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— (((myownpotatopancake))) (@myownpetard) December 15, 2017
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At least the original Occupy folk wanted, however unrealistically, to help other people.
Do we assume this is paid advertising, or does Assange just have his own private bitcoin stash he’s planning to sell at peak?
Adam L Silverman
Did you see the email I sent you?
Corner Stone
We have a couple weeks. It can get dumber yet.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: Government shut down, Baby!
George
Any scenario that involves Assange leaving the Ecuadoran embassy should involve him getting at least a savage nutpunching
Duane
There’s no reason to pay attention to Assange until he’s arrested or otherwise taken out.
Matt McIrvin
Hell, we could have a nuclear war by Christmas.
George
@Duane: Or savagely nutpunched?
Corner Stone
@George: I have to say, I am 100% on Team George on this one.
Omnes Omnibus
There is no interpretation of that statement that makes sense without hallucinogens.
Omnes Omnibus
@George: @Corner Stone: #TeamGeorge #SavageNutpunch
Ken
He may have a point. If you extrapolate the electricity usage curve, by 2020 Bitcoin mining will consume the world’s entire supply of electricity. I have to think that would mean the end of Wall Street.
Though it’s possible the end might come sooner, since the “value” of bitcoins is following a superexponential growth curve. If you extrapolate that, it won’t be very long before the total value of bitcoins exceeds the yearly gross world product.
Bubble? Mathematically impossible with the new technology. Demonstrated with geometric logic.
Ruckus
Ahh the internet, helping to make irrelevant people more obvious since 1990ish.
SFAW
@Ken:
Are you one of them 11-dimensional chess players? Or perhaps a Time Cube adherent? Because that was all kinds of awesome.
SFAW
@George:
Can we expand the definition to encompass savage nutkick and savage baseballbatwhackinginthenuts? Asking for a friend.
A Ghost to Most
@George: You’re too kind, but I concur.
Tim C.
Is there a source someone could point me to that explains, in small and simple words, the internal pseudo-logic of all this hate toward the Federal Reserve System? I understand that monetary policy isn’t always all that interesting, but yeah, it does the boring job of controlling the amount of currency in the economy and setting interest rates… how do they build that into a Lizard-People level conspiracy?
Corner Stone
@Ken: Your logic is undeniable.
/ V.I.K.I.
B.B.A.
Since he used to be a FPer here and maybe a few of you care what’s happened to him (and haven’t pied me), I’ll repost:
Freddie deBoer is out of the hospital, on lots of meds, and for his own mental health has given up social media and politics blogging.
Corner Stone
Man, Chuck Rosenberg is a flat out badass.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any battery of Assange’s genitals.
George
@SFAW: Consider it done.
p.a.
Bitcoin systems are the nascent Matrix.
Ruckus
@Tim C.:
I believe it has to do with the idea that the really, really wealthy want all the money and they want it right now, and they don’t care who dies along the way to them getting it all. So you have a government entity that is theoretically neutral politically that controls what happens with money and that’s in their way and they can’t really purchase the people who control it. Now they have sold the idea to the RWNJs of this country that they, the ultra rich, should control the entire economy and there should be no government in the way. So the Fed is slime, they are evil, the devil incarnate.
Schlemazel
It is all part of Putin’s plan to totally destabilize the West. The bitcoin crash will hurt a lot of people and add to the economic pain already being felt. It will be a huge win for Putin & the boys
lollipopguild
@Tim C.: It makes a good Boogey-man. It’s far enough away and most people have no idea what it does but it is also close enough to provide the right sort of “threat’ to frighten stupid people with. Same deal with the “men in black helicopters” and all of those UN soldiers who were going to take over the country back in the 90’s when Bill Clinton was Prez.
Matt McIrvin
@Tim C.: It’s an anti-government variant of “the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy”.
Omnes Omnibus
@sylvania: Fuck off, troll.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
You must be a lawyer. One of us non-pettifoggers woulda used “assault.”
Literally.
Omnes Omnibus
@Matt McIrvin: There is an International Jewish Baking Conspiracy?
ETA: Never mind.
Tim C.
@lollipopguild:
@Ruckus:
Okay, I can get that I guess…. But… what do they the Fed can do? We should go back to using precious metals or something? Is this the 15% or so who think the government can just print money to pay for things?
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Funny. I do differentiate.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m guessing it’s the latest incarnation (so to speak) of “shomi.” Didn’t he get banned for stalking?
Corner Stone
@sylvania: Man, you are really slipping on your game. I mean, you didn’t even destroy commenters here by calling this place “Ball Juice” like you normally do!
Oh, wait.
SFAW
@Matt McIrvin:
Are you saying that Soros runs the Federal Reserve?
Adam L Silverman
@sylvania: Oh, you’re back. How have you been? Back in the box with you!
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
As do I, amazingly enough. And not a law degree in sight!
Matt McIrvin
@Tim C.: The people who are most into the Fed-hate tend to be goldbugs of some sort–they like precious metals because they think that precious metals have Inherent Value due to the labor required to mine it, and that any other kind of money is a fraud being perpetrated by the government. They’re also opposed to fractional-reserve banking, for similar reasons.
