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mircea_popescu: decimation
the error is
to imagine lenin, dalton and gentlemen planters are some sort of ilk.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do not grasp how one could see
the 1848 revolts as failed.
Vexual: no versions, only
talk
decimation: the problem from
the rebel's point of view - does his rebellion
tend
to empower gentlemen planters, or lenin, danton, and
their ilk?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, maybe, but i read demand for au minerals has
tanked
too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform were you
thinking 1907 ? i dun see
the 1848 angle in any light.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean after
the austrian monarch was deposed ? in a negotiated peace ?
cazalla: au beginning
to cut interest rates
today
mircea_popescu: you see a nail go "don't hit me unless i actually go in
the wall" ?
mircea_popescu: this is what cowardice is :
the consideration of meta.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway,
to revisit
this point :
the byzantine generals problem is specifically and exactly mathematically formalised cowardice.
mircea_popescu: because
the aliens aren't about
to land with platinum visas for everyone.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform everything ever seems one
thing until it isn't. you know ?
mircea_popescu: decimation
they're in fact
the opposite sides of
the same coin.
mircea_popescu: decimation you see
the difference between being king and being, allegedly, a nation ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but
the principal problem of
the byznatines was
their cowardice
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 05:34:16; mircea_popescu: decimation suppose you were king, and ordered
the leningrad of paris. what
then ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: but you said
the same plan would not have worked for Louis XVI
mircea_popescu: then it can be a "but i dun want
to" and everyone can go home happy.
mircea_popescu: fine. just as long as we all stop pretending like
this is "impossible" and we understand
that it's quite possible, perfectly feasible and practically effective.
mircea_popescu: heh. people keep derping about
the 1% but don't really want
to be
teh 1% eh ?
mircea_popescu: ie, less
than
the fucking effort
to build
the cardano.
mircea_popescu: so what's
the problem, if half a million people shoot half a million cops,
they're going
to build you a special country club and keep you
there with all your friends ?
mircea_popescu: people need
to seriously stop worrying about imaginary hobgoblins.
mircea_popescu: what exactly are
they gonna do ? feed you for
the next 30 years ? big whoop.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform << <mircea_popescu>
then start shooting police officers coming
to steal
the cash.
mircea_popescu: stop pussy-fucking-footing all around
the broken, shattered remains of a
thing
that no longer exists.
mircea_popescu: he should start doing actually roi able advertising. create a festival. say in
the place where
they stole
that guy's cattle grazing.
mircea_popescu: this may be one of
the first ones
that has made a profit.
decimation: '“Google could be doing business with firearms businesses.
The
thing is
they won’t because of
their stance [against firearms]. I can’t advertise on Google. I can’t advertise on Facebook. I can’t use Amazon, because
they prohibit
the majority of my products. I closed down
that account over a year ago, and I still get notices from
them, regardless of
the emails I sent
to
them
telling
them
that I’m not selling with
them.”
mircea_popescu: we've made more good law here in
the past year
than
the us congress in
the past decade.
mircea_popescu: the usg has no priviledged relationship with
the law. it's a poor mockery
thereof.
decimation: the problem is
that
the vector usg uses is civilization-destroying. essentially "obey
the law" becomes more of a farce until it becomes a laughing matter
Vexual: do you pay
the
tickets for your limo mp?
decimation: in
this metaphor, us citizens are henpecked betas?
mircea_popescu: and fwiw a principle i studiously observed
throughout my life and in all aspects so far. cop wants
to bitch about
tickets, his department can enjoy
thirty eight different lawsuits.
mircea_popescu: this is how small government is both obtained and maintained, and
this is how a country
that actually works is preserved.
mircea_popescu: government is
the bitch.
the slightest getting in your way must be met with disproportionately escalated response until it either dies or gives up.
Vexual: and a days folding money might fit in
the back pocket
mircea_popescu: not
the right approach. bitch
talks back, she gets slapped. she starts crying, she gets beaten. she screams, she gets cut loose.
Vexual: i like
the art deco font, reminds me of a
time i can't possibly remember
mircea_popescu: the nontriviality
there is a little ofsometing else.
the
thought process of "she's a
total bitch, let me
try and work with her nevertheless" is responsible for more unhappy marriages
than any other
thing.
decimation: usg ought
to be careful with pushing
this kind of shit, you don't want
the little people
to become confused about banking
mircea_popescu: then start shooting police officers coming
to steal
the cash.
mircea_popescu: decimation pity
they don't have
the backbone (and leadership)
to start a cash only program, and publicly denounce banking as a scam.
mircea_popescu: i can;t wait for when it's not about
the block size but about
the
total bitcoins, and it's noit about "saving africa" but about saving ubs, and
the howlers are not on
the forum but on every
tv screen,
decimation: "The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report last month showing
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
targeted gun dealers and other businesses like payday lenders and pawn shops as illegal operations, and pressured banks
to halt dealing with
these businesses.
The administration’s program is now known as Operation Choke Point, which is run by
the Departments of Justice and
Treasury."