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mircea_popescu: is not excusable in 2000s, when everyone THINKS they can read.
mircea_popescu: yeah but what is excusable in the 1800s back when nobody could or did read and so you were able to count on a certain audience
mircea_popescu: (the proposed difference between fascism, national socialism, soviet socialism, communism, etc so forth is purely imaginary)
mircea_popescu: i'm not throwing out heidegger or husserl or hegel on the grounds of being involved in communism
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan theoreticians often get overexcited which makes them be stupid.
mircea_popescu: some bovine being a communist is not marx, but some bovine.
mircea_popescu: it makes the point. marx studying idiocy is marx studying idiocy.
mircea_popescu: lol poor guy will end up making wikipedia not load again.
mircea_popescu: the quote was re kabbalah, of course, but it makes little difference.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan "it is forbidden to have a course in nonsense. But the history of nonsense, that is scholarship."
mircea_popescu: either they are in fact intelligent but it has nothing to do with the shameful stupidity of communism, much like beethoven probably farted but this isn;t normally mentioned
mircea_popescu: no, simply your categorisation of these people is flawed.
mircea_popescu: but no one goes there willingly. one is a communist that is too stupid, too lazy, or too stupid and lazy to be anything else.
mircea_popescu: i guess technically that may count as some sort of an attraction.
mircea_popescu: communism is like cancer : at the very most it allows the fucked to appreciate how great it'd have been if they weren't so fucked.
mircea_popescu: it only goes the same way if you're not yourself a cow.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan infinite hitpoints. the evisceration of each individual head of cattle is its own, private and special event.
mircea_popescu: to spin this into some sort of story of our pathetic colonies being relevant, let alone central...
mircea_popescu: the reality on the field is that france invented communism, and everyone tried to copy france to some degree.
mircea_popescu: this would be a fine example of why i hold the guy for a complete ignoramus.
mircea_popescu: jesus god, yarvin actually argues that the us invented communism ?
mircea_popescu: i am not interested in a) enriching foreign third parties or b) participating in relationships of any kind on any other structure than as designed by me.
mircea_popescu: dun tell me you deleted it, i just linked it from twitter
mircea_popescu: davout i wouldn't particularly mind having this to hold over taleb.
mircea_popescu: so if mtgox recycles its deposits to its own addresses fifty times it now has paid out 50x its actual capital ?
mircea_popescu: the thinking is that you're more likely to misinform than inform trying to do that.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck am i going to read anything, im stuck here with you guise,
mircea_popescu: of course the great germany of ww1 fielded as many people as russia did,
mircea_popescu: and never was fully confident in his actually much smarter military advisers.
mircea_popescu: this for very good reasons having to do with mobilization times.
mircea_popescu: the old plans (from ww2) called for germany to sweep west into france and then east to russia
mircea_popescu: hitler was, if my otherwise uninformed opinion interests, simply caught in a battle with his own demons.
mircea_popescu: before it had to fucking invade. and they likely wouldn't have cared to find out.
mircea_popescu: a russian officer makes the point that most of the russian soldiers didn't even know wtf germany is
mircea_popescu: decimation in one of the countless retellings of the entire nazi thing (a woman in berlin)
mircea_popescu: decimation average han guy marching ~1700 days on foot to reach moscow ?!
mircea_popescu: whether its enemies actually bother to call the us on its gargle or not... they still own it.
mircea_popescu: so yarvin delivers. there, greenspan_fan is a short and sweet explanation of the concept.
mircea_popescu: "You know, Goog, once you start lying, there's really no end to it. For one thing, even if your enemies ignore lying, defensive evasion, and other telltale "beta" behaviors, they still own you." <<< whoa.
mircea_popescu: it does seem the sort of nonsense he publishes for the sake of being interesting to chicks.
mircea_popescu: germany left alone to overrun england'd have been a royal fucking pain.
mircea_popescu: without that the us story would have ended in the 60s rather than 50 years later.