now hes talking about late 18C chinese elite overproduction no citation of turchin smdh
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oh and here we have a ming revanchist series of millenarian rebellions. starting in hubei, lol. hmmmm english ambassador looking pretty good right now also the emperor is senile and ruled by a breathtakingly corrupt chamberlain what a country!
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wonder how the CCP teaches the white lotus rebellion very much wonder this
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hahahaha holy shit the corruption in this rebellion is breathtaking my favorite part is that army commanders often were able to simply steal death benefits from the families of soldiers killed, and so they went out of their way to see as many of their own slain as possible
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meeting now a fellow named Manning who studied math at Cambridge and was expelled for refusing to take tests. hangs out with Coleridge and Wordsworth he gets captured by Napoleon and escapes, having set his mind on exploring China for some reason. decides to smuggle himself in
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doing some side reading the Qianlong Emperor whose reign the author praises was known as an effective genocidist in Xinjiang and Tibet curious the author never mentions this very curious also apparently the Chinese state exterminating conquered asiatic peoples is lindypic.twitter.com/3j3Tt8hWww
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one thing I think about a lot that other people don't seem to is that genocide is actually something close to a human norm throughout history and maybe you should include that as a local tail risk
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I know of one other People that thinks about this a lot.
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Replying to @MorlockP @eigenrobot
Got into a huge argument with my 8th grade Bible teacher about this. Even by the words of the tanakh the Israelites were the obvious aggressors!
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