THIS IS NEOLIBERALISM

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

CNN might as well be owned by Rupert Murdock at this point. 🙄

[@humanitarianly]

This 👍🏻 they are just as fooled as MAGAts.

[@3dartxsi]

They are pretty much doing what the Democratic party is doing. They've decided to be a diet Fox News. And like the Democratic party, they will fail, because why would anyone watch a pale imitation when they have easy access to the genuine article?

[@freedomfighter4990]

@@humanitarianly Too true.

[@Argumemnon]

Wait, wait. Did Fareed Zakaria just say that Elon Musk is "brilliant"? Did he miss the last few years of evidence?

[@glenseguin572]

Fareed Zakaria is no more than a spokesman for the entitled class. He is acting like press secretary for a Trump Administration. He is neither objective, nor a true journalist. I had greatly misjudged his integrity.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Yeah although at least usually typically just sticks to foreign policy issues. The idea that he's sitting here talking about how excited he is that Elon musk gets to participate in the gutting of government jobs and services is disgusting

[@romanmanner]

Same. They’re all just buying in.

[@kekwayblaze3176]

You literally described Fox News.

[@Argumemnon]

Huh. Maybe calling rich people and the capital class "the entitled class" is a winning move. It might connect to conservatives' animal brain concept of "entitlements".

[@thinkbeyond3457]

CNN is embarrassing

[@montecristo1845]

Reminds me of when Ivanka was somehow qualified to be an “advisor” to the president. What the hell does someone like her have to contribute to the United States Executive Branch??? “Uh, Daddy? I think you should…”

[@eljeffe1815]

I'm glad you called this out. Saved me the trouble.

[@fwdcnorac8574]

The only difference between a neoliberal and a Republican is their aversion to publicly say what they think about fellow Americans.

[@merriemelodiesfan7425]

What's ironic here is the Trump people talk about faceless bureaucrats, yet Elon Musk himself is a bureaucrat trying to be involved in govt and force his will upon all of us.

[@caffetiel]

Bbuh he has a face! Unlike Charlie Kirk

[@TW0man4RMY]

What's "ironic" is that the only thing they're doing different is being overt about being corrupt.

[@Lumi_Lumi13]

You know where we can take the most $$$ from? THE PENTAGON & DOD. The pentagon & DOD failed its seventh audit IN A ROW & can't account for 68% of it's funding. So cut 68% of its funding.

[@lawrencemckeon6802]

My take is that Fareed Zacharia’s takes are hard to take.

[@mauromatos3124]

Zakaria is a joke.

[@jcspoon573]

In fairness, Zakaria was accused of plagiarizing ... his own articles. Never heard him go this far to the right before, disappointing.

[@panbaiye]

He just called vivake and eloon brilliant 🤔

[@northuniverse]

Elonia Trump

[@Argumemnon]

@@northuniverse Elek Musramaswamy

[@neko19671]

Have to love all these rich immigrants who want to change America after coming here and getting rich. America is screwed.

[@iamyoda66]

Fareed Zachariah is one of the biggest grifters around…a total sell out.

[@Harry-hq8fi]

Zakaria is so yesterday’s news - literally.

[@xNewSidx]

He says it’s misnamed and then gives a tertiary reason why the name is problematic.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Neoliberal, Neo-fascist, Neo from the Matrix

[@pranays]

Neo conservative, Neo Clownfederacy, Neo Nazis.

[@Argumemnon]

Hey, hey.. Don't insult Neo.

[@sir_fapalot]

These talking heads are closer to agent smith

[@BillDavies-ej6ye]

It should also be noted that the Affordable Care Act involves modifications to existing laws. There are over 1500 instances of 'amend', 'amended' and other derived words. There are multiple paragraphs of text replaced by modified text. And since its introduction in 2010, there have been many modifications. This is why it is over 900 pages long.

[@209bornandbred]

I feel like the editor for the MR clipped this wrong since it only covered like the 1st 10 seconds of Zakaria's take. I saw the CNN vid a few days ago and its batshit insane, he basically just assumes that Elon Musk is good and pure and is looking for the best way to help the average American

[@Argumemnon]

Holy hell! Hasn't Musk shown us very clearly that he's basically the tech bro version of Trump?

[@PositronicCrouton]

Department Of Political Expediency Say NOPE to DOPE!

