Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time

• brzv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jiang Xueqin, aka Professor Jiang or ‘China’s Nostradamus’, because he makes informed predictions. He has a youtube channel called Predictive History that is portrayed like a 101-level lecture about various geopolitical things, but it’s for the cameras with off-camera “students” asking things now and then. He has some good takes and some bad, and people like to praise him for being really intelligent or shit on him for being a Chinese media op, neither of which are definitively true.

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  • dreamy@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Informed predictions” my ass lmao. He states the most obvious shit about geopolitics and then goes off on a creationist/pseudoscientist tangent.

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    • Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t forget the part where he has stated openly (last chapter) that the ‘source’ for the things he says is not anything he has read or learned, but ‘the universe communicating with him,’ or ‘a voice from on high.’

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    • brzv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah i suppose i was phrasing things a little generously, but you seem like you know a lot more about him than myself. appreciate the clarification.

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      • dreamy@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        nw :)

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    • EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “In order to not receive damage, try not to get hit.”

        hey, Mike Tyson made a career out of that strategy.

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  • jaycifer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interesting, this is the first I’ve heard of him or the channel. Thanks!

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its hit normie circles and he has takes that some might consider anti-Semitic which is most of the reason he is so popular/controversial right now.

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      • jaycifer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It sounds like if I watch any of his videos it will need to be with a critical mind and an eye toward further paths of research from other sources.

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  • xep@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not actually a professor but an English literature major, I believe.

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