the possibility ~i'd~ get shot.
mircea_popescu: bitch was in no position to do anything. i could have shot her dead. that i didn't is an act of mercy on
mircea_popescu: but the deeper moral is : see idiot with gun, take it from him. okay.
mircea_popescu: well, she was either untrained or inept, but in any case a danger to herself an' others. and i knew her boss.
mircea_popescu: cazalla for what it's worth i did confiscate a "cop"'s gun once.
mircea_popescu: Sid3waY it's perfectly allowed, just, i dunno that anyone actuallytrusts it to keep money there.
mircea_popescu: Sid3waY generally the standing advice on bitfinex is that you should get off that scam.
mircea_popescu: cazalla so if the young males don't off each other what are you going to do with the losers ? teach them javascript ?
mircea_popescu: "The craigslist account at one of our registrars was compromised" << aka, social engineering.
mircea_popescu: lol they have a special revolutionary web2.0 site for slides ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and then how many tons of aluminum did you refine? or wasted! << lol i was only using about 1mw +-
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> once upon a time my contacts were made to order. << should have bought 500 pairs.
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform never grasped the appeal of 'let's now screw this bit of plastic into eye' << cause women don't look good in glasses.