American non-democracy with Yanis Varoufakis

[@akpanekpo6025]

Always an education to listen to a great man.

[@steven2183]

"The real problem of humanity is that we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." - RIP Ed Wilson

[@TheNoblot]

not quite medieval more like proletarians became bourgois and the result is that they hate the proletarians . louis the XIV hoped bourgeoisie will help the underclass, they did however everything changed by the 1700 /1776/1913 fed debt civilizatiçon banker s revolution.

[@aoeu256]

brain-computer-interfaces could fix the paleolithic emotions and medieval institutions at once... Our technology doesn't have to be for war, we can build technology(BCI) so that people can be in the VR world.

[@ryanbruce]

Always interesting to hear Yanis.

[@johnkintree763]

We can unite as citizens of planet Earth on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter. We can build a global digital platform for collective democracy, avoiding the mistake of electing "representatives" to make decisions for us.

[@jamesmedina2062]

Wow the latter part of this mirrors my thoughts on real solutions that people can pursue tantamount to direct democracy. There is always so much hand wringing and today stress and money attached to representative democracy that is so unnecessary. In the US there can be 90% support for a policy and no action on it. Bigger money'd interests have hijacked all parts of the system and what can people do? I say we use tech applications such as on our phones to constantly vote on policies that we force elected officials to enact. And as you said it is civil rights and environment that are the obvious sacrifices when we have no democracy. When government was totally captured by money. And the so called representatives don't really represent us of course.

[@powertrip1050]

I would love to agree - it sounds great - but the Brexit Referendum shows the fundamental perils of direct democracy...I wish it were otherwise..

[@jamesmedina2062]

@ that sounds like people espousing representative democracy and republics over real democracy. Of course the powerful don't want democracy reigning anywhere. We know this but it doesn't mean democracy is bad. It does mean some people need to be prepped and educated before any vote. We could lose all vestiges of democracy in USA and Great Britain because the Tech companies want total enslavement and human compliance and servitude to them.

[@peterbotev8296]

Totally agree, we have to fight the Neoliberal project with the tools of direct democracy . Universal digital platform for commonly agreed upon human values. Supplant for profit capitalism with democratic socialism.

[@janeglover3118]

Australia isn't capable of being "the adult in the room" regarding America sadly, as Albo is too weak regarding America, and Herr Dutton is too Trump-ish to do any such 'adulting' at all. 😕

[@coasterblocks3420]

Yep, Albo is a dithering and timid do-nothing and far too eager to do dirty deals with the potato.

[@jackshultz2024]

There are hundreds of so-called legacy microchips that are used in appliances, machinery, automobiles etc that are not as profitable to manufacture and are now only made in China. Apparently many of these chips are also used in weapons systems, and because of their dual use, China is restricting the sale of these chips to the US. China has also restricted the sale of antimony to the US, an element essential in the nuclear weapons program, and the only other sources of the material are Kazakhstan and Russia. The last antimony mine in the US was shut down nearly 30 years ago.

[@patrick6662]

Good information, thanks

[@SJSUPhilosopher-c1d]

[@yabits]

Yanis is correct w/regards to the Constitution and Federalist Papers. Democracy -- Government of the people, for the people and by the people became the ideal of a "new birth of freedom." We have not attained it, but history always seems to be a process of 3 steps forward,. 2 steps back.

[@FreelancerRraihan]

Hey!! Another good video😊 keep it up

[@SuzanneWheat]

Since this was aired Trump won the presidency again. We are in serious trouble. Thank you Yanis for your presence and positive influence on us all.

[@6thface]

My half German Evangelical brother told me I didn't know what I was talking about when I said he should call his German cousins and ask them what they think of his endorsement of Trump. Prayer got us here, so instead keep telling the truth.

[@End-Result]

Given the ever growing cultural tendency toward fascism in Germany, I doubt they'd be phased at all.

[@EmanueleRigitano]

We need a united confederal World. United we stand, divided we fall.

[@phoneticau]

Trump or Harris 2 sides of the same coin who is the least evil

[@emmaboyd7908]

OR… how can the next years be spent in generating better options & ideally, a better system? Won’t happen, but it’s what should be being asked, & YV has been asking for years

[@janjasiewicz9851]

What Yannis says is on the whole quite compelling and true (democracy in the US), but I take issue with his characterization of NATO expansion (he should ask himself why countries seek to join NATO) and his views on the Ukrainian war - having said that it is utterly true that Biden’s foreign policy on Israel is an utter disaster ..

[@vivalaleta]

Where do you get your information about the Ukrainian war?

