On Fox News freedom is used as a substitute word for greed. I noticed this one evening...that you could substitute "greed" whenever they said freedom, which was usually when they were talking about taxes or entitlements, and it made perfect sense.
Politicians also use and misuse "Freedom" far too much, as if freedom is it's own end; as you note, freedom might be a smokescreen for those without scruples who wish to oppress or steal from others. To me, "freedom" means to be able to decide for oneself how to live with *DIGNITY*; and to allow others to choose their own dignified life, but always referencing to our shared values as expressed in the Constitution and under law.
Interesting insight about Fox News Entertainment. Words like “freedom” and “woke” can have useful definitions in academic and journalistic discourse, but they are merely *signals* in the realm of populist politics (which appears to be all we have left now thanks to Silicon Valley’s old motto, “move fast and break things.”) The way in which Trump seized and co-opted the word “freedom” and the American flag, turning them from signals of unity and shared purpose, into signals of hatred and division is truly spectacular and horrifyingly dystopian.
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Timothy Snyder is the only thing keeping me sane in America during the terrible Trump years. I very much appreciate the civil and nuanced conversation on your platform. The stupidity in my country and our increasingly inept, corrupt and profit-driven media (“the presence of spectacle”), combined with our disdain of education and unwillingness to learn from history, makes your platform a real lifeline for people who appreciate intelligent conversation and ideas. Many thanks from America.
Implicit with freedom is responsibility. You are responsible for the impact of your ideas. We are free to think all manner of things, but we must be considerate about what we express. Flooding the zone with shit is an attack on freedom.
Timothy Snyder is a shining example of what a historian can be. BTW, my ancestors set up a German language newspaper in Toledo, OH toward the end of the 19th century.
Beschloss and Meachum are paxil for comfy mature intellects. They say idiotic things that reassure the patriotic view of history. Beschloss actually asserts that in earlier centuries people died on average at 35 years of age. Old age ? Twin boys are born in 1818 .. one dies of a childhood illness at 1. The other dies at 70. The average ?? How can a serious academic be so ... dull of mind.
@@ScottAmbrose-rc2xq putting such accusation out without any grounding and argument is no opinion, its straight up trolling. And that is my well grounded opinion. Try to argue against it, its your right. But don't cry if I smash your arguments right back at you because I use my freedom of speech very effectively against bull shit. ☺
Language that conveys no meaning, but elicits emotional responses, is what Orwell called Newspeak in his novel, but he didn't invent it. He saw it in the world around him in his own time.
@@mariocerin4105a reporter told her that the facts did not match the story she was pushing, and Conway literally said she had "alternative facts". ldiot
John Philpot Curran expressed this same sentiment in a speech upon the Right of Election in 1790 (published in a book titled “Speeches on the late very interesting State trials” in 1808). He said: “It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. *The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance;* which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” "The real source of the quote is Wendell Phillips, an abolitionist. Speaking to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1852, Phillips said: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few." "Frederick Douglass wrote, “Nevertheless, this is no time for the friends of freedom to fold their arms and consider their work at an end. The price for liberty is eternal vigilance.” (“One Day for Poetry and Song,” 1862)."
It is a source of unending pride to me, as an Englishman, that Wendell Phillips is being described as "an abolitionist" 20 years AFTER the British government made Slavery illegal and had already suppressed it throughout the British Empire. Is it always the fate of the United States of America to be A GENERATION BEHIND the most civilising influences from the Old World?
As quantitave analysis CONSISTENTLY has proven, the larger thesample size, the more accurate is normally selected. NOTHING other than democratic egalitarian weighting has shown accurate in social affairs. You are NOT going to reduce errorthrough using private sourcing. Government MUST be allowed to institute controls on ANY actionafecting what economists and engineersregard as inconseque tial factors. If you fear, seek therapeutic assistance, as bias and failure to understand- lack of knowledge in short - are the problem. Not government, which is necessary in all social affairs, superseding the ills of drunken and dogmatic, biased parents.
