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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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Jiang expects immigrants and unemployed young men could be recruited, but says elites lack the credibility and authority to send them into a pointless war without provoking rebellion.
"...that problem in the short term. So I think, like, these immigrants will be recruited to join the military, as well as young unemployed..."
"...outsider. He's Italian, everyone else is white. And his family are immigrants."
"...nude beach. This is something that, you know, if you're an immigrant young boy, you could never ever dream of doing. Okay? Because you..."
"...have become lazy, complacent. And so they're importing millions of new immigrants, primarily Indians, but also a lot of Chinese, a lot of Filipinos...."
"...in Canada. And if you grew up in Canada as an immigrant, there's a lot of white supremacy, there's a lot of structural racism..."
"...people to come to our country, it causes all these illegal immigrants to come to our country, it causes us to go fight wars..."
"...So, in certain places of Europe, especially Scandinavia, the population of immigrants, has gone as high as 20%. Okay? In Sweden. Germany is also..."
"More immigrants coming to Europe, which is threatening the local identity, as well as this war in Ukraine. So, these, so, AFD, okay, AFD,..."
"...surging in popularity because they oppose war and because they oppose immigrants. So, all Putin has to do is force Germany into a war..."
"...planet you're on. Before the evil empire, why is it every immigrant in the world wants to come to the United States?"
"...used to it. Before the evil empire, why is it every immigrant in the world wants to come to the United States? Nobody wants..."
"...had a different theory because America was a multicultural nation of immigrants who are trying to colonize the Western Hemisphere, North America, right? So..."
Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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