[@musiqtee]

I respect your view on NATO. However, the chess board no longer has the 8 x 8 squares it had in 1945. After 1991 the board changed dramatically… To me, it’s unwise to stick to the old rule set and pieces, when or if _our own actions_ reshaped the surface onto which we place those pieces. I did my military service in 1986, never in doubt that we did the right thing - together. Already by 1994, we had re-thought all of it. Our pieces didn’t fit the emergent board, we now communicated (trade, travel, politics, finance) with the exact same human beings we had labeled dysfunctional one Olympic game (four years) earlier… So, we expanded NATO far into this «new Europe». We were obviously wrong, as we deemed the world outside of NATO weak and misguided. Putin got his power from his wealthy supporters, not too different from the two candidates on the US ballot right now. We have some crazy economic fallouts after 2008, making ordinary people support policies to «fix» them. Also in Russia, mostly from that same global 2008 mess. Unlike the USSR period - what’s the difference in the political ideology between ourselves and Russia now? They aren’t the «commies» anymore, but seem to press ahead for the same liberal economic agency we also seek to maintain. That seems a far fetch from how it used to be, closer to an economic showdown. NATO was a defense treaty - we changed it into the offensive opposite through the «positive» 1990’s. That changed Russia, letting Putin stay. It is changing a now expanding BRICS - a trade system challenging ours (financial globalization). How do we improve our own loss of position through NATO, instead of rethinking our own hyper-liberal ways? By electing «stronger leaders» as Russia once did…?

[@jamesmedina2062]

@@musiqteeThe USA has a problem reducing the dollars cost of its military, of not actually representing democracy especially outside its borders, and of being truly honest. So you could not expect much good to happen after Soviet collapse because the military just found other things to do and simultaneously continued to provoke countries like Russia and China to not lay down their arms. By destroying domestic freedoms via surveillance and draconian laws post 9/11 the US also drew the blueprint for many other regimes to do the same. And currently the US Military is concerned with robotic wars of the future so good luck pursuing peace now. This is another problem in Israel that capitalists or simply humans with money want to flex technology in war like some kind of new toy even while children are ruthlessly injured and killed.

[@musiqtee]

@ Sadly, I know and agree… I don’t expect our governments to pull out from that narrative. Rather the opposite, as most pundits (and scholars) expect us to elect a far right government next year. Yes, elect. Not forced by anyone but our own richest & biggest transnational «influencers», stuff most don’t talk about. They’re not Russian or Chinese, though… Where you guys go, we clearly follow. A break in the streak of «freedom politics» will occur, but probably not until we realize what we’re doing to ourselves - collectively.

[@janjasiewicz9851]

@@musiqtee Countries apply to join NATO. And no NATO did not change into an offensive organisation (if you mean the Yugoslav intervention). I know from first hand account what the deliberations were with regard to Poland's application to join NATO in the 1990's when Clinton was President. Essentially Eastern European countries warned about Russia, both from historical experience and the knowledge that fundamentally Russia did not change its aspirations to dominate its sphere of influence after the collapse of the Soviet Union. You also forget Russian actions in Chechnya, South Ossetia and Abkhazia and Crimea - NATO expansion has no relevance to these conflicts, yet they occurred. Was it wrong to expand eastward? No it was not - mainly because Russia had not changed, unlike Germany or Japan. The problem with the US it is incredibly naive about what Russia and world in general. And I agree the US is not democratic as the system was set up enabling minority rule. All those tensions you see now were there, if you bother to look at history, from the Civil War, 1920's & 1930's. I don't exactly know what you mean about "hyper-liberal ways"?

[@jocelynevkb5889]

Australia could be instrumental in bringing USA & China together for binding bilateral agreements. Australia has both the coveted resources & the ideal geostrategic position for initiating a meaningful dialogue of appeasement at a time of Global climatic Metacrisis. Becoming a partner of BRICS & reclaiming onshore US bases may be required for Australia to be trusted by its neighbours. Australian forces are currently engaged in bombing Yemen, in accordance to the Aukus treaty. Basically supporting Israel's & US Genocide in Gaza ...

[@秋分-d8i]

Australia has resources, right. But Australian resources could sell at good price because American capital owns a big share, they control the price and futures. Australia has the geostrategic position, right. That why they still let you have a good share of money; thus, you have to follow their orders, bases, nukes, Afghanistan, Yemen, Gaza...whatever.

[@TheNoblot]

not quite medieval more like proletarians became bourgois and the result is that they hate the proletarians . louis the XIV hoped bourgeoisie will help the underclass, they did however everything changed by the 1700 /1776/1913 fed debt civilizatiçon banker s revolution.

[@DrTimThemi]

Brilliant work, Emma! Yianis is spot on about almost everything he says, only leaving out that there is also a genuinely rubbishy ‘woke’ element on the left which is largely counter-persuasive, but purveyed in the hope of extra ‘clicks’ and because there’s often a neurotic aspect to caring about those other than our most narrow selves in the first place, which requires some further analysis

[@emmaboyd7908]

Exactly, it’s a deliberate trap set for all those who ‘care’

[@considerthis7712]

Israel Hamas: I believe Emma failed to challenge/ check Yanis on the defence used by Israel, that Hamas was unlawfully hiding within citizens and therefore had no choice to be collateral casualties.

[@jocelynevkb5889]

Hasbara

[@coasterblocks3420]

Israel exists on stolen land.

[@toi_techno]

Varoufakis is married to an oligarch Pretty much all anyone needs to know about him

[@Victoria-Enzula]

His father was a Communist. It is possible to love someone "even though".