Bitcoin was designed to be ferociously deflationary, and to get more and more expensive to “mine” with needless computation, because quasi-goldbugs invented it and they think that’s a great thing for a currency to be.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
You have the thanks of a grateful
nationblog.Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Got it in one.
lollipopguild
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes Jewish Bakers will take over the country and force everyone to buy bagels and Challah bread. Also cream cheese and Lox. Harumpf! Harumpf! Harumpf!
Adam L Silverman
@Matt McIrvin: Yep.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, I have a salted caramel cheesecake post I’m planning on doing either later this evening or tomorrow evening.
Tim C.
@lollipopguild: Oh the horror! Don’t tell me! Please! Not Chinese food for Christmas dinner too!??!
SFAW
@lollipopguild:
Goddammit!! Now I got Blazing Saddles bits running through my teeny-tiny mind
Matt McIrvin
@Omnes Omnibus: Emily Littella, She-Wolf of the SS
StringOnAStick
The excuses my ex friend would make for Assange’s rape accusations should have been my first hint he was about to go full MRA. Interesting how he went from being an “enhancing the contradictions” idiot to an MRA idiot.
Omnes Omnibus
@lollipopguild: No onions and capers?
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
No. Not ever.
Maybe with Nova, but not lox. And only with those little toast triangles.
Splitting Image
@Ken:
Reminds me of a company called Northern Telecom back in the 1990s. At one point it was growing so fast that it accounted for one third the value of all the stocks on the Toronto exchange. I remember a writer noting at one point that if Nortel continued to grow at the same pace for five more years, it would be equal in value to every other company on earth. The writer concluded his column by noting that this might not happen. He also noted that, should it not happen, there might be some lasting effect on people who were investing in Nortel stock on the assumption that it would keep growing at its current rate.
That said, John McAfee has assured everyone that Bitcoin isn’t a bubble, so this time investors should be safe.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: I will differ to you. Now I will ask what the difference is. What is the difference?
SFAW
@Splitting Image:
I didn’t know McAfee was Dutch.
Although I seem to remember hearing that’s he’s a bit nuts. At least, I think it was McAfee, maybe my memory is playing tricks
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Between …?
Matt McIrvin
@Splitting Image: If you TRULY UNDERSTOOD THE MATHEMATICS, you would see that we will all end as slaves to Bitcoin, strapped to giant underground levers to feed power to its computronium mining engines. Dr. Rotwang’s robot chick will keep us in line.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: You’re going to differ to him? Is that a legal term?
Corner Stone
@lollipopguild: No, please no.*
*I actually don’t eat bread type products that much anymore but I can think of worse fates.
Anne Laurie
@Adam L Silverman:
I have now, but I won’t be able to do anything about it till tomorrow morning!
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Defer. Fuck.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Nova and lox.
SFAW
@Corner Stone:
It ain’t illegal yet? (One Omnes under a groove?)
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
I believe Nova is somewhat milder. Or so I’ve been told, since I try to steer clear of it.
Ken
@Splitting Image: Let’s see if this works: A classic Foxtrot on bubbles.
Adam L Silverman
@Anne Laurie: Tracking. Didn’t want to be driving in your lane.
Ruckus
@Tim C.:
I should have covered the gold bug idijets as well. You know the guys who think that all the gold has been removed and there is nothing backing all the money that the government prints and that the Fed is the controller of all the gold that has been stolen and the printing presses.
We really need to do something about the level of just plain general civic education in this country. Way, way too many people have no idea how the government works so they are free to come up with all kinds of fluff to fill in the holes in their knowledge. And that’s a lot of fluff.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: i have been wondering – is that the wrong-way Cole troll, just with a different nym?
edit: oh, and i see from the moment SFAW made that I am correct. I think shomi was a later nym for the same troll.
P.S. autocorrect wants to change shomi to shame. That works.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: I have been deferring getting fucked for a while now. Wait. Did I type that out loud?
Corner Stone
@SFAW: The groove is in the heart, my friend. Groove is in the heart.
StringOnAStick
@Ruckus: Gold buggieness is a religion often shared with libertoonianism. There are few things as frustrating as dealing with the former because it gets into Alex Jones territory quickly.
One of my friends had hired a two man remodeling company that ranted about this stuff at each other all day. She finally threw them out of her house after paying them for work they had done, but told them in no uncertain terms why she was throwing them out and to never ask for a recommendation, period. They were sure her real estate business was going to open easy money doors for them.
lamh36
Corner Stone
@lamh36: Seems like he was a fucking coward, IMO.
SFAW
@Corner Stone:
Type WHAT out loud?
SFAW
@Corner Stone:
George and Bootsy’s hearts, sure.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: And you know this kind of thing hasn’t just been happening to movie stars. How many millions of women haven’t gotten promotions or even jobs because of some pig like Weinstein?
WaterGirl
@lamh36: I hope that everyone who didn’t cast one of these women in something starts casting them now. Too little, too late, but it would be something.
M. Bouffant
Two words: Tulip Mania.
