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mircea_popescu: Adlai ya, but then again carlin's not exactly the marrying kind.
mircea_popescu: "She is extremely fertile but should be on a list of human beings who aren’t allowed to reproduce because her genes are toxic and will only perpetuate more parasites throughout society."
mircea_popescu: undata it's not even clear if the author wants her to stay or to go.
mircea_popescu: this is more of a novelty / gentleman's amusing musings, than actual you know, life philosoph.y
mircea_popescu: sure, the female can be seen as a preditor. in that it ingests and keeps the sperm, sure.
mircea_popescu: this echoes an older argument brought by say shaw, in much blander prose.
mircea_popescu: "While dimwitted, the Dependopotamus is a shrewd beast who knows that there is one surefire way to trap a man: Bear as many of his offspring as possible. Since having a baby in the military is free thanks to the dependency benefits, she’ll be in a constant state of hosting and developing new fetuses that she isn’t certain are from her husband or one of her many lovers."
mircea_popescu: incidentally, why all this bile directed at fertile women ?
mircea_popescu: seeing how for same most of the history man was the engine, it's technically using women as fuel.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you're on a... slippery slope, so to speak. for most of history women were merely used to make more of them.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, at issue was the misuse of "societies" to mean "groups", not of cannibalism.
mircea_popescu: these considerations are important, i can't be immitated by merely taking pictures.
mircea_popescu: Adlai this is true. but when i redefine terms i always do it with a solid backing of thought behind it, and my redefinitions are actually cognitively stronger than the current convention.
mircea_popescu: as in, don't shoot to have shot, shoot to have killed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "shoot not to the shots but to the enemies" neh ?
mircea_popescu: "Ca atare, in baza acestor observatii, bomba : cel mai probabil prima carne gatita a fost de om, nu de animal. A cazut vre-o proasta-n foc"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform shit, you read my article about how fire was used to cookl ?
mircea_popescu: as a result, when the flock went over a cliff... romania was still way behind.
mircea_popescu: this was kinda the boon of romania. the slowest sheep in the eu flock.
mircea_popescu: their alleged ignorance is merely unallignment. not being alligned with the idiocy that just failed is a bonus.
mircea_popescu: generally, go to the places currently "ignorant", you'll be safe there.
mircea_popescu: undata nah, new york and california will be the shitholes.
mircea_popescu: decimation which, you'll notice, is exactly how the roman empire went.
mircea_popescu: Adlai detroit is stable as is. in fact if it does collapse, detroit will be the new capital.
mircea_popescu: worst failed state in the history of european adventure, the us.
mircea_popescu: basically, the great federal project failed, the national project never succeeded, what's left is a sort of us of africa.
mircea_popescu: undata only if such can exist. i very much doubt it can.
mircea_popescu: once the young sluts radicalise it's the end. which is why the teenaged runaway chgicks are so important.
mircea_popescu: how is this then to be leadership ? because tradition-tradition ? mkay. only goes so far.
mircea_popescu: if you recall, back when the us functioned people went to see wtf jefferson said as their evening's entertainment
mircea_popescu: but the fact that the average person is not fascinated by congressional proceedings, let alone comprehend them at all, is a serious warning sign.
mircea_popescu: and it does really not matter what sort of an ass the rabi is privately.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental function of the rabi (which is what stalin was, practically, at the massive outskirts) is not going away.
mircea_popescu: but in the sense of, this feat where random high functrioning idiots like the kent guy quoted earier suddenly buy the common delusion of "global warming" becomes impossible.
mircea_popescu: a lot to signify, and rapidly deteriorating common language. not in the sense of english,
mircea_popescu: because unmeaning phenomena are very bothersome to simple folk.
mircea_popescu: the main thing is that this de facto promises that every phenomenon carries meaning.
mircea_popescu: this is a subtle concept. like the platonic notion of cosmos, an ordered universe.
mircea_popescu: undata ^ there you go. he didn't say anything about oligarchs. he just promised order.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wher's the one where you discuss people driving a truck with the man's pic ? because he makes order ?
mircea_popescu: undata well, it's a lengthy matter, hard to fit in one line or w/e. but let me find you this thing about stalin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i bet you the 20 year sergeants are pretty fucking happy with that o.O
mircea_popescu: you actually think this is what putin did ?! or russian prole thought he did ?!
mircea_popescu: undata: some guy comes along and pledges to slap our oligarchs around; after a bit economic collapse they'd eat that shit up <<< this is some massively funny shit.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes with attention! these are actually the good ones!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i never heard of a colonel that wasn't ever a private.
mircea_popescu: generally the hussies flock to the businessmen rather than the warlords. at least from what i've directly observed.
mircea_popescu: find me any army colonel that gets... cocksuckressES. plural ? gtfo.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. perversity and sanity are unsisters.
mircea_popescu: what should have kept hitler from digging the desert looking for the holy grail ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the fact that his division is valuable and the wh is meaningless.
mircea_popescu: because if you don't charge might as well shave, oil up and go to the harem.
mircea_popescu: no, i tell you, it'll be "colonel X of Y promised major Z of K delivery of m then reneged. who the fuck does he think he is ? charge!"