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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.; Buglord

has anyone said buttchain yet

# ? Oct 20, 2014 16:10

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 13:16

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

Heresiarch posted:

this is funny but i've always thought that palingenetic ultranationalism was a better fundamental description of fascism than eco's attempt (and i fuckin' love eco as an author)

and unfortunately the whole core of palingenetic ultranationalism is the return to a mythical golden age and bitcoiners (like other varieties of technoutopians) are literally the opposite of that

return to the glory days of the gold standard before bad things like the fed, the fda and your parents

# ? Oct 20, 2014 16:13

Heresiarch: Oct 6, 2005; Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

quote:

I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened to a system of gears whose teeth had been filed off at random. Such a snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even by a substandard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy, pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell.

The boss G-man concluded wrongly that there were no teeth on the gears in the mind of Jones. 'You're completely crazy,' he said.

Jones wasn't completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth hat are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined.

Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell--keeping perfect time for eight minutes and twenty-three seconds, jumping ahead two seconds, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year.

The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten-year-olds, in most cases.

mother night, vonnegut

# ? Oct 20, 2014 16:14

DaTroof: Nov 16, 2000; CC LIMERICK CONTEST GRAND CHAMPION
There once was a poster named Troof
Who was getting quite long in the toof

Heresiarch posted:

mother night, vonnegut

owns

# ? Oct 20, 2014 16:23

Moist von Lipwig: Oct 28, 2006; by FactsAreUseless; Tortured By Flan

apparently when i was 5 i asked for gold for christmas and by the time i was 8 i realized it was silly, mental age of coiners/goldbugs found I guess

# ? Oct 20, 2014 16:24

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

Heresiarch posted:

see also:

mother night, vonnegut

nice

# ? Oct 20, 2014 16:28

TVarmy: Sep 11, 2011; like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

today I saw that I can earn bunny bucks by buying energizer flashlights. crazy to see corporate backed altcoins coming out.

# ? Oct 20, 2014 16:40

Sir DonkeyPunch: Mar 23, 2007; I didn't hear no bell

TVarmy posted:

today I saw that I can earn bunny bucks by buying energizer flashlights. crazy to see corporate backed altcoins coming out.

Marlboro Miles, the original smokechain

# ? Oct 20, 2014 16:43

raminasi: Jan 25, 2005; a last drink with no ice

Subjunctive posted:

they're smart

i'm skeptical

# ? Oct 20, 2014 17:03

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE: Aug 1, 2004; whoa, what just happened here?; College Slice

Heresiarch posted:

eco described that particular phenomena really well (because he's a really good writer) but it's not exactly unique to fascism by any means

FMguru posted:

the weak/strong stuff is seen in all kinds of places, not just urfascism. the cold war images of the russians (a backwards, ignorant, improverished wasteland of bureaucratic dysfunction that couldnt produce enough toilet paper and toothpaste for its people while also being this cunning, sophisticated, enormous globe-spanning threat that never slept and was constantly working in all kinds of subtle ways to undermine freedom around the world and even inside the usa) and the war on terror (al-qaeda was both a medieval collection of camel-loving cave dwellers and a ruthless, disciplined, sophisticated global terror operation with access to cutting edge biological and chemical wmds and infiltrators in every western city) come to mind, as does the way that saddam hussein was presented in the run-up to the 1991 iraq war. what ive seen of british propaganda in early wwii also follows this pattern - the nazis were an enormous threat, but hitler himself was a farcical, ridiculous character.

it seems to be a natural component of "othering" a threat: theyre a danger, but theyre also beatable, so long as we stand strong and resolved.

e: or, what heresiarch said

eco isn't describing fascism (as in, any particular given example), he's describing ur-fascism, and ur-fascism can be at least glimpsed everywhere

yes, any regime that does the weak/strong stuff is trending at least a little bit fascist

# ? Oct 20, 2014 17:09

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE: Aug 1, 2004; whoa, what just happened here?; College Slice

and put it together with other items on the list

and well, it quacks like a loving duck

# ? Oct 20, 2014 17:15

Dren: Jan 5, 2001; Pillbug

theflyingexecutive posted:

9. For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.

Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such "final solutions" implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war.

bitcoiner valuation of evangelization over fixing the protocol

u missed the analogous thing. "to the moon!" is their godlen age, the fight against fiat is their battle.