Lawrence o'donnell was recently quoting kamala Harris quoting FDR in 1932(?) about the need for experimentation in such trying times (hopefully) abandoning failed ones and encouraging successful ones to blossom B-)
Yes, in Canada it is called the CBC, in Britain it is called BBC. The challenge of local knowledge is that the screen, and the virtual have replaced the embodied sense of the local as lived experience. This form of media apparatus dissimulates and uses the imagination to experience a virtual reality untethered from where your body stands in physical space and common local sensations. One of the few things that holds Canada and Canadians together has to cross a vast geographical space in reaching out to touch everyone in the loop and making local connections.
And make bots illegal (i can't believe those who pay for advertising haven't sued the hell out of the platforms for fraud- showing ads to bots and charging for it)
Bots are a tool. In IT they are needed for technical tasks and do much more good than bad. So blame and punish their employer, not the tool. As for advertisers, they must have negotiated and settled out of public eyes.
@@milycome For sure? No. Especially as the AI increases in sophistication. But if the bot regurgitates the propaganda lines of a political organisation then does it matter if it's a brainwashed human in reality?
You WILL notice that the major chatbots are now producing falsehoods, rather than having been successfully programmed to individually modify assertions. As this is not yet sufficiently ameliorated, you will be hearing much about it in media. Today is 2024/09/27.
The world is more democratic than you think. People generally are awful to each other and this is the result. History is the history of bigotry, hate, exploitation and gang violence. If we had a real world democracy the 3 billion africans would dominate and most non africans are so racist they dont want this at all.
@@andrewnelson3681 Flooding the zone with bullshyt is the russian/bannon strategy. Just talking more in a cacophony of unmitigated bs doesnt work. The saying, " a lie can make it around the world twice before the truth can put on its shoes" exists for a very good reason.
Consider researching Cambridge Analytica with their psychometric analysis technology, the Facebook personality data scandal, their roles in the 2016 US presidential campaign.
Cambridge Analytica should be front page news every day for months and months to come. Instead of a constant barge of stories on Immigration, pay complete attention to the most important story of the decade, which ALL MEDIA IS TOTALLY. IGNORING : What role did Cambridge Analytica have in Trump getting elected in 2016 & Cambridge Analytica's role in Brexit approval. Don't let the puppet master Oligarchs distract you...................................... People of the world !!!!
In my view, Elon Musks' control of Twitter, which he has shown he is willing to exploit to make his & certain other extremely problematic posts more visible to all, should worry us more than Rupert Murdoch control of a wide media empire ever did. As significant as Murdoch's influence has been, he never had the personal following of hero-worshipping fans that Elon does. We also engage in a fundamentally different way on social media than with news media. It very much is representative of an institution that thrives in and exacerbates post-truthism.
Have you read Matt Taibbi's 'The Twitter Files'?...which showed how the Biden/Harris admin. was forcing the pre-Elon Musk Twitter to censor posts that Biden's government didn't like. (Of course, Democrats HATE Taibbi for exposing this.)
Let's be honest - it's not just Trump. The USA isn't really interested in freedom for anyone but themselves. If we don't recognise that, it's game over.
If that's how you see freedom, and assuming you think it applies to everyone rather than just veterans, you might be interested in what's often called Neo Roman or Neo Republican freedom, as advocated for by philosophers and historians like Philip Pettit and Quintin Skinner.
Freedom has nothing to do with homeless veterans. But if you had said "no one is free until we are all free" that would be true. Someone famous said that.
Exactly the so called free market of ideas, where the good ideas prevail against bad ideas has always been a con. People constantly pontificate on the impact of the Dunning Kruger effect on their opponents and never realise how it applies to themselves
In the modern internet world, free speech needs to be tempered with responsibly. Somehow, we need to ingain this responsibly into our society. Lagislate of nesscery
Truth has always been in the hands of the powerful. Its misguided to think that this is somehow a new phenomenon since the dawn of social media etc. The truth is more available than ever.
Even if I would possess anything I would never use it without consent, have been clear about this with every Occasion !! The project was designed to protect moral integrity and decision rights of the User !
