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mircea_popescu: that would be what you're proposing, n'est pas ? that it could do such a thing, "if need be"
mircea_popescu: otherwise it easily sums up to "example of the us failing to project its claimed power"
mircea_popescu: only debatable in the sense of debatably useful for your side in this discussion
mircea_popescu: otherwise you know... some presidents were really tall and handsome.
mircea_popescu: i asked you to qualify well run strictly in the context of our discussion.
mircea_popescu: somehow somewhere in this world this fucktard exists, and he doth believe he meaningfully has any impact on anything whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan i thought we were discussing projection of power.
mircea_popescu: the "someone like me" is some nobody on twitter, whose claim to fame was "retweeting only women"
mircea_popescu: " I was pretty amazed that he went for it. He flat out said that he wants his film to be funded and wasn't sure if it'd be possible after all of his, and I replied that it realistically wasn't going to happen without the say-so of someone like me, and I wasn't inclined to give some producer the nod on this. "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that yarvin piece is absolutely fuckingly hysterically funny, because :
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan go into detail re: well run. use examples.
mircea_popescu: arguably clinton was a lot better than the lot of them, but hey. he didn;t in the end have the balls to come out and say "i am the president. i fuck whoever i want whenever i want in whatever manner i feel like. get lost twerps"
mircea_popescu: anyway. obama thought he's tough tits, talked shit to putin like any random forum retard.
mircea_popescu: up until the time when barbarians stormed in and took a piss on their kimono
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so for the folks running the forbidden city all sorts of things were epic pants creaming victories.
mircea_popescu: we can take the historical facts as historical facts tho.
mircea_popescu: soo... for the arab side : 1.enemies looses bank ; 2. we gain mosque ; 3. we destroy some enemy wealth ; 4. enemy destroys some more of its own wealth.
mircea_popescu: at a cost to the us of about billions in direct damages, and then billions more in materiel over a war they've yet to win.
mircea_popescu: ten arabs turned a spot of their choosing in manhattan from bank to mosque.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan it could project more power at the risk of having its arms broken off and used to beat it over the head.
mircea_popescu: obviously all power vacuums create plugs, much like all drainage pipes create clogs
mircea_popescu: the beauty of "national emergencies" is that even bureaucrats suddenly become free agents
mircea_popescu: for they well know that the enemy may or may not be inclined to buy the nurnberg defense.
mircea_popescu: moreover, finding agents to do the beheading becomes expensive
mircea_popescu: i suppose one could take the parliamentary wars in england too
mircea_popescu: it shows that in a national emergency the govt and contractor interests are not merely not alligned
mircea_popescu: somehow it wasn't a north vietnamese that leaked the homemade porn of the fucktarded "supreme leader"
mircea_popescu: no, it wouldn't be. he'd just be stripped naked and anally raped with a pole for public amusement.
mircea_popescu: but he's too kindly to actually cash in on his investments that looky helped the village thrive.
mircea_popescu: so he ends up "investing" : he buys a share in the local cafe
mircea_popescu: the us does not have anything like the projective powers it imagines it has.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe that to be a lie. would you say i'm not personally an example of in the open etc ?
mircea_popescu: Solzhenitsyn spent a while exiting in his head then did it properly
mircea_popescu: romans exited to gaul, byzantines exited to the arabs and northern europe etc
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan generally, the third world or your dreams.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan well how could it play out ? teh fifth that matters tried to voice till they got bored, now they're mostly exiting
mircea_popescu: every dood with a ged and a history of shelf stacking thinks they're a person just as much as me. this bizarre state of affairs can only lead to fallover.
mircea_popescu: the country's nigh on ungovernable, and the reason is simply that the 4/5ths of the population that are the idiots believe they are not actually subhuman.
mircea_popescu: so, unsustainable budgets because of "mandatory" social spending,
mircea_popescu: people much poorer who lack the delusions of grandeur are actually doing just fine all over the rest 19/20ths of the world.
mircea_popescu: all the problems the us faces today are strictly an attempt to somehow manage the frustration of the stupid that the unsustainable system induced.