My sons and I were totally into that line. We also noted (as I'm sure Reiner and Brooks did) that, once uttered, you could be 100% certain whatever the "perimeter" was protecting was about to get whacked.

Nice. But isn't worse than that? Like we didn't give up so much as allow the "we won; project power" klan to indulge in a monumentally bad regime change fantasy. One of the great counterfactuals in recent history has to be: what *if* Gore'd been president and we simply leaned into Tora Bora.

Nick Land is evidently quite drug-addled and crazed at this point; but he's exhibited interesting thinking (cf. collabs w/ Sadie Plant and Mark Fisher). Yarvin is always puerile and lightweight.

It did what the system card claimed not because it's sentient but because of ginormous statistically-squashed vectors of written human behavior. Hey you were on twitter once.

:(

Carpe diem

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Shoot. Maybe JD's moment to unload

Having just finished Richard Evans' Nazi trilogy and two books on the Cultural Revolution, plus a Mao bio, I can confirm Carl's statement.

True. I think Richard J. Evans has argued that Weimar was a fairly standard parliamentary democracy, not so much constitutionally flawed as simply lacking in committed true believers.

Well said. Clearly Bernie wails on trump while exhibiting zero symptoms of reflexive trump derangement syndrome.