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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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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "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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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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Jiang says policing software such as Palantir-style systems would likely make police less efficient because officers would stop thinking for themselves, trust clumsy software, and spend their time correcting or justifying algorithmic mistakes.
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Jiang argues that American society is so militarized that local conflicts could escalate into armed clashes with military-grade equipment, making civil violence materially feasible.
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Jiang says the police supervisor escalated a voluntary hospital choice into a threat that Child Protective Services could intervene, block the family's departure, or even take his child away.
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The host says the full government stack, police, EMTs, and social services, was mobilized against a compliant father rather than against the actual violent disturbance happening elsewhere in the park.
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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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"...you know, Palantir, if they provide all this information to the police, it's not going to make the police much more efficient. It's going..."
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"...society i mean like the amount of military hardware that these police officers have is just incredible they have like tanks man they have..."
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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 take my boy home so he can rest. And the police said to me, Okay, that's fine. But first, talk to our supervisor...."
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"...park downstairs, there's a fight. They're punching each other. And the police called someone else. What's going on here? I'm the father. My son..."
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"...too, of how they leverage. Like you talk there about the police. There was the EMT and then there was also social services. So..."
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