• Commiejones
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    15 days ago

    The man is a grifter. He has a BA in English literature (writing as entertainment and art) and then paints himself as a Geo-political analyst and historian using game theory. He uses the rules to telling stories and the “history” he picked up reading fiction to tell stories. That is not “prediction.” The guy is an expert on romeo and juliet.

    But I don’t think he is CIA. I think he is backed by Chinese intelligence. They get him out there to entrench ignorance in English speaking people. Can you imagine 20 years from now when the entire american state department has grown up watching this grifters slop? He doesn’t post videos in Chinese so he isn’t poisoning their youth.

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      The man is a grifter. He has a BA in English literature (writing as entertainment and art) and then paints himself as a Geo-political analyst and historian using game theory.

      He may well be a grifter but a similar argument was/is used against Grover Furr.

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        Grover Furr wasn’t claiming to predict the future. He had a PhD in Medieval Literature which is history adjacent and his work followed standard practices in historical academia he just didn’t cite a wide range of sources.

        Jiang makes claims about the future with no citations. His methodology is 100% “trust me bro.”

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          Sure but I meant along the lines that a person’s formal qualifications does not exclude them from expertise.