mircea_popescu: then when reality contradicts you... i guess will continue, because hey. gotta believe usg is the little shitengine that can.

mircea_popescu: so in other news, seeing how the next halving happens to more or less coincide with the expected next usg attempt to "save" bitcoin,

mircea_popescu: while these idiocies may well serve societal and political goals of wrinkled up old women / usg, they have no room in the world.

mircea_popescu: there's a lengthy list of various fiat-based stuff that tried the "low time, high money" approach. they all failed and had to be rolled up in ever-larger failed ventures, usg style.

mircea_popescu: anyway, to get back to things : 1. a thriving middle class means very strictly, ruined-usg-everything as well as scandalously oppressed orcs. this is what it means, this is what'll happen because middle class is not negotiable.

mircea_popescu: i dunno why you think the world is chump-backed. it ain't. usg is, sure, but whatevs. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: popper nearly forgot to mention that his employer these days is USG agency AH or something.

mircea_popescu: what is this, usg's wet dream ? go sink a chinese aircraft carrier, yo.

mircea_popescu: so the derps are going to control 5bn worth of usg poison with some idle promises for maybe 30-50mn theoretical and in fact a few thouysand here and there ?

mircea_popescu: ie "we were trading while insolvent, which is a crime, except for usg agencies"

mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski eh, teh usg herps will try and as per usual fail to enact their mattering in the history of the world as recorded by its current sovereign, bitcoin.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-01-2016#1370802 << yes but they don't want that, because much like everything else spawned by usg, they want you to need them. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: i'm sure that's how they got it. not from random usg tendrils washing billions in "advertising".

mircea_popescu: that's ok, the usg can keep it.

mircea_popescu: heh. usg can't afford to even consider this matter. it "never happened".

mircea_popescu: in this sense, building atop that shit is an excursion in insanity, which is why ONLY usg-financed "companies" do it (in the sense of pretending to do anything besides hiring more ustards and eating rubber chickens at "conferences")

mircea_popescu: barely hangs on by a mix of "grandfathering" and "don't look in this box", much like the usg that spawned them.

mircea_popescu: it's almost like "being a usg subject gives you stability for free"

mircea_popescu: all the talk neglects to notice how teh usg is force to try and replace cars - autonomous for 1500 miles - with rubber band machines, autonomous for maybe 50. at GREAT expense.

mircea_popescu: at least the usg, from the president to the last goon, knows they're sitting on a prayer

mircea_popescu: i have absolutely no idea what these bundy dudes must be thinking to elevate the usg charade into relevancy through participating. but then again... can't trust one to think that's not got a pubkey, can you. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: but hey, it ain't fraud if usg does it, right ?

mircea_popescu: nah, eve has an inflation problem larger than the usg's.

mircea_popescu: wake me up when your imperial/european drill bits produced a robot that routed the usg at tikrit.

mircea_popescu: look at lacan's "work" to truly see what i mean, and look at all the junk coming out of the usg's 3rd generation to truly know what i mean

mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag numerous examples of pretorian guard heads that thought going with the usg is safe beheaded.

mircea_popescu: not so. you're wrong in this reading, and the usg itself very clearly proves they understand this (for instance in their attempts to hide behind the tired local sheriff dioscussed on qntra)

mircea_popescu: ironically... i believe if one were to add up the number of usg agent deaths as evident from prosecution attempts, and then compare that figure with the number of usg agent deaths as reported by the usg for various statistical purposes, a 10:1 difference wouldn't even be surprising.

mircea_popescu: some obscure usg outlet.

mircea_popescu: and every derp out there in indonesia or peru or wherever saving in dollars in preference of my currency, or his president's currency, has given usg such power.

mircea_popescu: no, the usg has given icann such authority.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-01-2016#1365036 << like they, and everyone else in the indistinct usg hydra, reacts every single time this happens, as it does weekly by now : http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-06-2014#700916 ☝︎☝︎

mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> incidentall, 'oathkeepers' is a social club for usg soldiers << this is not unlike saying that incidentally, the guy that shot sadat was from the egyptian military.

mircea_popescu: anyway, check it out alfie, usg lost policing power in oregon.

mircea_popescu: fucking stop and think about sometime before you agree with usg's moles about ever novel ways to fuck up the one thing that threatens their continuous existence.