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mircea_popescu: but they never say "corruption is great but this other fellow i sdoing it wrong"
mircea_popescu: which also makes all this talk of "fighting corruption" rather dubious. if not corruption then purity, and consequently... mola's paradise ?
mircea_popescu: which poses quite the conundrum to ideologies predicated on ideal purity
mircea_popescu: but whether an ideal works or does not work has little ideal implication.
mircea_popescu: the point makes sense, if the choice is between ten dollars when everyone has one or a hundred dollars when everyone has a hundred, then to be rich is to have ten dollars.
mircea_popescu: mola wanted his sons to go riding in a field where pretty girls labored with their hands forever.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ghandi wanted old men to sleep naked with their nieces forever.
mircea_popescu: ay by the industries of Catalonia and the Basque Country. For Spain to be made healthy, they have to be destroyed. The German Chief of Staff Wolfram von Richthofen listened thunderstruck then recited to Mola all the reasons why it was madness to destroy a country’s industrial base, telling him that ‘I have never in my life heard such idiocy’
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Mola wanted Sperrle to destroy Basque industry. With Bilbao about to fall to the Nationalists, this request disconcerted the German. Mola said ‘if half of all Spanish factories were destroyed by our aircraft, the subsequent reconstruction of Spain would be greatly facilitated. However, the Nationalist government could not just destroy industry once victory was assured.’ ‘Spain is dominated in a totally sick w
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i recall reading that way back when the scandal broke
mircea_popescu: "They killed one thousand, six hundred of the town’s inhabitants as well as repeatedly raping young women considered to be of the left." << what was the test, i wonder ?
mircea_popescu: well listen, if they're cute and run out the "entire economy" might grind to a halt.
mircea_popescu: we'll be killing people for having been involved with governments soon enough.
mircea_popescu: why's the intuition that any system predicated on having to kill dissenters is never going to win so hard to come to ?
mircea_popescu: "Hay que sembrar el terror… hay que dar la sensación de dominio eliminando sin escrúpulos ni vacilación a todos los que no piensen como nosotros. "
mircea_popescu: curious what the authors applying the principle to the us would come up with.
mircea_popescu: "This was simply that the right coped with the loss of a ‘real’ overseas empire by internalising the empire, that is to say, by regarding metropolitan Spain as the empire and the proletariat as the subject colonial race." << that's actually an interesting point.
mircea_popescu: not that inexplicably. they didn't find a better avenue.
mircea_popescu: except it never has, tho showmyip was down plenty of times since 2009
mircea_popescu: centralist mindest at work, you know, he does exactly what his government tells you so obviously bitcoin miners couldn't be different so obviously nobody has heard of just replacing that with the proper ip of their machine
mircea_popescu: what the fuck, who do they think runs stock derpcode ?
mircea_popescu: "Imagine the market's reaction if a ddos took that single IP down and rendered worldwide mining impossible."
mircea_popescu: "To me the real response is that you can't do what bitcoin wants to do on the internet without an external dependency."
mircea_popescu: to keep the country socialist one got to keep the country socialist, and that means keeping the cunts in a college and most of the guys off the market.
mircea_popescu: basically, the socialists needed the west front grinder like air. and once the war was over...
mircea_popescu: -five years! The Bastard! Who can imagine,' he struck his chest with his fist, 'what women mean to a prisoner?'
mircea_popescu: 'Yes, yes, something to love!' Ruska took him up in a triumphant, hoarse whisper. 'But not history or theory -you can only love a woman!' He leaned over to Nerzhin's bunk and grasped him by the elbow. 'What have they really taken away from us, tell me? The right to go to party meetings or to buy state bonds? The one way the Big Chief could really hurt us was to deprive us of women. And that's what he's done. For twenty
mircea_popescu: it's still shocking to me that three decades later they've STILL not figured out how to negotiate reality.
mircea_popescu: anyway. for all the "learning" these undersexed "social studies" postdocs have supposedly done
mircea_popescu: the arabs only do it with selected girls (ie, direct descendants)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well of course. why the fuck do you suppose afghanistan is undefeatable by the us ?
mircea_popescu: none have any sort of mothering instinct to downregulate it.
mircea_popescu: but srsly, it's unfeasible. the men will compete, so will the children.
mircea_popescu: that sounds like a great way to get yourself killed by your own children
mircea_popescu: because women are so totally willing to shoot anyone that pisses them off.
mircea_popescu: it's the arab socialism, which works in practice. this braindamged "socialism of the family" is beyond the lolz.
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's a midway solution : the women get the socialism they wanted, being all equal, and in this equality a little above the average from before. nobody cares about the betas anyway, and the actual males that actually matter don't mind the arrangement so much.
mircea_popescu: "After the capture of Almendralejo, one thousand prisoners were shot including one hundred women.8 After the shootings, the remaining women were raped." << lol the righties were trying for it.
mircea_popescu: the way socialism works in practice is making all the women of a generation into a college, and give common ownership over them to a selection of men.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how come us socialists don't have this on the agenda btw ? pretty much the only way they could talk interest to the people politico is trying to talk to is by making harems the law of the land.
mircea_popescu: February 1936 which prophesied that left-wing victory would mean ‘uncontrolled looting and
mircea_popescu: Hatreds were intensified during the right-wing campaign for the elections of
mircea_popescu: so translation, "french govt wanting to keep up with the us, seizes 400 btc from a guy, his gf and... well... they're french so a third guy"
mircea_popescu: "Les mis en cause étaient l'administrateur de ce site illégal, sa compagne et l'un de ses fournisseurs, lesquels ont été placés en garde à vue",
mircea_popescu: L'opération a été menée "dans le cadre d'une information ouverte notamment pour exercice illégal d'opérations de banque, offre de paris ou jeux d'argent et de hasard en ligne et travail dissimulé",
mircea_popescu: "Slaves, Sewers and Captain Aguilera: Racism, colonialism and sexism in the Mentality of the Nationalist Officer Corps" asciilifeform i suspect this is going to be a little lopsided a retelling.
mircea_popescu: o look, they don't call it john the stupid in english ? wtf is this lackland bs.
mircea_popescu: vlad the impaler can keep the peace in the middle of a warzone. john the stupid can't keep peace on an island.
mircea_popescu: chetty yes, compared to organised stupidity, disorganised stupidity works better.
mircea_popescu: somehow everyone speaking at the same time results in cacophony but nevertheless "crowdsourcing". isn't this a bit dissonant ?
mircea_popescu: the caco in the phony comes from the shit in their heads.
mircea_popescu: the entire thing is an implementation of mother "beating" the chair her stupid kid boinked his head on.
mircea_popescu: you realise that shit isn't being read by the people it purports to address.
mircea_popescu: the point of that crap is to make the mob think that it still has power.