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mircea_popescu: there's vat, but you apply it on lower basis and get much better stuff for your money.
mircea_popescu: to get a good car in the us you have to ship it from yurp
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv ya well being stupid and rich is dangerous everywhere.
mircea_popescu: dub im paying something like 3.9% if you count it all.
mircea_popescu: but by now sealed deal. so probably the top 5 or top 10 stand to gain nicely.
mircea_popescu: back when they were just bleeding market share it seemed like it's temporary
mircea_popescu: that'll have to be verified in practice before i take it too seriously.
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv in fairness, that's prolly because they're not much used so they don't opverrun their limits
mircea_popescu: shame on Namworld trolling us with finance talk in this chan
mircea_popescu: there's never going to be a "proper" font of rights, and consequently any statement as to their origin is pretty much the same thing.
mircea_popescu: there's not much difference between claiming god gave you some right or you just have some right or you gave it yourself or whatever else.
mircea_popescu: what political system is not at some point claiming some metaphysical entrenchment ?
mircea_popescu: as a show that if you fuck this one his daddy's prolly gonna have your arse.
mircea_popescu: towards the mid phase they had invented the habit of putting gold on the kid's necks
mircea_popescu: dub i didn't pick that example by accident. it was pretty much the largest civil issue in greece.
mircea_popescu: but nobody had the authority to ban smoking, or invent pedophilia as an offense
mircea_popescu: smickles is an entire "law of men / law of gods" issue there
mircea_popescu: dub another way to say this would be that your outlook is more grounded in fashion and ignorance than literacy.
mircea_popescu: the idea of a state without the power to legislate is quite appealing, actually. pretty much the onl;y way "the state" can work is if it can make no laws and raise no taxes.
mircea_popescu: in the classical republic the laws were "always there". some mystical origin or whatever.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone agrees democracy = disaster, as in, wrose than tyrrany
mircea_popescu: traditionally the republic is the place where the laws prevail
mircea_popescu: yeah. and the fate of democracy is for those politicians to observe that they can squander othe people's money.
mircea_popescu: and live under the impression that while you walk the earth with the retarded brain of the spanish faithful cca 1500
mircea_popescu: that's the great progrss here : by detaching nigger-ness from skin color, slovenly-sluttyness from cuntal lips and everything from everything else
mircea_popescu: anyway, am i the only one amused at the circumstance that the silly left has vanquished all hatespeech, they don't hate niggers, spics or spans anymore
mircea_popescu: if someone bought calls when the price was 40 implying 50 they're golden
mircea_popescu: smickles if you think about it, 1 week oix is across lines for 12 days out of 30