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>>18726335
Just wait till you get to Popper's Paradox of Tolerance, it's even worse

>>18726335
>kike lolberg hates plato
It's a fucking mystery anon

>>18726335
It is dumb. Unfalsifiable too :^)

You made the mistake of reading post-WWII political science. Now you know for the future.

>>18726489
>Get into political science
>it's all mathematics and game theory
>"Assume people are all psychopaths with no concern for anything except themselves..."

>>18726335
What was his critique?
QRD?

>>18726335
Popper should stick to bad philosophy of science instead of worse history of philosophy

>>18726500
>"Assume people are all psychopaths with no concern for anything except themselves..."
yes

>>18726511
Thats not how people act, though

>>18726500
Postwar political science is cringe because they refuse to admit that racial or ethnic differences are the reason for anything.
If a country goes into an economic downturn, they will write a 900 page essay about how
>well, the corn crop took a hit, and this had an effect on manganese exports in the third quarter of the fiscal year of 1957, and this in turn shows a blah blah blah
When they could just simplify things and say the reality of "It's niggers."

>>18726515
The only part where this is incorrect is that most people are too stupid to act in their own interest, so they get manipulated by even worse people.

>>18726536
Even if everybody did that, it still wouldn't matter because poli sci is a descriptive science, which means that it's concerned with what people do, not what they ought to do.

>>18726536
>its another episode where a retard confuses people acting in their own interest with people not caring about others

>>18726450
He's a socialist