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Borderlands compensate for weakness through energy, openness, cooperative competition, and opportunism.
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Opportunism
Borderlands compensate for weakness through energy, openness, cooperative competition, and opportunism.
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Jiang's preferred explanation for the start of the Viking Age is opportunism: monasteries created a new opportunity and Vikings took advantage of it.
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Jiang rejects the simple opportunist theory because Paul worked too hard and was too mission-driven to look like a lazy charlatan.
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Jiang contrasts the IVC with steppe peoples whose harsh grassland environment forced cattle ranching, raiding, and eventually aggressive expansionist opportunism.
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Jiang rejects a simple intentional invasion model and instead describes opportunistic entry, assimilation, cultural conquest, and occasional violence as the IVC weakened.
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Jiang defines successful politicians as opportunists with no ideas or principles, motivated first by political power.
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"But because of the idea of death, Rome did not have to surrender. And Rome only won one battle against Hannibal in its history,..."
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"There's a very important principle that drives innovation. It's called open organization or cooperative competition. That's why the Yamnaya were able to innovate. That's..."
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"Right? But if you're weaker than me, then I will steal from you. The idea here is opportunistic. You're shameless in taking advantage of..."
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"Right? And I'm not joking, guys. If there was such a thing as a Viking school where you learned to be a Viking, I..."
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"he was doing business. It was our own individual responsibility to discover our own truths through him. Okay? So what are some other explanations..."
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"And also, guys, remember. If he's a Roman citizen. And his parents are Roman citizens, then he's probably wealthy himself. He doesn't really need..."
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"So, I think that by trading with these two civilizations and other civilizations, um, it reinforces the deep cultural values of the IVC people..."
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"They'll kill people if that's what benefits them. They are not that moral. Okay? They're very optimistic, opportunistic. And, and as, and I remember,..."
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"Okay? Or it could be internally among the families. Okay? But there's going to be some social tension going on. The other social tension..."
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"It's not like you have a general in your army and they go into the IVC and then they conquer it. Okay? It's more..."
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"So from 2016 to 2018, she was UN ambassador for Trump. And everyone says that the two got along really well. In fact, Trump..."
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"Does that make sense? Okay? So that's the thing you need to know about politicians, okay? All they care about is political power. They..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.
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A dated May 2024 election model: Biden's 2020 coalition weakens, the suburbs become the hinge, and Trump can win by turning Nikki Haley from enemy into evidence that he has changed.
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