[@tylerhackner9731]

It’s cringe and bad

[@curtisevans4100]

How is neoliberalism different from neoconservatism?

[@ryri51]

Neoliberalism is about internal economic policies. Neoconservatism is about maintaining the United States as the sole world military superpower.

[@humanitarianly]

​@@ryri51thank you for this. I've been trying to find the words.

[@roachybill]

Two basically unrelated terms that just happen to sound connected - which they aren't particularly, other than both being generally right-wing positions. Neoconservatism is "neo" relative to the 60s left - a revival in the conservative movement due to disgruntled alleged progressives and socialists getting spookled that everyone was going soft on the Russki pinkos out there. Neoliberalism, though popularized as a concept in the 70s and 80s because of Pinochet, Reagan and Thatcher, was "neo" relative to the catastrophe of the Great Depression - conservatives making a renewed effort to sell people on the idea "No, bro, it's actually a GREAT idea to deregulate and marketize everything", despite the fact that every adult at the time remembered what looks to common sense like deregulated markets ruining the entire Western world for 10 to 15 years.

[@DemCorp-AgentsOfCarnage]

Nothing, the current Democrats have the bushes cheneys mccains they ARE the early 2000s Rep.

[@Kataquan]

​@DemCorp-AgentsOfCarnage Delusional take. They're back to being the same party they were pre-Iraq war

[@DimitriOG-73]

How does his little neck, hold up his head of empty space?

[@thebigdork8030]

Gaap is also a few hundred pages but you never hear rich creeps rag on the concept of auditing because they know they can't trust eachother lol

[@robertstraw9881]

If the government is too big then how big should it be? And why is it never the military budget that gets cut?

[@johnstenhouse7960]

Jesus Christ is he wanting a job on Fox

[@richardswift3859]

Again, Social Security is not part of the budget. It comes from the social security trust fund that was created in 1938 and was reinvigorated in 1984. Therefore, if Congress cuts it to zero and gets rid of it, it will have zero effect on the deficit or the national debt. So what's the point of cutting it?

[@GSJoey]

The grift is always in the name

[@stevenr.rodriguez9997]

Evil Willem Dafoe

[@MsZeitgeist85]

At least we can finally say Milton Friedman is a relic from a dead age.

[@FandangoJon]

"Asterisk". Emma is a savage. Love you guys!

[@OH_MY_DOGGG]

Is there a timestamp?

[@FandangoJon]

Around 0:25 right after Zakaria says "Here's my take". Emma says that because he's a known plagiarist.

[@YosCaptian.22]

I love all dogs but the doge

[@micahgelfand8282]

Shibas are cute 😍 but crypto isn't

[@GrampaGrizzle]

He's worried they will deport him

[@davidhitchen5369]

I don't think Musk is brilliant. He's 90% hype. He hires some brilliant people, but nothing he says or does makes me think he deserves to be called brilliant. He's just rich to the point that he's too big to fail. I think that him being involved in any administration is a conflict of interest. If we really want to save some money, let;s stop launching Starships to nowhere. Why is Zakaria so sure that it's worth retiring many regulations based on how many exist. 150,000 pages sounds like a lot, but what are we comparing it to? What is purpose of the regulations he thinks need retiring?

[@billw5189]

At the time the ACA was drawn up, and its length was criticized, the New Yorker explained that a lot of its length was an attempt to establish “best practices.” Medical treatment in the US can vary widely in both procedures & outcomes. The ACA wanted to have a framework to help empirically determine what treatments had the best outcomes

[@HansHenker]

I stopped taking Zakaria seriously, when he started praising Trump for bombing people.

[@royconnell2506]

So how much is this department going to cost taxpayers 🤬. Shouldn’t efficiency be part of every single department 🤬.

[@SonjaMorrison-i7j]

And who will pay DOGE and who will benefit from DOGE, and who will oversee DOGE? And why do I just now distrust Fareed Zakaria? How does he benefit from this? Follow the money.

[@duncandreizehn]

Words, words words I always say...

[@SleazyDonny]

Zakaria totally destroying his credibility.

[@Mary-tj5qx]

Sam’s definition of neoliberalism is the best I’ve heard.

