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mircea_popescu: there are so many ways to resolve problems now that we have the social media.
mircea_popescu: ah don't worry about that tat. you can always fuck a virgin and you'll be cured. or if not, one can make a proposal and publish it on tumblr.
mircea_popescu: well, unless there's a refugee camp with hot sexy 12 year old locals. then all bets are off. Standard UN policy in the matter, as seen in Congo, Haiti, Liberia, Sudan, Burundi etc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i think going awol is probably more of a risk than ebola.
mircea_popescu: that us soldiers need 14400 seconds seems mildly insulting.
mircea_popescu: dude i just did 30 seconds ebola training for intelligent people.
mircea_popescu: "wear this gear. wash your hands. don't put stuff in your eyes, mouth, asshole"
mircea_popescu: course the antioficialismo newspapers are nao calling her paranoid over that impermissible holistic approach.
mircea_popescu: to quote the cristina chick, "todo hace juego con todo"
mircea_popescu: Adlai you readily ignored the (previously discussed) reference and now are making a soup of the statement ?
mircea_popescu: bounce yeah, just make sure you have a wallet inspector made out of two cans and a string or something.
mircea_popescu: "mother mary who thoust be in heavens in all glory and power, ready my letter of what i would like to see and DO IT"
mircea_popescu: you know it's startying to wear on me this. there's a currently-in-the-process-of-universalizing-itself mode of behaviour of the principal mode of failure of contemporary youth (previously discussed) which consists in essentially... prayer.
mircea_popescu: got a decent router in front of the server, puny as it is.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but also 'traduttore, tradittore.' << but consider ... cinema treason adds to the story.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes golden ages are of cultures not of people you lout you!
mircea_popescu: well... because nobody translates worth a shit, and filters even worse than that ? perhaps ?
mircea_popescu: in any case, this speaks directly to a revolutionary wonderment, to wit that "how is it that these reactionary types always see the golden age in some past".
mircea_popescu: no. for one thing, "i salute you, memories of my youth, and knob upon which my fate turned" is unfamiliar to no one
mircea_popescu: and this seems fucking independnet of which side you sit on if any at all, and time invariant for that matter.
mircea_popescu: but be that as it may, it's fascinating how the stuff that doesn't cross is always more interesting than the stuff that does
mircea_popescu: i suppose soljenitsin is more readily accessible, and whatever, tolstoy readily seems so to teh western reader
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta say, you got the formalisation quite exactly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gitta satm you got the formalisaiton quite exactly.
mircea_popescu: ;;google what the wot is how it works and how to use it
mircea_popescu: so no, the usg didn't black nationality anything. it just put a bunch of thugs away, and much fewer than it either could or should have.
mircea_popescu: (and notice that the scientologists raped the fuck out of the usg, in the 70s. back when it was still a thing)
mircea_popescu: even the scientologists got more meat on the bones than that.
mircea_popescu: that's not the point tho. the point is that it wasn't anything but a cheap sales pitch, without any substance.
mircea_popescu: ok. so there's "black nationalism". "that's what they do, turning brother against brother"
mircea_popescu: or at least, it's a fine summary of what i tihnk of it.
mircea_popescu: there's a fine example of your "black nationalism" in there, as deployed by sam l jackson's character
mircea_popescu: there's two points here. the easy to dispatch one is the naive narcissism. i can see why you'd imagine the usg is important or powerful. this is neither true or particularly likely, from a neutral pov. but moving on,
mircea_popescu: undata: a smart cult with an anti-govt streak would try to remain unnoticed <<< which fails to explain why the us govt is not taking better care of staying out of our way.
mircea_popescu: "Between 2001 and 2007, law enforcement agencies seized and kept over 35,000 cars, homes and electronics, forfeiting more than $280 million."
mircea_popescu: Even more property was forfeited by participating in a federal program known as “equitable sharing.” By partnering with a federal agency, local and state law enforcement can keep up to 80 percent of the proceeds from a forfeited property. Incredibly, police can collaborate even if doing so would circumvent their own states’ protections for property owners.
mircea_popescu: decimation: it is interesting that 'crazies' who go postal insist on just spraying down innocents rather than waging 'guerrilla' war << who in the us is innocent ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: kakobrekla: what, and when a guest visits my home and goes to wired.com, a plain html page with all my private keys pops up on the screen? << no, they have to enter combinations of keys first.