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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.
mircea_popescu: in the real retelling of the situation, they start smoking pcp and quit showing up for work.
mircea_popescu: this in the ideal, business plan rendition of the thing (infinite hitpoints etc)
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan it's unsustainable because it creates frustration in the stupid.
mircea_popescu: you're nuts, i rode in elevators with all sorts of people, what
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform srsly, construct a microagression scenario.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform like what, say he is ugly and his mother dresses him funny ?
mircea_popescu: after which i'll gladly answer if you need further answering
mircea_popescu: decimation dunno how far i'd take that always and everywhere, i like say nigger and shit.
mircea_popescu: arguably society as a whole extracts more benefits from the stupid who think themselves smart than from any other venue,
mircea_popescu: in general, if you're too stupid to make a pan, you're much better off thinking you're too stupid to make a pan thank thinking you're smart enough to make a pan.
mircea_popescu: cryptorush is a fine example in an endless string of fine examples as to why this nonsense is harmful to the stupid poor.
mircea_popescu: this notion that anyone could be anything is kind-of strange.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan they all have equally the same to lose : their place in the world.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you recall that "come up with what you'd take back in time" contest on trilema ?
mircea_popescu: ie, that tons of people are completely clueless as to their proper place in the world.
mircea_popescu: just the fact that someone'd even consider hassling you is indicative of serious systemic problems.
mircea_popescu: and just how unsustainable that theatre is, on the face.
mircea_popescu: i think one major point people fail to properly consider is just how unwarrantedly equalitarian society today is.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile today, abramovich visiting some london court has nowhere to eat.
mircea_popescu: imagine walking around with ~50mn in the shape of ten coins, weighing 1/4 pound
mircea_popescu: but say it was like a dollar, you needed 5 of them for a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: i wonder what one could have bought with a denarius or two back then
mircea_popescu: "In 301, one gold aureus was worth 833⅓ denarii; by 324, the same aureus was worth 4,350 denarii. In 337, after Constantine converted to the solidus, one solidus was worth 275,000 denarii and finally, by 356, one solidus was worth 4,600,000 denarii."
mircea_popescu: o cause not having delivered anything else they're now delaying for better stuff to not deliver
mircea_popescu: decimation "everyone's making roi" or how did the scammertalk go
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's dubiously fiat's fault, seeing how the solidus and aureus backed the same principle.
mircea_popescu: decimation notice that asic production only began in earnest once the set of fanbois crossed into the 100k heads territory.
mircea_popescu: tennis is free from this. if anything, every match makes you better.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo boxing has the problem that every fight kills you a little.
mircea_popescu: i doubt miss williams wants to play a scrappy player from romania.