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mircea_popescu: i doubt stalin actually wanted the ukraine. much better if hitler shoots them all.
mircea_popescu: anyway, amusingly enough had the german strategy employed so far been employed consistently (ie, stopped at the don, offered the russians military help to go conquer china), we'd most likely be drinking bavarese altogether.
mircea_popescu: "oh, so we basically got one infantry rifle bullet per sq km ? well..."
mircea_popescu: it's not so hard to take ammo production figures for 1940, multiply by 10k, divide by russian land surface and look at the figure.
mircea_popescu: (and about half the general staff knew or suspected as much, too)
mircea_popescu: germany was doomed once it broke the pact. they didn't know ; neither did the russkies know (not even stalin, he just got lucky, but lucky with brown underwear). and the british self-importantly gave their ex-contender in the great race two weeks. but by the time they crossed the don, the germans were doomed.
mircea_popescu: and no, the poles were never going to be the sioux at any point past about 1100. the generalplan ost was late by about eight centuries -- and this is ENTIRELY unsuperable.
mircea_popescu: obviously "everyone was mentally inadherent to reality" -- but the first set produced the bible and the nth set were called john smith.
mircea_popescu: this is not true, which is why boston is not darien. it's true that the original colony was eaten by wolves in both cases ; but one in 1600 and the other in 1800, see.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's actually a lot of substance to the rooseveltian-socialist "the hitler-socialists were pretty divorced from reality" claims / agitprop. even if not usually the substance they'd like there to be.
mircea_popescu: somehow "the poles are not the fucking sioux, nutmeg!" just didn't turn any wheels.
mircea_popescu: this is true, actually. generalplan ost was some choice rib of insanity re political sociobiology. they were gonna make a New Bavaria in odessa like "the englishers" had made New York in missisiauga
mircea_popescu: note however that "moscow whip" is a very dubious item altogether, at least in the case of actually authoritarian regimes. ceausescu drove gorby mad with his "what apologize, you fucking apologize, fucker, i wasn't there."
mircea_popescu: funny, it seems to me about half of them grasp, on some level. one in six or so even arguably states some variant. but then again i mostly read the french/ro/czech/jugo set rather than the russian/polish/whatever. there is some north/south division among the stalinvictims vaguely similar to the east/west division of zee franks.
mircea_popescu: (and yes, "the other" there is very much l'autre, from sartre to levinas)
mircea_popescu: it certainly is the fundamental public purpose for the blog : it illuminates where the author is, currently, so the other can direct fire. (the private purpose is exactly the same : it illuminates where the author was at some arbitrarily selected point in the past, so the same author can, later in life, interact with more of himself than his memory provides).
mircea_popescu: on the contrary, it opened up an opportunity for the above discussion. or more in general : activity is never wasted, even if it rarely delivers what it seemed it will.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron, i can't see why not. you just shouldn't have expected to get all that much from it, which i don't gather you had expected. so no harm no foul.
mircea_popescu: they were fucking tuna cans, what. you'd die in there at a light breeze exactly like steel helmeted ww1 monkeys.
mircea_popescu: as a factual matter, driving casualties existed in the 80s among warsaw pact signatories ; and yes "speed unadjusted to driving conditions" was universally blamed.
mircea_popescu: it's fucking true! the dirt roads of behind the iron curtain barely permitted 35. and yes, i miself survived a crash at twice the speed. so wtf were they thinking ?
mircea_popescu: in any case, it's what makes danielpbarron 's review thoroughly horrible : he tries to watch the already juiced matter (no, the film of the book wasn't very good, because americans) with completely ahistoric eyes, and wonders how they managed to die in car crash on those roads, you can barely go 35.
mircea_popescu: cetera etcetera, it's a whole pile there, with solidarnosc raisins in a light samizdat confit.
mircea_popescu: afaik the idea is to go to our own rsa eventuyally anyway
mircea_popescu: rat lacks the capacity for work. it can do "work" in the physical sense, of ef-delta-dee. but in the social sense, work is directed activity not merely activity undirected.
mircea_popescu: see, there's a difference between work and activity. they're not completely inactive, yes, but they do no work. cuz work is when you know what's gonna come out. if you don't know what's gonna come out, it's fucking not work.
mircea_popescu: they get fifty, run them all, pick whichever result looks least banged up and there, that's gonna be their wife now.
mircea_popescu: this is the fucking problem : man who can plow an acre who got a square mile, can't start on plowing the acre he can plow because waiting for tractor, except can not trust item he receives actually plows anything. -> famine.