Tim Snyder reminds me of a priest decrying the printing press because the masses will now be able to read and interpret the Bible themselves. In fairness to him, I haven’t read his new book, but based on what he said on this podcast, he seems to assume that journalism and journalists were somehow better before social media, but the only part that he is right to decry is the loss of local journalism. In my experience dealing with the press going back to the 1980s, they rarely got more than 50% of the “facts” right and historically have always been influenced by the wealthy and politically powerful (e.g., yellow journalism, outright propaganda and muck raking). The problem has been made worse by national journalism itself being co-opted by the wealthy and the coastal elites. He also fails to call out the biggest purveyors of disinformation and misinformation, which are our federal government and the legacy media. Essentially, he seems to be advocating for censorship much in the same way Sam Harris has or at least that’s what I assume he means by “regulating social media.” The other thing he gets right is that the postmodernist claim that there is no objective truth is wrong, but the way to get to the truth is not through censorship. It’s through rigorous science, disclosure of material information by our governments and public corporations, enforcement of the law and protecting its fact finding function and vigorous free speech.
What's with these long unskippable ads. I refuse to watch them. I mute them and scroll down so i can't see any content. And if i see an ad accidentally, I will make a mental note to never purchase their product.
The most important freedom is freedom of thought. From that, we have freedom of religion, freedom of speech, etc. Exactly what freedom have Americans lost because of Trump's 1st presidency?
Reproductive freedom. He punishes people he doesn't like including the press. Freedom to not have government favor one religion (conservative evangelicals) over other religions or non-belivers. Some state mandate that medical providers say a script dissuading abortions. Etc.
@@linda1lee2 One thing at a time. Trump did not limit people's freedom if you meant abortion freedom. First, abortion kills babies, so it may be murder, and murder is not freedom. Second, Trump just left the issue to individual states for them to deliberate further. He did not dictate o ne way or the other.
Over a million Americans lost their lives from 🇷🇺🐖deliberate mishandling of a deadly pandemic. Putting women’s reproductive rights & safety back 50 years. Rolled back regulations on health & safety for his rich CEO donor pals & there are 9 dead from one factory selling bad meat. Rivers are under threat from his rolling those safety regulations back. Do you need more? Do your own research & dumbing down this excellent conversation with Prof Snyder. Thanks
This is probably also the case with the miraculous surge of the German Social Democratic Party ahead of the 2019 federal election, which brought about Olaf Scholz as Chancellor instead of Annalena Baerbock from Bűndnis90/Die Grűnen who would have had a considerably more hawkish attitude towards the Russian wholesale invasion of Ukraine.
While I think Timothy Snyder is a wonderful writer and commentator, I don't agree with his comment that freedom being "the only uniting political concept" pertains exclusively to the English speaking world. Bollocks! What about France, Germany, Spain, Argentina, etc, etc. I believe the vast majority of humanity, given a choice, would pick freedom over totalitarianism any day.
13:13 Democracy as a principle is vested in the freedom of thought and the free exchange of shared ideas. In lieu of the compromised Fourth and divisive Fifth Estates democracy doesn't have a snowballs hope... All eyes on Kamela Harris I guess.
not only Russian propoganda but also US intervention and probably some Chinese contribution. Ask yourself the question: Who, besides the europeans (but they are not intelligent enough to realise) , has interest in a strong independent Europe as a counterbalance to other powerblocks?
You could use some video editing or advisors. Most important your content is well researched, intelligent and well presented. Thank You. So difficult to find honest commentary void of ranting, name calling and trolling on the internet.
Timothy Snyder, an example of what happens to a historian when they become infected with rabid Russophobia. Apparently there is no cure -- and the victim gives up history for the joys of spouting propaganda and cliched silliness.😐
The USA is already an oligarchy and Trump had nothing to do with it. You need to get out and talk to people in the USA and get a good understanding of its political system, its people, and numerous cultures.
Googling the provenance of a quotation that is peripheral to the point of the discussion in the middle of an interview in incredibly rude and off-putting. If I was Timothy Snyder, I'd have cut off the interview right there. How incredibly insecure must someone be to do that?
