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(trilema) spandrell: hope you buy my book if I write it
(trilema) spandrell: pleasure talking to you
(trilema) spandrell: anyway, gentlemen, i must go
(trilema) spandrell: but they put up with it in order to beat the crap out of china
(trilema) spandrell: chinese dun wanna live with niggers too
(trilema) spandrell: i'm the linguist, you dont play semantics with me
(trilema) spandrell: race doesnt exist!
(trilema) spandrell: there you go
(trilema) spandrell: what does that say
(trilema) spandrell: japanese dont emigrate, most certainly not to russia
(trilema) spandrell: russians emigrate, some even to japan
(trilema) spandrell: i mean you're trying to argue that life in russia is good
(trilema) spandrell: any college, any profession
(trilema) spandrell: college grads
(trilema) spandrell: an average salary for a 35 year old man in tokyo would be USD50k year
(trilema) spandrell: the same job in tokyo
(trilema) spandrell: how much is the equivalent moscow wage?
(trilema) spandrell: no way it costs more than 2000 unless you're in an absurdly fancy place
(trilema) spandrell: dishwasher increasingly so
(trilema) spandrell: washing machine is of course universal
(trilema) spandrell: 100sqm, USD400k
(trilema) spandrell: most people in tokyo live in 2 story houses in the suburbs
(trilema) spandrell: depending how central
(trilema) spandrell: well in tokyo it can go for 1200-2000
(trilema) spandrell: provincial town though, not tokyo
(trilema) spandrell: 600 dollars
(trilema) spandrell: prices are pretty cheap these days
(trilema) spandrell: wages arent that high
(trilema) spandrell: utterly middle class
(trilema) spandrell: if russia were rich i'd be living there myself; who the hell wants to stand progressive bullshit if we could avoid it
(trilema) spandrell_: i mean come on
(trilema) spandrell_: single people do
(trilema) spandrell_: families don't live in 1-rooms
(trilema) spandrell_: 1-rooms are 1-rooms
(trilema) spandrell_: i mean come on
(trilema) spandrell_: where she's supposed to be
(trilema) spandrell_: it connects to the kitchen
(trilema) spandrell_: it has a mike too so you can call your wife from the bathtub to ask for a beer
(trilema) spandrell_: and once it's done you get a girl voice saying "sir your bath is ready"
(trilema) spandrell_: set the temperature
(trilema) spandrell_: press a button
(trilema) spandrell_: and baths are automatic
(trilema) spandrell_: everybody has hot water here
(trilema) spandrell_: i dont even know what electric submersion means
(trilema) spandrell_: hot water? what are you talking about
(trilema) spandrell_: unlike jp?
(trilema) spandrell_: that kind of stuff
(trilema) spandrell_: hospitals with rats
(trilema) spandrell_: got a ukrainian pal which is fond of sending me pictures of the russian countryside
(trilema) spandrell_: such that brain drain happens
(trilema) spandrell_: low living standards
(trilema) spandrell_: oh come on, china is resisting too
(trilema) spandrell_: but russia sucks, which detracts from its credibility
(trilema) spandrell_: anyway, russian reaction might be awesome
(trilema) spandrell_: yep
(trilema) spandrell_: i'd rather not say
(trilema) spandrell_: but japan is completely awesome and i didnt see the point
(trilema) spandrell_: hasnt been kidnapped afaik
(trilema) spandrell_: got a coworker who had a kid too and stayed
(trilema) spandrell_: i mean it's not that bad
(trilema) spandrell_: babies get kidnapped all the time
(trilema) spandrell_: schools are crazy expensive
(trilema) spandrell_: air is poisoned
(trilema) spandrell_: food is poisoned
(trilema) spandrell_: didnt want to raise kids there
(trilema) spandrell_: kids
(trilema) spandrell_: i was in china for years actually
(trilema) spandrell_: they'd like to but they're chickens like that
(trilema) spandrell_: at least chinese men wont try to kill you
(trilema) spandrell_: chinese women are easier than arab women
(trilema) spandrell_: what keeps you from going back
(trilema) spandrell_: hah
(trilema) spandrell_: you're russian?
(trilema) spandrell_: who else? dugin?
(trilema) spandrell_: limonov counts as reactionary?
(trilema) spandrell_: how's the approach
(trilema) spandrell_: so what, russian blogs?
(trilema) spandrell_: oh
(trilema) spandrell_: what's ru?
