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  • batsforpeace [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    yeah I think marble or bronze busts in the room are a pretty good clue

    also if they have large sections of non-fiction leather bound books that could be a tip off, see the top 10 bestsellers here for example

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      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Hey now, the Art of War is great and everyone should read it. Most people have never really sat down and thunk about the whens whys and hows of getting 50,000 of your buddies together to slaughter those shitass wankers in Wu and it shows.

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          • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]M
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            The thing about "Art of War" is that it is incredibly short and can be read from cover to cover in a half hour. It is an interesting read, but when somebody is trying to position themselves as an intellectual and they name drop Sun Tsu, you can tell they aren't very much of a reader.

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              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Well yeah I've got Clausewitz, Machiavelli, Marcus Aurelius...

                Oh no...

                Oh no!

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      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I think that's more of an ”I've never read a book that wasn't one of the required ones in school, but want to appear smart” thing. Which is admittedly at the very least chud adjacent.

        melon-musk's list of recommended books was all shit like that and Orwell. At least Steve Jobs' list showed he'd maybe read a book that wasn't one of the Anglo ”every schoolchild has read this” ones.

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          I've found that to be more common with run-of-the-mill libs, where they also always mix up fiction with non-fiction. Chuds just won't read or id they do read it's like they try to read Julius Caesar's auto-biograohy uncritically.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It's incredibly funny to me that the Art of War does contain some very useful insights, especially for the time, but everyone seems to be hell bent on repeating the most basic bitch conclusions from that text like they're an ancient chinese secret.

        The importance of logistics, flexibility, mobility, and so forth are things organizations and militaries fuck up to this day but all anyone wants to talk about is how winning without fighting is the best. Wow, getting what I want without being punched in the face is better than getting what I want but also being punched in the face? Ground breaking.

      • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        What if you have the Zhuge Liang annotated version, and it's on the shelf next to your copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

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      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        bro using spies will get you intel 🤯

        bro it's easier to win if you have the high ground 🤯

        bro cavalry moves faster than infantry 🤯

        bro don't let your supply lines get cut off 🤯

        bro you'll lose fewer resources if you don't fight 🤯

        bro it's expensive to keep people in the field 🤯

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      • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        What if you use it as a guide to urban camping as a homeless person? That book saved my ass so many times when I was bumming around the USA

      • batsforpeace [any, any]
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        1 year ago

        yeah I mean I wouldn't build a 'Chud-o-Meter 3000' around this because some people are collectors or want to be well rounded, but companies that print these usually choose from the western canon, so no radical stuff allowed, I have a few general history books bound in that classic style but nothing left-leaning except for the Eric Hobsbawm Modern History series.

        I'm more thinking of people who show them off in the background as part of their online persona like some right wing commentators