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mircea_popescu: things are going to come to a head tho, much like venezuela's internal debate.
mircea_popescu: then congress gets written out of politics and merriment ensues.
mircea_popescu: theres going to be a landslide dem president with a 2/3+ teaparty majority house and senate
mircea_popescu: and the republican vote is going to be split no matter what. the old reps have no actual incentive to submit to the tea party, even if the party ends with them. the tea party has zero incentive to "work through the system"
mircea_popescu: just try again, but make sure you use a fresh copy of a page, and count to 5 before submitting
mircea_popescu: the schmuck that doesn't drink or have fun so his friends can have sex they don't then have to account for.
mircea_popescu: all these being counted as part of that "thriving, market economy which made the us great"
mircea_popescu: which had a weak footing but meanwhile anchored itself in family care through the mediation of pseudo-healthcare (ie psychology)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the suspended sentence yielded its own excrescence, the social worker
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "suspended sentence" is the proof of the separation between convict and conviction, and the respective beneficiary institutions.
mircea_popescu: "why is the road here" "because this is the path cows took coming home"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the flow of campaign funds has mostly moved, but not entirely. and history is what shapes mechanisms.
mircea_popescu: that entire storyline about how easy the mobsters had it in jail ? well , the jails were run by congressmen which they had elected, and were going to reelect.
mircea_popescu: running a jail was the way to put yourself on the map, see ?
mircea_popescu: bounce the jail filling is not a goal of the justice dept.
mircea_popescu: if they could produce convictions without convicts they'd be happiest.
mircea_popescu: pankkake i hope you're aware you're engaging in the crime of COMMERCIAL BUSINESS BLACKMAIL
mircea_popescu: plea bargains and juries are not really much related thi
mircea_popescu: and it's "findings of fact AS THEY PERTAIN TO THE CASE"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you did the exact same thing when you made cardano designs : selected the parts for stupidity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the fact that the jury is selected for stupidity does not on the face support the theory that the trial is ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but this doesn;t work for your arghument, it works against it.
mircea_popescu: on the strategist end of things, ie, picking who to throw off.
mircea_popescu: wywialm best way to figure out wtf atc is is to grep the logs for it.
mircea_popescu: i may be the only person here that actually appreciates common law.
mircea_popescu: each side stipulates a crock of shit as fact and they go from there.
mircea_popescu: someone should conduct a study of "how many times did the prosecution claim hitman to try and get a tough case past the jury"
mircea_popescu: "Kochanski’s botched transcripts include the 2010 mortgage-fraud trial of Aaron Hand, who was also convicted of trying to hire a hit man to take out a witness against him."
mircea_popescu: they had a "things she said" one, i dun recall the yugoslavia bit
mircea_popescu: nubbins` they came of age and so were no longer interesting to pedos ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the land of the desperate, "Facing the success of Anna Tatu's Valentine banners, we have redesigned them & removed the reference to "Valentine". Now you can use them all year long!"
mircea_popescu: buffett actually made the observation sometime in the 80s that their nonvoting shares turned out to be more valuable than their voting shares
mircea_popescu: if zombies have teef they're probably a) not theirs and b) lodged in their backs etc.
mircea_popescu: seeing how crackheads aren't so bad, and that'd seem the next ogical step
mircea_popescu: perhaps due to the fact everyone knows fiat is fucked.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that fucking market has no liquidity whatsoever
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform originally it claimed, without substantiation, that it may be. so thinking folks originally reserved judgement
mircea_popescu: this reminds me of the weird homoerotic teenager party game