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mircea_popescu: i stgill have mail going "whatg, 500 dollars for a seat ?! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!! HOW DARE YOU!!!"
mircea_popescu: ya, that strategy worked great for the ppl wanting accounts :D
mircea_popescu: benkay there isn't a fixed fee. you negotiate it when you list.
mircea_popescu: bwahaha asciilifeform look at that! you're now an authority!
mircea_popescu: irc is your life. you will honor it as if it iwere your life.
mircea_popescu: is it mostly your friends and family backing you so far ?
mircea_popescu: (mpex shares are non voting. as a result, the operator has to maintain majority)
mircea_popescu: s.nsa raised ~500 btc, if memory serves. s.mg ~10k. s.dice about 50k or so. s.bvps if i recall correctly about 100
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : "tont" is one of the many ways to say dumb in romanian.
mircea_popescu: kinda why porn is so important. makes sex better for everyone.
mircea_popescu: you get better anal sex when the girl regards taking it in the ass as her own, personal victory.
mircea_popescu: his idea was that people will have incentive to keep killing each other so as to avoid ponzi effects.
mircea_popescu: pankkake the ponzi retirement system was invented by von bismarck.
mircea_popescu: bah, father. wasn't his father, they were barely related, nm me.
mircea_popescu: mike_c guy's father, carol 1st however, is probably the model monarch.
mircea_popescu: (since we're doing this : guy kept fucking around, and eventually married, aged 60. the woman's name was hardon)
mircea_popescu: you know before vichy he was the one guy in the top brass that objected to their nutty "infantry charge" tactics
mircea_popescu: the schmuck that joan of arc wanted on the throne ain't so good either, and then with the 1789 revolutions you got plenty of nutty socialists to pick from
mircea_popescu: france got hurt bad by hitler, perhaps worse by wilhelm,
mircea_popescu: stalin, hitler... small country in europe whadda ya want.
mircea_popescu: (paul little = max hardcore, the cheap makeup and vomit porn guy)
mircea_popescu: possibly us entertainment sucks so bad to this day because him.
mircea_popescu: well, i have some respect for the variety tradition, but barnum is a sort of paul little without a cause.
mircea_popescu: making a list of "bad" people generally is really an exercise in measuring the weight of air, in air, with a scale and weights made out of air.
mircea_popescu: it's not "bad presidents", it's "people that hurt the us"
mircea_popescu: in general you'll find most damaging are the insiders, not the outsiders.
mircea_popescu: as long as they're people dun matter where they're born or what function they get.
mircea_popescu: hoover because he's to this day the prototype of every corrupt cop going into the service to feel up young women and beat up boys.
mircea_popescu: but obviously no conflict in human history was between the good and the evil. even if no conflict in human history failed being depicted as such. by both sides, of course.
mircea_popescu: had it been the case i'd have perhaps had a different name to top my list
mircea_popescu: not any sort of country anyone'd wish to live in, but then again people living in shitholes rarely get the choice.
mircea_popescu: it has ample precedent. that precedent is the government of lincoln.
mircea_popescu: basically obama's ideas that he can arrest anyone at any time for any rteason ?
mircea_popescu: the soviet's (failed) invasion in afghanistan was also about greater justice.
mircea_popescu: obviously the statal propaganda machine will have tried to make it all about a simple, cut and dried issue.
mircea_popescu: the20year nothing new in this world except the history you never read and all that.
mircea_popescu: that vision has meanwhile been realised, and unsurprising anyone with a clue, you mostly don't like it.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand saying that the civil war the direct result of the southerner's staunch opposition to high taxes and unsound money coming into conflict with lincoln's vision of a leviathanesque all-controlling state.
mircea_popescu: and now, the fact that upriver conditions are softer and downriver harser kind of proves that the situation is in fact evolving
mircea_popescu: it is in fact the way the whites of the time represented them to themselves, mostly.
mircea_popescu: for there to be betrayal there must be trust. trust is the substance of contracts, which is exactly antithetical to how black-white relations are customarioly represented.
mircea_popescu: exactly. but looky : it is an act of betrayal, fundamentally.]
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the expression "sold down the river" ?
mircea_popescu: when you go bomb the shit out of the infrastructure the end result is you'll be poor.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying famine in 1950s germany was guaranteed regardless.
mircea_popescu: TomServo you get more gdp per capita out of 100 barristas trying to write hollywood scripts
mircea_popescu: criminals "just happen" to be mostly black anyway, hooray for progress.
mircea_popescu: so what's the gain of the war ? picked a different nigger to pile on ?
mircea_popescu: but the southerner recognised an extremely varied and complex hierarchy. black = slave = chattel is about as oversimplified as one can get.
mircea_popescu: you could argue that the way criminals are handled today is chiefly designed to keep them criminals
mircea_popescu: in fact, pre-war southern racism is closest to modern day view on criminality.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 souther racism as you know it today is wholly the creation of the war.
mircea_popescu: if you look at their evolution, the thing was doomed anwyay.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 slavery laws in the south were evolving, like any body of laws.
mircea_popescu: however, it was dieing out in a sustainable way, rather than creating the black ghettos that the war created.
mircea_popescu: TomServo because slavery was fundamentally an economic interest, and it is economically ineffectual. it WAS already dieing out at the time of the war
mircea_popescu: hardly half the inheritors of slaves intended to keep them past the death of their parents.