The international standing of the US is literally never going to recover https://t.co/k21jJ9fv0z
— #1 Venlil Enjoyer (@EmpressThaliaa) January 27, 2025
Like I don't mean to be overdramatic, but this is straight up the end of the American century
— #1 Venlil Enjoyer (@EmpressThaliaa) January 27, 2025
It’s the fact that Americans have 0 idea how important it is that America has so many Allie’s around the world that Trump is just now cutting off one by one for absolutely no reason because he failed to communicate.
— You were warned 🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@Rickie99_) January 27, 2025
I can’t believe we’re burning down the world for literally no reason. I am never forgiving republicans
— Flaming (@FlamingAUS) January 27, 2025
me when i have to end my alliances built up over a century because i'm bored
— Amadán (@Mr_Elephant2004) January 27, 2025
its true lol. i think many countries are going to rely far less on the us now
— pierbi (@pierbiwierbi) January 27, 2025
the hostility is insane, the amount of people on here who act like its deserved and shows the us is strong is insane aha. comes across as incredibly petty and weak
— Jan202021 (@Dixie202021) January 27, 2025
losing power in the global south speed run (new record: 6 days)
— SandstormRefrigerator (@Pokemonprimed) January 27, 2025
Yeah, it's basic diplomacy. America would lose badly in Sid Meyer's Civ right now.
— Tom (@iamtomgranger) January 27, 2025
Anyway remittances from the US account for 3% of Colombia's GDP so a single deportation flight is pretty devastating to their national economy. And the threats worked immediately
So we are thankfully not going to be deprived of all the many things Colombia exports here. I don't know what those things are besides coffee and cocaine but X (formerly Twitter) informs me it's a lot and very important. Crisis averted.
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His very basic argument that Guns, Germs and Steel enabled European societies to conquer the world
No it isn't. You're gonna have to actually read the book because various parts of this post are:
Not relevant to the book.
Addressed in the book.
The point that the book is actually trying to make.
And this just doesn't make any sense at all.
I can't read your mind to find out what you imagine "Diamond's logic" to be. So we have no common frame of reference to even have a discussion.
It seems you want to talk about why Europe came to be in a dominant in the Old World in the 1800s. Well, this is a pretty old-fashioned choice, but Mahan really has some insightful things to say. Like when he observes that...
!historychads do you see what I have to deal with here?
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!metashit I'm not reading ANY of this but RedactorGOD is on a roll lately, seems like every day he has someone new wrapped around his finger that is completely enraged at him
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That's the nicest thing anybody has ever said to me.
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Is he
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I always knew that someday people would listen to my words and care about them. I didn't expect it would be this way though.
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I'm just confused if he pretends to be r-slurred or not. It's not seething when half this forum is gimick posting
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I've been got.
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I haven't and won't read any of this exchange
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You and
@Allende are both right, Guns germs and steel is a neat broad overview that makes lots of sense on the macro scale. When you get into the weeds historians all have sticks up their asses against one size fits all shit as they should, even when it makes literally perfect sense.
I was friends once with a native Hawaiian dude though who was majoring in their own history shit and they had a canned rant about 2 hours long about how the only reasons Hawaiians were so easily conquered/subjugated was because there was no iron in the soil of hawaii or some shit, basically point for point with the Jared Diamond shit, claimed if there was iron in hawaii they would have gone to the moon or something based on their historic propensity for finding hawaii with a survival rate of 1/1000 sea canoes.
So it's both a great book and also not meant to be gospel which Diamond made very clear throughout the book iirc but a lot of people read it like the bell curve or something and go full r-slur and miss the main points.
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Okay let's hear it then. What is his wise argument worth defending? It's definitely not what he found important enough to title his book after.
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Yes, that's the first part of it, but it doesn't get down to the root of it. You'd get what I mean if you had read the book.
Also you seem to be struggling with the phrase "conquer the world". It doesn't always mean literally instituting your own totalitarian regime across the planet. Like if somebody "conquered the world of women's basketball" we wouldn't have to start hiding in our attics.
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Get to the root of what you're defending then BIPOC. Quit acting like a redditor and sneeding while not elaborating.
I'm not struggling with anything. I've pointed to large swathes of the world where his arguments completely fall apart. One of the common criticisms of Diamond is that he cherry picks to support his pre-ordained conclusions. Something that is absolutely true in every part of his argument I've seen. From crops, to animals, to disease and technology.
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