Russian propaganda played NO PART in the decision of millions of provincials who voted for Brexit. The answer is shown starkly in the regional distribution of the Leave and Remain votes. Those places that gained MOST from 50 years of the Common Market / EEC / EU, the Metropolitan Bubble, the South-East and a few other metropolitan areas voted Remain. The provinces, left behind in the general improvement due to freetrade, in the less fortunate side of the north-south gap, voted Leave. The Labour heartlands, the socialist Red Wall voted in a TORY GOVERNMENT, to execute the democratic will of those left behind. The Establishment, against Brexit from its first mooting, made sure that even the Tory Parliament's plans were stifled. A long, drawn-out, poorly executed negotiation ended with a flawed compromise, itself endlessly undermined by its opponents to ensure the self-fulfilling prediction of failure.
Well 'Truth,' is a Taoist-Edict, for the self, if anyone ever wanted true 'cosmic congruence,'. with themselves.. That honor of 'gahd & country,' walked off the Pirate Plank with Billionaires. /:
On Fox News freedom is used as a substitute word for greed. I noticed this one evening...that you could substitute "greed" whenever they said freedom, which was usually when they were talking about taxes or entitlements, and it made perfect sense.
Politicians also use and misuse "Freedom" far too much, as if freedom is it's own end; as you note, freedom might be a smokescreen for those without scruples who wish to oppress or steal from others. To me, "freedom" means to be able to decide for oneself how to live with *DIGNITY*; and to allow others to choose their own dignified life, but always referencing to our shared values as expressed in the Constitution and under law.
Interesting insight about Fox News Entertainment. Words like “freedom” and “woke” can have useful definitions in academic and journalistic discourse, but they are merely *signals* in the realm of populist politics (which appears to be all we have left now thanks to Silicon Valley’s old motto, “move fast and break things.”) The way in which Trump seized and co-opted the word “freedom” and the American flag, turning them from signals of unity and shared purpose, into signals of hatred and division is truly spectacular and horrifyingly dystopian.
Well said. Definitely an abused term.
Whooooo thats some smart thunking there big brain.
Puppet Masters Political Philosophy : Socialism for the Rich, Rugged Individualism for the Poor and Downtrodden.
Let them eat cake 😋 🎂 😋 🎂 😋 🎂 😋 🎂 😋 🎂.
Timothy Snyder is the only thing keeping me sane in America during the terrible Trump years. I very much appreciate the civil and nuanced conversation on your platform. The stupidity in my country and our increasingly inept, corrupt and profit-driven media (“the presence of spectacle”), combined with our disdain of education and unwillingness to learn from history, makes your platform a real lifeline for people who appreciate intelligent conversation and ideas. Many thanks from America.
I agree with your sentiments.
I feel like half of the population lives in the alternate universe.
You guys are doing amazing work. Please shining a light on these issues the traditional media ignores due to their self-interest.
Thank you for this guest.
Implicit with freedom is responsibility. You are responsible for the impact of your ideas. We are free to think all manner of things, but we must be considerate about what we express. Flooding the zone with shit is an attack on freedom.
Truth has to rise again from the people, those of us who believe in good over evil, truth over lies, right from wrong.
Timothy Snyder is a shining example of what a historian can be. BTW, my ancestors set up a German language newspaper in Toledo, OH toward the end of the 19th century.
Glad it wasn't the early-mid 20th century. Lol
Beschloss and Meachum are paxil for comfy mature intellects. They say idiotic things that reassure the patriotic view of history. Beschloss actually asserts that in earlier centuries people died on average at 35 years of age. Old age ? Twin boys are born in 1818 .. one dies of a childhood illness at 1. The other dies at 70. The average ?? How can a serious academic be so ... dull of mind.
13:30 Elon Musk is an extreme libertarian when he has to pay taxes or obey laws. He makes all his money on government hand outs and FOMO.
Now that is INSIGHT ty
This video... is "mis-information".
@@hg2. You are a troll. Say hi to Putin.
@@madrooky1398sure anyone with a different opinion is a troll. Or a bot. Right? Good luck with that.
