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He argues that poor parents command children because their children need to know how to take orders from police, bosses, and family networks.
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Jiang says bureaucrats prefer compliant innocent people over real criminals or harder problems because compliant people let bureaucrats justify themselves with minimal work.
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Jiang says bureaucrats prefer compliant innocent people over real criminals or harder problems because compliant people let bureaucrats justify themselves with minimal work.
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Jiang says a civil war is likely because American society is over-militarized at every level, from private gun ownership through local police and federal security agencies.
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"But if you're a rich person, the way that you get along with others, the way that you maximize your outcome is by negotiating..."
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"...okay? Authority. Okay? So another way of saying this is this. Police, boss, okay? Family. Okay? All right? So as a parent, you're trying..."
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"And if you fight back, the police will probably put you in jail. Okay? So it's very important that you accept authority. You don't..."
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"...bureaucracy and bureaucrats need things to do so they go the police go and arrest innocent people and then send them to trial okay..."
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"...like where you gonna put that dog? so they call the police"
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"...all right okay now i find him okay and now the police interview me they interrogate me and i explain to him what happened..."
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"this to go arrest those guys okay that's how bearcats think they're always thinking of ways to you justify the existence but not do..."
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"...to a small town in America, and you look at the police there, you think that, okay, it's a small town, it's safe, they..."
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"Then you have federal agencies like the FBI and the CIA and Homeland Security, okay? NSA, okay? There's dozens of these federal agencies. They..."
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"...to all these places in the world because you need to police um the adherence to your system you know in the scenario where..."
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"...the defend, defend them to, to, to, to, to demand the police forces and, and, and military units and so forth. And to keep..."
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"...down. Duh, it's easy. What are you going to do then? Police every post? You're going to put a camera to observe a camera..."
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