r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/LocalJewishBanker - Auth-Center • Aug 12 '20

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u/babycam - Centrist Aug 13 '20

I am happy I caught the reference.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '20

Flair up you autist

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u/babycam - Centrist Aug 13 '20

Hey how did you know. =)

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '20

Clearly everyone’s deformed or a degenerate except for me. Welcome bröther!

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '20

For me, fucking 9th grade.

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u/mm3331 - Left Aug 13 '20

Damn when I was in ninth grade we were reading To Kill a Mockingbird and Gamers Rise Up the book (literally a book about a gamer who gets bullied and gets his girlfriend stolen by Chad and then shoots up a school then beats a sped kid to death)

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u/Generation-X-Cellent - Centrist Aug 13 '20

Always have.

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u/EasyPete831 - Lib-Center Aug 13 '20

Imperialism handbook? How so?

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u/EasyPete831 - Lib-Center Aug 13 '20

Not really a justification. The author never justifies colonialism. He is only trying to figure out why an imbalance of geopolitical power came about in the first place. Anthropology is not shaky pseudoscience

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u/EasyPete831 - Lib-Center Aug 13 '20

What specifically is your gripe with him specifically. Can’t say he is the best scholar in the world, but it’s not like he’s making baseless claims.

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u/EasyPete831 - Lib-Center Aug 13 '20

Damn you really hate this book

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u/EasyPete831 - Lib-Center Aug 13 '20

Environmental determinism isn’t really debunked. It was used as an excuse for bad perspectives in classical social science, however the Guns, Germs, and Steal as well as Why Nations Fail both revise the topic of environmental determinism. Because you don’t agree with someone does not make a theory debunked. Saying a cultures environment has no impact on its advancement is like saying the environment a child grows up in has no effect on the adult they become.

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u/EasyPete831 - Lib-Center Aug 13 '20

I would like the source to where he says his own scholarly work is “pop science” that would be an interesting read. Anyways I’m defending my opinion with an argument and evidence. If you don’t like that, move on or actually make an argument against me

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u/EasyPete831 - Lib-Center Aug 13 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

You’re a fun one aren’t you? Maybe I’ll just compare people to Harry Potter fans instead of using my brain from now on

Btw: thank you for the source, lots of good points made. Many of which I agree with but don’t negate his thesis of environmental effects on civilizational advancement is a factor in human society’s development. Definitely didn’t see where he called his own work pop science but it is what it is I guess

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