@@ScottAmbrose-rc2xq putting such accusation out without any grounding and argument is no opinion, its straight up trolling. And that is my well grounded opinion. Try to argue against it, its your right. But don't cry if I smash your arguments right back at you because I use my freedom of speech very effectively against bull shit. ☺
Great interview. There’s been some fantastic interviews on this channel
Thanks Timothy Snyder for your service to your Country and to the free world
god bless Tim Snyder.
Language that conveys no meaning, but elicits emotional responses, is what Orwell called Newspeak in his novel, but he didn't invent it. He saw it in the world around him in his own time.
So true about the loss local news outlets. How did this happen? The only paper received in my home was the long defunct Long Island Press.
Was it not Kellyanne Conway, Trump's premiere minister of disinformation, who advanced the idea of "alternate facts" and "alternate Truth"?
Or was it that you did not get what she said?
@@mariocerin4105a reporter told her that the facts did not match the story she was pushing, and Conway literally said she had "alternative facts". ldiot
The fascist MAGA folks today project what they themselves espouse
Thank you.
Regulate the Internet? Absolutely.
John Philpot Curran expressed this same sentiment in a speech upon the Right of Election in 1790 (published in a book titled “Speeches on the late very interesting State trials” in 1808). He said: “It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. *The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance;* which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.”
"The real source of the quote is Wendell Phillips, an abolitionist. Speaking to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1852, Phillips said: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."
"Frederick Douglass wrote, “Nevertheless, this is no time for the friends of freedom to fold their arms and consider their work at an end. The price for liberty is eternal vigilance.” (“One Day for Poetry and Song,” 1862)."
It is a source of unending pride to me, as an Englishman, that Wendell Phillips is being described as "an abolitionist" 20 years AFTER the British government made Slavery illegal and had already suppressed it throughout the British Empire.
Is it always the fate of the United States of America to be A GENERATION BEHIND the most civilising influences from the Old World?
Professor Timothy Snyder changed my entire view of the past, and present. (I'm a fan)
Well said Tim Snyder
What a classy, informative, and necessary dialogue! I appreciate being able to view it.
I wonder if there would be a way for local media to be taxpayer funded, but detached from any local budgetary ties?
Not-for-profit is the model I prefer.
Government owned gives me the heebie-jeebies.
As quantitave analysis CONSISTENTLY has proven, the larger thesample size, the more accurate is normally selected.
NOTHING other than democratic egalitarian weighting has shown accurate in social affairs.
You are NOT going to reduce errorthrough using private sourcing. Government MUST be allowed to institute controls on ANY actionafecting what economists and engineersregard as inconseque tial factors.
If you fear, seek therapeutic assistance, as bias and failure to understand- lack of knowledge in short - are the problem.
Not government, which is necessary in all social affairs, superseding the ills of drunken and dogmatic, biased parents.
Lawrence o'donnell was recently quoting kamala Harris quoting FDR in 1932(?) about the need for experimentation in such trying times (hopefully) abandoning failed ones and encouraging successful ones to blossom B-)
Yes, in Canada it is called the CBC, in Britain it is called BBC. The challenge of local knowledge is that the screen, and the virtual have replaced the embodied sense of the local as lived experience. This form of media apparatus dissimulates and uses the imagination to experience a virtual reality untethered from where your body stands in physical space and common local sensations. One of the few things that holds Canada and Canadians together has to cross a vast geographical space in reaching out to touch everyone in the loop and making local connections.
There is pbs, which the right is always trying to defund
And make bots illegal (i can't believe those who pay for advertising haven't sued the hell out of the platforms for fraud- showing ads to bots and charging for it)
Bots are a tool. In IT they are needed for technical tasks and do much more good than bad.
So blame and punish their employer, not the tool.
As for advertisers, they must have negotiated and settled out of public eyes.
Half of Twitter is bots. Sonce they support authoritarians and make the stats of users and engagement better, evil musk encourages it
@@florinadrian5174 Is this post a bot ?? Just asking.
Oh, well. No way to tell for sure.
@@milycome For sure? No. Especially as the AI increases in sophistication.
But if the bot regurgitates the propaganda lines of a political organisation then does it matter if it's a brainwashed human in reality?
