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- May 24, 2020
Anyone who has even the most surface level knowledge of Chinese history knows that whenever they entered a period of multiple warlords fighting for the Mandate of Heaven there were niggas betraying each other all the time. There were even notable examples of dudes who betrayed quite literally everyone they ever worked under, the most notable example being Lü Bu who lived just before the fall of the Han Empire and the start of the Three Kingdoms period. This is several centuries after Sun Tzu lived but I'm 100% sure there were people like Lü Bu back then too.Calling bullshit on Pat's historical literacy: He claims that Master Sun Wu (孫武子), who apparently lived during the Warring States period, could not conceive of a treasonous lord. I'm not an expert on the period, but I can't believe that in that clusterfuck there was never a leader of a faction that changed allegiances. I might go read Art of War again to see if the text directly contradicts him, because that would be funny.