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Duke of Qin

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5 Sep

One really quixotic feature of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that doesn't get much attention is the complete lack of war brides / rape babies. Taking the women of the vanquished is a perennial prize of the victor, second only to looting. While the US occupational forces did

engage in looting, mostly from their own government, there are no horde of Amerimutt half breeds that are viewed with disdain populating the middle east like everywhere else US forces are occupying. Even so called civilized wars conducted by civilized nations result in this.

It's practically a damn feature in recruitment material that lbfm be available wherever US troops occupy yet the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters are giant circles of blue balls circling hard 4s that behave as if they were 10s. No wonder all US veterans have absolutely nothing good

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Duke of Qin

@qin_duke

5 Sep

One of the biggest undiscussed problems of American political science is selection bias. If you think oversampling college towns in voter surveys is bad, wait until you discover just how selective Western media and academics decide who constitutes the average man of non-Western

societies are. It isn't simply a matter of cherry picking which is an error of commission, but rather that bourgeoisie Western liberals actively only seek out bourgeoisie comprador liberals and won't actually interact with let alone treat as humans with any agency people outside

of their particular "global" i.e. American brain-slug implanted classes. They don't think this is even a problem. The smaller this class is as a percentage of the total population, the more warped and misguided Western thinking tends to be. Afghanistan and Pakistan serve as good

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Duke of Qin

@qin_duke

24 Aug

I think I finally understand why I instinctively distrust and am revulsed by certain people just by their body language, tone, and tenor regardless of message. It is the message of artificial conviviality and intimacy that certain people display with audiences of strangers to

build rapport and trust for their message via feigned friendship. The animated way of talking, the particular head movements, the slight uptone and deliberate furrowed looks. My lizard brain instinctively recognizes these as friend/foe indicators but more also critically retains

the knowledge that just because the lights are flashing friend, this isn't necessarily so and to not trust them. The odd thing is, I also realize that this speaking technique is actually effective on if not the majority, at least the plurality of people and more credulous people

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Duke of Qin

@qin_duke

23 Aug

The handling of the most recent Delta outbreak in China demonstrates both similarities and differences in approach to government between Chinese and Western systems. At a fundamental level, they are similar in that both have expectations of governance involving active government

to facilitate desired outcomes, in other words nanny-stateism. The government should at all times be seen as "doing something" or at least project the image of activity. This is both the position the state itself projects and the people expect irrespective of actual efficacy. The

position of individual responsibility is quite frankly unpopular in that it puts the onus on the individual and quite frankly people hate that. Usually the result of this type of governance is one third unintended consequences, one third theater, and one third actually effective.

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@qin_duke

23 Aug

https://twitter.com/Peter_Nimitz/status/1429658625920757765

Mongolia, and the central Asian steppe as a whole, became progressively more eastern Eurasian and less Western Eurasian during the first millennium. The exact mechanism why is uncertain but history seems to move to its own rythmns. Just as the Western Hunter gathers were replaced

https://twitter.com/Peter_Nimitz/status/1429658625920757765

by the Anatolian Farmers, they were reduced to a small minority but managed to stage a modest comeback in the new hybrid society, the Eastern Eurasian originally pressured by the nomadic pastoralism of the Indo European with his chariots and wagons struck back with an even bigger

reproductive advantage that saw their numbers surge. This story also oddly enough played out with the Jomon and Yayoi with the Agriculturalists pushing the original hunter gatherers into the margins with the latter somehow also developing a reproductive advantage that saw their

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16 Aug

I think everything that needs to be said about the rapid collapse of the Afghan puppet regime has already been written, but if there is any point that needs to be reinforced, the biggest problem with contemporary elites isn't corruption, or even competence, it's a lack of balls

It isn't simply courage in the face of physical danger which is a related field, but the willingness to step out in front of the social firing line and display leadership by taking an unpopular stance that is inconsistent with opinion survey results, or explain the cost benefit

of any decision made to the public. The Afghan regime such as it was consisted of two components, warlords whose loyalty was secured by US fund transfers but the bigger problem were the US elite collaborators that weren't even particularly unique to Afghanistan. They are in fact

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