You WILL notice that the major chatbots are now producing falsehoods, rather than having been successfully programmed to individually modify assertions.
As this is not yet sufficiently ameliorated, you will be hearing much about it in media. Today is 2024/09/27.
Thank you for this important interview.
Excellent! Gawd, I LOVE Historian's❤❤
Thank you
Democracy is a verb, not a noun.
Democracy is noun, not verb!!
The world is more democratic than you think. People generally are awful to each other and this is the result. History is the history of bigotry, hate, exploitation and gang violence. If we had a real world democracy the 3 billion africans would dominate and most non africans are so racist they dont want this at all.
Thank God someone else called that "solution to bad speech is more speech. " That always struck me as an idiotic statement.
Cease thanki g dissociated and disowned responsibilities of yourself.
ALL "gods" are biased dissociated parts of oneself.
@@briseboy Ease up on the wacky weed, bro.
It’s only by challenging bad speech with more speech that the truth can emerge. Stopping people from speaking cannot do that.
@@andrewnelson3681 Flooding the zone with bullshyt is the russian/bannon strategy. Just talking more in a cacophony of unmitigated bs doesnt work. The saying, " a lie can make it around the world twice before the truth can put on its shoes" exists for a very good reason.
We just have to get rid of that 'pesky' 1st Amendment, right?
The platforms must be held responsible for WHAT they choose to show us, it is a product with dangerous and pernicious effects
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So, you believe in censorship for things you don't like?
I googled it too…..Prof Snyder is right.
Consider researching Cambridge Analytica with their psychometric analysis technology, the Facebook personality data scandal, their roles in the 2016 US presidential campaign.
Cambridge Analytica should be front page news every day for months and months to come. Instead of a constant barge of stories on Immigration, pay complete attention to the most important story of the decade, which ALL MEDIA IS TOTALLY. IGNORING : What role did Cambridge Analytica have in Trump getting elected in 2016 & Cambridge Analytica's role in Brexit approval. Don't let the puppet master Oligarchs distract you......................................
People of the world !!!!
In my view, Elon Musks' control of Twitter, which he has shown he is willing to exploit to make his & certain other extremely problematic posts more visible to all, should worry us more than Rupert Murdoch control of a wide media empire ever did.
As significant as Murdoch's influence has been, he never had the personal following of hero-worshipping fans that Elon does. We also engage in a fundamentally different way on social media than with news media. It very much is representative of an institution that thrives in and exacerbates post-truthism.
Have you read Matt Taibbi's 'The Twitter Files'?...which showed how the Biden/Harris admin. was forcing the pre-Elon Musk Twitter to censor posts that Biden's government didn't like. (Of course, Democrats HATE Taibbi for exposing this.)
Russian influence was quite obvious and also how willing some of the main players were to accept and welcome the help.
'Russia Collusion' was totally made-up nonsense.
8 Republican traitors went on 4th July to Moscow seeking Putin’s help with our US elections. Here we are.
It's not just the help they accept. For some it's Russian money too
Thoughtful, interesting, informative interview, thank you!
You are there!
Let's be honest - it's not just Trump. The USA isn't really interested in freedom for anyone but themselves. If we don't recognise that, it's game over.
If there are homeless veterans in your country, those people are not free to do as they wish, and your country is not actually free.
If that's how you see freedom, and assuming you think it applies to everyone rather than just veterans, you might be interested in what's often called Neo Roman or Neo Republican freedom, as advocated for by philosophers and historians like Philip Pettit and Quintin Skinner.
Freedom has nothing to do with homeless veterans. But if you had said "no one is free until we are all free" that would be true. Someone famous said that.
@jeffrey1312 A couple of my many civil rights “heroes & sheroes”, MLK & Fanny Lou Hamer, as well as poet Maya Angelou said that quite a few times.
A beginning would be to clearly show the country that social media is being published from.
Exactly the so called free market of ideas, where the good ideas prevail against bad ideas has always been a con. People constantly pontificate on the impact of the Dunning Kruger effect on their opponents and never realise how it applies to themselves
Brilliant insights.
