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BingoBoingo: For
that announcement I imagine Obama wearning Mr.
T's gold chains
BingoBoingo: For all we know
the USG might
take a break from shorting BTC and send
the Euro under
the dollar
tomorrow by
telling Germany it lost
their gold.
BingoBoingo: Eh,
this MPOE volatility has been happening for what? since it broke 100000 satoshis?
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Maybe USG got an MPEx account just
to fuck with you?
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mircea_popescu: the skirt is kinda short an'
the stockings kinda red, but it'll have
to do
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mircea_popescu: the
topic please read it and care because I have nothing else."
mircea_popescu: tely so), but
the official version looks shakier with each year (by simple working of
the poor quality of
this kind of idiot's memory).
The reason for pushing him out looks quaint as
that guy in Belgium kept a girl in a basement or whatever, and
that's how
things work now, by comparison and recourse
to derpmemory. Because we're living in fucking post-literate society among barbarians. Here is my very important fanon on
mircea_popescu: "The 40th anniversary of
Ted Bundy's conviction just passed.
The myths (not really, but we can call
things anything, right?) around
the crimes and
their prosecution are many and deep (no reference required here). Like all bits of American (spurious,
this is
true of all history, but hey, gotta pander
to
the reader's "sentiment") history,
there is
the official version and
the
truth. We will never know
the
truth (delibera
mircea_popescu: this is such nonsense. let's write it about
ted bundy now.
mircea_popescu: abuses of power. Members of his
team bugged an office? Heh, how simple. Bug
the world like Bush-Obama. I have always been intrigued by Nixon's rise, fall and return like a rock star set
to politics, and
this is my current
take on a unified
theory of Watergate."
mircea_popescu: "The 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's resignation just passed.
The myths around
the Watergate scandal are many and deep. Like all bits of American history,
there is
the official version and
the
truth. We will never know
the
truth, but
the official version looks shakier with each year.
The reason for pushing him out looks quaint as our elected and unelected elite commit far more heinous acts and far greater
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xmj: he may have been
the one
to put a name on it,
the idea behind it has existed for millennia
mircea_popescu: xmj it's hirschman's idea, and it has been around since forever in
the sense of
the 70s.
jurov: what else
to call
their management of
the population?
mircea_popescu: xmj: asciilifeform: you're
talking about
the old dichotomy. exit or voice. << how
the fuck are
the 70s old!
jurov: dunno, i just
think
the ussr eugenics program was overdone
mircea_popescu: jurov well
they kept
the us mentally in check, so
to speak.
they're muppets in
the fields of kansas,
the best
they can do is "we're better
than x", very limited meanness. once no more x,
there isn't a good reason not
to patriot act all over
the bed. i suppose
that's
the strongest reading of
that.
mircea_popescu: jurov: ussr was definite exercise in proving eugenics futile... dunno how it could have not fallen <<
tell more ?
jurov: stan apparently
thinks ussr kept
tejh us in check. now
they're gone, usg destroys everything
mircea_popescu: it was a very enjoyable experience
to piss in
the chalice in byzantium, looking forward
to pissing i nthe chalice in rome.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
this is why
the death of ussr is a global calamity - even folks like jurov and mircea_popescu, who saw
the underside of
the colonial boot, might see
the argument as
to how << i certainly do not see such.
mircea_popescu: chetty: well at least
thats a respectable excuse << every excuse is respectable
to
the one guy whose respect matters you know.
Duffer1: looks like everyone
they sent
to is in WoT, but i don't see some of
the bigger names from
this chan
mircea_popescu: decimation samuel was in all likeliness a pre biblical wiseguy. so
technically jahweh just copy-pasted.
mircea_popescu: nice, but relativism doth not work merely because it would be convenient for it
to.
xmj: thank god
there's a lone guy judging another lone guy.
mircea_popescu: xmj:
they have
that elaborated
there
too <<,
they being a lone guy who flatters himself
that he's going
to "continue"
things he scarcely understands, from a purely
theoretical perspective. because
this works now, and
the ample supply of
tims and culwicks is somehow not self-defeating.
assbot: Stunned
tourists capture incredible volcanic eruption
decimation: him. Washington insiders all acknowledge
that
the man who is still King in Washington has been dead for 32 years. Franklin D. Roosevelt's legacy lives on."
assbot: 28 Sherman: Unified
Theory on Watergate
decimation: asciilifeform:
that was
the point of
the blog:
http://28sherman.blogspot.com/2014/08/unified-theory-on-watergate.html << "Despite Nixon's capture of
the presidency, he learned where real power lay. In Haldeman's "Ends of Power", he writes ...by 1971 Nixon had realized he was virtually powerless
to deal with
the bureaucracy in every department of
thegovernment... Civil servants, almost all liberal Democrats, would
thumb
their noses at
chetty: decimation, sure
they do stuff, just like
the irs,
they surf for porn
decimation: whatever one says about nsa, it's clear
that
the 'we protect computers & networks' section hasn't been doing much for
the past 30 years
xmj: about who's likely
to use which way of changing
things.
assbot: How
to Fall Off
the Wagon
xmj: asciilifeform: ribbonfarm.com had a good article on
that one
decimation: asciilifeform: I doubt
that
there is anyone in usg
that is empowered
to use garotte wire within
the us
xmj: asciilifeform: you're
talking about
the old dichotomy. exit or voice.
chetty: yeah at least 2 lions can argue over
the carcass and leave
the mice alone. One lion gets greedy
decimation: asciilifeform: indeed, and
this is why you are making 'cardano' within a 30 minute drive of fort meade :)
chetty: well at least
thats a respectable excuse
decimation: asciilifeform: in other words, invent an alternative reactor
that doesn't suck?
chetty: asciilifeform, easy answer,
the couch
tv and potato chips are
there
decimation: asciilifeform: perhaps if you can't move away from
the reactor, your next 'defense' is
to understand how it works so
that you can predict 'danger'
chetty: yeah but lately
they been adding some not so invisible barbed wire
chetty: better move fast,
the fences are going up
chetty: the 'we' seems
to be a bunch of very annoying bureaucrats
decimation: I suspect it's particularly obvious
to anyone who lived in
the ussr
xmj: even 500miles, if you'd walk
that far
chetty: kinda waste of effort
to hate an idea
xmj: decimation: 300 miles,
too
assbot: 1 Samuel 8:10-20 KJV - And Samuel
told all
the words of
the - Bible Gateway
chetty: people seem
to need religion,
they drop one,
they invent another, by a different name ..greenies for instance
decimation: asciilifeform: as a Christian I find
these 'godless anarcho-whatevers'
to be amusing because
they want
to make usg into
their god
jurov: it seems
to me as some kkind of ultracalvinism... without religious adherence
to
these principles whole
thing falls apart
decimation: asciilifeform: agreed.
to me, rule under a wise king/baron/whatever is much more likely
to approach
their 'libertarian' ideals
than statelessness
xmj: they have
that elaborated
there
too
jurov: xmj from propertarianism.com "Flourishing requires
that we suppress free riding in all its forms." << who decides about free riding and who's gonna supress it?
decimation: heh, as
the jews say, if you
take
the king's shekels you
take
the king's shackles
decimation: right but
then
the next king
takes over (usually with a different style), not an outbreak of anarchy-capitalism or whatever