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mircea_popescu: And Grandma without joking, Said
that when she was a young girl she could still drink from
the Elbe, without getting sick
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> fuckitall. watched
that clip, now i just wanna be in friedrich's army. what have you done mircea_popescu! <<< lmao. die kaisrin hat sich mit den franzosen alliiert, und das romiche reich gegen mich revoltiert die russen seind gefallen in preussen ein auf! lasst uns zeigen dass wir brave landeskinder sein!
BingoBoingo: But many of
the German migrants weren't doing so out of poverty, but of poverty of opportunity and
the perception of
the opportunity
to pretend
to be
the gentry
they could not back home
decimation: granted, it's a mistake
to
think of
that as another golden age
too -
there's a reason
they all left Germany after all
BingoBoingo: Germany as a meaningful idea
to
their ancestors froze ~1830-1870
BingoBoingo: The Germans who settled
the American frontier did not descend from
techno clubs and Angela Merkel
BingoBoingo: decimation:
Thread seems
to support
the idea
that Germany only lives in books and
the festivals he finds so offensive
decimation: honestly I
think
the old guy who grew up speaking
Texas German has a better claim on "germanness"
then some kid who was brainwashed with post WWII allied propaganda
decimation: somewhere in
the logs I linked
to a modern German who expressed absolute dismay at "german culture" in America
decimation: yeah MIssouri was
the "open frontier" when
the Germans were settling
BingoBoingo: Who know what Scandanavian dialects might live in
the frozen north of Minnesota
decimation: see
the anglo elite above for why
that didn't happen...
decimation: The British newspaperman visited America around 1898 I
think, he mentioned
the
terrible might of America and express fear
that
they could invade ... England
assbot: The land of
the dollar
BingoBoingo: decimation: Similar
towns exist in
the Ozarks and Appalacia
assbot: Texas German - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
decimation: heh is
that a reference
to islam or jews or marxists?
decimation: nevertheless, like in Mircea's comic, real life goes on, and one cannot dwell in
the past
decimation: supposedly
they showed a great reverance for
Tzar Nikolai
decimation: there is much
truth in
this. my grandmother's line comes from German settlers in Odessa
decimation: unfortunately
the German population immediately gave up and submitted
to anglo rule
decimation: I'm convinced
that one of
the reasons
that pre-WWII germany spiraled out of control was because people who were able
to make something of
themselves had already left 50 years earlier
BingoBoingo: Well, over much of
the US
the reason why small
town X and small
town Y were not bigger
town Z, was
the differing origins of
the original settlers
decimation: it just became ... uncool ...
to be German during WWI and WWII
BingoBoingo: A hundred years ago most
the
the local papers were in German
decimation: this might have worked out for
the first generation, but now
their great-great-great grandchildren are yearning for Kaiser Wilhelm here ...
decimation: Note
that many of
the Germans who yearned for old Kaiser Wilhelm went
to America
to live "free"
decimation: that makes me
think of
the Hessian Landesknecht dwelling across
the Delaware from Washington's camp, waiting for
the Whig generals
to make up
their mind...
decimation: I wonder what Friedrich would say about
today's Deutschland?
mircea_popescu: but it's
that so many men over
the years
thought about
the possibility
that maybe wifey/daughter/mom's just pregnant ?
mircea_popescu: take
the immaculate conception. it's not
that any woman ever did. not even close.
mircea_popescu: i suspect any good myth has a dose of nonfactual commonplace
thought.
decimation: encouraging
the masses
to believe
that
they live at
the end of history certainly helps
this myth
mircea_popescu: i suppose
the success of socialism may
trace
to
this,
that it has no mythical age in
the past.
BingoBoingo: The American Political class and
their mythical 1950's
decimation: maybe he would
then write about how his wife hates him or something
assbot: Fridericus Rex, unser Konig und Herr pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
decimation: in
the days of arranged marraige he might have been issued a woman - if his father was a somebody
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly,
the various fringe groups all do
this. anarchists have
their pre-state garden of eden, so do goldbugs, so does everyone.
mircea_popescu: decimation i kinda say it
too. and probably anyone with a clue
that ever saw him.
decimation: as
the last pscyhiatrist might say, he might be happy if he wasn't so invested in being unhappy
decimation: so
the alpha male, femenism,
the hot woman, and his own brain are raping him?
decimation: "I got
to have
the pleasure of defending women from
the barbs and negs of my player friends only
to watch
these same women i defended end up going home
to sleep with
them. My brain simply could not comprehend what
the fuck was going on. What
the fuck is wrong with
these women? Oh Wait! I?m not allowed
to question
that."
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's lulzy what socialism's own "to each according
to his needs" makes out of people.
mircea_popescu: icule, you are
the poster child of Slutwalk. And so it is.
mircea_popescu: I deserved it for being unattractive. You deserved it for being
too attractive. We both got fucked and not in
the way we wanted it. You had no power and had violation inflicted upon you. I had no power or right
to feel like a human being inflicted upon me. You were penetrated against your will. Feminism and woman bent me over and fucked me up
the ass while laughing at me. We both wanted death. Yet i was a source of rid
mircea_popescu: em was going up
to a guys room at 2am for a late night coffee.
mircea_popescu: In fact, you could call
this my own personal rape. I’m sure women will be up in arms for me calling it
that, but what is
the criteria for it? I feel shame. I am unable
to
talk about it with others. I will invariably be blamed for
the outcome i suffered because of
the way *I* acted. Being beta was ‘wearing a miniskirt’. Acting like a NiceGuy was ‘being overly flirtatious’. Respecting women and pedestalizing
th
mircea_popescu: the guy i linked is actually noteworthy because he
takes
the dilution of rape one step further : he claims his experience's been rape.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> gedankenexperiment. imagine if it were not possible
to starve
to death - folks who can't find any food would, say, photosynthetize (this is not geometrically/thermodynamically possible in life, but imagine for a moment.) what would
the people who have never, or almost never, eaten - write on
the subject? << Reddit aspires
to buy monitors with sufficient brightness
to enable photosynthesis, gets scammed on kickstart
assbot: Log In -
The New York
Times
mircea_popescu: it'd definitely make me enjoy reading
teh internets more.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this entire "idiots figure
they're people
too" side of
the internet is like a lake of stu
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as we got plenty o
theorems already proven..
mthreat: hehe i want
to see someone use
that in real life some day
mircea_popescu: it actually comes from a great bogart line, he
tells slim
to walk around him.
mircea_popescu: or you could just query gribble but im usually
too lazy
to
cgcardona: punkman: really? hmm well I guess
that means
that picking up some ether hoping
they increase in value probably isn’t a good idea
cgcardona: if
there are docs Ill gladly read
them
cgcardona: mircea_popescu: i still don’t
totally know how
to use
the book
cgcardona: i’m still unclear if
there is a hard cap on
the numer of ether
cgcardona: i’m still
thinking of buying some
there (yes I know
the shame
that will bring on me here)
cgcardona: but I guess
that was
the point of
the excersise at all so you’re probably not surprised
cgcardona: MP - I saw
that you answered me
that noone has
taken you up on
the ether. I’m kinda surprised.