GrumpyDoctor posted:

i'm skeptical

he probably meant smart as in "can do stuff" not smart as in "can do stuff but thinks critically and accurately about whether it's a good idea first"

# ? Oct 20, 2014 17:29

stoutfish: Oct 8, 2012; by zen death robot

fascism is in fashion

# ? Oct 20, 2014 17:50

FCKGW: May 21, 2006

new buttposter nic wrote something about bitcoin reddit

http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/why-people-dislike-the-cult-of-coin

# ? Oct 20, 2014 17:51

CoolCab: Apr 17, 2005; glem

FMguru posted:

what ive seen of british propaganda in early wwii also follows this pattern - the nazis were an enormous threat, but hitler himself was a farcical, ridiculous character.

does it count as propaganda if you're saying incredibly obvious and true things

hitler was a clown, that's how he managed to get to power. everyone thought they could use his populism to eliminate their savvy rivals and run circles around the austrian retard afterwards. he wound up proving the old "violence is the last resort of the idiot" maxim truer and sooner then they'd planned

# ? Oct 20, 2014 17:57

kiwid: Sep 30, 2013

lol i haven't checked up on bitcoin since karpeles farted. what did I miss in the past 6 months?

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:06

creatine: Jan 27, 2012

everything

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:07

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

kiwid posted:

lol i haven't checked up on bitcoin since karpeles farted. what did I miss in the past 6 months?

agencies of the federal government have said, on the record and in official correspondence, "buttcoin"

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:10

LongDarkNight: Oct 25, 2010; It's like watching the collapse of Western civilization in fast forward.; Oven Wrangler

FCKGW posted:

new buttposter nic wrote something about bitcoin reddit

http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/why-people-dislike-the-cult-of-coin

too many words

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:20

kiwid: Sep 30, 2013

FMguru posted:

agencies of the federal government have said, on the record and in official correspondence, "buttcoin"

rofl i dont believe you

LongDarkNight posted:

too many words

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:20

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

kiwid posted:

rofl i dont believe you

it's actually true

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:30

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

kiwid posted:

rofl i dont believe you

the federal trade commission has seized control of and is now the owner of buttcoin.org

that statement is 100% true and accurate

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:31

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

found it
https://soundcloud.com/animalnewyork-1/ftc-says-buttcoin

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:33

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

also bitcoin crashed to $300 and recovered when all the bitcoiners paid one person a couple million dollars and they call this a great victory complete with fanart and its own sub-cult

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:33

sleepy gary: Jan 11, 2006

please get some proofreaders for the articles on buttcoinfoundation.org guhhhh

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:38

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

FMguru posted:

the federal trade commission has seized control of and is now the owner of buttcoin.org

that statement is 100% true and accurate

what lol

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:39

Alliterate Addict: Jul 10, 2012; dreaming of that face again

it's bright and blue and shimmering

grinning wide and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes

FCKGW posted:

new buttposter nic wrote something about bitcoin reddit

http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/why-people-dislike-the-cult-of-coin

new buttposter nic is a good buttposter but needs to run a spell/grammar check over his articles before uploading them

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:41

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE: Aug 1, 2004; whoa, what just happened here?; College Slice

graph posted:

what lol

completely true

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:43

Dr. Honked: Jan 9, 2011; eat it you slaaaaaaag

graph posted:

what lol

Boxturret posted:

found it
https://soundcloud.com/animalnewyork-1/ftc-says-buttcoin

that's someone from the ftc saying buttcoin

# ? Oct 20, 2014 18:45

FCKGW: May 21, 2006

Ursine Asylum posted:

new buttposter nic is a good buttposter but needs to run a spell/grammar check over his articles before uploading them

he's still way better than any garbage i would write

# ? Oct 20, 2014 19:10

Dixie Cretin Seaman: Jan 22, 2008; all hat and one catte; Hot Rope Guy

FCKGW posted:

he's still way better than any garbage i would write

we can't show any weakness in front of the bitcoiners, lest they realize their true power

or do i have to remind u who u work for??

# ? Oct 20, 2014 19:25

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

api call girl posted:

and put it together with other items on the list

and well, it quacks like a loving duck

honked again

# ? Oct 20, 2014 19:26

FCKGW: May 21, 2006

I just noticed that sometime in the past year Butterfly Labs purchased WeUseCoins.com

WeUseCoins is one of the oldest Bitcoin websites (about a month before Buttcoin started, early 2011) and is known as the official "beginners guide" for new bitcoin users. It's on the Bitcoin wiki, the subreddit, and posted any time someone wants to know about Bitcoin. They also made the very popular "What is bitcoin?" video that has over 600k views.

The site now says "BF Labs" on the bottom, but purchasing the site was mainly to inject product links to BFL products.

Take the link on this page to "mining contracts".

Here's the page as it was cached in October 2013:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131010210100/http://www.weusecoins.com/en/mining-guide

Link goes to the official Bitcoin wiki

Now look where it goes to:
https://www.weusecoins.com/en/mining-guide

Butterfly Labs. Their links are peppered everywhere else on the site to. Any link that went to the Bitcoin wiki that mentions Mining Hardware or Mining Contracts now goes to the BFL website.

WeUseCoins is a PR6 website in Google which is very authoritative. Has over 450k backlinks as well.