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Klemperer's "Lingua Tertii Imperii" is a good read. It's not all, just a bit to add.

1. When you can spend a lot on security staff, they'll probably convince you that your own installation of Windows is sterile.
2. They probably use Macs.
3. They might even only use air-gapped machines, with sufficient paranoia.

And that's intentional.

So I'm going to say into the air that I was lucky in my selection of mass culture in my childhood.

Star Wars EU before 2010 - everything around us and that feeling of desperation and who can and can't be trusted and the rapid change of the world, "rapid" meaning in the span of 13 years for prequels and then 20 years after them till OT, which is similar to our reality, HP - things about terfs and culture wars are really not important, because its world functions similarly to our surrounding world.

Tolkien and Chesterton and Lewis.

Lots of crazy stuff, Honorverse and Forgotten Realms and small fandoms.

AI stands for Ambitious Indian

(Just plagiarizing the joke about that company that went bankrupt)

You'd have good games and no bullshit on your PC.

It's an easy proxy.

Those Republicans should just think of a practical 2A air defense solution

That'll be really slow.

Except it's fucking awful to wait for buffering over Tor or a VPN

BTW, who even had the brilliant idea to block pr0n for French of all people?

BTC has an unregulated currency (yes, it still is capable to function as that) to show for it. Probably somebody could have invented a better emission mechanism for it, but not being that somebody, I can't think of anything with the same qualities.

Governance is actually important. Whoda thunk?

Some day you'll read Tao Te Ching and maybe stop thinking in absolutes.

Where I live libertarians are the most adequate part of the social fabric suppressed by that governance. Trots are the second.

In any case, you can have a thought experiment of the same town the same size with a group of people assuming governance and telling others what to do. They can collect taxes and tell they are using them as well as they can. The bear problem will probably be smaller, albeit sometimes someone complaining will accidentally meet a bear, the drowning in trash one - I dunno, probably the trash will move to the places furthest from where that group lives, but won't be really disposed of, because - why? No incentive.

I've become a libertarian after watching one enthusiastic teacher organize some sort of discussion clubs. Everyone in favor of more governance eventually shifted to authoritarianism, when talking long enough, because when you are thinking as if you were the government, you just won't understand why you shouldn't surrender power and then why you should answer to anyone. Less governance - OK, I was alone in that, but the best (in their opinion) argument the others found was "so how do you host olympics in a libertarian land, or build a centrally planned new city? checkmate", and of course there's nothing I can answer to that because I don't think a society needs global projects or flag days.

I'm talking about ancaps as well.

It's a technical decision. There are so many things in life where you can lose everything in a moment without a fraction of your own guilt, and nobody can help you.

Thanks to that technical decision BTC still functions the way I described.

I know it's not anonymous.

It has the widest reach of cryptocurrencies.

by now, power is the only ideology. They’re mighty so they must be right, don’t they?

It's not about "right". It's that you can't trust anyone, and if you make a mistake, your own input to any revolution doesn't happen.

Russia had a revolution before, it can have one again. ...

Collective psyche can be regulated. It will happen when people in Kremlin make a mistake.

Who would be the current-day Bolsheviks, opposed to the deposed-of system but also to the freedom of the people?

Yes, that is where I'll add that making a transitional committee of Yashin, Navalnaya and others, augmented with the older wave like Kasparov and Portnikov, might not be a good idea. Only allowing ex-commies (ex-system in this case) to "turn democrat" and become the government like in 1991 can be worse.

I'd probably trust escapist communists like RSD and groups of edgy ancap children more.

Is that different for non-libertarian paradise-building attempts?

I swear, you guys just apparently decide nobody will ask the obvious questions, because libertarians are an allowed target.

Libertarianism doesn't deny empathy and "pro social behavior" (as an autistic person, I rarely see it toward myself, not being liked and not making right faces - apparently not deserving of it, but OK ; it's already good if those "pro social" people don't consider it normal to steal from you when they don't like you), it actually relies on those more.

The issue is that it's something that needs scale and consistency. You can't just assemble a bunch of idealists and crooks and expect them to make a working mechanism.

I don't think there were many more successful attempts by left anarchists.

BTC is useful though.

It's very easy to judge from the EU, but if you are in Russia and need to pay for something in the interwebs, it's very convenient to have an imperfect, but kinda functioning system like this.

(Idiots replying with "go rebel" or "change location" need not bother, I happen to have family, friends, dog, ASD and BAD, my sister who's on my support every time she makes a planning mistake can change location, I can't. I'm also not a Jedi chosen one to have useful options of "rebelling".)

Closest they got to ending that cunt was Prigozhin attempting a coup in a drunken rage, but he sobered up and chickened out before it was done.

No. Prigozhin was a spoiler. A demining attempt, because Putin probably got afraid enough of a coup in the military and decided to use Prigozhin to try and detect people in the high command who'd assist Prigozhin or react favorably, or at least not do enough to impede.

Russians keep gravitating towards authoritarians over and over again. Can’t think of any other country that reverted back to it multiple times in a century. Weak people want strong man leaders, just how it is.

Russia has special services. They work all the time, work very well, and "entrapment" is not a problem for them, similar to "fruit of a poisoned tree". When you detect people likely to wish for a change early enough and neutralize them, either by silently jailing or intimidating or disrupting them, the society is much more amorphous.

It's not about gravitating anywhere, wishes or sympathies.