(trilema) spandrell_: you get to own your woman
(trilema) spandrell_: well islam solves that
(trilema) spandrell_: you're also saying that having children makes no sense because you cant own them or own your own wives
(trilema) spandrell_: so you're saying here that arabs are cool, probably not even dumb
(trilema) spandrell_: thank you
(trilema) spandrell_: whites prefer arabs to chinese
(trilema) spandrell_: that they're gonna get fucked one way or the other
(trilema) spandrell_: and again i also wrote recently about asians in the west
(trilema) spandrell_: lol
(trilema) spandrell_: whites are likely to enjoy islam
(trilema) spandrell_: arab culture is bro culture
(trilema) spandrell_: gentlemen, you are really making my point
(trilema) spandrell_: the equivalent white guy would've not talked about soccer
(trilema) spandrell_: this egyptian was a damn PhD
(trilema) spandrell_: and his dumb religion
(trilema) spandrell_: egyptian talked about soccer a lot
(trilema) spandrell_: a lame book they might have read while on the commute
(trilema) spandrell_: some politics
(trilema) spandrell_: TV
(trilema) spandrell_: normal people in europe would talk about soccer
(trilema) spandrell_: well even controlling for IQ
(trilema) spandrell_: yep
(trilema) spandrell_: oh yeah
(trilema) spandrell_: whether they are genetically dumb I guess is disputable, and I have no special evidence
(trilema) spandrell_: but i find them dumb and boring in general
(trilema) spandrell_: i mean to each his own, i really have nothing against that
(trilema) spandrell_: husband was an engineering PhD
(trilema) spandrell_: was wearing*
(trilema) spandrell_: laughed a lot
(trilema) spandrell_: she was very nice indeed
(trilema) spandrell_: the woman was were a full black burka
(trilema) spandrell_: not long ago
(trilema) spandrell_: i met this egyptian couple in japan
(trilema) spandrell_: apparently liked it
(trilema) spandrell_: japanese dudes going alone
(trilema) spandrell_: some friends went to iran
(trilema) spandrell_: iran
(trilema) spandrell_: isfahan is not arab, though
(trilema) spandrell_: probably like peasant migrants look to native Shanghai urbanites
(trilema) spandrell_: that's the thing with chicago
(trilema) spandrell_: it was hard enough to avoid getting scammed when asking for tea
(trilema) spandrell_: i didnt have the confidence to go seek a hooker in casablanca, honestly
(trilema) spandrell_: and morocco, once
(trilema) spandrell_: in europe
(trilema) spandrell_: muslim arabs
(trilema) spandrell_: christians i guess
(trilema) spandrell_: arab hos?
(trilema) spandrell_: oh yeah
(trilema) spandrell_: why would anyone study arabic?
(trilema) spandrell_: wtf
(trilema) spandrell_: people who speak arabic
(trilema) spandrell_: so you mean arabs are not dumb and hostile
(trilema) spandrell_: my thing! i'm the guy saying islam might be a good idea
(trilema) spandrell_: they're dumb and hostile
(trilema) spandrell_: but you cant write a book saying that arabs are dumb
(trilema) spandrell_: you can shit on feminism at home or at the bar with your buddies
(trilema) spandrell_: publishing is that
(trilema) spandrell_: nobody does unless you get into cathedral circles
(trilema) spandrell_: it is better than jail with Ahmed
(trilema) spandrell_: where you from
(trilema) spandrell_: all of them
(trilema) spandrell_: 5 more years
(trilema) spandrell_: i said women are dumb too
(trilema) spandrell_: 5 years jail
(trilema) spandrell_: i said blacks are dumb
(trilema) spandrell_: no kidding
(trilema) spandrell_: hate speech
(trilema) spandrell_: my blog would get me in jail in my home country
(trilema) spandrell_: i can't get book deals because i dont write under my real name
(trilema) spandrell_: and indeed the book started a fever of books on how being shameless and evil helps you with chicks too
(trilema) spandrell_: which is kinda like the dark triad
(trilema) spandrell_: you gotta be shameless and evil, then you can achieve great things
(trilema) spandrell_: which translates to shameless and evil
(trilema) spandrell_: then he says, two words: thick and black
(trilema) spandrell_: how all the dynasty founders and all the great heroes we adore came to be so great
(trilema) spandrell_: saying he discovered the secret of the great men of history
(trilema) spandrell_: publishes an article on a local newspaper
(trilema) spandrell_: confucian scholar
(trilema) spandrell_: 1912
(trilema) spandrell_: i could write about this guy
(trilema) spandrell_: well i guess that explains it
(trilema) spandrell_: his wife's rich?
