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mircea_popescu: decimation incidentally, you know how late venice resolved the problem of french invaders ?
mircea_popescu: obviously should the russians, chinese, saudi, israelis etc etc actually want to set foot
mircea_popescu: i doubt us people will actually want russian boots in pennsylvania
mircea_popescu: that's how medieval italy played out, except everyone inside blamed everyone for doing it
mircea_popescu: no argument that it will probably get bloody around this argument rather than any other,
mircea_popescu: or review the legal history of the concept of nullification
mircea_popescu: except the only point of history n the us is the defeating of such a construct.
mircea_popescu: the us is a large, federal (as opposed to national) construct.
mircea_popescu: decimation peaceful transition is experimentally a function of ethnic and cultural homogenity and size.
mircea_popescu: davout i like preaching to the converted, they have the best cleavage.
mircea_popescu: this is why attacking the currency is so paramountly important.
mircea_popescu: it's only stable for as long as there's no new technology.
mircea_popescu: the us is the civil service, like any socialist state, the bureaucracy.
mircea_popescu: so basically... the press is just living off handouts, the academia mostly wishes to circlejerk undisturbed, has first dibs on available cash and otherwise grumbles but is thankful if resources dwindle
mircea_popescu: not because the guy orders them killed, but because the guy is actrually smarter than them, and breaks off their metaphorical arms and beats them into a pulp with them
mircea_popescu: but if they get caged with a head of civil service they get wiped.
mircea_popescu: this, i am convinced, is the situation of the us academia : they tell each other they're smart,
mircea_popescu: the man passed for an idiot in their theoretical writings, he owns them on the floor. not because of a threat of violence, but through simple intellectual superiority.
mircea_popescu: it summarizes a book, which is mostly built on the stenographs of romania's dictator and sole source of power,
mircea_popescu: the academia has... you know, the exact power of romania's "dissident" "inteligentsia"
mircea_popescu: decimation hey, in that sense simply living in the us is taking your life in your hands.
mircea_popescu: ;;google Time for Europe to repeal the US-backed AML crap
mircea_popescu: i mnean sure, they can continue talking to the scammers and be scammed till they're happy and had enough.
mircea_popescu: davout so that's what new york may offer to convince me to ok their license bs :
mircea_popescu: you're a businessman not a policeman. let the policemen do their job.
mircea_popescu: because you don't wish to be involved with or responsible of law enforcing.
mircea_popescu: you get the license, the customer applies with the agency. you get the ok, you are legally immune
mircea_popescu: the only sane way to do that would be making a state agency which handles the aml kyc.
mircea_popescu: the us turning into a sort of continent sized syria is however also quite possible.
mircea_popescu: im not sayin' it's unlikely or anything, perfectly possible.
mircea_popescu: decimation that'd be the optimistic view as to the us' future.
mircea_popescu: that's a sailor. people who can sail a boat in some circumstances are sail management technicians or w.e
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids this dovetails neatly into an older saying of mine, re the sailor being required to sail the boat in any wind.
mircea_popescu: it is illusory. and it blinds you to the actual safety in barren lands
mircea_popescu: so this is exactly it : you perceive safety in banality.
mircea_popescu: you're immune from it for a very soft yet very strong reason
mircea_popescu: sure, someone could show up with a 100 btc wallet and beat you into a pulp.
mircea_popescu: any dangers, inconveniences and issues you face, anyone else also faces.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves generally, if you live in a town where people have the right to bear arms, it's better to live in the one where people actually know how to use arms.
mircea_popescu: sooo... anyone with a sharpened stick can make his own buttcoin
mircea_popescu: the asshole's laying out some shit from his case onto a small table
mircea_popescu: guy follows gal in the room, she sprawls herself on bed, "Honey what'd you like ? cunt ? assgole ?"
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you familiar with the concept that he who can't make a sharpened stick can't make an airplane or anything else ?