Cretinous humanoids are simply incapable of learning from their endless list of idiotic mistakes, aren’t they?
SFBayAreaGal
@Corner Stone: Yup
NotMax
Dunno if anyone has already mentioned it – as reaction to Dolt 45’s action, Christmas has been cancelled.
chopper
@George:
wait, only punched in the sack? what about his eminently punchable face? his soft (and you know it is) underbelly? his delicate, ready-to-cave-in neck?
no i have not fantasized about this.
chopper
@NotMax:
I pulled into nazareth
was feelin’ bout HEY WHERE ARE THE FUCKING CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS?
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
I replied to you about Agents of SHIELD.
burnspbesq
Can we arrange for this to happen to every male Republican?
http://thebiglead.com/2013/03/16/jimmy-bitter-unc-lacrosse-player-was-hit-in-the-nuts-by-a-duke-player-swinging-his-lax-stick-like-a-baseball-bat-video/
Eric U.
@B.B.A.: From his meds, Freddy is bipolar, so everything is explained. My daughter suffers from bipolar and she is in the hospital after intentionally driving her car into things. When she is manic, all bets are off. Sometimes I think I don’t know her at all. Hopefully, this latest episode will break her out of her love affair with being mildly manic, which is pleasant. But it isn’t sustainable. She always crashes (sometimes literally).
Now that I have seen manic episodes up close and personal many times, many inexplicable stories in the news make more sense to me. And it makes me fear for my daughter’s future if she doesn’t find away to avoid getting manic.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@B.B.A.:
Thanks, BBA. I never enjoyed FdB’s posts here, but it sounds like he’s been through some very dreadful times. His writing is more direct and less pretentious in the link you provided than I recall it being previously.
I hope things improve for him.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@WaterGirl:
Repeatedly. Like damned near every woman of my generation (I’m 56) who has spent most of her career in traditionally male fields. And, on the occasions I’ve (been forced, in order to maintain a paycheck, to have) established my cred as “one of the guys,” my reward has been to be privy to those hilarious conversations where the guys demonstrate the porcine logic by which they must deny promotions or jobs to some woman because they need to show off their chest-puffing piggishness to one another. Those women may have suspected but could never prove they were on the losing end of discrimination. Fuckin’ guys didn’t need to be as powerful as Weinstein, they just needed to be a little more powerful than women.
ZyklonBeaArthur
I know this is petty and possibly deranged, but it makes me psychotic to see Pamela Anderson parading in and out of the Ecuadorean embassy in scanty outfits trailed by a pack of photographers.
Assange is a Russian asset actively seeking to overthrow our democracy; as far as I’m concerned everyone who interacts with him should be imprisoned for giving comfort to the enemy.
I now have a much better understanding of the WWII photographs of French women being publicly shamed for cavorting with Nazis. Pamela Anderson’s US citizenship should be revoked and she should be swiftly deported to Canada.
Amir Khalid
@ZyklonBeaArthur:
You are right: your reaction to Pamela Anderson’s choice of friends is petty and deranged.
Duane
@Amir Khalid: Well done. A hanging curveball. You saw it and hit it out. That’s why you’re in the bigs.
Llelldorin
@Tim C.: I think it’s a popular delusion of the wealthy—they have money, and they strongly feel that they should be able to shove it under a mattress and stay at least precisely as wealthy as they are now, if not wealthier. One explicit goal of the fed is to discourage that sort of thing, so they deliberately allow a slow rate of inflation to force the wealthy to invest their money instead of unproductively hoarding it. To the truly wealthy, that’s obviously cheating.
Duane
@Llelldorin :My precious.
J R in WV
@B.B.A.:
Thanks, that’s good to hear. He isn’t evil enough to deserve to be in a mental institution for ever like some people.
Trump, for example.
or Richard Spencer…
bago
I’ll Voss your Winkles!
This may be the only event in spacetime where that makes sense.
Matt McIrvin
@Llelldorin: A popular delusion of the wealthy, and of libertarians who aren’t even wealthy but who have become convinced that they would be wealthy if the government weren’t doing something malign to take their riches away.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Oh, if there was ever a case that it was justice for a skiny white boy to be ass raped in a super max by gangs of angry black men, is would be Julian Assange
Steeplejack
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Not cool, dude.
aretino
I don’t expect that he has been paid specifically to shill Bitcoin. I think it is one of his regular job duties for his Russian employers. I figure that the Russians — organized crime generally, to be honest — has found an irresistible pump-and-dump scheme in Bitcoin.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Hey Steep. I saw that, belatedly, but the thread appeared to be dead by that time, so I didn’t reply. Yeah, every season kind of has it’s own brand of strange, but this one felt like a really creepy version of slavery mixed with geisha, or something like that. I kept the episodes just in case, and I’m still recording. I see that the next episode is something like “x person decides to go rescue y person, regardless of the cost”. Maybe that one will be more normal.
diierent-church-lady
He’s just trolling us now.
Shana
@lollipopguild: Don’t forget babka and rugelach.
Gex
Like Wall Street dislikes asset bubbles. That’s responsible for quite a large portion of their profits over the last three decades.