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mircea_popescu: phf, on the other hand, re-rendering is not ~that~ expensive for text.
mircea_popescu: "The present generation of Russians have never known spontaneity of collective action. If, consequently, anything were ever to occur to disrupt the unity and efficacy of the Party as a political instrument, Soviet Russia might be changed overnight from one of the strongest to one of the weakest and most pitiable of national societies."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: are not likely to be swayed by any normal logic in the words of the bourgeois representative. Since there can be no appeal to common purposes, there can be no appeal to common mental approaches.
mircea_popescu: Like the white dog before the phonograph, they hear only the "master's voice." And if they are to be called off from the purposes last dictated to them, it is the master who must call them off." Thus the foreign representative cannot hope that his words will make any impression on them. The most that he can hope is that they will be transmitted to those at the top, who are capable of changing the party line. But even those
mircea_popescu: n direction, stopping only when it meets with some unanswerable force. The individuals who are the components of this machine are unamenable to argument or reason, which comes to them from outside sources. Their whole training has taught them to mistrust and discount the glib persuasiveness of the outside world.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ont-fucking-yield/][an unshakable stubbornness and steadfastness] in its orientation. This orientation can be changed at will by the Kremlin but by no other power. Once a given party line has been laid down on a given issue of current policy, the whole Soviet governmental machine, including the mechanism of diplomacy, moves inexorably along the prescribed path, like a persistent toy automobile wound up and headed in a give
mircea_popescu: ary from week to week, from month to month. It is nothing absolute and immutable -- nothing which flows from objective reality. It is only the most recent manifestation of the wisdom of those in whom the ultimate wisdom is supposed to reside, because they represent the logic of history. The accumulative effect of these factors is to give to the whole subordinate apparatus of Soviet power [
http://trilema.com/2016/and-they-w mircea_popescu: nt: namely, the fact that the leadership is at liberty to put forward for tactical purposes any particular thesis which it finds useful to the cause at any particular moment and to require the faithful and unquestioning acceptance of that thesis by the members of the movement as a whole. This means that truth is not a constant but is actually created, for all intents and purposes, by the Soviet leaders themselves. It may v
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "On the principle of infallibility there rests the iron discipline of the Communist Party. In fact, the two concepts are mutually self-supporting. Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline. And the two go far to determine the behaviorism of the entire Soviet apparatus of power. But their effect cannot be understood unless a third factor be taken into accou
mircea_popescu: "Now it lies in the nature of the mental world of the Soviet leaders, as well as in the character of their ideology, that no opposition to them can be officially recognized as having any merit or justification whatsoever. Such opposition can flow, in theory, only from the hostile and incorrigible forces of [???]"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile on topics of "usg, the latest socialism", i very warmly recommend kennan's 1947 sources of soviet conduct.
mircea_popescu: town-and-country-propertyowners or somesuch. bourgeois-and-landholder
mircea_popescu: that was lenin's identification of the reds in his own party.
mircea_popescu: how do you say "burghezo-mosieresc" in ru ? term as in "Despre politica externă antinațională a guvernelor burghezo-moșierești din România, în timpul politicii imperialiste de așa-zisă 'neintervenție' "
mircea_popescu: the guys to whom assange attempted to leak, basically. the "public opinion", whatever.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yes, the scab cracked ~synchronously with $america-ended
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, well, in immediate context, the fellow from yest, preoccupied with "violent crime". in general, "republicans" up to 1980s or so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, this may even be, but i'd rather unearth the style than not.
mircea_popescu: in a sense, the children have taken over the insane asylum -- to anyone outside they make just as good mental patients as the older ones ; but inside they move quicker and are more vivacious, which are natural advantages.
mircea_popescu: because, specifically, reds have a lot more trouble dealing with alterity than blues. the blue has little trouble with alterity because they're mostly mentally retarded, no strong notions of self.
mircea_popescu: hanbot, it's not even coincidental that the pantsuit used "ts" as in trans-sexualism to liberate themselves from the traditional ("reds") socialist mindset and erupt like puss from a scab.
mircea_popescu: i can't readily say what it is i actually want algorithmically, which is why i'm not even certain it can be had. but the scrolling hurts my precious inner child.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, even IF in fact whitespace is meaningful, i still want the lines interlaced rather than chunked blocks i have to scroll up and down for.
mircea_popescu: socialist accounting of costs is a thing of wonder. obviously no such thing as 0-cost exists in nature, but they're ideal sorta folk.