mircea_popescu: basically, to answer
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-11#1812588 : they're a) not doing it because b) if they tried to they'd run out of time before they'd run out of divisions and therefore c) waiting for someone to d) collapse this AND OTHER SUCH things into a more manageable super-idea except e) quid custodiet, which is necessarily at odds with the requirements of b-c, and therefore the whole thing's paralyzed.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: in the end, the remaining "value proposition" of jewish outlets is, "all put together a penny or two, and we'll provide a harem for all of you!"
mircea_popescu: n-theoretical : when there's more ideas than mental capacity for juggling ideas, one's stuck trying to pretend like they're some kind of me, sitting atop a complex apparatus fine-tuned to provide them with summaries and classification.
mircea_popescu: aaanyway, the problem isn't even the demographic-theoretical identified there ("when there's more mice than social roles, mice society collapses, because the demands upon the role fillers are overgreat wrt individual mice biological capacity ; and the path for the role-aspirants is no longer clear, which definitionally is what "society has failed" even means,
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-23#1742439 ) ; but rather informatio
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "In Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner’s 1972 novel of a hyperactive, overpopulated world, society is plagued by “muckers,” individuals who suddenly and for no obvious reason run amok, killing and wounding others." << now the uncomfortable question becomes, whether that's the actual problem of 2018 because that's what the people of 1972 thought it will be ?
mircea_popescu: i find this eerlily apt. the fundamental fact of the neet isn't that it's alienated ; but that it lacks the capacity for alienation altogether.
mircea_popescu: "Individuals born under these circumstances will be so out of touch with reality as to be incapable even of alienation. Their most complex behaviors will become fragmented. Acquisition, creation and utilization of ideas appropriate for life in a post-industrial cultural-conceptual-technological society will have been blocked."
mircea_popescu: (there was actually the mf global issue right in between there, as an intermediate stage)
mircea_popescu: otherwise, books cooked ~exactly~ same way in both cases.
mircea_popescu: exactly nothing. but sometime between Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC and groupon they actually gave up on even pretending to prosecute fraud.
mircea_popescu: which all the fucktards who hyped it feel no need to ever mention again ; they'll just reuse the hype with s/groupon/apple/g instead.
mircea_popescu: oh, but it was invested in the great opportunity of groupon
mircea_popescu: because that's what worthless money wants, most of all : to go back an' meet its maker.
mircea_popescu: the one thing the germans were clamoring for, interbellum, was "for a way to give all this useless paper back to the govt".
mircea_popescu: of course. but you have to understand, lots of imaginary money sloshing around.
mircea_popescu: i expect they'll get paid ; the pot lulz is not without financing.
mircea_popescu: it's fundamentally unsustainable, but hey, for while the "headcount is only count that matters" delusion holds, women wanna spawn.
mircea_popescu: rather. farm life is farm life, whadda ya want. waste effort on supporting too many children, pray the mongols don't come to merv you out.
mircea_popescu: epically more evident in period russia, where choice before every country bumpkin/ciolovek actually had to decide whether stay on farm or go join bandits. and, for that matter, the deep reason for
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-08#1811354 is exactly that, german youth deserted the old woman "state" en masse, joined "the bandits".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: understand, mom will make paper copies of rifles for kiddy for only just as long as the soldiers pass in the street. once they're gone, once the immediate, obvious stimulus ceases, there's other things to do, so why don't you go make your bed.
mircea_popescu: but once the specific environment changed, once there isn't a cattle farming interest to join, well... why keep up the pretense.
mircea_popescu: lies breaking off family bonds to come serve them on hands and knees ; and churchgoing uppity "homely" (=ugly) women WANTED a bunch of retards to think "cowboy life is dangerous, dun take guns to town, stay on farm with the sow"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-13#1812937 << farming is NOT AMENABLE to any other kind of farming. the pretense to "independent farmers" is how the pantsuit chicks got the less able men off the cattle growing, you understand. the notion of "independent farmer" is a hallucination exactly like the notion of "successful starlet", sold by the press of a commercial concern for a commercial interest. hollywood WANTED a bunch of gir
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: certainly "beautiful ones" look better smoked than drunk.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, yeah, i just lost interest in smoking altogether.
mircea_popescu: but it's been months, the cigars been piling up, eventually i turned off the supply... and well...
mircea_popescu: for two decades i've been smoking, maybe once or twice a week, or so.
mircea_popescu: lobbes, it doesn't work as well as it works for say ecstasy.
mircea_popescu: "Понос... Дизентирия... Геморрой. не казала б девка ты худую грудь и в такую попку парни не буть накачаю попку, припаяю грудь пусть меня в деревне парни все буть."
mircea_popescu: a very brave man once braved a horrible leg-cutting bear trap