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Mon Mar 14 16:58:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> these are deeper issues that what can be addressed in plain conversation, i'm sure.
Mon Mar 14 16:58:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "They consider themselves leaderless. They can have representatives, they can have "evangelists" but they have to believe that their conclusions are all their own, through individual reflection and objective consideration. Interestingly, and on purpose, they believe their brains can handle such an analysis, any analysis. This isn't arrogance. They are told, by universities and the media, that their mind is prepared
Mon Mar 14 16:58:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> to do this heavy lifting as long as they are given just the right facts, filtered from the noise."
Mon Mar 14 16:58:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and on the other hand, the lulzy "a man that doesn't believe in allah can't possibly not go on a murdering rampage" deeply held if ridiculous, and certainly unexamined belief of egyptian peasants, except translated in time and space to you know, "one in a position of authority is necessarily both bad and responsible!"
Mon Mar 14 16:58:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> well, we're many layers above that, however. in this rarefied atmosphere which, however frustrating, is still many miles above the peasants with their fuckgoat, we meet the twin dragon of, on one hand,
Mon Mar 14 16:52:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it's the historical and to my eyes first sense of mean / meanness.
Mon Mar 14 16:50:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform you familiar with the saying "can take girl out of the trailer park, but not the trailer park out of the girl" ? that, except for boys.
Mon Mar 14 16:49:56 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> !up peter_lambert
Mon Mar 14 16:49:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> well yes with their consent, it's not rapine.
Mon Mar 14 16:49:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> that's the usual sense of hostile in that context.
Mon Mar 14 16:49:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in that it outsts some/all management.
Mon Mar 14 16:48:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> there's two peter lamberts ?!
Mon Mar 14 16:47:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> hey check it out, nobody spells icahn's name right.
Mon Mar 14 16:46:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL seems that time came and went.
Mon Mar 14 16:45:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i'll piss on his grave, judge or no judge.
Mon Mar 14 16:45:45 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> judge is going to rule "hey, mp must continue to spend liberally to try and build a thing out of nothing - BUT THIS TIME WE DECIDE HOW MUCH AND ON WHAT!!1" thus turning tmsr into the 51 state ?
Mon Mar 14 16:45:12 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> phf exactly how is this "not comply" going to work ? cuz i dun follow really.
Mon Mar 14 16:44:48 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in this life tho, you went another way.
Mon Mar 14 16:44:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yes, in a different life had you grown to be a jew and went into commercial law rather than kaballah, you would have done fine.