snsabot: asciilifeform: time since my last reconnect : 38d 11h 1m
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, qntra piece brings a great point to the fore, incidentally : the usg managed to implode its colonial posessions / colonial "influence sphere" in the new world JUST EXACTLY like the soviets managed three decades prior.
mircea_popescu: except THESE idiots have no "greater enemy" to "blame" for it.
mircea_popescu: they did it by themselves, for themselves, ~through being themselves~. JUST LIKE the other idiots.
mircea_popescu: just like all the other idiots ever, starting with every 4 year old. no, the chair isn't alive and didn't willingly trip you up.
mircea_popescu: well, the brits being a laughingstock surprises nobody.
spyked: asciilifeform, ty! bot's back on the line
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, this recent comments thing is immensely helpfull, now i can follow wtf
mod6: hai asciilifeform :]
mod6: just stopped in for a moment, shall bbl.
BingoBoingo: ^ In Airstrip One continuing to dehumanize to maximize the number of human lives
mircea_popescu: pretty lulzy shit. meanwhile dousing 12yos in gasoline pre-gangrape all halal still.
BingoBoingo: Well, the gasoline's potential danger incentives submission on the part of the doused. The knife point's potential danger has contexts where it could promote resistance.