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mircea_popescu: colbert was efficient, not particularly charismatic.
napoleon was charismatic. not particularly efficient.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 12:01:47; mircea_popescu: balzac's french contemporaries (who were on the
napoleon gold standard) pretty much used the beatings, which did make for great literature but really a rather miserable society.
mircea_popescu: balzac's french contemporaries (who were on the
napoleon gold standard) pretty much used the beatings, which did make for great literature but really a rather miserable society.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the most important point of military strategy is that a weak position which the enemy doesn't invest is not really weak in any sense. this is the meaning of
napoleon's "never interrupt"
decimation: mircea_popescu: certainly
napoleon had an aspie-like grasp of tactics, etc
decimation: especially since 99.999% of 25 year olds are not
napoleon decimation: plus, maybe if the 25 year old is
Napoleon you can get rich on some awesome loot
decimation: it's appeal to
Napoleon to finally rule the world
decimation: it's possible the derp could be
Napoleon mircea_popescu: (you may think "oh, wouldn't it be more logical to do africa first ?" and no, it wouldn't. africa's inhabited by monkeys currently, so it doesn't matter. same pattern played out in 1705 -
napoleon went after europe not after the us. because in 1705 the us was africa)
mircea_popescu: and the numerous coallitions of defeated european monarchs trying to save monarchies from
napoleon davout: 'At Jena,
Napoleon won a battle he could not lose. At Auerstädt, Davout won a battle he could not win".'
mircea_popescu:
napoleon's general that won the battle of jena for the confused four footer's name was davout.
ascii_field: recall
napoleon's 'can do anything you want with a bayonet but to sit on it' ?
mircea_popescu: the process is wholly self-referential. it is in no sense different from the goings on in any insane asylum. you are essentially asking "ok, the sanitariums of the world hold a supply of at least 5000
napoleons. why is there no glorious history being produced ?"
mircea_popescu: decimation : re the "russia supporting independent mexico" thing : this has already ahppened.
napoleon iii fromed a mexican monarchy, under maximillian. the us refused to recognise.
mircea_popescu: same reason
napoleon tried to invade moscow not magnitogorsk, same reason the barricades went up in paris not derpue-sur-herpoise
mircea_popescu: back in the 60s, even clowns in
napoleon costumes were accomplished engineers.
mircea_popescu: Alexander Fox @AutonoZone · Oct 6 @
napoleon @BitcoinBelle Idealism is a dangerous investment strategy. Just look at the goldbugs. Global capital is pouring into the USD. <<< why does the usd sound so much like every other altchain scam ?
BingoBoingo: A light shiny metal,
Napoleon commisioned Aluminum flatware.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> "we are looking to hire a young cowhand, you will also be our
napoleon" << haha
mircea_popescu: "we are looking to hire a young cowhand, you will also be our
napoleon"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In
Napoleon's army mustaches
mircea_popescu: how about
napoleon ? better string of predecessors pissing away throne could scarcely be devised.
Dimsler: before
napoleon came and raped germany
mircea_popescu: your idea of germanity is perhaps very similar to
napoleon's
mircea_popescu: i guess these known affectations are overpopulated and so don't hold as much perceived cachet,. huh. random tramp invited for her tits and drunken antics at some party wouldn't get away with claiming she's the real niece of
napoleon's first wife quite as well.
mircea_popescu: caesar is not much for an example. similarly
napoleon, minus his pr, was not jacobin at all.
decimation: but this usually doesn't end well for anyone ie
Napoleon BingoBoingo: mike_c> psh, anybody can do world domination <<
Napoleon could even take Ethiopia which was such an easy target the fucking Dagos took it a century later
HeySteve: nubbins, this looks like
napoleon dynamite kinda movie
mircea_popescu: (
napoleon's "general's baton" bs is nothing but the reimplementation of the gracchi's reforms, 20 centuries prior)
mircea_popescu: but look at the matter : ever since
napoleon implemented the idiotic idea that people generally should have a voice merely for having been born,
truffles:
Napoleon wasnt weak why dont they mention him?
greenspan_fan: But of course
Napoleon won because he was an extremely effective leader of a particularly important part of society
wbaw: and didn't
napoleon lose?
greenspan_fan: And wasn't it barras who was jockeying for position w/
napoleon?
mircea_popescu: philippe egalite didn't end up the head of the french republic.
napoleon did.
mircea_popescu: the thought process being,
napoleon was a great general, great generals are forewarned, being forewarned is like having an extra pair of arms,
mircea_popescu: they let it run overnight, among the conclusions it had arrived to by morning was "
napoleon had an infinite number of arms"
☟︎ BingoBoingo: In
Napoleon III's court Aluminium was worth everything
mircea_popescu: the problem we have now is with the nationalist state of
napoleon (and the us which is really just a pale copy) having successfully attacked this natural wot
thestringpuller: maybe i want a
napoleon-esque style portrait of mircea_popescu commissioned
mircea_popescu: i am black
napoleon, i discovered america in indonesia.
mircea_popescu: in the simplest translation of common law that even a
napoleonic lout might get, they don't have tyhe right to THAT capital. just to something equivalent, as practicable.
Namworld: It would have to be zombie
napoleon nyRednek: unless you live under
napoleonic code, which throws legal precedent out the window