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mircea_popescu: (the original "i'm a little bit country / i'm a little bit rock'n'roll" fairitale was told by lenatus to the plebs of 500bc, btw.)
mircea_popescu: but note that the original reason there (the romans ~actually needed~ the plebs, to fight the volsci / latins) is no longer present. we absolutely and emphatically do not need mok-shen's "common people" for any purpose.
mircea_popescu: so if you prefer the reference, there will be no lenatus compromise and no fucking lex publilia.
mircea_popescu: in this sense sure, original rome as the patrician class with its clientelar syste was "checked" ie infected with doom-ruin by the imbecile plebs, resulting in the creation of the plebs tribune (ironically, the ~reason~ later emperor was sacrosanct -- he was also the tribune of plebs)
mircea_popescu: well, it was said in these logs and it's still true that rome is well summarized by observing some people built some benches in a park somewhere and spent a millenium thenceforth sorting out who should sit where on them.
mircea_popescu: it's unclear altogether if late rome had a system at all ; this is a matter open to much scholarly debate.
mircea_popescu: the system which built rome is : in the winter we sit around , in the summer we go rape the idiots, take their shit, melt it down, split it in equal trophies and give one to each man.
mircea_popescu: which is why republican lordship is personal whereas pantsuit notion of peerage is "location based".
mircea_popescu: but the notion of a countCY, and OF X!!!, as opposed to THE count himself is very much redolent of the rotl.
mircea_popescu: took what, 500 years to westphalia, "nation state" ie, "the LAND is the item, people just ants on it"
mircea_popescu: that's the great advantage of the homosexual bottom : even a broomstick can fill it.
mircea_popescu: only in that it's always easier to be female than male.
mircea_popescu: "taxation" is what pantsuit rendering of homage is, so as to depersonalize it.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, re taxation : item as a notion didn't even exist in 1100s. payment across hierarchy had an entirely different substance.
mircea_popescu: for what it's worth i see no difference whatsoever between the above eclipse of reasoning and say "if i make it what i think it should be -- it crashes".
mircea_popescu: to which hugh explains something like "well, what's done it's done, what can we do"
mircea_popescu: and godefroy says, "look at you, fool, you had your own sovereign crown (hugh was an earl, at the time this was sovereign) but had to come here and became a slave for it, and now try to sell me on it as if it were some great progress ?"
mircea_popescu: no, godefroy was naught else than a man. as per that shaw description, "the panache" etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and he tries to sell this to godfrey of bouillon, who was a lord at the time. this doesn't mean "rich" or "powerful" or any pantsuit nonsense of today, trying to explain exactly why it shouldn't be the case you even try.
mircea_popescu: without an army, or any resources, or you know, the forethought to have at the very least packed up that eclipse for later, hugh understands the precarity of his position, and so is a great supporter of the byzantine king.
mircea_popescu: ok. and the father takes them in hand and rapes them around discreetely, yes. you know, like us presidents are invited at banquets but "can't go there sir".
mircea_popescu: so he ends up shipwrecked in the lands of anna's father, alexios. you know the whore, anna, yes ?
mircea_popescu: literally, that was his thought process, "o look, astronomical phenomenon ergo i buy a car now."
mircea_popescu: brother of sitting king of france, went on crusade BECAUSE SAW MOON ECLIPSE.
mircea_popescu: it was a sad vulnerable moment, incidentally. ever heard ye of hugh "magnus" (ie, le maisne in french, literally, "lesser born") ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu more than willing to answer q's. but unsure how to proceed without.
mircea_popescu: i can't re-write a compendium of feudal history ad hoc ;/
mircea_popescu: but i dunno what to put in. ie the above three lines -- are already written. what moar!
mircea_popescu: it's what i heard, "diaphanous, as in, if you're not familiar with the whole tree of medieval history and social theory, the jumps are a little wide".
mircea_popescu: it shouldn't have been permitted then, as it's been methodically not permitted in this here republic since inception.
mircea_popescu: the venue through which the socialist disaster happened happens to be "reason" in a particular pantsuit reinterpretation -- the bitcoin cash of worms introduced "reasonable" basis for taxation on the basis of "land resources", and from there on this non-reason worked its poison into the whole gamut of idiocy on display today.
mircea_popescu: then the pantsuit centered in rome attempted the bitcoin cash of worms, and it's been going towards building marx's paradise -- a world devoid of any people -- ever since.
mircea_popescu: feudalism was 100% republic, entirely existing as relationships between people, with no regard to anything -- not to the herds of cattle, of any kind, nor to land or weirs of fishing or any other nonsense.
mircea_popescu: the proposal is nothing less than to have identified the exact point in history where the pantsuit forked off the chain.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the point stands : useful limit of combustion-powered flying machine is more like 5kgs not the 50kgs i originally imagined.
mircea_popescu: still misunderstood, but at least now i know wtf i was thinking.
mircea_popescu: see, cuz if you store a liter and something, that's almost a kg.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno now why i thought the limit is a degree of magnitude higher on both energy and size.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in fact : 750W at 50% conversion can provide a lot of lift -- if the whole thing it's embedded in is 1kg, your energetic expenditure per meter lift is not even 10J. can do 75m/s theoretically.
mircea_popescu: well, a 300 gram 750 W engine totally can make a chopper fly.
mircea_popescu: turns out i actually misunderstand the limits of materials!
mircea_popescu: let's get back to it. a) can i buy 10cc engine, off shelf ? b) dinamo needs coils, makes it heavy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dinamo coils heavy. and you mean off the shelf what, 10cc engine ?
mircea_popescu: funny how they never seem to remember who is "the government" whenever ~they~ go around messing with it. how about bad guys === usg don't go around using mnuchin as a hand puppet to finance their bad deeds ?
mircea_popescu: fucking retard. the only bad thing is his ugly face and the idiocy he represents.
mircea_popescu: they got themselves a "culture war" right in the cunt, and it was sensitive and "beyond reach"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let bb know also, lest he despair in the orc wastes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, where's the logline where you say you'd love nothing more than to put diamond plate flooring in everywhere ?
mircea_popescu: i always thought bbs is what people too poor to afford irc used.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the scary thought is, "i wonder if naggum'd have fared any better".
mircea_popescu: !!rate organdnor chris, the guy whose friend who's not him is the cryptocurrency drugdealer/junkie.
mircea_popescu: ie, you're chris the cryptocurrency drugdealer/junkie ?
mircea_popescu: try making sense, for a change. who are you. what do you do. start from there.
mircea_popescu: just some dood used to spew meaningless nonsense until getting devoiced.
mircea_popescu: organdnor that "I" dun mean much currently. who are you, what do you do, etc.