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Jiang's standard for political analysis that is not merely agenda-driven or externally manufactured.
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First principles
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Jiang says Nick Fuentes appears to have a political agenda and to be voicing conclusions that feel manufactured rather than derived from first principles.
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"...of his conclusions are clearly manufactured. He's not working for, from first principles. He's not working. I think, uh, just, I mean, he's, he's..."
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"...Kant's theory of the category is the category of the universal principle, okay? The universal principle is an integral, hierarchical imperative, okay? Which for..."
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"...against the Bible. It's just nonsense. We should just focus on first principles and just focus on utility. Does it bring benefit to people?..."
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"...everyone has to obey this. You understand? If you actually from first principles try to convince people the Catholic church is right, you can't..."
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"...trying to reach the upper nobility okay so this is the first principle that you need to understand that what drives a lot of..."
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"...the human experience. If you try to work this out from first principles, you're trying to figure this out by yourself, you couldn't do..."
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"...the human experience. If you try to work this out from first principles, you're trying to figure this out by yourself, you couldn't do..."
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"...these three major innovations okay and not other places okay the first principle is the idea of open cooperative competition which I'll explain okay..."
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"...can just think reasonably what religion should be like. And from first principles, you can deduce the religion. Right? Okay? Does that make sense?..."
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"...periods, okay? But I want you to remember the first important principle is whenever there is an open cooperative competition, tremendous innovation happens, okay?..."
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"...300,000 soldiers, you need about a million, okay? So that's the first principle. Second principle is the idea of you want to avoid encirclement...."
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