[@endcorruptio]

Lol,, fareed: "elon and vivek are brilliant"? At conniving. Thats about it

[@micahgelfand8282]

180,000 pages of regulations, maybe it's all written in size 72 and quadruple spaced

[@PrtyNeal]

Doge is a toothless dog

[@jamesmclauchlan916]

Has George Monbiot ever been on the MR? His work on Neoliberalism is really good.

[@StanfordMommaerts-Brown]

I thought that the name came from the title of the leaders of the Sublime Republic.l

[@Mary-tj5qx]

You also have to recognize that Fareed comes from a country that has no problem letting the poor die on the street, in massive numbers. “It’s their Karma.” The Western notion of looking after the poor and infirm is not shared by countries like India.

[@TheMouseAvenger]

So, in other words, neoliberalism is like "classic liberalism"?

[@meltingintoair7581]

It is. Friedrich Hayek (1974 Nobel laureate in economics) and critical figure in the formation of neoliberalism and leader in the Mont Pelerin Society famously insisted that he was a classical liberal. So the most neoliberal thinker was also a classical liberal. This usage of classical liberal comes from an older European context where it is referring to what Americans call libertarianism. But here a major disconnect in the understanding of neoliberalism comes in because it is not just American libertarianism, it is many other things too, like the corporate democracy of Biden, Harris, Obama and the Clintons because it is a fundamental philosophy that undergirds a wider range of real world policies. The core of neoliberalism is the rejection of the idea of the common good or general will (something that comes from an empiricist view rather than a rationalist view). As a result, politicians should not be zealots who think they know what's best for others. This is why neoliberalism is a predatory capitalism, it is anti-social and psychopathic because it is formulated solely on the principles of narrow self-interest. Altruism and solidarity are problematic for neoliberalism, so it requires and reinforces self-interest and alienation. Neoliberalism is the predatory capitalism of Charles Dickens but now with computers. Computers are key to neoliberalism. They love tech and are in full control so we on the left need to urgently get our act together as A.I. and everything is getting so close to an inflection point. The alternative to neoliberalism from the expert introverted intuitive thinkers is a social capitalism based on Hegel's dialectical idealism updated with math, taxing dynastic inheritors and running the meritocracy from Star Trek. This would mark a total departure from the secular empiricism and dialectical materialism of the majority report left. We are here waiting for you. Or you can bury your heads in the sand until Armageddon. Neoliberalism is not a conspiracy, Phillip Mirowski's 2013 book "Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste" is an expert description of it from the left.

[@petertefft7335]

“This is neo liberalism” *shows picture of brown guy in a suit* got it

[@kenbob1071]

Agree w/ much of what was said, but SpaceX has actually saved the gov't millions by reducing the cost of space travel.

[@babstra55]

billions. shuttle cost 1.6 billion per flight.

[@Michael-zg4ws]

I thought neoliberalism was liking the Beatles

[@itsbeyondme5560]

What did he say he is wrong

[@DemCorp-AgentsOfCarnage]

There is a huge fight coming between the sam seders , pakmans of the party and the moderates like chenk....HUGE FIGHT, And its glorious🤭

[@georgeh6856]

The "Department of Government Efficiency" is not a department, not part of the government, and not about efficiency. So Elon and Vivek are in charge of "of".

[@antimonius]

Cant wait to see how much money DodGE is going to cost us

[@rogerparker4468]

How thick do you have to be sucked in by this bs?

[@powelllane]

Was not aware that this ballon-juice dispenser was still around. Who watches CNN anymore?

[@Overonator]

Yes Vivek is brilliant when he said that we should be worried about unelected government bureaucrats. News flash, HE'S AN UNELECTED BUREAUCRAT alongside Musk in DOGE.

[@paulbrowning1758]

It would be good to do a video addressing if there's anyway to prevent Trump from passing US info/secrets on to Putin and others, as he likely did during his first term.

[@nat9909]

I lost a significant amount of respect for Zachariah after watching his nonsense. What is he thinking? This presentation was his Mika and Joe moment. I can't take him seriously anymore.

[@stvinney]

What I know this guy for is him being just in awe of Bill Clinton The Democrats ideology is not very far behind the stuff we consider extreme, the stuff we're about to experience

[@phil3924]

As republicans wanted in the 90s, a balanced budget amendment would right size government. What do people really want, social security or a bloated military??

