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a111: Logged on 2018-04-06 20:59 asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had a piece about how troobelievers in '
rule of law' will set themselves up into ridiculously doomed situations, where they fixate on some technicality, like changing their names to punctuation marks or somesuch, that Will Surely Crash The System
mircea_popescu: by this strike
of genius, you can now be left with the impression that you're in business, selling things. to yourself -- which is the fucking point, all the imperial scams work by your selling things to yourself, from facebook to "
rule of law".
a111: Logged on 2018-04-09 15:42 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there was also that hellvig lawsuit (which afaik went exactly the same place all other "
rule of law" challenges to notes-from-stalin ever went)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there was also that hellvig lawsuit (which afaik went exactly the same place all other "
rule of law" challenges to notes-from-stalin ever went)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kinda the blue state blueprint, in general. first subvert justice system then lie about
rule of law then so following.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : usg focused on infiltrating and corrupting ro justice system first ; as a result in 1999 they came up with a "rehabilitation" supreme court decision. ro govt refused to recognize it, which resulted in a lot
of usg agitprop material as to how "romania not yet
rule of law".
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 04:40 asciilifeform: the '
rule of law' racket is exactly about pro forma ban tho.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-20 19:16 mircea_popescu: Framedragger come to think about it, the logic actually follows. nature is red in tooth and claw. the hysteria
of "removing the red from nature's tooth and claw", usually sold by the "our democracy" lunatics as "
rule of law" or equivalent, directly runs all the way to "male penis is not reproductive organ but social construct".
scriba: Logged on 2017-05-20: [19:16:12] <mircea_popescu> Framedragger come to think about it, the logic actually follows. nature is red in tooth and claw. the hysteria
of "removing the red from nature's tooth and claw", usually sold by the "our democracy" lunatics as "
rule of law" or equivalent, directly runs all the way to "male penis is not reproductive organ but social construct".
mircea_popescu: Framedragger come to think about it, the logic actually follows. nature is red in tooth and claw. the hysteria
of "removing the red from nature's tooth and claw", usually sold by the "our democracy" lunatics as "
rule of law" or equivalent, directly runs all the way to "male penis is not reproductive organ but social construct".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's very symbolically imperial, also. the language
of "rights" and "
rule of law" makes it trival to start a "war on drugs" or "women against rape". then the state ends and everyone is at a loss why the fuck it did.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-09 16:05 asciilifeform:
https://archive.is/KJpLN >> 'Will Trump’s
Rule of Law Be Our
Rule of Law? The fate
of the entire legal apparatus
of government is in the balance.' << ooohnoez!111111
mircea_popescu: ah, but i don';t mean it re germany specifically. could have said france or italy just as well. what i mean is, that a "
rule of law" bureaucratic government with an economic presence is strictly speaking the nazi party irrespective
of any consideration, chief on the list what they say or think they want.
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: the lawsuit crackpot linked earlier was, imho, pure gold. he was genuinely convinced that
rule-
of-
law was a thing! and kept picking, picking at the cracks in it, utterly mystified that every single judge 'lost' his papers, etc
mircea_popescu: hahaha. and if "america" whatever that is would no longer be a populace opressed by "the
rule of law", everyone'd be very happy and could put down their weapons.
assbot: Logged on 07-01-2016 17:15:59; punkman: "The simple message Mr. Bundy and his band must hear is this: If everyone with a gripe against the government responded by threatening federal officials with weapons, America would no longer be a nation governed by the
rule of law. Their grievances, like everyone else’s, can be addressed. But not before they put down the guns."
punkman: "The simple message Mr. Bundy and his band must hear is this: If everyone with a gripe against the government responded by threatening federal officials with weapons, America would no longer be a nation governed by the
rule of law. Their grievances, like everyone else’s, can be addressed. But not before they put down the guns."
