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Roman backing
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...
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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...
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diagnosis
Pauline Christianity wins over more democratic Jesus movements because it has Roman backing and a superior organization model.
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Jiang frames Paul's biography through three mysteries: why he joined poor Jewish peasants, why he reversed from persecutor to follower, and who funded his mission.
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The lecture argues the Gospel account blaming Jews for Jesus' death conflicts with Jiang's view that Romans killed Jesus because he threatened their social order.
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"How cohesive is our church? That's all Paul cares about. Paul is a business person. Jesus is a prophet, but Paul is a business..."
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"Okay? The scholars don't really have an answer for this. The second question is, we know that Paul was a fanatical Pharisee, okay? He..."
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"Pilate. Pontius Pilate is the Roman governor who orders Jesus' execution, okay? Yeah, Pontius Pilate."
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"...the nation state, okay? So unless you have a nation state backing Pax Silica, it's not gonna work. So you can say that behind..."
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"...states takes the we we're going through the wall we're not backing out of the wall uh one last question on that do you..."
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"...prevail. And they've been helping the United States and they've been backing us. So it's not just Israel. It's, I think, the region, which..."
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"...not to be criticized in and on, but we expect your backing. That would be the decent thing to do. I think any European..."
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"...the Iraqi border, there are reports that the CIA has been backing some of these groups to launch ground incursions inside Iran."
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"...tech oligarchs, people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. Another one's backing Trump. And what they want to do is, they want to take..."
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"...as represented by and Peter Thiel. And they are the ones backing Trump. Okay. So the goal of Trump is to replace the federal..."
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"...him. Right? So in his national security strategy, he's talked about backing politicians in Europe that are more amenable to American values, who believe..."
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"...not... They didn't send its soldiers, but its special forces were backing these militia groups. It was using the Internet to spread propaganda. And..."
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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...
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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The title promises Iran war prediction, but the interview's real shape is stranger.
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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