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a111: Logged on 2017-06-20 22:19 asciilifeform aficionado of autobios of
the period -- most recently, serov's. and
this element -- recurs.
mircea_popescu: yet conversely, he might actually be
the imago of what later came
to be "sluggish schizo". man went nuts in his middle age, or so
they
thought (or so i suspect
they
thought).
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 21:27 asciilifeform: modern ru only distanced from zimbabwe at all because ~those~ d00dz wound up
the clock spring.
mircea_popescu: stalin certainly was. "designated successor" my foot, if he lived another 18 months
they'd have all been decorating pikes, beria first.
mircea_popescu: for one
thing, "market system" entirely meaningless in
the man's context. it's like "moses let it slip he's in favour of nuclear weapons". for
the other
thing, LENIN came up with
the fucking neps. nobody was going
to be all
that indignant over rehash. in short it predicates both meaning and effect projected from an outside world.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
to finish k
thread -- my read was
that his contemporaries read him in
the vein of "promising but sadly insane".
this happens with some regularity, napoleon himself one
thin hair away.
mircea_popescu: that's
the important part
there, as usual off screen : "while
this was going on, dad was busy doing actually important shit -- because no, neither cat nor its spawn are it"
mircea_popescu: imo
this eminent example. kinda why we discuss orel-i-koshka in preference of whatever disney overdressed princess
mircea_popescu: aaanyway --
the korgyn fellow is remarkable (and remarkably funny) because he managed
to come up with a 100% worst-of-all-worlds plan of nonsense.
a111: Logged on 2015-02-22 21:47 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually, disgraced soviet bureaucrats (usually posthumous - see hruschev's speech re: l. beria) had 'rapacious daily rapist'
tags nailed on
a111: Logged on 2015-03-04 01:20 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: beria actually picked up women... << based on
the sources, i don't regard it as a solid historical fact
a111: Logged on 2015-10-07 13:51 asciilifeform:
this is an old
thing. goal-directed work - e.g., 'make atomic bomb for
the motherland' - works with a beria holding broomstick up
the collective arses of
the institute staff.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-22 14:27 asciilifeform: fwiw i read usg indictments as works of fiction, not particularly different from e.g.
trial of lavrentiy pavlovich beria, 'british, french, and japanese spy'
a111: Logged on 2018-09-13 22:28 asciilifeform: it's rather like how when
they shot lavrentiy beria -- pile
the crimes onto 1 d00d,
then flush him, and it's as if
the enablers 'never happened'
mircea_popescu: "name how many heroic worker hours for
this fridge!
THE SACRIFICE IS RIGHT!!!")
mircea_popescu: his idea was, summarized by someone who's not retarded like
they were :
that if a) portions of industrial production get redirected
to consumer goods and b)
the state media finds a vanna white in
the zaporoje countriside,
then c) soviet union can
turn into a large game of stakhanovist jeopardy.
mircea_popescu: then brejnev let a certain kosgyn be "boss of economy". and
then
they had an electoral dispute, as
to who should lead. kosgyn came with
the lulziest perestroika v0.1a you ever saw)
mircea_popescu: (likbez : su was "dictatorship", nevertheless, brejnev got place by
talking
to everyone about ousting nikita, which
then happened even
though
the retard got wind of
the plan, because he was a retard. just like in dictatorship amirite.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, you recall
the lulz of kosygin's programme ?
mircea_popescu: 60s, 70s,
that dude parked his pecker in more "gone
to ny
to be a writer" mouths
than hefner.
mircea_popescu: i recall
the endless hordes of pantsuit "free women" going
there
to whore out
to him a little for a few decades. what
they said at
the coffin... w/e, you know how old
the dood was ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 17:54 asciilifeform: ( 'stierlitz walked on
the streets of berlin. mueller recognized
that he was a soviet spy, but not because of
the ppsh machinepistol clumsily slung across his shoulder, and not because of
the parachute he dragged behind him, but because of
the maker
tag on his waistcoat, 'bolshevikess', which in
typical russian slopiness had not been
torn off.'
mircea_popescu: nobody would even have any objection, if
they didn't ineptly get into
the way of actual people now and again. (though in fairness it's vastly in
the sense of "bus got in way of old man").
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the usg lands are constructed out of idiots "making laws" and idiots "following laws".
these
two are interchangeable, and
the system works well for
the lowest common denominator.
mircea_popescu: in chickens
that's rather needed w/o all
they do is "fly" balistically into nearest road.
BingoBoingo: Some chickens need
the feather clipping
too. Knock a bit off one side and all
they can do are small circles
mircea_popescu is not a duck expert, but afaik not
that much expertise
to be had. you can clip
their feathers.
mircea_popescu: bad genetics, bad nutrition, bad culture, who
the fuck knows.
mircea_popescu: (also kinda why duck not popular with
traditional household farmers -- some domestics develop flight spontaneously)
mircea_popescu: when
they quack overhead, one
takes off. kinda al lthere is
to it.
mircea_popescu: the calling is
the only way
to distinguish, it's an event not a succession.
mircea_popescu: eh,
there's infinitely better
things
to sad over,
than
the idle contemplation of
the intricacies of "why
this goat is not boar".
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 22:13 danielpbarron:
that wouldn't be
the worst
thing
mircea_popescu: what can you do, danielpbarron decided what he wants is
to "obey laws" and NOT beat women.
mircea_popescu: "we're failures and
that's okay, failing makes us happy"
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 22:12 danielpbarron: but all sorta moot now because i can't legally opperate a gambling
thing
mircea_popescu: which is
the important part of
THAT kind of army, not "winning chechen war", but "here we sit in boy hut, waiting for feathers
to grow on -- if
they
take long
time, have no one
to blame but self"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usg never had army in
the sense here contemplated. had "selective draft" or w/e.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-28 19:05 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i for instance prolly good for
three or four hangings, simply on what's in
the l0gz
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 22:11 mircea_popescu: danielpbarron so why not just use one on
the box, send nothing ?
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 22:11 mircea_popescu: i suppose
they'd host a pogo for you, but latest
thinking here is
that not rly worth
the amps.