[@akumasdeception]

This year has been a terrible one for Fareed. I’ve been a life long fan of his, but he’s been tone deaf and completely wrong about the main issues going on around the world. He’s either not that bright or completely bought and paid for at this point.

[@klattson112]

Thank you. The doge name just annoys me immediately.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

God he might as well just tattoo I want Elon musk to pay attention to me on his forehead.

[@Malacite]

To think I used to like listening to his program. But then I started to notice his slide into neoliberalism getting more and more overt over time. This segment was the last straw. I didn't even finish watching his take, I deleted the recording and stopped altogether. Fareed has really outed himself as a shill. Never knew about the plagiarism, damn.

[@Moonuuu]

This is what far left is

[@SupremeFenix274]

If you're going to make a backronym, at least make one better than DOGE. Such a dork.

[@duncanbleak3819]

Fareed routinely hosts the meetings/discussions held by the plutocrats and kleptocrats at Davos. Nuffsaid!!

[@travisprice1325]

Doge isnt Elon's memecoin. He just has some weird obsession with it. It's a troll to crypto nerds...

[@mikepike7139]

barf

[@Swedishpolymath]

I thought they named it after the office of doge you know the leader of Venice and/or Genoa when they were still republics. Giorgia Meloni is Italian and gets along with Musk, so.

[@glen7228]

Here's the problem with everything you guys said in this video. Today's average Joe Blow American, can't even begin to comprehend any of it. And worse than that, they don't even want to try.

[@soulahousefm4153]

AMERICUS DELENDA EST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ErenYaegerPhilosophy]

Sam please respond to TYT grift.

[@rebeccarittenhouse2203]

Like smelly and vivian are gonna read all those documents. 😂. They will hire people to do the actual work 😂😂

[@JAMSP00N]

why are we calling vivek vivian as an insult? i'm confused, is the joke that it's demeaning to be a woman or to be trans? is it both? forgive me i'm just trying to make sense of this

[@cassandratq9301]

OMFG.

[@Terri-c8n]

Just another horrible reporter that needs to be canceled & bending to Trump.

[@Moonuuu]

Far left communists is mad on everyone 😂😂😂😂

[@StormcastMarine]

Thats doesn't appear to be English.

[@darkindian187]

CNN glazing Hasan has made me lose all respect for them

[@lv20213]

First

[@AstroBear11]

Wouldn't be proud. All these folks do is breakdown videos they watch without any tangible action for change. Emma's acting skills of sighing and rolling her eyes are very convincing, though, but don't be fooled. They just want our clicks like everyone else.

[@dirkster42]

@@AstroBear11 Maybe tell us what actions you're taking and how we can support.

[@YouAreStillNotablaze]

@@AstroBear11 That _is_ their job. To provide information. They aren't going to go out and change anything, that's the job of a majority of the populace. Incidentally, people tend to watch something that makes them want to watch it, otherwise all our media on current events would just be C-SPAN. Can't get people to act without talking to them. That's how the world has always worked.

[@AstroBear11]

@dirkster42 Get an actual job in one of many community spheres that would represent change or help the people they say need help. Showing up for a podcast job daily, throwing your hands in the air, is very suspect on both sides. Sam has been doing this for over a decade, and at some point, must wake up knowing it's meaningless or one just has motives to build a base for your own means while actually doing nothing. Talk is cheap, but it pays very well these days. Just ask Rogan.

[@TheSLEEPYcam]

Hey Seder! I hate that pasty billionaire douchenozzle just as much as you guys. But if you're trying to roast someone on the merits ( especially on KZbin ) try to at least get the facts straight. Doge coin isn't Elon Musk's company. He didn't create it. He just bought a ton of that crypto coin back in 2021, promoted it like crazy ( Especially on SNL ) and as soon as it was high enough in value, he sold a shit-ton of it and took profits. The classic pumpanddump scheme, in crypto they call it a rug pull. DOGE was actually created by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer as a joke in 2013, and can't "belong to Elon Musk" any more than the U.S. dollar could belong to him. This is sloppy reporting. We expect more from The Majority Report. Please do better. 😠

[@StormcastMarine]

If Elmo didn't do what he did, who would have heard of DOGE coin? Ownership can be used colloquially. Sounds to me like Elmo has about an equal stake in the founding and mechanics of DOGE as he does of Tesla and SpaceX