So true 💯💙💙💙
New Sub. Excited to be here 😅👍🏾
The Russians are here.
So?...you thought they were great when they were Commies.
They're hiding under your bed
Thank goodness for Tim Snyder! Little wonder that he's a "rock star" in his own right.
Exactly! Where the f are our security services? We are so close to loosing our freedom. What is more important than that!
They're busy trying to start WWIII in the Ukraine.
This should be seen by a lot of people.
And he should be read by many more.
In the modern internet world, free speech needs to be tempered with responsibly. Somehow, we need to ingain this responsibly into our society. Lagislate of nesscery
From Canada going to read the book.Outside influences here as well.full story of this is not known in Britain
Truth has always been in the hands of the powerful. Its misguided to think that this is somehow a new phenomenon since the dawn of social media etc. The truth is more available than ever.
There IS another way. It involves correcting the algorithm of democracy.
Post truth world.
Even if I would possess anything I would never use it without consent, have been clear about this with every Occasion !!
The project was designed to protect moral integrity and decision rights of the User !
What are the reins on freedom that would limit people to speak Truth, if they claim and use freedom to tell lies?
Yes. It’s already lost! 😢
BS-The future is unwritten. Worry less, do more!
Does freedom of speech give us permission to lie?
Tim Snyder reminds me of a priest decrying the printing press because the masses will now be able to read and interpret the Bible themselves. In fairness to him, I haven’t read his new book, but based on what he said on this podcast, he seems to assume that journalism and journalists were somehow better before social media, but the only part that he is right to decry is the loss of local journalism. In my experience dealing with the press going back to the 1980s, they rarely got more than 50% of the “facts” right and historically have always been influenced by the wealthy and politically powerful (e.g., yellow journalism, outright propaganda and muck raking). The problem has been made worse by national journalism itself being co-opted by the wealthy and the coastal elites. He also fails to call out the biggest purveyors of disinformation and misinformation, which are our federal government and the legacy media. Essentially, he seems to be advocating for censorship much in the same way Sam Harris has or at least that’s what I assume he means by “regulating social media.” The other thing he gets right is that the postmodernist claim that there is no objective truth is wrong, but the way to get to the truth is not through censorship. It’s through rigorous science, disclosure of material information by our governments and public corporations, enforcement of the law and protecting its fact finding function and vigorous free speech.
You probably have never read a book in your life judging by the "quality" of your comment
@@EsemptiusThat’s a slur, not an argument.
@@Esemptius A thoroughly useless comment.
@@davidk1493 Yes, your comment is thoroughly useless indeed. Laughable little "man". Bet you never read a book either
Well said.
What's with these long unskippable ads. I refuse to watch them. I mute them and scroll down so i can't see any content. And if i see an ad accidentally, I will make a mental note to never purchase their product.
I wish we were free from adverts. 🤔
"Green Fire", bookshops UK
Trump is an appalling spiv.
The most important freedom is freedom of thought. From that, we have freedom of religion, freedom of speech, etc. Exactly what freedom have Americans lost because of Trump's 1st presidency?
Reproductive freedom. He punishes people he doesn't like including the press. Freedom to not have government favor one religion (conservative evangelicals) over other religions or non-belivers. Some state mandate that medical providers say a script dissuading abortions. Etc.
What?....it was Biden that suppressed speech he didn't like.
@@linda1lee2 One thing at a time. Trump did not limit people's freedom if you meant abortion freedom. First, abortion kills babies, so it may be murder, and murder is not freedom. Second, Trump just left the issue to individual states for them to deliberate further. He did not dictate o
ne way or the other.
Over a million Americans lost their lives from 🇷🇺🐖deliberate mishandling of a deadly pandemic. Putting women’s reproductive rights & safety back 50 years. Rolled back regulations on health & safety for his rich CEO donor pals & there are 9 dead from one factory selling bad meat. Rivers are under threat from his rolling those safety regulations back. Do you need more? Do your own research & dumbing down this excellent conversation with Prof Snyder. Thanks
@@yuanzhiluo Wrong in so many ways.
Man hunter is rad!
