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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.
mircea_popescu: TomServo roosevelt probably not in there, as shocking as that may seem. hoover for sure tho.
mircea_popescu: it's my considered opinion that if you make the sorted list of people that have hurt the us, lincoln tops it
mircea_popescu: if the slavery question were allowed to die out rather than used as a pretext for a war, you wouldn't still be fighting over the mason-dixon line in 2013 ffs.
mircea_popescu: a perfect illustration of the incredible damage lincoln's imbecillity did to that country.
mircea_popescu: it's finally worked itself into the perfect storm, this deep seething conflict.
mircea_popescu: top rated show star gets canned for "hate speech" while quoting the bible.
mircea_popescu: mor like only shit what you've completely eaten, uyeah
mircea_popescu: just out of nowhere, like that. basically electricity is about as ubiquitous as cunt, and i guess crypto is electricity porn
mircea_popescu: for "guy starts service, 3 months later he's making 500 a day"
mircea_popescu: just forcing the point that "6k one day" != "6k a day"
mircea_popescu: anyway, if his stats are accurate 3k paid out means he made 100 btc.
mircea_popescu: folks like to think their stupidity is what makes the world turn.
mircea_popescu: myeah. ok, this is an example of starting up right. joined in may 2013, by july he had a useful service.
mircea_popescu: there's a pool charging 3% which actually gets hash ?! wow.
mircea_popescu: benkay i don't think one exists, tho there'd make defionite sense
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think they named it african-sounding deliberately because sexually insecure california white hipster doofuses.
mircea_popescu: if you've learned anything in this chan, it's reading betwixt the lines
mircea_popescu: and moneypolo is "leading" in the very limited universe in which mtgox also matters.