(trilema) spandrell_: he did sell a damn lot of books tho
(trilema) spandrell_: lol
(trilema) spandrell_: yep
(trilema) spandrell_: i mean i could, but i'd run out of funny stories pretty fast
(trilema) spandrell_: 5k are nice, but it's not like i can write a book every month
(trilema) spandrell_: that's the thing tho
(trilema) spandrell_: i write fast, i'm awesome like that
(trilema) spandrell_: i don't see how that follows
(trilema) spandrell_: stories*
(trilema) spandrell_: didn't take me more time to write all those storeis
(trilema) spandrell_: well if i can't get 5 pages per hour i'm not bothering with the damn book
(trilema) spandrell_: lol
(trilema) spandrell_: that a page of a book should take more than an hour?
(trilema) spandrell_: whats a) supposed to mean
(trilema) spandrell_: well my blog has a decent readership, i don't think 1,000 is farfetched
(trilema) spandrell_: that's 5,000 bucks which is nice but nothing special
(trilema) spandrell_: and i sell 1,000 copies
(trilema) spandrell_: i sell it for 5 bucks
(trilema) spandrell_: if i spend, say, 100 hours writing a book
(trilema) spandrell_: no
(trilema) spandrell_: Orz
(trilema) spandrell_: i could sell pdfs by myself
(trilema) spandrell_: amazon takes 30%
(trilema) spandrell_: no no
(trilema) spandrell_: im pseudonymous
(trilema) spandrell_: well i cant do it for the fame
(trilema) spandrell_: lol
(trilema) spandrell_: yep
(trilema) spandrell_: should i bother writing the book?
(trilema) spandrell_: i take it you guys liked my chinese stories
(trilema) spandrell_: anyway, i didnt come here to convince you to marry and have children
(trilema) spandrell_: if somebody actually bothers to supplant me i'll feel very flattered
(trilema) spandrell_: thanks
(trilema) spandrell: nobody has 3 cats except crazy catladies
(trilema) spandrell: which is why people tend to have 1 or 2, as beyond that they start being less cute and more annoying
(trilema) spandrell: little else
(trilema) spandrell: they are useful for being cute and cuddly
(trilema) spandrell: kids today are pets
(trilema) spandrell: i wrote a post about that too
(trilema) spandrell: kids aren't very useful there
(trilema) spandrell: they're into drinking parties and constant warfare
(trilema) spandrell: but their particular lifestyle means that for them children have no marginal utility either
(trilema) spandrell: live in 1110
(trilema) spandrell: the water margin herodudes
(trilema) spandrell: tell me about it
(trilema) spandrell: well there you go
(trilema) spandrell: do you have children?
(trilema) spandrell: but who's producing children?
(trilema) spandrell: my issue with the stuff is that the hero-dudes are all about fight and drink and competing to fuck unrealistic fighting women
(trilema) spandrell: well back to the water margin and bro culture
(trilema) spandrell: how does that work
(trilema) spandrell: need to play ball to get a job
(trilema) spandrell: sometimes you dont have fuck you money
(trilema) spandrell: sometimes your wife has social commitments which you can't control
(trilema) spandrell: sometimes mom is a bitch
(trilema) spandrell: but not everybody can, for whatever reason
(trilema) spandrell: and try to do that myself
(trilema) spandrell: no no, i completely get that
(trilema) spandrell: i get your point
(trilema) spandrell: i try to please my wife with money and not faith
(trilema) spandrell: i dont work for the govt
(trilema) spandrell: i'm not a faithful man
(trilema) spandrell: see, bro culture
(trilema) spandrell: life's complicated, sometimes you dont have a choice
(trilema) spandrell: why infantile?
(trilema) spandrell: to please wife or mom
(trilema) spandrell: plenty of people go through the motions
(trilema) spandrell: of course there is
(trilema) spandrell: who doesnt like the govt but works for them and tries to be honorable
(trilema) spandrell: see, he's a good example of a qin ming kind of guy
(trilema) spandrell: he was pissed about snowden and stuff
(trilema) spandrell: the govt? or his specific agency
(trilema) spandrell: we do talk a lot
(trilema) spandrell: you met handle? how's he
(trilema) spandrell: some inconsequential country in europe
(trilema) spandrell: never been to the US
(trilema) spandrell: their heads put on spikes
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