What’s with the thumbnail and the bandaid being on the other ear?
Exactly. Here we are in 2024, mid November. Time to resist and fight to make sure Trump doesn't move into Washington DC ever again!
Wrong ear... What other deception should I watch out for?
This is probably also the case with the miraculous surge of the German Social Democratic Party ahead of the 2019 federal election, which brought about Olaf Scholz as Chancellor instead of Annalena Baerbock from Bűndnis90/Die Grűnen who would have had a considerably more hawkish attitude towards the Russian wholesale invasion of Ukraine.
While I think Timothy Snyder is a wonderful writer and commentator, I don't agree with his comment that freedom being "the only uniting political concept" pertains exclusively to the English speaking world. Bollocks! What about France, Germany, Spain, Argentina, etc, etc. I believe the vast majority of humanity, given a choice, would pick freedom over totalitarianism any day.
13:13 Democracy as a principle is vested in the freedom of thought and the free exchange of shared ideas. In lieu of the compromised Fourth and divisive Fifth Estates democracy doesn't have a snowballs hope... All eyes on Kamela Harris I guess.
Embarrassing that my fellow countrymen are such dolts 😢
Are your people that naive? That is what you must deal with.
Master Murdock🙄
not only Russian propoganda but also US intervention and probably some Chinese contribution. Ask yourself the question: Who, besides the europeans (but they are not intelligent enough to realise) , has interest in a strong independent Europe as a counterbalance to other powerblocks?
Does he prefer Tim or Timothy?
Tmothy is arguably the most pompous but at the same time pathetic liar in academia today
You could use some video editing or advisors. Most important your content is well researched, intelligent and well presented. Thank You. So difficult to find honest commentary void of ranting, name calling and trolling on the internet.
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Timothy Snyder, an example of what happens to a historian when they become infected with rabid Russophobia.
Apparently there is no cure -- and the victim gives up history for the joys of spouting propaganda and cliched silliness.😐
The USA is already an oligarchy and Trump had nothing to do with it. You need to get out and talk to people in the USA and get a good understanding of its political system, its people, and numerous cultures.
Googling the provenance of a quotation that is peripheral to the point of the discussion in the middle of an interview in incredibly rude and off-putting. If I was Timothy Snyder, I'd have cut off the interview right there. How incredibly insecure must someone be to do that?
Trump's Moral Compass ?
No sh*t.
Russian propaganda played NO PART in the decision of millions of provincials who voted for Brexit.
The answer is shown starkly in the regional distribution of the Leave and Remain votes. Those places that gained MOST from 50 years of the Common Market / EEC / EU, the Metropolitan Bubble, the South-East and a few other metropolitan areas voted Remain. The provinces, left behind in the general improvement due to freetrade, in the less fortunate side of the north-south gap, voted Leave.
The Labour heartlands, the socialist Red Wall voted in a TORY GOVERNMENT, to execute the democratic will of those left behind. The Establishment, against Brexit from its first mooting, made sure that even the Tory Parliament's plans were stifled. A long, drawn-out, poorly executed negotiation ended with a flawed compromise, itself endlessly undermined by its opponents to ensure the self-fulfilling prediction of failure.
Tripe
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Well 'Truth,' is a Taoist-Edict, for the self, if anyone ever wanted true 'cosmic congruence,'. with themselves.. That honor of 'gahd & country,' walked off the Pirate Plank with Billionaires. /:
WORDSALAD!!
Utter tosh ! 😂
New take, orange man bad. I had no idea
It's Snyder ! Quite OK to ignore him completely
This guy really hates Russia whether it be Soviet Union or Russia
No. He hates ALL colonial empires. Russia is just the one he is addressing now.
If you only see hate, you're projecting.
@@Oluinneachain What?...Russia gave up almost all of its' empire when they ended the Soviet Union.
This post... is "mis-information".
How’s that. ? You look as if you need some more TV time and a lot of sleep.
In Russia when we lack good comedy, we watch what natolings watch
This guy already lost his marbles... It is very sad, he used to be a decent academician.
Harris/Walz24
Yea, ok, please go get a real job, you have no clue