mircea_popescu: moreover, check out the similar pattern of reaction to alterity : someone's unimpressed with this "marx" symbol ? must be immaturity! because the only 0-cost explanation of difference would be... "the different hasn't yet matured into us". anything else, profoundly threatening to the narc^Hsocialist.
mircea_popescu: caqn you even give example of lang besides bash where this matters ?
mircea_popescu: who was talking to networks besides mod6 btw ? did undernet say anything ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dude, check that shit out. a) romanian is the 2nd language, after pinoy english ? b) hardcore dude, PopaIonel.
mircea_popescu: i suspect working solvent more expensive than the solute in this case lol
mircea_popescu: must suck to be pantsuit/usgistani true believer these days.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the neverending lulz : russia is gonna help venezuela nao.
mircea_popescu: * chonkin (~katyab@c-75-67-100-34.hsd1.nh.comcast.net) has left #trilema << keks, too much is too much after all ?
mircea_popescu: de how they needn't appear at all, item wasn't changed -- is it specifically because of whitespace ? because honestly, one extra tab shouldn't produce a "new line of code".).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't give a shit if it makes 50mb pages. for THIS, and i know of no other use (perhaps "full list of comments on blog article"), any length is legitimate use of the mbs.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how anyone continues on the old style. it's like.... jesus. it's inconceivable.
mircea_popescu: and need i say it is SUCH A FUCKING PLEASURE to read vpatchs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, o yeah. imagine that! sovok cyanoacrylate, aka aracet (polyvinyl acetate, elmer;s glue).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and no, oif course he doesn't "own rights". that's both why you're supposed to make y0our own blog, rather than rely on some usg.scammer platform (be it called "facebook" or "mit", it makes exactly no difference, all the products of socialism are the same product).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: chonkin, the part that you're missing here is that "universities" are no longer doing anything. consequently, they no longer matters. this comes way before any "severed ties".
mircea_popescu: so -- if you don't like the strange rules the old women at the canasta club came up with, one very obvious, wide and practical avenue would be to... find something more age, gender, circumstance and mental-nonimpaired appropriate to do with your evenings.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, i don't know anyone who seriously believes "universities" are either important, noteworthy, or influential. for ~same money could discuss "canasta clubs" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it'd be my considered opinion that humanities, as sadly represented by say
that wykeham moron nevertheless are doing way the fuyck better than sciences. a 17% vs 2% sorta comparison.
mircea_popescu: chonkin, i think that's very much wishful thinking, "only happening on humanities side". mit has been churning out strictly illiterate "graduates" for decades now.
mircea_popescu: i suppose running into the republic is quite the source of mental dissonance huh.
mircea_popescu: moreover, "the judiciary" doesn't exist and doesn't figure as a matter of course ; with the exception of a particularly tenous attempt at empire building by the anglos, coupla centuries ago, "the judiciary" is ~same as "the bugaboo"
mircea_popescu: well, no, judiciary was entirely inconsequential. this is just you know, "liberal democracy" wank. the judiciary neither existed nor figured in either russian politicas or russian discourse. it was an army matter.
mircea_popescu: turned the item from state a, "a thin sliver of french-wankists atop a million village-sized ancestral communisms" into state b, "a thin sliver of rarara nation-of-soviet bureaucrats atop a unified communism 30mn strong"
mircea_popescu: it's unclear to me there was much strenght in imperial russia. seems more like a collection of rural mini-socialism ("mirvniki", w/e) which stalin integrated. kinda how this works, dropplets of the same thing join up.
mircea_popescu: fiction is fiction, what's the problem with that. especially if it's entertaining.
mircea_popescu: i mean, at some point there was this widespread belief that an island of warrior women exists somewhere.
mircea_popescu: nor are they properly called names, really. the plebs don't get names per se, rather the ~names~ get plebs associated now and again.
mircea_popescu: and otherwise, what i'm saying that "the german economist karl marx" is not different from "the methodist minister john heyl vincent" or "the public woman simone farrow" or whatever. i guess if you're related you're interested in the epitaph, but otherwise the cemeteries are full of "names". these names do not bear any consequence, nor do they last all that long.
mircea_popescu: chonkin, pm deedbot !!up then !!v the challenge string.
mircea_popescu: "Wildly influential pop celebrity with absolutely no intelligence. This is usually from the perspective of the parents of kids who listen to / emulate the tard in question."
mircea_popescu: chonkin, i expect deedbot will let you self-voice now, give it a try.