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 02:04:44; asciilifeform: the scam is not in hitler's ability to 'cut off your lips if he doesn't like your face' but in the ~pretense~ at this strange '
rule of law' fiction
ascii_field: ion about research it has performed,” the statement reads. “The university abides by the
rule of law, complies with lawfully issued subpoenas and receives no funding for its compliance.”'
mircea_popescu: none
of this "people agree,
rule of law, bla bla" nonsense any more.
decimation: ^ apparently in some places '
rule of law' kinda applies to cops
mircea_popescu: but broadly, "if the
rule of law didn't suck, or if it did and nobody'd bother showing it - what then ?"
mircea_popescu: me persuading people to betray uncle sam = corruption!111 ; congress coming up with fatca to FORCE people into betraying their own customers =
rule of law ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
rule of law is a statal fiction, news-at-eleven.
chetty: well given that the
rule of law is no more, no reason not to have a little 'fun'
mircea_popescu: (either side's claim as to the criminality
of the other being unresolvable, since no
rule of law, since "secret proceedings")
trinque: dunno that there ever was a time where
rule of law did matter here; I'm neither old enough nor educated enough to say
trinque: in my lifetime the perception that
rule of law is either real or honest seems to have been fading
mircea_popescu: then again, pirates invented the "honor among thieves" thing which is what we're fundamentally continuating here. "how could there be
rule of law otuside
of usg ?!?!" "same way there was
rule of law in the fucking bahamas"
mircea_popescu: Adlai are you discussing
rule of law or
rule of thugs ?
mircea_popescu: 1. The
Law of Imperfect Selection: Any objective
rule that defines eligibility for a social transfer program will irrationally exclude some persons.
gabriel_laddel: cazalla: consider this a request for a qntra article entitled "the promised land" with exit points: Russia, Israel, Argentina & China weighing the relative tradeoffs
of each with the angle that the US is going to fail. things I'm interested in knowing about each territory: character
of the
rule of law, taxes, status
of the tech scene, character
of the gov., description
of major cities, #
of nuclear reactors and thei
mats: there's only one
rule of law, and its wielded at the point
of a weapon
undata: without
rule of law no one can settle down and get some goddamn work done
undata: sound money,
rule of law, and I think we'd get to a place where most people can at least find food
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not
rule of law. but plenty
of upstanding individuals regardless. enough so to readily be leveraged into serious trouble for bureaucratic miscreants
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, an excellent example
of why so called "strict liability" and the
rule of law can not coexist.
justusranvier: It is the role
of that court to present the peasants with the illusion
of fair play and the
rule of law so they don't revolt. They aren't doing a very good job.
decimation: so you often complain about the '
rule of law not men'
ThickAsThieves: "Edmund Moy, the former director
of the U.S. Mint who’s become an outspoken proponent
of digital currencies, saw a mix
of good and bad as well, but ultimately he made two cogent points: first, that this is is a
rule, not a
law, and there’s a difference, and, two, that it can be changed as circumstances warrant."
xdotcomm_: the army; this event is also called by soldiers "dembel" or "DMB" (Russian: ДМБ)) half-year
of conscription, with the suffix -shchina which designates a type
of order,
rule, or regime (compare Yezhovshchina, Zhdanovshchina). Thus it can literally be translated as "
rule of the grandfathers." This is essentially a folk system
of seniority based on stage
of service, mostly not backed by code or
law, which
mircea_popescu: here are the companies the government supports, here are the people it doesn't support, "
rule of law" stuff.
cerelenius: its difficult to take balances in america because america tends to have stronger
rule of law then most
of europe
mircea_popescu: " I prefer a society based in the
rule of law to groups
of eager people with bright ideas who ignore everything that has gone before them." << we now have the definition
of the old fart.
mod6: when laws are arbitrarily enforced, there is no
rule of law.
dub: '
rule of law' is a libertard dream
jurov: pffft not even libertarian ideals..
rule of law.
mircea_popescu: This seems an opportune time to add, for the benefit
of readers who weren't around in the 1980's, that the
law pertaining to in rem forfeitures developed in the context
of narcotics seizures. Prior to that, the legal maxim, the
law abhors a forfeiture, was the
rule, and judges were generally antagonistic to forfeiture proceedings.
Diablo-D3: and the american people are now saying we must have a
rule of law and EVERYONE must be under it
dub: interestingly, friedcat has deleted the bit where he says 'obviously as everyone knows there is no
rule of law in china'
mircea_popescu: ya, totally. the us is in a position to discuss anyone's commitment to the
rule of law.
ThickAsThieves: "if Hong Kong doesn't act soon, it will complicate our bilateral relations and raise questions about Hong Kong's commitment to the
rule of law."
jurov_: to the wannabe
Rule Of Law irl?
mircea_popescu: well, you keep insisting on discussing places which have no
rule of law.