| 10:50 |
awt_akris |
Incredible turnaround over the past 10 years. |
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~ 1 hours 49 minutes ~ |
| 12:39 |
billymg |
has everyone else here already read The Camp of the Saints? i see that it was mentioned once in the logs, referencing a qntra mention |
| 12:39 |
bitbot |
(trilema) 2017-03-23 phf: on recommendation of qntra i bought a copy of "The Camp of The Saints". i'm hoping it'll teach me about the great again |
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~ 17 minutes ~ |
| 12:56 |
awt_akris |
I listened to an audio version but mostly while trying to sleep |
| 12:57 |
awt_akris |
I don't really feel like I need to read it kinda selling past the close for m |
| 12:57 |
awt_akris |
*me |
| 13:09 |
awt_akris |
My daughter is an antisemite btw I have to reign her in. It's been that much of a reversal. |
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~ 15 minutes ~ |
| 13:24 |
billymg |
yeah, the "joo joo joo" rhetoric is smokescreen to provide cover for leftists. on the other hand jews could help their cause by all becoming based like Stephen Miller |
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| 13:32 |
billymg |
The Camp of the Saints btw correctly identifies The Left, and leftism, as the enemy |
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~ 23 minutes ~ |
| 13:56 |
awt_akris |
Yes much antisemitisms for the wrong reasons happening |
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~ 4 hours 19 minutes ~ |
| 18:15 |
asciilifeform |
http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2026-01-11#1035909 << pretty luscious anglotard lulz in the linked piece. (e.g. 'food shortages in 3rd reich' -- in our timeline, not until well into the war, and at no pt extended to famine, until after surrender) |
| 18:15 |
bitbot |
Logged on 2026-01-11 13:24:39 billymg: yeah, the "joo joo joo" rhetoric is smokescreen to provide cover for leftists. on the other hand jews could help their cause by all becoming based like Stephen Miller |
| 18:16 |
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asciilifeform finds difficult to keep reading after a gaffe of this kind |
| 18:19 |
asciilifeform |
the krauts pioneered some interesting tech that got damnatio memoriae'd after old adolf bit it. e.g. glucose from wood pulp. Honigersatz. |
| 18:23 |
asciilifeform |
'envy and covetousness. Covetousness is that someone wants to knock over the apple cart to grab some apples. Envy is he just want to knock over the apple cart because he does not have one.' << lol. replace e.g 'apple' w/ say 'land' & see if you agree. |
| 18:24 |
asciilifeform |
'musical chairs morality'. i.e. 'who happens to have $goodies right now, because i get to decide the time parameter, is rightful owner'. |
| 18:27 |
asciilifeform |
( spoiler: in real life, 'whose apples' is decided by very simple algo, and whining in 1 direction or other aint a parameter in it ) |
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~ 24 minutes ~ |
| 18:52 |
asciilifeform |
'“Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should -- in which, for example, the Spanish Armada was a success or the Russian Revolution was crushed in 1918 -- and he will transfer fragments of this world to the his |
| 18:52 |
asciilifeform |
tory books whenever possible.” |
| 18:52 |
asciilifeform |
(tm)(r)(mr.o) |
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~ 46 minutes ~ |
| 19:39 |
billymg |
https://www.google.com/search?q=did+the+early+nazi+regime+under+hitler+suffer+national+food+shortages |
| 19:39 |
billymg |
see "AI" summary, which includes links to various sources |
| 19:39 |
billymg |
author never claimed 'famine', only shortages |
| 19:45 |
billymg |
https://orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_abomb#:~:text=Unable%20to%20conquer%20one%20another,unpredictable%20demographic%20changes. |
| 19:47 |
billymg |
the linked orwell piece even foreshadows where we are now |
| 19:52 |
billymg |
whoops, here's the correct contravex link https://contravex.com/2025/12/14/huddling-for-warmth-at-bitcoin-mena-2025/#footnote_13_34350 |
| 19:58 |
billymg |
and the tweet he references in his footnote appears to me to be the case. some chinese generals wrote a book on it even |
| 19:58 |
billymg |
so we went nuclear stalemate -> fifth-gen/unrestricted war |
| 20:01 |
billymg |
referencing the orwell piece again, are bots, memes, drones, rsa, bitcoin, etc. democratic weapons or weapons of tyranny? |
| 20:03 |
billymg |
to me it's still unclear |