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Jiang rejects a slavery-only explanation of the Civil War and reframes it as the conflict between Jeffersonian democracy and Hamiltonian empire, with slavery embedded in that economic-political division.
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States Rights
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"Again, because of Manifest Destiny, America sees Canada as part of its territory, but the British don't agree and this leads to the War..."
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"It was not about slavery. It was mainly about state rights. Okay? It was really about democracy versus empire. In a democracy, the states..."
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"...not venice virgin noah or any other of these italian city -states right what did and what did it happen after dante not before..."
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"...itself. Unfortunately, I think the most hopeless part of the United States right now is the Democratic Party. But if the Democratic Party were..."
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"...US government to bankroll all these data centers in the United States, right? Because open AI is not profitable."
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"Well, I mean, it's a great deal for the United States, right? So historically, this has happened before, where the children elite went to..."
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"...whatever reason. And that would be very popular in the United States, right? So Trump has a lot of options. And he's a reality..."
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"...like walking blindly right into it right now in the United States. Right. So there are two major pieces to this AI control grid,..."
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"...escalate anymore without having severe consequences rain down upon the Gulf states, right? And so if Trump... It looks like they're... Does it look..."
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"...at this Iranian this peace negotiations between Iran and the United States right they're happening in Pakistan so let's think about why this is..."
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"...idea of a kind of revenge blockade driven by the United States? Right, so there's a lot of concern that a naval blockade is..."
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"...united states because iran is a mountain fortress and the united states right now doesn't have the manpower the manufacturer capacity and the political..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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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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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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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.
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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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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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